Scheduled on October 25 and 26 in London, the summit will officially by opened by Anthony Cleaver, Chairman of IX Europe.

Broadgroup, a consulting services provider, today announded that The Power and Cooling Summit 2006, for forward looking data centres, will take place on October 25-26 in London.

The Summit will be officially opened by Sir Anthony Cleaver, Chairman of IX Europe and will be attended by a audience of speakers and representatives from Europe, the Middle East, India and the US. The Summit will assess challenges and opportunities for power and cooling in the medium and long term. Global design and business consulting firm Arup will also provide a special workshop at the Summit, dealing with short term solutions for power and cooling in data centres.

Sponsors for the event include Emerson Network Power, APC, Active Power, IX Europe and The Colocation Exchange. While the academy of speakers also includes experts from HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems and the University of Missouri-Colombia. A panel of enterprise owned and managed data centres will add valuable case study material to the Summit perspective of how to tackle challenges in the medium to long term.

"Power and Cooling leads the way as a conduit for thought leadership in this critical debate," commented Philip Low at BroadGroup, the summit Researchers and Producers. "At a time when the US government has already initiated investigations into the power consumption of data centres in the US, European businesses need to understand what, how and when to adopt new solutions but equally so the steps they should take in the interim. It promises to be a fascinating and informative summit."