Upcoming Industry Events

Panel: Sustainability at the edge - What do new EU regulations mean for edge deployment in the region?

Date: March 6, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. GMT

Speaker: Dr Tomas Rahkonen, Research Director of Distributed Data Centers, Uptime Institute

As the focus on sustainability grows, so does the push for all types of data centers to be held accountable, but what impact could this have on edge data centers going forward? With new EU regulations expected to come into effect in 2023, could we be seeing a turning point for edge data center sustainability conversations?

This panel will explore what the potential impact of the regulations means as well as areas of opportunities and what this could mean for edge data center deployment.

Panel: The investment drive in data centre infrastructure within Africa

Date: March 6, 2023 | 4:20 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. AT

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Senior Vice President, IMEA & SAPAC Regions , Uptime Institute

Africa is riding on a crest of a wave, with major investment made over the last 12 to 24 months in new data centre infrastructure, and backed up by the incoming arrival of more hyper-scale cloud providers. With major investment being driven by international data centre operators, the continent is very much becoming a new frontier in the ICT infrastructure landscape. So what does this all mean for the region’s prospects in terms of interconnectivity in the coming years? We discuss:

• Carrier neutral selection: The investment driven into the carrier neutral market in Africa will increase to between $5–6bn over the next 3–5 years, according to a Balancing Act study in tandem with Console Connect. What implications will we see from the demand and buy side as a result of increased activity?
• Where do landlocked countries and more underserved markets fit into the equation?
• New long haul subsea projects and what it means for an interconnected ecosystem, as much as what it will do for increased bandwidth and capacity and the performance of applications such as content or mobile money

Opening and closing remarks, Keynote Global Strategies: People Environment and Innovation Theatre

Date: March 8, 2023

Speaker: Sylvie Le Roy, Business Development Director – France, Belgium, Switzerland & Luxembourg, Uptime Institute

Session: How resiliency drives cloud costs and carbon emissions

Date: March 8, 2023 | 10:05 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. GMT

Speaker: Dr. Owen Rogers, Research Director, Uptime Institute

Using public emissions and cost data, we quantify the carbon footprint of several common architectures used in building resiliency into stateless cloud applications and determine the level of protection and cost of each.

Session: Resiliency and risk mitigation and the journey to hybrid IT Infrastructure

Date: March 8, 2023 | 12:35 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. GMT

Speaker: Scott Roots, Director Business Development, Europe, Uptime Institute

Hybrid IT environments are common for most enterprise IT organizations, however, even with hybrid IT environments deployed, Uptime Institute’s 2022 Annual Data Center Industry Survey indicates outages persist and the cost per outage is increasing. Also, concern over cloud concentration risk grows with control increasingly in the hands of a few major cloud providers. In this roundtable, attendees will discuss hybrid IT and multi-cloud resiliency and mitigation strategies and implementations to reduce risk in what is now a hybrid IT world.

Session: Operational Risk: How to stay ahead of Financial regulatory requirements

Date: March 9, 2023 | 11:15 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. GMT

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

Mitigating digital infrastructure risk has never been more critical for financial services organizations. In response to outages at financial services firms and increasingly complex hybrid IT architectures in Europe and across the world, regulators have implemented new requirements designed to encourage more effective risk management practices. Learn how financial services firms and their IT service partners can more effectively assess their IT estate to mitigate digital infrastructure outage risks, support critical business services and manage regulatory compliance. Failure to comply with the new requirements could result in sanctions and financial penalties for both service providers and financial firms alike.

Datacloud session: How cloud adoption is enabling the digital economy

Date: March 15, 2023 | 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Brasilia Time

Speaker: Luis Andrade, Senior Consultant, Uptime Institute

The pandemic accelerated cloud adoption, but that acceleration shows no sign of abating post-pandemic. Meeting this demand necessitates collaboration between fibre players, data centre developers and cloud providers. This session will discuss:

• The value cloud providers can bring to end consumers through use case enablement and collaboration between clouds
• The fibre deployments bringing the cloud to end users
• The new data centre campuses emerging across LATAM and the factors making them attractive to investment

Fireside chat: Data center staffing - how can operators manage the ongoing struggle?

Date: March 23, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Todd Traver, Vice President, IT Strategy & Optimization, Uptime Institute

According to Uptime Institute's 2022 Management & Operations survey, 54% state that Staffing and Organization is the biggest data center operational need, with more than half reporting that their organization is having difficulties finding and retaining qualified candidates, which is believed to be a leading cause of data center operational errors and incidents.

In this episode, Uptime Institute will provide an update on the global data center staffing situation from the Uptime Intelligence 2022 Global Data Center Survey.

• What have been the key changes?
• What are likely to be the biggest challenges over the next year?
• How can the data center industry mobilize itself to respond?

DCD>Debate: Is there a workload capability issue with the enterprise data center?

Date: March 27, 2023 | 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Todd Traver, Vice President, IT Strategy & Optimization, Uptime Institute

Join us for a discussion on the future of on-premise computing and the enterprise data center's interaction with the cloud.

DCD>Debate: Supply chain - transformation or disruption?

Date: March 27, 2023 | 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. EDT

Speaker: Matt Stansberry, Vice President, North America, Uptime Institute

Join us for a discussion on how the crisis is currently impacting the sector, and whether the effects on data center supply are likely to materially change how we design, build (and procure) at scale as we near Q2 2023.

Creating a Sustainability Strategy

Date: March 29, 2023 | 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CEST

Speaker: Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe

Live Talk Show: Data Center Changemakers Norway – Episode 1: Tackling Challenges for Tech Leaders

Date: March 30, 2023 | 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. CEST

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

Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) and the Changing Role of IT in Enterprise & Government

I&O leaders are faced with the challenge of expanding their infrastructure platform and continuing the journey to hybrid IT & multicloud in a challenging external environment: geopolitical polarisation, supply chain disruptions, inflation, climate change, labor/skills shortages, and more. And rather than simply supporting business needs through technology, tech leaders are expected to create new business models and tap into new and additional revenue streams.

Data Center Outages: A Trends Analysis from The Uptime Institute Annual Survey

Date: March 30, 2023 | 2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CEST

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

Five data center predictions for 2023 (and beyond)

Date: March 30, 2023 | 10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. China Standard Time

Speaker: Philip Hu, Managing Director, North Asia, Uptime Institute

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Date: May 16, 2023

Speaker: Scott Roots, Director Business Development, Europe, Uptime Institute

Panel: Keep IT Cool: What Does Cooling Look Like In An AI World?

Date: May 25, 2023 | 10:35 - 11:15 a.m. EDT

Speaker: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

Power rack density is on its way up and creating a new definition of ‘average’ frequency. What are the impacts on uptime availability, resiliency, sustainability, and power costs of ever-higher power densities and cooling requirements?

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Panel Discussion 1: Regulation & Standardization POV

Date: June 7, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Western Indonesian Time

Speaker: Patrick Chan, Vice President, South Asia, Uptime Institute

Why do data center stakeholders need to comply with and get certifications? Further, what standards and certifications do data center stakeholders (owners and operators, system integrators, consultants, contractors, etc.) in Indonesia need to comply with to support Indonesia Data Sovereignty? In this discussion, panelists will consider these questions and more.

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Senior Vice President, IMEA & SAPAC Regions