Conference Tracks

Explore the Technologies Powering the AI Infrastructure Ecosystem

From silicon and systems architecture to networking, power, cooling, enterprise infrastructure, and operations, Digital Infrastructure World delivers focused education designed around the technologies and strategies enabling AI at scale.

Education Designed Around the AI Infrastructure Stack

AI is transforming every layer of digital infrastructure. As organizations deploy increasingly complex AI environments, success depends on collaboration across compute, networking, power, cooling, facilities, software, and operations.

Digital Infrastructure World brings together the leaders building this ecosystem to share practical insights, technical expertise, real-world deployments, and forward-looking strategies that help organizations design, deploy, and scale AI infrastructure.

Agenda at a glance: Designed as one.

Four co-designed tracks under one keynote spine, from the chip to the grid.

Every layer influences the next. Our conference tracks explore the complete AI infrastructure stack.

The Rack

The unit of design

Design the 1MW rack, where silicon, power and cooling are engineered as one.
The 1MW rack
Chips & servers
Power delivery (48/400/800V DC)
Busbars & power shelves
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
CDUs & coolant distribution
Reference racks & ODM build
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The Rack

The unit of design

The Rack explores where the machine is built: silicon, power and cooling engineered as one, from the 1MW rack to the busbars, cold plates and CDUs inside it, and the ODMs who integrate it.

What you’ll explore

  • Cooling chips past 1000W, beyond what air can carry
  • Delivering a megawatt to one rack without losing it to heat
  • Adding liquid cooling to halls built for air

Company types
Hyperscalers · Neocloud giants · Enterprise & HPC operators · DC operators · The rack supply chain (OEMs, ODMs, integrators)

Job titles
VP Infrastructure · Head of Rack Engineering · Director, Thermal · Head of Power Delivery · Hardware & Platform Architects · Mechanical Design Leads

The Cluster

Many racks as one machine

Run open clusters for AI, where a million GPUs act as one and drive your tokenomics.
The 1M GPU cluster
Scale-out & scale-across
Optics & networking
Cluster software & orchestration
Storage & memory for AI
Reliability & goodput
Neocloud economics
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The Cluster

Many racks as one machine

The Cluster explores where thousands of racks become one computer: the fabric, optics, software and storage that bind a million GPUs together, and the economics that decide whether it pays.

What you’ll explore

  • Keeping GPUs fed: the gap between 50% and 95% utilisation
  • Scaling up, out and across sites without the fabric choking
  • Choosing optics and interconnect that don’t strand performance

Company types
Hyperscalers · Neocloud giants · AI labs · DC operators · Enterprise & HPC operators · The networking & optics supply chain

Job titles
VP, AI Infrastructure · Network Architects · Head of Cluster Engineering · ML Platform Leads · Principal Engineers · Head of Reliability

The Data Center

The factory that produces intelligence

Deploy open data centers for AI, where fungible facilities outlast each chip generation.
The 1GW data center
Build-to-suit
Modular & prefab build
Facility power distribution
Cooling plant & heat rejection
Thermal chain & temperatures
Digital twins & controls
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The Data Center

The factory that produces intelligence

The Data Center explores the facility built around the machine: how sites are found, designed, built and run, from powered land and build-to-suit to the power chain, cooling plant and controls that hold a gigawatt together.

What you’ll explore

  • Securing sites with power, land and water before the window shuts
  • Designing facilities that outlast each chip generation
  • Building to suit at gigawatt scale: prefab, modular, faster

Company types
Hyperscalers · DC operators · Build-to-suit developers · Colocation & wholesale · Neocloud giants · The facility supply chain (EPC, power, cooling)

Job titles
VP Data Center Construction · Head of Design & Engineering · Head of Critical Facilities · Mechanical & Cooling Plant Engineers · Facility

The Energy

The electrons that power the factory

Power the gigawatts, where energy is the strategy, secured ahead of silicon.
Speed to power: grid connection
On-site generation & microgrids
Transformers & substations
Energy storage & grid services
Load smoothing & power quality
Grid as supplier & flexibility
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The Energy

The electrons that power the factory

The Energy explores where the data center meets the grid: generation, connection, storage and the markets behind them, as campuses cross into gigawatts and power decides what gets built and where.

What you’ll explore

  • Securing power years ahead: speed to power beats speed to build
  • Connecting to a grid that can’t keep pace
  • Generating on-site when the grid won’t: gas, microgrids, nuclear

Company types
Hyperscalers · DC operators · Neocloud giants · Utilities & grid operators · IPPs & power developers · The power supply chain (generation, storage, grid)

Job titles
VP Energy & Power · Director, Energy Procurement · Head of Grid Connection · Power Systems Engineers · Head of On-site Generation · PPA & Energy Markets Leads

Why these topics matter

Five Disciplines from the chip to the grid

The rapid adoption of AI is reshaping how digital infrastructure is designed, deployed, and operated. Organizations must now navigate increasingly interconnected challenges spanning compute architecture, networking, energy, cooling, facilities, software, and operations.

Digital Infrastructure World is designed to help industry professionals understand these interdependencies through practitioner-led education, technical case studies, and peer-to-peer discussions that reflect the realities of deploying AI infrastructure at scale.

