Room 2 - Day 1

10:30-11:00 Presentation: The importance of using cable cleats

Sponsored By:

Speaker

Clinton Vieira

Regional Sales Manager Africa

CMP Products

11.00-11.45 Power-related issues continue to be the biggest outage threat to data centres. How do we mitigate this?

Sponsored By:

Speakers

Venessa Moffat

Consultant

Eben Owen

Senior Director - Anglophone Africa

Uptime Institute

Menno Parsons

Managing Director

Master Power Technologies

Umberto Sordino

Managing Director

EAE Italia

12:10-12.55 Panel session: Meeting Market Needs: Implications for Data Centre

Speakers

Representative –

CommScope

Russell Bartley

Director - Client Services

Mavin Powercube

Dr Ayotunde Coker

Board Member, Africa Data Centres Association (ADCA) & CEO

Open Access Data Centres (OADC)

13:25-14:00 - Presentation: Exploring Best Practice in Data Centre Construction, Electrical Safety and Mitigating Risk

Sponsored By:

Speakers

Emily Fox

Director of Software & Project Support

Global Commissioning

Phil Heydon

Operations Director

Global Commissioning

Mike Jaanus

Associate Director

Global Commissioning

15:05-15:45 Panel Discussion: Machine Learning and AI for DC Optimisation

Sponsored By:

Speakers

Representative –

Huawei

Mark Acton

Head of Technical Due Diligence

Future-tech

Nicolas Hamel

Business Developer West, Central, East & Southern Africa

Codra

Johan Terblanche

Independent Consultant

15:45-16:30 Panel Discussion: Varying Approaches to Data Centre Design and Build

Sponsored By:

Speakers

Representative –

Royal HaskoningDHV

Russell Bartley

Director - Client Services

Mavin Powercube

Riaan de Leeuw

Country Director: Africa

Sudlows

Edwin Thompson

Director of Engineering

PAIX Data Centres