Avi Baum, CTO at Hailo, discusses why AI infrastructure needs are already shifting from centralized to edge, how telcos can evolve and future-proof their business to keep up with that transition, and what’s driving demand for AI at the network edge. Avi also talks through the company’s technology portfolio, including the Hailo-10H, its second-generation AI accelerator featuring powerful generative AI capabilities.
Watch OnlineRakesh Parbhoo, Executive Vice President Middle East and Africa at Westcon-Comstor, outlines how the company is marking its 40th birthday by sharing key channel trends and a future-ready vision. Hybrid IT, cybersecurity, AI, data orchestration, cloud, networks and SMBs all feature in terms of opportunities for a future-ready IT channel.
Watch OnlineAmber Walsh, Senior Analyst at Bluefield Research, discusses the findings of the company’s new report, U.S. Water for Data Centers: Market Trends, Opportunities, and Forecasts, 2025–2030, which reveals that the role of water in the data centre market is fast becoming a critical factor in site selection, design, and operations. By 2030, annual water-related capital and operational expenditures are forecast to reach US$797.1 million, representing a 31.4% increase from today, while hyperscale data centres, which currently represent 51.4% of total market demand, are forecasted to withdraw 150.4 billion gallons of water between 2025 and 2030.
Watch OnlineMeredith Kendrick, Product Line Manager at AFL, explains the company’s DENALI platform – with a particular focus on how it supports increasing fibre density demands in rapidly evolving, GPU-intensive fibre networks, how it helps reduce deployment time and improves infrastructure build ROI, whilst simplifying operations from order to install, and how DENALI balances global performance standards with the need for local compliance and delivery requirements.
Watch OnlineNicholas Jackson, Director of Cyber Security Services at Bitdefender, discusses the company’s recent 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment Report, explain that businesses face mounting challenges and pressures as the attack surface expands and becomes harder to defend - from hardening environments and optimising security solutions to navigating regulatory compliance and retaining skilled professionals. He explains that organisations must adopt modern security strategies that address a new reality where adversaries use AI to exploit vulnerabilities, sharpen social engineering, and accelerate the speed of attacks.
Watch OnlineMichelle Buckingham, VP of Channel at IFS, discusses the company’s recent acquisition of TheLoops and its recent collaboration with TomTom before explaining how IFS is building a digital-first partner ecosystem, enabling channel partners to deliver AI-driven customer value.
Watch OnlineFrancisco Almada Lobo, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder and Jeff Winter, Vice President, Business Strategy, both at Critical Manufacturing, provide some great insights as to the themes covered at the company’s recent MES and Industry 4.0 International Summit – with AI front and centre, alongside the introduction of the ‘thinking factory’ concept, software-defined manufacturing, the importance of unified data strategies and modern architectures and perhaps the key message: collaboration is key when it comes to digital transformation.
Watch OnlinePrakash Govindan, Gradiant’s co-founder and COO, discusses the challenges facing both the data centre and semiconductor industries when it comes to water usage. The company is currently working with two data centres in the US and the Indo-Pacific to provide sustainable water solutions and has also recently won the contract to build an ultrapure water (UPW) facility for a European semiconductor fab.
Watch OnlineGina Archbold, Channel Business Manager at BlueSnap, provides an update on the company’s Partner Program - explaining how the BlueSnap global payment orchestration platform provides an integrated, single solution to address the intricacies of global payments as many end users continue to struggle with multiple, legacy solutions. With BlueSnap’s comprehensive support, the ultimate objective is to enable the channel to become global payment experts.
Watch OnlineAndreas Keiger, Chief Revenue Officer at ZutaCore, discusses the AI power density challenge facing data centre owners and operators, looking at the various liquid cooling options available to address the increasing heat levels being generated in racks and cabinets, before explaining the company’s HyperCool, two-phase, direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solution, designed for both AI factories and AI at the edge.
Watch OnlineJoe Capes, CEO of LiquidStack, outlines the thinking behind the launch of the company’s GigaModular™ CDU - the industry’s first modular, scalable Coolant Distribution Unit with up to 10MW cooling capacity, made possible through the unit’s modular platform and pay-as-you-grow installation approach. Joe explains how the platform is designed to be the only CDU customers will ever need - it future-proofs design selections for direct-to-chip liquid cooling ‘without traditional limits or boundaries’.
Watch OnlineMichael Akinla, Business Manager UK / Ireland / Nordics at Panduit, explains that, as increasing numbers of data centres are being developed with GPU-based compute as a key growth opportunity, factoring in connectivity requirements for multi-GPU servers means that cabling, a previously near afterthought, is now a key consideration for performance, practicality and futureproofing.
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