Connect | MENA // The Connect Experience

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Connect with 2,000 of your peers this October

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    Icebreaker Networking evening

    Get to know 2,000+ fellow data center decision-makers at our iconic Icebreaker Networking evening. This lively evening will feature live entertainment, canapés, refreshments and plenty of photo opportunities.

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    5X5 Lightning Pitches

    New for 2026, the 5x5 lightning pitches give our partners 5 minutes and 5 slides to showcase their brightest and boldest ideas. Here you will discover the most innovative technology disrupting the market.

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    Hosted Lunch Briefings

    Invited guests can enjoy a closed-door, 3-course lunch focused on key industry topics like Power, Cooling, and Capacity Planning.

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    Show Floor Chai & Chatter Hour

    Close out your time with your peers over networking refreshments on the Show Floor, while you listen to the final panel and have a catch-up with industry friends old and new.

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    VIP Private Dinners

    Invited guests can join our hosts for an exclusive dinner for industry executives at a renowned restaurant.

The premier event for those who design, build & operate next-generation data centers

  • "DCD Connect MENA is the event to attend to connect with different stakeholders in the Data Centre sector."
  • Attend curated networking sessions designed to facilitate industry discussion, from Private Dinners to the iM Women Lunch
  • 60+ Exhibitors showcasing the latest tech
  • Network with 2,000+ senior data center professionals

Hear it from your peers

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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tailor your networking to your interests...

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  • End-User/Specifier Pass

    October 26-27 FREE

    Includes access to

    Connect | MENA

    Investment Forum | MENA

    For end-users within the digital infrastructure industry

    Who qualifies?

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ End-users within the data center industry from Enterprise and Hyperscale

    ✅ End-users specializing in IT, Compute, Storage or Networking

    ✅ Technical roles from Colocation Operators

    ✅ Specifiers of data center technology & services (technical roles) from AECs (Architects, Consulting Engineers, Contractors), Systems Integrators and Energy Utilities

    ✅ Procurement teams

    Who does not qualify?

    Who does not qualify?

    ❌Sales & Marketing Professionals

    ❌Technology or Service Vendors

    ❌Resellers

    ❌Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    End-User/Specifier passes include access to both days of DCD Connect | MENA on October 26-27, as well as the co-located DCD Investment Forum | MENA event on October 27.

    You will also be invited to private activations included hosted lunches, cocktail hours and VIP dinners (subject to availability) and have the ability to book meetings via the event app.

    Complimentary food & beverages are provided throughout the event.

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  • General Admission Pass

    October 26-27 Free

    Includes access to

    Connect | MENA

    Investment Forum | MENA

    For digital infrastructure analysts and sales & marketing professionals.

    Who qualifies?

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ Sales & Marketing Professionals from: Colocation & Cloud Providers, AECs (Architects, Consulting Engineers, Contractors), Systems Integrators and Energy Utilities

    ✅ Digital Infrastructure Investors/Analysts

    ✅ Law Firms & Professional Advisory Services

    Who does not qualify?

    Who does not qualify?

    ❌Technology or Service Vendors 

    ❌Resellers

    ❌Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    This pass provides you with access to both days of DCD Connect | MENA on October 26-27, as well as the co-located DCD Investment Forum | MENA event on October 27.

    You can schedule meetings through the event app and scan leads directly at the event. Complimentary food & beverages are provided throughout the event.

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  • Investment Forum Pass

    October 26-27 Free

    Includes access to

    Investment Forum | MENA

    Connect | MENA

    For operators, investors and the supporting ecosystem involved in investment, financing and M&A activity.

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ Leaders from Digital Infrastructure Investment and Finance
    ✅ Senior executives from Hyperscale, Colocation or Cloud Services companies
    ✅ Law Firms, Consultancy & Advisory Services Involved in Deal flow

    Who does not qualify?

    ❌ Technology or Service Vendors

    ❌ Resellers

    ❌ Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    This pass provides you with access to the DCD Investment Forum | MENA event. Your pass also includes access to both days of DCD Connect | MENA on October 26-27, running concurrently at the Grand Hyatt Dubai.

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  • Vendor Pass

    October 26-27 £2,095 (+VAT)

    Includes access to

    Connect | MENA

    For technology vendors, service vendors, resellers and recruiters

    Who qualifies?

    Who qualifies?

    ✅ Technology or Service Vendors

    ✅ Resellers

    ✅ Recruitment Firms

    Extra details

    This pass provides you with access to both days of DCD Connect | MENA on October 26-27. You have access to all of the open sessions and networking, and have the ability to schedule meetings through the event app and scan leads directly at the event. This pass also includes a two night stay on October 26 & 27 at the Grand Hyatt Dubai.

    Purchasing multiple Vendor passes

    If you wish to purchase multiple passes for your team, event sponsorship could provide you more value, as all of our packages include passes for your team members and enhanced access to the event app. Please contact: [email protected] for the best rates.

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