Vertiv Celebrates Engineers, Focuses on the Future and AI Imperatives at Company Technology Fair...
Vertiv, a
global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, is
hosting its invitation-only Technology Fair for Vertiv engineers this week, an
innovation event to encourage collaboration and creativity for future data
centers, and to recognize and reward the efforts of the more than 400 attending
Vertiv engineers that represent a subset of Vertiv’s larger global engineering
team. This group includes many recent and repeat Vertiv patent holders.
Previous Vertiv Technology Fair events have resulted in brainstorming on topics
and ideas that led to process efficiency changes, design modifications, new
products, and other business outcomes.
The
three-day event, held in Columbus, Ohio, USA, at the Columbus Crew Major League
Soccer club’s Lower.com Field, includes keynotes and interactive sessions with
Vertiv CEO Giordano (Gio) Albertazzi, Chairman of the Board David M. Cote, and
industry guest speakers. Select advanced technology partners will be on-hand to
network with attendees and share their latest innovations. In addition to
innovation sharing, Vertiv’s objectives for the event are to enable
face-to-face collaboration across roles, geographies, and backgrounds to enable
deeper understanding across the business; to identify trends that impact the
industry and business; and to make progress on ideas that will result in
technology advancement, including for artificial intelligence (AI).
“The
Vertiv Technology Fair celebrates our commitment to innovation and employee
growth during a critical time in our industry,” said Stephen Liang, chief
technology officer at Vertiv. “We’re excited that our group of talented
engineers has the daily opportunity to collaborate with so many industry
leaders and chipmakers to develop reliable and energy-efficient infrastructure
for current and future customer deployments.”
“As
a long-time industry advocate and writer, it’s fascinating to meet the
engineers behind the infrastructure and learn more about their processes and
challenges,” said Bill Kleyman, guest panelist, and CEO and co-founder, Apolo.
“The line-up of speakers and discussions hits the hottest topics that tech and
the world at large are talking about. I hope that we all come away from this
inspired and ready to make a difference.”
The
event emphasizes that the engineering teams should embrace Vertiv’s AI Imperatives,
not just for AI, but as an aspiration for all development work. Through
in-depth customer interviews, extensive technical proofs-of-concept and
technical collaboration with leading technology partners, Vertiv curated the
list of key AI infrastructure imperatives that current and future designers,
developers, and operators of AI factories share:
- Be
Transformative: Operators
are embarking on comprehensive changes in leveraging AI technology to
transform their products, services and interactions with customers. This
shift demands overhauls in operating models and infrastructure.
- Be
First: To
make quick progress in innovating products and customer experiences, it's
crucial to address the challenges of separate management of power and
cooling systems. Overcoming these challenges can lead to a first mover
advantage.
- Be
Efficient: Efficient
capital deployment is crucial for cost competitiveness while balancing
AI's processing power and environmental impact is essential for addressing
these challenges known as the "AI efficiency paradox."
- Be
Confident: A
meticulous plan is necessary to differentiate between calculated risks and
reckless decisions. Understand these challenges to approach infrastructure
innovation with confidence.
- Be
Future-Ready: The
past was about tech refresh and data center updates. The future is about
infrastructure transformation to support densities in excess of 100kW per
rack.
In
addition to Kleyman, special guests will discuss the future of the data center
and other topics. This year’s guests include:
- Christian Belady, advisor and
board member for multiple tech companies, and former vice president &
distinguished engineer for Microsoft
- Julie Albright, Ph.D., lecturer at
the University of Southern California and leading expert in digital
sociology
- Wade Vinson, chief data center
distinguished engineer, NVIDIA
- Peter Gross, advisor and board
member for multiple tech companies, and recent Data Center World Lifetime
Achievement Award winner
The
event will highlight also Vertiv’s recent industry partnerships to support the
advancement of AI infrastructure, including a progress update and demonstration
of its innovative cooling system developed in collaboration with NVIDIA for
the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's (ARPA-E) COOLERCHIPS awards program. Vertiv will also
discuss its recent membership in the Liquid
Cooling Coalition, an
industry forum for advancing the adoption of liquid cooling to enable a
sustainable future for data centers.
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