Advancing Data Center Design & Engineering West 2026
About this event
West-Coast companion to the Construction East/Texas events, focused on design and engineering disciplines - cooling, electrical, and site strategy for AI-driven facilities.
Session topics & tracks
Cooling architecture redesign; electrical systems for high-density workloads; site strategy for AI-driven facilities; power and facility design.
Speakers
Deval Shah (Senior Leader, Emergent AI Infrastructure, Google); Cameron Lassiter (Senior Director, CSA Design, Aligned Data Centers); Dr. Tobe Aguocha (Senior Director, Project Management (Americas), EdgeConneX); Donovan O'Callaghan (Global Senior Director, Design & Construction, Equinix); Byron Taylor (VP, Salas O'Brien); Darius Shroff (VP, Data Center Project Management Delivery Lead, HDR).
Sponsors & partners
Official Partners: Sumitomo Electric, EAE USA, Special-Lite, ENERVEX, Peak+, Southwire, DDC, Ecolab.
Who should attend
250+ senior-level attendees. Hyperscalers, colocators, developers, architects, engineering leaders. Attending companies include AWS, Google, Microsoft, Equinix, eBay.