Mumbai CDC 2025 draws over 1600 top digital infrastructure professionals!

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By Deborah Grey
As w.media's Global Editor-in-Chief, Grey covers the cloud and data center industry and connectivity ecosystem across APAC and EMEA. In a career spanning over two decades, Grey has dabbled in television, print and online journalism, covering a variety of beats including human rights, health, environment, politics, business and economy.

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).

Guests of honour light traditional lamp to inaugurate Mumbai CDC 2025 as Navin Andrade, GM – South Asia & Middle East (w.media) looks on

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

 

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