Connect | London // DCD>Connect | London Live Stream

Mission critical engineering and Data Centres are engrained in the DNA of everything Colin has been involved in throughout his career. From starting off as a design technician with British Nuclear Fuels to his current role as Global Engineering Director for Deerns mission critical practice. Colin’s experience has been a mix of Consultancy roles and Client-side roles; working for some of the most respected firms in their fields and across a wide range of geographical locations. From highly secure financial projects in EMEA, APAC and USA; defence projects in New Zealand, through to current Hyper-scale projects for the three largest cloud providers in Europe, India, USA, APAC, and ANZ, and the Colo firms servicing these firms. He has been involved in the evolution of the industry over the past 20 years and feels with this range of experience and track record he fully understands what’s needed to provide leading data centre design products on a global scale.

View full profile and related articles

Dawn is an accomplished engineer and operator who was honoured with a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020. Prior to joining Pure her career spanned several engineering sectors and industries including UK Change Director for National Grid across both the gas and electricity transmission businesses; Group Engineering Director for Merlin Entertainments with responsibility for engineering delivery, standards, practices and processes across the worldwide portfolio of more than 130 theme parks, resorts and attractions; Head of Engineering at Gatwick Airport covering the infrastructure and technical services at the airport; and over 20 years as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Air Force where she held various positions including Head of Engineering at RAF Waddington looking after the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance aircraft fleets and Deputy Chief Engineer for the Air Transport and Air to Air Refuelling aircraft fleets.

She has a track record of developing women in her organisation as well as working to bring more women and girls into engineering and has been the President of the Women’s Engineering Society since 2018.

Dawn now leads the operational arm of Pure Data Centres Group ensuring the delivery of resilient 24/7 operations globally.

View full profile and related articles

Dan Loosemore is currently CEO at Data Center Dynamics (DCD); helping empower individuals who plan, build, design and operate digital infrastructure to make informed decisions faster. DCD attracts over 15 million views to its publishing sites every year, making it the most read data center publication in the world. It's L&D business trains over 3000 engineers every year and the DCD event series attracts over 20,000 annual attendees. Since 2022, DCD has been part of the InfraXMedia portfolio and is a proud sister-business of Yotta.

Dan has spent 15+ years scaling B2B media, event and subscription-based platforms in technology and software driven industries. He is passionate about the future of B2B technology marketing and sales, supporting the industry's leading solutions providers on their GTM strategies.

View full profile and related articles

Fredrick Royan is the Global Practice Area Leader for the Sustainability & Circular Economy(SCE) practice at Frost & Sullivan. The focus of the SCE program is on un-locking growth opportunities of water, energy & resource regeneration/recovery and resilience across cities and industry value chains. He has a Masters in Environmental Protection and Management from the University of Edinburgh secured as a Centenary Chevening Scholar. He has been conferred the Frost & Sullivan Fellowship and is also the Chair of the Smart Water Network(SWAN) Forum.

View full profile and related articles

Sarah joined Equinix in April 2021 as a Design Delivery Manager, based in the UK. Previous to this Sarah worked at Arup as a Mechanical Engineer as part of the Mission Critical Teams. She has worked on a significant number of global Data Centre projects for the market’s largest colocation provider and global cloud computing companies. She has successfully delivered on a range of mechanical engineering design stages for these clients. This has included feasibility studies and coordination of global reference designs for the prefabrication and Hyperscale market respectively. Sarah also has undertaken various Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) studies for internal whitespace operational and efficiency. Recently Sarah was awarded the DCD Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year 2019.

View full profile and related articles

View full profile and related articles

As Head of Technical for Data Centres, Jamie is an ambassador in the data centre community, internally within Bouygues Energies & Services and externally across Europe. Jamie has longstanding experience in the technical delivery of data centres projects for hyperscale and colocation companies. With a strong track record in consulting and turnkey contracting, Jamie is heading the team of technical experts across the UK and works closely with our international colleagues in the Data Centre sectors.

Jamie’s role is to ensure the effective management and coordination of technical interfaces throughout the project bid, design, installation and commissioning phases, ensuring successful project delivery. Jamie is also overseeing the development and strategic technical input for multiple design and build projects across Europe.

Jamie’s focus is to reap energy efficiency design strategies to boost the green credentials of the Data Centre sector.

View full profile and related articles

David Waldron is Associate Director – Supply Chain at Kirby Group Engineering, a leading provider of mechanical and electrical engineering contracting services operating across Ireland, the UK and Mainland Europe.

He has overall responsibility for the Supply Chain Management & Procurement for the company. David promotes and implements lean procurement and demand planning processes. He also ensures compliance and continuous improvements in the Supply Chain to assist ISO 9001, Q Mark Standards and Achilles requirement

View full profile and related articles

View full profile and related articles

Marynet Bassily is a seasoned supply chain expert leading MissionProcure, a consultancy specialising in data centre supply chains. With over two decades of experience, she builds resilient, secure, and high-performing supply chains. Her in-depth industry knowledge and expertise in risk mitigation, vendor management, and data analytics deliver exceptional value.

Marynet drives multi-million-pound initiatives and forges global partnerships. She offers tailored strategic consulting, vendor connections, and supply chain optimisation to address data centre challenges. With a proven track record of delivering results, she optimises procurement processes and strengthens supply chains.

View full profile and related articles

Mark has worked within Microsoft's global supply chain team for over 4 years sourcing long lead equipment for the data centre market in EMEA, he is aware of the opportunities, challenges, risks the sector faces looking ahead.

