Dr Umaima Haider

Principal Analyst at Omdia

Speaker

Dr Umaima Haider is a principal analyst specializing in cloud, data center, and AI infrastructure. Her expertise spans data center transformation, sustainability, capacity planning, cloud integration, hyperscale architectures, advanced cooling, AI-ready infrastructure, and risk and performance benchmarking using KPIs.

With 12 years of international experience, she has advised government, enterprise, and technology organizations across Europe and the Middle East. Through a European program, she led sustainability and optimization strategies for over 350 data centers. In the Middle East, she assessed 150 data centers, developing sustainability, resilience, and operational efficiency strategies while advising executives and government stakeholders.

Dr Haider is a senior lecturer and associate director at the University of East London. Her previous roles include technical analyst at Uptime Institute, lecturer at Falmouth University, and visiting research scholar at Clemson University. She has contributed to UK ICT sustainability policy and champions diversity, inclusion, and workforce development across the data center sector.