Ameya Soparkar
Mission Critical Business Unit Lead Arup
Ameya Soparkar is a Data Center Mission Critical Infrastructure specialist. A Mechanical Engineer by education he has around 20 years of industry experience in design, implementation, commissioning and management.
He has held positions as Mission Critical Market Leader for Affiliated Engineers Inc., Director of Engineering at Rittal Inc. and Global Engineering Lead for HPE Data Center Facilities. He has had extensive international working experience and has designed and delivered over 120 data center projects in 35 countries across 5 continents. He worked in Asia for 5 years as an expatriate manager and established the Engineering Center of Excellence for HPE in India and China. This department was responsible for delivering data center design and implementation projects worldwide. He also was as the program manager and helped lead the global modular data center portfolio for HPE.
Seminars
- Establishing a practical definition of edge infrastructure across the industry to align stakeholders around a common understanding of the market opportunity
- Examining real-world edge deployments across carrier hotels, micro data centers, enterprise campuses and telecommunications infrastructure to translate industry definitions into practical applications
- Distinguishing how edge differs from hyperscale facilities in terms of size, location, customer base, and deployment objectives to better position infrastructure strategies for future growth
- Exploring the evolving edge ecosystem of developers, operators, enterprises, telecommunications providers, and infrastructure investors to understand who is shaping the future of the market and where partnerships are forming
- Discovering how different use cases such as AI inference, autonomous vehicles, IoT, financial trading, etc. impact project specifications to design facilities capable of supporting a wider range of workloads
- Assessing how power density, cooling preferences, and connectivity requirements vary across edge use cases to improve infrastructure flexibility and long-term utilization
- Understanding how end users evaluate edge infrastructure investments to prioritize the capabilities that deliver the greatest business value
