Program 2023

Time

Main track

8:15

Registration and networking breakfast

9:00

Opening and welcome
Chairman Veijo Terho & host Reidar Wasenius

9:10

“EU regulations & a holistic data center energy efficiency metric”, Tomas Rahkonen, Research Director, Distributed Data Centers, Uptime Institute

9:50

“Nordics as a DC location – a view from American point of view”, Wayne Allen, Sales Director, atNorth USA

10:20

“Microsoft Building Datacenters in Finland”, Frej Werner, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations

10:50

End of session 1

10:55

Networking break

Time

Track 1

POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY

11:15

“Combat Climate Change with Green Code”, Janne Kalliola, CGO, Exove Oy

11:45

“Sustainable Data Center Blueprint”, Karl Rabe, Founder & MD, WoodenDataCenter

12:20

End of session

12:25

Lunch break & networking

Time

Track 2

CLOUD, QUANTUM & FUTURE

11:15

Teppo Seesto, Quantum Ambassador, IBM

11:45

“Digital twin quantum computing”, Jarmo Mäkelä, Senior Application Scientist, CSC

12:20

End of session

12:25

Lunch break & networking

Time

Main track

13:10

“Main findings of the new, yet to be published study on data center energy consumption in the EU”, Paolo Bertoldi, Senior Expert, European Commission

13:25

“Modern Finnish electricity system”, Jukka Ruusunen, President & CEO, Fingrid Oyj

14:00

Panel discussion:

The new EU Energy Efficiency Directive, what it means for data center industry – goldmine or minefield

• Pekka Järveläinen, Sales Director, atNorth Finland

• Kim Gunnelius, MD, Verne Global Finland

• Antti Siitonen, Senior Manager, Cross Functional – Equinix Northern Growth and Emerging Markets, EMEA

14:30

End of session

Networking break

14:40

“Boosting Planetary Data Flows and Space Travel with Solar Wind”, Sini Merikallio, Veterinarian, Planetary scientist, Doctor of Science (Technology)

15:15

End of day summary

15:30 – 16:30

Networking & drinks