Event Organizer BroadGroup (www.broad-group.com) announced on Monday that industry leaders in the field of European data centers will meet at the sixth annual data centers in Europe Conference and Awards (www.datacentres . com / DCE), held April 22 to 23 in Sophia Antipolis, near Nice, France.

This year’s conference will focus on the benefits of various green technologies in the next year.

The event will feature a top line up of speakers includes experts Christian Belady, director of architecture of extreme computing hardware partner group at Microsoft Research, Michael Manos, vice president of service operations at Nokia, Zeighami Roy, UCS Power and cooling TME Cisco, Laurent Vernerey, president and CEO of IT business at Schneider Electric, Anthony Foy, Interxion Director General, Michael Tobin, CEO of TelecityGroup, Eric Schwartz, president of Equinix Europe, and Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President of International Operations at Digital Realty Trust, and Guy Willner, president of Data Gardens Russia.

The conference will include special presentations given by Paul-François Cattie, VP of France, the Benelux and the French speaking part of Africa at APC by Schneider Electric, which will announce the results of a new study by the Group Data Centre in France , and Howard Marion Healy, associate consultant BroadGroup in a new study of private cloud.

The 2-day international event includes a conference, an exhibition of industry, and special workshops.

In addition, the annual dinner of the prestigious awards program include the European Green Initiative Award has been approved and will be presented by the Green Grid. BroadGroup announced that in January opened the nominations for awards in categories of the awards.

Sponsors include APC by Schneider Electric, Interxion, TelecityGroup, XKL, H2O Networks, Euclydes, Digital Realty Trust, eBRC, Migration Solutions, BL International Consultants, Equinix, FM Cadwin, Lamda Hellix Data Center, ARUP, Scottish Development International , APL, Surf Telecoms, Stulz, Contego, Microsoft, CBRE, Noodlesoft Technologies, The Placement Exchange, Gimélec, News Search Data Centers, Consulting IX, in one, and the magazine Econference Global Security.