Connect | London // The Connect Experience

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Europe's flagship event connecting the data center ecosystem to design, build and operate sustainable digital infrastructure for the AI age

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3 co-located events under one roof

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Join 5,000+ of your peers and build lasting connections through unique and memorable networking activities!

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    The Energy Summit

    Deep dive into the most topical conversations around grid reform, off grid generation as well as discussions around battery storage solutions and where nuclear fits in the bigger picture

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    5K run, 2.5K walk and talk

    Start your morning with a run or relaxed walk while connecting with fellow operators, investors, and infrastructure leaders before the main conference program begins

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    Hosted Networking Lunches

    Join curated tables with peers across hyperscale, enterprise, and infrastructure leadership for a three-course lunch designed to spark meaningful conversations around the industry’s biggest challenges

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    The Iconic Icebreaker Party

    Get to know 5,000+ fellow data center decision-makers at our iconic Icebreaker Party. This lively party will feature live entertainment, canapés, an open bar and plenty of photo opportunities in this iconic venue.

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    Explore the Showfloor

    Make connections with 5,000 of your peers, explore leading tech and solutions, visit the Byte Bar for refreshments, schedule meetings in the Business Lounge, and more!

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Tech Discovery opportunites

Welcome to the DCD 5x5 pitch sessions; 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.

When the Show Floor opens on Day Two, you'll have the opportunity to take in technical presentations on the dedicated DCD Showcase Stage, where we'll host back-to-back sessions led by product experts with plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

Content aligned to your core challenges

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 our 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.

Explore the evolving cooling mix for 2026 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.

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 elose expect in-depth insights into the ways power design is evolving for higher densities.

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.

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.

Understand how you can leverage edge computing to meet the demand for low-latency, high-speed data processing, learn from peers on overcoming scaling, security, and hardware challenges, and explore how leading operators are integrating edge into their infrastructure. Expect an in-depth discussion on the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of edge computing in data centers.

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 2025, 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.

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.

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.

Explore the rapidly evolving ecosystem of advanced compute - including the ongoing growth in demand for cloud and it's role in the AI/HPC landscape - identifying strategies and best-practice that can be deployed to close the IT/OT divide whilst maintaining a robust, adaptable base infrastructure.

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