Connect | MENA // DCD>Major Panel: The acceleration of AI and the role of the data center

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  • Main Stage
  • Compute, Storage & Networking
  • Open Session
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Speakers

Nader Tahan

EPC Channel Manager, ABB

Snehar Shah

Snehar Shah

CEO, IX Africa Data Centre

David Armstrong

David Armstrong

Field Engineering Manager EMEA, AWS

Dan Loosemore

CEO, InfraXmedia

Stefano Resi

Head of Data Center Sales, MEA, Nokia

Sridhar Pinnapureddy

Founder & CEO, CtrlS Datacenters

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is reshaping industries and driving new, unprecedented demand for computational power and storage capabilities. As AI models become more complex, requiring massive datasets and high-performance processing, the data center ecosystem has emerged as a critical enabler of this transformation.

This panel will explore the key challenges and opportunities that the AI revolution presents for the data center industry, from planning, design, power and cooling, to compute, storage, and networking.