Midwest RCD Next Gen Data Centers Workshop: Full Schedule

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1:00pm EST

Panel - Sustainability & Considerations for Power Dense LIMITED

Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EST

409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd

Moderators

Brock Palen

Director Advanced Research Computing, University of Michigan

Speakers

Brian Rener

Director of Mission Critical, Industry Partner Architecture/Engineering

Director of Data Center Facility design for SmithGroup, an architecture and engineering firm. Focusing on HPC and AI facilities for universities, government and enterprise clients.

Eric Lakin

Director of Data Centers and Info Systems, University of Michigan

Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd

Panel

1:45pm EST

Panel - Facility Operations & Capacity Planning LIMITED

Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:45pm - 2:15pm EST

409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd

Panel discussion with views on data center facility operations and planning. This panel will cover past data center migrations/challenges between old/new facilities, lessons from recent large scale facilities, and considerations for planning new facilities.

Moderators

David Hancock

Director - Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Indiana University

Part of our Research Technologies division in the Office of the Vice President for IT at IU. Jetstream2 Primary Investigator, leading central IU HPC, cloud, and storage resources for research.https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3uYzmF8AAAAJ&hl=en... Read More →

Speakers

Tim Boerner

NCSA Associate Director (Cyberinfrastructure), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Brad Mahaffey

Associate CIO, Enterprise Infrastructure, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

In my current role, I have responsibility for campus networking, cable plant, data centers, virtualization and data storage, life safety technology, and classroom and conference room engineering. I have been in various IT professional and leadership roles at the University of Illinois... Read More →