Donovan O’Callaghan
Senior Director of Design & Construction Equinix
Donovan O’Callaghan is Senior Director of Global Design and Construction at Equinix, overseeing engineering standards, technical governance, and CAPEX project evaluation across the company’s global data center portfolio. With deep expertise in critical cooling, power distribution, fire protection, and commissioning, he brings extensive experience in mission-critical design and construction, ensuring global consistency, technical rigor, and operational performance across large-scale facilities.
Seminars
Thursday 30th July 2026
Keynote Panel Discussion: Defining Owner Requirements to Enable Scalable, Future-Ready Data Center Delivery
8:10 am
- Establishing clear performance, density, and resilience standards to guide consistent design decisions across expanding portfolios
- Balancing speed to market with long-term scalability to ensure technical standards support both immediate deployment and future growth
- Aligning commercial, operational, and engineering priorities internally to reduce friction and maintain certainty across multisite programs
Friday 31st July 2026
Improving Commissioning, Ownership of Systems & Training to Ensure Operational Readiness
11:00 am
- Embedding commissioning requirements into design criteria to ensure systems are engineered for testability, verification, and reliable operation
- Coordinating design disciplines around commissioning sequences to reduce integration issues and avoid late-stage modifications
- Designing systems with clear ownership, access, and documentation requirements to support smoother commissioning and predictable operational startup
- Implementing lessons learned to improve design and commissioning processes and maintain quality standard
