The Xcelerated Compute Show | London 2026
About the Event
The Xcelerated Compute Show returns to London for its 2026 edition on September 16-17 at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Produced by InfraXmedia — the parent organisation of Data Center Dynamics and SDxCentral — the two-day conference and expo brings together more than 500 leaders from hyperscale operators, neoclouds, enterprise IT, colocation providers, and the broader AI hardware and software ecosystem. The event runs co-located with DCD>Connect | London 2026.
The show's central argument is that AI infrastructure decisions are no longer separable from compute hardware choices. Sessions focus on where GPU-cloud capacity goes next, how enterprises should evaluate the inference stack, and whether open-source tooling can compete with proprietary AI systems.
Programming Focus
- Opening keynote: What Europe needs to compete in the AI race
- Mapping the market: Where AI infrastructure gets built next
- Beyond the GPU: The changing AI compute stack
- Escaping AI hardware lock-in
- Orchestrating AI infrastructure for the inference era
- The neocloud landscape: bare metal vs. virtualised GPU-cloud
- Sovereign cloud vs. global cloud vs. AI cloud
- Building the network for the AI factory
- The enterprise AI infrastructure checklist
- Funding the next wave of AI capacity
Featured Speakers
- Fred Bardolle, Head of Product — AI, Scaleway
- Jonmichael Hands, Chief Executive Officer, FarmGPU
- Diana Khlan, Founder and Host, Chips Weekly
- Andrey Cheptsov, Founder and CEO, dstack
- Mark Bjornsgaard, CEO and Founder, Deep Green
- Ben Baldieri, Founder, The GPU
- Bryan Hill, Director, Digital Media and AI, Digital Realty
- David Anderson, Chief Product Officer, Ramon.Space
- Brennen Smith, Chief Technology Officer, RunPod
- Anne Leslie, Head of Cloud Risk for EMEA, IBM
Who Should Attend
- Enterprise IT, AI, and HPC leaders (CIO, CTO, VP of Compute Infrastructure)
- Neocloud and GPU-cloud senior engineers and product leaders
- Hyperscaler infrastructure strategy and hardware sourcing teams
- Colocation operator executives focused on AI factory build-out
- Digital infrastructure investors and analysts
- Government and supercomputing centre technical directors
Logistics
- End-user/Neocloud pass: free (qualification criteria apply)
- Ecosystem pass: £495 + VAT (early-bird rate, expires 31 July 2026)
- Vendor pass: £1,995 + VAT (early-bird rate, expires 31 July 2026)