Day Two

• 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

• 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

• Understanding how global manufacturing capacity limits for critical equipment (switchgear, generators, chillers) directly shape achievable construction schedules in Canada
• Assessing realistic lead time variability from OEMs and how production bottlenecks impact sequencing decisions on fast-track data centre builds
• Planning construction programmes around fixed manufacturing output constraints to maintain delivery continuity and reduce idle time on site

• Assessing regional labour availability and workforce distribution to inform staffing plans and reduce delivery risk on remote and fast-track data centre
• Structuring rotational and mobile workforce models to support continuous construction activity in less accessible Canadian locations
• Developing project-level workforce planning strategies to ensure the right staffing levels are available at the right phases of construction delivery

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 walkaway with immediate insights to improve how you plan and deliver data centre projects under pressure.

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.

Defining how AI-driven demand is reshaping construction approaches for large-scale data centre delivery across Canada

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