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 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.

Previously Sherif was Marketing Director for the B2B market in Wind Tre SpA, following the merger of Wind Telecomunicazioni and H3G Italy. He joined Wind in January 2009 and held several leadership roles as Procurement Director, Marketing Director for the Large Enterprise and Head of Sales and Marketing for the Large Enterprise Business. Before joining Wind, Sherif spent 12 years in Alcatel-Lucent, where he held various positions in sales, marketing and solution architecture, in Italy and the Middle East. He has extensive knowledge and experience in enterprise business and telecommunication networks with a special emphasis on broadband Internet access technologies. During his career with Alcatel, Sherif spent several years in France where he managed and led the Broadband Division Client Projects. He began his career with Alcatel in the United States as a network engineer. Sherif studied Computer Engineering at George Mason University in the United States. He also holds a master’s degree from George Mason in Data and Mobile Communications Networks Analysis and Design.

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.

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.

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”.