Upcoming Events & Conferences

DCAC Europe 2026 is the European edition of the Data Center Anti-Conference, held June 23 to 24 at the Roundhouse in London. DCAC was founded by Kirk Offel in Austin in 2015 and is led by President David Isaac; the series expanded to Europe in 2024. The global DCAC footprint draws 3,000+ attendees across 1,000+ companies, with 200+ industry partners.

The 2026 theme is "Operation Full Throttle: Forging the 5th Utility," positioning data infrastructure alongside water, electricity, gas, and telecom as essential infrastructure. DCAC deliberately breaks from traditional conference format, emphasizing networking, interactive content, concerts, and celebrity appearances over panel-heavy programming.

Programming Focus

• Data infrastructure as the 5th utility
• Industry collaboration, innovation, and community building
• Networking-first format (35+ hours of networking at recent editions)
• Concerts, entertainment, and experiential programming

Named Partners

Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, IES, Rosendin (more partners to be announced)

Who Should Attend

• Data center owners, operators, and developers
• Hyperscalers and cloud providers
• Design, construction, and engineering firms
• Electrical and mechanical contractors
• Power, cooling, and infrastructure technology vendors
• Investors and capital partners in digital infrastructure

Logistics

Venue: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8EH.

HPC Summit Southeast Asia 2026 is W.Media's single-day summit on the intersection of AI infrastructure and high-performance computing, held June 24, 2026 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The event is programmed for 300+ attendees with 25+ sessions and 20+ expert speakers from 15+ countries, running 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Programming Focus

• AI training and inference infrastructure design
• Liquid cooling, direct-to-chip, and high-density deployments
• GPU supply, accelerators, and chip strategy
• HPC workloads across research, finance, and biotech in APAC
• Power density, substation capacity, and grid interconnection

Who Should Attend

• HPC and AI infrastructure architects
• Data center operators hosting AI workloads
• Chip, GPU, and accelerator vendors
• Cooling, power, and mission-critical specialists
• Research institutions and enterprise AI teams

Logistics

Early bird delegate pass: USD 495. Co-located with Data Center Investment Summit Asia 2026 at Marina Bay Sands.

Data Center Investment Summit Asia 2026 (DCIS Asia) is W.Media's capital-markets summit for APAC digital infrastructure, held June 24, 2026 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore under the theme "Financing the Power Behind AI: Capital Stack Meets Megawatt Scarcity." The summit convenes sponsors, lenders, LPs, and operators focused on funding Asia's next wave of hyperscale and AI-ready capacity.

Programming Focus

• Capital stack structuring for AI-era data centers
• Megawatt scarcity, power procurement, and grid interconnection
• Cross-border M&A and platform consolidation in APAC
• Private credit, infrastructure equity, and REIT markets
• Risk, underwriting, and valuation in an AI-led cycle

Featured Speakers

• Tejinder Singh, Principal Investment Management, DigitalBridge
• Yaniv Ghitis, Chief Commercial and Investment Officer, Digital Edge
• Matthew Goh, Director, KKR
• Jay Lee, Principal, Analysys Mason
• Fredrik Johansson, Managing Director, Balder Investment
• Robert Tang, Partner, Clifford Chance
• Sonya Kalnin, Partner, Watson Farley & Williams
• Maury G, Managing Partner, Levels Ventures
• Justin Cham, Head of Investment, Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust
• Jean Monson, Head of Infrastructure, MUFG

Sponsors

Gold: Bridge Data Centres

Bronze: Galaxy DC

Supporting Partner: Pivotale AI

Who Should Attend

• Infrastructure equity and private credit investors
• Data center operators and developers raising capital
• Banks, advisors, and M&A bankers
• Law firms and transaction counsel
• Pension funds, sovereigns, and LPs

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.

PowerUp Data Centers - Infrastructure is a three-day conference organized by Infocast (a Clarion Events company) focused on the power, transmission, and regulatory challenges behind surging data center demand. The 2026 edition runs July 14 to 16 at the Hyatt Regency Austin, with 95 speakers across 21 content sessions. The 2025 edition drew more than 440 participants.

