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April 20-23, 2026
Walter E. Washington Convention CenterWashington, D.C.

2026 Event Schedule

Spark Session: 3 Ideas from the Frontier of Data Center Management

Ankit Gupta  (Security Consultant, Exeter Finance LLC)
Pete Sacco  (CEO | Entrepreneur | Technologist | Modern-Day Mystic, PTS Data Center Solutions, Inc.)
Jeff Zeigler  (CEO, Exact Asset)
Location: 206
Date: Tuesday, April 21
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
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Track: Colocation, Hyperscale & Cloud Innovation
Session Type: Spark Session
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All Audiences

Our Spark Sessions provide a high-energy forum to let you soak up three big ideas in one conference session. In this session, three speakers will each cover a key emerging topic in the Data Center Build track:

  • Machine vision, RFID, and real-time location systems can transform data center asset management (Jeff Zeigler, Vision Intel)
  • Data residency rules and risks are reshaping sovereign clouds and AI architectures (Ankit Gupta, Exeter Finance)
  • The AI inference age needs a data center network that looks more like our electricity grid (Pete Sacco, PTS Data Center Solutions)