{"id":5296,"date":"2025-10-17T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:34:36","slug":"googles-simon-young-joins-as-a-speaker-at-touchdown-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/googles-simon-young-joins-as-a-speaker-at-touchdown-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Simon Young joins as a speaker at Touchdown Middle East!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3565 \" src=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514.jpg 899w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514-510x510.jpg 510w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Simon-Young_Colour-1-e1727852936514-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to announce that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simon-young-cdcdp\/\">Simon Young<\/a><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">,<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">SRL Manager &#8211; Energy Location &amp; Strategy Middle East &amp; Africa<\/span> from Google <\/strong>will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a speaker! Simon will join our <strong>\u2018<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Panel: Hyperscalers &amp; Cloud: Dominating the ME Data Centre Landscape<\/span>\u2019 &amp; &#8216;<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Panel: Building AI ready Data Centres&#8217;<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simon leads Google&#8217;s Acquisition and Development team, part of Google&#8217;s Global Infrastructure and Energy organisation and is responsible for the Middle East and Africa. His team is responsible for driving infrastructure acquisition, site selection, and portfolio management, enhancing Google&#8217;s cloud services across the region. With certifications in data center design and sustainability, Simon brings a strategic approach to optimizing data center assets and expanding into key markets. Our team&#8217;s primary responsibility is to deliver Google&#8217;s data center capacity requirements across the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_1750894756\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"is-border\"\n\t\tstyle=\"border-color:rgb(227, 10, 135);border-width:10px 10px 10px 10px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<h4><strong>Need to know:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: \u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simon-young-cdcdp\/\">Simon Young<\/a><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">,<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">SRL Manager &#8211; Energy Location &amp; Strategy Middle East &amp; Africa<\/span> from Google <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session<\/strong>: \u00a0<strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Panel: Hyperscalers &amp; Cloud: Dominating the ME Data Centre Landscape<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Time: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 DAY 1 | 19th NOVEMBER | 12:10 &#8211; 12:40<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session<\/strong>: \u00a0<strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Panel: Building AI ready Data Centres<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Time: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 DAY 2 | 20th NOVEMBER | 11:00 &#8211; 11:25<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Take a look at the full\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/2025-agenda\/\"><em>Touchdown Middle East 2025 Agenda.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1750894756 {\n  padding-top: 15px;\n  padding-bottom: 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-850750012\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-850750012 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"social-icons follow-icons full-width text-center\" style=\"font-size:112%\"><span>Connect with this Speaker<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simon-young-cdcdp\/\" data-label=\"LinkedIn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon primary button circle tooltip linkedin\" title=\"Follow on LinkedIn\" aria-label=\"Follow on LinkedIn\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><i class=\"icon-linkedin\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Simon Young, SRL Manager &#8211; Energy Location &amp; Strategy Middle East &amp; Africa from Google will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}