Mark Whelpley
Advanced Tech Preconstruction Leader
DPR Construction
Tuesday, October 23 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Breakout A: Why Does it Cost So Much to Retro-Fit?! (session) Mark is an experienced design and preconstruction leader for DPR Construction, one of the top technical builders in the United States. With 28 years of experience of working on technically challenging projects in the mission critical […]
Sunday, October 21
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Emerging Air Sampling Fire Detection in HVAC Design Models
Codes and standards drive many of the decisions made in data centers. As facilities grow to the industrial scale, blindly following code requirements may cause you to miss opportunities for better fire protection. Many of the improvements can be realized by using air sampling smoke detection in place of regular smoke detectors. In addition to […]
Greg Young
Senior Managing Director
CBRE Data Center Solutions
Monday, October 22 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Breakout B: Yesterday, Today Tomorrow: A Quantum Leap Needed (session) Greg Young leads the Americas business of CBRE’s Data Center Solutions Integrated Data Center Operations. Greg is ultimately responsible for managing the quality, uptime, operations, and partnership strategy for all of the data centers that CBRE manages […]
Sunday, October 21
2:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics 101: Fundamentals of Cooling Airflow in a Data Center
This tutorial session will introduce basic concepts of air velocity, airflow rate, pressure, and temperature distribution as applied to raised-floor data centers. You will be shown why the flow distribution through the perforated tiles is usually not uniform. It is governed by the air velocity and pressure variation under the raised floor. By calculating this […]
Monday, October 22
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Breakout C:
Watts per Acre: Increasing Site Power Density with Vertical Data Centers
Data center alley is running out of land, but not a lack of interest in continuing to develop the US’s largest concentration of data centers. With continued demand, developers and operators need to take to the sky, expand vertically, and start to consider “watts per acre” as a metric. A business case analysis shall be […]
Monday, October 22
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Building Your Personal Brand and Maximizing Conference Attendance via Social Media
Social media has become a powerful marketing and communication tool in today’s society. Building your personal brand and creating a strong community can be a challenge. This workshop session is designed to help you learn the steps needed to build your own personal brand on social media and provide pointers on how to set up […]
Tuesday, October 23
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Breakout C:
Cyber Resiliency of Mission Critical Automation Systems
In depth review of why/how building automation and electrical control systems have become vulnerable over time as the Internet of Things (IoT) has become more integrated. As IoT converged networks have become more integrated their cyber security vulnerabilities have had consequences effecting operations and uptime availability. This presentation will highlight these vulnerabilities, why they are […]
Tuesday, October 23
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Sponsored Event: An Evening at “The Duce”
Join 7×24 Exchange at one of Phoenix’s legendary venues where pretty meets gritty and produce meets prohibition … for the fall conference’s final networking opportunity! Click Here to view The Duce on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It’s the Duce? it is what it was … a 1928 warehouse that once anchored a bustling produce district […]