Archives: Speakers

Peter Hendrick

Peter Hendrick is the CEO of NBI, taking charge of one of the most ambitious telecoms projects in the world, ending the digital divide in Ireland. Having worked on the project since 2015, Peter successfully led NBI through the competitive bid for the National Broadband Plan as the Managing Bid Director, heading up a team… Read more »

Nigel Bayliff

Nigel Bayliff, CEO of Aqua Comms, is a global telecom industry veteran with more than 30 years experience as both operator & purchaser, developer & constructor of significant submarine cable systems. His unique global experience from both sides of the industry has led him to be an advisor and consultant to cable development, private equity… Read more »

Alan Beresford

Alan is the founder and owner of EcoCooling – the largest supplier of evaporative cooling systems in the UK. An engineer by profession and, having held senior roles in food, print and FMCG manufacturing operations, he founded EcoCooling in 2002.  He is acknowledged as a thought leader in the direct ventilation and adiabatic cooling of… Read more »

Matt Evans

Matt is part of Airedale’s European Data Centre Solutions Team and is passionate about Data Centre infrastructure, with a particular passion for overall efficiency and mechanical design and implementation. As a technical account manager, Matt works closely with end-users and consultants to build innovative cooling system designs from the ground up, leveraging his extensive knowledge… Read more »

Dr Anthony Robinson

Dr. Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, with specific expertise in experimental and computational thermal-fluid sciences. With over 25 years’ experience in heat transfer, fluid mechanics and applied energy research, Dr. Robinson is the author of over 100 academic journal papers, 80 technical reports for industry, business and professional organisations and… Read more »

Matt Pullen

In his role as Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Europe, Matt is responsible for driving the growth of CyrusOne’s operations in Europe and delivering the very best in data center excellence to CyrusOne’s hyperscale and enterprise customers worldwide. Matt oversees regional business strategy and an experienced European Management Team to deliver across an operational… Read more »

Michael Sigourney

Michael Sigourney founded AVTECH in 1988, after a successful career in sales & marketing for several leading software companies. Michael took his expertise from years spent working in the tech industry and began developing AVTECH’s first line of software products, which were designed to manage and monitor the utilization of computers. In the mid-1990’s, Michael… Read more »

Stephen Bowes-Phipps

Steve Bowes-Phipps has over 25 years of operational systems management experience. From managing Financial Services Data Centres and IT operations in the UK and Ireland, he joined ambitious web hosting company GlobalCenter who were expanding from the US into Europe. Sitting on the senior management team, he oversaw the building of five Internet Data Centres… Read more »

Simon McCormick

Simon is the Chief Technical Officer at Echelon Data Centres, an international infrastructure developer with a focus on providing large-scale sustainable assets, supporting the growing demand for data & compute capacity in the global economy, while being responsible to the environment and the communities in which it operates. Prior to joining Echelon, Simon was part… Read more »