ROCKSCARMEDIA

15th June, 2023
London

CXO SUMMIT: UNDERSTANDING THE JOURNEY TO SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Agenda

Agenda

7:30 - 9:00

Registration open, Expo Hall Open, Continental Breakfast in Hall
DIGITAL INFRA XCHANGE THE ROADMAP TO SATISFY THE GROWING DATA DEMAND FOR A SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

9:00 - 9:10

Digital Infrastructure Network Summit Opening Welcome, Introductions and Remarks

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

9:10 - 9:45

Opening Panel: Getting to Absolute Zero Carbon Digital Infrastructure while Meeting the insatiable future demand:
The ‘Knowledge Doubling Curve’ that’s driving Digital Transformation assumes that human knowledge doubles every 13 months. This insatiable need for data drives the growth in data centers, connectivity, storage, and edge computing. How can the industry get to real net zero while overcoming capacity constraints?

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Serge Conesa

Founder and CEO, Immersion4 and CoolLabs

Robert Bath

Director, FoundDigital DS

Marientina Laina

Director of Sustainability- NTT Global Data Centers

Ashley Davis

Executive Board Member at Green

Luke Davies

Managing Director, GlobalConnect

Hall 1

Climate Neutral Design and Construction.
Is it possible to build truly carbon-zero digital infrastructure? How can operators combat embodied carbon in the construction phase and become truly climate neutral?

Powering digital infrastructure: How can Energy Intensive industries Drive the renewable energy transition? Ways to develop a holistic energy strategy that contributes to grid stability and emissions reduction targets while improving resiliency and risk management, especially with respect to compliance and market exposure.


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Hall 2

Can CIOs reduce their carbon footprint by migrating to the cloud?
Driven by the increasing focus on sustainable operations many organisations are looking to cloud migration as a solution. The many aspects of a cloud or hybrid strategy are well established but less understood are the environmental benefits. Cloud computing could eliminate a billion metric tons of CO2 emission over the next four years, and possibly more, according to a new IDC forecast. With Microsoft and AWS investing in energy-efficient data centres, cloud computing is set to impact carbon emissions positively. CIOs from various industries share their experiences on how migrating to the cloud has made a difference to the carbon footprint of their organisations.

Data centers and other digital infrastructure consume large amounts of electricity and are obligated to fully document the source of the power they are consuming. Documentation concerning the origin of the power that is consumed is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for the ESG obligations of both data center operators and their customers. How the electricity data centers consume has been produced remains a serious matter for the industry, and could have a huge impact on the renewable energy transition.

9:45 - 10:20

Panel: Zero-Carbon Capital.
How can investors underpin the transition to Absolute Zero Digital Infrastructure? With mounting pressure to ensure that capital is invested in companies with credible climate-neutral claims, how are investors ensuring that their portfolio meets their zero-carbon objectives?

Louise Bunting

Global CIO & Sustainability Leader, Carbon Net Neutral Technology Solutions

Zahl Limbuwala

Operating Partner, DTCP

Arnaud Jaguin

Investment Director, Digital 9 Infrastructure

Sam Anthony

Equity Analyst, Ninety One

Derek Webster

Managing Director, Andget Limited

10:20 - 10:55

Ensuring Compliance with Existing and Upcoming Regulations including CSRD
We are at a significant milestone for Sustainability Reporting, with the emergence of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The CSRD directive expands on non-financial reporting obligations beyond the existing Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and will bring more than 49,000 Companies into the scope of this non-financial reporting. This move will bring sustainability reporting in line with financial reporting. Data centers that have not yet established clear and meaningful sustainability metrics and KPIs, need to act now. It is imperative that the data centre community moves beyond goal setting and starts acting swiftly to put policy and detailed plans in place and get ready for CSRD.

