Registration, breakfast coffee, exhibition, networking & 1-1 meetings 

Welcome and launch of Danish Data Center Industry Market 2025 – Trends, Investment Analysis and Growth Opportunities 

by Lars Aagaard, Danish Minister for Energy & Climate

Ali Syed, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure, Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI)

Sune Tornbo Baastrup, EVP, CIO, Danfoss

Organisations cannot scale their cloud and AI solutions without reshaping their technology function to enable this massive shift towards artificial intelligence. Taking an “AI everywhere” approach to revisiting the technology stack is a critical first step. How can IT leaders implement a sustainable AI strategy and how will demand be met?

This panel will focus on the following: 

• AI readiness: How are Danish organisations embracing AI applications? 
• AI in the cloud, on-prem or both? 
• How ready are we in Denmark to meet the needs of AI? Infrastructure vs. policy vs. culture
• How can we tackle AI’s environmental footprint? 

With 

• Mette Louise Kaagaard, General Manager/CEO, Microsoft, Denmark and Iceland
• Bo Svejstrup, Partner Financial Services, PwC and Former CTO, Danske Bank
• Peter Harden, Country Manager, Google Cloud
• Søren Overholt Nicolaisen, Director of Cloud Infrastructure, Novo Nordisk

How AI is changing the game rules of server and chip technology – what should the industry prepare for? 

How will it impact data center topology?

As the demand for data continues to grow to unprecedented levels, innovation and collaboration “outside the fence” becomes central to data center sustainability. How do we future proof a sustainable pathway for the industry? 

This panel focuses on: 

• Cross-sector collaboration and public-private partnerships
• Reviewing innovative energy models – renewables, alternative power sources, tariffs and models
• Demand response and grid resilience– how to improve flexibility and offer backup power sources to the grid?
• Data center heat reuse applications for district heating and other applications – how do we move the needle
• Outlook: Regulatory and compliance incentives: Is the EED enough, or should we go beyond?

Key European data center hubs are facing data center buildout constraints due to land and power availability. As AI is being rolled out, the Nordics are positioned as a promising region for hosting sustainable high-density workloads. 

This panel will focus on: 

• Assessing how the energy availability crises in EU’s tier 1 markets influence data center site selection strategies
• Does the Nordics have what it takes to host the most efficient AI and HPC workloads? How well do we perform in connectivity, energy, skills, innovation and security? 
• Could other emerging European markets outperform the Nordics?

Moderator: Bent Dalager, Partner and Nordic Head of NewTech, KPMG

Panel: 

• Maria Sundvall, CEO, Fuzion & CEO CapMan Infra’s Datacenter Platform 
• Atle Haga, VP of Strategy and Development in the Nordics, Stack Infrastructure
• Patrick Van Der Wilt, CCO, Penta Infra 
• Simon Jones, Sales Director, Digital Realty

The Net Zero Innovation Hub is a pan-European initiative which seeks to address key sectoral challenges through concrete innovation projects and establishing stronger links between operators, suppliers, and governments. 

The Hub Projects aim to de-risk the scale-up of innovative solutions by removing barriers around: technology, market off-take, regulation and financing. 

The panel will focus on: 

• Carbon-free energy - specifically technologies delivering controllable 24/7 carbon-free power, alternatives to diesel back-up generators, grid-connected data centers µogrids
• Data center heat reuse - for various applications including district heating systems, industry and energy 

Speakers:

• Alberto Ravagni, CEO, Net Zero Innovation Hub for Data Centers