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DEI matters more than ever - in the IT industry and beyond

Liz Blackman, Chief Marketing Officer at Avantra, discusses the continuing importance of DEI, despite some recent ‘push back’, explaining the importance of women's perspectives in creating balanced leadership teams, how diverse viewpoints lead to better solutions and innovation in technology, the responsibility of current women leaders in challenging stereotypes for future generations and some practical approaches to creating more equitable environments in male-dominated industries.

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ALE continues to innovate with ALIE chatbot and Private 5G solution launches

Chris Derham, Business Development Director – Networks, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, discusses the company’s innovative generative AI chatbot, ALIE, which is available on a global scale for use by channel partners and employees. Since implementing ALIE, ALE has seen a 50% reduction in the number of calls to support agents, showing that channel partners are able to resolve a significant number of issues through the chatbot. Chris also covers ALE’s newly launched Private 5G solution powered by Celona and the recent tie-up between ALE and Westcoast.

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Crescendo increases power density possibilities

Eric Pittana, Senior Director of Global Marketing and EMEA Sales for Empower Semiconductor, discusses the forthcoming OCP EMEA Summit, which serves as a platform where global technical leaders tackle the issues related to data centre sustainability, energy efficiency and heat reuse in the region, offering valuable insights as to how the sector is responding to both the need for more compute power and sustainability objectives. Eric also explains that Empower will be showing the latest advancements to its Crescendo vertical power delivery solution - the platform is now complete, so at OCP EMEA the company will show the full chipset and provide demos of a) thermal performance and b) transient response.

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Addressing the diversity imbalance is critical for the sector’s future

Joyda Bianco, CFO of Hyperview, explains that the data centre industry is at a crossroads - facing both a growing talent shortage and a critical need for more diverse leadership – sharing her perspective on why attracting more women to the field is key to solving the industry’s workforce challenges. Joyda shares her thoughts as to how companies can foster inclusive workplaces that support women’s career progression - like Hyperview’s parental leave program – making the point that diverse teams don’t just improve equity; they drive innovation and business success.

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BCS recruits a competitive edge - Part 2

Egli Kaja, Project Manager, BCS, describes his journey from professional footballer to data centre project management, as part of BCS’s Athlete Career Transition Programme, designed to address the data centre industry’s skills shortage by helping ex-professional sports people to find a new career in the digital infrastructure sector.

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Stellium Datacenters showcases immersion cooling OPC proof of concept

Ed Bissell, Sales & Marketing Director, Stellium Datacenters, discusses an Open Compute Project (OCP) Proof of Concept at its HPC hyperscale data centre near Newcastle. This follows the integration phase of an immersion cooling system into Stellium’s OCP-Ready certified infrastructure in collaboration with Submer and its partners. Based on OCP design and engineering protocols, Submer’s installation is thought to be the first ORv3 showcase deployed in Europe, a specification within the broader OCP concept that focuses on rack design and power supply regulation.

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AI and automation can rescue overworked IT generalists

Steve Petryschuk, Director, Product & Market Strategy in Product Management, Auvik, discusses the findings of the company’s recent 2025 IT Report, entitled: “Why IT is long on challenges but short on time,” which reveals that stress and burnout are approaching all-time highs amidst the Baby Boomer retirement era, underscoring the critical need for AI and automation solutions and giving rise to the IT generalist. Steve also highlights some recent innovations added to Auvik’s IT Operations platform.

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AI and automation ‘to the rescue’ for overworked IT generalists

Steve Petryschuk, Director, Product & Market Strategy in Product Management, Auvik, discusses the findings of the company’s recent 2025 IT Report, entitled: “Why IT is long on challenges but short on time,” which reveals that stress and burnout are approaching all-time highs amidst the Baby Boomer retirement era, underscoring the critical need for AI and automation solutions and giving rise to the IT generalist. Steve also highlights some recent innovations added to Auvik’s IT Operations platform.

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Taking the heat out of the liquid cooling debate

Adam Raymond, Sales Manager UK & Ireland at SWEP International, discusses the increasing pressures on data centre cooling thanks to the AI explosion, explaining how liquid cooling solutions - rear door heat exchangers, direct to chip and immersion technologies - will play an increasingly important role in a likely hybrid cooling future. Adam also explains the role that SWEP’s heat transfer expertise and Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger (BPHE) technology have to play in this rapidly evolving data centre landscape - where the heat recovery possibilities are also being explored.

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GenAI momentum drives application and infrastructure modernisation

Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, discusses the findings of its seventh annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year's report sheds light on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) adoption, investment priorities, and benefits along with key challenges organisations face to meet the demands of these emerging workloads.

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