DICE - Philadelphia

About this event

DICE Philadelphia is Bisnow's premier data center and digital infrastructure conference serving the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area and Mid-Atlantic region. The event brings together data center developers, hyperscale operators, colocation providers, and enterprise users to examine Philadelphia's emergence as a critical digital infrastructure hub between New York and Washington D.C. The conference features dedicated sessions on fiber network expansion along the Northeast Corridor, with speakers from major providers like Crown Castle, American Tower, and Digital Realty Trust discussing their Philadelphia market strategies. Panel discussions cover hyperscale demand drivers, including cloud migration trends among Philadelphia's Fortune 500 companies and the region's growing life sciences sector. The agenda includes technical sessions on power infrastructure challenges, examining PJM grid capacity constraints and renewable energy integration for data center operations. Speakers typically include executives from QTS Data Centers, Iron Mountain, and CoreSite, who operate significant facilities in the Philadelphia market. The event addresses edge computing deployment strategies for serving dense urban populations across Philadelphia, Camden, and surrounding counties. Networking sessions connect local real estate developers with data center operators exploring build-to-suit opportunities in emerging markets like King of Prussia and suburban Delaware County. The conference examines regulatory considerations specific to Pennsylvania's data center incentive programs and local zoning requirements. Educational content covers emerging technologies including liquid cooling systems, AI infrastructure requirements, and sustainability initiatives driving LEED certification adoption among Philadelphia data center projects.

Who should attend

Data center developers, colocation facility managers, and hyperscale cloud operators active in the Philadelphia and Mid-Atlantic markets should attend to network with regional decision-makers and learn about local infrastructure opportunities. Real estate professionals, electrical contractors, and technology vendors serving the Philadelphia data center ecosystem will benefit from direct access to facility operators and development teams.

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