Event Schedule
15 May 2019
08.00
Registration open and morning coffee
PLENARY SESSIONS
09.00
Welcome address by DDI
Henrik Hansen, CEO, Danish Data Center Industry
09.10
Global outlook: Assessing the economic and environmental impact of data center energy use - the business case for a sustainable future
John M. Christensen, Director, UNEP-DTU Partnership
09.30
Facebook's renewable energy journey in the Nordics
Vince Van Son, Director, Energy and Infrastructure, Facebook
09.50
Spotlight on Google's sustainable journey in the data center
Alaa Salama, Program Manager, Data Center Sustainability, Google
10.10
Fireside chat with the hyperscalers: How do we design, build and operate sustainable data centers for the digital economy
Moderator: Susanna Kass, Energy Fellow, Sustainable Urban Systems Design, Stanford University, Former EVP, BASELAYER & COO, eBay International
Sean James, Head of Energy Research, Microsoft
Alaa Salama, Program Manager, Data Center Sustainability, Google
10.40
Coffee break and networking
BREAKOUT ROOM 1
BREAKOUT ROOM 2
11.00
Data centers as part of a national strategy in support of smart cities - why data centers are everybody's business
Moderator: Gabriela Dias, Head of Strategy, UNEP-DTU Partnership
Paolo Bertoldi, Senior Expert, European Commission
Gisle Eckhoff, CEO, Digiplex
Giordiano Albertazzi, EMEA President, Vertiv
Matthew Baynes, Colocation & Telco, Segment Director, Schneider Eletric
Redesigning data centers for an advanced energy future - making renewables work at scale and the case for the Nordics
Moderator: Merima Dzanic, CMO, Danish Data Center Industry
Lars Aagard, CEO, Dansk Energi
Knud Erik Andersen, CEO, European Energy
Michael Bjerno, MD Nordics, Interxion
Mark Augestenborg Ødum, EVP, Markets and Project Finance, Better Energy
11.40
Next generation energy storage solutions: An emerging option for enhancing data center reliability
Moderator: Henrik Hansen, CEO, Danish Data Center Industry
Morten Støvring, VP Technology, Schneider Electric
Suresh Badrinarayanan, VP Land Power, DEIF
Peter Hellberg, Business Developer, Vattenfall
Region Syddanmark case study: Building an ultra-efficient data center
Søren Schønnenmann, Managing Director, Coromatic A/S
Lars Frandsen, BA Director, ICS, Coromatic A/S
12.20
Creating carbon free data centers - how fuel cell technology could help us get there?
Sean James, Head of Energy Research, Microsoft
EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre Efficiency Programme: How policies are driving sustainable energy use in data centers in EU
Paolo Bertoldi, Senior Expert, European Commission
12.50
Sustainable Urban Systems - designing and building data centers for smart cities
Susanna Kass, EVP, Sustainability, Baselayer/Stanford University
Connecting Northern Europe - How is the evolving connectivity map of Europe reshaping data center opportunities in the Nordics?
Tore Heide Villund, VP Data Centers, GlobalConnect
Jesper B. Andersen, Head of Wholesale, GlobalConnect
13.10
Lunch break and networking
14.30
Designing, building and operating hyperscale-level data centers in today's environment
Moderator: Dan Scarbrough, MD, Rockscar
David Delaney, EMEA Director of Data Centers, Exyte Group
Peder Nærbø, Founder/Chairman of Board, Bulk Infrastructure
John Sommer, Director, MT Højgaard
Michael Hemme, Associate Principal, Corgan Architects
Corporate Sustainability Measures: Looking beyond PUE
Scott Killian, VP of Efficient IT Programs, Uptime Institute
15.00
The changing data center investment landscape: The role of new dark fiber connectivity in unlocking the Nordic region as the world's data engine room
Peder Nærbø, Founder/Chairman of Board, Bulk Infrastructure
Green power: Securing renewable energy power purchase agreements from onshore, wind, offshore wind, solar energy & biomass
Simon Matthiessen, Project Manager, Green Giraffe
15.30
Future views on waste heat utilisation and the case of data centers in the Nordics
Kim Mortensen, CEO, Dansk Fjernvarme
Enabling hybrid resilience in a changing world
Ali Moinuddin, Managing Director, Europe, Uptime Institute
16.00
Market insights: The state of the European data center market
Ivo Brooks, Head of Content, BroadGroup
Open compute at hyperscale and in the enterprise
Stevie Helvie, VP of Channel, OCP
John Laban, EMEA Lead, OCP
16.30
Spotlight on skills: How do we tackle the skills gap in the data center industry?
Moderator: Tina Schou, Country Sales Director, IT Division, Schneider Electric
Xiao Wang, Program Officer, UNEP-DTU Partnership
Henrik Børling, Business Development Manager, IT Scandinavia, Rittal
Hani Dodin, ICT Manager, WHO Regional Office Europe