QScale develops environmentally responsible computing centers specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC), supercomputing, and machine learning. The company’s Quebec City area campus (QScale Q01) is the first colocation facility in Canada to receive the OCP Ready™ recognition, attesting to its energy efficiency and scalability. QScale's technology infrastructures help meet the growing computing needs of global companies while enabling them to achieve their ESG objectives. QScale is a trademark of Fonds QScale S.E.C.

With an extensive sector knowledge, VIPA Digital is uniquely positioned to support Investors, Developers, Operators and Consumers of Data Centre Infrastructure as they navigate complex business decisions. The team has first-hand experience in ‘cradle-to-grave’, lifecycle assessment, for Retail, Wholesale and Hyperscale platforms in both established and emerging markets.

Our ‘Connected Thinking’ approach ensures end-to-end evaluation that optimises investment criteria with site selection, construction management, market intelligence, sales engineering and customer service levels. With a track record of delivery across a wide range of local, regional and international organisations with the common objective of operating profitably and providing the best end-user experience.

Structure Research is an independent research and consulting firm with a specific focus on the cloud and data centre segments within the Internet infrastructure market. We are devoted to understanding, tracking and projecting the future of infrastructure service providers. Our mission is to publish the best research and analysis, and supply the most comprehensive data sets, about the Internet infrastructure services market. We provide the information and perspective necessary to make accurate strategic decisions.

The Gulf Data Centre Association (GDCA) is a trade organisation designed to promote the data centre sector for associated businesses operating in countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

PTC’s Annual Conference is a strategic springboard for the global communications industry, providing all attendees with a four-day platform to focus on planning, networking, and discovering what lies ahead for the ICT industry. Start the new year off right and join us in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 21-24, 2024, for the Pacific Rim’s premier telecommunications event, PTC’24.

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The Nomad Futurist Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to demystify the world of digital infrastructure and the related technologies that impact every aspect of our daily lives. Our primary focus is to empower and inspire younger generations through exposure to the underlying technologies that power our digital world. Through the contributions of our supporters, we are launching global programs in partnership with a range of education providers, NGOs and other nonprofit organizations committed to educating children in underprivileged communities.

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact brings together over 100 Data Centres operators and providers of cloud infrastructures services and 22 Sector Association across Europe representing the majority of all market actors in Europe. Established with the support of the European Commission and launched by Executive Vice President Timmermans in January 2021, the Pact is an unprecedented initiative by the data centre industry in Europe to proactively define and promote specific measures and targets to achieve climate neutrality across the sector by 2030.

Edge Industry Review (EdgeIR.com) is a news, analysis and industry resource website documenting the changes taking place on the edge of the internet infrastructure market – the present and the future of Edge Computing.

Today, there are a variety of definitions of Edge Computing. We will cover the debates that are occurring and explain their implications for the network operator, data center operator, cloud provider and the people and investors that are building new services. As part of the discussion, we will also present the viewpoints of the thought leaders of the Edge Internet Economy.

The next Internet evolution is upon us and EdgeIR.com will be at the forefront with insightful news and commentary.

From idea to scale, we live in a new entrepreneurial age where leadership thinking needs to cut through the noise to deliver on a vision and blueprint to success. The Great Business Minds podcast goes inside the business with the leaders, inventors, investors, executives, trendspotters and visionaries of today to explore what it really takes to build a brand beyond conventional wisdom and disrupt the marketplace with the next big leap in entrepreneurship innovation. Seize the moment with host João Marques Lima, journalist and former editor-in-chief of FTSE 250 tech publications.

Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA) is the preeminent provider of Public Relations, Marketing and Event Planning services to the telecom, data center and tech industries. Awarded ‘Most Outstanding Telecoms PR Agency’ by LiveWire for two years. Our success is attributed to our skilled JSA team, innovative tools, established media and industry relationships. We deliver outreach and brand awareness services, the latest lead generation inbound marketing tactics done in a timely integrated marketing plan, offering optimal and measurable ROI.

Providing specialised news solutions and other media and events services, Mondego Media Group (MMG) focuses on the tailored offering of intelligence and experiences for digital leaders, investors, and stakeholders. Our brands include The Tech Capital, the centre of breaking news for digital infrastructure.

Heather Paduck is the Chief Financial Officer of STACK Infrastructure and has more than 25 years of experience developing, executing, and leading financial strategy and operations. Utilizing her extensive and unique background building finance organizations and overseeing capital raises at rapidly growing businesses, Mrs. Paduck ensures a focus on impactful funding and technology initiatives to drive responsible and forward-looking growth.

Prior to STACK, Mrs. Paduck was CFO of Northwood Investors, a global, vertically integrated real estate private equity firm with over $7 billion in assets under management. She previously served as CFO of Pembroke Real Estate, a Fidelity Investments subsidiary, which manages over 7.5 million square feet in direct real estate investments in the United States, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Mrs. Paduck’s experience also includes six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she managed financial statement audits for public and private real estate companies.

