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DCN Milan >> Tech Stage Agenda

Tech Stage Agenda

10:30 - 10:45

Tech Stage 1

Building the AIDC foundation to maximize tokens per watt

The AI era is transforming Data Center infrastructure at unprecedented speed, creating new challenges in reliability, energy efficiency, deployment time and scalability. As AI clusters move toward GW-scale capacity, traditional design and construction approaches are no longer sufficient.
This keynote will explore how next-generation AI Data Centers must evolve through innovative power architectures, advanced liquid cooling, multi-level energy storage, AI-driven operations and modular prefabricated deployment models.
 
The session will highlight Huawei’s vision for future-ready AI infrastructure, designed to accelerate Time-To-Market, improve operational resilience and support the sustainable growth of computing power without being limited by facility constraints.

Tech Stage 2

Deploying water mist in the dynamic and fast growing data center industry: An outlook from liquid cooling to Li-ion batteries

The data center market is evolving at an accelerated pace, but the standardization process is struggling to keep up with the rapid technological advancements. The challenges we faced yesterday are no longer the same as those we face today, and we can already anticipate new ones in the near future. Data centers are continually adopting new layouts within the same basic infrastructure. Liquid cooling is altering room temperatures, air flow, and cable configurations, all while creating new system obstructions. Power requirements are growing, with sites expanding from 5MW to campuses nearing 400MW with AI, and the equipment inside is following suit, putting a significant strain on facilities.
 
Rack power, which was once between 1-5kW just a few years ago, increased to 20kW with the introduction of Li-ion batteries. Now, we’re seeing server racks with power loads of up to 150kW, utilizing fully immersion or L2L cooling systems. The cable tray levels have never been so dense and packed.
 

Meanwhile, sprinkler systems are not evolving at the same rate — this is the era of water mist technology. The presentation will explore project experiences, design approaches, and strategies to address these challenges.

10:50 - 11:05

Tech Stage 1

THE POWER BEHIND AI. GRID-FREE POWER. ALWAYS ON.

When surging power demand outpaces the grid, innovation becomes mission critical.
Langley delivers a proven, behind-the-meter power solution providing scalable, stabilized, utility-grade power – exactly where and when it’s needed.
 
Langley’s Power Solutions Division brings together three wholly owned subsidiaries, each a global leader in their field: Bergen Engines (formerly Rolls-Royce Bergen Engines) of Norway; Italian generator specialist Marelli Motori; and Germany’s gold standard in power conditioning and stabilization, Piller Power Systems.
 
Designed for speed and scale, our modular solutions can be rapidly deployed up to 500+ MW and beyond, dramatically cutting lead times. While traditional grid connections can take a decade or more, Langley’s unrivalled time-to-power enables critical infrastructure to move forward – without waiting for the grid to catch up.

Tech Stage 2

From liquid cooling to integrated infrastructure: Mitsubishi Electric’s new CDU for AI-ready data centers

Liquid cooling, powered by Mitsubishi Electric’s Coolant Distribution Units (ME-CDU), represents a crucial response to modern thermal challenges. In this landscape, hybrid air-liquid systems are emerging as the strategic choice to balance operational efficiency, scalability, and economic sustainability. This Mitsubishi Electric guide explores the technical foundations and financial advantages of these solutions, providing a clear roadmap for European data center owners navigating this technological transition.

11:05 - 11:30

EXPO AREA

Coffee Break

11:30 - 11:45

Tech Stage 1

From burden to backbone - How data centers become good grid citizens

As demand for digital services grows, data centers are becoming both critical infrastructure and major electricity consumers, placing increasing pressure on power grids. Being a good grid citizen is no longer optional: regulators and utilities expect data centers to actively support grid stability and renewable integration. We will explore how grid‑interactive UPS systems, intelligent microgrids, and smart energy management enable data centers to move from passive consumers to proactive energy partners—stabilizing the grid, reducing costs, and accelerating decarbonization.

Tech Stage 2

The dual-cell cooling architecture

A dual-cell cooling architecture offers a hybrid approach to improving efficiency, resilience, and operational control in modern data centers. By combining complementary cooling principles, it supports stable performance across varying climate conditions and IT loads while enabling redundancy and service continuity.
 

This session will explore how hybrid cooling strategies can balance energy and water consumption to improve sustainability metrics such as PUE and WUE, how modular and scalable designs can adapt to growing IT demands, and how intelligent control systems optimize performance under different operating conditions. It will also examine how operators can prioritize energy efficiency, water savings, or a balanced approach depending on site objectives and environmental constraints.

