07 October 2025

David Pownall, Vice President, Services, Schneider Electric UK and Ireland

In a world driven by technology, data centres act as the backbone of our information infrastructure. With AI’s capabilities growing by the day, and its integration into every aspect of industry growing exponentially, it’s no surprise that in order to keep up with accelerated demand, data centres are projected to require $6.7 trillion capex worldwide by 2030.

In order to power everything from our cloud services to social media feeds, we not only need investment in data centre infrastructure, but also investment into technologies to manage and monitor their energy consumption.

07 October 2025

Alasdair Ambroziak, Head of Sales for Satcom and Security, Thales UK

Spoofing, jamming, cyber threats and electromagnetic disruption can down signals and networks before the first shot is fired – rendering forces blind, deaf and outmanoeuvred.

In high-threat theatres, communications availability can determine mission success. Today’s military operations demand systems that can adapt, endure and deliver under pressure.

06 October 2025

James Griffin, CEO at CyberSentriq

Data is growing faster than most businesses can manage, and cloud productivity tools alone can’t keep up. When security, compliance, and retrieval are at stake, MSPs need more than great storage - they need control.

UK IT security regulators don’t care how your data is stored - just that it has protections in place and you can find it, fast. However, for MSPs and IT teams still fighting the good fight with on-premise storage and legacy backup systems, e-discovery is a ticking compliance time bomb.

06 October 2025

Kevin Curran, IEEE senior member and professor of cybersecurity at Ulster University

In the space of just a few weeks, many high street and online retailers were impacted by serious cyber incidents that disrupted their business-critical services earlier this year. Ecommerce platforms were knocked offline and physical payments systems were temporarily unavailable. These incidents were a harsh reminder of how vulnerable retailers are when their networks are so closely tied to third-party suppliers and service providers.

06 October 2025

Mark Klarzynski, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, PEAK:AIO

For decades, data architecture has been built around a simple assumption: storage is where data lives, and compute is where the work gets done. But as AI scales, this traditional separation is becoming a major obstacle. Networks are overloaded, power consumption is surging, and latency often leads to missed opportunities.

To move forward, we need more than small improvements. Smarter caching layer or better tiering may buy time, but they’re not sustainable solutions for the long run. What’s required is a fundamental shift in how we think about data and computation, and not just where data is stored, but where computation actually happens.