Colm Shorten

Data Center Global Strategy, JLL

Hans Petter Kildal

CEO, Becour AS

John Booth

Consultant, Carbon3IT

10:55 - 11:15

Morning Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:50

Data-Driven: Counting and reporting carbon footprint
Accurate and standardised emissions-reporting rules will not, in themselves, solve the climate crisis. But the transparency will help investors better understand how to allocate capital, enable stakeholders to put pressure on organizations to make meaningful changes to their environmental impact, and encourage companies to innovate and use more green technology to reduce their carbon footprints

Mark Butcher

Director, Posetiv Cloud

Neil Clark

Planet Officer, TPXImpact

Noah Miller

Head of Data, Advanced Infrastructure

Louise Bunting

Global CIO & Sustainability Leader, Carbon Net Neutral Technology Solutions

Marientina Laina

Director of Sustainability- NTT Global Data Centers

11:50 - 12:25

Panel Discussion: Driving Credible Claims to Renewable Energy: How can Data centers more directly contribute to greening the grid?

Data centers and other digital infrastructure consume large amounts of electricity and are obligated to fully document the source of the power they are consuming. Documentation concerning the origin of the power that is consumed is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for the ESG obligations of both data center operators and their customers. How the electricity data centers consume has been produced remains a serious matter for the industry, and could have a huge impact on the renewable energy transition.

Hans Petter Kildal

CEO, Becour AS

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Pip Squire

Head of Energy & Sustainability, Ark Data Centres

12:25 - 13:00

Heat Reuse & Powering digital infrastructure: How can Energy Intensive Industries Drive the renewable energy transition and encourage heat off-takers?
Ways to develop a holistic energy strategy that contributes to grid stability and emissions reduction targets while improving resiliency and risk management, especially with respect to compliance and market exposure heat reuse and district heating systems.

Philip Brooks

MD, theventguide.com

Ed Ansett

Chairman, i3 Solutions Group

David Gyulnazaryan

Independent Consultant, Impleon

Robert Bath

Director, FoundDigital DS

Keith Maclean-Martin

Technical Director, Piller

Simon Prichard

Product Strategy Manager, Mitsubishi Electric

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch and Networking in the Expo Area, sponsored by Immersion4 and CoolLabs



14:00 - 14:35

When will the digital infrastructure accelerate the adoption of immersion and liquid cooling?

What impact could this have on the carbon reduction journey? Practical examples of where immersion cooling and heat reuse are gathering momentum.

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Brandon Peterson

SVP Product, CoolIT Systems

Edgar van Essen

Managing Director, Switch Datacenters

Luke Davies

Managing Director, GlobalConnect

Serge Conesa

Founder and CEO, Immersion4 and CoolLabs

Mark Bjornsgaard

Founder and CEO, Deep Green Technologies

14:35 - 15:10

Climate Neutral Design and Construction.
Is it possible to build truly carbon-zero digital infrastructure? Can operators combat embodied carbon in the construction phase and become truly climate neutral? How can collaboration across industries move the needle and drive zero carbon?

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Ed Ansett

Chairman, i3 Solutions Group

Sophia Flucker

MD, Operational Intelligence

Alex Brew

Regional Director-Northern Europe, Vertiv

Ian Whitfield

Chief Technology Officer, Pure Data Centres Group

Eva Gkenakou

Founder, Prosperia Consulting

15:10 - 15:45

What impact can IT Hardware efficiencies, extending end of life of it assets have on the transition to zero carbon digital infrastructure?
With data center design pushing the barrier of PUEs of 1.0 indicating the remaining gains in terms of energy efficiency will be found hidden in IT energy performance. The energy saved through IT reduces pressure elsewhere so how can these efficiencies be unlocked? What energy savings can Server Hardware, IT architecture, Chip Advancement, Better Utilisation, Energy-saving States, and Power Throttling unlock? How can we incorporate circularity into the equation and build a truly sustainable supply chain?

Mohan Gandhi

Senior Sustainability Consultant, Posetiv Cloud

Etienne Guerou

VP Europe, PowerShield Limited

Ben Tongue

Digital Net Zero Lead, NHS

Deborah Andrews

Professor of Design for Sustainability and Circularity, London South Bank University

Eva Gkenakou

Founder, Prosperia Consulting

Venessa Moffat

General Manager - Data Centers, QiO Technologies

15:45 - 16:05

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:40- 17:15

The Digital Infrastructure Industries – Road to Net Zero.
What are the major challenges to tackling net-zero and how do you overcome them? What radical changes are required to become net-zero emissions for energy-intensive industries? How do we make circular thinking central to the net-zero agenda? How do I tackle the most challenging area of my emissions: Scope 3? What role does offsetting play in net-zero?

