About FMA Summits
A small private room for the people who run facilities.
Since 2007, FMA has run invitation-only summits where facility, energy and sustainability leaders hear how their peers fixed a problem, and meet only the vendors they choose.
- 2007founded, in Montreal
- 35summits since then
- 29data center and critical facility leaders have come
- 7past summits had data center leaders in the room
It started in Montreal.
The first FMA Summit was at the Hyatt Regency in Montreal, August 5–7, 2007. In the room: the U.S. Department of Energy, the EPA, Natural Resources Canada, GM, Caterpillar, IBM, Boeing, Alcoa, Subaru and Michelin.
34 summits followed, on energy, sustainability, future facilities and microgrids, across the United States and Canada. Data center and critical facility teams sent leaders to 7 of them.
In 2027 the Data Center Facility Leaders Summit brings that room to Columbus and Detroit, for the people who run data centers.
How it works for you.
The format has not changed since 2007, because it works.
- Every delegate is invited.
- Facility, energy and sustainability leaders with a problem to solve this year: people like you, from data centers like yours.
- One room, no competing tracks.
- 20-minute talks by the people who ran the project. Everyone hears every talk.
- You choose who you meet.
- At most 20 vendors at each summit, each solving a different problem, and you pick the ones you want. Every meeting is booked before you arrive.
- No vendor walks the room.
- Vendors attend only as sponsors. One that hasn’t sponsored cannot register or attend, so nobody chases you in the hallway.
- Assigned tables at meals.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner are seated, so you meet people working on the same problems.
- Thursday and Friday.
- Two days. Friday ends with lunch, and you’re on the road by mid-afternoon.
Run by the person who started it.
Joe Piazza founded FMA in Montreal in 2007 and runs every summit himself, from the invitation list to the seating plan: 35 summits and 17,000+ meetings so far.
Your proposal or your invitation request goes to him.
Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec. Summits are held across North America.
Who has spoken.
Data center operators, and the companies that work with them, presented at FMA’s Progressive Data Center Summit.
- PTS Consulting
- Future Facilities
- Primary Integration Solutions
- Solution Dynamics
- Nortec
- ERS International
- xByte Technologies
- Advanced Power Technologies
- Sealco
- Optimum Path
- ORR Protection Systems
- 10/35 Economic Development Alliance
Your data center fixed something. Tell the room how.
Propose a 20-minute talk, or register your team. Write to Joe Piazza at info@fmasummits.com.