We are excited to announce that David Sandars, Regional Director EMEA and Tahir Gok, Senior Analyst MENA from datacentreHawk will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a Keynote Speakers! David & Tahir will join our ‘KEYNOTE: Global Market Trends: What Global Data Centre Dynamics Mean for the Middle East’ .
David Sandars:
David Sandars is Regional Director EMEA at datacenterHawk, the leading market intelligence and analysts company for the data centre industry. He has responsibility for all datacenterHawk business through the EMEA region. David is an industry veteran with over 22 years’ experience working in the data centre sector. In the past he has held senior sales, business development and commercial roles at companies such as Interxion (now Digital Realty), Uptime Institute, Siemens, Vantage and atNorth. He has seen the data centre industry evolve and grow from many angles over the past two decades and brings this experience and depth of knowledge to his work at datacenterHawk.
Tahir Gok:
Tahir Gok is the Senior Analyst for the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa at datacentre, where he advises hyperscalers, sovereign wealth funds, developers, and institutional investors through market intelligence focused on digital infrastructure growth. With a background in corporate real estate for global technology firms and consulting on data centre development and investment transactions, he supports strategic decision-making on site selection, capacity planning, absorption trends, and future pipeline development. Tahir has played a key role in expanding datacenterHawk’s market presence in the region, providing insights on supply growth, vacancy dynamics, and emerging trends shaping digital transformation across MENA
Need to know:
Speaker: David Sandars, Regional Director EMEA & Tahir Gok, MENA Lead – Senior Analyst from datacentreHawk
Session: KEYNOTE: Global Market Trends: What Global Data Centre Dynamics Mean for the Middle East
Time: DAY 1 | 19th NOVEMBER | 10:45 – 11:00
Take a look at the full Touchdown Middle East 2025 Agenda.