West Coast Data Center Conference & Expo
About the Event
Bisnow's West Coast Data Center Conference & Expo takes place December 3, 2026, at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California. Hosted as part of Bisnow's DICE series, the single-day program runs from 7:30 AM through late afternoon, bringing together developers, hyperscale operators, utility leads, and institutional investors to address land acquisition, power procurement, community engagement, and financing hurdles across the Western United States.
Programming Focus
- The Powered Land Premium: Pricing power certainty into Western site selection and managing utility interconnection risk
- Designed for a Chip That Doesn't Exist Yet: Planning long-term facility architecture against rapidly shifting silicon roadmaps, including high-voltage distribution, structural capacity, and liquid cooling
- Fast, Cheap or Reliable: Compressed delivery schedules, pre-construction risk management, and the operational ramifications of shortened commissioning cycles
- Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development: Integrating physical security from initial facility blueprint through operational turnover
- Top Ten Data Center Legal and Business Issues: Contractual risks in powered land transactions, commercial lease structures, and master services agreements
- Who Gets Financed: Shifting underwriting requirements, lender sentiment, credit risk, and evaluating long-term asset obsolescence
- The New Tenant Roster: Underwriting non-traditional and neocloud operators, credit profiles, and structuring risk protections into enterprise contracts
Featured Speakers
Operators, Hyperscalers, and Developers:
- Kyle Chien, Sr. Director, Digital Realty
- Greg Bowman, Director, Construction - Physical Security, Crusoe
- Jay Smith, VP, Data Center Operations and Engineering, Evocative
- Eanna Murphy, Founder and CEO, Montera Infrastructure
- Anand Ramesh, CTO & Co-Founder, Verrus
- Mark Calvano, President, Calvano Development
Finance, Research, and Advisory:
- Chris Downie, Managing Partner, Welles Infrastructure Advisors
- Kevin Imboden, Global Director, Market Research & Intelligence, EdgeConneX
- Graeme Kavanagh, Partner & Chief Revenue Officer, Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities
- Nabeel Mahmood, Co-Founder, Nomad Futurist Foundation
- Meghan Reckling, CEO, Victory Field Operations
Design, Engineering, and Construction:
- David Fanning, Principal & Critical Facilities Practice Leader, Gensler
- Scott Rugen, VP, Advanced Technology, Graham Construction
- Rav Dhaliwal, VP & Office Leader (San Francisco & Santa Clara), HITT Contracting
- Dylan Swallow, Managing Principal – Americas, SLS Consultants
- Jesse Brodhagen, Product and Customer Success Manager, Nucor Data Systems
- Zachary Rainey, Manager, Fujitsu
Legal and Risk:
- Jeffrey Moerdler, Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure, Haynes and Boone
- David Norton, Partner, Real Estate Group, Allen Matkins
- Brandon Barker, Member, Mintz
- Preet Gill, EVP, Global Technology Risk Practice Leader, Lockton
- Brandy Byrd Chapman, Business Development Specialist, Mission Critical, Ameristar Perimeter Security
Sponsors
Platinum: Allen Matkins, Ameristar Perimeter Security USA, Clark Pacific, Dormakaba, ESI Total Fuel Management, Maddox Industrial Transformer, Nucor Vulcraft Verco, PARADIGM Structural Engineers, Virginia Transformer Corporation
Gold: Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities, Archimedes Controls, Bloom Energy, Calvano Development, Cox Castle & Nicholson, Graham Construction, Haynes and Boone, Johnson Controls, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Lockton Companies, Gensler, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Mintz, Mod42, MPI Energy, RC Power, Schneider Electric, SLS Consultants, Taco Comfort Solutions, Victory Field Operations, Wesco Data Center Solutions, XYZ Reality
Silver: Air2O Intelligent Cooling, APTIM, Btech, Bureau Veritas, Essel Environmental Consulting, HITT Contracting, Prime Electric, Pure Energy, Wesanco ZSI
Media Partners: Data Center Post, iMiller Public Relations
Impact Partner: Nomad Futurist Foundation
Who Should Attend
- Data center developers, owners, and operators evaluating Western US market expansion
- Hyperscaler and wholesale colocation engineering, siting, and procurement teams
- Institutional investors, lenders, and infrastructure private equity funds
- Structural, civil, and mechanical engineers designing mission-critical facilities
- Legal counsel and transaction advisors negotiating master services agreements and land contracts
- Construction executives, general contractors, and preconstruction managers
- Utility coordinators, substation developers, and microgrid technology providers
Logistics
The conference takes place in the San Jose Ballroom on the 2nd Floor of the San Jose Marriott, located at 301 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113. Super early bird tickets start at $415. Valet parking is available at the Marriott for $13 per hour or $53 daily, with self-parking available at the connected San Jose Convention Center garage for $4 per hour up to a $25 daily maximum. Complimentary passes may be available for qualifying enterprise end users, non-sales colocation operators, and institutional investors via Bisnow.