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Ben Tongue

Digital Net Zero Lead, NHS

John Booth

Consultant, Carbon3IT

Ed Ansett

Chairman, i3 Solutions Group

Marientina Laina

Director of Sustainability- NTT Global Data Centers

Emma Fryer

Partner, ERM

17:15 - 18:15

Networking Drinks Reception, sponsored by CoolIT Systems

18:30- 21:30

Networking Drinks at the Munich Cricket Club, sponsored by Filecoin

End of Digital Infra Xchange 2023

18:15

7:30 - 9:00

Registration open, Expo Hall Open, Continental Breakfast in Hall
DIGITAL INFRA XCHANGE THE ROADMAP TO SATISFY THE GROWING DATA DEMAND FOR A SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

9:00 - 9:10

Digital Infrastructure Network Summit Opening Welcome, Introductions and Remarks

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Introductions, and Remarks
TBC

9:10 - 9:45

Opening Panel: Getting to Absolute Zero Carbon Digital Infrastructure while Meeting the insatiable future demand:
The ‘Knowledge Doubling Curve’ that’s driving Digital Transformation assumes that human knowledge doubles every 13 months. This insatiable need for data drives the growth in data centers, connectivity, storage, and edge computing. How can the industry get to real net zero while overcoming capacity constraints?

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Robert Bath

Director, FoundDigital DS

Marientina Laina

Director of Sustainability- NTT Global Data Centers

Ashley Davis

Executive Board Member at Green

Luke Davies

Managing Director, GlobalConnect

Hall 1

Climate Neutral Design and Construction.
Is it possible to build truly carbon-zero digital infrastructure? How can operators combat embodied carbon in the construction phase and become truly climate neutral?

Powering digital infrastructure: How can Energy Intensive industries Drive the renewable energy transition? Ways to develop a holistic energy strategy that contributes to grid stability and emissions reduction targets while improving resiliency and risk management, especially with respect to compliance and market exposure.

Hall 2

Can CIOs reduce their carbon footprint by migrating to the cloud?
Driven by the increasing focus on sustainable operations many organisations are looking to cloud migration as a solution. The many aspects of a cloud or hybrid strategy are well established but less understood are the environmental benefits. Cloud computing could eliminate a billion metric tons of CO2 emission over the next four years, and possibly more, according to a new IDC forecast. With Microsoft and AWS investing in energy-efficient data centres, cloud computing is set to impact carbon emissions positively. CIOs from various industries share their experiences on how migrating to the cloud has made a difference to the carbon footprint of their organisations.

Data centers and other digital infrastructure consume large amounts of electricity and are obligated to fully document the source of the power they are consuming. Documentation concerning the origin of the power that is consumed is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for the ESG obligations of both data center operators and their customers. How the electricity data centers consume has been produced remains a serious matter for the industry, and could have a huge impact on the renewable energy transition.

9:45 - 10:20

Panel: Zero-Carbon Capital.
How can investors underpin the transition to Absolute Zero Digital Infrastructure? With mounting pressure to ensure that capital is invested in companies with credible climate-neutral claims, how are investors ensuring that their portfolio meets their zero-carbon objectives?

Louise Bunting

Global CIO & Sustainability Leader, Carbon Net Neutral Technology Solutions

Arnaud Jaguin

Investment Director, Digital 9 Infrastructure

10:20 - 10:55

Ensuring Compliance with Existing and Upcoming Regulations including CSRD
We are at a significant milestone for Sustainability Reporting, with the emergence of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The CSRD directive expands on non-financial reporting obligations beyond the existing Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and will bring more than 49,000 Companies into the scope of this non-financial reporting. This move will bring sustainability reporting in line with financial reporting. Data centers that have not yet established clear and meaningful sustainability metrics and KPIs, need to act now. It is imperative that the data centre community moves beyond goal setting and starts acting swiftly to put policy and detailed plans in place and get ready for CSRD.

