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  • 6th Floor
  • Management & Operations
  • Invite-only Session

Speakers

Enrique Ramírez Muelas

Director, Regional Operations, Edged

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Enrique Ramírez Muelas

Director, Regional Operations, Edged

Ingeniero Superior en Telecomunicaciones e Ingeniero en Organización Industrial. Master en Mercados de Emisiones de Carbono por la EOI y Master en Gestión de Proyectos por la UEM, PGD por el Instituto de Empresa, DCPro Operations por Data Center Dynamics, CDCP y CDFOM por EPI, Certificado ITIL V4, Scrum Master y Green Belt en Six Sigma.

Inicia su carrera profesional en los Data Centers en el Departamento Comercial de Telvent lo que le permite conocer las necesidades de housing de las empresas, tanto nacionales como internacionales desarrollándose y liderando los departamentos de Eficiencia Energética, Sostenibilidad, Desarrollo de Producto, Consultoría y Explotación de los Data Centers de Madrid. Completa su desarrollo con el liderazgo en el Diseño, Construcción, Puesta en Marcha y Operación de Alcalá Data Center por Ferrovial Servicios para posteriormente expandir el servicio de Operación y Mantenimiento especializado a clientes en España, Portugal, Inglaterra, Australia.

Su know-how en las necesidades y requerimientos de los Data Centers se ve complementado por la formación continua en las normas, métricas, tendencias y certificaciones que acompañan al sector de las Tecnologías de la Información.

Actualmente coordina y desarrolla a nivel global los servicios y operaciones orientados a Data Centers.

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Alejandro Herrero Campos

Alejandro Herrero Campos

Regional Operations Director & Spain Joint Director, AtlasEdge Data Centres

Robert Assink

Managing Director - Spain, Digital Realty

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Robert Assink

Managing Director - Spain, Digital Realty

Robert Assink is Managing Director of Digital Realty in Spain. Since 2000, Robert has been working to facilitate a more interconnected world; first by interconnecting telecommunications networks, then by linking digital content and distribution, and now by bringing enterprise IT traffic to cloud platforms. All these interconnections take place in Interxion's Data Centers.

Robert is Dutch by birth and Spanish by adoption. He holds a degree in business management from the European University of Antwerp (Belgium) and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona.

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David McCall

VP of Innovation, QTS Data Centers

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David McCall

VP of Innovation, QTS Data Centers

David McCall is the VP of Innovation for QTS Data Centers. He is responsible for building teams, setting strategic goals, and serving as an evangelist for one of largest and fastest growing data center service providers in the United States. He has more than 14 years of solutions engineering experience in the data center, telecommunications, and internet technology industries.

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Alberto Petermann

Alberto Petermann

Head of Design & Delivery, Start Campus

Marco Matarazzo

Director of Facility Operation, Equinix Italy

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Marco Matarazzo

Director of Facility Operation, Equinix Italy

Marco is a professional with 20 years experience in Operating and Managing data centers from small cable landing stations to hyperscale facilities. Has worked for Redbus Interhouse, Telecity and now Equinix, bringing his expertise not only on the physical infrastructure side but also managing quality, compliance, manager services and customer operations.

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David Fernández

David Fernández

Director of the Data Centers Cluster in Aragón, AWS

Paul Henry

Regional Director, EMEA, Data Center Construction & Delivery, Google

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Paul Henry

Regional Director, EMEA, Data Center Construction & Delivery, Google

Paul is a Senior Executive, with over 32 years of international construction, engineering, and enterprise management expertise. Leadership scope includes large regional infrastructure projects, mission critical, systems and facilities, consisting of semi conductor manufacturing plants, data centres, chemical processing plants and nuclear facilities.

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09h45 -10h15

Keynote presentation

Speaker: David McCall, VP of Innovation, QTS Data Centers

10h15 - 11h00

DCD>Panel: Retos operativos en los data centers - Estrategias para adaptarse al crecimiento acelerado de la IA

Speakers: Alejandro Herrero, Regional Operations Director & Spain, AtlasEdge; Enrique Ramirez Muelas, Regional Operations Director, Edged Spain; Robert Assink, Managing Director Spain, Digital Realty.

La inteligencia artificial está transformando la operación y el mantenimiento de los centros de datos, generando nuevas demandas de capacidad, eficiencia y sostenibilidad. Este panel se centrará en los principales desafíos que presenta la IA y las estrategias esenciales que los operadores deben adoptar para asegurar un rendimiento excepcional y una operación sostenible a largo plazo.

Los panelistas explorarán soluciones innovadoras, como la automatización inteligente, tecnologías avanzadas de refrigeración y la optimización de recursos, con el objetivo de superar estos retos y maximizar la eficiencia operativa.

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h00

Keynote presentation

Speaker: Paul Henry, Regional Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Data Center infrastructure Delivery, Google.

12h00 - 12h45

DCD>Panel: Is your data center ready for the AI revolution? Redesigning infrastructure for the future

Speakers: Marco Matarazzo, Director of Facility Operation, Equinix Italy; Alberto Petermann, Head of Design and Delivery, Start Campus; David Fernández, Director of the Data Centers Cluster in Aragon, AWS.

As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize industries, the demands on data centers are evolving at an accelerated pace. From handling increased processing power and storage requirements to ensuring low-latency, real-time data processing, the challenges are significant.

In this panel, industry experts will share their experiences in adapting data center infrastructure to meet these challenges, discuss the solutions they are implementing to support AI, and outline their plans for future growth. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how to ensure their data centers are not only prepared for the AI revolution, but also positioned for long-term sustainability and success.