Speakers

Damien Spillane leads the Customer Solutions, Design & Innovation team at AirTrunk. Based in Singapore, his role includes data centre design, innovation, connectivity, energy, customer solutions, customer success, and site selection. AirTrunk is the pioneer of hyperscale data centres in APJ, focused on delivering unmatched scale, speed, efficiency and reliability for its customers. In 2017, AirTrunk opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in Sydney and Melbourne and has rapidly expanded across the region. This includes launching hyperscale data centres in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney North and Japan, as well as new data centres in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and Osaka, Japan. Collectively, AirTrunk’s data centre platform will offer more than 1.4 gigawatts (GW) of capacity providing a connected, secure, and sustainable home for data across the APJ region. As a senior data centre professional with 20 years’ experience in APAC and EMEA, and one of the companies first employees, Damien has been instrumental in developing AirTrunk’s award-winning innovative solutions and hyperscale designs to support the rapid growth of AirTrunk’s large technology customers in the Asia-Pacific & Japan region. Spillane has led ground-breaking innovations across AirTrunk’s platform that are unprecedented in the data centre industry, including innovative cooling designs, bespoke customer solutions, a containerised modular approach to electrical power distribution (PTU) and a unique Data Centre Embedded Energy Network (DEEN). Prior to AirTrunk, Damien was the Senior Director of Sales Engineering, APAC with Digital Realty. He also led the transformation of engineering strategy in the Pacific at APC-MGE, Schneider Electric’s IT business. Mr Spillane received his BSc in Building Service Engineering from Trinity College, Dublin and his Diploma in Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology.