December 2nd, 2025

10 am (GMT)

Virtual Roundtable 

The Impact of AI in the data centre sector

The impact of AI on infrastructure is a significant topic for many data centre professionals. There is currently a clear focus on how to design and build ‘AI factories’ with high-density GPU racks, while considering the need for new power architectures and cooling solutions to support this growth. The use of AI-driven management tools to improve operational efficiency and reliability is gaining traction for everything from predictive maintenance to dynamic workload management and security threat detection. On Tuesday, December 2nd, virtually, a CXO Priorities roundtable discussion – in collaboration with Intelligent Data Centres – will explore this in more detail.

Are you a data centre professional and want to take part in our roundtable discussion? Contact [email protected] and a member of the team will be in touch within two working days.

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Stephen Bowes-Phipps

VP, EMEA Data Centres and Cloud at State Street Bank and Trust

Steve has over 35 years of operational systems management experience. After managing MBNA Data Centres and IT operations in the UK and Ireland for 5 years, he joined web hosting company GlobalCenter when it was expanding from the US into Europe. Sitting on the senior management team, he oversaw the building of five Internet Data Centres in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich and Paris until Exodus Internet bought the company in 2001.

After four years in Visa Europe, in 2007, he joined his Alma Mater, Hertfordshire University, to become their Head of Data Centres and worked with the UK’s Higher and Further Education IT funding arm, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), to assist in embedding Green IT in UK HE and FE institutions and throughout the EU. In 2010, the University of Hertfordshire became the first European university to comply with the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and has won in categories at the European Datacentre Leaders Awards 2010, the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT (GEITTM) 2011 and the EAUC Green Gown Awards 2011.

Steve joined PTS Consulting in 2015 and presented at many conferences at home and abroad on reducing DC investment risk, Best Practices in Green IT and exemplar case studies.

As well as being an Board Advisor for the Data Centre Alliance for ten years, he is involved in various industry bodies forming new international standards and metrics for IT and Data Centre efficiency.

Steve joined State Street in 2023, focusing on Data Centre transformation and management, engineering and operations, both globally and regionally.

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Stephen Bowes-Phipps

VP, EMEA Data Centres and Cloud at State Street Bank and Trust

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Dr Angus Hay

Regional Executive South Africa, Africa Data Centres

Dr Angus Hay

Regional Executive South Africa, Africa Data Centres

As the Regional Executive for South Africa, Dr Angus Hay oversees all commercial and operational development of the Africa Data Centre facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town. 
 
He joined Neotel at its inception in 2006 and later became its chief technology officer. Following Neotel’s acquisition by Liquid Telecom in early 2017, Angus oversaw major expansion projects at the company’s data centres. He has also served as chief technology officer for Transtel and was chair of the management committee of the West Africa Cable System in 2012.
 
He is currently the director of the Number Portability Company. Born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, Angus has BSc (Eng) Elec (1987) and a PhD in digital transmission (1998) from the University of the Witwatersrand.