In 2021, she was honored with the Leading Allies Of Data Centers & The Cloud’s DEI Trailblazer Award for her tireless efforts advancing diversity in the workplace. In 2022, Mrs. Paduck was awarded the Outstanding Women in Business Award from the Denver Business Journal, Private Company CFO of the Year Award from Northern Virginia Technology Council, and inclusion in the Tech Capital’s CFO 50 list.

Mrs. Paduck received a B.S. in Accounting and International Business from Indiana University, and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.

William is Chief Investment Officer and a Partner, based in New York. He is responsible for leading the firm's global investment, asset management and sustainability activities. William is the global digital infrastructure global head.

He is a member of the Investment Committee, Valuation Committee, Asset Management Committee, Partnership & Promotions Committee and Management Team.

William has served on the board of many of Morrison & Co's digital infrastructure investments and is currently a board director of CDC Data Centres and Kao Data.

Prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2013, he worked at the Carlyle Group as a Principal, based in London.

William holds an MBA from INSEAD (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce (Ecnomics) from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Andrei Milekhin is a Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking at Nomura Greentech based in London. Andrei focuses on a variety of digital infrastructure and telecommunications markets and businesses globally and in Europe, in particular.

Andrei joined Nomura in July 2016 following two years at VimpelCom (now Veon) in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for origination / execution of M&A transactions as well as spearheading the efforts with respect to defining portfolio strategy for the Group. Prior to joining VimpelCom, Andrei was a Director in the TMT Investment Banking team at UBS in London.

Notable recent transactions include advising PGGM and EDF Invest on acquisition of a minority stake in Norlys Tele in Denmark, GIC on acquisition of a minority stake in CETIN, Ardian on acquisition of Adamo in Spain, Allianz Capital Partners on acquisition of a minority stake in American Tower Europe (c.€1bn) and a 50/50 partnership with Telefonica to roll-out FTTH network in rural Germany (€5bn), as well as sale of Towertel to Phoenix Tower International and sale of Retelit to Asterion Industrial Partners (c.€700m).

Andrei holds a degree in Economics from Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO).

Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS, joined Newmark Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as a Vice Chairman and the Global Lead for Newmark Valuation & Advisory’s Data Centers & Life Science group.

Miles is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Miles has led valuations of large individual and portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across six continents (NA, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and African regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers.

Tara K. Giunta, a partner in the Litigation Department of Paul Hastings, is Co-Chair of its ESG Risk, Strategy and Compliance Group and a Member of the firm’s Investigations and White Collar Defense practice, which is routinely recognized by the Global Investigations Review (GIR) as a leading investigations practice and one of a handful of global "elite" practice groups. Ms. Giunta is a recognized risk, strategy and compliance expert and advisor to global companies on corporate governance and enterprise risk management. She advises C-suites and boards in identifying and mitigating risks, developing and enhancing compliance programs, investigating and remediating wrongdoing and/or internal control weaknesses, conducting compliance-related due diligence in M&A and other commercial transactions, and developing reporting and disclosure frameworks.

Her work has spanned the globe, performing risk assessments, conducting investigations and rolling out comprehensive compliance programs in Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia.

Ms. Giunta was recognized by GIR in its inaugural Women in Investigations list, which recognized 100 women across the globe who are “achieving great things in a competitive and notoriously tough area of law.” She is also Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Diversity Council and Chair of the firm’s Women’s Initiative. Ms. Giunta is Founder and Editor of the firm’s publication, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom, now in its Fifth Edition, and speaks often on corporate governance, ESG compliance and risk. Ms. Giunta was a recipient of Corporate Counsel’s 2019 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards under the Thought Leadership category.

Germán Cufré is Global Manager for Telecom, Media and Technology investments at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets.

German joined IFC in 2006 and has been part of the investment team focused on telecommunications infrastructure since 2008. German is currently responsible for helping develop IFC’s business in the sector, supporting equity and debt transactions in emerging markets across all telecom infrastructure subsectors including broadband, data centers, small cells and DAS, independent tower operators, IoT, TESCO and MNO's.

Before joining IFC, Mr. Cufre led an acquisitions turnaround team at a distressed asset fund out of Argentina and worked as a strategy/ turnaround consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton based in Chicago (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). He holds a B.A. from Universidad de San Andres and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2020, we invested $22 billion in private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.

Mr. Bouten joined Greenhill in 2001. He serves as Head of Greenhill UK and Head of European Telecom, Media and Technology.

PJ, a Belgian national, holds a Masters degree in Law and a Bachelor degree in Philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He also holds a Law degree with distinction from King’s College London.

