Expert Speaker Faculty

Take a look at the esteemed speaker faculty for the Inaugural Advancing Data Center Cooling Innovation Conference 2026

Hyperscalers, Colocators & Developers
Design & Construction Partners

Hyperscalers, Colocators & Developers

Pooya Navid

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Matthew Haight

Mechanical Subject Matter Expert
CleanArc Data Centers

Gordon Carrie

Director - Design Delivery
Equinix, Inc.

Maryam Zahedi

Mechanical Capacity & Computational Fluid Dynamics Engineer Specialist
Equinix, Inc.

Duane Warren

Senior Director - Engineering & RCx Engineer
Jones Lang LaSalle

Kevin Shipley

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Microsoft

Aakash Patel

Data Center Mechanical Engineer
Microsoft

Hunter Bercow

Mechanical Engineer
NTT DATA Italia

Amine Benbourenane

Sr. Mechanical Engineer
NTT DATA Italia

Waqar Rizvi

Sr. Critical Facilities Engineer
Salute Inc.

Design & Construction Partners

Suresh Pichai

Principal Engineer
Arcadis DPS Group

Curtis Breville

VP, Data Center Liquid Cooling
ByteBridge

Noah Poe

Vice President of Engineering
Menlo Equities

R. Stephen Spinazzola

Director
Shumate Engineering, PLLC

Steven Straus

Mechanical Engineer
Tetra Tech

Jeffrey Goetz

Design Execution Project Manager (DxPM) HyperScale Data Centers
Turner & Townsend

Kushal Pandit

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
WSP Group
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