KickStart Europe 2020 | ​Digital Gateway to Europe | 27 January 2020 | Amsterdam RAI, Elicium Centre - Entrance D, Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kickstart Europe 2020, ​the Annual Strategy & Networking Summit on Trends & Investments in Digital Infra. By bringing together an array of industry professionals, ​KickStart Europe helps to explore the emerging trends and technology shaping the digital industry and digital infrastructure of cloud, connectivity and data centers. ​​The KickStart conference provides a venue for important thought leaders to share trends, opinions and ideas​ and more important place to network.
KickStart Europe is organised by the industry and for the industry. In our 3rd year in existence we expect a 1000 attendees.

2020 Speakers

Rene Buest
​Sr. Director Analyst Infrastructure Servies, Gartner

Tesh Durvasula
​Europe President, CyrusOne

Caroline Puygrenier
​Director Strategy & Development, Interxion

Mitul Patel
​Head of EMEA Data Center Research, CBRE

Ros Kellaway
​Head of EU and Competition, Eversheds Sutherland​

Peter van Burgel
CEO, AMS-IX

Louise Hewitt
​Business Development Manager, Future Facilities

Dick Theunissen
​CEO EMEA, EdgeConneX

Frans ter Borg
CEO, Quanza Group

Eric Boonstra
Vice President & GM Western Europe Iron Mountain

Jan Daan Luycks
​Managing Director European Operations, QTS

Andrew Stevens
​President and CEO, CNet Training

Val Walsh
​​Sr. VP, Portfolio Management, Digital Realty

James Wilman
​Engineering Sales Director, Future Tech

Martin Murphy
​COO, CBRE Data Centre Solutions

Peter Jones
Chief Development Officer, Yondr

Octavia de Weerdt
General Director, Stichting NBIP

Dirk Kretzschmar
Managing Director, ​TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH

Cara Mascini
CEO & Founder, EdgeInfra​

Martin Matse
CEO and founder, Perf-iT

Jérémie Pleynet
Segment Development Manager, Socomec

Carlo Brouwer
Managing Director, STULZ

Martin Prins
Quartermaster NeXt Delta, Innovation Quarter

Antti Laine
Chairman, Finnish Data Center Association

Robert van Tuinen
Strategy & Business Development, Dataport Eemshaven

Lee Kirby
Chairman, Salute Mission Critical

Rene Buest
Tesh Durvasula

​Niek van der Pas
Lead Data Center Expert, Legrand DC Solutions

Emma Fryer
Associate Director, TechUK

Garry Connolly
President and Founder of Host in Ireland

Fredrik Jansson
Chief Strategy, Marketing & Communications Officer, DigiPlex

Nikolai Astrup
Minister of Digitalisation Norway

Petter M. Tømmeraas
Senior Vice President, Basefarm

Tobias Spilker
Global Marketing Manager Data Center & Life Science, Siemens

Roland Broch
Senior Project Manager Digital Infrastructure, eco

Christophe Thioux
Sr Director Corporate Sales EMEA, Equinix

Dave Sterlace
Global Head of Data Center Technology, ABB

Jon Gravråk
CEO, Bulk Infrastructure

Peter Lambrecht
Vice President Sales EMEA, Vertiv

Michael Gallagher
Sr. Business Dev. Manager Global DC Solutions, Panduit

David Gilbey
Director, RBC Capital Markets

Stijn Grove
Managing Director, Digital Gateway to Europe & initiator, KickStart Europe

2020 Sponsors and Partners

MAIN FOUNDING PARTNERS:
• unica
• cbre
• Caransa Groep
• nhn Hollands Kroon
• Vertiv
• Nibc

MAIN PARTNERS:
• socomec
• stulz
• Legrand
• Eversheds Sutherland
• Panduit
• Net Training
• ABB
• Enterprise Ireland
• yondr
• Mercury

SILVER PARTNER & SPONSOR CLOSING RECEPTION:
• Rovisys

SILVER FOUNDING PARTNER:
• AC Neillsen Data Centers

SILVER PARTNER:
• Delta
• Beveco
• systemair/menerga
• Ritall
• Elinex
• Tuvit
• Interconnect
• CyrusOne
• Siemens
• GF
• Penta Infra/Zentrys
• Salute Mission Critical

SPONSOR WELCOME RECEPTION:
• Starline

COFFEE SPONSOR:
• maincubes

LUNCH SPONSOR:
• Dataport Eemshaven

BRONZE PARTNER:
• future facilities

VITAMIN SPONSOR:
• interxion

BRONZE PARTNER:
• Equinix

NETWORKING SPONSOR:
• Global Switch

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• CIO Applications
• Data Centre World
• Datacenter Works/Cloud Works
• Dutch IT-channel
• Splend
• Radial Path
• Telecom News

INDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• DHPA
• ISPConnect
• Dutch Data Center Association
• Digital Gateway to Europe