NES Fircroft Joins TDME 2026 as a Panel Partner
23 September 2026: We are pleased to welcome NES Fircroft as a Panel Partner of Touchdown Middle East 2026, brought to you by KEZAD Group.
Keith Jones will represent NES Fircroft as a panellist in “The Talent Crisis: Building the Global AI and Data Centre Workforce.”
Session: Panel: The Talent Crisis: Building the Global AI and Data Centre Workforce
Date: Day 2 | 19 November 2026
Time: 12:25–13:10
Speaking Role: Panellist
The GCC's data centre boom is running into a hard limit: people. This panel examines the scale of the region's talent shortage, what governments, universities and industry are doing to close the skills gap, and whether the workforce can grow fast enough to keep up with the pipeline of projects underway.
We look forward to welcoming Keith and the NES Fircroft team to Abu Dhabi.
About NES Fircroft:
NES Fircroft is a global engineering and technical workforce solutions provider with 80+ offices across 45 countries and over 50 years of industry experience. We support the rapidly growing Data Centre sector by providing specialist talent across design, construction, commissioning, operations, and critical facilities management for hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise Data Centres.
With an extensive regional footprint covering the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and India, NES Fircroft combines local expertise with global capability to deliver Contract Staffing, Permanent Recruitment, Employer of Record (EOR), Managed Solutions, and Global Mobility services for mission-critical digital infrastructure projects.
About Speaker:
Keith Jones has over 20 years of experience in talent, workforce mobility, and staffing solutions, including 12 years with NES Fircroft. He has supported major power, mission-critical infrastructure, Data Centre, and energy projects, delivering workforce solutions across the Middle East, APAC, and Europe. Keith brings extensive expertise in workforce mobility and talent solutions, with a proven track record of supporting complex CAPEX projects from planning through to execution.