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

  • 3 Co-located events, covering the full digital infrastructure ecosystem
  • Industry-leading content, from over 250+ expert speakers
  • Best-in-class technology discovery, from over 120+ technology providers
  • Unparalleled networking opportunities with over 3,500+ industry leaders

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 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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  • Jennifer Ruch

    Director of Energy & Sustainability, Oracle

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    Jennifer Ruch

    Director of Energy & Sustainability, Oracle

    Jennifer is a sustainability leader within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Center Engineering team and is leading energy and sustainability for data center services. She is working towards Oracle's goals to be 100% renewable by 2025 and embed sustainability within one of the world's fastest growing public clouds.

    Prior to joining Oracle, Jennifer led Equinix's global Sustainability Program Office located within Investor Relations, helping them the EPA Green Power Partner of the year in 2020 as well as one of the largest corporate renewable energy buyers worldwide. In 2020, Jennifer also led the creation of Equinix's Green Finance Framework enabling the issuance of $3.7B in green bonds to finance their investments in green buildings, renewable energy, and energy and water efficiency. She also led their science-based targets and supported their leadership in the EU towards the formation of the EU Climate-Neutral Data Centre Operator Pact.

    She holds a master’s degree in Decision Analysis from Johns Hopkins University and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry.

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  • Miranda Gardiner

    Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord

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    Miranda Gardiner

    Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord

    Miranda Gardiner is the Executive Director of the iMasons Climate Accord, a non-profit composed of 250+ member companies, representing more than $6T in market cap, and aligned on global carbon accounting of digital infrastructure. The organization is focused on influencing market-based decisions and driving the data center industry to ultimately achieve net zero carbon.

    With over 16 years of experience, Miranda is a driven, professional manager with extensive industry experience in green buildings, energy and water efficiency, and sustainable master plans and policies. She is passionate about the environment and improving sustainability practices through local and global engagement, with a proven record of working for international sustainability organizations like the US Green Building Council and in 2020, was recognized by USGBC as a LEED Fellow.

    Miranda is an enthusiastic author and public speaker who clearly communicates with peers, clients, and corporations to achieve individual and departmental goals. She thrives in implementing sustainable practices that result in significant cost savings, improved efficiency, and reduced environmental impact. Additionally, she is distance running coach and cycling instructor, who believes that caring for oneself resonates in caring for the planet; she has completed 8 marathons and 3 ultramarathons.

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  • Martin Brennan

    Global Engineering Risk and Controls Lead, UBS

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    Martin Brennan

    Global Engineering Risk and Controls Lead, UBS

    Martin Brennan leads a global engineering team to ensure reliability and consistent performance for Credit Suisse facilities and data centers. Martin's team has built a building excellence program that includes building design standards, operational maintenance standards and internal auditing measuring performance and reliability. He also specializes in building technologies and implement and manage smart building technologies, BMS, green building and a carbon measurement platform tool that drives Credit Suisse's environmental targets and is the data backbone for Credit Suisse's annual sustainability report.

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  • Alise Porto

    SVP of Energy and Sustainability, Switch

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    Alise Porto

    SVP of Energy and Sustainability, Switch

    Alise Porto joined the Switch team in 2015 and has held several key senior management roles, currently serving as SVP of Energy and Sustainability. As an invaluable member of the Sustainability Team, she is responsible for the oversight of Switch’s environmental, social and governance initiatives (ESG), and is responsible for implementing sustainable energy and resource management strategies that align with the company’s overall policies and goals of being environmentally and socially sustainable, in partnership with the Policy team.

    In addition, she leads Switch’s energy procurement strategy, and energy resources, including Switch’s retail electric provider activities in Texas and various resource management initiatives. She similarly leads the development and execution of special projects associated with business development and innovative sustainable water resource management.

    Alise also co-leads the Switch Newsroom team that is responsible for public relations, corporate communications and corporate events and represents the companies interests at the Nevada Legislature.

    Alise received her degree from University of Nevada Las Vegas and completed the University of California Berkeley Sustainable Capitalism & ESG program.

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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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  • John Sasser

    Chief Technology Officer, Sabey Data Centers

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    John Sasser

    Chief Technology Officer, Sabey Data Centers

    John brings 15 years of management experience to the operations of Sabey’s data center portfolio – with no incidence of facility downtime. In addition to all day-to-day operations, start-ups and transitions, John is responsible for developing the conceptual bases of design and operations for data centers, managing client relationships, overseeing construction projects, and planning for electrical utility capacity.