11:50 - 12:05

Tech Stage 1

AI-native data center: From data to application experience, with the self driving network

This session will focus on DC Infrastructure. Private Cloud and On Premises continue to be very relevant, enterprises reassess public cloud strategies, many are shifting business-critical workloads back to on-premises environments due to concerns around cost, performance, and security. This trend is driving renewed investment in private data centers and colocation facilities to build agile, highly available private cloud infrastructures. However, modern data center networks are increasingly complex, consisting of thousands of physical and logical components that are difficult to manage manually. Traditional network management approaches often suffer from limited application visibility, slow change processes, and reliability issues caused by configuration and automation errors. As a result, IT teams are frequently forced into reactive operations instead of focusing on proactive innovation and strategic growth. In this session we’ll touch on modern DC management with Intent Based Networking and Artificial Intelligence.

Tech Stage 2

Innovating data center design: Leveraging seismic secondary structures, ceiling grids, and MEP support integration

Modern data centers request design approaches that combine structural resilience, installation efficiency, and long term scalability.
 
This presentation examines how seismic secondary structures as structural ceiling grids and integrated MEP support systems can work together to enhance both performance and constructability.
 
We will highlight how advanced secondary seismic structures improve modularity and optimized load distribution. At the same time, multifunctional ceiling grids and integrated MEP support solutions optimize installation workflows in data hall, reduce system clashes, and accelerate deployment timelines.
 

By coordinating these technologies within a single design strategy, data center developers can achieve higher safety, faster execution, and greater adaptability for future expansion.

12:15 - 12:30

Tech Stage 1

Electrons to tokens: Developing the physical layer of the AI economy in Italy

AI infrastructure is the first digital industry where the physical layer sets the ceiling on growth. Market leadership in Italy, like the rest of the world, will increasingly be determined by access to electrons, speed-to-power, and the ability to translate energy into reliable compute at scale. Every token generated is, in effect, energy converted into intelligence, and ultimately into economic value.
 
This session connects the full chain from energy to compute to economic value, and what it means for Italy’s AI trajectory. It looks at where Europe is bottlenecking, why Milan is emerging as a critical node, and how new building capabilities will decide who scales AI fastest and most responsibly.

Tech Stage 2

Clean, fast, flexible, reliable: The DC market welcomes modular gas generator engine plants

Modular engine power plants (MEPP) deliver clean, fast, flexible, and reliable power wherever it is needed. Built from standardized H2 ready gas generator modules, MEPPs empower data centers with high performance, low emissions, and exceptional flexibility. Join to discover the latest trends from both the EU and the USA.

12:35 - 12:50

Tech Stage 1

Next-generation UPS for hyperscale mission-critical data centers

This session will present SIEL’s modular UPS solution designed for hyperscale data center environments. The presentation will focus on how the modular architecture enables flexible scalability, redundant configurations, and high operational efficiency. It will also highlight advanced monitoring capabilities that enhance system visibility, reliability, and proactive maintenance for mission-critical infrastructure.

Tech Stage 2

Pure lead battery technology in practice: Case-based advantages vs AGM

Join this session to explore a detailed comparison between Pure Lead and traditional AGM battery technologies. Key performance metrics—including operational behaviour and service life—are evaluated to quantify the differences between the two technologies in a real installation scenario.

The results highlight the conditions under which Pure Lead batteries deliver measurable operational and lifecycle advantages over traditional AGM solutions.

12:50 - 13:50

EXPO AREA

Lunch

13:50 - 14:05

Tech Stage 1

Powering the digital leap: Eni's vision for enabling Italy’s data center growth

The exponential growth of AI is redefining data centers as strategic “knowledge factories,” where energy serves as the fundamental enabler of digital sovereignty and economic growth. As Italy emerges as a key Mediterranean hub for hyperscale and AI-ready infrastructure, the industry faces critical challenges: grid congestion, power availability, and complex permitting.
 
In this rapidly evolving landscape, Eni is stepping into the “AI race” as a strategic enabler. Moving beyond the role of a traditional energy provider, Eni acts as an integrated partner for large-scale digital infrastructure. By leveraging industrial assets, land availability, and cutting-edge energy solutions, we provide concrete answers to the surging demand for IT capacity. Our goal is to transform the energy challenge into a sustainable competitive advantage, reducing execution risks and ensuring reliability and decarbonization while accelerating Italy’s digital leap.

Tech Stage 2

From compliance to regenerative resilience design: A new way of conceptualizing masterplanning and designing

This session examines why fragmented approaches to data center development, where permitting, design, ESG, and environmental considerations are addressed separately, are no longer adequate for projects of growing scale and territorial impact. It proposes an integrated, regenerative master planning approach in which permitting becomes part of the project’s strategic and conceptual framework from the outset rather than a downstream compliance exercise.
 
This perspective is particularly timely in Italy, where recent regulatory changes have tightened the permitting framework for data centres, introducing a more integrated authorization process.
 

