AI Cities | Rio de Janeiro 2027
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About the Event
AI Cities | Rio de Janeiro is a two-day regional executive summit organized by Data Centre Dynamics (InfraXmedia) focused on aligning Latin American public officials, power utilities, and digital infrastructure developers around AI data center deployment. The summit takes place May 19 to 20, 2027, at the Sheraton Grand Rio Hotel & Resort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The programme brings together municipal leaders, energy providers, hyperscalers, data center operators, and infrastructure investors to address the regulatory, electrical grid, and site development demands created by high-density artificial intelligence compute.
Programming Focus
- Economic Development and Infrastructure Investment: Strategies for attracting international project finance and private capital to digital infrastructure, analyzing the real estate impact of hyperscale campuses in urban markets, and structuring public-private frameworks between municipal agencies and cloud operators.
- Regulatory Frameworks and Sovereign Governance: Balancing regional electrical grids between industrial computing demand and consumer needs, designing forward-looking municipal zoning rules and tax incentives, and navigating data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer policies.
- Community Inclusion and Energy Sustainability: Integrating clean energy sources, implementing grid-interactive data centers, adopting liquid cooling and low-water designs, and establishing mechanisms for continuous community involvement in high-density development.
- The Future of Urban AI Applications and Infrastructure: Scaling urban installations with edge facilities, high-speed fiber routes, and 5G networks, alongside deploying predictive models for traffic engineering and municipal grid optimization.
Featured Speakers
Advisory board members and featured contributors include:
- Osmar Lima, Secretário de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro
- Sidney Levy, President, Invest.Rio
- Alexandre Maioral, President, Oracle Brazil
- Alessandro Lombardi, Founder and CEO, Elea Data Centers
- Alex Sasaki, Vice President of Sales Latin America, Vertiv
- Cyre Mercedes Quiñones, CEO, Infrastructure Masons
- Renan Lima Alves, Presidente, Associação Brasileira de Data Center (ABDC)
- Mauricio Giusti, Partner, Actis
- Cristina Estrada, Managing Director and Co-Head Investment Banking Brazil, Goldman Sachs
- Adriana Rivera Cerecedo, Directora Ejecutiva, MEXDC
- Natalia López Céspedes, Gerente General, Chile Data Centers
- Christopher Torto, Founder and CEO, Ascenty
Sponsors
- Host Partners: Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Invest.Rio
- Key Industry Partners: Elea Data Centers, Vertiv, Equinix, CloudHQ, Scala Data Centers, Takoda Data Centers, Ascenty Data Centers, Microsoft, Huawei Data Center Facility, NVIDIA, Schneider Electric, Legrand, EdgeUno, Goldman Sachs, Global Infrastructure Partners, Banco Bradesco, Hyphen
- Association Partners: Associação Brasileira de Data Center (ABDC), MEXDC, Chile Data Centers, Infrastructure Masons, Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Software (ABES)
Who Should Attend
- Regional and national government ministers, municipal leaders, economic development officials, and urban planners
- Data center developers, colocation operators, and hyperscale engineering teams
- Transmission system operators, power generation companies, and renewable energy providers
- Infrastructure funds, private equity investors, and project finance lenders
- Architectural, MEP engineering, and project management consultancies
- Enterprise IT leaders, network architects, and telecommunications carriers
Logistics
The summit takes place May 19 to 20, 2027, at the Sheraton Grand Rio Hotel & Resort, located at Avenida Niemeyer 121, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro.