You read that right! Over 1,600 technology professionals including cloud and data center industry veterans and digital infrastructure experts thronged Hotel Sahara Star for Mumbai Cloud & Datacenter Convention and South Asia Awards 2025. Attendees included industry bigwigs, influential technocrats, data center owners and operators, connectivity ecosystem experts, as well as hundreds of providers of technologies that help run data centers.
The inaugural session saw lighting of the traditional lamp by guests of honour: Sanjay Kumar (Special Chief Secretary, Government of Telangana), Deependra Singh Kushwah (Development Commissioner – Industries & Chairman – MAITRY, Government of Maharashtra), Nirupa Chander (SVP – Secure Power & Datacenters – International Operations, Schneider Electric), and Syed Mohamed Beary (Founder & Chairman, Bearys Group).
Mumbai CDC showcased a stellar line-up of speakers including Bimal Khandelwal (CEO, ST Telemedia Global Data Centers, India), Surajit Chatterjee (MD & Head, Data Centers – India, CapitaLand Investment), Sujit Panda (COO, BDx Datacenters), Amit Agrawal (President, Data centers, Techno Digital), Gautam Saraf (Executive Managing Director, Mumbai & New Business, Cushman & Wakefield), Rachit Mohan (Executive Director, JLL), Sreejith G (Sr. VP – Operations, ST Telemedia Global Data Centers, India), Syed Mohamed Beary (Founder & Chairman, Bearys Group), Rajesh Garg (President & Group CIO, Yotta Data Services), Narendra Sen (Founder & CEO, RackBank), Jagat Ram (Head – Datacenter, Operation & Delivery, L&T), as well as industry experts like Prashant Tiwari (Director – India, Sudlows Consulting), NK Singh (CEO, Datacenter Guru), NK Jain (Founder NK Jain Consulting Engineers), data center industry veteran Sandeep Dandekar, among others.
This year, the Mumbai Cloud & Datacenter Convention (CDC) also saw the second edition of CenterStage Mumbai, a special breakaway session that will be held in the Expo Hall. CenterStage is a series of technology presentations, fireside chats and discussions, carefully curated by w.media’s Editor-in-Chief to bring together industry experts as friends and fellow professionals to examine the myriad challenges facing the industry today. The vibe at CenterStage is upbeat, and it takes place in a more relaxed environment to enable the free flow of innovative solutions and out-of-the-box ideas. Also at CenterStage, we honoured the most influential thought leaders in the digital infrastructure industry across South Asia by including them in the Critical Digital Infrastructure (CDI) Index and presenting them with trophies to commemorate their achievements.
Here are a few pictures from our plenary session and CenterStage:
Another exciting addition to Mumbai CDC was a series of round-table conversations targeting a variety of sectors including but not limited to manufacturing, OTT, banking and financial services etc. This was an exclusive networking opportunity to enable more meaningful dialogue and collaboration. This year, we also featured a technology expo that showcased the latest innovations and futuristic technologies and advancements in the cloud and data center industry.
Mumbai CDC 2025 culminated in w.media South Asia Awards – a glittering awards ceremony where w.media recognized and rewarded the excellence and expertise of data center providers and industry professionals from the region. Awards were given in three key areas: People, Planet and Projects.
Here’s our full list of award winners:
People
Data Centre Operations Team SBI
Hyperscale Infrastructure Leader Surajit Chatterjee CapitaLand Data Centre
Hyperscale Infrastructure Leader Jeyakumar Janakaraj AdaniConneX
Hyperscale Infrastructure Leader Sunil Gupta Yotta Data Services Private Limited
Strategic Network Infrastructure Leader Supriya Raman IBM watsonx Labs
Planet
Innovation in Data Centre Cooling RackBank Datacenters Pvt. Ltd.
Innovation in Energy-Efficiency Teleindia Datacenter Private Limited
Sustainability in Design & Build Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Sustainability in Operations CtrlS Datacenters
Projects
Data Centre Design and Build CtrlS Datacenters
Digital Technology Inside the Data Centre National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Innovation in Data Center Engineering for GPUaaS RackBank Datacenters Pvt. Ltd.
Innovation in Internet Exchange (IX) Deployment DE-CIX Interwire Internet Services Pvt Ltd
Innovation in Subsea Network Engineering Henox IT And Datacenters Private Limited