Stockholm 2022

The Medium is the Message: A Forgotten Macro Perspective on Data Centers

Stakeholders at the forefront in key industries are as keen as ever to implement ambitious new goals in data management, talent acquisition, innovation, sustainability, and the list goes on – all under the banner of "future ready". A visionary roadmap, however, requires proper vision of the territory. And as the digital tsunami has rushed across the globe, the territory has radically changed with it. In other worlds, the new territory demands a new worldview. To unlock the frontiers that await all industries in general, and the data center industry in particular, a new map – a radically new perspective of the territory – is needed more than ever.

Keynote

Creating a Sustainability Strategy

The Uptime Institute has developed a series of reports that define a strategic and practical guide for digital infrastructure sustainability. This presentation will discuss the key elements to include in a sustainability strategy, the actions necessary for a successful implementation, and the processes required to measure progress against goals and objectives.

Research Projects & Emerging Technologies That Could Reshape the Datacenter Industry in the Next Five Years
 

RISE has been involved in several projects to deal with emerging technologies. How can we combine fuel cells and liquid cooling and make it better for heat re-use? Are there benefits in load balancing, energy arbitrage and frequency ancillary services in edge deployments? How can we deal with hardware accelerators in an air-cooled white space? And what is in our scope for sustainability improvements?

Is Your Data Center Ready for the Journey to 400/800G?

Which road will you take? Alberto will examine the implications of the migration to 400G/800G on your data center environment, highlighting the technologies available today, the design implications you need to be aware of, as well as how to approach planning for and delivering this successfully in the years to come. With more than 20 years of experience in structured cabling, Alberto has authored and presented numerous papers at industry conferences worldwide concerning network cabling and data center design. Today, he applies this learning in designing data center infrastructure and network architecture for sites around the world.

New Decade = New Challenges: CAPEX vs. OPEX vs. Availability

Robert will highlight today’s challenges facing the data center industry and discuss the possible ways to address the crisis the sector faces.

Sustainable Datacenter – How?

How should we start? How should we prioritise? How should we rank energy efficiency measures? Learn about the main topics needed to make the most out of your facility.

Ready. Set. 800G

While 400G Ethernet optical transceivers are used in hyperscale data centers, and many enterprise businesses are currently operating on 40G or 100G, data center connectivity development is moving towards 800G. While “big picture” perspectives on the move to 800G are being discussed for some time, this presentation will talk about the choices in available tools and what network operators need to know to be ready for making the move. The question is not whether data center operators need to upgrade to meet the increasing demand for bandwidth, but when and how. The good news is that with a flexible infrastructure, it is possible to upgrade from 100 to 400 to 800G with surprisingly few changes.

DCIM in the Real World – Reducing Risk and Increasing Efficiency, Illustrated Using Customer Reviews

Sunbird Software is changing the way data centers are being managed. With a focus on real user scenarios for real customer problems, they help data center operators manage tasks and processes faster and more efficiently than ever before, while saving money and improving availability. Come and see how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software with powerful, in-built monitoring and control helps to reduce risk and increase efficiencies of people, processes, and technology.

Sustainable and Future-Ready Cooling at the Server Level

Data centers and decentral “edge” installations have evolved in recent years. Organizations recognize the technical and business value of deploying modular, scalable, and more precisely-defined infrastructure. This value comes from repeatable, pre-configured, and quality-assured components that grow with business and IT growth. However, growth is not exclusively in the data center sector or its installations. Heat load is increasing along with packing density. So, how can you ensure that energy costs remain manageable as IT infrastructure grows, while ensuring data availability at all times? In this session, we will look at traditional ways of cooling and focus on new technologies such as direct-to-chip or immersion cooling.

Data Center Changemakers Sweden – Episode 1

Live talk show with the people who are changing the face of the data center industry, hosted & moderated by Liselotte Lyngsø, Founder of Future Navigator.

Hybrid IT & Multicloud

Over the past decade, the number of companies that have adopted various cloud solutions has risen exponentially. Recently, however, many of these same companies have also discovered the value of keeping their business-critical data in house in a micro data center. A strategy on where to put business-critical data is vital for organisations; just like you don't place your new sports car under a chestnut tree, you don't place your micro data center in a broom closet. In reality, there are important considerations: who has access to the data? Is the data physically surveilled? It's up to data center professionals to decide.

Guests: Per Bergman (Enterprise Architect, Atea), Erik Lie Gjesdal (Segment Manager, C&SP Nordic Baltic Region, Schneider Electric), Stefan Nilsson (Sales & Marketing Manager, Conapto), and Luca Minoja (Founder & CEO, STORViX)

Can the Nordics Become the Sustainable Digital Backbone of Europe?

A market outlook of the Nordic data center Industry in relation to the FLAP-D market.

Data Center Challenge: So You Think You Know Data Centers?

In this workshop / challenge, you can test yourself and demonstrate how much you know about data centers! After a short introduction, we will launch a quiz that contains 9 questions about different data center disciplines, including facilities, operations, networking, and risks. The top three will win a free EPI training on demand (TOD) course! Are you up to the challenge? Join us to learn more and find out!

Dynamic Grid Support

The Future of Sustainable & Scaleable Data Center UPS Power
In the presentations concepts are discussed which allow including of on-site renewables and fast frequency response (FFR) options in the secured power supply of today’s datacenters. Different design concepts are compared and evaluated. Examples for existing installations will be shown.

Data Center Cabling: What is Needed for a Successful Data Center Project?

Vattenfall Power-as-a-Service: Make a Profit off your Electrical Equipment

Let Vattenfall buy your high-voltage equipment and take over its ownership so you can free up cash to invest in other parts of your business.

Terabit Ethernet on the Horizon

In this presentation , Arne will cover 4 key topics:

Datacenter speed trends
Flattening the network
Connectivity types
How to prepare your network for the future

Create a New Income Stream: Don’t Let Your Excess Heat Go to Waste

Data Center Changemakers Sweden – Episode 2

Live talk show with the people who are changing the face of the data center industry, hosted & moderated by Liselotte Lyngsø, Founder of Future Navigator.

Part I: Circular Data Center Economy
 

✅ Embodied carbon – Between volatile international energy markets and the climate crisis, energy is a key consideration for data center sustainability. Yet, energy usage is not the only way that data centers can tackle their carbon footprint. Quite possibly it is not even the most important one. We take a close look at everything you need to know about embodied carbon & Scope 3 emissions, paying special attention to the major impact the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities will have on the entire data center value chain.

✅ Heat recovery  – We'll present an overview of successful projects all over the Nordics and dive deeper into this topic with a case study from EcoDataCenter.

✅ Life cycle assessment – By accounting for the entirety of a data center’s life cycle, it's possible to keep track of where the main sustainability-related impacts stem from in the data center value chain. This will impact future data center design, build, and operations in a way that everyone in the industry needs to understand.

Guests: Ali Moinuddin (Chief Corporate Development Officer, Uptime Institute), John Booth (Committee Member, EU Code of Conduct for Datacenters & Founder, Carbon3IT), Lars Schedin (Senior Advisor & Co-founder, EcoDataCenter), and Linda Waxin (Co-founder & CEO, T.Loop)

Part II: The Nordics as the Sustainable Digital Backbone of Europe

An abundance of renewable energy, political stability, great (inter)continental connectivity, a skilled workforce: the Nordics are in a great position to become the sustainable digital backbone of Europe. In this final segment, the five Nordic data center associations will look at the challenges and opportunities to transform the Nordics into the digital backbone of Europe.

Guests: Pär Aberg (Chairman, Swedish Datacenter Industry), Timo Ranne (Board Member, Finnish Data Center Association), Atle Haga (Vice-Chairman, Norwegian Datacenter Industry), Thomas Volder (Chairman, Danish Data Center Industry), and Björn Brynjulfsson (Chairman, Data Centers by Iceland)