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Critical Careers publication celebrates digital industry equality

Lizzy McDowell, Director of Marketing at Kao Data, discusses the launch of the company’s Critical Careers: Celebrating Women in Digital Infrastructure – a new campaign highlighting the stories, experiences, and contributions of women across the global digital infrastructure sector. Lizzie explains how the initiative features in-depth interviews with women from a wide range of disciplines and career stages, showcasing their impact on one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, and forms part of Kao Data’s broader ESG strategy, aimed at fostering greater diversity, inclusion, and representation across digital infrastructure.

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Datacloud delivers record-breaking experience

Annabel Helm, Managing Director, Datacloud, techoraco, outlines the success of the Datacloud Global Congress 2025 - celebrating 20 years of bringing together data centre and digital infrastructure professionals - with record numbers this year as attendees heard from a stellar list of speakers discussing AI, investment, energy, ESG, talent and overall sustainability. More and more, data centres are seen as catalysing innovation on a global scale and Datacloud 2026 will reflect the importance of this trend in a new, three-day format.

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Datacloud delivers a record-breaking experience

Annabel Helm, Managing Director, Datacloud, techoraco, outlines the success of the Datacloud Global Congress 2025 - celebrating 20 years of bringing together data centre and digital infrastructure professionals - with record numbers this year as attendees heard from a stellar list of speakers discussing AI, investment, energy, ESG, talent and overall sustainability. More and more, data centres are seen as catalysing innovation on a global scale and Datacloud 2026 will reflect the importance of this trend in a new, three-day format.

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Ramping up recover, reuse, reclaim, recycle

Simon Taylor, Chairman at Bioscope and sister company N2S, shares a progress report on the importance of biorefining and bioleaching when it comes to precious metals and the increasing importance of conserving and patriating/repatriating these materials in these times of shortages and geopolitical tensions. Simon also discusses the company’s work with Techbuyer and BT, alongside its expansion plans, which will see the development of several new sites in the UK and further afield over the next few years.

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Seagate report calls for balance between cost and carbon

Jason Feist, senior vice president of cloud marketing, Seagate, discusses the findings of the company’s recent Decarbonizing Data report, which highlights the growing sustainability challenges facing data centres as enterprises scale to meet the demands of AI. Jason believes that sustainability cannot be solved in isolation. A holistic approach spanning infrastructure, life cycle management, and industry-wide accountability can ensure that the growth of AI and data centre operations does not come at the expense of the environment.

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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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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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WOMEN IN IT – Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy

Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy, shares valuable insights on empowering women in tech and promoting inclusive workplaces – including building a career in tech without a traditional tech background; the importance of DEI representation in AI and tech leadership; AI in recruitment: the need for human oversight; empowering women and Gen Z in tech; and just why a well-crafted DEI strategy can bring so many benefits to an organisation when it comes to both employee and customer interactions.

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Enterprises waste millions on underused tech, struggle to harness AI efficiencies

Vivek Behl, Vice President, Strategy at WalkMe, discusses the findings of the company’s annual report, The State of Digital Adoption 2025, Special AI Edition. This year’s report focuses on AI adoption in the enterprise and highlights an alarming disconnect - while 79% of executives express confidence in meeting their AI transformation goals, only 28% of employees feel adequately trained and only 25% report being able to use AI to work more efficiently.

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Security is NOT the enemy of innovation

Sashi Jayeratnam, Senior Director of Product Management for Spirent, explains how an unfortunate reality of modern cybersecurity is that it is often put at odds with the wave of innovation that is now happening in enterprise IT – security testing is often reactive and manual and generally cannot keep up with the complexity or pace that innovation brings about. Sashi describes a new approach, where innovation within an organization needs to be managed differently, with security testing embedded and automated throughout the change process so that changes can be tested before they are rolled out. From there security can become an embedded part of the innovation process.

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AI + low-code - redefining application development

Tiago Azevedo, CIO at OutSystems, discusses the findings of the company’s recent global 2025 State of Application Development report, explaining how GenAI and low-code in combination will redefine application development and increase productivity while ensuring governance throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Tiago suggests that developer teams shouldn’t have to choose between high-quality, fully functional apps and speed-to-market, and by abandoning antiquated development practices in favour of AI-powered low-code technology, they can reap the performance and agility benefits of these transformative technologies.

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205 MW facility will support up to ~15 EH/s of next-generation rack-based ASIC compute with direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

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