Event Speakers

Meet Our 2026 Speakers

Nabeel Mahmood

Managing Director, Nomad Futurist

Craig Scrooggie

Chief Executive Officer, NextDC

David Dzienciol

Chief Commercial Officer, NEXTDC

Jing Zhou

Senior Director, Data Center, Alternatives and Strategic Transactions, Nuveen (Hong Kong)

Jack Dan

Chief Strategy Officer, CDC

Sumit Mukhija

Chief Executive Officer, DCI Data Centers
Kate Mitchell

Kate Mitchell

Fund Manager – Data Centres, Centuria Capital Group
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Chris Thorpe

Founder and CEO, Leading Edge Data Centres

Beth Gentle

National Services Manager, Australian IT Services

Shayne Kumar

Head of Energy, NEXTDC

Michael Gold

General Manager Data Centre Investments, Macquarie Technology Group

Jennifer Cooper

Director, Urbis

Marcel Zalloua

Chief Executive Officer, ResetData

Laura Caspari

Chief Renewables Officer, ENGIE Au

Kavickumar Muruganathan

ESG Policy & Planning Director APAC, Microsoft (Singapore)

Baz Tarhini

Project Director (Data Centres), Hickory

Philipp Schluter

Sustainability and Efficiency Specialist, Camfil

Nauman Akhtar

Co-Chief Executive Officer, INSITE DC

Rana Qadir

President - Melbourne Chapter, AFCOM

Tim Gentle

President Sydney Chapter, AFCOM

John Henderson

General Manager, Pulse Data Centre

Sabiene Heindl

Chief Executive Officer, The Energy Charter

Richard Pawlik

General Manager Infrastructure Investment, AusNet

Frank McMahon

Regional Director, Multiplex

Andrew Green

AG Squared Consulting, Independent Data Centre Consultant

James Magill

Executive General Manager Origin Zero, Origin Energy

Fredrik Johansson

Founder and Managing Director, Balder Investment (Singapore)

Benjamin Martin-Henry

Executive Director & Head of Private Assets Research, Pacific, MSCI

Kirk Wetherrell

Head of Data Centres Vertical, Siemens AU/NZ

James Dodsworth

Global head of data centres, Partner, London, White & Case (UK)

Ken Ong

Security and Access Solutions Leader, Honeywell

Timothy Hibbert

Head of Property & Building Forecasting, Oxford Economics

Michael Negri

Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Precast

Rob Hammond

Director, Global Data Centre Lead, TBH

Tony Gaunt

Vice President Product Management, Vertiv

Luke Jackson

Co-Head of Data Centres, Capital Markets, Asia Pacific, JLL

Natalie Dragovic

Data Center Facilities Engineering Manager, Fujitsu

Janne Paananen

Data Center Systems Architect, Eaton (Finland)

Luke Jackson

Co-Head of Data Centres, Capital Markets, Asia Pacific, JLL

Heath McNab

Managing Director, MBC Group

Alina Melikhova

Conference Producer, FuturePlace