    John and his team have routinely received recognition for continuous uptime from the Uptime Institute. Prior to joining Sabey, he worked for Capital One and for Walt Disney Company and spent seven years with the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. John is also President and founding member of the Western Washington State Chapter of AFCOM, a leading international data center operations industry group.

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  • Peter Worley

    Director, Development, CloudHQ

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    Peter Worley

    Director, Development, CloudHQ

    Peter Worley is a licensed Mechanical Engineer and currently is Director, Development at CloudHQ. Peter has more than 10 years of experience in the design, construction and operations of hyperscale data centers.

    Peter has held roles on the consultant, developer and owner sides (eg lead engineer, design manager, owner's mechanical SME, construction program manager, and development manager).

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  • Peter de Bock

    Program Director, ARPA-E, US Department of Energy

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    Peter de Bock

    Program Director, ARPA-E, US Department of Energy

    Dr. Peter de Bock currently serves as Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for the US Department of Energy.

    At ARPA-E Peter leads and developed the ASCEND and PRE-TRAILS programs to realize a future of sustainable aviation. In addition, Peter developed the COOLERCHIPS program focused on making a transformational leap in efficiency of cooling of Data Centers and manages projects in the areas of ultra-high power density battery systems, hydrogen storage and propulsion, additive manufacturing and power electronics.

    Prior to joining ARPA-E, Peter worked at GE Research as Principal Engineer ThermoSciences and platform lead Power-Thermal Mechanical Systems. Peter is the former chair of ASME K-16 committee on Heat Transfer in Electronics equipment, ASME Fellow, AIAA member and holds 50+ patents and publications.

    Peter received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and holds MSc degrees from University of Twente in the Netherlands, and University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

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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.

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  • Jeff Zygler

    Founder, CEO, Active Infrastructure

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    Jeff Zygler

    Founder, CEO, Active Infrastructure

    Jeffrey Zygler is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Active Infrastructure. Mr. Zygler brings more than 15 years of institutional real estate experience, during which he has led the development and acquisition of projects in eleven states exceeding $3 billion in value, including over 13 million square feet of build-to-suit transactions for a leading multinational technology and e-commerce company. 

    Prior to founding Active Infrastructure, Mr. Zygler was a Partner at Dermody Properties, a national real estate investment and management company, where he ran the company's National Accounts Group. During his tenure at Dermody, Mr. Zygler sourced and led the development of the largest build-to-suit and speculative development transactions in the company's 60-year  history.  Prior to joining Dermody, Mr. Zygler served as the Vice President of Development for KTR Capital Partners until its sale to Prologis in 2015.

    Mr. Zygler is a board member of UJA-Federation Young Wall Street Division, has co-chaired several events for the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, and is a member of NAIOP Developing Leaders and NAIOP National Forums – eCommerce II. He holds a B.S. in finance and logistics, transportation and supply chain management from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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  • Ramiro Martinez PE

    AVP of Technical Space Operations, AT&T

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    Ramiro Martinez PE

    AVP of Technical Space Operations, AT&T

    Ramiro is the AVP of Technical Space Operations for AT&T's Data Center Operations and responsible for all data centers infrastructure operations across the globe. He was previously responsible for all AT&T Central Office Operations in AL, GA, SC, and NC and holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Miami.

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  • Vishnu Anasoori

    Electrical Field Engineer, AWS

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    Vishnu Anasoori

    Electrical Field Engineer, AWS

    Vishnu Anasoori is a professional Electrical Field Engineer at AWS.

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Learn how you can leverage AI, automation, and hybrid IT 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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  • Srinivas Garimella

    Srinivas Garimella

    Senior Manager, Data Center Systems, Google

  • Bryan Decker

    Co-Founder, CEO, Compass Facilities

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    Bryan Decker

    Co-Founder, CEO, Compass Facilities

    Bryan Decker is an experienced operations and reliability focused professional with a demonstrated history of working in critical industries. Bryan is skilled in Facility Operations, Incident Management, Maintenance Management, Reliability and Organizational Leadership.

    Bryan Decker has a deep understanding of critical industries, including manufacturing, energy, and data centers. He is also skilled in a variety of operational disciplines, including facility operations, incident management, maintenance management, and organizational leadership.

