The Judging Panel & Process

Judging Process Explained

ENTRY CLOSING DATE: September 27th

Once entries close, entries are reviewed and scored against pre-defined criteria by the category judging panel to determine the shortlist. You can view criteria on each category page here.

Judges may provide feedback or questions to the primary entrant, if necessary.

The top scoring entries will be shortlisted and announced on datacenterdynamics.com.

SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED: November

Following the shortlist announcement, judges will reconvene to determine the ultimate category winner.

All finalists wil be invited to attend the Awards ceremony in London, where the winner will be announced.

WINNERS REVEALED: December 11th

The winner will be revealed at the in-person ceremony at Grosvenor House, London. The ceremony will also be streamed live on datacenterdynamics.com.

Meet our esteemed judges for 2024...

Duncan Clubb Senior Partner, Cambridge Management Consulting
Paul Lipscombe Telecoms Editor, DatacenterDynamics
Dr Rabih Bashroush CEO & Executive Director, lta.
Donna Bridgman APAC Regional Chair, iM Women
Adam Gibson Vice President of Global DC Development, Megaport
Moises Levy CEO, DCMETRIX
Yash Issur CEO, Nxtra by Airtel Africa
Sophia Flucker Technical Director, MiCiM
Dustin Demetriou Vice Chair of the ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 (TC 9.9) IT Subcommittee, ASHRAE
Dame Dawn Childs Chief Executive Officer, Pure Data Centres Group
Dr. Jon Summers Scientific Lead in Data Centres, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Dr. Anna Dowson Senior Director, Sustainability, GreenScale Data Centres
Susanna Kass Operating Partner, Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners
Loren Long Managing Director, Clear Sustainability
Andrew Fanara Advisor, Obsidian Development / Casne Engineering
Peter Judge Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute
Dr Beth Whitehead Sustainability Consultant, MiCiM / Operational Intelligence
Emma Fryer Director, Public Policy - Europe, CyrusOne
Dr Terri Simpkin Associate Professor of Management, Portman Partners
Darren McGrath Managing Director, DCD Academy
Lauren Ryder CXO, Leading Edge Data Centres
Miranda Gardiner Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord
Alfonso Aranda Arias EVP Global Operations, ACS Digital & Energy
Fabiano Azevedo Operations Director, Scala Data Centers
Maxie Reynolds Founder, Subsea Cloud
Heather Dooley Chairperson, IM Women & Founder, HDCM
Dr. Ehsaan Farsimadan Senior Manager, Colocation Engineering EMEA, AWS
Cyre Mercedes Quiñones CEO, Infrastructure Masons
Sarah Davey Director EMEA, Digital Infrastructure, Design & Construction, Equinix
Rhea Williams SVP Hyperscale & AI, Riot Platforms, Inc.
Aslihan Gurescier Vice President, Growth & Emerging Markets EMEA, Equinix
Mian Lim Director, Regional Consulting, CBRE
Tilly Gilbert Director, Consulting, STL Partners
Nikki Blake Secretary General, African Data Center Association
Amy Daniell SVP Strategy and Development - EMEA, STACK Infrastructure
Dr Tomas Rahkonen Research Director Sustainability, Europe, Uptime Institute
Zahl Limbuwala Operating Partner, DTCP
Margaret Rozali Practice Lead, Building Services, AECOM
Mark Acton Head of Technical Due Diligence, Future-tech
Santiago Suinaga Senior Vice President, Cloud & Hyperscale, Stream Data Centers
Jacques Fluet Director, Data Center Program, Telecommunications Industry Association
Luisa Cardani Head of the Data Centres Programme, techUK
Dr Umaima Haider Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Digital Technologies, University of East London
Peter Hannaford Founder, Chairman, Portman Partners
Guy Willner Co-founder & CEO, IXcellerate
Eva Diego Directora, Hyphen
Chris Bruderer Independent Consultant, DCD Academy
Andy Lawrence Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute
Dr. Arman Shehabi Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Priyal Chheda Sustainability Lead, Corgan
Tony Grayson President & General Manager, Northstar Enterprise and Defense
Brandon Gries
Michel Chartier Director Data Center Canada, WSP
Vivek Prasad Lead Estimator - Americas, Microsoft
Lottie Tollman Head of Data Centres Advisory, EMEA, Colliers
Brice Fourney VP Data Centre, Equans Data Centers
Clint Skinner Sales Director EMEA, Anord Mardix
Mark Flanagan Chief Executive Officer, Kirby Group Engineering
Patricia Rodríguez Data Center Operations Manager - Austria, Microsoft

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