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Jeremy Rodriguez

Jeremy Rodriguez

Director, Data Center Engineering

Nvidia

David Moss

David Moss

Product Technologist, Data Center Cooling

Dell

John Niemann
Moderator

John Niemann

VP, Offering Management - Thermal & IMS

Vertiv

Adam Knobloch
Emcee

Adam Knobloch

VP & Head of Data Centers

Bisnow

Peter Harrison

Peter Harrison

Co-Founder & CTO

Colovore

Chris Sharp

Chris Sharp

CTO

Digital Realty Trust

Taylor Monnig

Taylor Monnig

COO

TMGcore

Peter Poulin

Peter Poulin

CEO

Green Revolution Cooling

Steven Dumas

Steven Dumas

VP, Data Center Innovation & Business Intelligence

Digital Realty Trust

Jeremy Rodriguez

Director, Data Center Engineering

Nvidia

Jeremy Rodriguez started working for Nvidia in 2018, forming the data center focused cloud infrastructure group. He has over 15 years of experience in leadership roles covering data center, hardware engineering, and information technology industries. He has a wide range of expertise in artificial intelligence, modular, and hyperscale data centers in combination with server and storage solutions.

In his current role, he leads Nvidia’s data center and cloud infrastructure engineering organization with responsibilities for strategic, R&D, and tactical planning of AI, cloud gaming, and supercomputer data centers. Mr. Rodriguez has worked for many high-growth companies (Facebook, eBay/PayPal, VMware) deploying and managing 100s of megawatts of data center and server solutions. Jeremy’s accomplishments include; the construction of a LEED Platinum data center, patents on data center optimizations and efficiency measurements, the Green IT Award for Modular Data Center Deployment by the Uptime Institute, and multiple awards by the TBM Council. Jeremy and his teams have also been the focus of case study publications from the Green Grid and Stanford University.

Adam Knobloch

Emcee

Bisnow

Adam Knobloch has been involved in the commercial real estate event and media space since 2010, having held roles in sales, account management, production and coordination. He joined Bisnow Media as the Global Director of Data Centers after having led event sales and strategy efforts in the CRE space for nearly a decade. Since 2012, he has found a significant passion for the data center and technology sectors, while building an international network of active followers across numerous asset classes in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. In his current role, Adam oversees Bisnow Media's event and sponsored media strategy for the data center sector, having expanded its Datacenter Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Series event offerings to more than 15 markets, with an international presence in the UK and Canada.

He previously held a board member role on the Telecom Exchange (TEX) Advisory Board, collaborating on content, speaker recommendations and event strategy. Additionally, he has made a point of promoting local and national organizations with a focus on STEM education and advancing the next generation into the technology sector through support, collaboration and ambassadorship. Notable organizations include the Nomad Futurist Academy, Infrastructure Masons, H5 Data Centers' STEM Fest and local chapters of both 7X24 Exchange and AFCOM.

In his personal life, Adam is a musician, having toured the east coast as the drummer of The Gantry. He was a frequent member of the NYC folk/indie rock music scene and is currently the drummer for A.M. County.

Adam holds a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration from American University's Kogod School of Business, with a focus on Marketing and Public Relations.

Peter Harrison

Co-Founder & CTO

Colovore

Peter has built the core web infrastructure for several of Silicon Valley’s internet titans and is CCIE-certified, among many technical accomplishments. Most recently, Peter worked at Google where he helped manage global data center demand and capacity planning; the Google Fiber FTTH program and its initial data center infrastructure rollout; and YouTube’s CDN server deployment and maintenance. Prior to Google, Peter was an Operations Director at eBay, where he helped build Shopping.com’s search engine grid infrastructure, and a Network Manager at Netflix, where he helped launch Netflix’s streaming Internet Video technology.

Chris Sharp

CTO

Digital Realty Trust

Chris Sharp has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, with an extensive background in developing technology strategies in global markets. He has a deep knowledge of the data center sector and is well positioned to expand technical innovation at Digital Realty. Most recently, he was responsible for cloud innovation at Equinix, where he led the development of innovative cloud services solutions and developed new capabilities enabling next-generation, high-performance exchange and interconnection solutions, facilitating broad commercial adoption of cloud computing on a global basis. Previously, Mr. Sharp held leadership positions at top network and colocation providers, including Qwest Communications, MCI/Verizon Business and Reliance Globalcom.

Peter Poulin

CEO

Green Revolution Cooling

Peter was recently recognized as one of Data Economy's Future 100, a list of the 100 personalities to watch in the next decade who are poised to heavily influence the direction and transformation of the global data centre and cloud markets. As the CEO of GRC, Peter leads a data center liquid cooling company that is changing the way data centers are designed, built and operated. By removing cost and complexity with an energy-efficient cooling technology, the company is addressing many of the challenges of next generation datacenters. In recognition of GRC's contribution to the sustainability of datacenters, Peter was also named to Data Economy's Climate 50 list. Peter is well acquainted with the thermal challenges of IT equipment, having spent 13 years a Compaq Computer Corporation (now HPE), as well as serving as the CEO of Motion Computing, makers of ruggedized tablet computers. Peter has also served in leadership roles at APC and Schneider Electric. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Steven Dumas

VP, Data Center Innovation & Business Intelligence

Digital Realty Trust

Steven has over 30 years of experience in facility design, construction, and operations the last 15 years exclusively in the data center industry. The unique multiple discipline background has provided Steven with the opportunity to experience and drive numerous state-of-the-art designs ranging from 100% free air/adiabatic cooling to water side economizers with chiller assist as well as distributed redundant and catcher static UPS topologies to Iso-Parallel Rotary UPS topologies.

Summary

  1. What are my high-density air-cooled options and how far can I go in a legacy site? What drives the decision to move from air to liquid cooling?

  2. Will the OEM server suppliers dictate design changes or are there efficiencies and other cost drivers?

  3. What applications are driving hardware to require high-density air and liquid cooling solutions? What applications could be unleashed as a result of liquid cooling?

  4. What are the considerations to prepare for liquid cooling? What challenges arise from edge to centralized data center environments?

  5. What are the pros and cons of the various next-gen technologies?