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Data Center World Middle East
17-18 November 2026
Dusit Thani HotelAbu Dhabi

Mr Mehdi Paryavi
Chairman & CEO at International Data Center Authority (IDCA)
Speaker

Profile

Mehdi is a pioneer and the authority on the digital economy, digital transformation, and digital infrastructure with keen focus on investments around AI and data centers. He is passionate about building better lives for global citizen. Mehdi emphasizes the promising merits of building the right foundations for robust and sustainable digital economies around the globe. He has carried out missions and traveled worldwide to carry the message of global harmony, peace, dialog, liberty, and prosperity through the means of cohesive digital transformation of nations and their emergence to the new global stage.

Mehdi was the first to realize the urge, pioneer the concept, and advocate for AI-centric and application-centric digital infrastructures, namely data centers. He actively promotes data center specialization across industry verticals suited to the application needs. Mehdi is a futurist living in the present, a thought leader in advanced concepts of our time, an expert strategist, and a transitionist. His in-depth understanding of "Artificial Intelligence", “Data Centers”, and "Cloud" are exemplary.

Mehdi has led the campaign to bring knowledge, standardization, compliance, best practices, and technological developments worldwide. He is known for his immense experience, thought leadership, visionary strategies, comprehensive expertise, effective methods, and systematic, yet fluid approach. Mehdi has been personally responsible for the training, education, certification, and career development of thousands of digital infrastructure professionals around the world.

Aside from his speeches at conferences, symposiums, lectures, sessions with top officials, and discussions at expert assemblies, his advice and strategies are typically used as benchmarks at many government and private institutions. Thus, organizations typically seek his recommendations for optimum investment strategies toward their mid to long-term digital economy planning, and standardizing AI and digital infrastructure practices.