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Mumbai Cloud & Datacenter Convention & Awards 2024

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Event Venue
22 November 2024
Hotel Sahara Star,Mumbai
8:00 AM
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6:00 PM
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Event Brief

Mumbai Cloud & Datacenter Convention & Awards Show Returns November 2024

The Indian Data Center & Cloud Market is taking giant leaps.

India is the second fastest-growing digital economy and it is projected that IT and Communications sector will double in size by 2025 to contribute US $355-435 billion to GDP. Nevertheless, nothing worth having comes easy!

Along with this exponent potential for growth in the Data Center, Cloud and Cyber Security market come the test of Performance, Flexibility concerns, Power management, Data Center staff productivity, Security & more…..

There are inherent limits to what Data Centres, Cloud & Cybersecurity can do! As tech enthusiast, we at W.Media will make sure that you all are well versed with all the current & future updates of the industry. This Physical Conference will take you through the pressing reformations of Datacentres, Cloud & Cybersecurity mitigations and how they are framing the future.

Event Agenda
Plenary Session
CenterStage
8:00 AM
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Main Hall
Registration
8:45 AM
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8:50 PM
Main Hall
Lamp Lighting Ceremony
8:50 AM
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Hall 1
Welcome Address by Hall Chairperson
9:10 AM
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9:20 AM
Hall 1
Special Address: Planning for the Growth of Mumbai’s Data Centres

Mumbai’s continuing growth as an economic, cultural and population hub has propelled it to the status of an economic alpha city, the commercial capital of India and to a global mega city.  This status is reflected  also in its digital and tech status. The city is home to a number of global tech giants; technology is actively supported by the Maharashtra Government and talent can be sourced from local tertiary institutions. Digitalisation is driven by a number of key local industries – finance, creative industries, education, manufacturing, logistics – so the key sources of demand are already close to hand.  This raises a number of key questions for local data centres including:        

  • What is the most likely projected level of growth for data centres in the Mumbai region?
  • How is this likely to impact resources including energy (grid and renewable), water, money for build and operation, skills, construction resources, data centre hardware and software, other resources?
  • What medium and longer-term planning is required to ensure the availability of sufficient digital infrastructure to meet demand. 
9:20 AM
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10:00 AM
Hall 1
Power Panel Discussion: Will AI break India’s Internet or mend it?

Artificial Intelligence has been around for some time – the term was first used almost 70 years ago. In its most recent incarnation it seems to have arrived quickly into the data centre eco-system and is now considered a major source of future growth for the data centre sector although there are a wide range of projections as to precisely how much growth there will be over the next few years.  In this context this power panel will share its insights into this key demand trend:

  • How far advanced are Mumbai data centres in terms of providing capacity for demand arising from AI deployment?
  • Is AI seen just as a source of demand or as a possible operational solution? Why/why not?
  • How will the role of AI change over the next few years?
Speaker
Surajit Chatterjee
Managing Director, CapitaLand Investment, Data Centre Group
Speaker
Sharad Agarwal
CEO, Sify Infinit Spaces Limited
Moderator
Narendra Sen
Founder & CEO, RackBank
Speaker
Vipin Shirsat
Managing Director, Princeton Digital Group
Speaker
Sujeet Deshpande
CEO & Co-Founder(India), Lumina CloudInfra
10:00 AM
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10:20 AM
Main Hall
Keynote Address: Fitting out an AI data centre - what’s new?

How is an ‘AI data centre’ different from other data centres in terms of design and operation? What are the specific requirements of fit out to prepare for an AI workload? How is it possible for data centre equipment to future proof?

Speaker
Shaheen Meeran
Vice President- Business Development, International at Schneider Electric
10:20 AM
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10:40 AM
Hall 1
Keynote Address - Mastering maximum availability & energy efficiency. Can a highly efficient UPS Systems be further optimized?
Speaker
Dr. Antonio Coccia
Group VP - Business development, Riello UPS
10:40 AM
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11:40 AM
Expo Hall
Tea/Coffee Break + Tech Talks on Expo Floor
11:40 AM
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12:20 PM
Hall 1
Panel Discussion: What does legislation hold in store for Mumbai’s data centres?

