Programme
How Tribes, Farms and Digital Rebels are Reshaping the Future
"Pandemics might cause a severe bump in the course of history, but they don't change it. Pandemics can, however, accelerate trends that were already happening and that's what we are seeing right now. I'll be talking about how information technology is creating new industries, transforms societies and changes human behavior, using insights from history, anthropology and technology".
Data Embassy as a Service: Trusted Connectivity on a strategic level
In 2017, Estonia and Luxembourg signed an agreement establishing the world’s first Data Embassy in Luxembourg.
In November 2021 Greenergy - a new large-scale purpose-built data center - will be opened in Estonia creating unique possibilities to offer Data Embassy as a service to nation states, ensuring their countries' digital continuity with particular respect to critical databases.
The presentation will focus on the reasons behind setting up the first Data Embassy, on the required technical prerequisites and on the legal framework. How can private companies utilize this concept? How will the largest and securest data center in the Baltic region change the state of play in hosting critical databases?
CBRE's Data Centre Market Outlook from a European and Finnish perspective; latest research on future capacity requirements and market trends
Isabelle Kemlin, Business Unit Director for the Nordics will provide us with insights into the latest market trends from CBRE Datacenter Solutions Research team regarding the European market, specifically deep-diving into the Finnish market. What distinguish the Finnish market and what are the latest trends affecting it?
Chicken or egg, what was first? Transferring a data center design from the US to Europe and its difficulties thereby
Huawei Smart & Green Data Center Value Proposition
Using natural gas to lower emissions and create revenues
Decarbonisation of Data Centres through Open Source Innovations
The world’s data centers are now estimated to account for up to 2% of CO2 and other greenhouse emissions. Reducing these figures requires a holistic approach. Open Compute evangelist John Laban will discuss the opportunities to lower CO2 emissions through open source innovations.
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2021
Uptime Institute’s 2021 annual survey, now in its 11th year, reveals a vibrant sector that is growing and adapting to rapid change on multiple levels. Owners and operators are taking many different approaches to a range of different challenges, such as improving resiliency, being more sustainable, maintaining staff levels, using the cloud, or building out edge data center capacity.
Looking at the Datacenter Landscape - Update on Datacenter Standards & Future Trends
Coffee Break
The Next Step: towards a carbon negative data center
Data centers: finding a balance between enabling the digital economy and securing critical infrastructure
Forecasting the future of data exchange; measuring & managing the environmental impact and other future developments that will impact the next generation of data centers
In his presentation, Ville Sirviö, CEO at the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), will guide you through past, present and future of data exchange in Europe. Besides highlighting particular ongoing initiatives, he’ll talk about measuring and managing the environmental impact of data exchange and he'll touch on other future developments that will affect the future of data exchange and what this could mean for the future of data centers
End-of-day Panel
International cooperation, geopolitics & critical digital infrastructure
In 2013 the Prime Ministers of Estonia and Finland, Andrus Ansip and Jyrki Katainen, closed the world’s first digitally signed international agreement. The countries agreed to cooperate on developing open-source software and ecosystem solutions that provide unified and secure data exchange between organisations: the X-Road®.
In the end-of-day panel we will invite thought leaders and politicians from both Estonia & Finland to discuss the importance of the project and the possibilities to invite other countries to join the project.
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