Upcoming Events & Conferences

Advancing Data Center Electrical Innovation is a three-day forum focused on end-to-end electrical systems for high-density, AI-ready data centers. The 2026 edition is held at The Highland Dallas, Curio Collection by Hilton, August 17-19.

Content spans utility interconnection through rack-level power delivery. Stated focus areas include grid constraints and interconnection lead times, redundancy tradeoffs, and emerging power architectures for AI workloads. The program includes a pre-conference workshop on designing flexible, AI-ready electrical systems, plus two main conference days built around case studies and peer discussion, with 25+ hours of networking.

Target audience is 100+ electrical engineering leaders from hyperscalers, colocators, engineering firms, and contractors. Confirmed attending companies include Oracle, AECOM, Arup, Skybox, Marathon, Black & Veatch, McCarthy Building Companies, Tetra Tech, and Gresham Smith. Speaker roles include principal engineers and senior technical engineers from firms such as Gresham Smith, SEL, and Interstates.

Official partners: 3M, MP, SEL, and EAE. Organized by Advancing Construction (Hanson Wade Group).

DCAC USA 2026 is the flagship US edition of the Data Center Anti-Conference, held August 24 to 26 at ACL Live at The Moody Theater in Austin. 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: ACL Live at The Moody Theater, 310 Willie Nelson Blvd, Austin, TX 78701.

Datacloud USA is the U.S. edition of the Datacloud series, combining Datacloud USA, Metro Connect Fall, and Datacloud Energy USA under one roof. The 2026 edition runs September 2-3, 2026 at the Austin Marriott Downtown, with pre-event activities on September 1. Organizers project 3,000+ senior digital infrastructure leaders.

Programming Focus

• U.S. data center site selection and power procurement
• AI infrastructure buildout and hyperscale demand
• Nuclear and behind-the-meter power for data centers
• Metro fiber, dark fiber, and interconnection markets
• Neocloud and specialized AI cloud architectures
• Digital infrastructure finance, M&A, and capital markets

Co-Located Summits and Programming

• Digital Infrastructure Leaders' Summit
• Nuclear for AI Summit
• Datacloud Energy USA
• Metro Connect Fall
• Women in Digital Infrastructure Lunch
• Neocloud and Design meetups

Sponsors

Diamond: PowerBridge

Platinum: Kent Data Centers, Langley Holdings PLC

Who Should Attend

• Data center developers and operators
• Hyperscalers and cloud infrastructure buyers
• Utilities, generation partners, and energy developers
• Carriers, dark fiber providers, and interconnection operators
• Investors, lenders, and infrastructure fund teams
• Corporate AI leaders evaluating compute capacity

Logistics

Venue: Austin Marriott Downtown, Austin, TX. Pre-event activities on September 1, main conference September 2-3. Organized by Datacloud (techoraco Limited, London).

Datacloud Africa is the Africa edition of the Datacloud series, co-located with International Telecoms Week (ITW) Africa. The 2026 edition runs September 7-10, 2026 at the Radisson Blu, Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya, and brings together digital infrastructure and connectivity leaders from across the continent.

Programming Focus

• Data center development across Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, and Morocco
• Submarine cable landings and terrestrial backhaul
• Cross-border connectivity, carrier peering, and IXP growth
• Mobile and fixed broadband expansion
• Power availability, renewables, and grid reliability for African data centers
• Regulatory and sovereign data considerations

Scale

• Approximately 1,800+ decision-makers
• 80+ countries represented
• 130+ speakers

Who Should Attend

• African and global data center operators
• Carriers, ISPs, and subsea cable operators
• Mobile network operators and tower companies
• Hyperscalers expanding in African markets
• Development finance institutions and infrastructure investors
• Regulators and public-sector digital leaders

Logistics

Venue: Radisson Blu, Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya. Co-located with ITW Africa 2026. Organized by Datacloud / ITW (techoraco Limited, London).

Platform Global 2026 is the flagship three-day congress of Platform Markets Group, held September 8 to 10, 2026 in Antibes, France. The 2026 edition marks the 5th anniversary of the event. Platform Global convenes 700+ senior leaders in digital infrastructure and data centres, with approximately 70% C-level attendance and 100+ expert speakers. The 2024 edition sold out.

Programming Focus

• Global data centre investment, M&A, and capital markets
• AI infrastructure buildout and hyperscale demand
• Power, energy transition, and sustainability strategy
• Site selection, planning, and development execution
• Real estate, land, and build-to-suit models
• Operator strategy: hyperscale, colocation, edge, and wholesale
• Nordic Investment Forum track
• Policy, regulation, and cross-border dealmaking

Confirmed Partners

Official Airline: Lufthansa (delegate rates available)

Who Should Attend

• Senior leaders in digital infrastructure and data centres
• Investors: private equity, infrastructure funds, credit, and REITs
• Operators across hyperscale, colocation, wholesale, and edge
• Real estate developers and land owners
• Consultants, brokers, and advisors
• Utilities, power developers, and energy partners
• Law firms and transaction advisors

Logistics

Location: Antibes, French Riviera. Full venue, agenda, speakers, and registration details published at platform-markets.com/global. The flagship awards dinner (Platform Global Awards) takes place the evening of September 8 at Le Ruban Bleu, Antibes.

