Korea Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2025

South Korea accelerates its leadership in digital transformation, the data center industry stands at the core of this evolution. This first Keynote session will deliver an in-depth outlook on the Korea data center market from 2025 to 2030, exploring key drivers such as AI adoption, cloud infrastructure expansion, sustainability mandates, and smart city development.

From AI acceleration in South Korea to sovereign compute in Taiwan, green hyperscale in Japan, and interconnect density in Hong Kong—Northeast Asia isn’t a single market, but a mosaic of investment logics. What are the distinct investment drivers for Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong?

Along with the surge of AI data center infrastructure demands, data center industry is facing unprecedented challenges, not only with agile DC construction but data center operation. This session will highlight how to prepare future-proofing data center operation technology to cope with current and upcoming data center operation challenges; Liquid cooling environment, mega-scale DC operation, shortage of skilled operators, AI technology adoption, and more.

The cloud is no longer just a platform. It’s the engine of global innovation. At the heart of this transformation is AWS, delivering resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure that empowers everything from startups to the world’s largest enterprises.

This keynote takes you behind the scenes of how AWS delivers its cloud at scale—across availability zones, regions, and continents. Discover how AWS is redefining cloud infrastructure with advanced automation, sustainable energy practices, hyperscale design, and cutting-edge interconnectivity.

As hyperscalers demand entire campuses, AI workloads reshape power and cooling profiles, and sovereign cloud projects require high-trust isolation, a critical question is emerging: Is the traditional multi-tenant data center model still relevant, or has it outlived its purpose? What does it mean for the future of certification?

As the demand for AI and cloud-native workloads accelerates, the traditional data center must evolve infrastructure design, facility build, and operations in the age of artificial intelligence and high performance computing. This session explores how infrastructure provider OneAs1a are enabling enterprises to navigate this transformative ecosystem by delivering seamless hybrid solutions that connect on-premises, private cloud, and hyperscale environments—across different sectors and workloads.

Thermal management is a key issue as power hungry AI components are being installed in data centers and operators seek new efficient cooling methods that reduce emissions and energy expenditures. This session will discuss how renewable energy projects and cooling technologies enable successful infrastructure integrity.

As AI, cloud, and compute demand reshape digital infrastructure, data centers are no longer just technical facilities—they’re mission-critical assets at the intersection of real estate, energy, and digital transformation.

This session explores how CapitaLand is evolving from a global real estate powerhouse to a key enabler of digital infrastructure, combining its strengths in land acquisition, power procurement, and sustainability with a deep understanding of hyperscale client needs.

While GPU clusters are scaling fast and AI data center design is evolving to handle unprecedented density, one critical layer of infrastructure is falling behind: the network. In the race to enable high-performance AI training and low-latency inference, the limitations of existing network architecture, both inside the data center and across borders are becoming a major bottleneck.

Northeast Asia stands at the frontline of digital infrastructure growth, where sovereign ambitions, AI acceleration, and cross-border demand are reshaping how and where data centers are being built. This session will present a collective outlook on capacity, investment, and sustainability across Northeast Asia.

AI Data Centers are extremely energy intensive and have profound impacts on power grids which emphasizes the requirement for renewable energy. This panel will discuss abilities to enhance power efficiency, downtime reduction, reduce power consumption and heat generation in data centers.

As AI infrastructure scales rapidly across the globe, data centers are being pushed to deliver unprecedented performance supporting workloads that demand extreme density, massive power draw, and low-latency precision. In this race to compute at scale, the industry faces a pressing question: Is energy efficiency enough or does true sustainability require a broader vision?

AI infrastructure is scaling at breakneck speed but behind every high-density rack and GPU cluster is a supply chain under immense pressure. From transformers and generators to cooling systems, structured cabling, and the GPUs themselves, availability is no longer guaranteed and lead times are starting to define deployment strategy more than demand.

The final session will discuss in depth the development of Korea Data Centers from a young market to a highly sophisticated technology hub. With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing, Data Center infrastructures are modernizing and adapting to accommodate these advanced technologies and how new opportunities enable data center companies to enhance and expand their future operations.