Programme
Our opening keynote will be by Diederik Samsom, Former Chief of Staff, European Commission on Climate Action. He will delve into the European Green Deal's implications for data center Investors, data center operators, and enterprise data center end users.
Datacenter Changemakers Sweden
Episode 1
Returning to Stockholm is Datacenter Changemakers Sweden, our live talk show with the people who are changing the face of the data center industry. Especially in the last few years, we've seen massive changes in the data center landscape in the Nordics. Datacenter Changemakers is here to help you make sense of those transformations!
Hosted & moderated by
Liselotte Lyngsø
Founder of Future Navigator
In this episode:
A Tsunami of Letters: ESG & Regulatory Compliance
With new policy, legislation, and regulation demanding more sustainable infrastructure going forward, data center operators must now face the (often-daunting) task of complying with sustainability reporting requirements. Amid the ever-growing importance of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards and the adoption of new regulations, such as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), small data center operators in particular need to pay full attention to compliance. This segment will address what you need to do to prepare going forward.
Guests include:
Stefan Frenzel – Managing Director, DME
Diederik Samsom – Former Chief of Staff, European Commission on Climate Action
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Transforming Heat into Value
Data centers can be at the forefront of sustainable innovation through waste heat reuse: using the excess heat generated by servers into a valuable resource for nearby communities and industries. By doing so, data centers not only mitigate their environmental impact but also contribute positively to local energy ecosystems. What are the trends, specific challenges and, above all, opportunities for all involved?
Guests:
Thomas Parker – Co-founder, WA3RM
Svante Horn – CEO & Co-Founder, Scandinavian Data Centers
Power Your Datacenter with Vattenfall's Energy-Efficient and Secure Power-as-a-Service Solution
Discover how Vattenfall's Power-as-a-Service solution can help you achieve an energy-efficient and secure electrical facility for your datacenter. As one of Europe's largest producers of electricity and heat, Vattenfall has the expertise to invest in, operate, and maintain your electrical equipment. With our solution, you can ensure a safe and efficient electrical facility for your datacenter. Join us to learn more!
Efficient and space-saving cooling for high-density colocation
The trend towards increasing requirements for high-density racks and data centers is unstoppable. It is no longer rare to see 20+kW per rack, and liquid cooling is becoming irreplaceable for AI clusters with heat loads of up to 100kW and more. However, innovative unit design can help air cooling solutions close the gap of up to 50 kW and also be an ideal complement in hybrid systems. We'll show you how and why CoolWall is an excellent solution for the age of high heat loads.
Which Data Centers Are Right for Your AI Workload? Unlocking the Potential of AI with Equinix: Real Customer Success Stories
In engaging with our customers, a common theme has emerged: many understand the transformative potential of AI, but few feel adequately prepared to fully capitalize on it. This keynote will delve into inspiring customer success stories, showcasing top use cases that have moved beyond mere exploration to make a tangible impact.
Key Highlights:
•Real-world Impact: Discover how leading organizations are successfully deploying AI to drive meaningful change and put pressure on peers to accelerate their AI adoption.
•Scalable Success: Learn from early successes that are pushing more organizations to scale AI initiatives faster and realize their potential sooner.
•Modern Infrastructure Needs: Understand why traditional infrastructure falls short for AI-driven workloads and why we must reimagine our infrastructure.
•Strategic Design: Explore the necessity of designing infrastructure not just as a support function but as a crucial revenue center to maximize the benefits of AI.
Join us to learn how to strategically harness the power of AI, select the right data centers for your AI workloads, and position your infrastructure to drive future growth.
Enabling a Circular Data Centre
As the challenges of e-waste and unsustainable resource consumption intensify, the adoption of circular economy principles offers a viable pathway for IT organizations to mitigate environmental impacts while simultaneously enhancing their operational efficiency and improving the bottom line. The emerging circular economy seeks to keep IT assets in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them during use, and recover materials at the end of their service life. For data centre managers, this means securely repurposing, refurbishing, reselling, and recycling assets to minimise waste and resource consumption. Fortunately, there are many ways to make data centre circularity manageable and even a source of financial benefit. In this session, learn basic principles on how best to maximise the value of your data centre assets, achieve optimal sustainability benefits, and ensure the security of your organisation’s data by incorporating circular practices throughout the IT asset supply chain.
What are the Mission-Critical Areas to Consider for Getting AI Right?
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the technological landscape, the integration of hardware, infrastructure, performance, and security has never been more critical. This panel session, featuring leaders from Astra Zeneca, Equinix, Nvidia, and Dell Technologies, will explore how AI is driving innovation across these domains. Experts will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies and how organizations can leverage them to enhance infrastructure resilience, optimize performance, and ensure robust security measures. Join us for an insightful conversation on the future of AI in the digital age.
Panelists:
- Regina Dahlström – Manging Director Nordics, Equinix (Moderator)
- Isabella Holmberg – Partner Manager, Nordics NVIDIA, Sweden
- Hanna Widenberg – Senior Manager Solution Engineering, Dell Technologies, Sweden
- Per Hillertz – Ecosystem Business Development, M&A, and IT Site Lead, AstraZeneca
How To Optimize Data Centres For Heat Reuse & Decarbonization?
Join David & Stefan at their joint presentation if you would like to obtain a better understanding on how to optimize data centre sites for heat reuse & decarbonisation. Both will be more than happy sharing with you all building blocks that make up a sustainable & modern data centre. The two recognised data centre experts will present all these decisive elements in detail, such as liquid cooling (direct-to-chip & immersion cooling), IT dematerialization, incl. circular economy hardware, heat harvesting & reuse etc... In addition, the two former volunteer leaders of the EMEA OCP community will provide insights into the latest innovations & technologies and thus an outlook into the near future of the industry. Therefore do not hesitate for long, just come along and, if possible, actively participate in the subsequent dialogue after the presentation.
