# Event Details - **Event Name**: AI Ready RVA Women & AI Cohort: What's in Your Backyard? Data Centers & AI - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Virginia holds Earth's top AI data center hub. Join AI Ready RVA on June 4 at ECPI to unpack local power, grid, and policy impacts.About this EventWe chose a hot topic for June 4ths AI Ready RVA Women & AI Cohort: "What's in Your Backyard? Data Centers and AI." Sorry, guys. This one's just for Richmond Metro ladies!We'll hear from two people who live this work every day:>> Stuart Chambers, VP of AI High-Performance Computing Strategy at MCIM, the Glen Allen company whose platform runs mission-critical operations for some of the world's largest hyperscale data centers and global banks. He knows what actually happens inside these walls.>> Margaret C. Rockwell, VP at McGuireWoods Consulting and counsel at McGuireWoods LLP, who tracks data center policy, energy infrastructure, and land use across Virginia. She knows where the rules are heading.>Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers on Earth. >These facilities are going up near neighborhoods. >They're reshaping our power grid, our water, and our electricity bills. > Lawmakers weighed more than 60 data center bills in the last session.Come for straight answers about the infrastructure powering AI, how it affects energy and local resources, and where regulation stands as that footprint grows. Please invite other Richmond-area women who care. Thanks to Rawls Law Group for sponsoring. Get tickets and RSVP at https://www.aireadyrva.com/events/women-ai-summer-event-save-the-date-2026-06Big thanks also to Pooja Asthana, Mia Wang, Shannon Browning, Emily Silver, Elizabeth Denson, and Liz B. Baker for their help in making this event happen. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/glen-allen/ai-ready-rva-women-and-ai-cohort-whats-in-your-backyard-data-centers-and-ai/100001990676380642 - **Event Categories**: fitness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Glen Allen - **state**: VA - **country**: United States - **location**: ECPI University Glen Allen Richmond Campus - **lat**: 37.6499202 - **long**: -77.59722239999999 - **full address**: ECPI University Glen Allen Richmond Campus, 11104 West Broad Street, Glen Allen, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: AI Ready RVA Women & AI Cohort: What's in Your Backyard? 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