Speaker Group: Speakers 2022

Derek Webster

Derek Webster is a Data Centre sector consultant, advisory, client principle & advocate and Speaker. He has over 25+years sector experience. He spans the gambit working with clients from funding rounds, pre-budget business case, DC strategy, market positioning, to country & site selection, design & build to delivery. Former Board Member Green Mountain AS (Norway.)… Read more »

John Laban

John supports various not for profit foundations that promote the  open source tech  collaborative commons and decarbonisation: Open Compute Project; OpenUK; SDIA. He loves books and has an insatiable curiosity which has resulted in a varied life to date: Gardener; Metallurgist; London Stock Exchange Network Specialist; Jungle Explorer; Long distance motorcycle traveler; Rock Singer; Data… Read more »

Thomas Gorman

Tom joined Interxion with over 29 years of experience working with global organisations, managing strategic technical projects and teams across global networks, Construction, Electrical & Mechanical Services, Safety and Quality Management Systems among other areas. More recently, Tom has spent the past 5 years working in Senior Operational roles within AWS Data Services, both in… Read more »

Arnau Homedes

Former Data Center Market Manager & Product Manager on Data Center Power Cable. Industrial Electrical Engineer with more than 10 years in the cable sector. Expert on Electrical Regulations & Specifications.

Ed Ansett

Ed Ansett is a pioneer of the mission-critical facilities industry specializing in data centre high availability power systems. He is a recipient of the DatacenterDynamics Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry and founder of i3 Solutions Group – a specialist data centre MEP consulting engineering firm globally recognised for its design expertise, future thinking and… Read more »

Michael Phelan

Michael has over 20 years of experience working in and with the energy sector. When Michael founded GridBeyond back on 2007, the market was a very different place. Having seen its evolution, Michael has led the development of the technology, evolving from wireless sensors and meters, to the machine learning algorithms in place today, and… Read more »

Gary Watson

With over 25 years’ experience of working across the telecoms, data centre, managed services and cloud sector across Europe, Gary Watson was appointed as the Country Manager in 2016 for Keppel Data Centre REIT in Ireland. Keppel DC REIT is the first data centre real estate investment trust (DC REIT) to be listed in Asia… Read more »