Connect | India // Agenda
Agenda
08:00
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DCD Connect | India Badge Collection & Official Opening
- Infinity Ballroom Foyer | G Level
09:00
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DCD Investment Forum
- Infinity Ballroom II | G Level
- Investment & Markets
- Open Session
10:30
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Women in Data Centers Networking Brunch
- Terminus 8 | Lobby Level
Speakers
Nomulun Tungalag
Founder and Head, Women in Data Centers
11:00
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iMasons India Chapter Meeting - by invitation only
- Terminus 1 | Lobby Level
Speakers
Rudolf Gordon-Seymour
Director, EMEA, Infrastructure Masons
12:30
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Data Center Construction Welcome Lunch - By Invitation Only
- Data Center Construction
- Invite-only Session
14:00
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Debate: Preventing the next outage - Can reliability keep pace with rising density?
- Infinity Ballroom I | G Level
- Mission Critical Power
- Management & Operations
- Open Session
Speakers
Abhishek Dalvi
India Regional Safety & Health Manager, CtrlS
Patrick Chan
Managing Director, South Asia, Uptime Institute
Director, Design Delivery, Equinix
Power Generation Global Engineering Leader, Cummins
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Debate: Powering AI workloads in India - What sustainable energy mix is realistic?
- Terminus 8 | Lobby Level
- Energy & Sustainability
- Mission Critical Power
- Open Session
Speakers
Director Sustainability & Decarbonization, Emerson India
Nikhil Parate
Head Energy & Sustainability - India, Colt Technology Services
Abhaya Gauchan
Manager, Climant Impact
Dillip Guru
Executive Vice President, ESG and Energy, Sify Technologies
Senior Project Manager, Senior Specialist for Executive Projects, Hydrogen Business Unit, Energy Innovation Initiative SBU, Sumitomo Corporation
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Debate: Beyond the metros - Where will India's next gigawatt come from?
- Terminus 1 | Lobby Level
- Investment & Markets
- Open Session
Speakers
Founder & CEO, PI Datacenters
Managing Director, Data Centre Leasing, India & APAC Lead - Data Centre Colocation Leasing, JLL
Senior Director - Real Estate , AirTrunk
Vipul Kumar
Senior Vice President, Edge & Network, CtrlS Datacenters
14:45
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Interactive Debate Debrief
- Open Session
15:00
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Debate: From supply chain to commissioning - Can India deliver AI infrastructure at scale?
- Infinity Ballroom I | G Level
- Data Center Construction
- Open Session
Speakers
Vinod Javur
CEO AI - Data Center, Nxtra by Airtel
President & Country Head - India, COLT Data Centre Services
Manish Khurana
Senior Data Center Manager, Oracle
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Debate: Building the workforce for India’s AI infrastructure - Are we doing enough?
- Terminus 1 | Lobby Level
- Management & Operations
- Open Session
Speakers
Marynet Bassily
Director and Founder, MissionProcure
Lalitha Rajendran
Senior Operations Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Raja Shekar
Founder and Managing Director, RITE Academy
Rhys Morgan
Ambassador, Nomad Futurist Foundation
Alok Puri
Executive Director, CBRE
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Debate: Higher density, faster delivery - Is sustainability taking a back seat?
- Terminus 8 | Lobby Level
- Energy & Sustainability
- Open Session
Speakers
Olivia Onderdonk
Associate Director of Sustainability, AirTrunk
Founder & Managing Director, Climant Impact
15:45
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Interactive Debate Debrief
- Open Session
16:00
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5x5 Lightning Pitches
- Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Open Session
17:00
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Opening Keynote Panel: Building the AI-ready data center of the future
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Energy & Sustainability
- Open Session
Speakers
Managing Director, Ecolab
Chief Executive Officer, AdaniConneX
Sharad Agarwal
Chief Executive Officer, Sify Infinit Spaces
Founder & CEO, CtrlS Datacenters
Vimal Kaw
Country MD – India, NTT Global Data Centers & Cloud Infrastructure
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Explore the Floor
- Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Open Session
18:00
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Icebreaker Networking Party
- Infinity Ballroom | East Foyer | G Level
- Open Session
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08:00
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DCD Connect | India Badge Collection
- Infinity Ballroom Foyer | G Level
- Open Session
09:00
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Opening Keynote by AWS
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Open Session
Speakers
Suhel Gupta
Senior Electrical Colo Regional Engineer , AWS
09:30
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Major Panel: India in the global AI race - Ready to lead?
