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8:30 am Breakfast & Networking
9:10 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Accelerating Delivery Through Clear Scope & Procurement Control
9:20 am Finalizing Scope & Specifications Early to Reduce Rework & Accelerate Data Centre Construction Delivery Timelines
- Aligning scope, design, and client expectations early to reduce late-stage changes and avoid costly rework during fast-track delivery
- Locking in specifications during design to improve coordination across project teams and maintain schedule certainty under tight timelines
- Standardising design inputs across repeat builds to minimise variation, reduce reengineering effort, and accelerate construction execution
9:50 am Fire-Side Chat: Navigating Supply Chain Constraints & Equipment Lead Times to Prevent Rising Costs & Project Delays
- Securing long-lead equipment early while accounting for Canada–US cross-border procurement dependencies and extended manufacturing lead times
- Coordinating procurement strategies with US-based vendors and global manufacturers to manage fragmented supply chains and reduce cross-border delivery risk into Canada
- Exploring opportunities to diversify into more local Canadian supply chains to reduce reliance on international manufacturing and improve delivery certainty
- Managing tariff exposure, FX volatility, and North American manufacturing constraints to protect project budgets and avoid late-stage design or procurement changes
10:20 am Networking Break
Delivering On Time in the Field Through Effective Resource Planning
11:00 am Case Study: Workforce Mobilization & Rapid Scaling at the Calgary Cancer Centre
- Planning and mobilizing the rapid expansion of the trade workforce from approximately 30 to nearly 400 people between 2019 and 2020
- Managing the operational challenges created by rapid growth, including onboarding, supervision, safety, planning, site logistics, material flow, and trade coordination
- Applying lessons learned from this rapid workforce expansion to the next leap:mobilizing and sustaining the large, specialized trade workforce required for major data-centre construction
11:30 am Audience Discussion: Optimizing Data Centre Construction Execution Across Canada’s Evolving Delivery Landscape
Join the scope of work most relevant to you and discuss the latest innovations, real-world challenges and tried-and-tested solutions to push your projects to the next level. This is your opportunity to connect with peers who are redefining the equipment, technologies and workflows, and walk away with immediate insights to improve how you plan and deliver data centre projects under pressure.
Electrical & Power
Mechanical & Cooling
Foundations, Core & Shell
12:00 pm Networking Lunch Break
Future-Proofing Canada’s Data Centre Build Landscape
1:00 pm Q&A Panel: What Does the Future of Canadian Data Centre Construction Look Like?
What does the AI revolution mean for the construction of data centres in Canada, particularly as AI sovereignty, clean energy mandates, and grid constraints reshape where and how infrastructure is built? Is the era of air cooling in construction officially over as high-density liquid systems become the new standard? Will nuclear and other low-carbon energy sources play a growing role in powering Canadian data centres in the near future? And how will the rise of edge and regionalisation reshape Canada’s cloud footprint over the next five years?
Join this Q&A panel with leading data centre experts and get your burning questions answered.
1:30 pm Future-Focused Panel: Enabling Next-Generation Data Centre Delivery in Canada
- Defining how AI-driven demand is reshaping construction approaches for large-scale data centre delivery across Canada
- Anticipating how evolving power, cooling, and land requirements will shape where and how data centre infrastructure is delivered through to 2030 and beyond
- Enabling more productive, scalable construction models through modularisation, workforce evolution, and delivery innovation over the next five years