Welcome to the NDI Supplier Conference!

Meet up with your fellow partners and competitors in this event where we discuss how we can build a robust and skilled chain of suppliers, ready to take on the coming large scale DC projects landing in Norway.

The seminar is free of charge and open for anyone curious on the datacenter industry.

11.00 Registration - coffee

11.30 Welcome and introduction - Øyvind Børstad, HENT

11.40 What is a data center - and why is it important for Norway? Introduction by Atle Haga, Vice President Strategy and Development, Stack Infrastructure Nordics and Deputy Chaiman of the Board of NDI.

12.00 What is in the pipeline for new DC projects?

Overview of approved projects and projects in line - what is coming? Bjørn Rønning, CEO NDI

12.15 The role of suppliers: What are the DC operators requiring? Representative from the operators (Green Mountain, Bulk, Stack Infrastructure, TBC)

12.40 Experience from large scale project in Skien.

Monika Lønnebakke, Business Development Manager, Powered by Telemark

13.00 Coffee and mingling

13.30 How to build a supply chain?

Experience from other industries, presented by DLA Piper (TBC)

14.00 Requirements, rules and regulations:

• CTS-Nodics (Gisle Eckhoff/Rolf A. Storøy)
• Skygard – HENT
• Coromatic (Mathias Grannes)

14.50 Services required by consultants:

• WSP (Steven Kirwin)
• COWI (TBC)

15.10 Sustainability requirements for data center projects:

What is required – and what does it mean in practice? Torkild Follaug, Chief Sustainability Director, Green Mountain

15.30 How do the purchasing processes work? RFI/RFQ, and differences between the projects.

Speakers: Tor-Andre Tangen, Procurement Dept., Green Mountain

15.50 Next step: How to collaborate in the future? Bjørn Rønning, NDI

16.05 Closing remarks and summary. Øyvind Børstad, HENT