Connect | APAC // The Connect Experience

Tickets coming soon for 2027!

Asia Pacific's only destination event connecting the data center ecosystem to design, build & operate sustainable digital infrastructure for the AI age

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Join 2,500+ of your industry peers and enjoy the best of local hospitality at 5* beachfront resort in Bali

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    DCD Networking Golf Afternoon

    Join your industry peers on the green for an afternoon of golf, networking, friendly competition, and breathtaking views at Bali New Kuta Golf club.

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    Icebreaker Networking Party

    Kick off your time in paradise at the industry's most iconic networking party with traditional Balinese entertainment, local culinary delicacies, and open-bar service alongside 2,500+ of your peers.

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    Beach Yoga, 5km Run & 2.5km Walk & Talk

    Take part in one of our morning networking activities designed to get your blood flowing before a busy day of connection building.

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    Hosted Networking Lunches

    Enjoy a three course sit-down lunch alongside your peers as you discuss some of the key challenges currently facing operators across APAC.

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    Networking Parties

    Continue your conversations beyond the show floor at one of our iconic networking parties designed for meaningful connection building in a relaxed environment.

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    Enjoy Show Floor Refreshments at the Café Bar

    From happy hour drinks to wind down after a long day of networking, to iced drinks that help you beat the heat, enjoy complimentary refreshments throughout

Compare innovative solutions from the industry's leading vendors and service providers, all in one place

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Tech Discovery opportunities in-depth...

Welcome to the DCD 5x5 pitch session; where innovation meets precision. You'll enjoy rapid-fire pitches from technology providers across the industry, where each partner has 5 minutes and 5 slides to deliver their boldest ideas and game-changing solutions.

Fast-paced and impactful, these on-stage presentations are where the future of digital infrastructure takes shape. Post-presentation, you can follow up with speakers on the show floor, getting your key questions on their pitches answered 1-2-1.

On Day One, you'll have the chance to get hands-on with some of the latest solutions during the dedicated Explore the Floor Hour. Product experts will be on-hand throughout the event to answer your questions and help problem-solve some of your procurement challenges.

The Show Floor is also open throughout the day on Day Two, to enable you to have in-depth conversations with suppliers and their product development teams.

Identify solutions to your core challenges with insights from over 150+ speakers

Across a series of expert-led major panel discussions, chatham-house rule debates, interactive workshops, and closed-door lunch briefings you can tailor your agenda to the challenges most pertinent to you, uncovering innovative solutions and strategies that can enable you to drive your business forward.

In every session, you'll uncover the latest best-practice to fine-tune your operations, with plenty of opportunity for Q&A and peer-to-peer collaboration!

Understand how you can measure, manage & mitigate the environmental impact of your facilities, identify new technology solutions for decarbonizing digital infrastructure and explore how leading Hyperscale & Enterprise operators and incorporating sustainability into their strategies to ensure they're efficiently managing next-gen workloads.

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Explore the evolving cooling mix for 2027 and beyond, exploring different solutions to identify the right balance between resilience, cost effectiveness and sustainability, while also meeting the growing demands of modern, high density workloads.

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Understand how your peers are tackling the evolution of grid interactivity and securing power supply, with technology deep-dives into microgrids, onsite generation and energy storage. You can expect in-depth insights into the ways power design is evolving for higher densities.

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Learn how you can leverage AI, automation, and software defined technologies to enhance your data center operations, gain insights from peers on overcoming the challenges of DCIM and predictive analytics, and explore strategies for balancing scalability, security, and sustainability. Expect an in-depth discussion on optimizing efficiency across on-prem, colocation, and cloud environments.

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Get to grips with how the AI boom is driving changes in site-selection, pre-construction and the design and build of facilities, with insights into the latest construction technologies and techniques being leveraged in order to meet the industry’s changing requirements for high density.

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Get to grips with how global rapid adoption of cloud and hybrid IT models is continuing to reshape the data center and digital infrastructure landscapes in 2027, with exclusive insights into security protocols in place to cope with surging demands and the impact of strict regulations on scalability and AI-driven operations.

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Addressing the convergence of the IT and telco sectors, you can expect insights into managing data networks in an increasingly capacity constrained world, the importance of upgrading networking infrastructure to support higher capacities and the latest network innovations driving next-gen computing capabilities.

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Understand how shifting market dynamics, capital strategies, and investment trends are shaping data center finance. Explore which regions are attracting investment, how funding models are evolving, and the key economic forces driving digital infrastructure growth.

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