Upcoming Industry Events

Session: Five Data Center Predictions for 2026

Date: February 26, 2026, 10:00-10:25

Speaker: Tomas Rahkonen, Research Director, Uptime Intelligence

Location: Stage 2

Panel: If we have all the data, why do operators still struggle to act? - Moving beyond DCIM to Universal Infrastructure & Operations Management

Date: March 4, 2026 at 11:40-12:10

Speaker: John O'Brien, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

Today’s data centres are awash with telemetry - generating streams of data across power, cooling, compute, network, security, and environmental layers. But more data hasn’t resolved operational hesitation - if anything, it’s amplified it. Operators are still second-guessing decisions, overprovisioning resources, and discovering critical dependencies only after failure. The challenge isn’t a lack of data, the challenge is fragmented infrastructure management, split by domain, constrained by tool, and siloed by team. This panel explores how Universal Intelligent Infrastructure Management (UIIM) redefines operational control, elevating infrastructure management from passive measurement to coordinated execution.

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Keynote: AI Factories: Planning, Designing, Building & Commissioning

Date: March 5, 2026 at 15:25-15:55

Speaker: Muhammad Naveed Saeed, Senior Vice President, Topology & Global Tier Authority, Uptime Institute

AI factories are redefining how data centers are conceived, delivered, and operated. In this session, we will explore the end-to-end lifecycle of AI infrastructure from early planning and design decisions through construction and commissioning, highlighting how AI workloads fundamentally change power, cooling, controls, and risk profiles. It focuses on the practical realities of delivering AI-ready facilities, exposing common assumptions that fail at high density and showing how integrated commissioning is essential to achieving performance, resilience, and scalability from Day One.

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Major Panel: The recipe for modern data center resilience

Date: March 24, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Chris Brown, Chief Technology Officer, Uptime Institute

Capacity constraints have dominated headlines for years, and with demand continuing to soar, operators are being forced to redefine what resilience really means, and adapt their strategies accordingly. In the face of power access challenges, cost volatility and the growing talent gap, how can operators develop the right mix of infrastructure, strategy, innovation and investment to build data centers that can endure as well as expand?

This panel assesses the core requirements essential for long term resilience, including:

• Power: Securing affordable, reliable megawatts and strengthen grid partnerships
• Pricing: Managing volatile costs in materials, energy and essential technologies
• Places: Rethinking siting land against the backdrop of tougher permitting and power scarcity
• Process: Ensuring operation consistency and resilience across expanding portfolios
• People: Building skilled teams and community trust to sustain long-term capacity growth

DCD>Debate: AI vs. human oversight - Is AI ready to run operations?

Date: April 20, 2026 | 13:30-14:15

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer, Uptime Institute