Fri, 10th October 2025

6:30 PM onwards

The Oberoi, Bangalore

India’s digital infrastructure is evolving - and it’s time to celebrate the visionaries leading this transformation.

We invite you to be part of an exclusive evening spotlighting innovation, resilience, and sustainability in data centres.

Powering the Future Awards

Award Categories:

1. Sustainable and Resilient Digital Infrastructure

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence in designing, building, or operating digital infrastructure that is both environmentally sustainable and highly resilient to disruptions. We are looking for initiatives that incorporate green technologies, optimize energy usage, minimize carbon footprint, and ensure high levels of uptime and service continuity even under challenging circumstances.

What to Include in Your Submission:

  1. Innovative approaches or technologies used for sustainability and resilience
  2. Evidence of improved operational stability and reduced environmental impact
  3. Quantifiable results (e.g., reduced downtime, energy savings, emissions reduction)
  4. Scalability of the solution and its potential to be replicated elsewhere

2. Excellence in Data Centre Transformation / Modernisation

This category celebrates outstanding achievements in transforming or modernizing data center infrastructure to improve performance, efficiency, and agility. Whether through cloud adoption, automation, AI/ML integration, energy optimization, or architectural redesign, we seek projects that have redefined the operational capabilities of the data center.

What to Include in Your Submission:

  1. Specific modernization or transformation measures undertaken
  2. Measurable benefits achieved (e.g., efficiency gains, cost savings, enhanced capacity)
  3. Use of emerging technologies (AI/ML, edge computing, virtualization, etc.)
  4. Impact on service delivery, scalability, and adaptability for future needs

Judging parameters for company awards:

Innovation Evaluate the originality and creativity of the project in addressing challenges or introducing new approaches to data centre solutions.
Impact Assess the tangible benefits delivered, such as operational efficiency, cost savings, or creating meaningful competitive advantage
Scalability & Resilience Gauge the project’s ability to adapt to future demands and maintain robust, reliable operations under varying conditions.

Nomination form for Sustainable and Resilient and Excellence

Award Category

1. Company Information

2. Project Overview (Project completion date should not be older than 2 years back)

3. Brief Summary

4. Detailed Project Description

5. Supporting Evidence

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