A data centre stays for forty years.
Help decide what it gives back. Datacenter Forum has brought the Nordic data centre industry together since 2014. For 2027 we are looking for a small number of partners who are not suppliers: research institutes, grid companies, municipalities and others with a stake in where data centres are built.
Compute travels. Heat and grid capacity stay.
A data centre produces three things: compute, flexibility for the power grid, and heat. Compute goes anywhere in the world. Flexibility reaches as far as the wires do. Heat reaches about ten kilometres.
Whether a town gets anything back depends on the grid company, the heat company and the municipality, and on agreements made before the first building goes up. Those parties are rarely in the room when the industry meets.
In 2027 each forum puts them on stage next to the operators. We have places for partners who bring knowledge the industry does not have itself.
Here's who you meet at Datacenter Forum Nordics
Consultants, architects, integrators and contractors
Design consultants, architects and contractors who choose the equipment, set technical requirements and shape which suppliers make the shortlist on new builds and upgrades.
Operators, telcos, colocation providers, hyperscalers, developers
CEO/COO, head of operations, head of development or construction, energy manager, procurement: who run Nordic sites day to day and decide on capacity, power contracts and suppliers.
Grid and energy
Utilities and grid companies shaping power supply: who decide where and when new Nordic capacity can connect and what it costs.
Investors and asset owners
Infrastructure and pension funds, project-finance banks, property owners with industrial land: who fund and back new Nordic capacity and look for sites and partners to deploy capital.
Enterprise and public-sector infrastructure owners
CIO/CTO, head of IT infrastructure, data center or facilities managers who own and run in-house datacenters and decide when to expand, modernise, colocate or move capacity.
Who answers the scorecard
A gate and three questions, scored by what is on paper. Each is answered by a party that is not the operator. Follow a coloured line from a question to the kind of partner we are looking for. There are ten kinds, with a few places each.
travels
stays regional
stays local
anywhere
spent on the grid
spent on the place
Operators are the reason the others come, so they take part on different terms. If you build or run data centres in the Nordics, ask us for the operator partnership.
Ask about the operator track →We keep the number of places low so that every partner gets a real place in the programme.
Our famous and well viewed live talkshow Datacenter Changemakers, hosted by Lyselotte Lyngsø
Talks are filmed and stay in our video archive, so your slot is seen long after the day itself.
Event visitors 2022 to 2026
Event visitors 2026
Join the Nordic Energy/Data/Heat Community
Every partnership starts from the same short memorandum of understanding. It runs for one calendar year, and we review it together in December. This is the basic MoU. We would love to discuss tailored options in our call.
What you get
- A 25-minute slot in the programme: 20 minutes to present, 5 for questions.
- A table and a banner at the venue.
- Your work published through our newsletter, website and video archive, with credit.
- Introductions to operators, developers and suppliers you want to meet.
- Your logo on the event pages, in our emails about the event and on print.
- An announcement within 10 days of signing, and at least four posts on our channels.
- A seat in a talk show or panel where the topic fits.
What we ask
- A speaker on stage at the forums we agree on.
- A short brief or infographic on your topic, which we publish before the event.
- One invitation to your own network per event, with a partner code.
- An announcement on your side, and at least four posts during the year.
- A guest for a talk show or panel when we ask for one.
Who you will talk to.
A first call takes half an hour. We ask what you want to reach in the Nordics in 2027 and tell you which place fits.
Write to us and say which kind of partner you are and which city matters most to you.