Conference Tracks
Tracks Built Around What Matters Most to You
The Data Center World 2027 Conference Tracks highlight how we bring together the people working to solve the industry's toughest challenges. Stay tuned for the full program agenda, including session details, which will be announced soon.
Operational Excellence & Uptime
Running and optimizing data centers
Topics include capacity planning and utilization, hybrid strategies, edge computing, security, infrastructure management, networking and connectivity, workforce development, reliability and disaster recovery, monitoring and maintenance, and enterprise/colo-specific operational needs.
Key Takeaways
- Practical peer advice from data center operations practitioners and experts
- Insights on issues such as reliability, capacity planning and utilization, hybrid strategies, security, and similar core requirements
- Emphasis on enterprise and co-lo operational needs as well as hyperscalers
Design, Construction & Supply Chain
Designing, building, retrofitting, and expanding data center capacity
Topics include modernization and retrofit strategies and case studies, prefabrication and modular construction and logistics, site selection and permitting, supply chain visibility, speed-to-market tactics, microgrid design and construction, brownfield pros and cons, tech refresh strategies, and workforce shortages.
Key Takeaways
- Insight into the construction and supply chain innovation being driven by today's high-velocity buildout, such as modular and prefabrication
- Practical supply chain advice on managing timelines and schedules amid today's material- and labor-constrained markets
- Case studies and strategies for retrofit, modernization, and brownfield projects, as well as new construction
Power, Cooling, & Sustainability
Procuring and managing the power and cooling data centers need to operate reliably and sustainably
Topics include retrofit case studies, liquid-cooling operating realities, energy storage strategies, backup vs. long-duration, microgrids and on-site generation, grid interconnection, renewables and nuclear, power-generation innovations, water use and measurement, and closed-loop cooling.
Key Takeaways
- Strategies to procure and manage data center power systems, from grid connections to on-site power to demand response efforts
•Insight into cutting-edge cooling initiatives and projects, including retrofitting existing data centers for new cooling approaches - Planning strategies for moving to new power architectures such as 800DVC
- Case studies and discussions about the strategies and emerging technologies needed to sustainably meet the industry's power demands
AI, Innovation, & Evolving Workloads
Exploring new ideas, including managing AI-driven workloads reshaping data center demand
Topics include workload flexibility and placement, inferencing vs. training, edge computing, infrastructure orchestration, mixing AI and conventional workloads, AI in enterprise facilities, AI outcome case studies, data centers in space.
Key Takeaways
- Strategies to cope with the changes in density, workload, predictability, reliability, and more that come with AI workloads
- Case studies on issues such as AI workload placement and flexibility, inferencing vs. Training, and infrastructure orchestration
- Discussion of AI needs in enterprise facilities versus hyperscale requirements
Community Engagement & Public Policy
Understanding policy and community issues shaping whether and where data center projects happen
Topics include power regulation, moratoriums, regional and local policy nuances, community engagement lessons learned, economic development trends, permitting reform, tax trends.
Key Takeaways
- Best practices for building community trust, from site selection and approvals to construction and ongoing community commitment
- Outlook on the most pressing public policy issues at federal, state, and local levels
- Case studies on effective community engagement strategies
