Hani Noshi
Principal Program Manager & Director of Project Delivery Microsoft
Hani Noshi is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Hani has 20+ years of Projects, Operations, Strategy, and Business Transformation experience. In the Operations Excellence space, Hani focused on the full life cycle of operations transformation: from target operating model design through to operations transformation delivery, change management and implementation. Hani has led projects in Oil & Gas, Resources, and Consumer Products operating groups in 4 continents and 36 countries. In consulting, Hani has provided services involving supply chain lean transformation and process excellence for several large clients. He prides himself on his ability to help clients through complex transformations. A few noteworthy examples include: Helping an Energy Supermajor organization to develop a multi-million dollar business case to streamline their Capital Projects and Engineering processes resulting in $200M in savings and a 15 times return on investment. Advising a public utility company through a full core business transformation and helping an executive team through the development of one of the most ambitious business transformation strategies in their industry resulting in an $148M in cummulative savings over 3 years. During this time Hani was also involved in innovative thought leadership where he published white paper articles in the Lean New Product Introduction and Rapid & Sustained Cost Management space. Prior to joining Accenture, Hani started his career in industry with General Electric Company in 1999, where he joined their Operations Management Leadership program. He then held various functions in hard core manufacturing, supply chain, and product development with increasing levels of responsibility. Throughout Hani’s career in GE, he was promoted throughout several GE businesses where he invented five US and European patents.
Seminars
- Forecasting regional expansion plans: who is planning new builds, where, with which teams, and on what schedule?
- Understanding future data center demand and growth trajectories to accurately forecast space and power requirements, ensuring capacity planning aligns with long-term needs
- Evaluating the drivers behind data center growth over the next five years: how does cost, speed, reliability, and scalability fit into project goals and how will long-term strategic priorities align with the growing influence of AI and cloud workloads?
Multi-Region Panel
- Balancing repeatable designs with adaptability: how to integrate evolving technology and market changes into current and future builds
- Developing methods to introduce new cooling systems, AI-specific infrastructure, or design innovations into projects already under construction
- Designing MEP systems to handle changing density requirements within the same build cycle
- Forecasting the next 5 years of design changes: from meeting larger demands of AI-driven loads to what’s on the horizon for quantum computing