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7:30 am Check In & Refreshments
8:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Driving a Safety-First Culture
8:40 am Establishing a Proactive Safety Culture Across Data Center Operations to Build Long-Term EHS Maturity
- Identifying the common gaps in EHS in live facilities to know where to focus safety programs
- Developing scalable programs with standardized baseline processes and flexible site-specific elements to reduce variability across sites
- Driving culture beyond compliance to establish a safety mindset that reduces risk and downtime
- Integrating safety considerations into everyday workflows through robust EHS programs to make risk awareness second nature
9:20 am Panel: Integrating Top-Down Leadership with Bottom-Up Engagement to Achieve Buy-In Across All Levels
- Aligning executive and operational perspectives by translating high-level safety data into actionable insights for site teams and vice versa
- Engaging frontline employees in identifying risks and developing solutions to ensure practical, context-driven safety initiatives
- Equipping EHS professionals with strategies to communicate cost-benefit and safety value to leadership for informed decision-making
- Fostering ongoing dialogue between management and operations to create a feedback loop that reinforces accountability, visibility, and shared ownership of safety outcomes
10:00 am Considering Occupational Health & Safety Risks for Data Centers: What Safety & Operations Leaders Need to Know
- Identifying the occupational health risks that emerge as data centers move from construction to long-term operations
- Using exposure data and industrial hygiene assessments to make informed compliance and safety decisions
- Building proactive programs for hearing conservation, heat stress, chemical safety, and injury management that protect employees while supporting reliable operations
10:30 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking
Embedding EHS Expectations into Partnerships & Contracts from Day One
11:10 am Fireside Chat: Integrating EHS into Data Center Design & Construction to Enable Safer, More Efficient Operations
- Facilitating early partnership of EHS operations personnel with hyperscalers and colocators, and contractors to align expectations and ease integration of EHS procedures during operations
- Including EHS teams during initial facility design and layout decisions to identify potential hazards and challenges before construction begins
- Embedding EHS compliance check throughout construction to verify that EHS in design plans are being implemented correctly
- Establishing a continuous feedback loop where safety lessons learned on current facilities inform future design improvements to ensure evolving standards for safer operations
11:50 am Diving Into the Missing “E” in EHS: Why Environmental Compliance is a Critical Operational Risk for Data Centers
- Understanding the growing environmental compliance obligations facing data center operators, including air permit requirements, emissions reporting, stack testing, operational recordkeeping, and ongoing regulatory monitoring
- Identifying where organizations commonly fall short in managing environmental compliance responsibilities and how seemingly minor oversights can create significant operational and regulatory risk
- Learning the real-world consequences of noncompliance, including enforcement actions, Notices of Violation, project delays, community opposition, litigation, reputational damage, and threats to long-term business continuity
12:20 pm Session to be announced
12:35 pm Lunch Break
1:35 pm Adapting Change Management Practices Across Data Center Facilities to Scale EHS Programs with Organizational Growth
- Developing scalable change management processes that account for variations in resources and expertise across small, medium, and large data center operations
- Standardizing communication and documentation during change to avoid confusion and maintain accountability
- Creating structured change management practices to maintain compliance when regulations, systems, layout, or equipment evolve
- Creating continuous improvement loops where lessons learned from implemented changes inform future updates to enable consistent EHS programs as operations grow
Creating Stability During Times of Change
2:15 pm Creating Compliance Continuity Across the Data Center Life Cycle
- Evaluating how rapid global data center growth is driving complex environmental compliance challenges to comprehensively understand the landscape
- Identifying how compliance requirements vary by region and across each lifecycle phase (design to operation) to reduce compliance risk
- Implementing consistent, connected solutions across all phases to ensure smooth, delay-free project delivery and compliance
2:25 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:05 pm Developing Clear Turnover Processes & Communication Protocols Between Project Phases to Eliminate Safety Gaps Across Teams & Maximize Uptime
- Exploring how hyperscalers and colocators, operators, and contractors can jointly develop schedules to map out critical activities to ensure sequencing aligns with safety protocols and site teams
- Standardizing turnover documentation to eliminate confusion and ensure all safetycritical information is accurate and complete
- Defining clear ownership and accountability for safety checks during the transition phase to avoid delays and downtime
3:45 pm Audience Discussion: Harnessing AI & Digital Tools to Improve the Quality of EHS Operations Through Proactive Risk Identification & Thorough Reporting
- Leveraging AI benchmarks company EHS procedures against legal regulations to drive compliance by identifying gaps that need to be addressed
- Improving documentation of key processes such as LOTO through use of technology to eliminate risk of human error
- Implementing centralized digital platforms to consolidate inspections, reporting, monitoring, and contractor compliance for consistent data capture