Buses will depart from the front of the hotel lobby for attendees that signed up for the tour. Security check-in will be conducted upon arrival at the site. Photo IDs are required for security check-in.

Attendees will participate in a guided tour of the Global Switch Frankfurt Campus to explore its infrastructure, security protocols, and operational practices.

The bus will transport attendees back to the hotel following the conclusion of the tour.

Tour attendees will meet for a working lunch to note best practices and opportunities for improvement observed during the data center tour.

Explore best practices for fostering transparent, trust-based relationships between colocation providers and tenants, focusing on communication, SLAs, and operational alignment to drive mutual success.

Scott Killian, VP, Uptime Network

Official welcome and introductory remarks to commence the conference.

• Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute
• Chris Brown, Chief Technical Officer, Uptime Institute
• Daniel Bizo, Senior Research Director, Uptime Institute
• Jay Dietrich, Research Director, Sustainability, Uptime Institute

Uptime Institute presents the popular panorama session, where the panelists and delegates discuss trends, events, and outages affecting the digital infrastructure industry.

An opportunity for attendees to network over dinner and drinks.

Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Intelligence

Explores the challenges of adapting legacy grid infrastructure to modern energy demands, climate variability, and distributed generation.

Daniel Bizo, Senior Research Director, Uptime Intelligence

Explores key topics from the Hot Chips 2025 conference recently held in Stanford, highlighting how advances in silicon and systems architectures are reshaping the anatomy of IT infrastructure.

Max Smolaks, Research Analyst, Uptime Intelligence

Discusses how poor GPU workload planning can result in underutilized and costly infrastructure, particularly in AI-driven environments.

Time allocated for attendees to take a quick break.

Matt Stansberry, VP, Practitioner Insights & Experience, Uptime Institute
Uptime Network members from AI-Enhanced Operations Working Group

Examines how AI is transforming data center operations through practical use cases, while also addressing the necessary guardrails, workforce impacts, maintenance practices, and data management strategies.

Tomas Rahkonen, Research Director, Distributed data Centers, Uptime Intelligence

This session provides an overview of the latest EU regulatory developments, including the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and other key policies.

Lunch break for all attendees.

Naveed Saeed, SVP Professional Services, Uptime Institute

Explores the critical infrastructure requirements for successful AI deployments, highlighting the challenges of scalability, power, cooling, and integration. It offers strategies for navigating these complexities to ensure reliable and efficient AI-driven operations.

Linda Lescuyer, Head of Environmental & Sustainability Innovation at Data4

This case study explores Data4’s approach to preparing for liquid cooling, addressing the technical, operational, and design considerations required to support next-generation high-density workloads.

Dr. Owen Rogers, Senior Research Director, Uptime Intelligence

Compares the trade-offs between designing for maximum uptime and meeting environmental sustainability targets in cloud operations.

Short recess for attendees.

Kenneth Chen, Global Data Center Engineering Manager, ByteDance

The availability of data centers can be modeled and estimated with a unique process based on system infrastructure topologies and their sequences of operations. This presentation will explore the data center infrastructure systems and its relationship to the overall data center availability, which will effectively assist decision making for data center systems designs and solutions for IT services with specific availability requirements.

Matt Stansberry, VP, Practitioner Insights & Experience, Uptime Institute

Regular simulation exercises like drills and tabletop exercises can strengthen response capabilities and support ongoing process improvements. In this panel, members share their approach to simulations and drills as well as key examples they use in their facilities.

Matt Stansberry, VP, Practitioner Insights & Experience, Uptime Institute

The Uptime Network offers data center professionals something uniquely powerful: a trusted community of peers, sharing the industry’s tribal knowledge, and working together to solve problems. In this session, we share the key takeaways from 2025 so far.

Moderator: Scott Killian, VP, Uptime Network

An open forum for attendees to engage with experts and peers on pressing issues in the data center industry. Participants are encouraged to share insights, pose questions, and discuss innovative solutions in a collaborative learning environment.