Date: Tuesday, November 10th, 2026
Time: 11 AM EST
Duration: 1 hour
As AI-driven growth accelerates data center construction worldwide, operators and suppliers alike are facing growing pressure to deliver infrastructure that is reliable, scalable, and consistently deployed across global markets. Yet many organizations continue to navigate fragmented requirements, overlapping audits, and varying definitions of quality that add complexity without necessarily improving outcomes.
Join leaders from across the data center ecosystem for a discussion on why they chose to engage in the DCE 9000 initiative, the quality and reliability challenges they are working to address, and what they see as the value of a common, industry-driven standard. Panelists will share perspectives on collaboration across suppliers, operators, and competitors, the benefits of shaping requirements together, and how DCE 9000 can help create a more predictable, resilient, and trusted data center ecosystem.
What Attendees Will Learn
• Why equipment suppliers are calling for greater alignment on quality expectations as data center complexity and deployment speed increase
• How fragmented audits and inconsistent metrics create risk and inefficiency across global deployments
• The role of a certifiable, industry-driven standard in improving predictability, consistency, and lifecycle quality outcomes
Jennifer Stepniowski
Sr. Manager, Global Customer Exp. & Quality
JCI
Chris Murphy
Data Center World Content Director
Informa