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7:30 am Registration & Networking
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Unlocking Power Availability With Onsite Solutions
8:05 am Fireside Chat: Assessing Site Selection Trade-Offs to Unlock Viable Development in Saturated Power Markets & Prevent Costly Rework
- Quantifying land viability by stress-testing assumptions around delayed permanent power, interim self-generation, water sourcing, and enabling infrastructure costs
- Applying real due-diligence learnings from high-demand markets to understand what actually tips a site from “possible” to “not worth pursuing”
- Balancing fibre access, utility timelines, and community receptiveness to determine long-term feasibility rather than short-term availability
8:45 am From Interconnect Risk to Predictable Performance: Engineering Integrated Power Systems for AI-Scale Data Centers
- Address power availability as a design risk, accounting for grid constraints, utility interconnect timelines, and increasingly volatile AI-driven loads
- Explore integrated energy architectures combining generation, energy storage, controls, and advanced system modeling to improve predictability and resiliency
- Design for scalable growth under constrained grid conditions, helping data centers move forward with greater certainty even when utility power is limited
9:15 am Operationalizing SMRs for Onsite Power Resilience in Data Center Campuses
- Examining where SMRs realistically sit today versus near-term alternatives by comparing technical readiness, achievable capacity, lead times, and constructability against options like on-site gas turbines
- Integrating SMRs into live or planned campuses by addressing redundancy, resiliency, constructability, site constraints, and interfaces with existing facility infrastructure
- Navigating permitting pathways, environmental codes, vendor maturity, and supply chain lead times to understand who can deliver, how power is sustained long-term, and where risks remain
9:45 am Reinforce Connections: Networking Break
10:45 am Evaluating Self-Generation Topologies to Accelerate Power Availability & Reduce Grid Dependence
- Comparing self-generation options by understanding trade-offs in footprint, load responsiveness, redundancy, maintenance, and the role of batteries or supercapacitors
- Determining when behind-the-meter generation makes sense as a response to long utility timelines, including ownership models, operational responsibility, permitting risk, supplier depth, delivery time, and breakeven economics
- Leveraging bridging power solutions to enable phased energization and bring facilities online ahead of permanent infrastructure availability
11:15 am Panel: Aligning Power Strategy & Capital Planning to Deliver Bankable Large-Load Data Center Developments
- Evaluating grid, renewable, on-site and behind-the-meter power options to build resilient and cost-effective energy strategies for large-load campuses
- Balancing development, commercial and contractual considerations to identify execution risks early and improve project viability
- Structuring financing-ready power strategies by aligning energy procurement, development timelines and capital requirements to support bankable outcomes
Maximizing Project Partner Collaboration
12:00 pm Fireside Chat: Structuring In House & External Consultant Models to Improve Trust, Efficiency, & Outcomes
- Comparing how owners balance trusted external consultants with internal teams to understand where in house capability adds the most value versus where outside expertise is relied upon
- Clarifying the benefits and trade offs of different engagement models by examining how others decide what stays inside their “trusted bubble” and what is outsourced
- Optimizing collaboration with contractors and consultants by learning how peer organizations structure responsibilities to reduce friction and improve delivery confidence
12:30 pm Cement Connections: Industry Lunch
1:30 pm Successfully Implementing Modularization at Scale to Accelerate Delivery Amid Labour Constraints
- Demonstrating how major scopes of work were shifted from site to controlled manufacturing environments to deliver more capacity with fewer on-site labour resources
- Quantifying where modularization materially reduced program risk and where it did not, based on what was implemented rather than discussed in theory
- Translating hyperscaler, colocator, and design-side decisions into repeatable approaches that show what “doing more with less people” looks like in practice
2:00 pm Improving Owner–Designer Collaboration to Accelerate Design Decisions & Reduce Rework
- Aligning priorities, risk tolerance, and delivery constraints earlier in the design process to minimize late stage changes and redesign
- Clarifying decision ownership and escalation paths to keep designs moving as requirements evolve and timelines compress
- Streamlining feedback loops between owners and designers to improve efficiency while maintaining technical rigour and design intent
Understanding Industry Trajectories
2:30 pm Exploring 800V Integration to Future-Proof Data Center Power Architecture Amid Rising Rack Densities
- Comparing how owners balance trusted external consultants with internal teams to understand where in house capability adds the most value versus where outside expertise is relied upon
- Clarifying the benefits and trade offs of different engagement models by examining how others decide what stays inside their “trusted bubble” and what is outsourced
- Optimizing collaboration with contractors and consultants by learning how peer organizations structure responsibilities to reduce friction and improve delivery confidence