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  • James Sedoruk

    James Sedoruk

    Director of Operations – East, Sabey Data Centers

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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  • John Hawkins

    Global Cloud Data Center Real Estate Lead, IBM

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    John Hawkins

    Global Cloud Data Center Real Estate Lead, IBM

    John Hawkins is the IBM Global Data Center Strategy and Planning Lead. John brings over 20 years and $3B of leasing experience in the data center and commercial real estate fields. John is best known for his work at Telx, where he was the Director of Global Real Estate & Data Center Expansions. During his years at Telx, John expanded the data center portfolio over seven hundred percent and negotiated over $1B+ in leases, leading to the acquisition of Telx by Digital Realty for $1.9 billion. Prior to Telx, John was Vice President of Real Estate and Data Center Logistics at Exenet Technologies, where he was responsible for the complete ownership of a multi-country facility build-out.  Earlier in his career, John was Vice President of International Operations & Real Estate at The Matlen Silver Group, where he opened operations in India and Trinidad.  

    John earned his Masters of Real Estate at New York University.

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  • Julie Ditchfield

    Julie Ditchfield

    Construction Project Manager, Equinix

  • Michael Roark

    CEO, iM Data Centers

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    Michael Roark

    CEO, iM Data Centers

    Michael Roark is the Founder & CEO of iM Data Centers.

    iM Data Centers creates data centers with end-to-end services and investment solutions, including iM’s factory-built, modular facilities.

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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.

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  • Travis Hauser

    Travis Hauser

    Director, Technical Operations, T5 Data Centers

  • John Coster

    Sr. Manager, Innovation, Planning and Strategy, T-Mobile

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    John Coster

    Sr. Manager, Innovation, Planning and Strategy, T-Mobile

    John Coster is an experienced leader in engineering, construction and operations of digital facilities, and the advanced technologies that that optimize operational and financial performance. John has over 30 years’ forming and leading global teams developing investment-grade Real Estate and IT projects, and products and services in companies ranging from start-ups to >$200Bn.

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  • Doug Recker

    President and Founder, Duos Edge AI

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    Doug Recker

    President and Founder, Duos Edge AI

    Doug is the Founder & President of EdgePresence. Doug is a renowned telecommunications industry veteran with over 25 years of proven experience successfully delivering multi-access edge data center and colocation services. Prior to founding EdgePresence in 2017, Doug founded Colo5 Data Centers LLC; later acquired by Cologix, Inc in 2014. Throughout his career, he has achieved several accolades, including Northeast Florida's Ultimate CEO Award by the Jacksonville Business Journal, and as owner of one of Florida's fastest-growing companies and one of the 500 fastest-growing companies nationwide, was listed in Jacksonville's Business Journals Top 40 under 40 for 2010. Doug is also a widely recognized thought leader, speaking at key industry events such as PTC and other national IT and business events. Doug's professionalism, passion and robust industry experience has positioned EdgePresence as a leading contender in the edge data center market.

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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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  • John Lee

    Executive Director, Wells Fargo

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    John Lee

    Executive Director, Wells Fargo

    John Lee is an innovative technology executive focused on operational excellence through driving change. Combining a proven track record for providing outstanding results and building teams with diverse skills to deliver the highest-level of customer service. Core abilities regarding analysis and optimization. Passionate about continuous learning.

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  • Rafael Garrido

    Rafael Garrido

    CEO, 247 Twenty Four Seven Data Centers

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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  • Jeff Uphues

    CEO, DC BLOX

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    Jeff Uphues

    CEO, DC BLOX

    Jeff leads DC BLOX where he is responsible for setting and leading the company’s strategy, vision and execution in designing, building, and operating a fabric of interconnected, highly secure, Tier III rated data centers across the Southeast. DC BLOX currently owns and operates data centers in five Southeast markets of which all have become the defacto Connectivity Exchanges within their respective market for agile, efficient, resilient cloud connectivity and best-in-class infrastructure for digital services.

    Jeff is a 30 year veteran in the information technology industry, is a tireless tech-savvy executive and business strategist having held C-suite leadership roles for Liquid Web, Cbeyond, Bandwidth, ACSI Network Technologies, MCI and WilTel.

    Jeff serves as an active board member in several technology firms, he is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, Rice University’s Jones School of Business Executive Education program in Finance and Accounting and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Jeff lives in Alpharetta, GA with his wife Aimee of 22 years which they have two daughters. When not working, he can be typically found road cycling, playing golf or on a lacrosse field with his youngest daughter.

