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Daniel Pope, CEO and co-founder of Submer, started his adventure in the datacenter industry at the young age of 16 with a small, personal project deployed literally in his bedroom (and years later sold to Telefónica). After that he started a long career as a Solution Architect and as a Director Architecture and Integration EMEA at Ingram Micro Cloud.In 2015, together with Pol Valls, he created Submer, a deep-tech company with the ambition to transform traditional datacenters into sustainable, highly efficient, smart, lights-out, immersion-cooled “data warehouses'' driven by robotics.

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Sherri Harrel is the SVP Platform Product Management at Flexential.

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Stephanie serves as Vice President of Strategy at Flex Ltd, developing and implementing growth strategies for the Communications, Enterprise, and Cloud (CEC) business unit.

Previously, she spent 18 years at Intel Corporation, holding leadership roles such as General Manager of Strategy and Market Analytics in the Data Center and AI Group, where she focused on strategic planning for Xeon and Accelerator product lines, as well as Senior Director of Product Sustainability, Strategic Planning Director, and High-Performance Computing CFO.

Stephanie contributes to industry initiatives and speaks regularly at events on data center technology strategy, sustainability, and market trends. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Washington State University.

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Dan Loosemore is currently CEO at Data Center Dynamics (DCD); helping empower individuals who plan, build, design and operate digital infrastructure to make informed decisions faster. DCD attracts over 15 million views to its publishing sites every year, making it the most read data center publication in the world. It's L&D business trains over 3000 engineers every year and the DCD event series attracts over 20,000 annual attendees. Since 2022, DCD has been part of the InfraXMedia portfolio and is a proud sister-business of Yotta.

Dan has spent 15+ years scaling B2B media, event and subscription-based platforms in technology and software driven industries. He is passionate about the future of B2B technology marketing and sales, supporting the industry's leading solutions providers on their GTM strategies.

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