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Construction
- Investment & Markets
- Open Session
Speakers
Managing Principal, Ramboll
Director Data Center Facilities Design Engineering Services, India., Ramboll
Vipin Shirsat
General Manager, India, Princeton Digital Group
Chief Executive Officer, STT GDC India
Sunil Gupta
Co-Founder, MD & CEO, Yotta Data Services
Chirag Bharatia
Director, Infrastructure Services, Oracle Cerner
10:00
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Tech Showcase: Powering the future responsibly | Cummins
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Mission Critical Power
- Open Session
Speakers
Global Data Center Engineering & Quality Leader, Cummins
10:30
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Tech Showcase: Availability - Power Infrastructure under control | Reinhausen
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Mission Critical Power
- Open Session
Speakers
Head of Sales IPI, Reinhausen
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Major Panel: Enabling liquid cooling adoption at scale in India
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Open Session
Speakers
Kamlesh Harchandani
Chief Development and Construction Officer, India, Digital Edge DC
Head of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Bineet Jha
VP, Technology, National Stock Exchange of India
Director, Wesco Anixter
11:00
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Tech Showcase: Can data center fire protection keep up with AI? | Marioff
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Management & Operations
- Open Session
Speakers
JP de Tourtoulon
Director, Global Data Centre Business Unit, Marioff
11:30
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DCD Talks from power to possibility: Enabling AI growth through energy innovation with Mayank Srivastav | Schneider Electric
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Energy & Sustainability
- Mission Critical Power
Speakers
Country Head, C&SP Segment, Schneider Electric
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Major Panel: From traditional builds to AI Infrastructure - Can India deliver?
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Construction
- Open Session
Speakers
Chief Technology Officer, STT GDC India
Subhamkar Das
Head – India Datacenter Delivery, AWS
Rajesh Tapadia
CEO, Iron Mountain Data Centers India
Technology Sector Lead - Asia Pacific, ERM
CEO, BDx Data Centers
12:00
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Tech Showcase: Distributed pumping & modular cooling systems - Maximizing performance with split case pump technology
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Open Session
Speakers
Liam McDermott
Sales Development Manager, Data Centers, Grundfos
12:30
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Energy & Sustainability Hosted Lunch - By Invitation Only
- Energy & Sustainability
- Invite-only Session
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Construction Hosted Lunch - By Invitation Only
- Data Center Construction
- Invite-only Session
14:30
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Major Panel: How enterprise AI is reshaping infrastructure strategy in India
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Cloud & Hybrid
- Open Session
Speakers
Head Strategy & Business Development, Secure Power, Schneider Electric
Senior Director, Global Product Strategy, Oracle
Deepesh Gosavi
CTO, Canara Robeco Asset Management
Mukesh Jain
CTO, Capgemini Technology Services India
Piyush Gupta
VP for India APAC & Middle East, Vultr
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Tech Showcase: Engineering high-density AI data centers | Deerns Spain
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Open Session
Speakers
Andrei Pawlaczyk
Data Centers Unit Director, Deerns Spain
15:00
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Tech Showcase: How to scale high reliability, cost effective direct liquid cooling for AI | BEEHE
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Open Session
Speakers
YuYu Wu
International Sales Engineer, BEEHE
15:30
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Major Panel: Sovereign AI - What does it mean for India’s digital infrastructure?
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Cloud & Hybrid
- Investment & Markets
- Open Session
Speakers
President Work Dynamics & Lead, Consulting Services - APAC, JLL
Yogesh Sawant
Sr. Solution Architect, Nvidia
Manoj Dhanda
Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Utho
Founder & CEO, NeevCloud
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Tech Showcase: Optimized heat rejection in next-generation data centers | BAC
- DCD Spotlight Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Open Session
Speakers
Regional Sales Manager, India, BAC
16:30
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Major Panel: Beyond bottlenecks - Are hybrid power models the future?
- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Mission Critical Power
- Open Session
Speakers
Data Center Consultant, Caterpillar
Finance Director, Princeton Digital Group
Sindhu Sharma
General Manager, Head - ESG, Nxtra by Airtel
Manish Khurana
Senior Data Center Manager, Oracle
17:30
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Close of DCD Connect | India
- Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Open Session
