Data Center Visionary, Chris Crosby of Compass Datacenters to Deliver Data Center BUILD Keynote Address

Data Center World, the leading global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals and AFCOM’s annual global gathering, announces Chris Crosby, CEO, Compass Datacenters will deliver a keynote address at Data Center BUILD.

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Data Center BUILD is a new construction and design summit that brings together operators, decision-makers, experts and implementers to help drive smart decisions for data center growth and takes place in conjunction with Data Center World. The leadership summit provides information and connections needed to design and build data centers and takes place May 8-9 in Austin, TX.

Crosby is a recognized leader in the data center space and has served as founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters since 2011. Previously, Crosby served as a senior executive and founding member of Digital Realty Trust. Prior to the initial public offering of Digital Realty, Crosby was founder and managing director of Proferian, which served as an operating platform for the private equity fund, GI Partners, and was rolled into the IPO for Digital Realty Trust. Earlier, Crosby served as a consultant for CRG West, now Coresite.

Liz Cruz, Conference Director, Data Center World said, “Data Center BUILD is a summit designed to drive change in the industry. Attendees will walk away with new ideas and tactics to drive inclusive job sites, sustainable building practices and solutions for ever increasing power demands. Chris Crosby, has long been, and continues to be one of the thought leaders shaping the future of our industry and we are so pleased that he will participate in this event and share his own insights and ideas.”

Data Center World is the global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals. It offers premier education, abundant networking, and the broadest access to best-in-class vendors. Designed to help data center and IT infrastructure professionals with challenging issues, Data Center World presents top quality knowledge without bias towards a specific vendor product or service. CIO Dive named Data Center World one of the top technology conferences to attend in 2023. Data Center World 2023 will be held May 8-11, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Data Center World is produced by Informa Tech.

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AFCOM advances data center and IT professionals by delivering comprehensive and vendor-neutral education and peer-to-peer networking to its members around the world. Through forward-looking research, AFCOM supports thousands of IT, operations, facilities, builders/designers and vendors working in the data center and IT infrastructure industry. In serving the data center industry for more than 40 years, AFCOM has earned recognition as the market leader in educating, connecting and guiding the data center community.

Informa Tech is a market leading provider of integrated research, media, training and events to the global Technology community. We’re an international business of more than 600 colleagues, operating in more than 20 markets. Our aim is to inspire the Technology community to design, build and run a better digital world through research, media, training and event brands that inform, educate and connect. Over 7,000 professionals subscribe to our research, with 225,000 delegates attending our events and over 18,000 students participating in our training programs each year, and nearly 4 million people visiting our digital communities each month.

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