Michalis Grigoratos is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Infrapartners LLC, a Vertically Integrated pre-fabricated Data Center business.

Jan Willem van Roggen is a seasoned banker who has a successful career in the financial services industry. With over three decades of experience in banking, Jan Willem is currently heading the Commercial Real Estate and Infrastructure teams at NIBC, which operate extensively across Europe. His teams possess extensive knowledge of the latest market trends and financing opportunities, allowing them to offer valuable insights and solutions to clients.

Simon Rozas is the Head of European Digital Infrastructure at DIF Capital Partner. He leads the origination and investments in digital infrastructure across Europe. Previously, he worked at Cube Infrastructure Managers, where he led greenfield fiber projects across Europe for the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund.

Simon’s career includes over two decades of experience in investing, lending and investment banking at the EBRD, Citigroup and HSBC. He started his studies in Vilnius University and holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

DIF Capital Partners is an independent infrastructure fund manager, with more than EUR 15 billion of AUM. DIF was founded in 2005 and has built a leading position in managing mid-market investments, primarily in Europe, North America and Australia.

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Steve Wallage is the Managing Director for Danseb Consulting, the leading provider of strategic consulting and commercial due diligence to the data centre, co-location, IaaS and telecoms markets.

He has over 25 years experience in the industry, including six years as a Principal Analyst at Gartner Group, and then more than ten years leading BroadGroup Consulting.

Some of his strategic consulting projects include work for operators, vendors and users, ranging from market entry to detailed market analysis to business and financial/business modelling.

Work for investors ranges from market analysis to full commercial due diligence. He has been involved in over 35 commercial due diligence projects in recent years.

Wallage is also an experienced speaker and presenter, regularly chairing, facilitating and speaking at major industry events, webinars, roundtables and dinners.

Philbert Shih is the Founder and Managing Director of Structure Research, an independent Toronto and Singapore-based research and consulting firm devoted to the cloud and data centre infrastructure services markets with a specialization in the hyperscale value chain.

Mr. Shih is based in Toronto and has covered the infrastructure services space for over 20 years. His coverage of the sector is global in scope and extends across the broader Internet infrastructure value chain. He is the conference chair for the annual infra / STRUCTURE summit and heads up the Structure Research consulting practice, which has advised and provided subject matter expertise for transactions across data centre, cloud and managed hosting, with over $3b in value.

Mr. Shih is a regular speaker at industry events and has been quoted in various publications such as The South China Morning Post, The Deal, Data Economy, The Globe and Mail, IT World Canada, National Post, The Cube, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Bizjournals, Data Center

Knowledge, Light Reading, eWeek, Miami Herald, San Antonio Express News and Forbes.

Prior to founding Structure Research in 2011, Mr. Shih was the first hosting infrastructure analyst hired after Tier1 Research was sold to The 451 Group (2005) and spent six years as Senior Analyst for managed hosting and cloud. In this role, Mr. Shih helped launch Tier1’s coverage of hosting and cloud in international markets and was the lead and contributing author to all of the company’s quarterly and bi-annual hosting infrastructure sector reports.

Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Mr. Shih spent more than four years covering the web hosting industry – three of them as Senior Staff Writer for The Web Host Industry Review’s online and print publications. At theWHIR, Mr. Shih covered companies in the SMB and enterprise hosting, cloud and colocation segments.

Mr. Shih holds an MA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia with a specialization in political economic development.

Claude Achcar is the Founder and Managing Partner of Actel Consulting, a highly specialized Tech advisory firm. The company, founded in 2002, differentiates through independent, deep-dive, and hands-on guidance to deliver implementable advisory. Clients include investors, innovators, corporates, telecoms, service providers, and regulators.

Claude has over 30 years of ICT experience. He began his career as an AI Research Associate followed by eleven years in various engineering, marketing, and operations roles with Nortel. Prior to Actel Consulting, Claude was Managing Director and VP Asia at Ciena.

Claude is an engineer by training, holding B.Eng. & M.Eng. (Speech Recognition) degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, and an MBA from McGill University, both in Montreal, Canada.

João is the founder and editor of The Tech Capital. Winner of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) 30 Under 30 media award and the Infrastructure Masons IM100 Award 2022, he owns a real passion for the media and has experience across online, print and broadcast. He has reported from over 30 countries worldwide, filming interviews with CEOs of big tech companies and government figures, amongst others. He is the founder and host of the Great Business Minds Podcast and prior to that, João has experienced the reporting industry at Data Economy, which he created for BroadGroup and where he also invented the Finvest Summit (all acquired by Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc in 2017), Capacity Media, Computer Business Review/Tech Monitor, the Daily Mail, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, The Guardian, Antena Lusa and Future Behind.

Our first speakers will be announced in January 2023.