Event Speakers

Meet Our 2026 Speakers

Ross Delaney

Chief Executive Officer, Datacentre220

Dean Addie

Executive Director, T4 NZ Data Centres

Matt Neil

Director Data Centres, Datacom

Rémi Galasso

Founder & Executive Chairman, Datagrid

Charlene Furter

Datacenter Integration Sourcing Manager CO+I Datacentre Construction & Procurement, Microsoft

Peter Skipper

Director, Data Centre Operations, New Zealand, DCI Data Centres

Nabeel Mahmood

Managing Director, Nomad Futurist (USA)

John Clarke

Executive General Manager Future Grid, Transpower

Mike Hopkins

Chief Executive Officer, Carbon and Energy Professionals New Zealand

Sam Kivi

Chief Technology Officer, Grid Share

Craig Young

Chief Executive Officer, TUANZ

Simon Currie

Co-Founder and Chief Projects Officer, Energy Estate

Simon Ansley

Investment Director, Invest New Zealand

Kate Mitchell

Fund Manager – Data Centres, Centuria Capital Group

Hishaam Mirza

Former Head of Direct Investments, NZ Super Fund

Phil Gibson

Former EGM Portfolio, Mercury NZ

Sam Excell

Head of Infrastructure Partners, Chorus

Martin Sharrock

Chief Technology Officer, Chorus

Matthew Cowie

Partner | Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY New Zealand

Andrew Green

Independent Data Centre Consultant, AG Squared Consulting

Raji Rai

Director, Vastra Consulting Limited

Alina Melikhova

Conference Director, FuturePlace

Alex McCarthy

Data Centre Evangelist, Honeywell

Rob Macredie

Partner, DLA Piper

Nicholas Chote

Senior Solution Consultant, Octave

Tony Gaunt

Vice President Product Management, Vertiv

Anthony Whipps

Data Centre Lead, APAC, GHD

We’re continuously selecting high- profile speakers for this event.

Interested in speaking?

Contact: joshs@futureplace.tech