Kelland Priest
Senior Construction Manager Amazon Web Services
Kelland Priest is Senior Construction Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he supports the delivery of large-scale data centre construction projects. In the session Managing Mid-Project Equipment Substitutions to Maintain Progress Without Compromising Quality, Kelland will share strategies for evaluating and implementing equipment substitutions while maintaining project schedules, preserving quality and performance standards, reducing rework through structured communication, and capturing lessons learned to improve future procurement and project planning.
Seminars
Wednesday 2nd December 2026
Hyperscaler, Neocloud & Colocator Panel: Aligning Power, Supply Chain & Delivery Models to De-Risk the Next Wave of AI Capacity Growth
8:10 am
- Identifying the real constraints to scaling capacity across power, land, and skilled labor availability: how is that impacting where we plan future builds?
- Understanding the shift from LLM training to inference workloads: how does this inform infrastructure design, construction and capacity planning?
- Aligning construction resources, trade partners and supply chains with long-term planning to improve delivery certainty and reduce disruption risk
- Reassessing where to build over the next 3–5 years as power constraints force trade-offs between speed and proximity to demand
Wednesday 2nd December 2026
Case Study: Managing Mid- Project Equipment Substitutions to Maintain Progress Without Compromising Quality
11:50 am
- Aligning stakeholders quickly to approve substitutions without delaying schedules
- Maintaining quality and performance standards despite supply chain disruption
- Reducing rework and coordination issues through structured substitution processes
- Capturing lessons learned to improve future decision-making, supplier selection, and project planning
