Operational Stream - Day 1
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Adelle Desouza
Director
HireHigher Ltd
Discussion linked around why DC’s are looking for a particular set of skills/criteria in recruitment applications and not trawling a wider target group (which leads to just poaching of staff from competitors and pushes up salary costs) – What can we do to engender loyalty and attract new audiences.
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This presentation shows a snapshot of the current global data center workforce based on a thorough analysis of over 830m LinkedIn profiles, cross validating this with a number of key labour market benchmarks such as the one from World Bank. The analysis shows the maturity of the different geographies, distribution of workforce in terms of age, companies and years of experience, as well as a five year forecast.
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Key Areas Addressed:
1. Sustainable Energy Usage
2. Energy Efficiency in LV Power Distribution
3. SMART Asset Management
4. Easy Operation and Scalability
Key Learning Outcomes:
1. How to drive High Level Efficiency in LV Distribution in DTC space
2. How to implement Grid Support functions in DTC space
3. Towards a Smarter Equipment management
4. How to reduce improve system level availability through modularity
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Key Areas Addressed:
- The importance of roof waterproofing on Mission Critical/ Data Centre buildings
- Sustainable Urban Drainage Schemes (SuDS)
- Blue & Green Roofs
- Roof Build ups- Efficiency and Consideration of local ecology
- Designing a roof and reducing carbon footprint
Key Learning Outcomes:
- A greater understanding on how to improve the performance of the building fabric
- Contributing to good ecology & habitat replacement
- Understand how to elongate the service life of roofing elements & spreading embedded carbon
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Key Areas Addressed:
- Challenges in Fire Detection – Data Centres
- Fire risk in DC’s
- Reasons why conventional Detection may not work
- Addressing this with Aspirating Detection
- Risk of Li-Ion Battery failures
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding the benefits of Aspirating Detection
- Understanding how Li-Ion battery failure can be detected
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Overview of the recent Baringa Report.
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Paul Carson
Managing Director
Strategic Power Projects Ireland
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Key Areas Addressed:
- Gas turbines technologies provide infrastructure solutions enabling datacenters to be grid independent with High fuel efficiency minimizing fuel cost and reduced CO2 and GHG and with H2 ready technology for the fuel transition.
- Waste heat from the turbine exhaust provides cooling for data loads and gives an overall greater plant efficiency than the grid”
- Solar Gas Turbine technology coupled with Solar Turbines long term service provides operation, maintenance and availability levels of over 99%
- Highly flexible gas turbines allow full support of datacenter and Irish grid under the flex and DS3 services.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Gas turbines are a path to sustainability, future proofing for renewable fuel usage and a route to support net zero
- Gas turbine power quality is an unrecognised benefit for datacenters
- Cooling and heating are by product of Gas Turbines reducing the C02 impact of Gas Turbine power generation
- High efficiency energy security, which does not rely on the grid for business continuity and growth but also a part of and support a sustainable Irish grid.
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Barbara O’Mahony
Data Centre Sales Engineer and Account Manager
Hitachi

Peter Lantry
Country Managing Director Ireland
Hitachi Energy

Aodhan McAleer
Hydrogen Manager
ESB

Dr Mick McKeever
Engineering Lecturer
Technological University Dublin

Brendan Kelly
Commercial Manager in Renewable Energy
Bord na Mona
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Key Areas Addressed:
- The potential of hydrogen for reliable onsite power production
- Hydrogen in the decarbonization journey of data centers
- The logistics of getting hydrogen to Data Centers
- Hydrogen and BESS and it’s role with the grid
Key Learning Outcomes:
- The probable utilization of Hydrogen in Data Centers
- The sustainability roadmap to Data Centers- where are we now
- How hydrogen can be used with other sustainable, flexible solutions to supplement power production for Data Centers
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David Gyulnazaryan
Data Centre Decarbonisation and Heat Reuse consultant
John Booth
MD of Carbon3IT Ltd and Project Lead – Data Centres TICR project
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Speakers

Colm Shorten
Senior Director - Data Centres
JLL
Mark Acton
Independent Consultant

Emma Fryer
Partner
ERM (Environmental Resource Management)
John Booth
MD of Carbon3IT Ltd and Project Lead – Data Centres TICR project

Conor Molloy
Senior Projects Manager
Bureau Veritas
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Winding down from an inspiring day at DataCentres Ireland? What better place to join friend, colleagues, exhibitors and or sponsors.
Join us in the Café Area within the exhibition hall between 17:00-18:30