Aleksandar is shaping ABB’s approach to data center market by following customer needs and data center market trends. Transformation of ABB market approach from product-based offering, towards application and solution-based approach to answer to customer needs. Constantly improving the organization knowledge on data centers topic, organizing, and managing trainings and workshops.

Holding a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with a thesis on the topic “Design alternatives for the power supply system of a data center”.

Marco worked for 10 years in R&D departments of two major telecom equipment manufacturers (radio Links and mobile radio equipment) before joining a Venture Capital Fund specialized in investing in ICT and high tech startups. He is author or co-author in 14 IEEE technical papers and holds 4 technological patents.

After leading a 20MnEuro revenues VC Fund’s portfolio company active in outsourced Call Center Services to EBITDA positive, he joined as Head of Business Development Electro Power Systems a start up designing and producing Hydrogen Fuel Cell based backup power systems developing the market in Europe, USA, China, and South East Asia.  In 2012 he joined 47MnEuro revenues architecture, engineering and business software applications supplier DBA Group as Vice President for Sales and Business Development fostering its expansion into International Markets with special attention to the Balkan, Caucasus and Central Asia regions. Today DBA Group is listed on the Italian stock exchange since 2017 and counted 94MnEuro revenues in 2022.

Since 2018 he has in particular been involved in Data Center related projects by acquiring as customers international hyperscalers. DBA providing both design, permitting and construction supervision services has assisted them with their expansion and rollout plans in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Given his previous experience with hydrogen fuel cells, he is advocating the re-use of heat generated by Data Centers to be shared in community heating projects and the adoption of FC for both primary and backup power needs.

Tobias holds a PhD in mechanical engineering and has a professional experience of more than 15 years across various industries and functions, thereof 5 years in the data center industry.
Siemens Smart Infrastructure is one of major players on the building and energy infrastructure market with dedicated departments to serve focus industries such as the data center industry.
The wide portfolio allows to offer modular and holistic solutions across the disciplines of integrated infrastructure management, IoT, automation & cooling, physical security, fire safety, power distribution, life cycle management and financing solutions.

Matteo has been working for Webuild Group for 15 years and he has been the Engineering Manager for the Red Line of the new Doha Metro (Qatar), for the Cityringen, the new Copenhagen Metro (Denmark) – two projects worth around 2 billion euros – and for the Bujagali Hydroelectric Power Plant in Uganda. Matteo began his professional career with the Italian Design Consultant C. Lotti & Associati taking lead of motorway and railway projects. He has worked in major projects in Italy, Bosnia Herzegovina and he has followed the mega project MOSE in Venice, the integrated system of mobile barriers to defend of the entire Venice Lagoon from the high tides.

In her previous role, Ms Le Roy led the customer support organization for a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres. Her team was directly responsible for driving customer engagement and satisfaction programmes across 40 sites in 11 countries, supporting the company through successive quarterly revenue growth and IPO.

In addition to classic sales tasks, his responsibilities also included consulting for technical service solutions for various customers in the real estate and industrial sectors. Heiko is responsible for client development at CBRE Data Center Solutions in Central and East Europe. He is an expert in identifying the needs of clients and developing the appropriate service solutions together with the client. He helps clients with their growth strategies through flexibility. As a Data Center industry leader with more than 3,500 specialist employees worldwide, CBRE is in the unique position to draw on our scale, and our unparalleled breadth of expertise in the data center market and global platform, to deliver an integrated solution covering all service lines featured within this scope and beyond.

He is the founder of EcoCloud at EPFL, an industrial/academic consortium investigating sustainable datacenter design, and served as its director between 2011 and 2022. He is an Alfred Sloan Research Fellow and a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.

Lincoln holds a Masters Degree in International Commercial Law through Robert Kennedy College Switzerland, has a Master of Arts in Laws (UK common law), and is a candidate for the Cambridge University Executive MBA degree through Judge Business School. He also holds a Certified Data Centre Design qualification. With over 30 years experience in the Data Center and communications industry, Lincoln is very well connected with international Data Center providers, end-users, and service providers. Prior to Compass, Lincoln has held various international positions in Australia, Singapore, UK, Ireland, and Germany with roles in sales, operations, procurement, and strategy.

Prior to, Yves was responsible for the Telecom division at SBB AG as well as for the industry wide program smartrail 4.0, which aimed to fully automate the railroads. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at Sunrise Communications and Colt Technology Services. Zischek holds a Master of Arts from the University of Zurich and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde, and has furthered his education in digital transformation at IMD in Lausanne. Zischek is married since more than 20 years and has two young adult children who are still living with him and his wife in Zurich. He likes to run, bike and swim as well as listening to Jazz, smoking a good cigar and drinking a good glass of wine.

Before joining Swisscom, he worked for Fujitsu as Senior Vice President and a senior member of the management board, leading the Alps (Austria/Switzerland) and the Eastern European region, heading 17 national subsidiaries and leading more than 1,400 employees. In parallel, he was president of the Supervisory Board of Fujitsu Technology Solutions AG in Switzerland, which he set up and headed as CEO/Managing Director from 1999 to 2008. Roger has more than 20 years’ experience in development and management within local and international ICT organizations, including IT & Business Process Outsourcing (ITO & BPO), and played an integral role in Switzerland’s ICT industry. Roger graduated from Zurich Business School in 1984 and has an M-MBA from MIT Sloan in Boston.

Sergio is well connected with national and international companies in the sector and he communicates in 4 languages. He is graduated of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.

In his previous role as Managing Director at UBS, he was responsible for the infrastructure regions Switzerland and EMEA, the CTO Office and Global Engineering driving their continuous modernization agenda. As Head Cloud Business Office, he developed the cloud strategy of the major bank and accompanied the transformation. In addition, he was involved in the development of the cloud guide for the bankers’ association, which points out ways to a secure cloud use. In earlier positions, he was active in industry, various technology companies and consulting mandates.
Roger Süess has an excellent international network and spent several years of his career abroad before returning to Switzerland. Since 2019, he has been responsible for Green’s sustainable growth strategy and is passionate about leadership and sustainability, as he is convinced that both topics are closely connected to technological progress and innovation.