DICE: Construction, Design & Development - West 2026

The West Coast leg of Bisnow's National DICE Construction, Design & Development mini-series, held 25 June 2026 in Santa Clara, California. The half-day programme covered site selection and entitlement, delivery risk alignment, AI/liquid-cooling-ready campus design, compressed interconnection-to-commissioning timelines, and physical security. Clark Pacific was presenting sponsor.

Programming Focus

• Site selection in the real world: aligning utilities, entitlements and community buy-in
• Rethinking risk: aligning owners, builders and operators around delivery and operations
• Blueprints that bend, not break: designing campuses for AI, liquid cooling and what comes next
• Speed to scale: from interconnection queue to commissioning on compressed timelines
• From blueprint to build: physical security throughout development

Featured Speakers

Hyperscalers:

• Sara Neff, Partner & GM Sustainability, Microsoft
• Kushal Dagli, Global Data Center Deployment Optimization Lead, Microsoft
• Manik Vig, Program Manager Capacity Planning, Google
• Aveek Banerjee, Engineer Product Quality, Google

Operators and developers:

• Maria Poyer, Head of Acquisition, Verrus
• Jay Smith, VP Data Center Operations & Engineering, Evocative
• Adam Witkop, CTO, Crane Data Centers
• Chandler Swenson, VP Construction & Real Estate, Novva Data Centers
• Greg Bowman, Director Construction Physical Security, Crusoe

Construction, design and systems:

• Rav Dhaliwal, VP & Office Leader, HITT Contracting
• Blake Roskelley, Director of Preconstruction Mission Critical, Clark Pacific
• David Speidelsbach, VP Electrical & Electronic Solutions, Wesco
• Thomas Steen, CTO, Nortek Data Center Cooling
• Christopher Bailey, Manager Business Development Code Compliance, Bureau Veritas

Moderators: Mark Calvano (Calvano Development), Justin Leon (Avtron Power Solutions), Brian Armstrong (PARADIGM Structural Engineers), James Betts (Affiliated Engineers), Annie Masilunas (ASSA ABLOY), Matt Cott (Behrens and Associates)

Sponsors

Presenting: Clark Pacific

Platinum: PARADIGM Structural Engineers, Clark Pacific, Tate, Ameristar Perimeter Security, Maddox Industrial Transformer

Gold: Bureau Veritas, Calvano Development, RC Power, HITT Contracting, Avtron Power Solutions, Wesco Data Center Solutions, Nortek Data Center Cooling

Silver: Betafence, Fluke Corporation, PacificDAS, Quanergy Solutions, BIG Fiber, Virginia Transformer, Hanwha Vision America, Prime Electric, Allegion, Assa Abloy

Media partners: iMiller Public Relations, InterGlobix, Data Center Post

Impact partner: Nomad Futurist Foundation

Who Should Attend

• Developers, owners and operators
• Architects, engineers and general contractors
• Utility partners
• Infrastructure investors
• Technology solution providers
• Policy and ESG stakeholders

Logistics

Half-day format. Expected attendance 225-250+. Prior editions: 210+ in 2025, 240+ in 2024.