Enterprises are continuing to adopt cloud computing and engage in digital transformation. But the leading driver of data center demand over the next year will be AI. We are projecting that for every new standard data center, there are going to be three additional AI data centers offering higher server densities. But that’s not the only way AI will be impacting this expanding industry. Schneider Electric has predicted that AI will enable operators to better manage their assets. Just as software has been automating operations, this year we’ll see AI-driven tools that can provide greater intelligence to utility and backup power control, cooling control, cross-domain operational optimization (digital twins), data center design and construction, maintenance, robotics, and more. In this presentation we will give a guidance to address the challenges of the physical infrastructure category including power, cooling, racks, and software management.
Heat reuse and the importance of every degree
We are all aware of the amount of heat a datacenter rejects and far too often it is not being put to good use. The Nordics are in the forefront of reusing heat but most of the projects that are being shared with the world are about heating homes with district heating. Datacenter heat is considered low temperature grade but there are many ways to utilize it, with or without the use of heat pumps, and the technologies already exists. In this presentation Alfa Laval and WA3RM will show scalable solutions built on proven technology, combining a circular approach with heat transfer expertise. We will show how every degree of heat that is reused can have a significant impact on energy efficiency and sustainability.
Joining Rolf on stage:
Thomas Parker – Co-founder, WA3RM
Datacenter Changemakers Sweden
Episode 2
Our live talk show with the people who are changing the face of the data center industry, hosted & moderated by Liselotte Lyngsø, Founder of Future Navigator.
In this episode:
Powering Sweden's Data Future
Data center markets across North America and mainland Europe increasingly face a significant challenge to growth and future investment: access to electricity. The Nordics have great connectivity with the rest of the world and – seemingly – room for growth to spare, ample space and plenty of renewable energy. How can Sweden in particular continue to capitalize on its competitive energy advantage and generate new investment opportunities in the coming years?
Guests:
Cecilia Hjertzell – CSO & CMO, T.Loop
Andreas Espeving – Senior Key Account Manager, Vattenfall
Alberto Ravagni – CEO, Net Zero Innovation Hub for Data Centers
Market Insights Sweden in a Nordic Perspective
Sweden is the largest data center market in the Nordics, and the only one with over 1 GW in total IT capacity. This session will present the latest research on marked growth, IT capacity & Swedens diverse power mix.
Insights Forum
Powering the Future of Data. Expert-led sessions will provide valuable insights to help you navigate the complex world of modern datacenters, exploring the datacenter industry's most pressing topics
AI Insights. How does the cabling for AI look like? What to consider when building data center networks to support AI? How to cable an AI cluster or scale up if demand grows?
With Maciej Szumacher – HSDC Market Development Manager, Corning
ESG Insights. Discover ESG tools for reporting, monitoring, and improving environmental performance.
With Richard May – Country Manager UKI & Nordics, Sunbird
Investment Insights. “What to invest in?” how to predict the future of datacenter design & construction, taking into consideration the high pace of innovation & increasing regulatory pressure?
With Björn Tell – General Director Sweden, CTS Nordics
The future of high-density AI compute
The data center industry is seeing new challenges that opens a window for new innovations and new solutions. We are in the midst of passing an inflection point in the area of computing. The boom of high-capacity and high-density GPU hardware is setting new requirements on power use and distribution as well as cooling and heat transfer of these GPU clusters. The solutions need to be designed for energy efficiency and recyclability of materials and heat.
Roadmap to a more sustainable data centre future
With Joseph Rideout (Global Account Manager Siemens - Data Centres) and Elin Haapaniemi (Head of Sustainability – Siemens Nordic)
Beyond Computing power: The Impact of Transceivers in modern Datacenter Architecture
Ever think about the role of transceivers in your AI/ML DC infrastructure? Transceivers serve as the backbone for rapid communication between data center components, ensuring that large datasets required for AI processing are transmitted quickly and efficiently. In the best of worlds this component should just work… But what if you nudge on the quality for better cost? Any thoughts of the impact?
Data Center Survey – Sweden Survey Insights
Join us during the announcement of the much-anticipated results of the Data Center Survey – Sweden. This collaborative effort by Datacenter Forum and EPI offers unparalleled insights into the trends and challenges of the local data center landscape. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and network with industry peers.
~ The programme may be subject to change ~
Datacenter Changemakers Sweden
Episode 3
Our live talk show with the people who are changing the face of the data center industry, hosted & moderated by Liselotte Lyngsø, Founder of Future Navigator.
In this episode:
Navigating the AI Revolution
The explosion in AI demand has significant implications for the data center industry and IT management. From ever-increasing energy needs, to innovative cooling requirements, AI applications and high-performing computing are fundamentally transforming data centers across the Nordics. This segment will explore how Swedish data center providers are navigating the complexities surrounding AI, working to meet their customer demands, and pioneering state-of-the-art innovation such as liquid cooling.
Guests include:
Tor Björn Minde – Director, Head of ICE Datacenter, RISE
Louise Gunsjõ – Vice President Infrastructure Sales, North, Central and Eastern Europe, IBM
Dynamic Grid Support
How can data centers play an active role in stabilising the grid, while simultanously unlocking new revenue streams? A collaboration between colocation provider Conapto, Fever Energy and Vertiv might provide an answer.
Guests:
Jonatan Raber – Founder & CPO, Fever
Stefan Nilsson – Sales & Marketing Manager, Conapto
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