The Platform Global Awards 2026 is the annual awards ceremony recognizing leadership, investment, and innovation across the digital infrastructure industry. Hosted by Platform Markets Group, the 2026 awards take place the evening of September 8, 2026 at Le Ruban Bleu in Antibes, as the opening night of Platform Global 2026. The 2026 awards also mark the 5th anniversary of Platform Global. The event includes a beach party and Argentinian BBQ dinner.

Award Categories

• Real Estate Transaction of the Year in Digital Infrastructure
• Data Centre Operator of the Year
• Infrastructure Sustainability Award
• Private Equity Award for Digital Infrastructure Investment
• Legal Transaction of the Year in Digital Infrastructure
• Leader in Data Centres Award
• Digital Infrastructure Investor of the Year
• Lifetime Award for Contribution to the Digital Infrastructure Industry

Who Should Attend

• Senior executives across data centres, cloud, and digital infrastructure
• Private equity, infrastructure funds, and credit investors
• Real estate developers and transaction advisors
• Law firms active in digital infrastructure M&A
• Sustainability and ESG leaders

Logistics

Venue: Le Ruban Bleu, Antibes. Nominations are accepted through June 30, 2026. There is no nomination fee. Details at platform-markets.com/awards.

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.

DCD>Connect | London is DCD's flagship European data center conference, held at the Business Design Centre in Islington. The 2026 edition runs September 15-16, 2026 and is projected to draw 5,000+ senior leaders, 150+ exhibitors, and 280+ experts across the European digital infrastructure ecosystem. Co-located with The Xcelerated Compute Show (September 16-17) and the DCD>Investment Forum.

Format. Keynote speeches, panel discussions, Chatham House-rule debates, interactive workshops, closed-door lunch briefings, and leadership roundtable discussions. Content is distributed across multiple stages with dedicated tracks for AI, power, sustainability, investment, and operations.

Programming Focus. UK and FLAP-D data center development (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin). Hyperscale and AI infrastructure buildout. Grid access, power procurement, and on-site generation. Sustainability, water use, and EU regulatory frameworks. Investment activity in European digital infrastructure. Secondary market expansion across the Nordics, Iberia, and CEE. Interactive workshops on design, deployment, and operations.

Featured Speakers. Full 2026 roster not yet published. Historical speakers at London editions include Daragh Campbell (Senior Design Manager, Equinix) and Mauro Leuce (Senior Director Global Design and Engineering Standards, Digital Realty), with panel participation from Equinix, Google, Microsoft, Digital Realty, and AWS teams.

Exhibitors and Partners. Ekinops, Vaisala, Trane, Cadence, CommScope (carry-over from 2025), VID FIREKILL, techUK (partner), TIA (partner). Formal Diamond/Platinum/Gold tier labels are not DCD's convention; instead DCD uses headline partner, patron, category sponsor, and event partner language.

Co-Located Events. The Xcelerated Compute Show | London (September 16-17). DCD>Investment Forum | London.

Who Should Attend. European data center operators and developers, hyperscalers and cloud providers, utilities and TSOs, infrastructure investors and lenders, engineering and construction firms, silicon and networking vendors, and regulatory stakeholders.

Logistics. Venue: Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 0QH, United Kingdom. Event dates September 15-16, 2026. TIA partner codes offer complimentary end-user passes and supplier discounts. Organized by Data Centre Dynamics Ltd.

Data Center Investment Summit Australia 2026 (DCIS Australia) is W.Media's capital-markets summit for Australia's digital infrastructure community, held September 16, 2026 at ICC Sydney. The summit is co-located with W.Media's Sydney Cloud & Datacenter Convention and targets investors, operators, and policymakers shaping Australia's hyperscale and AI-ready build-out.

Programming Focus

• Australia's hyperscale and AI data center pipeline
• Power procurement, renewable PPAs, and grid constraints
• Capital raising, private credit, and infrastructure equity
• M&A and platform consolidation across ANZ
• Regulatory, land, and permitting challenges

Past Delegate Organizations

BlackRock, Blackstone, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, KKR, Macquarie, UBS, Citibank, DBS, OCBC, GIC, Mizuho, MUFG, PwC, and others across banking, investment, and financial services.

Who Should Attend

• Infrastructure equity and credit investors
• Data center operators and developers active in ANZ
• Banks, advisors, and M&A counsel
• Pension funds and sovereign investors
• Government and regulatory stakeholders

PTC'DC 2026 is the Pacific Telecommunications Council's mid-year digital infrastructure conference, held September 17, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Northern Virginia. The event convenes government officials, regulators, private equity, finance, technology companies, and digital infrastructure operators for a single-day program focused on the intersection of policy and infrastructure.

Programming Focus

• Government and regulatory policy affecting digital infrastructure
• Private equity, finance, and investment strategy
• Network, subsea, and data center infrastructure technology
• Hyperscaler and carrier strategy
• Cybersecurity and cross-border digital policy

Featured Speakers

• Nathaniel C. Fick, Former Ambassador, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy
• Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
• Brian Quigley, VP, Network Infrastructure, Google
• Roary Stasko, CEO, Telstra International
• Ivan Fong, COO, Amalgamated Telecom Holdings Limited
• Simon Parker, Head of Strategic Projects, Vocus

Sponsors

Diamond: Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Equinix

Year-Round: Digital Realty

Who Should Attend

• Government officials, regulators, and policy staff
• Hyperscaler and cloud infrastructure leaders
• Data center operators and colocation executives
• Subsea cable, carrier, and network operators
• Private equity, credit, and infrastructure fund investors
• PTC members and digital infrastructure advisors