Leading international data center, hosting and cloud players will gather in Hong Kong on 6th November this year for the annual Finance and Investment Forum for Datacenters, Hosting and Cloud Asia, with global providers Digital Realty and Savvis, a CenturyLink Company announced as joint Patrons. The event will take place in the luxurious hotel Grand Hyatt Hong Kong.
Official media partner of the event is Datacentres.com and a variety of eminent persons within the data center and hosting business have already been announced as speakers during the one-day forum. Among them: Steve Wallage – Managing Director of BroadGroup Consulting, Jonathan Leung – Vice President and Head of Hosting Services Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Mark Smith – Managing Director Asia Savvis, a CenturyLink Company, Jonathan Atkin – Managing Director RBC Capital Markets, LLC, and Kris Kumar – Senior Vice President & Regional Head Asia Pacific Digital Realty.
Investor breakfast
The objective of the one-day forum is to bring together stakeholders and players in the sector across the finance and investment community, to assess datacenters, hosting and cloud, identify key opportunities emerging in Asia and China, the types of finance available, mergers and acquisitions, debt versus risk and mezzanine financing. Discussion will also cover the different types of funders, lessons from the US and Europe, and financial and business model assumptions.
An investor breakfast will also take place as a prelude to the main conference. Entering the “den” of potential investors, a series of short pitches will be made to the audience from companies currently seeking investment for a variety of datacenter projects.
“Digital Realty is delighted to participate in the Finance and Investment Forum for Datacenters Asia,” says Kris Kumar, Senior Vice President and Regional Head of Asia Pacific. “As the biggest provider of datacenter solutions, we support industry efforts to discuss the opportunities and outlook for the sector and look forward to contributing to the debate. With 122 properties located in 32 markets throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia we believe our perspective will add tremendous value to the event.”
“Asia has reached an exciting stage of development in datacenters,” says Steve Wallage, managing director of BroadGroup Consulting. “This event creates a unique platform for the key opportunity sectors across the region that will drive investment and innovation.”