View full profile and related articles

Alex is an Associate Electrical Engineer working at the AtkinsRéalis, Epsom office. He has over 14 years of extensive experience across a broad spectrum of building services and infrastructure projects. This experience includes high-integrity design work and senior project involvement with industrial, education, data centre, substation, commercial and residential developments. Alex is a conscientious hardworking individual, and he considers continual professional development to be key to his understanding of innovation in sustainable design. He keeps updated on improvements in information technology which allows advancement in the way professional teams collaborate on engineering solutions. Alex has worked in multi-disciplinary engineering and design teams providing technical and project management services for a variety of private and public sector clients. A Chartered Engineer with the IET, UPTIME Accredited Data Centre Tier Designer and EUR ENG through FEANI

View full profile and related articles

Henry Daunert is a 25 years veteran in the data center business. He is the Chairman of CIRKLA, the industry's first, fully comprehensive marketplace for second-life data center equipment.

Henry pioneered the modular data center concept by founding from scratch in 1999 AST MODULAR, which grew globally establishing manufacturing plants in Barcelona, Shanghai and Miami. AST became a market leader, signing clients such as IBM, HPE, Chevron, Intel, Airbus, etc. AST was successfully sold to Schneider Electric in 2014.

Previously, in 1993 Henry founded a JV with EFI Electronics Inc. and developed the international business for the group in over 50 countries, founding subsidiaries in EMEA, Asia Pacific and LATAM. Henry sold his company successfully back to EFI Electronics in 1997.

Henry is a Business Administration and MBA graduate by ESADE Business School, trained Risk Engineer by Stanford University and counts with wide knowledge in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering and Construction.

View full profile and related articles

View full profile and related articles

Chris is a Chartered Engineer with almost two decades of experience in electrical distribution networks. He’s been a member of the Matrix team since 2009 when he joined as a Senior Electrical Design Engineer. Now, as Technical Director, Chris is exploring the impact of new technologies on the utility infrastructure industry, shaping ideas and design solutions to help Matrix Group’s customers on their journey to net zero.

His experience working at Matrix has seen him carry out electrical design works on projects including The Shard, The London 2012 Olympics, Airbus Broughton, the FA National Training Centre and Amazon Tilbury - the largest Amazon fulfilment centre in Europe at the time of construction. And, as an advocate of challenging traditional methods of construction, Chris oversees work across the different businesses in Matrix Group, working to bring about sustainable infrastructure solutions for residential and commercial developments alike.

View full profile and related articles

Peter Liddle is a Partner in the Critical Systems team at Cundall, the global independent, multi-disciplinary consultancy specialising in sustainable engineering across the built environment.

Peter started working on data centre designs after completing his bachelor's degree in building services engineering from Northumbria University in 1998. Peter worked on data centre projects in Amsterdam and Frankfurt prior to the dot com burst. In 2008, he resumed work in the sector full-time with a focus on energy-efficient design and is an active presence within the Cundall data centre zero carbon design group.

With over twelve years of experience at Cundall, Peter has successfully delivered innovative solutions for data centre clients across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. Peter is responsible for key client account management, team growth and development and the operational strategy for the data centre team in Europe.

View full profile and related articles

I am a building services engineer with 30 years of consultancy experience. I led the mission critical sector in a London based design consultancy up until March 2024, and I am now a mechanical engineering subject matter expert with Digital Realty. Over the past 15 years I have worked in mission critical environments, where I have built up a good knowledge across all disciplines. I have specialized in the design of resilient and energy efficient data centre cooling solutions for a range of colocation, scale and hyperscale customers. My current focus is on liquid to chip cooling and how this can be effectively deployed across both new and existing sites.

View full profile and related articles

Dan Loosemore is currently CEO at Data Center Dynamics (DCD); helping empower individuals who plan, build, design and operate digital infrastructure to make informed decisions faster. DCD attracts over 15 million views to its publishing sites every year, making it the most read data center publication in the world. It's L&D business trains over 3000 engineers every year and the DCD event series attracts over 20,000 annual attendees. Since 2022, DCD has been part of the InfraXMedia portfolio and is a proud sister-business of Yotta.

Dan has spent 15+ years scaling B2B media, event and subscription-based platforms in technology and software driven industries. He is passionate about the future of B2B technology marketing and sales, supporting the industry's leading solutions providers on their GTM strategies.

View full profile and related articles

Danielle Rossi is the Global Director, Data Centers at Trane Technologies. She has 19+ years in data center solution design and engineering for hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, edge, and government environments. In her current role, Danielle manages global mission critical cooling products and processes to provide a standardized deliverable for customers executing projects worldwide.

View full profile and related articles

Stuart Redshaw is joint founder and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of EkkoSense – the next generation AI driven data center optimization experts. Stu Redshaw holds a doctorate in heat transfer and thermodynamics from Nottingham University and specializes in revolutionary clean tech and energy efficient systems. He is particularly recognized for his focus on resolving thermal challenges and has led many breakthrough academic projects in this area. In addressing today’s thermal challenges, his goal has always been to look at technical problems from first principles and challenge the status quo.

View full profile and related articles

George started his first technology publication in 1998, focused on the 'plumbing' of the Internet and has been building and connecting digital infrastructure communities all over the world,

George is fascinated by the sheer scale of the digital infrastructure that is yet to be built, one that will support AI and a new world of accelerated computing; it is 'mission critical' to the future of every industry and every person on the planet and must be done sustainably.

View full profile and related articles

Mike has over 30 years of experience of operating Data Centers globally and has worked for various client and supplier organizations. At JLL he is responsible for Data Center Operations across EMEA.

View full profile and related articles