New Zealand's inaugural Data Centre Leaders Summit is a one-day conference and exhibition on 12 August 2026 at Cordis Auckland, produced by FuturePlace.
New Zealand's inaugural Data Centre Leaders Summit is a one-day conference on Wednesday 12 August 2026 at Cordis Auckland, positioned as the New Zealand edition of the established Australian Data Centre Leaders franchise. The programme opens with registration at 8:00am and closes with networking drinks at 6:00pm, framed around where power, planning and capital align.
The event is produced by FuturePlace, a B2B summit producer whose branding runs throughout the official site (Powered by FuturePlace.tech) and whose Conference Director, Alina Melikhova, delivers the welcome remarks. Registration is handled through FuturePlace's Swoogo platform, and the summit is built on the company's established Australian Data Centre Leaders event.
The summit targets more than 250 decision-makers across data-centre owners, operators, investors, utilities, contractors, consultants and solution providers. The single-track conference is paired with an exhibition area, 15 peer-led roundtables and structured networking. Programme themes span market dynamics and growth, investment and capital flows, policy and regulation (including RMA consenting and iwi engagement), power and grid constraints, cooling and sustainability, site selection, and AI and cloud demand. Confirmed speakers include leaders from Datacom, Chorus, Transpower, DCI Data Centres, Turner & Townsend, Vertiv, Honeywell APAC, Brookfield, Invest New Zealand and Nomad Futurist.
Cordis Auckland is a five-star hotel on Symonds Street, on the edge of the Auckland CBD, with extensive conference and ballroom space suited to a mid-sized summit-plus-exhibition format. Its central location places delegates within easy reach of the city centre and its accommodation, roughly 20-25 km from Auckland Airport.
For the New Zealand business-events sector, this is a genuinely new international-caliber technology summit landing a mid-sized corporate conference, exhibition and multiple hosted networking functions at a major Auckland five-star hotel, drawing senior domestic and offshore infrastructure and investment delegates into the city.
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