ULI Europe Data Centres Product Council Day – 26 November 2025

When

2025-11-26
2025-11-26T08:30:00 - 2025-11-26T16:30:00
Europe/Paris

Choose Your Calendar

    26th November - Product Council Day 
    26th November 18:45-23:00 - Awards for Excellence Dinner. Please note there are no separate council dinners the evening before. If you can attend the Awards Dinner you must confirm your place when you register for your council meeting.
    27th November - C Change Summit

    The below is a draft agenda for the council meeting.

    Meeting Venue - Google, 8 Rue de Londres, 75009 Paris

    09:30 - Welcome from Chairs
    09:45 - Introduction - New Member(s)
    10:00 - French Regulatory Environment
    11:00 - Round Table Discussion
                 Neocloud Deployments
    11:30 - Deep Dive into the French Data Centre Market
    12:30 - Lunch onsite
    13:30 - Power Enablement and securing Green Energy Solutions
    14:30 - Break
    14:45 - The Viability of Data Centre Heat Recovery
                 Paul Cranfield, VIPA Digital
    15:00 - Rack Density and Cooling Technology Innovations
    15:45 - Round Table Discussion
                 Modular DC Construction and its potential impact on project predictability
    16:15 - Wrap Up and Next Steps
    16:30 - Close
    18:45 - Awards for Excellence Dinner, Pavillon Royal

    If you are interested in attending as a guest to a Product Council meeting, please email your request along with a copy of your CV to [email protected] 

    Kindly supported by Google

    Speaker

    Paul Cranfield

    Partner, VIPA Digital Limited

    A chartered energy engineer with over 25-years’ experience of mission critical environments across the aviation, telco, banking, and technology sectors and specialising in Power, Sustainability, Compliance and Operational Risk Having held senior roles in BAA, WSP, Vodafone, UBS and Digital Realty, Paul has significant experience in design and operational performance of Data Centre facilities. Paul has managed teams of compliance professionals delivering excellence across Energy, Environment, Security, Business Continuity and Supply Chain functions. With specific focus on the Data Centre sector, VIPA Digital specialises in providing commercial, technical, and operational support to investors, developers, operators, and end-users of Data Centre infrastructure. With a talented team of professionals, Paul leads the VIPA business on Power and Environment and Social Governance (ESG) to tackle two of the fundamental challenges facing the growth of the Data Centre sector in established and emerging markets. Paul holds a BEng (Hons) in Energy Engineering and is a member of the Energy Institute (CEng, MinstE).