The speed at which digital services are evolving and increasing their reach represents a challenge for legislators. Technology moves at speed and key players know that time lost in commercializing technologies and building data centres is money lost also. Governments will be slower in their considerations and this creates a widening gap. There are many areas that legislation can and has touched in terms of data centres – location and build, resource consumption, HR practices, Data sovereignty, security of data among others. Where will the legislative focus lie moving forward?

  • What are the key pieces of recent and upcoming legislation that the industry needs to be aware of?
  • What does each of them (possibly) mean? Will they be growth-friendly or restrictive?
Speaker
Syed Mohamed Beary
Founder & Chairman, Bearys Group
Speaker
Shri. Sumnesh Joshi
Deputy Director General, Meity
Speaker
Shri. Kaustubh Dhavse
Joint Secretary & Officer on Special Duty to Hon. Deputy Chief Minister Govt. Of Maharashtra
Moderator
Vivek Dahiya
Head - Data Centre Advisory Team, Asia Pacific, Cushman & Wakefield
12:20 PM
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1:00 PM
Hall 1
Panel Discussion: How will Mumbai’s data centres be cooled in 2030?

The future for Mumbai’s data centres will be based on increasing demand for their services. Therefore, unless sufficient new data centres are built to cater for greater demand, some or most of the workload will fall to existing data centres. Greater demand will lead to increased IT load in existing data centres which can support that and this will means the upgrading of power distribution and cooling:

  • How, broadly, will Mumbai’s data centres change over the next 5 years?
  • What will these changes mean for how the region’s data centres will need to deal with cooling/heat removal?
  • Will current cooling technologies and methods be sufficient for the task?
  • If not, what advances are required?
Speaker
Liam Mc Dermott
Global Sales Development Manager – Datacentres, Grundfos
Speaker
Madhur Sehgal
Head of Climate Solutions Sales, India, Danfoss
Speaker
Roy Samuels
APAC Director- Technical, CBRE
Speaker
Rajgopal Nayak
CTO, Metro Brands Limited
Speaker
Christopher Daniel Leahy
Project Director, Deerns Group
Moderator
Mahesh Trivedi
Data Center Advisor, DC Consultant
1:00 PM
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1:45 PM
Expo Hall
Lunch Break & Networking
1:45 PM
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2:05 PM
Hall 1
Keynote Address: Building next generation data centers for the hyperscale and AI era.
Speaker
Vinod Javur
COO, Digital Edge DC
2:05 PM
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2:45 PM
Hall 1
Panel: How to optimise automation across your digital infrastructure?

Automation has long played a role in data centre operations but over recent years its role has increased. This is due to advances in automation technologies and systems, to a growing industry requirement to reduce the risks associated with running data centres (including human error) and to external events such as COVID which reduced the number of humans working inside data centres. Our expert panel will discuss:

  • Where in data centres is automation most commonly being deployed? For what purposes?
  • What can be learned from comparing where it is effective and where it is less so?
  • How can successful automation strategies be developed?
Speaker
Ashwin Ijantkar
Director, Epsilon Design Consultancy
Speaker
Zoyeb Pawaskar
Associate Director, NV5 Data Centre & Mission Critical
Speaker
Prafulla Savarkar
Director - Design, Lumina CloudInfra ·
Moderator
Sandeep Dandekar
Data Center Industry Expert
2:45 PM
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3:25 PM
1
Data centre as real estate: How important is this perspective?

Data centres have attracted considerable attention as key enablers of the digital economy and society.  Yet, as recent mergers and acquisitions have indicated, investor interest in data centres is healthy and the sector has an important function as a real estate asset class. How do Real Estate investors view the sector and its future prospects? What are their views on the opportunities presented by hyperscale in India? What are their bases for this view?

Speaker
Sukrit Anand
VP- Strategy and Investment, Digital Connexion
Speaker
Ramaiy Kapoor
Director, Real Assets Group, Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited
Moderator
Ameya Gumaste
Executive Director And Country Head, Linesight
3:25 PM
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4:05 PM
Hall 1
Panel Discussion: Has Edge’s day arrived with the advent of AI?

