Speaker Profile

Susanna Kass has over 30 years of global data center experience, and concurrently, 14 years in clean energy as an inventor holding clean energy and grid power patents, she is featured as Best- Seller Author on Amazon Press and in WSJ, Forbes, Inc. CIO, TEDx, Data Center magazines. Kass 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 Global Data Center Business Operations at Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Head of Innovation and Development at NextEra Energy, EVP Sustainability at Baselayer I/O. Kass led over 3.8 Gigawatts of renewable power projects and clean energy procurement contracts with her clients; Goldman Sachs, Citi, BofA, Walmart, GE, and hyperscale cloud content providers AWS, Google, Meta-Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Akamai, with numerous Electric Utilities on Net Zero Utility Data Centers. 

As the Data Center Advisor for UN SDG program, Kass actively engage with the private and public sector raising the ambition of Clean Energy pledge and $Billions of Carbon Neutral Investment Funds. Since COP26, her focus is to drive climate change transformation impact results of Decarbonization Initiatives and ESG investments. The  Absolute Zero design has the potential to have global impact for Climate Change to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2025-2030. 5-10 Gigatons CO2 removal by 2030 are demanded by virtually every IPCC scenario to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In her role as Energy Fellow at Stanford University, a co-founder and Board Chair at InfraPrime℠, a Net Zero Switzerland startup, an Operating Partner at Digital Gravity Infrastructure and active board roles in Sustainability Private Investment Funds, Kass aim to accelerate the transition to a carbon free economy using clean energy infrastructure for the Accelerated Compute and Data Center cloud projects at Gigawatt scale 

Kass is recognized in 2024 as Top 10 Sustainability Leaders in the World of Data Centers, ranked 1st at Top 10 Women in Data Center in USA and ranked 4th at Top 10 Women in Data Center in the world by DataCentre Magazine. Kass is named a trailblazer, Elite Achiever Club Trailblazer by CIO Magazine, Top 10 Women of Distinction by World Leaders Magazine, Most Admired Women Business Executive by Inc. Magazine.  Additionally, Kass has her industry accolades consecutively for six years and is a member of Climate 50 for seven consecutive years, and a Power 100 member.  InfraPrime’ Net Zero Design is funded by the European Union E2P2 in Clean Energy transition and Net Zero Innovation Alliance is funded by Google, Microsoft. Kass resides in the Bay Area, California, USA, she is recipient for the Top 50 Women in Tech in San Francisco and Outstanding Mothers by Women Most Admired Awards in her community.  Kass serves on the Stanford University GSB Women’s Circle as Board member leading Impact Analysis, an Energy Fellow at Stanford University, an academia IPCC contributor researcher and Distinguished Charles Rudd Lecturer. Kass is nominated as Action Member Board member for CE4A (Clean Energy for America).