
Uptime Network EMEA
Spring Conference 2025
Kimpton De Witt Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15-16 April 2025
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Digital Infrastructure Experts from Around the Globe

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Conference Agenda
Day 1 - Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
Morning
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Registration Open
9:30 a.m.
Data Center Tour – Bus Departure
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Data Center Tour of Digital Realty AMS8 Data Center
12:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Return to the Hotel
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Lunch and Data Center Tour Feedback Session
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
AI Working Group: Overcoming Deployment Challenges
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Member Discussion: Methodologies to report EED ICT capacity for server and storage products
4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Break and Registration
Evening
5:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Conference Welcome
5:20 - 6:30 p.m.
Industry Critical Update & Panorama
- Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute
- Chris Brown, Chief Technical Officer, Uptime Institute
- Jay Dietrich, Research Director, Sustainability, Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute presents the popular Panorama session, where the panelists and delegates discuss trends, events, and outages affecting the digital infrastructure industry.
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Reception & Dinner
Day 2 - Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
Session 1 - Early Morning
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Future-Proofing Data Centers: Designing for 2030 and Beyond
Panel Moderator: Chris Brown, Chief Technical Officer, Uptime Institute
By 2030, facilities will need to be more adaptable, autonomous, and resilient than ever before. This discussion dives into the key design and construction shifts necessary to meet these challenges—from modular scalability, to AI-workload densification, to climate risk mitigation and supply chain resilience.
9:45 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel: Equipment Lifecycle Management
Panel Moderator: Matt Stansberry, Executive Director Data Center Practitioner Insight & Experience, Uptime Institute
Historically, equipment lifecycle planning involved tracking the normal wear and tear against assumptions on the Expected Useful Life (EUL) of the equipment. Now, organizations face rapid technological changes and early obsolescence at a component level, disrupting conventional planning processes.
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
Session 2 - Late Morning
10:45 - 11:30 a.m.
Update: Implementing AI and Future Trends
Presenter: Vladimir Prodanovic, Principal Program Manager, NVIDIA
This session will provide an update from NVIDIA on the latest trends for implementing AI clusters, as well as a look ahead at how AI will be implemented in the future.
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Hardware for AI: Market Trends & Future Directions
Presenter: Max Smolaks, Research Analyst, Uptime Intelligence
AI is not a single, uniform workload. The infrastructure needs of a model depend on its application, the stage of the model's lifecycle, performance levels required, and other factors. Delivering AI at scale will require a variety of hardware platforms and architectures. In this session, we will look at the state of the AI accelerator market in 2025, and observe the different directions taken by hardware designers.
12:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Understanding AI Economics
Presenter: Owen Rogers, Senior Research Director, Uptime Intelligence
As AI adoption accelerates, organizations face critical decisions about where to train and deploy their models.
- Should you leverage the flexibility of the cloud or invest in dedicated infrastructure for long-term cost efficiency and business value?
- How are AI models trained and then used in production?
- How does utilization affect the TCO of cloud vs dedicated infrastructure?
- How do diminishing returns impact the merits of different approaches?
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
Session 3 - Early Afternoon
2:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Panel: Opportunities for operators to drive IT efficiency
Presenter: Jay Dietrich, Research Director, Sustainability, Uptime Institute
This panel discussion will focus on the opportunities for enterprise operators to improve the efficiency of their IT infrastructure, and for colocation operators to work with their IT tenants and customers to drive IT efficiency. The result is improved overall IT efficiency for the tenants and business opportunities for the colocation operators.
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Case study: Innovative Hybrid Liquid Immersion Cooling System for Data Centers
Presenter: Mohamad Hnayno, Doctor of Engineering in Thermal and Energy, R&D Engineer for OVHcloud
This presentation highlights an experimental study conducted by the OVHcloud lab on an innovative single-phase immersion liquid cooling technique. The approach combines direct-to-chip water cooling with passive single-immersion cooling. The study evaluated the impact of three different dielectric fluids, multiple water circuit configurations, and varying server power profiles. The presentation concludes with a comparative analysis of cooling performance across air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and the new hybrid system.
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Panel: Liquid Cooling Commissioning Challenges
Moderator: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Intelligence
Liquid cooling commissioning is one of today's most daunting data center facilities challenges as organizations begin deploying these next-generation systems. Many organizations struggle to employ the rigorous testing practices required to ensure systems function as designed.
Session 4 - Late Afternoon
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Power Distribution Challenges for Data Centers - Time for Medium Voltage?
Presenter: Daniel Bizo, Research Director, Uptime Intelligence
As IT rack power demands rise and space constraints tighten, data centers will likely be forced to rethink their approach to power distribution. One option on the horizon is bringing medium voltage distribution closer to the white space. However, the attractiveness of that will likely depend on related technical innovations, such as solid- state transformers. This presentation explores the driving forces behind as well as the hurdles in the way of introducing higher voltage levels in data centers power protection and distribution.
4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Panel: Post Outage Playbook
Moderator: Nick Archer, Regional Technical Director, Europe & UK, Uptime Institute
An outage is never just about the moment it happens—what comes next is just as critical. A well-executed post-outage response can mean the difference between a full recovery and lingering risks. This panel will dive into the essential policies, best practices, and real-world lessons learned from handling outages. Topics include structured post-mortems, incident documentation, stakeholder communication, compliance considerations, and how to turn failures into future resilience.
4:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Panel: Cybersecurity and Resiliency, Common Fallacies and Recent Legislation
Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute Ali Moinuddin, CCD & CSO, Uptime Institute
Antonio Ramos, President & CEO, LEET Security
John O’Brien, Sr. Research Analyst, Uptime Institute
In an era where cyber threats, physical security risks, and operational vulnerabilities are becoming more disruptive, data center cybersecurity still lacks urgency. This session will test the seven most common fallacies still held, including why zero-trust policies and physical air gaps are not always practical, and why ransomware attacks are a real risk. Plus, includes discussion of recent security/resiliency legislation.
5:15 - 6:00 p.m.
Happy Hour Open Mic: Inside Track Discussion
Moderator: Scott Killian, VP Global Uptime Network Membership Services
An open forum for attendees to engage with experts and peers on pressing issues in the data center industry. Participants are encouraged to share insights, pose questions, and discuss innovative solutions in a collaborative learning environment.
6:00 p.m.
Conference Adjourns
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Attendees are responsible for their travel and hotel expenses, and any additional food and entertainment expenses outside of the conference.
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Event Location:
Kimpton De Witt Amsterdam
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 5
1012 RC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hotel: +31(0)20 620 0500
Europe: +800 4444 5566
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