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The First HR Forum Built for Data Centers
Hiring for critical roles is taking longer. Experienced talent is being fought over by multiple employers. Demand for workforce capacity continues to outpace supply. Sound familiar?
LEAP HR: Data Centers is a focused, senior‑level forum designed for HR, talent, and workforce leaders who carry real accountability for data center delivery outcomes. This is not a generic HR conference adapted for digital infrastructure, it is a working environment for leaders making decisions that directly build velocity, operational continuity, and long‑term performance.
Across two tightly curated days, attendees engaged with peers who are actively scaling data center workforces under pressure. The agenda was built around real operator and contractor case studies, structured peer discussion, and cross‑ecosystem panels that surface how leading organizations are approaching workforce planning, readiness, retention, and leadership coverage in mission‑critical environments. The emphasis throughout was on decision‑quality: understanding what is actually working, where trade‑offs are being made, and which workforce bets are paying off at scale.
This forum was designed to deliver clarity, not more noise. Attendees left with proven strategies to hire faster, accelerate workforce readiness, retain critical employees longer, and build the workforce capacity needed to support growth without increasing delivery risk.
What You Missed
Microsoft revealed how it scaled AI‑enabled career development to 200+ mission‑critical employees, achieving 100% satisfaction, deploying programs 50% faster, saving 40+ hours per site, and rolling out a model across Americas data centers.
Equinix shared how it has built role‑based talent systems accelerating time to shift‑ready toward a three‑month target, improving role clarity to 70%+, reducing human error risk, and strengthening engagement and retention in global data centers.
Vantage Data Centers showed how it identified career visibility as a retention risk, with 42% of leavers citing lack of growth, then reduced exits linked to career development to ~2% through simple, structured development plans during hyperscale growth.
RK Industries told the story of how it rebuilt TA and workforce planning for data center construction, hiring 300+ in one year, driving sub-25-day time to hire, 20%+ internal mobility, and scalable capacity across multiple states.
Ace Electric showed how it scaled mission critical talent by adopting a skills led workforce model, supporting growth from 1k to 2k staff, reducing annual attrition by 38 points, accelerating productivity, and building scalable capability across 7 regions.
Clayco revealed how it is scaling a consistent job-site culture across hyperscale data center builds of 5k+ workers by embedding psychological safety and deploying HR and safety leaders on site to sustain safety, trust, and performance at scale.
Explore the 2026 Full Event Guide
- Get a complete overview of the SHRM & HRCI‑accredited agenda, senior speaker faculty, and real‑world case studies across data center construction and operations
- Share easily with your team to assess relevance, align workforce priorities, and mobilize attendance
- Discover high‑value peer networking with data center HR, talent, and workforce leaders from across the global ecosystem
- Explore who attends, what you’ll learn, and what to expect from the world’s only HR‑specific event dedicated to data centers
- Learn more about the practical, industry‑led forum uniting operators, contractors, and HR leaders redesigning workforce strategy to protect delivery, safety, and uptime
Attending Companies Included
Explore the 2026 Agenda
See how data center HR leaders are tackling workforce scale, readiness, retention, and uptime risk across build and operate environments.
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Be part of the conversations shaping how the industry builds, deploys, and sustains data center talent and connect with peers solving the same delivery‑critical challenges.