Pacific US Data Center Market

Energy Storage Finance and Investment brings together the entire storage community -- developers, tax equity investors, capital and debt providers, tax advisors, market analysts, offtakers, and more -- to provide a deep dive into navigating uncertainties and moving forward with cutting-edge approaches for finance and investment across the full range of markets and business strategies.

Key Topics

Contract negotiations, revenue streams, costs, tax equity and credit markets, FEOC and Material Assistance, augmentation, M&A, merchant transactions, procurement plans, supply chain risk, domestic equipment availability, ITC opportunities before storage and wind incentives sunset, and the opportunities and pitfalls across the full range of ISO, RTO and bilateral markets.

Who Should Attend

Renewable and storage developers or IPPs, utilities, public power and CCAs, engineering firms, integrators and EPCs, equipment vendors, manufacturers and material suppliers, insurance and risk services, financiers and investors, law firms, consulting and analytics firms, and regulators, government or ISO/RTOs.

2025 Recap

The 2025 edition drew 290+ participants, 84 expert speakers, and 21 content-packed sessions.

2026 Speakers and Participating Organizations

Featured speakers represent Swift Current Energy, Lotus Infrastructure Partners, Absaroka Energy, Wells Fargo Bank, Ameresco, Ascend Analytics, MUFG, Lightshift Energy, Caerus Commodities, Nomura Greentech, CoBank, RedoxBlox, Orennia, esVolta, GDEV Management, PolyJoule, Hecate Energy, Jupiter Power, Savion, Key Capture Energy, AES, CG/CRC-IB, and GridStor, among others.

Sponsors

Gold sponsors include Ascend Analytics, Bildmore, CAC, CG/CRC-IB, Crux, Davies, Energy GPS, Euclid Transactional, Foss and Company, Intertek CEA, Mayer Brown, Morgan Lewis, Norton Rose Fulbright, and Orennia. Silver sponsors include CFO Services, DESRI, Fluence Energy, Lockton, and SolaREIT. WiFi sponsor: Anza.

Venue

Hyatt Regency La Jolla, 3777 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92122. Group hotel rate: $289/night (cutoff May 27, 2026).

Bisnow's National DICE Construction, Design & Development West conference covers data center delivery challenges across Western U.S. markets. The single-day event is held at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.

Key topics include utility coordination and power procurement, entitlement and permitting risk in constrained markets, AI-ready design strategies, modular and prefabricated construction methods, and compressed delivery timelines. The audience includes developers, owners, operators, construction firms, engineers, utility partners, investors, and technology providers.

Advancing Data Center Design & Engineering West is a three-day forum focused on facility design strategies for AI-scale infrastructure in the Western U.S. The 2026 edition is held at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose.

Key topics include designing for evolving AI workloads, flexible electrical and cooling architectures, site selection, utility readiness, modularization, and resilience. The program brings together hyperscalers, colocators, developers, architects, and engineering teams addressing rising power constraints and compressed delivery timelines.

Expected attendance is 250+ senior-level design and engineering professionals, with 22+ speakers across two technical tracks and 12+ hours of networking.

AI Infra Summit is Kisaco Research's flagship conference for the technical foundations of AI systems, covering production-level infrastructure challenges across the full AI stack. The 2026 edition runs September 15-17, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, with projected attendance of 8,000. The event is the evolution of the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit under a new name reflecting broader data center and infrastructure coverage.

Programming Focus. Content is organized across five technical tracks: AI Data Center, Compute, Data & Models, Data Movement, and Physical AI. Topics span compute silicon and accelerators, optical interconnect and networking, data center facility design for AI workloads, power and thermal management for high-density racks, model infrastructure and serving, and physical AI and embodied systems.

Keynote Speakers. Lip-Bu Tan, CEO, Intel. Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google. Monique Picou, Chief Product Supply Officer, Google. Ori Goshen, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, AI21 Labs. Prashant Mehrotra, EVP and Chief AI Officer, U.S. Bank. Kripa Krishnan, VP Meta AI Infrastructure, Meta. Ivan Poupyrev, CEO, Archetype AI. Arun Nandi, Chief Data and AI Officer, Carrier. Ram Nagappan, VP AI Infrastructure, Oracle. Chelle Izzi, CCO, PG&E. Chris Dolan, Chief Data Center Officer, Crusoe. Keith Sarbaugh, EVP and Chief Digital Officer, Zoetis.

Platinum Sponsors. Ayar Labs, Broadcom, Cognichip, Credo, d-Matrix, Eridu, Kove, Lambda, Lightmatter, Marvell, Mirantis, Qualcomm, Siemens, Solidigm, and Western Digital.

Who Should Attend. AI infrastructure architects and engineers at hyperscalers and enterprises. Data center developers and operators building AI-optimized facilities. Silicon, networking, optics, and storage vendors. Power and cooling engineers designing for high-density AI racks. ML platform and model infrastructure teams. Investors and analysts tracking AI compute capacity.

Logistics. Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Three-day program September 15-17, 2026. Organized by Kisaco Research.

OCP Global Summit 2026 is the Open Compute Project's flagship annual gathering, held October 12 to 15 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The summit convenes the open hardware and open infrastructure community: hyperscalers, cloud providers, OEMs and ODMs, silicon vendors, and data center operators aligned with OCP's reference designs for rack, power, cooling, networking, and server hardware.

The 2026 edition centers on AI-ready high-density infrastructure, with strong programming around GPU platform design, advanced liquid cooling, high-voltage DC distribution, and modular data center architectures.

Programming Focus

• Open hardware and reference design contributions
• AI-ready, high-density server and rack architectures
• Advanced thermal and liquid cooling systems
• Power delivery: 48V, HVDC, rack-level efficiency
• Modular and prefabricated data center infrastructure
• Silicon, networking, and accelerator ecosystem
• Collaborative engineering workshops and technical deep dives

Who Should Attend

• Hyperscaler and cloud infrastructure teams
• Data center operators and colocation providers
• Hardware OEMs, ODMs, and silicon vendors
• Power, cooling, and thermal technology providers
• Systems and rack-level engineers
• AI and HPC infrastructure architects
• Standards bodies and open-source hardware contributors

Logistics

Venue: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA 95113. Call for proposals opens May 2026; registration opens June 2026. Speaker list and sponsor tiers not yet published.