The presentation reframes data centers as infrastructure hubs embedded within territories, communities, and natural systems, requiring alignment between business objectives, environmental performance, climate resilience, and site strategy. It highlights regenerative design, circular economy principles, climate adaptation, and Nature-based Solutions as core engineering tools for improving resilience and environmental integration. Ultimately, the session demonstrates how territorially informed permitting and integrated planning can reduce project risk while enabling more sustainable and credible data centre development.

14:10 - 14:25

Tech Stage 1

From constraint to catalyst: Enabling scalable data centre growth through integrated sustainability and compliance

As demand for data centre infrastructure accelerates, the challenge is scaling delivery and doing so in a compliant, low-risk, and environmentally and socially aligned way. In complex, multi-jurisdictional markets, sustainability and compliance are often seen as constraints when, in reality, they are critical enablers of growth.

This session explores how embedding sustainability and compliance across governance, design, procurement, and construction drives faster, more predictable outcomes. Drawing on international delivery experience, it will show how early-stage sustainability strategies, robust workforce and supply chain compliance, and structured assurance frameworks reduce regulatory friction, de-risk projects, and strengthen investor and stakeholder confidence.

Tech Stage 2

The thermal capacity problem: Why cooling will determine how much compute AI infrastructure data centers can deploy

AI infrastructure data centres are pushing rack densities to levels that challenge traditional data center cooling architectures. While the industry often focuses on power availability, thermal capacity may become the real constraint on how much compute can be deployed.
 

This session explores the thermal capacity problem, the emerging gap between installed cooling capacity and the amount of compute a facility can reliably stabilise at high densities. It examines how AI workloads are reshaping thermal limits and what this means for future AI infrastructure design.

14:35 - 14:50

Tech Stage 1

Cooling in transition: HFCs, low-GWP refrigerants & the data center challenge

As the EU F-Gas phasedown accelerates, the data center industry faces a critical transition in cooling strategies. This presentation explores the growing challenges of HFC supply constraints, the increasing reliance on reclaimed refrigerants to extend the life of existing systems, and the transition towards low GWP alternatives.
 
It will also highlight how A-Gas supports this transition through lifecycle management of refrigerants including secure supply of reclaimed HFCs and low GWP alternatives, refrigerant recovery solutions and a total solutions approach designed to help data centre operators navigate regulatory pressures while maintaining performance and resilience.

Tech Stage 2

Stability at scale: Managing AI training load impacts on power generation

AI training is driving fast, high-amplitude load swings that strain traditional generation assets and expose weaknesses in conventional data center approaches. This session explores what happens inside power systems during large scale AI training events and highlights emerging load smoothing strategies—from operational controls and architecture choices to fast acting flexible resources like battery storage.

14:55 - 15:10

Tech Stage 1

Engineering and construction excellence

The presentation “Engineering and construction excellence” describes an integrated approach in which engineering and construction work synergistically to ensure excellence in project execution. Processes, methodologies, and best practices are illustrated to ensure consistency between design and construction, streamlined workflows, quality control, and risk management. The goal is to maximize overall project performance, ensuring compliance with timelines, costs, safety standards, and client requirements.

Tech Stage 2

Zeliatech supports the data center ecosystem

Zeliatech supports customers in defining and implementing the most suitable data center solutions, integrating technical expertise and energy efficiency. Thanks to an end-to-end process ranging from consulting to after-sales service, we accompany every phase of data center evolution with a comprehensive and reliable approach.

15:20 - 15:35

Tech Stage 1

ISO 22237 Certification – The international standard for reliable and secure data centers

Data centers are the digital core of modern organizations. Their reliability, security, and efficiency are critical factors for operational continuity and data protection. The ISO 22237 standard serves as the international benchmark for the design, construction, and management of data center infrastructures.
 
For any organisation hosting critical data, ISO 22237 certification represents an essential investment in infrastructure resilience and security.
 

This speech will outline the main requirements of the standard, focusing on data center classification, availability criteria, and operational risk management.

Tech Stage 2

From backup to intelligent power: BESS and generators for the AI data center era

AI-driven data center growth is pushing power infrastructure beyond the limits of traditional backup systems. Reliability alone is no longer enough: data centers require fast, intelligent and fully integrated energy solutions that perform seamlessly under highly dynamic conditions.
This session outlines how integrating Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) with onsite generators transforms backup power into a strategic asset. By combining ultra-fast battery response with resilient generation, data centers can ensure uninterrupted operations, smooth AI load volatility, and meet evolving grid and interconnection requirements, both on-grid and off-grid.

The result is a new energy architecture designed not just to support growth, but to enable it: resilient, adaptive and ready for the next generation of hyperscale computing.

15:40 - 15:55

Tech Stage 1

One point of contact, full data center delivery

Building and managing data centers with a single point of contact: Cefla shares its recent experience with a prominent customer, focusing on the importance of partnership, precision and continuity.

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