Upcoming Industry Events

Panel: Data Center Facilities – New Trends

Date: February 15, 2023 | 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. MYT

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

Huawei Digital Power has created all-scenario low-carbon energy solutions, covering the whole energy flow from green power generation to efficient power consumption.

At the Huawei Malaysia Digital Power Summit 2023, attendees will:

• Connect and exchange ideas with industry and regulatory leaders and business experts
• Understand the latest Digital Power innovation technologies and global best-case studies

Event agenda:

• Morning session: Net Zero Talk
• Afternoon session: Data Center Facility session and panel discussion, and lucky draw
• Night Session: Appreciation dinner and lucky draw (for selected guests)

Keynote: With capacity demand growing exponentially; how will new requirements for infrastructure be met?

Date: February 15, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EST

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

Owen will outline the key trends taken from Uptime Institute’s 2022 Capacity Trends Survey including a focus on growing capacities among data center operators, increased hybrid IT awareness, and developing cloud cost concerns.

Panel: How is workload densification changing the landscape for DCOps?

February 15, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST

Speaker: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Institute

The densification of the average data center workload has been on the rise for a number of years now given the growing use of artificial intelligence, HPC and new computing paradigms on the horizon such as the metaverse.

But with hyperscalers now optimizing their facilities for AI, and the growth in the content-centric enterprise necessitating a requirement for everything from GPU compute to liquid immersion cooling, what will this mean for the future of data center design and more crucially, power and environmental operations?

This panel will address the challenge of operating mission-critical facilities in light of a denser footprint.

Panel: The investment drive in data centre infrastructure within Africa

Date: March 6, 2023 | 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. AT

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

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

Date: March 23, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.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: Will cloud eat the enterprise data center?

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

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: Will the supply chain crisis fundamentally change how we design and build the data center of the future?

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

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.

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