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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The premier event for those who design, build & operate next-generation data centers
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3 Co-located events, covering the full digital infrastructure ecosystem
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Hear from 130+ leading experts from across the data center industry
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60+ Exhibitors showcasing the latest tech
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Network with 800+ senior data center professionals
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 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!
Key Speakers
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Managing Director, Clear Sustainability
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Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord
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Safaa Adbel Baki
Senior Digital Strategy & Sustainability Consultant, LTA
Explore the evolving cooling mix for 2025 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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Global Director, Mission Critical Facilities, Haskoning
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Regional Director, Middle East, Turkey & Central Asia (METCA), Vertiv
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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EMEA Associate Director - Data Centers, UBS
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Managing Director, WB Engineers + Consultants
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Ahmed Abdelwahab
Infrastructure General Manager, Egypt Post
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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Mohamed Sadek
IT Operations Head, EGBANK
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Director and Founder, MissionProcure
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Head of Procurement, Pure Data Centres Group
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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Wassim Zoueihed
Director of Engineering, PTS Middle East
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Jamie Darragh
Technical Director, Black & White Engineering
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Co-Founder and Principal, UBIK
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
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Principal Consultant, STL Partners
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Roger Habr
Chief Data and AI Officer, Gulf Data Hub
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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Darren Stratton
Director - Project Development, DataVolt
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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Managing Director, MENA, Equinix
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Hassan Alnaqbi
CEO, Khazna Data Centers
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Director, Data Center Capital Markets, JLL
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.
View sessionsCompare innovative solutions from the industry's leading vendors, all in one place
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.
Network with peers in-style with a host of unrivalled networking opportunities
