Sam Excell

Head of Infrastructure Partners, Chorus

Sam Excell has more than 20 years’ experience supporting the infrastructure, wholesale, and partner ecosystems that underpin New Zealand’s digital economy. Her career has featured senior roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Datacom, Devoli, and Spark in International Wholesale, supporting carrier partners across Australia, the Pacific, and global markets. Now Head of Infrastructure Partners at Chorus, Sam brings deep expertise in wholesale telecoms, automation technologies, and partner‑led execution – capabilities essential to supporting New Zealand’s rapidly evolving data centre landscape.

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Cupix

Cupix is a Spatial Digital Twin software company on a mission to enable the construction industry to maximise project outcomes by mirroring construction sites into virtual spaces in minutes.

Combining AI and BIM technologies, Cupix’s flagship product, CupixWorks, is a SaaS platform which transforms 360 photos taken by off-the-shelf 360 cameras into a virtual 3D space and provides a cloud based unified platform for industry data formats.

Many of Australia’s largest construction companies rely on CupixWorks to enhance collaboration, speed up decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

cupix.com

Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power protection, precision cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Vertiv brings together hardware, software, analytics, and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally, and grow with their business needs. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 24,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. In Australia and New Zealand, Vertiv has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Auckland. For more information, visit Vertiv.com, or call 02 9805 5800.

www.vertiv.com

Octave

Unleashing intelligence at scale.

Octave is a leader in enterprise software, turning data into decisive action and intelligence into your edge. Our software solves for and simplifies complexity, from the design and build to operations and protection of people, property, and assets — for any scope, at any scale. For decades, we’ve partnered with customers to sharpen performance, elevate efficiency, and amplify results. From factory floors to entire cities, our solutions are tuned to scale up what’s possible from day one onward.

www.octave.com

Honeywell

With our experience in top-tier data centers, Honeywell helps operators meet challenges in accelerating the build of a standardised global fleet. Our proven solutions help optimise facility uptime, improve efficiency, reduce carbon footprint and help protect workers, data and assets.

Chorus

Chorus’s fibre network is New Zealand’s digital backbone. We run NZ’s largest open access, carrier neutral fibre network – featuring network diversity with resilient onramps to international cable systems. Our data centre partners and enterprise customers get consistent performance, national reach and trusted neutrality. Engineered for low latency and rapid scale, we power cloud, edge, AI, and latency sensitive workloads. We’re not just connecting New Zealand today. We’re the digital backbone of a nation, unlocking possibilities for generations to come.

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