The May Fair Hotel, May Fair – 3rd August 2017 - It's time to share......

The UKDCIG was established, 6 years ago as a non-profit peer-to-peer forum to share experiences amongst Data Centre Operators, Policy Makers and Design Experts and to explore innovative methodologies, technologies and best practices and to discuss how forthcoming legislation and policy will impact the sector. The group meets every 3 months.

 The UKDCIG now has over 650 members representing over 320 Data Centre Operators / Owners and a range of leading Data Centre design and build experts.

A key feature of the UKDCIG is the members / attendees are genuine Data Centre Owners / Operators and Design Consultants – no vendors apart from those presenting.

Membership is free of charge but invitation only.

 Benevolent Supporters of The UK Data Centre Sector

Please note that this is a non-profit peer-to-peer gathering – the cost of which (room, food and drinks) is covered by sponsors and the admin support provided free of charge.

On behalf of the UKDCIG, I’d like to thank Smart Buildings, EkkoSense, Belimo, Eltek, Delotas and Endeco, for sponsoring this event - particularly as there’s no sales pitch involved – just benevolent support of our sector – thanks!

Speakers

 We have another great line up of speakers for you….

 All presentations are 10 minutes to keep the format punchy and informative.

Emma Fryer techUK will be providing her regular update on policy issues – Member feedback has established that Emma’s updates are considered one of the most valuable aspects of UKDCIG. 

Success stories are always interesting and I’m very pleased to welcome Mark Davenport, CEO of Smart Buildings in Leeds, who will be presenting “Smart-VUE. How Barclays Bank approached SPOG”

I’m delighted to welcome Dan Crispin Director at Endeco Technologies. Dan will provide a brief on Endeco’s  “Unique technology platform to automatically adjust power consumption in real time to balance the grid" – and the many advantages this provides.

CBRE is a name we’re all familiar with and I’m very pleased to welcome Mark Acton, Critical Services Director, who’ll be providing a briefing along with his insights into “DC Industry Standards”and Tanya Broadfield Senior Environmental Manager will continue this important topic focusing on Energy Standards

Keeping DCs “clean” is of considerable importance and has direct implications on thermal dynamics, energy consumption and risk. I’m very pleased to welcome, for the first time, a specialist DC cleaning company - Delotas. Matthew Peake, Commercial Manager, will be presenting on “DC Cleaning Standards - The four fundamental rules.”

Sophia Flucker, Director at Operational Intelligence, is a highly respected expert in the field of Data Centre optimisation and I’m delighted to welcome her to present on “Learning in the Data Centre Industry”

 I’m also very pleased that we are joined on the 3rd August by Geraint Davies, General Manager & Global Director from Eltek and Geraint's topic will be something we’re all keen to achieve “AlwaysOn Datacenters”

 It’s not so often we see genuine technology innovation in Data Centre facilities management. James Kirkwood – Head of Data Centre Services at EkkoSense – will be presenting The EkkoAir – a world first - measuring actual data centre cooling loads in real-time (and it’s UK technology!) – his topic is “Innovation in Data Centre Thermal Management”.

I’m also delighted to welcome Andy Bartlett Managing Director of Belimo Automation who lead in actuator and valve technology (for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems). Andy will be talking about “Managing Delta-T in your Data Centre”

It's Time to Share

DCIRN – One of the most exciting and ambitious initiatives in the Data Centre industry for many years – encouraging the sharing of information on Data Centre incidents so we can learn and improve reliability and availability (and save money and fewer sleepless nights). Ed Ansett will be here to give us an update and some important announcements. One of the key issues – for reasons we all understand – is around NDAs I’m particularly pleased to welcome our final speaker – Mark Chesterwho is a partner at International lawyers – Eversheds Sutherland. Mark specialises in Data Centres and is here to share his thoughts on this topic and will be happy to answer any questions.

 Please note that the presentations at the event on the 3rd August will finish at 17:15 (not 17:00 as usual)

 Agenda

 A feature of the UKDCIG is that all the presentations are short and punchy – just 10 minutes each.

On behalf of the members - The UK Data Centre Interest Group would like to thank the following Companies for sharing the cost of this event – thanks a lot!

Membership

Please contact

Simon Allen
Membership Secretary
UK Data Centre Interest Group
membership@ukdcig.co.uk
ukdcig.co.uk
07999 589 251

Venue

The May Fair Hotel was opened by King George V in 1927, is a 3-minute walk from Green Park tube station.

Address:Stratton St, London W1J 8LT

THE MAY FAIR HOTEL HISTORY

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, the English aristocracy fled to the west where they built grand homes. In the 1700s, King James granted the rights for an annual fair to be held upon the grounds: the May Fair.

In the 1900s – American aristocracy moved in - the Astors, Pierpoint Morgans, Dudleys and Grosvenors and converted family mansions into London’s most prestigious hotel.