Infrastructure Masons | Innovation Committee | Thought Leadership

#17 Thought Leadership | Liquid Cooling: Optimizing Capital Investment When the Cooling Solution Isn't Obvious

Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Markus Gerber, Sr. Business Development Manager at nVent.

nVent provides a versatile range of data center and networking solutions, with a particular emphasis on cooling equipment. Their offerings span from in-row coolers to immersion cooling systems, effectively utilizing white space. Markus discusses strategies for operators to optimize their capital expenditures (CAPEX) when implementing liquid cooling solutions.

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iMasons Launches Innovation Showcase and Incubator Programs 🌍

iMasons is proud to announce the launch of two transformative initiatives: the Innovation Showcase and the Innovation Incubator programs.

The Innovation Showcase highlights ground-breaking products, services, and thought leadership, offering a platform to share innovative solutions with the iMasons community and industry leaders. It's your chance to celebrate creativity and inspire progress!

The Innovation Incubator is designed to help turn visionary ideas into reality. Focused on sustainability and powered by collaborations with the Climate Accord and the State of the Digital Infrastructure Industry report, this program supports innovators—from emerging start-ups to established enterprises—by fostering connections, providing expert validation, and raising awareness within the iMasons network. Join us to be part of something truly transformative! Connect, grow, and give back as we empower sustainable projects, address industry challenges, and drive innovation.

Want to share your innovations or get involved? Reach out to Romain Tranchant, our Innovation Chair, or apply directly through our Incubator Application Form.

For more info: 📧 innovation@imasons.org 

#16 Deep dive on immersion cooling with Scott Sickmiller

Scott Sickmiller is the CEO at Midas Immersion Cooling. Midas Immersion Cooling is the leading supplier of immersion cooling equipment solutions for data centers and ASIC mining. Scott has accepted to share his experience of what makes liquid cooling a suitable and sometime superior solution for cooling. 

If you are interested in being featured on our Innovation Committee's podcast, get in touch with us. 

Discover Our Incubator Programme: 

Are you an entrepreneur with a growing business or an innovative start-up? We're excited to announce that applications for our Incubator Programme are now open! If you're looking for support to take your venture to the next level, we want to hear from you. 

Contact us: 

Email: innovation@imasons.org  

Apply directly through our online Incubator Application Form. 

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, non-profit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all.  

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Smarter recruitment: Innovative Tools and Techniques with Mike Meyer and Adelle Desouza

The talent shortage in digital infrastructure is a growing challenge, but innovation is helping companies stay ahead. In this episode, Mike Meyer, Managing Director at Portman Partners, and Adelle Desouza, Founder of HireHigher's Rising Star Programme, join host and Innovation Committee Chair Romain Tranchant to discuss how recruitment strategies are evolving in the data center industry.

Key topics include:
- The changing landscape of leadership hiring
- How innovation is reshaping recruitment
- Practical solutions to address the skills gap

If you are interested in being featured on our Innovation Committee's podcast, please get in touch with us. See contact details below.

Discover Our Incubator Programme:

Are you an entrepreneur with a growing business or an innovative start-up? We're excited to announce that applications for our Incubator Programme are now open! If you're looking for support to take your venture to the next level, we want to hear from you.

Contact us:

Email: innovation@imasons.org

Apply directly through our online Incubator Application Form.

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, non-profit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all.

#iMasons #InfrastructureMasons #Innovation #ThoughtLeadership

 

Liquid Cooling: designing, building and commissioning liquid cooled data centres with Lawrence Hooker

Lawrence Hooker is Operations Director for the data centre section at SES, a national design and build contractor, part of the Wates groups. He has agreed to take us through the practical aspects of designing, building and commissioning liquid cooled data centres. We will talk through the pitfalls and changes that are required to continue operating high resiliency environments.

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Innovation Committee | Liquid Cooling: A Practical Perspective on Liquid and Immersion Cooling with Tony Virr

Tony Virr, Operations Director at Carbon-Z, is transitioning to new projects and programs at the end of January 2025. With extensive hands-on experience, Tony has designed, built, and operated a data center housing 100kW of immersion cooling. In this episode, Tony shares his insights, discussing the highs, lows, and challenges of working with liquid cooling. This podcast is part of our liquid cooling series, where we delve into all facets of this evolving and impactful technology.

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Thought Leadership - Jon Summers - Liquid cooling - A landscape overview of liquid cooling technologies and its use cases.

Jon Summers is the Scientific Lead in Data Centers at RISE – the Research Institutes of Sweden, Jon has agreed to talk to us about the different liquid cooling technologies available, its origination, performance, and typical use cases. This podcast is part of a liquid cooling series where we explore all aspects of this growing technology.

If you too want to feature on our Innovation Committee's podcast, you can either email us at innovation@imasons.org or  submit your solution by filling in the Innovation Incubator Application Form.

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, non-profit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all.

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Innovation Committee | Liquid Cooling: Key Drivers of Density Requirements with Duncan Ng

Duncan Ng is the Vice President of Solution Engineering for Vultr, a global infrastructure as a service provider delivering GPU and Cloud Computing while supporting complex compliance requirements. He has agreed to take us through the rise in density, why, how, when, and especially as a driver for liquid cooling requirements. This podcast is part of a liquid cooling series where we explore all aspects of this growing technology.

If you too want to feature on our Innovation Committee's podcast, you can either email us at innovation@imasons.org or submit your solution by filling in the Innovation Incubator Application Form.

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, non-profit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all.

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Innovation Committee | Practical use cases for AI in Data Centres with Obongofon Udombat

Obongofon Udombat is a Data Scientist and freelance project manager in the space of AI and Green Technologies - iLabs. Obongofon currently volunteers for the Google Developers Group, a non-profit organisation that supports the training of tech talents at grass roots level. He also contributes to the iMasons Innovation Committee through the liquid cooling survey and analysis of the results. Obongofon has agreed to talk with us about AI, what it is, what it can do, projects he has worked on, and the future of the technology.

If you too want to feature on our Innovation Committee's podcast, you can either email us at innovation@imasons.org or  submit your solution by filling in the Innovation Incubator Application Form.

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, non-profit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all.

#iMasons #InfrastructureMasons #Innovation #ThoughtLeadership