PROGRAM LEVELX CONFERENCE
MONDAY MAY 18
17:30 - 22:00
FESTIVE WELCOME EVENING
FESTIVE WELCOME EVENING
Join us for an informal welcome evening to set the tone for the days ahead. Enjoy drinks and a relaxed walking dinner while meeting fellow conference guests, exchanging ideas, and starting great conversations.
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TUESDAY MAY 19 - PLENARY
09:30 - 10:30
DOORS open
DOORS open
Walk-in is from 09:30 to 10:30, start networking and enjoy a cup of coffee!
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10:30 - 10:40
Welcome words by carole santens
Welcome words by carole santens
Welcome words by Carole Santens, Managing Director of the Belgian Digital Infrastructure Association
10:40 - 11:00
Keynote TBA
Keynote TBA
TBA
11:00 - 11:15
Belgian digital infrastructure market outlook
Belgian digital infrastructure market outlook
TBA
11:15 - 11:45
AI-Ready Data Centers in Belgium: Speed Without Compromise
AI-Ready Data Centers in Belgium: Speed Without Compromise
This opening panel sets the tone for the conference by cutting through the AI hype and focusing on its real impact on data center strategy. It explores how AI is reshaping cloud, enterprise, and government infrastructure in Belgium, translating ambition into practical decisions on design, location, and investment, showing how operators can move fast today while preserving flexibility and long-term resilience.
11:45 - 13:00
Lunch
Lunch
Join us for the networking lunch to continue the conversations!
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TUESDAY MAY 19 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS
13:00 - 13:30
Energy Horizons: Powering the Next Wave of Digital Infrastructure
Energy Horizons: Powering the Next Wave of Digital Infrastructure
This panel dives into Belgium’s energy landscape, which is a critical factor in data center growth. Positioned in a European context, it examines how to ensure sustainable expansion, avoid stranded capacity, and balance power sources, from grid and gas to BESS, hybrid models, and future SMRs, while highlighting the collaboration needed between industry, grid operators, and policymakers.
13:35 - 14:05
Belgium as Tier 2 market: Strategic Position and Digital Sovereignty
Belgium as Tier 2 market: Strategic Position and Digital Sovereignty
This panel sets the strategic context for the day by positioning Belgium within the European digital infrastructure and cloud landscape. Not only as a Tier-2 market, but as a potential pillar of European digital sovereignty. The discussion confronts ambition with reality: where Belgium genuinely competes, why investment momentum remains limited, and whether sovereignty-driven demand (from government, regulated industries and European initiatives) can become a structural growth driver.
14:10 - 14:40
Cooling & Sustainability: Designing Responsible Capacity HPC
Cooling & Sustainability: Designing Responsible Capacity HPC
This panel explores how cooling has shifted from a technical necessity to a strategic sustainability and operational element. With high-performance computing driving higher densities, it examines which cooling technologies (air, liquid, or immersive) are scalable, operationally viable, and environmentally responsible. Discussions focus on energy efficiency, water use, permitting, ESG impact.
14:45 - 15:15
Connectivity as Critical Infrastructure
Connectivity as Critical Infrastructure
Connecting Belgium’s data centers to AI, cloud, edge, and data sovereignty needs, this panel examines how fiber networks, internet exchanges, interconnection, and geographic diversity drive market attractiveness, enhance resilience, and enable low-latency, high-performance workloads, while identifying current bottlenecks and opportunities for growth.
15:20 - 15:50
Who Funds Belgium’s Future digital infrastructure?
Who Funds Belgium’s Future digital infrastructure?
This panel uncovers the financial realities driving Belgium’s digital infrastructure development. It examines what makes projects scalable, predictable, and bankable, who will generate initial demand, and how government action can catalyze investment. Essential for investors, developers, and policymakers, it links financial feasibility with strategic positioning for the next generation of data center and cloud projects.
15:55 - 16:25
Time to Market & Execution Power in Belgium
Time to Market & Execution Power in Belgium
In this industry, how fast and reliably you deliver matters more than ambition. This panel dives into the real factors shaping project timelines in Belgium, from permitting, energy, and connectivity to supply chain and talent, highlighting delays, competitive advantages, and how the market can build predictability as a key differentiator.
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