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  • Phillip Koblence

    Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, New York Internet (NYI)

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    Phillip Koblence

    Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, New York Internet (NYI)

    Phillip Koblence is a strategic executive and thought leader in the data center and network space. He co-founded NYI (www.nyi.net) in 1996 and has grown the company from a single data center in Lower Manhattan to a robust network with executional capabilities in key national and international markets. His leadership, focus on customer experience, and ability to cut through complexity and hype, has positioned NYI as an industry leader in high-touch infrastructure and connectivity solutions.

    As Co-Founder of the Nomad Futurist Foundation and related podcast, Phillip is committed to demystifying the world of critical infrastructure and empowering younger generations through exposure to the underlying technologies that power our digital world. He and Co-Founder Nabeel Mahmood are currently working to aggregate institutional knowledge of the industry and create educational initiatives for integration into existing STEAM curricula. As part of this mission, Nomad Futurist and Data Center Dynamics are partnering to cross-promote initiatives to help address the data center industry’s workforce challenges.

    Phillip is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been profiled by Data Center Knowledge, TheWHIR, MSPMentor, and NJ BIZ. He serves on the DE-CIX North America Advisory Board and as Vice Chair of the OIX Board, and as an Advisor for Apolo, Ragu, and Cool Vector. Phillip also holds executive positions at Critical Ventures and United Integrity Advisors where he leverages his deep industry knowledge to assist companies with their digital infrastructure assets. Phillip is a Top 10 Data Center Influencer on LinkedIn and the recipient of numerous awards for industry leadership including the 2023 IM100 Infrastructure Masons Award, and the 2024 Good Scout Award. Phillip has an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Arthur Valhuerdi

    Chief Technology Officer, Hudson Interxchange

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    Arthur Valhuerdi

    Chief Technology Officer, Hudson Interxchange

    Arthur Valhuerdi is the Chief Technology Officer at Hudson Interxchange and has over 25 years of management experience in the telecommunications and data center fields. He served as Vice President of Engineering for Zayo Colocation, Vice President of Infrastructure for FiberNet Telecom Group, and Vice President of Operations at Datagryd Data Centers.

    Mr. Valhuerdi holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College, an M.S. in Information Systems from Polytechnic Institute of New York University as well as a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

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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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  • Brad Barton

    EVP Real Estate Development, Applied Digital

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    Brad Barton

    EVP Real Estate Development, Applied Digital

    Brad has executed over $2.5 billion in mission critical data center projects in the US and Mexico. More recently, he delivered multiple hyperscale, wholesale, and collocation data centers totaling over 150 megawatts for large REITs, social media clients and financial institutions.  Brad has held leadership roles in an ENR top 5 General Contractor working within Lump Sum, Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, and Integrated Project Delivery contracts. He received a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Brigham Young University. He enjoys building the right teams and executing technical projects.

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  • Carly Heissenbuttel

    CEO, CMH Power & Energy Consulting

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    Carly Heissenbuttel

    CEO, CMH Power & Energy Consulting

    Carly Heissenbuttel is an 18 Year Energy Executive born and raised in New Jersey. Carly formally operated a boutique international consulting firm specializing in industrial manufacturing and electrical energy related technologies and deployment.

    In Carly’s work, she engages with Universities, Fortune 500 companies, and Government stakeholders bringing together her knowledge and experience in the field to create lasting projects that benefit all the stakeholder community. Carly’s mission is to commercialize these technologies in the USA and create an innovative ecosystem of safe clean resilient energy that can be scaled globally.

    She is a proud resident of Morristown New Jersey where she lives with her two school aged children and their dog. They enjoy hiking and biking on the trails in Morris County and are proud to call NJ home.

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  • Dean Perrine

    Executive Vice President, JSA

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    Dean Perrine

    Executive Vice President, JSA

    Dean Perrine is the Executive Vice President of JSA.

    JSA is a provider of Public Relations, Marketing and Event Planning services to the telecom, data center, and tech industries. JSA was awarded ‘Most Outstanding Telecoms PR Agency’ by LiveWire for two years in a row.

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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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  • Robert Novo

    Head of Compliance and US Gov Network Engineering, Oracle

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    Robert Novo

    Head of Compliance and US Gov Network Engineering, Oracle

    Robert Novo has in-depth experience in service delivery, network operations, executive consulting, leading-edge technology and carrier-grade, resilient telecommunications. Robert is experienced with leading large team consulting projects, managing shifting priorities and delivering on-time with quality to CxOs of Fortune 500, multi-national customers.

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  • Zaid Kahn

    Zaid Kahn

    Independent Thought Leader, Hardware and Data Center Engineering

Tech Discovery opportunites in-depth...

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.

Tailor your networking to your interests...