{"id":519,"date":"2022-12-25T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-gdca.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:54:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover home-hero has-video\" id=\"banner-827509926\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n                        \t<div class=\"video-overlay no-click fill hide-for-medium\"><\/div>\n\t<video class=\"video-bg fill hide-for-medium\" preload playsinline autoplay muted loop>\n\t\t<source src=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-TDME-website-header.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">\t<\/video>\n            <div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>            \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers 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110%;\"><span class=\"None\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Touchdown Middle East <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">is\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the Gulf region&#8217;s<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0first annual conference for the data centre industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfdca.com\">Gulf Data Centre Association<\/a> (GDCA), a trade association established to create a platform to foster growth and investment in the Gulf data centre industry,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">, Touchdown Middle East brings together data centre industry leaders, C-level executives, critical decision-makers, trailblazing operators, industry influencers and more from across the Middle East.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"None\" style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The conference offers attendees the opportunity to gain region-wide insight into the latest trends, developments, and opportunities in the data centre market through keynote speeches from industry experts, panel discussions from leading voices and ample business development opportunities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Touchdown Middle East 2025 will take place on <strong>Wednesday 19th<\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> and Thursday 20th<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\"><strong> November 2025<\/strong> at <\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Al Dana Hall, Gulf Hotel, Kingdom of Bahrain<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3055886001 {\n  font-size: 1.1rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1683270869\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-55079126\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-4\"  data-animate=\"fadeInDown\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1944932284\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GDCA-Favicon-23.png\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GDCA-Favicon-23.png 282w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GDCA-Favicon-23-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1944932284 {\n  width: 40%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #image_1944932284 {\n    width: 50%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1393225528\" class=\"col medium-7 small-12 large-7\"  data-animate=\"fadeInDown\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2661968956\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<h2>About the GDCA<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2661968956 {\n  font-size: 1.3rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3593292952\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The GDCA is a trade organisation designed to\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">propel the growth of the data centre industry across the\u00a0<\/span>GCC in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 110%;\">The GDCA provides a platform for those involved in operating, servicing, or investing in data centres across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to promote growth within the industry and to develop Middle Eastern digital infrastructure. Through a regular cadence of events across the region and a series of market intelligence reports for every GDCA data centre market, the GDCA enables members from the public and private sector to share knowledge, best practice, and market intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Founded in September 2022, the GDCA has already welcomed over 600 members to the association and is currently accepting induvial and organisation members free-of-charge. All members have access to the GDCA<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s events, including Touchdown Middle East; complimentary detailed market intelligence reporting; and a monthly curated newsletter covering breaking and leading data centre stories in the Gulf region.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The GDCA is supported by its knowledge partner, leading data centre specialist consultancy, <\/span><span lang=\"DE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techre.co.uk\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink2\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">TechRE Consulting<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, and by its sponsors from across the region.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\">w: <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfdca.com\/en\/\">https:\/\/gulfdca.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\">e: <a href=\"mailto:membership@gulfdca.com\">membership@gulfdca.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\">t: <a href=\"tel:0097333611145\">+973 33611145<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"DE\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/gulf-data-centre-association\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3593292952 {\n  font-size: 1.1rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\" ><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1978613512 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_778175117\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_778175117 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-blank.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}