AZ Tech Week - Data Center Innovation Forum
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AZ Tech Week - Data Center Innovation Forum

4/9/2026
When: Thursday, April 9, 2026
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Where: SkySong Building 1, Room 201 "Global"
1475 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale, Arizona  85257
United States
Contact: Ryan Gruver
Phoenix@afcom.com

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Discover emerging technologies and corporate innovation strategies for the data center industry.

In less than a decade, the Phoenix metropolitan area has surged to become one of the top two data center markets in the world. As the demand for high-density AI workloads and cloud computing rises the industry faces a new set of challenges in power, thermal management, workforce development and compute optimization.

The Data Center Innovation Forum is designed to magnify hardware and software startups that have built technologies to cool, power, and optimize this new class of infrastructure.

This forum brings together data center operators, technology founders, public institutions and investors to architect the future of the data center ecosystem in Phoenix.

This forum explores the emerging technologies that are moving the industry towards intelligent, highly-efficient infrastructure.

Discussion Topics Include:

Thermal Intelligence: As AI chips generate heat, the industry's reliance on traditional air cooling is reaching its physical limits. This session highlights the innovators pioneering liquid cooling, immersion technology, and other applications that dramatically reduce cooling and water consumption.

Power Resiliency: Founders will showcase their solutions that improves power management and monitoring to keep up with hyperscale operations.

Integrating the Ecosystem: The growth of the Arizona data center hub creates a massive opportunity for startups specializing in construction tech, edge computing, energy management, and infrastructure software. This event aims to facilitate meaningful connections between major enterprises and the agile founders building the tools to optimize their operations. We are aligning the venture community with infrastructure giants to de-risk the massive capital expenditures required to build and scale innovative data center technology.

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