Speakers

Simon Muskett leads innovation, AI, and quantum strategy at Digital Realty, one of the world’s largest data center operators, reporting into the CTO office with a global remit. His focus: building a simplified path for innovators, OEMs, and partners that empowers businesses to grow during this inflection point. Simon grows Digital Realty’s infrastructure ecosystem by translating emerging compute — from GPU-dense AI clusters to early quantum systems and novel approaches to silicon — into measurable infrastructure and energy efficiency outcomes for enterprise customers. Realising the opportunity ahead for AI and Quantum Computing. With over 20 years of technology leadership across Dell, Ericsson, Citrix, and Digital Realty, Simon bridges the gap between hyperscale infrastructure economics and next-generation workloads. He advises on AI training and inference architecture, optimal power delivery, early quantum technologies, and bringing next-generation compute into commercial deployment. Simon guest lectures at the London School of Economics on AI leadership and holds board-level positions in the technology sector.