Joel Nickel
Head of Mission Critical Shawmut Design & Construction
Accomplished, versatile operations leader and executive with deep experience and P&L responsibility in construction, real estate, supply chain and project management business units and start ups. Extensive background in environment, land, and natural resources with strong record in environmental compliance, environmental management systems, leases, mine planning, land sales, sustainability, and land use permitting. Demonstrated ability to create and align stakeholders and team around strategy and then drive results. Known for leadership, relationship building and communication across both operations and functions to create and motivate high performing teams.
Seminars
Tuesday 8th December 2026
Panel: Understanding End-User Requirements to Deliver Low-Latency Infrastructure That Aligns with Real Customer Demand
9:00 am
- Discovering how different use cases such as AI inference, autonomous vehicles, IoT, financial trading, etc. impact project specifications to design facilities capable of supporting a wider range of workloads
- Assessing how power density, cooling preferences, and connectivity requirements vary across edge use cases to improve infrastructure flexibility and long-term utilization
- Understanding how end users evaluate edge infrastructure investments to prioritize the capabilities that deliver the greatest business value
Tuesday 8th December 2026
Case Study: Transforming Existing University Data Centers to Meet the Demands of AI & Machine Learning
11:00 am
- Evaluating how universities are adapting legacy data centers to support emerging AI research and increasingly compute-intensive workloads
- Identifying the power, cooling, and infrastructure upgrades required to enable liquid cooling and next-generation compute technologies
- Developing phased retrofit strategies that account for long procurement lead times, capital planning cycles, and future capacity requirements
