Welcome to 7x24 Exchange Northwest Chapter!

March 5, 2024 Data Center Symposium & Chapter Meeting

-Direct Liquid Cooling, Non-potable Water use in Data Centers &  Natural Gas Power Generation.

This in person meeting will be hosted by Puget Sound Energy.  

PSE - 1st Floor Auditorium 355 110th Avenue NE Bellevue, WA 98004

Doors open at 3:30 pm and the program begins at 4:00 pm.

This event will also be available online via Teams for those who cannot join us in person.

This event is free to attend for members and guests.

Agenda:

3:30 pm Doors Open

-Come in early and Network

4:00 pm Chapter Business and Announcements

4:15 pm Natural Gas Power Generation

-Arun Murali, Project Development, Power Market Sector, HDR

About the Speaker: Mr. Murali serves as National Project Development leader in HDR’s Power Market Sector.  He has over twenty-two years of experience in energy consulting, infrastructure development, design, optimization, and implementation.  He leads a team that supports project development activities including financial proforma analyses and business case development of conventional technologies, renewables (solar, wind, biogas, landfill gas), alternate fuels such as hydrogen, distributed generation, and energy storage technologies.  His team is experienced at supporting Integrated Resource Planning exercises for large utilities and associated regulatory filings. 

4:45 pm Non-Potable Water Data Center Applications

-Dan Sampson, Principal Technical Consultant, HDR

About the Speaker: Dan Sampson’s work history includes 40 years of municipal, industrial, hydrocarbon, microelectronics, and power plant water and wastewater treatment. His experience includes desalination, food & beverage, microelectronics, paper, refineries, server farms, silicon, and many other industrial fabrication, chemical production, and water treatment processes. His power generation experience includes energy storage, conventional (coal & gas), nuclear, concentrated solar, PV solar, geothermal, and combined cycle generation. He’s a potable water, cooling water, service water, boiler water, steam cycle, and industrial water expert. He works closely with consultants, EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) firms, equipment suppliers, and owners (often acting as Owner’s Engineer). He frequently performs condition assessments, engineering reviews, studies (conceptual, feasibility, optimization, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, treatability, mineral solubility), and prepares engineering deliverables (detailed water/mass/chemistry/cost models, block flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, data sheets, equipment layouts, piping/instrumentation diagrams, equipment specifications and sizing calculations). He’s an excellent communicator, trainer, and presenter with over 70 published papers, presentations, and articles.

5:15 pm  We are at an inflection point – Direct Liquid Cooling

-Leonard A. Ruff, AIA, NCARB, President, Cascade Mission Critical, LLC

-Seth Davis, PE Principal Mechanical Engineer, McKinstry

About the Speaker: Leonard is a registered architect with over 34 years of experience in a wide variety of commercial project types including over 27 years designing mission critical facilities.  Leonard's experience includes designing data centers for mainframe systems with water cooled processors to high density test and development sites, to cutting edge modular data centers with new, innovative cooling solutions. Leonard is a founding member of the 7x24 Exchange Northwest Chapter.

About the Speaker: Seth has 25 years of engineering experience with 16 years in Mission Critical and serves as the Mission Critical Principal Design Engineer for McKinstry. 

6:00 pm Refreshments, including hot & cold appetizers & hosted bar with beer/wine

The Northwest Chapter’s WiMCO Committee will be hosting our second annual International Data Center Day Event on March 21, 2024.

Sabey Data Centers in Tukwila has graciously agreed to host 30 High School students from across the Northshore and Tukwila School Districts to come and to learn about the importance of Data Centers, and the various paths that can lead to a career in this industry.

THANK YOU to the following people and organizations who have already pledged contributions to for this event:

• Laura Freytag and Sabey Data Centers for agreeing to host this year’s event, and providing a Stanley Cup and Gift Card for our raffle. 
• Billie Hjort and Cummins along with Chelsey Cooper and Compass Data   Centers for sponsoring lunches for the event. 
• Buddy Meehan and Sequoyah Electric for sponsoring the event T-Shirts. 
• Performance Power Concepts for providing name tags and a Yeti water bottle and gift card for the raffle.
• WiMCO Committee Members 
  • Chelsey Cooper, Compass Data Centers 
  • Billie Hjort, Cummins
  • Alice Fraser, Google
  • Kimberley Panchana, Performance Power Concepts
  • Brittany Haber, Performance Power Concepts 

CALL TO ACTION

We are in need of sponsors for the following items. 

• Swag/Raffle Items 
  • lululemon Crossbody Bag w/$30 gift card ($75) 
• Table and Chair Rentals 
  • 40 Chairs and 10, 8’ tables ($450) 

We have two guest speaker opportunities available (preferably females with a Data Center or an Engineering background).  All speakers will be asked to help chaperone during the event.  Time commitment would be from 8:30am – 1:30pm.  

Please contact Ursula McCready by March 1st if you are interested in volunteering or sponsoring this event.

Ursula McCready 

Northwest Chapter WiMCO Committee Chair

m +1 (253) 604-8477
e: umccready@ppcwa.com

7x24 e: ursula@7x24northwest.org