Room 2 - Day 2

9:30-10:30 - Panel Discussion: Ensuring power security of Africa's data centre market

Speakers

Eduard Bosman

Renewable Energy Engineer

WSP

Richard Doyle

Managing Director

JUWI South Africa

Stephane Duproz

Data Centre Consultant

Mandy Hattingh

Senior Associate

NSDV

Dr Angus Hay

Regional Executive

Africa Data Centres

Norman Moyo

CEO

Distributed Power Africa

10:30-11:20 - Panel Session: The growing role of AI within data centres

Speakers

Samuel Chukwukereuba

Data Centre Manager, Project Implementations

Digital Realty

Venessa Moffat

EMEA Channel Partner Manager

EkkoSense

Eben Owen

Senior Director - Anglophone Africa

Uptime Institute

Eric Tenkorang

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Onix Data Centres

11:50-12:30 - Panel Discussion: Maintenance strategies and best practice for ageing assets

Speakers

Samuel Chukwukereuba

Data Centre Manager, Project Implementations

Digital Realty

Timi Fadeyi

Head Data Centres

Galaxy Backbone

Lee Perrin

Data Centre Business Lead MEA

CBRE

12:30-13:10 - Panel Discussion: Things are heating up - the growing innovation in cooling solutions

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Speaker

Jonker Bester

Director

Spoormaker & Partners

Kevin Kent

COO & Co-Founder

GTSS

Argyrios Papadopoulos

Director

AIRCOCFD

Last Shadaya

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Systemair

Michael Young

Application Engineer (Thermal)

Vertiv

14:00-14:50 - Panel Discussion: Empowering the next generation of data centres talent

Speakers

Dr Ayotunde Coker

Chairman

Africa Data Centres Association (ADCA)

Kgothatso Madibogo

Intern Day Plant Operator

CBRE

Mike Meyer

Managing Director

Portman Partners

Lee Perrin

Data Centre Business Lead MEA

CBRE