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aietmasterclass
ET Masterclass
ET Masterclass
Next-Generation Data Center Masterclass

Build & Operate AI-Ready Data Centers

Design • Power • Cooling • AI Infrastructure • Economics • Commissioning • Reliability

One day. One room for the leaders deciding, funding, building and operating the next generation of data centers.

Dates
3 Dec 2026
Format
In Person
Venue
Mumbai
Express Your Interest Reserve Your Seat
Sunidhi +91 91661 70849 sunidhi@timesinternet.in
Prof. Rita McGrath
Subhamkar Das
HYPERSCALE DATA CENTER DELIVERY LEADER
Prof. Rajnish Dass
Sunil Gupta
The Data Center Man of India
Prof. Rajnish Dass
Sridhar Pinnapureddy
Pioneer of India’s datacenter industry
The boardroom premise

The next data center decision is not just a technology decision.It's a capital decision..

ABOUT THE MASTERCLASS

A one-day executive masterclass designed to help leaders make better decisions across the complete data center lifecycle, from capacity and investment decisions to power, cooling, architecture, commissioning, operations and future readiness.

Participants will work through the real trade-offs involved in building, buying, colocating, scaling and operating next-generation data center infrastructure, while understanding how AI is changing capacity, density, power, cooling and infrastructure economics.

The goal: make better infrastructure decisions before significant capital is committed.

From
Complex infrastructure choices
To
A clear, actionable Data Center Decision Blueprint
In
One working day
The faculty

Three perspectives.
One complete view of the data center.

Hyperscale capacity planning and data center delivery from Subhamkar Das. Data center economics and AI infrastructure from Sunil Gupta. Data center engineering, power, cooling and operations from Sridhar Pinnapureddy.

Together, they connect capacity, economics, engineering, delivery and operations into one practical decision journey.

Prof. Rita McGrath

Subhamkar Das

Hyperscale Capacity Planning, Data Center Delivery & Commissioning

Subhamkar Das leads Data Center Delivery for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in India, overseeing end-to-end planning and infrastructure delivery across owned, colocation and edge data centers.
With 28 years of experience across data center design, engineering, build, delivery and operations, he has delivered mission-critical infrastructure across India, the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.
Prior to AWS, he served as COO of the Kotak Data Center Fund and VP & Head of Design and Build – Hyperscale Data Centers at Nxtra by Airtel, with earlier roles at HPE, IBM and Emerson Network Power (Vertiv).

Prof. Rajnish Dass

Sunil Gupta

Data Center Economics, Capacity & AI Infrastructure

Known as the “Data Center Man of India,” Sunil Gupta is Co-Founder, Managing Director & CEO of Yotta Data Services and a leading voice in India’s AI infrastructure revolution. With 30+ years of experience, he is driving hyperscale data centres, sovereign cloud and AI compute platforms shaping India’s digital infrastructure. He has been recognised by MIT Sloan Management Review India AI 50, AIM 100, Data Centre Magazine’s Top 100 Leaders and BW AI Impact 100, and serves as Chairman of ASSOCHAM’s National Council on Data Centers.

Prof. Rajnish Dass

Sridhar Pinnapureddy

Data Center Engineering, Operations Strategy & Reliability

A pioneer of India’s data center industry and a first-generation entrepreneur, he brings three decades of experience building mission-critical digital infrastructure. He built CtrlS into Asia’s largest Rated-4 data center company, with 19 data centers, 370+ MW of operational capacity and a 4+ GW pipeline of sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure. His wider ecosystem spans cloud, AI, automation, engineering and connectivity.

What you take back

You leave with a blueprint, not a folder of slides.

Every session produces a specific artefact. By the close of the day, you hold a set of working documents ready to be tabled with your board, your CFO, and your infrastructure teams.

Six Artefacts
What you walk away with

A working portfolio, not a folder of slides.

01

AI Growth Thesis

A defensible point of view on where AI moves your growth agenda.

02

AI Hotspot Map

The value pools inside your business where AI can create advantage.

03

Inflection-Point Map

The shifts most likely to bend your competitive trajectory.

04

Critical Assumption Register

The beliefs your current strategy quietly depends on.

05

AI Growth Opportunity Canvas

A structured opportunity view, ready for the next steering meeting.

06

90-Day Validation Plan

The experiments to run before committing serious capital.

01

Build–Buy–Partner Decision Matrix

Determine when dedicated AI infrastructure makes strategic and economic sense.

02

AI Workload-to-Infrastructure Map

Translate training, inference and enterprise AI workloads into compute, network, power and cooling requirements.

03

AI Infrastructure Business Case & ROI Framework

Assess utilisation, capacity, investment requirements and economic viability before committing capital.

04

AI Data Center Architecture Blueprint

Connect GPU compute, network, storage, power and cooling into one integrated architecture.

