Data Cloud 2017 - Nordic | Euromoney Institutional Investor | 30 October 2017 | Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Holbergsgt 30 N-0166, Oslo Norway

Welcome to Datacloud Nordic 2017

Join 600+ executives at the 3rd annual networking and deal making Datacloud Nordic. With extensive renewable grids, the value of building, locating or outsourcing data center, colo, cloud and IT infrastructure across the important and fast growing Nordic region has increased exponentially in recent years.

Discover its supply of abundant renewable energy, meet the leadership of data center businesses, find out the latest investment opportunities and collaborate with partners in the deployment of mission critical cloud facilities and explore the advantages of this incredible growth market.

Datacloud events are the foremost networking and business deal making forums for data center and cloud players, their customers, investors and suppliers.

Datacloud: There’s A Great Deal Going On

SESSIONS

Enterprise End User panel
• IT spend outlook
• IT requirements for data center and hybrid cloud
• Migration outlook
• Colocation, managed services
• Self build
• CSR/carbon neutral strategy
• Type of interconnections, networks and workload?
• Expansion of capacity?

Wholesale Data Center Markets
• Speculative build or pre-leasing
• Turnkey space
• What prices are being found in wholesale
• Which markets are primed for wholesale expansion?
• Retail play in the strategy
• Market outlook

Regional Market Leadership
• Cloud strategy
• How do you perceive Edge?
• Key growth drivers present in the market
• What apps/business processes wouldn’t you put in the cloud that your clients have?
• How will the presence of hyperscale impact regional or national data centers?
• Will demand for large data halls, hyperscale cloud customers and connectivity to multiple clouds from one location continue?
• Hybrid and IaaS services offered
• What surprised you in 2017? What will surprise you in 2018?
• What is the outlook for the market over the next year?

Nordic and European Market Forecast
• Power availability
• Supply
• Demand
• International Interconnection and fiber availability
• Wholesale vs. retail supply
• Nordic Market Forecast

Site Selection
• What are the top criteria in site selection?
• What is compelling about the Nordic markets as a location?
• Where are taxes and overheads becoming more of a problem?
• Edge considerations
• Localized demand importance
• Special considerations for brownfield sites

Towards Edge Data Centers - New Drivers and Disruptors and their Impact
• Localized Data overload
• IOT - capacity and location
• Blockchain
• Smart cities, driverless cars, 5G
• AI and Robots and impact on Vertical demand
• Privacy and Regulation

Cybersecurity Threats and Response
• How are you approaching the ever increasing cyber attacks
• Authorization and security in a mixed-use building setting
• Standards and certifications
• Network-level exposure
• Are there specific hacks that a data center should be aware of? Solutions?
• Evaluating infrastructure and network firewall options
• Opportunities in security as a service… How are you reacting?

Finance and Investment in Data Centers
• Current outlook on M&A activity in Data Centers
• Joint ventures with institutional investors
• Are Telcos more likely to divest?
• REITs and Europe
• Private Equity and Nordic market expansion

Network Evolution and Connectivity
• Specific issues with Edge
• Network resiliency and its role within data center resiliency
• Ecosystem cooperation – fiber networks, subsea cable, satellite
• WAN optimization strategies
• Responding to customers re-architecting their IT from a centralized to a distributed setup
• Is there growth in cross-connects?
• Density trends vs. cloud-centric networking solutions

2017 Speakers:

Gisle M. Eckhoff
Chief Executive Officer / DigiPlex

Atle Haga
Program director / Statkraft

Nicola Hayes
Managing Director / EUDCA

Fredrik Kallioniemi
Commercial Director / Hydro66

Anders Korshavn
Consultant / Parterre

Joao Marques Lima
Editor / Data Economy

Anne Månsson
Client Executive, Enterprise / Amazon Web Services

Peder Nærbø
Chairman and Founder / Bulk

Steve Wallage
Managing Director / BroadGroup Consulting

2017 Sponsors:

PATRON:
• Schneider Electric

GLOBAL PLATINUM:
• DigiPlex

LEAD DIAMOND:
• Hydro66

HEADLINE:
• Host in Ireland

GOLD:
• Lefdal Mine
• Vertiv
• Bulk

SILVER:
• Flexenclosure

SHOWTIME:
• Munters
• CBRE
• ETIX Everywhere

LEAD:
• Starline
• Kingston Technology
• Statkraft
• Cloud & Heat
• Nordavind

INDUSTRY:
• Subzero
• Innovation Norway
• OSLO Data Center Location
• EcoCooling
• Green Mountain