With nearly a decade in the industry, Amy spent the early part of her career delivering data centre builds for industry leading clients such as Dell, IBM, Ericsson and Vodafone. She then joined AECOM in early 2014 to drive mission critical engineering across EMEA and APAC. Her unique insight drove AECOM to become an industry thought leader and partner of choice for many global corporations and smaller niche data center operators. Amy has now joined NTT as Director in the Hyperscale team to continue NTT’s successful relationships and delivery for many of the household names in the Data Centre industry.

Jan-Pieter Anten is the Group Managing Director EMEA at Interxion, a Digital Realty company responsible for leading, driving and growing the business in EMEA.

Jan-Pieter joined Interxion in 2011 as part of the Interxion Executive Team with a focus on Human Resources. Since then Jan-Pieter has fulfilled multiple roles within the company. Together with the Interxion Executive Team, Jan-Pieter contributed to the vast expansion of the Interxion business and at the same time transformed the organization to be ready for future sustainable growth. Since 2011 the company has almost tripled in revenue and is continuing to grow double digits year over year.

Prior to joining Interxion Jan-Pieter was responsible for the International Strategic Clients Europe at Hay Group, a global management consulting firm focused on combining business and people. Before Hay Group he was part of the Executive Team of Synthon, an international pharmaceutical organization.

Jan-Pieter’s wide consultancy experience has given him a good insight in how different businesses operate and combined with his broad expertise in Human Resources he sees beyond the financial business numbers.

Jan-Pieter has a degree from the University of Utrecht.

Nabeel Mahmood is a Technologist, Futurist and a Keynote Speaker. His career is driven by one question – what’s next? He is passionate about the power of technology to deliver competitive and transformational change and the need to develop digital leadership that will create the enterprise of the future. He believes strongly in simplification, with a purpose. Nabeel brings 18 plus years of experience leading large-scale global technology organizations through seasons of explosive growth via M&A, global expansion, implementing new business models and technology innovation. His expertise includes leading organizations through transformation changes, connecting IT to the needs of the business, technology innovation, Big Data, Cloud, ERP, IoT, Mobility and Data Centers. He brings a unique blend of experiences spanning the entire breadth of technology from Grid to Chip. At, heart he’s a true technologist and futurist, he is a proven strategist, winsome communicator and leader with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. Nabeel is a strategic CIO identifying opportunities that are being underpinned by emerging technologies. He serves on multiple boards and is an advisor to CIOs and CEO across a number of industries.

At AtlasEdge, Zahl is responsible for the smooth operation of our edge data centre portfolio, including operations and engineering, design and construction, physical and cyber security, sustainability, procurement and programme management.

Before joining AtlasEdge, Zahl founded, led and exited three technology start-ups, as well as held operational and leadership positions in international telecom and data centre companies around the world. Zahl has lived and worked in Europe, America and Asia, building and leading technical and business leadership teams, with some of the world’s largest companies as clients. He has a deep experience of all aspects of telecoms and data centres.

Sam is from the UK where he lives with his wife, their 3 kids, and a lot of dogs. A crowded, happy

house.

13+ years of experience in Sales and previous engineering leadership positions, starting at

Emerson Network power 10 years ago. Sam joined UK & IRE team as a Key Account manager,

progressing to Key Account Director 5.5 years ago, and is currently managing the Colo and

Hyperscale team with a budget of over $500m.

What you can expect from Sam: analytical, results-oriented, a problem solver with a strategic

mindset. Versatile, and able to navigate the matrix organization across countries. A fast learner,

currently undertaking an MBA program.