The Future of Data Centers – Digital Sovereignty, Energy & Grid Access
Join Gorrissen Federspiel’s data center team and several industry experts in Copenhagen on 9 November 2026 for a knowledge-sharing and networking event bringing together key perspectives on the data center industry. Within the data center industry digital sovereignty, rising power demands, power procurement and increasingly complex grid connection rules are creating both challenges and opportunities. How can the industry navigate this changing landscape?
Whether you are focused on investment, development, operations, power or the regulatory environment, this event offers an opportunity to gain new insights, exchange experiences and connect with professionals shaping the data center industry.
Programme
08.30–09.00 | Registration, light breakfast and coffee
09.00–09.30 | Intro & current state-of-play for the datacenter industry
Christian Halskov Sauer, Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel
Henrik Hansen, CEO, Danish Data Center Industry
A view on the future for the Danish data center industry, considering the latest developments from a market and political perspective.
09.30–10.10 | Digital sovereignty
Tue Goldschmieding, Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel
Digital sovereignty is a strategic focus within the EU. Both at the policy and legislative levels, new initiatives are being introduced that will affect the requirements datacenter providers must comply with. We will provide an overview of the legislative initiatives and their operational impact.
10.10–10.25 | Break
10.25–11.00 | Digital security from a data center customer perspective
Ole Madsen, CEO, NCRC4
Drawing on his experience as CISO within a number of IT companies and the financial sector, Ole Madsen will provide insights into the security requirements that datacenter customers will seek to impose on their service providers.
11.00–11.30 | New grid regulation for datacenters
Johannes Bruun, Energy Counsel, Gorrissen Federspiel
Understand the new grid connection regulation and explore how to navigate an increasingly complex system for grid connection prioritization.
11.30–11.45 | Break
11.45–12.15 | Decoding the future of energy – Power market, balancing and algorithmic power trading
Casper Sønderby, Co-founder, Twig
Drawing on its expertise from trading across more than 30 markets, Twig will take us through current and future power markets, how they are traded daily using algorithms, and what this means for optimizing a data center in the market.
12.15–13.00 | Sourcing power for data centers
Mikkel Kring, Partner, Our New Energy
Hans Nikolaj Amsinck Boie, Managing Counsel, Gorrissen Federspiel
Whether a data center is powered by renewables may become a key enabler or even a license to operate. In this session, we will cover how to effectively source a profile for the baseload needs of a data center and explore the opportunities offered by a flexible consumption profile.
13.00–13.30 | Lunch and networking
Time and venue
Venue: Gorrissen Federspiel, Axel Towers, Axeltorv 2, 1609 Copenhagen V
Date: 9 November 2026
Time: 08.30–13.30
The event will be conducted in English.
Secure your place and join the conversation in Axel Towers, Copenhagen on 9 November 2026.
Registration
Participation in the event is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to register using the form below.