Name
Closing Keynote: A Blueprint for Innovation: How Innovation Culture Is Re-Shaping the Future of the Data Center Industry
Description

Over the past decade, our industry successfully responded to unprecedented demand for digital infrastructure by achieving a long list of innovations that enable us to build data centers significantly faster, more cost-effectively, and far more sustainably. But is only a prelude to the scale of innovation that we will need to respond to the challenges we face in the era of AI/HPC. To build at the scale that is needed to support these advanced computing environments and the overall growth of technology, we need to super-charge the level of innovation in the data center. This is also important for overcoming numerous significant challenges we face, including a workforce crisis, limitations in available power, supply chain obstacles and more. We need a blueprint for driving innovation in every aspect of how data centers are designed, built and delivered, and the key to that blueprint is innovation culture at every organization in our industry. In this presentation, Nancy Novak and Amy Marks, the Chief Innovation Officer and SVP of Innovation respectively at Compass Datacenter, will close the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit with a joint keynote exploring the areas of innovation that are critical to the data center industry in the era of AI, including industrialized approaches to construction. They will also discuss how organizations can accelerate innovation through culture-building that turns every team and every team member into an engine for innovation.

Nancy Novak Amy Marks
Date & Time
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM