Upcoming Industry Events

Panel: IT efficiency: the critical core of digital sustainability

Date: September 29, 2022 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Jay Dietrich, Research Director of Sustainability

Whilst we have measurements of PUE, and WUE to describe how efficient a facility is to operate, we have no official measurement for how efficient a server or rack of servers are. Additionally, we often fail to discuss the efficiency of the IT workload delivered versus the energy consumed by said workload.

As such, Uptime Institute’s Jay Dietrich will focus on the IT element of digital infrastructure and how much energy this uses and how it can be better managed in order to become more efficient and improve overall sustainability.

Panel Title: Creating a Sustainability Strategy

Panel Date: September 29, 2022 | 11:55 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. CEST

Speaker: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute

Uptime Institute has developed a series of reports that definitive a strategic and practical guide for Digital Infrastructure Sustainability. This presentation will discuss defining the key elements to include in a sustainability strategy, the actions necessary for a successful implementation, and the processes required to measure progress against goals and objectives.

Panel Title: Data Center Changemakers Denmark - Episode 2: Data Center People: attracting talent & exploring the skills shortage

Panel Date: September 29, 2022 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CEST

Speaker: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute

Great career paths, an innovative industry, above average salaries, and a booming market - yet the influx of new talent in the data center industry is low. What is going on?

Panel: The tools and the people: How are technologies acting as a catalyst for modernising data center operations?

Date: October 5th, 2022 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EDT

Speaker: Max Smolaks, Research Analyst

With the myriad challenges data centers face, it is imperative for the operator’s toolkit to evolve to better streamline, monitor and control critical functions. However in an ecosystem where the number of potential threats, both inside and outside an organization continues to grow, data centers need to leverage technology to develop a robust physical and digital infrastructure to future proof their businesses. However despite the promise of AI, automation and ML being somewhat of a ‘silver bullet’, data centers need to ensure they are utilising cutting edge technologies in the right way to obtain the most value from them. So where to start?

This episode will explore how technologies such as AR and VR are being utilised to provide superior monitoring in an operation, providing real time insights to mitigate against issues to allow operators to move from a reactive to proactive way of working. This kind of technology can also be leveraged to allow staff to work remotely, providing data centers with an opportunity to access the best talent, as well as providing greater visibility to customers to enhance the value of their investments. Additionally, this session will explore whether the growing use of technologies for data center management beckons a new era of DCIM, and whether it has found its place in the evolving data center landscape.

Panel: Managing ICT outage risk across modern digital infrastructure environments

Date: October 12, 2022 at 1:45 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute

Session details

• Outage trends across modern financial sector infrastructure
• Approaches to identifying and mitigate outage risks across cloud, SaaS and colocation and system integrator partners
• Scoping and implementing risk monitoring and risk assessments programs
• Embedding infrastructure risk mitigation process across LODs and operational resiliency teams to meet regulatory requirements
• Working with ICT partners to address and mitigate risk

Panel Title: DCD>Debate: Heatwave '22 - was it data center design or data center operations that failed?

Date: October 17, 2022 | 3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. GMT +1

Speaker: Scott Roots, Director, Client Engagement

DCD>Debate: Are data center operators ready for Europe's environmental regulations?

Date: October 17, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. GMT +1

Speaker: Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research

Panel: Talent in Telecoms: Diversifying the data centre workforce in the age of expansion

Date: October 18, 2022 4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. GMT

Moderator: Amber Villegas Williamson, Senior Consultant

This panel will cover:

• How the data centre industry is finding a way to attract new talent as well as talent retention
• Why there are perceptions the industry hasn’t done enough to diversify – how can it compete with more attractive-looking industries such as software and high tech
• Data centres and geographic expansion: can the possible perks of the job, such as travel, can become a lure?

Panel: Utilising our environment’s natural resources in your telco infrastructure strategy

Date: October 19, 2022 3:55 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. GMT

Moderator: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute

• The concept of merely running ICT infrastructure facilities like data centres with compute and storage needs close to where power is generated
• The data centre industry’s goal to meet European Commission’s climate neutral targets by 2030 – a look at key trends in harvesting wind power in northern Europe to solar power in the southern part of the continent
• Efficient thinking: defining your market by latency rather than by geography

Speaker: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute

Speaker: Matt Stansberry, Vice President, North America

Panel Title: DCD>Debate - Sustainability: What is the role of Data Centers in a future with a zero carbon footprint?

Date: November 7, 2022 | 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Brasilia Time

Speaker: Eder Gallardo, Senior Consultant - Sales

Panel Title: DCD>Debate: With liquid beckoning, is air cooling incompatible with the energy efficient data center?

Date: November 7, 2022 | 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

As rack densities increase and modern server hardware gets hotter, will the laws of physics make some form of liquid cooling inevitable inside of the sustainable data center? And, if so, what type of solution is likely to gain precedence?

Join us for a discussion on where the future of thermal management in the modern data center lies as the industry journey towards net-zero gains steam.

Panel Title: DCD>Debate: How intelligent do our operations really need to be?

Date: November 7, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute

Panel: Scope, scale and sustainability: is it possible to green all new capacity?

Date: November 8, 2022 | 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EDT

Speaker: Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute

The commitment to going 'carbon free' across the digital infrastructure sector is vast in scope and will require a firm commitment on everything from bolstering renewable use and conserving water to 'greening' the supply chain and championing equipment reuse. With so many facets part of the sustainable growth of the sector, where should operators, their partners and suppliers take aim, first? And, how can innovation, metrics and partnership ensure new capacity is green from its very conception?

We ask our panel of sustainability experts to outline how sustainability is unfolding across the region and whether the actions taken today are sufficient to design, build and operate a suite of all-new green data centers in the years to come.

Panel: The Importance of “Going Green” for the future of Data Centers in Africa

Date: November 9, 12:10 pm - 12:55 pm South Africa Standard Time (GMT+2)

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Senior Vice President - Middle East, Africa & Greater India

An increase in demand for more environmentally conscious behaviour by consumers has led to a shift in the thinking around the key requirements needed to build data centers across the continent. Accessibility to data centers that are affordable, reliable as well as sustainable has been a pressing issue for data center providers to deliver on but will be essential for the future of the industry.

• Planning Ahead: Following COP26 last year, many organisations have been given the push to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050. How will the design of data centers have to shift to achieve that and how will data center practises need to change?
• Challenges & Opportunities: What are some of the key challenges that companies will face in building Sustainable Data Centers? How will partnerships and new technology help to achieve this goal?

Panel Title: How to create a sustainability strategy

Date: November 17, 2022 | 11:30 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. CET

Speaker: Sylvie Le Roy, Business Development Director - France, Belgium, Switzerland & Luxembourg

The environmental impacts of data centers and associated digital infrastructure can be difficult to manage. This requires a strategy that covers all IT facilities and operations and meets the requirements of all stakeholders.

Sylvie will discuss the definition of the key elements to be included in a sustainable development strategy, the actions necessary for successful implementation and the processes needed to measure progress against goals and objectives.

Panel: TBD

Speaker: Dr. Rabih Bashroush, Global Head, IT Infrastructure Advisory

Panel: The Data Centre in 2022 & Beyond

Speaker: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute

November 22, 2022 | 9:05 a.m. - 9:35 a.m. BST

Post pandemic, in a world where demand for compute is increasing at pace, what challenges face the sector and how can we meet them head on?

What’s new in this burgeoning data center market and how are the key players evolving to meet relentless capacity demands?

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Senior Vice President - Middle East, Africa & Greater India

Panel: What's Next for Infrastructure Management and Operations?

Date: April 20, 2023, 11:00 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. CEST (GMT+2)

Speaker: Scott Roots, Business Development Director, EMEA

Panel description: TBD