DCD>Connect | New York 2026
About the Event
DCD>Connect | New York is DCD's flagship North American data center conference, held at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The 2026 edition ran March 23-24, 2026 and drew 4,500+ senior leaders, 300+ speakers, and 150+ exhibitors across three co-located events: DCD>Connect, The Xcelerated Compute Show (7th floor), and the DCD>Investment Forum (Marquis Ballroom 9, invitation-only).
Content Zones. Main Stage, Talks Stage, Showcase Stage, and a new Energy Summit. Formats included keynotes, Oxford-style debates, sponsored panels, student workshops, and one-on-one fireside chats.
Notable Sessions and Speakers. Welcome panel "Too fast to last? Building AI infrastructure responsibly" featured Mike Revock (Albireo Energy), Brian Hearst (Aon Construction), Phill Lawson-Shanks (Aligned Data Centers), and Kushal Dagli (Microsoft). The Xcelerated Compute keynote "Modular, repeatable, scalable" was delivered by Hunter Newby (Newby Ventures), Bryan Lubin (Moonshot Energy), and Mike Maniscalco (QumulusAI). A data center cooling session featured Hillary Gray (Trane Technologies) and Sai Marri (AWS). Peter Panfil (VP Global Power, Vertiv) presented "The data center as an AI Unit of Compute." The AI Digital Workforce Panel brought together DCD Academy, Nomad Futurist, QTS, Mod42, and iMasons.
Exhibitors and Sponsors. Vertiv (booth 12), Cadence, Corning, Munters, Netceed (booth 45), HYLAN, EnerSys, Stulz, Trane Technologies, Ada Infrastructure, VoltServer, NetBox Labs, Danfoss, iMasons, TIA, CXL Consortium, UALink Consortium, and SDxCentral. Panel sponsors included Albireo Energy (welcome panel), Switch (Emerging Talent Mixer), and FlexGen (Armed Forces Breakfast).
Networking. Icebreaker Party, DCD 5K Run, iMasons Member Summit, iM Women Welcome Lunch led by Mara Ervin (Stonebridge) and Rhea Williams (Riot Platforms), Emerging Talent Mixer, iM Armed Forces Breakfast with Joe Kallal (FlexGen), and JSA TV Live broadcasts from the floor.
Investment Forum. The invitation-only DCD>Investment Forum convened senior investors, lenders, and developers in Marquis Ballroom 9. An edge investment panel featured Charlie Dankner (CSO, 365 Data Centers).
Who Should Attend. Data center developers and operators, hyperscalers and cloud buyers, investors and M&A advisors, utility and energy partners, interconnection and fiber providers, silicon and AI infrastructure vendors, policy and real estate stakeholders.
Logistics. Venue: New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Event dates March 23-24, 2026. Organized by Data Centre Dynamics Ltd.