Mehdi Paryavi is the pioneer and authority on the digital economy principles, initiatives, and developments. As the Chairman and founder of the leading
digital economy think-tank and largest consortium of artificial intelligence, data center and cloud end-users in the world, he is a visionary who has always
paved the way for the entire industry and nations around the world. Mr. Paryavi provides support and advice to many nations and sovereign wealth funds, and
advises numerous government agencies around the world, such as the United Nations (UN), and the Commonwealth. He has been invited to BBC News, the
Washington Post and the Harvard Business Review for his visions and thoughts around key notions of the digital economy.

He is passionate about building better lives for the world’s citizens. He emphasizes the promising merits of building the right foundations for robust and sustainable digital economies around the globe. Mr. Paryavi has carried out missions and traveled worldwide to carry the message of global harmony, peace,
dialog, liberty, and prosperity through the means of fundamental digital transformation of nations and their emergence to the new global stage.

Mr. Paryavi is also the first individual to realize the urge, pioneer the concept, and advocate for “application-centric” digital infrastructures. He actively
promotes data center specialization across industry verticals suited to the application needs. He 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 the notions of data center, cloud, blockchain and
AI are exemplary. 

Mr. Paryavi is the Chairman of the International Data Center Authority (IDCA), the industry community-run think tank, which was established to streamline,
structure and educate and give direction to the Cloud, AI, Blockchain, and Data Center industries. Under his direct initiatives and management, IDCA
has successfully brought together the greatest data center end-user consortium the industry has ever seen. With experts members from
organizations such as Apple, Google, LinkedIn, AIG, Bloomberg, VISA, Expedia, Microsoft, National Laboratory, NBC Universal, Amazon, Comcast,
and more it has been able to form effective guidance and provide strategic direction to the industry.

He has led the campaign to bring knowledge, standardization, compliance, best practices, and technological developments worldwide. Mr. Paryavi is known for his immense expertise, thought leadership, visionary strategies, comprehensive experience, effective methods and systematic, yet fluid approach. Mr. Paryavi has been personally responsible for the speaking, training, educating, certificating and career development of thousands of data center, cybersecurity, AI, and cloud infrastructure professionals worldwide. 

Mr. Paryavi is also the inventor of the Infinity Paradigmâ and the author of the Infinity Paradigm AE360®, world’s leading digital infrastructure industry standards
framework. Aside from his speeches in 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 the global investment community. Thus, organizations typically seek his recommendations for best practices and approach towards their long-term planning of investments, policies and execution strategies around the cloud, data centers, AI, and effective data management.