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AI, Data Centres, Storage & Smart Grids: The Future of Energy Markets
About this session
How will AI-driven data centers, storage breakthroughs, and smart grids reshape energy markets? This panel brings together energy futurists and investment leaders to map long-term opportunities in the evolving energy ecosystem.
Speakers
- Lamiaa Soliman (Panel Chair), Commercial Director at League
- Nicholas Wrigley, Executive Chairman at Novalight Capital Group
- Faraidon Saheb – Zadha, Founding Partner at Oros Capital Partners
- Dr. Olga Kugatkina, Head of Private Equity at Infosys
- Catalina Valentino, Group CEO at ELIXR
Chapters
- 0:00 Introductions
- 2:56 Long-term energy demand and supply projections
- 6:46 Macro trends
- 11:57 Market observations to inform investment strategy
- 15:14 How investors assess energy technology companies
- 18:23 Data centre locations in the UK
- 33:55 UK-GCC synergies and co-investment opportunities
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UK-GCC Private Capital 3rd Annual Investment Summit
13 May 2027 · Royal Lancaster Hotel, London
UK-GCC Private Capital is an investor-led platform for asset owners and asset managers, LPs and GPs, private equity, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, investment funds, financial institutions and growth-driven businesses across the UK, GCC, Europe and the US.