Meet the 2026 Speakers

Susanna Kass ranked 1st in the Top 10 Women in Data Centers in the U.S. and 4th in the Top 10 Women in Data Centers worldwide and is one of the Top 10 Data Center Influencers on LinkedIn. Susanna led over 3.8 gigawatts of clean energy data center projects across 18 countries for over 30 years as a global data center operation executive, a clean energy researcher, and an AI scientist. Susanna is an inventor holding patents and is featured in publications on Amazon Press as a Best Selling Author and in WSJ, Forbes, Inc. CIO, TEDx, and Data Center magazines. She led new ventures to billions from the ground up in her role as COO at eBay International, General Manager of HP Asia Pacific Data Center Operation, VP of Global Data Center Business Operations at Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Head of Innovation and Development at NextEra Energy, EVP Sustainability and Development at Baselayer I/O with Fortune 500 clients: Goldman Sachs, Citi, BofA, Walmart, GE, hyperscale cloud content providers AWS, Google, Meta-Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Akamai, with numerous electric utilities. Susanna is a Data Center Advisor to UNSDG-EP, an Energy Fellow at Stanford University, and a Board Member of Stanford University Graduate School of Business Women’s Circle, leading Impact Analysis Communication.