We are delighted to welcome Greg Italiano as our opening keynote speaker. Greg will look at the roll-out of the Digital Strategy, the evolution of a ‘digital’ Western Australia and the role of data centers and cloud providers in the transformation of the State.

Digital reach across the State will be a key factor in future economic growth and social inclusion. How will future demand be met for the key mining sector as well as for service providers across the state? Which systems and technologies will be key in enabling this?   What will be the role of  modular design and build in this and how is ‘modular thinking’ adapting to the new barrage of requirements that have emerged over the past couple of years?

Following on from the UN 2030 agenda to reduce emissions, various jurisdictions have since legislated Net Zero targets. Australia plans to be Net Zero by 2050. Sustainability is increasingly at the forefront of data centre design. Is UPS technology keeping pace?

How are enterprise needs of digital infrastructure changing and how is this impacting the decisions they make? What are some of the key developments in services and solutions that we can expect to see come onto the market in coming years? And which will contribute most to the challenges faced by enterprise across Western Australia? How?

The majority of enterprise organisations are now relying on a number of forms of digital infrastructure to meet their IT requirements. To ensure that this arrangement works effectively can require a greater complexity of management, monitoring and decision making. This expert panel will discuss how to balance on-prem, colocation and cloud in order to fulfil your IT and cost requirements.

Edge is moving away from being perpetually ‘the next big thing’ towards becoming an accessible option for IT delivery architectures. This expert presentation looks at the roll-out of edge in Perth, what is driving this and what is being learned about the application of edge to corporate IT objectives as it goes forward.

Estimates put the carbon footprint which is due to the process of construction and fit out as high as 30% of the total footprint across the life of a data center. This places a strong requirement on the processes of construction and fit out to achieve more sustainable outcomes, particularly in relation to Scope 3 emissions. How can this be achieved particularly when schedule and budget need to be followed?

Data centers whether on-prem., colocation or hyperscale  have long been accustomed to scrutiny of their energy consumption. Now, the focus has moved outside the facilities themselves to supply and procurement practices and beyond operation to the whole of the facility life. How is this impacting enterprise decision making when outsourcing or migrating? How can all of this be tracked and managed?

Connectivity is becoming a key requirement for a data center as the services it provides are transmitted to other data centers, to business clients and to end-consumers.  Increasingly, the expectation is of lower latency, higher reliability and greater speed. How can a data center be prepared inside and out to transition from a focus on data storage and processing to best practice in distribution as well?

Over 3000 kilometres west from the country’s main data centre hub, the Perth data centre market presents a unique case to consider. What might the outlook be for data centres located in the capital of Western Australia? In this session, we connect the dots between observed market developments and ongoing trends in recent years to shed light on the potential opportunities of being at the edge of Australia’s west coast.

Mining looks carefully at risk at all stages – from the exploration and discovery of opportunities, through site development, extraction and production, processing, transportation and site remediation/rehabilitation. Which technologies are most impacting the evaluation of risk and the decision-making process? And how will technology continue to impact moving forward?