Compute

Accelerators & AI servers
The 1MW rack system
Memory & HBM
Cluster software & orchestration
Storage & memory systems
Inference & token economics
Reliability & fleet resilience
Reference architectures
Security & root of trust

Compute

Compute topics explore the IT that lives in the rack and the cluster: accelerators and AI servers, the 1MW rack as a system, memory, and the software, storage and economics that turn them into a working machine.

What you’ll explore

  • Integrating the 1MW rack as one system: compute, memory, power and cooling
  • Feeding accelerators with enough memory and HBM bandwidth
  • Running clusters reliably when one node can stall the job
    Securing the platform end to end, root of trust and
  • confidential compute
    Making inference pay, cost per token, not cost per GPU

Company types
Hyperscalers · Neocloud giants · AI labs · DC operators · Enterprise & HPC operators · The compute supply chain (silicon, servers, memory)

Job titles
VP, AI Infrastructure · Hardware & Platform Architects · Head of Cluster Engineering · ML

Network

Scale-up fabric
Scale-out & scale-across
Optics & co-packaged optics
Switches & 800G NICs
Optical circuit switching
Goodput & congestion control
Cross-site & WAN transport
Copper & short-reach cabling
Network software & OS

Network

Network topics explore the fabric that binds racks and sites into one machine: scale-up, scale-out and scale-across, the optics and switches beneath it, and the software that runs it.

What you’ll explore

  • Keeping GPUs fed, the difference between 50% and 95% utilisation
  • Scaling up, out and across sites without the fabric choking
  • Choosing optics and interconnect that don’t strand performance
  • Connecting multiple sites into one training run
  • Holding reliability and congestion in check at a million ports

Company types
Hyperscalers · Neocloud giants · AI labs · DC operators · Enterprise & HPC operators · The networking supply chain (switches, optics, NICs)

Job titles
Network Architects · Head of Fabric Engineering · Optical & Interconnect Leads · Principal Network Engineers · Head of

Physical

Open racks & frames
Build-to-suit & powered shells
Rack integration & ODM build
Construction & prefab build
Site selection & development
Density, weight & floor loading
DCIM, controls & automation
Digital twins & controls
Sustainable build & carbon

Physical

Physical topics explore everything physical that holds the machine: the rack and its frame, the building around it, and how both get designed, built and run.

What you’ll explore

  • Standardising racks and connectors across vendors
  • Deploying validated reference designs instead of bespoke builds
  • Building to suit and modular at gigawatt scale
  • Designing for density, weight and floor loading
  • Modelling the facility as a digital twin and running it through controls

Company types
Hyperscalers · DC operators · Build-to-suit developers · Colocation & wholesale · Neocloud giants · The facility supply chain (EPC, racks, controls)

Job titles
VP Data Center Construction · Head of Design & Engineering · Head of Critical Facilities · Director, Site Selection · Mechanical Design Leads · Head of DCIM & Controls

Cooling

Direct-to-chip cooling
Cold plates & coolant fluids
Rear-door & enclosed cooling
Chillers & heat rejection
Heat reuse & water efficiency
Immersion & two-phase
Commissioning & standards
Water use & closed-loop systems

Cooling

Cooling topics explore taking the heat off the chip and out of the building: from cold plates and CDUs at the rack to chillers, heat reuse, and water systems at the facility.

What you’ll explore

  • Cooling chips beyond what air can carry
  • Distributing coolant reliably at the rack, CDUs and cold plates
  • Adding liquid cooling to halls built for air
  • Immersion and two-phase for the densest workloads
  • Heat reuse and closed-loop water to hit sustainability targets

Company types
Hyperscalers · DC operators · Neocloud giants · Colocation & wholesale · Enterprise & HPC operators · The cooling supply chain (liquid, CDUs, chillers)

Job titles
Director, Thermal · Head of Cooling Engineering · Mechanical & Cooling Plant Engineers · Liquid Cooling Product Leads · Head of Critical Facilities · Head of Sustainability

Power

High-voltage DC, 400/800V
Busbars & power shelves
Energy storage & BESS
On-site generation & microgrids
Grid connection & substations
Solid-state transformers
Power smoothing & load spikes
Power markets, PPAs & financing
Grid as supplier & flexibility

Power

Power topics explore carrying power from the grid to the chip: high-voltage DC and busbars at the rack, distribution and storage in the building, generation and grid connection beyond it.

What you’ll explore

  • Delivering a megawatt to a single rack
  • Shifting to 400/800V DC and disaggregated power
  • Storing energy and smoothing the violent load swings of AI training
  • Securing power years ahead of the build
  • Turning the data center into a grid asset

Company types
Hyperscalers · DC operators · Neocloud giants · Utilities & grid operators · IPPs & power developers · The power supply chain (HVDC, storage, transformers)

Job titles
Head of Power Delivery · VP Energy & Power · Power Systems Engineers · Director, Energy Procurement · Head of Grid Connection · PPA & Energy Markets Leads

Every layer influences the next. Our conference tracks explore the complete AI infrastructure stack.

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