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Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026

The Data Center Frontier Trends Summit is designed to empower data center leaders and stakeholders with up-to-date insights and actionable intelligence on the essential trends impacting the marketplace. The event promises a more engaging, less crowded, and affordable experience for learning and networking, inviting attendees to connect with industry leaders,…

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60Speakers
20Sponsors
17On the bill · sessions
72Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Data, in alphabetical order.
Adam Lavallee
Global Business Development Manager · Emerson
Amy Marks
SVP, Innovation & Sustainability · Compass Datacenters
Andrew Whitmore
Chief Commercial Officer · Motivair
Asser Elsamahy
VP of Engineering · ON.energy
Bill Kleyman
CEO, Co-Founder · Apolo.us
Bob Kinscherf
Executive Director Data Center Economy Sales · Constellation Energy
Bret Lehman
Principal Enterprise Architect · Lenovo
Brian Winterhalter
Partner · DLA Piper LLP
Buddy Rizer
Executive Director · Loudoun County Economic Development
Carsten Baumann
Director Strategic Initiatives, Solution Architect · Schneider Electric
Corey Dyer
CEO · ValorC3 Data Centers
Dado Slezak
Executive Vice President, Energy Capital and Strategy · QTS Data Centers
David Korté
Senior Infrastructure Consultant · Portal Systems, Inc.
David McCall
Brand Evangelist · QTS Data Centers
Denisse De La Cruz
Director of National Power Solutions, Data Centers · Generac Industrial Energy
Dima Karlinsky
CBDO · Unilog
Fengrong Li
Senior Managing Director · FTI Consulting
Gabriel Schaap
Director of Liquid Cooling Engineering · MAS HVAC
Hunter Newby
Founder · Newby Ventures
Jaskeerat Singh
Senior Production Manager · Nortek Data Center Cooling
Jasmeet Singh
Senior Data Center Design Manager · Amazon Web Services
Jason Agee
Director, Solutions and Data Center Architecture · Delta Electronics (Americas) Ltd.
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Schneider Electric USAPlatinum
CargoSensePremier
Clearfield Inc.
Constellation Energy
Data Center Insights Council
Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations
Emerson Power & Water
Generac Power Systems, Inc.
Maddox TransformerPremier
MAPSearch
National Technologies NTI
Nautilus Data TechnologiesPremier
Nortek Data Center Cooling
ON.energy
Powerside
Spartan Systems
The Electrical Alliance
Unilog.SCPremier
Virginia Transformer CorpPremier
Yokogawa Electric Corporation
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Agenda

Selected from 17 sessions on the bill.
  • Thursday, August 6, 2026 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

    Closing Keynote: Earning the Social License: Stewardship, Sustainability, and the Future of Data Center Growth

    As AI infrastructure scales, a new constraint is emerging: acceptance. Development is no longer judged on speed and capacity alone. Power consumption, land use, water, and grid imp…

  • Thursday, August 6, 2026 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

    From Hybrid to Liquid: Scaling Cooling Infrastructure for the Next Era of AI

    As AI deployments push rack densities beyond the limits of traditional data center designs, thermal infrastructure—including liquid cooling systems, mechanical plants, heat rejecti…

  • Thursday, August 6, 2026 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

    The Last 90 Days: Solving the Final Infrastructure Bottlenecks Before Go-Live

    As AI infrastructure projects race toward completion, success increasingly depends not on what happens during planning or construction—but on what happens in the final 90 days befo…

  • Tuesday, August 4, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    One Density Doesn’t Fit All: Designing AI Infrastructure Across the Spectrum

    AI infrastructure is no longer a single design problem. It’s a spectrum. At one end are hyperscale “AI factories”—massive, tightly integrated systems aligned with next-generation p…

  • Tuesday, August 4, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Power First: The New Playbook for Delivering AI Data Centers

    Power has become the gating factor for AI infrastructure, and the industry is responding by fundamentally rewriting how data centers are planned, powered, and delivered. Interconne…

  • Tuesday, August 4, 2026 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

    Beyond the Dashboard: Active Exception Management for Hyperscale AI

    As AI infrastructure scales, the margin for supply chain disruption continues to shrink. Tracking shipments is no longer enough. Keeping complex projects on schedule requires the a…

  • Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

    From Announcements to Delivery: Why Some AI Data Centers Get Built—and Others Don’t

    AI infrastructure announcements are everywhere. Delivery is not. As demand accelerates, a growing gap is emerging between what gets announced and what actually gets built. Power co…

  • Tuesday, August 4, 2026 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

    Opening Remarks: From Projection to Execution; Live Editorial Roll Call with DCFTS Advisory Board

    DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent opens the Summit with a fast calibration of where the industry really is in 2026: from last year’s rapid expansion and “AI-ready” positioning to to…

  • Tuesday, August 4, 2026 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

    Opening Keynote Fireside Chat: The New Geography of AI — Power, Land, and the Future of Data Center Development

    As AI workloads reshape infrastructure requirements, competitive advantage increasingly depends on access to power, entitled land, and the ability to execute at speed. The next wav…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 72 companies show up — and 5 bet on three roles at once?

72 companies. five are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
5All threespeak · spons · exh
15Sponsoringsponsor only
52Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

CargoSense·Constellation Energy·Nautilus Data Technologies·Nortek Data Center Cooling·ON.energy

Speakers by seniority

73% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1830%
  • Founder / Owner47%
  • VP-level1017%
  • Director / Head of1220%
  • Manager / Lead813%
  • Engineer · IC35%
  • Marketing / Brand12%
  • Advisor / Investor12%
  • Other roles35%

Of 60 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01CargoSenseSp·P1V
  2. 02Constellation EnergySp1V
  3. 03Nautilus Data TechnologiesSp·P1V
  4. 04Nortek Data Center CoolingSp1V
  5. 05ON.energySp1V
  6. 06Clearfield Inc.Sp
  7. 07Data Center Insights CouncilSp
  8. 08Dynamic Lifecycle InnovationsSp
  9. 09Emerson Power & WaterSp
  10. 10Generac Power Systems, Inc.Sp
  11. 11Maddox TransformerSp·P
  12. 12MAPSearchSp
  13. 13National Technologies NTISp
  14. 14PowersideSp
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
5% of 20
premier5
25% of 20
unspecified14
70% of 20
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