Programming Focus

• Hybrid facilities and behind-the-meter generation
• Interconnection queue reform
• Generation technology selection: gas, nuclear, and BTM options
• Transmission planning and tariff design
• Financing structures for large-scale data center power through 2028 and 2029

Featured Speakers

Regulators and former regulators:

• Commissioner Kelsey Bagot, Virginia State Corporation Commission
• Commissioner Tricia Pridemore, Georgia Public Service Commission
• Commissioner Stacey Paradis, Illinois Commerce Commission
• Commissioner Jesus "Rene" Lopez, Jr., Arizona Corporation Commission
• Rich Glick, Principal, GQ New Energy Strategies (former FERC Chair)
• Allison Clements, Partner, ASG Group (former FERC Commissioner)

Utilities and ISOs:

• Bill Blevins, Director, Grid Coordination, ERCOT
• Marc Keyser, Regional Director, MISO
• Raj Bazaj, VP, Energy & Sustainability Solutions, Constellation
• Sharon Midgley, VP, Regulatory Policy, Constellation
• Caroline Mead, SVP, Power Marketing, ENGIE North America
• Jennifer Galaway, PE, Senior Manager, Transmission Strategy, Portland General Electric
• Rafael Wilches, Director, Transmission Development, PSEG

Data center operators and customers:

• Audrey Copeland, VP, Power Development, Compass Datacenters
• Sean Farney, VP, Data Center Strategy, JLL
• Ghassan Saroor, Director of Power Generation and Transmission, CyrusOne
• Samantha Robertson, Director, Global Energy Strategy, Bitdeer
• Cameron Poursoltan, Senior Manager, Energy Policy (Texas), Data Center Coalition

Generation and technology:

• Benjamin Reinke, SVP, Global Business Development, X-energy
• TJ Winter, VP, Strategic Technologies, Fluence

Sponsors

Gold: Fluence Energy, Davies, Husch Blackwell, Morgan Lewis, Norton Rose Fulbright

Silver: BDO, CFO Services, EDP, PIQ Energy

Other: Pike (lanyard); Brown & Brown and Sieyuan Electric (hospitality)

Who Should Attend

• Data center developers, owners, and operators
• Utilities and power generators
• Transmission planners
• Engineering and consulting firms
• REITs, lenders, and infrastructure investors
• Renewable energy developers
• Law firms
• Policymakers and state regulators
• Corporate data center customers

Logistics

Hyatt Regency Austin room rate: $199 (cutoff June 22, 2026).

Bisnow's National DICE Capital Markets is a half-day conference focused on digital infrastructure capital formation and deal structuring. The 2026 edition takes place July 16 in New York City, running 7:30 AM to 12:35 PM.

Programming covers how AI, cloud, and enterprise IT are reshaping capital allocation, scaling project delivery from single facilities to regional platforms, making sites investment-ready through entitlements and permitting, and funding strategies across boutique, regional, and platform plays. Speakers include Dave Ferdman (Primary Digital Infrastructure), Sapna Sirohi (Goldman Sachs), Hunter Newby (Newby Ventures), Jeffrey Moerdler (Haynes and Boone), and Daniel English (Legacy Investing).

The audience spans developers, investors, lenders, construction teams, utility partners, and technology providers active in digital infrastructure capital markets. Registration is $289.

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.

Ai4 is an annual artificial intelligence industry conference held at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The 2026 edition runs August 4-6, with optional pre-conference training workshops on August 3. Organizers project 12,000+ attendees, 1,000+ speakers, and 400+ exhibitors across nearly one million square feet, roughly double the 2025 footprint. The event was founded in 2018 by Michael Weiss and Marcus Jecklin and is positioned as the largest applied-AI conference in the United States.

Programming Focus

• Enterprise AI strategy and leadership
• Scaling AI across large organizations
• Data infrastructure, MLOps, and model deployment
• Governance, privacy, and responsible AI
• Generative AI and foundation models
• Agentic AI and AI alignment
• Frontier models and emerging research
• Social and policy implications of AI

The full program spans four headline keynote themes and 20 industry and technical tracks covering financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, retail, manufacturing, energy, transportation, national security, insurance, and media. Session formats include executive panels, fireside chats, enterprise case studies, and technical deep dives.