05

Delivery, Commissioning & Reliability Checklist

Identify the critical decisions required to move from design to reliable operations.

06

90-Day AI Infrastructure Action Plan

Turn the day's decisions into an actionable roadmap for your organisation.

07

AI Infrastructure Future-Readiness Roadmap

The investment sequencing logic to stay ahead of GPU generations and cooling evolution.

Why the C-suite chooses this

A working session on your data center decisions, not another industry conference.

  1. 01

    End-to-End Decision Journey

    From capacity and economics to design, commissioning and operations.

  2. 02

    Three Disciplines. One Playbook.

    Strategy, economics and engineering brought together in one room.

  3. 03

    Decide before you commit

    Work through critical infrastructure choices before significant capital is committed.

  4. 04

    Usable Blueprints, Not Slides

    Leave with practical frameworks your organisation can put to work.

The decision journey

Seven decisions behind an AI-ready data center—from investment thesis to reliable operations.

  1. 01
    Decide

    Build, Buy, Colo or Partner?

    What infrastructure should we own and what should we consume through partners?

    Build–Buy–Partner Decision Matrix
  2. 02
    Plan

    What Capacity & Workloads Are We Building For?

    How do enterprise, cloud and AI workloads translate into real capacity requirements?

    Capacity & Workload Planning Map
  3. 03
    Validate

    Will the Data Center Economics Work?

    How do capacity, utilisation, capex, operating costs and growth affect the investment case?

    Data Center Economics & ROI Framework
  4. 04
    Design

    How Do We Design for Cloud + AI Workloads?

    How should compute, network, power, cooling and resilience work together to support today's workloads and tomorrow's higher-density infrastructure?

    Data Center Architecture Blueprint
  5. 05
    Bulid

    How Do We Build & Commission Without Costly Delays?

    How do we move from design to an operational facility while managing cost, time and execution risk?

    Build & Commissioning Checklist
  6. 06
    Operate

    How Do We Maximise Reliability, Efficiency & Uptime?

    How do we operate mission-critical infrastructure reliably while improving efficiency?

    Data Center Operations Framework
  7. 07
    Future-Proof

    How Do We Prepare for AI, Higher Density & What Comes Next?

    How do today's decisions remain viable as rack density, power, cooling and technology requirements change?

    Future-Readiness Roadmap
Who this room is for

Built for the leaders deciding, funding, building and operating AI infrastructure.

A curated senior cohort, kept deliberately small. Peers who turn the working artefacts into decisions the week after, rather than observers collecting frameworks.

Programme format

In-Person Executive Masterclass

Faculty
3 Industry Leaders
Duration
One Full Day
Learning Format
Faculty-led instruction + frameworks + case discussions + working exercises
Cohort
Curated senior leadership cohort
CEOsPromotersCXOsBusiness Unit HeadsStrategy LeadersTransformation LeadersInnovation HeadsDigital LeadersAI & Data LeadersBoard Members
Recognition

Build & Operate Next-Generation AI Data Centers in India

On completion of all four live sessions, participants receive a digitally verifiable Certificate of Completion from ET Masterclass, co-signed by the programme faculty, suitable for board profiles, executive bios and professional networks.

  • Issued after all four live sessions are attended
  • Digitally verifiable, shareable on LinkedIn
  • Names both faculty and the programme artefacts covered
Certificate of Completion for Strategic Centering with AI, ET Masterclass
Investment

The price of clarity, before the price of a wrong infrastructure bet.

One transparent fee covering all three faculty, the full-day session and every take-home artefact. Group registrations and organisation-raised invoices are handled by our programme team.

Priced not against one day of teaching, but against the cost of a mis-built AI data center at scale.

Programme fee
Seats limited · Curated senior cohort
₹45,000/ participant
3rd Dec 2026·Mumbai·In Person
What the fee includes
One full-day faculty-led Masterclass
All three faculty
Seven decision-led working sessions
Practical frameworks & working tools
Data Center Decision Blueprint
Certificate of Completion
Before you commit

The questions boards and CEOs ask us first.

Direct answers, grounded in the programme content rather than generic reassurance. If one question still sits between you and a decision, our programme team will take it on a call.

Not sure which cohort fits?

Talk to Sunidhi, your programme advisor.

+91 91661 70849 sunidhi@timesinternet.in
Express InterestReserve your seat
Registration
Applications close two weeks before start

A Limited Room for Leaders Building the Next Generation of Data Centers.

Seats are limited to a curated senior cohort of leaders across the data center ecosystem, from operators and enterprises to developers, engineering partners, technology providers and infrastructure investors.

Reserve your place to join the leaders building and operating the next generation of data centers in India.

Dates
3 Dec 2026
Format
In-Person · One-Day Faculty-Led Masterclass
Fee
₹45,000 / participant
Ready to commit?
Two minutes to reserve. A confirmation call within one working day.
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