Edge as an IT delivery architecture still tends to be viewed as a niche rather than as a mainstream option. In part this may be due to some issues of definition and deployment uncertainty. It is possible that just as global cloud providers became associated with ‘hyperscale’ so the technologies driving digital transformation may become associated with Edge. Our expert panel will delve into this scenario:

  • How far has Edge rolled out as a delivery architecture in Mumbai?
  • Who is leading in the deployment of this architecture? 
  • How far has the adoption of AI progressed?  How is AI being deployed? How will it be? 
  • Is Edge seen as a key means of deploying AI? Why/why not?
  • In which situations will be it most effective?
Speaker
Kamlesh Harchandani
VP & Head- Design and Development Data Center, CapitaLand India
Speaker
Amit Agrawal
President - Datacenter, Techno Electric
Moderator
Gaurav Srivastava
Head of Technology – BHIM, National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
Speaker
Vishal Sinha
Head - Data Analytics Platform & Architecture, Jio
Speaker
Sudhir Kunder
Chief Business Officer, DE-CIX India
4:05 PM
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4:20 PM
Expo Hall
Coffee Break & Networking
4:20 PM
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5:00 PM
Hall 1
Panel Discussion: How to manage rising densities in your data centres and networks?

Each successive generation of IT applications and services requires more power and greater connectivity to function. With more people in India also joining the digital world, the power capacity of data centres across India increased by a factor of almost five between 2014 and 2024 and some projections suggest that it will more than double by the end of the decade. This raises some big questions for data centre owners, operators and customers:

  • To what extent are rack densities rising in local data centres and networks?
  • How is this being managed?
  • What are the roles of strategies to access more power, consume less power, colocate or migrate footprint, other options?
  • How will this situation evolve into the future?
Speaker
Marc Betz
Managing Director - APAC, RED
Speaker
Satish Pengal
Sr. Director & Head of IT, Upstox
Speaker
R. Balakrishna
VP & Head - MEP Design, Larsen & Toubro (Buildings & Factory Division)
Moderator
Sreejith. G
Vice President - Operations, ST Telemedia Global Datacenters India
Speaker
Brahmareddy Kasu
President - Datacenter Infrastructure, CtrlS Datacenters
Speaker
Ravi Chaudhary
Reliance JIO Limited
5:00 PM
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5:40 PM
Hall 1
Panel Discussion: Can the datacentre industry in Mumbai deliver on greater sustainability of its own accord?

The very strong projected growth of demand for data centre services raises questions of the energy, environmental and social costs of such expansion, which this panel will consider:

  • Where do the responsibilities for delivering on sustainability outcomes currently lie?
  • How does this vary by different areas of sustainability?
  • Is the current alignment of responsibility effective? Where does it work, where does it not?
  • Can data centres in Mumbai deliver without the involvement of external players?
Speaker
Ashish Joshi,
Director Procurement & Asset Management, A Leading DC Company
Speaker
Durgesh Pandey
CFO, Web Werks Data Centers India
Speaker
Andrew Green
Regional Data Centre Practice Lead, JLL
Speaker
Ganesh Pawar
Director- IBX Operations, India, Equinix
Moderator
Tanvi Kapoor
EHS Program Manager- Google DC India
5:40 PM
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6:15 PM
Hall 1
Panel Discussion: The current and future roles of blockchain in data centre management and operation

A considerable amount of industry and mainstream media coverage has been devoted in recent years to the rise of AI. Yet AI is just one of a number of emerging digital technologies which offer future opportunities for digitalisation inside and outside the data centre. This panel will look at blockchain:

  • How is blockchain currently being used in the operation of local data centres?
  • How else might it be used across the industry?
  • Which factors will drive the use of blockchain?
Moderator
Ashish Limaye
Head of Procurement - India, Colt Data Centre Services
Speaker
Abhishek Sukhwal
Head of Infrastructure, Mahindra Group
Speaker
Jeyabalan Kuthalingam
Head - Engineering, Princeton digital Group India
Speaker
Neilmani Sahu
Head - IT, JSW Paints
6:15 PM
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7:00 PM
Hall 1
Presentation Ceremony for South Asia Awards
6:30 PM
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Main Hall
Closing Remarks & Networking with Drinks
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