Vertiv Celebrates Engineers, Focuses on the Future and AI Imperatives at Company Technology Fair Event
Vertiv engineers will engage in brainstorming, thought leadership sessions, and panels on the topics of next-generation data centers and the impact of AI on infrastructure
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Vertiv Technology Fair 2024 (Photo: Business Wire)
The three-day event, held in
“The Vertiv Technology Fair celebrates our commitment to innovation and employee growth during a critical time in our industry,” said
“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
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
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Julie Albright , Ph.D., lecturer at theUniversity 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
For more information on Vertiv solutions for AI, visit Vertiv.com/AI.
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in
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