Data Center World Content Advisory Board Named; Event Takes Place April 15-18, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Data Center World, the leading global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals, opens the call for speaking proposals for Data Center World 2024 and Data Center BUILD 2024. Data Center World will take place April 15-18, 2024, and Data Center BUILD, a two-day summit, takes place April 17-18, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Data Center World is AFCOM’s annual gathering of IT and data center professionals.

“Our event delivers expert strategy and insight on the technologies and concepts tech pros need to know to plan, manage, and optimize a data center. We are looking for dynamic speakers that can deliver new, unique, and engaging industry topics related to data center IT infrastructure and mission-critical facilities,” said Tara Gibb, Senior Director, Data Center World.

Data Center World offers panel discussions and case studies focused on emerging IT & data center technologies; design, build, operate, control; colocation, hyperscale, and cloud innovation; and sustainability strategies from Power to Recycling. The Data Center BUILD Program features presentations on data center design and construction.

Submit a speaking proposal here through September 22.

Data Center World and AFCOM officially announce its Content Advisory Board. The mission of the board is to share expertise and insights about data center professionals from all generations including Millennial and Gen Z, which will help inform Data Center World and AFCOM’s content, research and member offerings.

The Data Center World and AFCOM’s Content Advisory Board include:

• Al Nichols, Executive Consultant, Silverback Data Center Solutions
• Ali Fenn, President, Lancium
• Alan Howard, Principal Analyst, Data Centers & Colocation, Omdia
• Andrew Fanara, Sustainability Advisor, Casne Engineering
• Ben Kaplan, Senior VP, Global Critical Facilities, Turner Construction
• Ben Stewart, Sr. Vice President of Operations, NTT Global Data Centers
• Bill Skinner, Head of Data Centers, Bloomberg
• Bill Kleyman, Data Center & Technology Executive, Neu.ro Board Member
• Carrie Goetz, Principal & CTO, StrategITcom
• Garmina Kochar, Senior Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
• Hector Diaz, Director, Enterprise Data Center & Strategy, Johnson & Johnson
• Jane Hsieh, Sr. Director of Sales, Aligned Datacenter
• Michail Clutter, Managing Partner, Casne Engineering
• Nancy Novak, Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Data Centers
• Rebecca Weekly, VP, Hardware Systems Engineering, Cloudflare
• Ron Vokoun, Director, National Market Development, MDU Construction Services Group
• Ryan Gruver, IT Director, Banner Health
• Shweta Saraf, Director of Platform Networking, Netflix
• Vlad Galabov, Research Director, Cloud & Data Center, Omdia

Gibb added, “Our Advisory Board members are vital to our success and help us deliver best-in-class industry insights. We are thrilled to be working with these experts to help our industry grow.”

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About Data Center World

Data Center World is the global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals. It offers premier education, abundant networking, and the broadest access to best-in-class vendors. Designed to help data center and IT infrastructure professionals with challenging issues, Data Center World presents top quality knowledge without bias towards a specific vendor product or service. CIO Dive named Data Center World one of the top technology conferences to attend in 2023. Data Center World 2024 will be held April 15 – 18, in Washington, DC. Data Center World is produced by Informa Tech.

About AFCOM

AFCOM advances data center and IT professionals by delivering comprehensive and vendor-neutral education and peer-to-peer networking to its members around the world. AFCOM supports thousands of IT operations, facilities, builders/designers and vendors working in the data center and IT infrastructure industry. In serving the data center industry for more than 40 years, AFCOM has earned recognition as the market leader in educating, connecting and guiding the data center community.

About Informa Tech

Informa Tech is a leading provider of market insight and market access to the global business technology community. Through in-depth expertise and an engaged audience community, Informa Tech helps business professionals make better technology decisions and marketers reach the most powerful tech buyers and influencers in the world. Across its portfolio of over 100+ trusted brands, Informa Tech has over 1000 industry experts, including over 400 research analysts and consultants in global research group Omdia, and a monthly audience reach of over 125 million. Informa Tech is a division of FTSE 100 company Informa plc.

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