Featured Speakers

Keynote Panel (Wednesday, August 5):

• Geoffrey Hinton, AI researcher and Turing Award recipient
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford HAI
• Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI

Autonomous Mobility Keynote (Thursday, August 6):

• Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO, Waymo
• Sebastian Thrun, Founder, Waymo

Enterprise Speakers:

• Franziska Bell, Ford Motor Company
• Sameer Sethi, Hackensack Meridian Health
• Lasherelle Morgan, NBCUniversal
• Jorge Reis-Filho, AstraZeneca
• Jeff Moore, Gap Inc.
• Nilovna Chatterjee, AbbVie

Participating Organizations

Confirmed and returning participants include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, Databricks, Capital One, Walmart, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, J.P. Morgan, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Comcast, Samsung, American Medical Association, Ford Motor Company, Mayo Clinic, NBCUniversal, U.S. Bank, Airbus, AstraZeneca, and the United States Air Force. The 2026 sponsor lineup has not yet been published by the organizer.

Who Should Attend

• C-suite executives and enterprise AI leaders
• Data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Data infrastructure, MLOps, and platform teams
• Venture capitalists and growth investors
• Government and defense leaders
• Hyperscale and data center operators supporting AI workloads
• Enterprise buyers from finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and media

Co-Located and Special Programming

• Two half-day pre-conference training workshops on August 3, delivered with General Assembly
• Executive Summit
• Women in AI Reception
• Startup showcase and evening receptions
• AI Policy Summit held separately at an MGM property August 11-12

Logistics

Venue: The Venetian, 3355 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Main conference dates August 4-6, 2026. Pre-conference workshops August 3. Registration via ai4.io/register.

The Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026 is a three-day industry conference organized by Data Center Frontier (Endeavor Business Media), held August 4 to 6, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Northern Virginia. Now in its third year, the Summit uses a curated format with focused sessions, peer-to-peer roundtables, Q&A, and data center tours rather than an overscheduled expo agenda. The event is guided by a 2026 Advisory Board representing hyperscale and colocation operators, power and cooling vendors, IT providers, and construction specialists.

Programming Focus

• Emerging trends shaping the data center marketplace
• AI-driven automation and operational efficiency
• Energy strategy, sustainability, and power constraints
• The "Moonshot" innovation panel with live audience voting
• Executive keynotes and onsite data center tours

The 2026 conference program and speaker roster are being finalized. The Call for Speakers was open through January 9, 2026, with selections published closer to the event.

Sponsors

Platinum: Schneider Electric USA

Premier: CargoSense, Maddox, Nautilus Data Technologies, Unilog Corp

Sponsors: Clearfield, Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations, Spartan Systems

Media Partners

Cabling Installation & Maintenance, Data Center POST, Electronic Design, Greener Data, iMiller Public Relations, ISE Magazine, JSA, Lightwave + BTR, Microgrid Knowledge, Nomad Futurist, T&D World.

Who Should Attend

• Data center operators (hyperscale and colocation)
• Power, cooling, and infrastructure vendors
• IT and networking providers
• Construction and engineering firms
• Editorial Advisory Board members and industry analysts

Logistics

Venue: Hyatt Regency Reston, 1800 Presidents St, Reston, VA 20190. Registration is open at dcftrends.com/2026/register with early bird pricing available.

DICE South is a two-day data center investment and development conference organized by Bisnow, focused on Southern U.S. markets. The 2026 edition takes place August 12 to 13 at the Live! by Loews Hotel Arlington, TX.

Programming covers Southern market positioning, site selection and utility engagement for power-ready projects, capital underwriting for AI-era workloads, AI-density design with liquid cooling and white space innovation, onsite generation and hybrid energy, compressed construction delivery, and operations automation for high-density facilities. Speakers include Dave Ferdman (Primary Digital Infrastructure), David McCall (QTS), Jeffrey Moerdler (Haynes and Boone), Hani Noshi and Andy Kirby (Microsoft), Jake Ring (PDM), and Steve Altizer (Compu Dynamics), among 30+ others.

The audience includes developers, operators, investors, construction firms, utility partners, technology providers, and policy stakeholders. Registration starts at $499.