Colm Shorten

Data Center Global Strategy, JLL

Hans Petter Kildal

CEO, Becour AS

10:55 - 11:15

Morning Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:50

Data-Driven: Counting and reporting carbon footprint
Accurate and standardised emissions-reporting rules will not, in themselves, solve the climate crisis. But the transparency will help investors better understand how to allocate capital, enable stakeholders to put pressure on organizations to make meaningful changes to their environmental impact, and encourage companies to innovate and use more green technology to reduce their carbon footprints

Mark Butcher

Director, Posetiv Cloud

Neil Clark

Planet Officer, TPXImpact

Noah Miller

Head of Data, Advanced Infrastructure

Louise Bunting

Global CIO & Sustainability Leader, Carbon Net Neutral Technology Solutions

Marientina Laina

Director of Sustainability- NTT Global Data Centers

11:50 - 12:25

Panel Discussion: Driving Credible Claims to Renewable Energy: How can Data centers more directly contribute to greening the grid?
Data centers and other digital infrastructure consume large amounts of electricity and are obligated to fully document the source of the power they are consuming. Documentation concerning the origin of the power that is consumed is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for the ESG obligations of both data center operators and their customers. How the electricity data centers consume has been produced remains a serious matter for the industry, and could have a huge impact on the renewable energy transition.

Hans Petter Kildal

CEO, Becour AS

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

12:25 - 13:00

Heat Reuse & Powering digital infrastructure: How can Energy Intensive Industries Drive the renewable energy transition and encourage heat off-takers?
Ways to develop a holistic energy strategy that contributes to grid stability and emissions reduction targets while improving resiliency and risk management, especially with respect to compliance and market exposure heat reuse and district heating systems.

Ed Ansett

Chairman, i3 Solutions Group

David Gyulnazaryan

Independent Consultant, Impleon

Robert Bath

Director, FoundDigital DS

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch and Networking in the Expo Area

14:00 - 14:35

When will the digital infrastructure accelerate the adoption of liquid cooling?
What impact could this have on the carbon reduction journey? Practical examples of where immersion cooling and heat reuse are gathering momentum.

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Luke Davies

Managing Director, GlobalConnect

Serge Conesa

Founder and CEO, Immersion4 and CoolLabs

14:35 - 15:10

Climate Neutral Design and Construction.
Is it possible to build truly carbon-zero digital infrastructure? Can operators combat embodied carbon in the construction phase and become truly climate neutral? How can collaboration across industries move the needle and drive zero carbon?

Ed Ansett

Chairman, i3 Solutions Group

Sophia Flucker

MD, Operational Intelligence

Ian Whitfield

Chief Technology Officer, Pure Data Centres Group

Eva Gkenakou

Founder, Prosperia Consulting

15:10 - 15:45

What impact can IT Hardware efficiencies, extending end of life of it assets have on the transition to zero carbon digital infrastructure?
With data center design pushing the barrier of PUEs of 1.0 indicating the remaining gains in terms of energy efficiency will be found hidden in IT energy performance. The energy saved through IT reduces pressure elsewhere so how can these efficiencies be unlocked? What energy savings can Server Hardware, IT architecture, Chip Advancement, Better Utilisation, Energy-saving States, and Power Throttling unlock? How can we incorporate circularity into the equation and build a truly sustainable supply chain?

Mohan Gandhi

Senior Sustainability Consultant, Posetiv Cloud

Deborah Andrews

Professor of Design for Sustainability and Circularity, London South Bank University

Eva Gkenakou

Founder, Prosperia Consulting

15:45 - 16:05

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:40- 17:15

The Digital Infrastructure Industries – Road to Net Zero.
What are the major challenges to tackling net-zero and how do you overcome them? What radical changes are required to become net-zero emissions for energy-intensive industries? How do we make circular thinking central to the net-zero agenda? How do I tackle the most challenging area of my emissions: Scope 3? What role does offsetting play in net-zero?

Dan Scarbrough

Publisher, RockScar Media

Ben Tongue

Digital Net Zero Lead, NHS

John Booth

Consultant, Carbon3IT

Ed Ansett

Chairman, i3 Solutions Group

Marientina Laina

Director of Sustainability- NTT Global Data Centers

Mark Bjornsgaard

Founder and CEO, Deep Green Technologies

Marc Johnson

Environmental Solutions Architect File Coin Green

17:15 - 18:15

Drinks Reception, Networking in Expo Hall