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

2026 Speakers

Discover the industry leaders, innovators, and thought leaders who will be sharing their insights at Data Center World. Our carefully curated lineup of speakers brings together diverse perspectives and cutting-edge expertise to deliver valuable content tailored to your professional growth.

Varun SakalkarDistinguished EngineerGoogle Datacenters

Varun Sakalkar is the Distinguished Engineer in the Datacenter Technology and Systems group for Google Datacenters. As the uberTL for the team, he owns the technology direction for the datacenter systems to achieve lowest TCO and best in deployment, class reliability, sustainability and efficiency for ML and Cloud systems. Varun has been at Google for 15+ years. Prior to that he earned his PhD in computational engineering and Masters in applied math. 

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