{"id":5531,"date":"2025-11-05T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:05:32","slug":"knight-franks-stephen-beard-joins-as-a-keynote-speaker-at-touchdown-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/knight-franks-stephen-beard-joins-as-a-keynote-speaker-at-touchdown-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Frank&#8217;s Stephen Beard joins as a keynote speaker at Touchdown Middle East!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2306 \" src=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stephen-Beard-8x10in-510x638.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to announce that<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephen-beard-68a7b2140\/\"> Stephen Beard<\/a>, Global Head of Data Centres from Knight Frank<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a speaker! Dr.Eric 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: Sustainability and ESG<\/span>\u2019 .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Head of Data Centres at Knight Frank, Stephen leads all transactional activity across colocation, site acquisition and sale, sale &amp; leaseback, and investment. He has advised on more than US$2 Bn in data centre transactions and acquired colocation space across 30+ global markets.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen has a detailed knowledge of the EMEA, APAC, and LATAM markets, supported by a strong network of colocation customers, data centre operators, telecommunication providers, and hyperscale cloud clients. He has advised data centre operators and landowners on transactions totalling over US$1 Bn and 1 GW of IT power, and on M&amp;A transactions exceeding a total value of US$5 Bn.<\/p>\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_892157844\">\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\/stephen-beard-68a7b2140\/\">Stephen Beard<\/a>, Global Head of Data Centres from Knight Frank<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session<\/strong>: \u00a0<strong>\u00a0<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">KEYNOTE: Data Centre Market Overview in the GCC<\/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_892157844 {\n  padding-top: 15px;\n  padding-bottom: 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-381189178\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-381189178 {\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\/stephen-beard-68a7b2140\/\" 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 Stephen Beard, Global Head of Data Centres from Knight Frank\u00a0will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2025 as a speaker! 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