Rajesh Balachander is the Senior Solutions Architect with the Regional Solutions and Services (RSS) of Siemens Smart Infrastructure for Asia Pacific. Rajesh’s key competencies span across building IoT & Smart Infrastructure, Green Building Design and Energy Modelling, Daylighting, CFD and Glare Modelling, Building iBMS, Networking & Controllers, LCA Analysis and Machine Learning. Throughout his career and in his current role, he enables smart technologies and building ecosystem integration in Data Centers by partnering and working closely with stakeholders, design consultants and end-users. His involvement in projects from early design stages to completion, have helped Data Centers attain high levels of sustainability. Rajesh is also a part-time associate faculty at the Singapore Institute of Technology, lecturing on green building design using