Capre’s Data Center Summit

CAPRE, organizer of The Seventh Annual Greater New York Data Center Summit, has confirmed high-level expert speakers in advance of the popular conference on April 5. Expert speakers represent the most active data center developers, investors, capital sources, end-users and consultants in Greater New York and from around the Northeast region.

(Above: CAPRE’s Greater New York Data Center Summit, held on April 19, 2017.)

Featured Content: Data Center Management & Operations: New Strategies for Reducing Cost Without Increasing Risk
Proposed Discussion Points:
* What types of cost-savings strategies can you apply to a new-or-old facility?
* Importance of containment in the data center to lower costs
* Devising a strategic corporate plan that addresses retired, existing, and new facilities
* Having systems in place that allow us to get ahead of the problem before customers even know it happened
* Power & Green: Are data centers using solar or wind to offset the high power usage?
* What types of new technologies in the green energy space are you using for your data centers (i.e. outside wind cooling in north, solar panels, wind plants)?
* Cooling strategies: What are the latest technologies that you are using (i.e. water/cooling)?
* From a strategic standpoint, how are you using cooling technologies to reduce costs?
* What types of cost-savings strategies can you apply to a new-or-old facility?
* Connectivity to the public cloud: How the technologies are changing so that you can see in one pain of glass both workloads (hybrid-managed) or on-premise?
* War stories of running a data center
* Redundancy & UPS strategies relating to fire hazards and earthquakes: What every owner should know
* Innovation and making the data center structures smarter
* Securing a solid infrastructure
* Importance of containment in the data center to lower costs
* Devising a strategic corporate plan that addresses retired, existing, and new facilities
* Analysis of impact of temperature changes in the data centers
* How to minimize exposure to market spikes
* Having systems in place that allow us to get ahead of the problem before customers even know it happened
* What will change the most in terms of operating a data center over the next 12 months? What would you like to see changed?

Hear from:
* Carsten Baumann, Director Strategy – IIoT & Microgrids, Schneider Electric
* Andrew Graham, Director – Data Center Solutions, Critical Environments Group
* Daniel Kennedy, Director of Sales Engineering, Tate
* Phillip Koblence, Chief Operating Officer, New York Internet
* Joseph Liccardo, Senior Director of Field Operations, Coresite
* Brian Rhoney, Data Center Market Development Director, Corning

As global data center markets continue to see new demand due to migration of enterprise end-users to cloud service, CAPRE’s Seventh Annual Greater New York Data Center Summit will bring new topics under the radar, including:

• The Growth of Hyperscale: How to Build Relationships for the Industry’s Next Chapter
• The Future of Colocation: What Types of Tenants (Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs) Will Drive Colocation Demand?
• The Future of Hybrid Cloud and IT
• The Future of the Edge
• How to Mitigate Third-Party Risk in the Data Center Supply Chain
• Hybrid Cloud Enablement: Solving the Business Challenges Facing Operators and Users
• An Overview of Fibre Providers and How Networks are Changing to Support Data Centers
• Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution for Data Centers
• What Do Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Mean for Future Data Centers?

• Data center colocation, wholesale and cloud customers
• Data center developers
• Data center investors
• Data center debt and/or equity sources
• Engineers
• Architects
• Power/UPS firms
• Telecom/fiber companies
• Consultants/researchers
• Public sector executives
• Commercial real estate brokers

Attending Firms, as of March 1, 2018:
1025Connect
ABB
AFL
Amazon
AMP Capital
Archimedes Controls
ASSA ABLOY (Ameristar Perimeter Security)
AWS
BTECH
C&C Technology Group
Capital Power Group
CAPRE | International Data Center Series
CLEAResult
ColoGuard
COMMSCOPE
COPT
COPT Data Center Solutions
Coresite
Corning
Credit Suisse
Critical Environments Group
Cross River Fiber
Cushman & Wakefield
CYRUSONE LLC
Cyxtera
Cyxtera Technologies
Data Center Frontier
DataGryd Data Centers LLC
Digital Realty
Digital Realty Trust
Director
DJS Group LLC
DPR Construction
Facilities Engineering Associates
Fireline
First American Title Insurance Company
Google
Gordon
HITT Contracting Inc.
Holder Construction Company
Honeywell Fire Americas
Host in Ireland
Industrial Electric Mfg. (IEM)
Intel Corporation
Interconnect Miami
Iron Mountain Data Centers
JP Morgan Chase
Litbit
M/C Partners
Mintz Levin
National Fiber Networks de Mexico
New Continuum
New York Internet
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Newmark Knight Frank
NORR
ORR Protection
QTS
Quality Uptime Services
Quantum Technology
RagingWire
RagingWire Data Centers
Ramboll
Roux Associates, Inc.
Roxtec
Royal Bank of Canada
Sabey Datacenter Properties
Schneider Electric
Scholes Electric & Communications
Societe Generale
SourceOne, Inc. (DE)
Starline/UE
Stockholm Data Parks
Stulz
Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.
Tate
The Bank Street Group LLC
Unified Power USA
UPS RENTAL
UPSTACK
Willdan
Willdan Energy Solutions
Winthrop Resources
Xceed Group

CAPRE’s Seventh Annual Greater New York Data Center Summit will be held at:

THE WESTIN NEW YORK AT TIMES SQUARE
270 W 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036