Are you heading to Datacloud Global Congress 2025? So are we, and we welcome the opportunity to get together with our collective communities in beautiful Cannes. Co-hosted by WTF and iMWomen, we invite you to join us for valuable networking & a panel discussion on 'Navigating the Future: Leveraging Diversity to Drive Innovation in Tech'
Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP.
The Women’s Tech Forum (WTF) is a grassroots effort focused on connecting women in the cloud, networking, and data center infrastructure industry. Our origin story came from asking two simple questions: “Why aren’t there more women in our industry?” and “how come more of us don’t know each other?” We strongly believe in creating a safe environment for women to use their voices'.
The entire WTF community has their hands on the steering wheel and we’re so excited to see where and how far we’ll go together.
iMWomen is a community of like-minded individuals collaborating on ways to elevate and inform women working in the digital infrastructure space.
We aim to increase diversity and the number of women pursuing careers in infrastructure, in addition to increasing the visibility and the career advancement of women currently in the industry.
Sue sits on the UK Executive Board and leads the Work Dynamics business for JLL in the UK. She is responsible for delivering professional services that make a real difference and help businesses adapt to the changing workplace and add value.
At a time when the workplace has never been so pivotal to so many, the range of services has increased to include everything from workplace strategy and design to transaction and account management.
During her time at JLL she has developed a track record of results within the corporate real estate sector and an extensive understanding of internal business functions, business drivers and profit and loss management. A huge supporter of building diverse working environments, Sue is a regular panellist at industry events.
She is a Board member for the charity London Youth, who seek to improve the lives of young people in London, challenging them to become the best they can. Sue, herself a former Canadian rugby international, is passionate about the positive impact sport and outdoor learning has on younger generations.
Val Walsh joined Microsoft in 2020 and currently leads the Global Leasing and Land Development teams for Cloud Operations & Innovation. Prior to this, Val had a successful career at Digital Realty, a large international Data Centre REIT, focusing on portfolio management and finance. Val is a results focused leader with a proven track record in delivering highly complex, cost efficient data centres for customers, across multiple regions. Throughout her career, Val has worked in the data centre industry in a fast paced, high growth environment, and has gained significant experience working both on the client and operator side, giving her a unique perspective on delivering best-in-class service. Val is passionate about this Industry and how it is maturing over time, and is highly focused on developing diverse and inclusive top talent and emerging leaders for the future.
Sue sits on the UK Executive Board and leads the Work Dynamics business for JLL in the UK. She is responsible for delivering professional services that make a real difference and help businesses adapt to the changing workplace and add value.
At a time when the workplace has never been so pivotal to so many, the range of services has increased to include everything from workplace strategy and design to transaction and account management.
During her time at JLL she has developed a track record of results within the corporate real estate sector and an extensive understanding of internal business functions, business drivers and profit and loss management. A huge supporter of building diverse working environments, Sue is a regular panellist at industry events.
She is a Board member for the charity London Youth, who seek to improve the lives of young people in London, challenging them to become the best they can. Sue, herself a former Canadian rugby international, is passionate about the positive impact sport and outdoor learning has on younger generations.
Noelle Walsh leads the Cloud Operations + Innovation organization, the engine that powers the Microsoft Cloud and its services. Her organization owns the cloud physical infrastructure and operations charter for Microsoft with the goal of ensuring safety and security, maintaining high customer availability, and achieving competitive infrastructure growth. The organizational scope includes supply planning and strategic acquisition, global construction, datacenter and edge site operations, critical environment and availability, engineering, and datacenter innovation. There is also an arm of her organization that focuses on Datacenter Sustainability and Community Development.
Noelle joined Microsoft in July 2017, bringing her strong operational background in leading large, global teams across geographies and businesses for a Fortune 50 Science and Technology company. She has worked in England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, and the U.S. (based in Texas and Michigan). She has traveled extensively around the world on business, running large scale commodity businesses and manufacturing facilities to leading major strategic divestitures and integrating acquisitions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Noelle dedicated over 25 years The Dow Chemical Company, where she worked across multiple businesses, leading over 25% of its Manufacturing base, the Chemicals Division of businesses and Global Supply Chain and Customer Service functions. Noelle's trademark is working with teams to unleash best-in-class performance. Noelle brings an operational excellence mindset and capabilities for businesses at scale and is passionate about Safety and Compliance, seeing these as the cornerstones of any business.
Noelle graduated from University College in Dublin, Ireland with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering in 1985, Executive Education at Babson College in 2000, and Women on Boards at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2016. Noelle is a member of the Northwood University Board of Trustees, Chair of Academic Committee, as well as a past member of Cranbrook College Board of Governors, Midland Research Institute for Value Chain Creation Board of Directors and Supervisory Board of Dow Benelux.
Jennifer joined Ada Infrastructure as President in 2022 to lead global strategy, growth, and operations. She came to Ada Infrastructure after six years at Microsoft, where she contributed to the geo-expansion of its Cloud Operation and Innovation presence, securing and delivering ~2 GW of new data center capacity, driving strategic initiatives across sales, cybersecurity, environmental health & safety, and diversifying the supply chain throughout the leased ecosystem. Prior to Microsoft, Jennifer spent over seven years at Digital Realty in various executive leadership roles contributing to the delivery of ~500 MW of capacity globally.
Previously, she led infrastructure teams at Tesco plc., British Airport Authority, and as engineering consultant for Walmart, across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Jennifer is a Canadian Professional Engineer and holds a B.S. in Applied Science and Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA from London Business School.
Catriona’s role within JLL’s Data Centre business is to drive client value at a strategic level by ensuring our data centre consulting proposition, approach and delivery are holistic and of exceptional quality.
She does this globally in collaboration with the local teams, drawing together all elements of the JLL offer such as sustainability, operations, industry consulting and procurement.
With an extensive background in data centres, consulting and sales, Catriona delights in being able to bring her wealth of experience to clients ensuring that all client partnerships are high-performing and drive measurable business improvements.
Catriona’s past experience includes:
•Head of Data Centre Operations at a top-tier global colocation provider
•General manager for a group of data centres, as the FM provider
•Delivering global consulting and project management within a consulting business
•Sales & marketing leadership positions at companies including Schneider Electric.
Being able to look at the industry through these various lenses means Catriona can discuss a broad range of topics knowledgeably. This includes outsourcing, FM services, data centre operations, sustainability, legislation & compliance, operating models, sales, employee engagement, and all commercial aspects of business.
