DAY TWOWednesday, 9 September 2026

Plenary

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Conference Plenary

8:55am - 9:00am

Day Two Chair’s Welcome

Nadine ‘Noodles’ Groves - Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Natural Velocity

9:00am - 9:35am

INDUSTRY KEYNOTE | Democratising AI and building compute capacity to spread the benefits of AI

Corentin Petit - Global Solutions Director, Mistral AI

9:35am - 10:00am

HEADLINER SPONSOR KEYNOTE

Tanya Monro - Chief Defence Scientist, Defence, Science and Technology Group, Australian Department of Defence

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Data Center World • Conference

Data Center World • Showcase Theatre

10:00am - 10:30am

Networking Break | Expo Hall Opens (10am-2pm)

10:30am - 10:35am

Day Two Chair’s Welcome | DATA CENTER WORLD AUSTRALIA

Amy Marks - SVP Innovation & Sustainability, Compass Datacenters

10:35am - 11:00am

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE | Can You Handle What’s Coming? Operating at Scale in the Age of AI

Sergio Loureiro - Vice President of Global Data Center Operations, Amazon Web Services

11:00am - 11:25am

FIRESIDE CHAT | Why Australia Matters in Anthropic's Global AI Infrastructure Expansion

David Masters - Head of Policy, Australia & New Zealand, Anthropic
Belinda Dennett - CEO, Data Centres Australia

11:25am - 11:50am

KEYNOTE | Building Australia's Digital Future: Growth, Communities and National Prosperity

Greg Boorer - Founder & CEO, CDC Data Centres

11:50am - 12:20pm

PANEL DISCUSSION | Site Strategies: Keeping Australia Competitive

Rana Qadir - President Melbourne Chapter, AFCOM
Alex Moffatt - Sr. Director Acquisitions APAC, BDX
Cameron Evans - Director, Data Center Planning and Delivery, APAC, Amazon Web Services
Preet Gona - CEO Asia Pacific, STACK Infrastructure

12:20pm - 1:30pm

LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK | EXHIBITION HALL

1:30pm - 2:15pm

PANEL DISCUSSION | Renewables, Clean Energy and Data Center Sustainability

Amy Marks - SVP Innovation & Sustainability, Compass Datacenters
Joao Almeida - General Manager and Director of Global Business, Xenon
Mark Deguara - Technology Innovation Leader, Schneider Electric Pacific Zone
Nate Turner - CEO, Hayzel

2:15pm - 3:00pm

PANEL DISCUSSION | Working with the grid

Bernard Norton - Managing Director, Hitachi Energy, Australia
Govind Singh - Associate Vice President for Energy Strategy, AirTrunk
Daniel Nugent - Trading and Transition Executive, EnergyAustralia
Amy Marks - SVP Innovation & Sustainability, Compass Datacenters

3:00pm - 3:25pm

FIRESIDE CHAT | Quantum and the Data Center

Petra Andren - CEO, Quantum Australia
Lara Wilkinson - Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Initiatives, Diraq

3:25pm - 3:30pm

Closing remarks

3:30pm - 3:35pm

Conference close

10:00am - 10:10am

Expo Hall Opens (10am-2pm)

10:10am - 10:15am

Data Centres Australia Showcase Theatre Welcome Remarks

10:15am - 10:45am

Programmed/ Specialised | Workforce Planning as Operational Risk Mitigation in Data Centers

Ahmad Siddiqui - GM Operational Excellence, Programmed
Mark Simmons - Director, Technical Project Manager, Specialised

10:45am - 11:15am

Nokia Solutions | Nokia in AI Era: The Invisible Advantage

Dion Leung, Ph.D. - Head of AI & Cloud Asia Pacific, Nokia
Jeremy Johnson, Nokia

11:15am - 11:45am

Munters | Building Flexible, Efficient Cooling for the AI Era

Brendan Vos - Director of Offer Strategy APAC at Munters Data Center Technologies, Munters

11:45am - 11:50am

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