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National DICE Data Center Management, Operations & Cooling - West

Name: National DICE Data Center Management, Operations & Cooling - West
Start: 2023-08-15T07:30:00-07:00
End: 2023-08-15T11:30:00-07:00
Location: San Jose Marriott

Part 2 Of A Deep Dive on Data Center Management, Operations and Cooling And How AI Is Changing The Landscape

Event Ended On: Tuesday August 15 2023

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Speakers and Panels

Density Done Right:

Enabling High Performance Compute Through Effective Rack Management And Cooling Strategies

David Lambiaso

VP, Portfolio Management, Legacy Investing

Steve Benson

VP, Critical Operations, Prime Data Centers

Ali Heydari

Ali Heydari is Data Center Technologist at Nvidia in charge of all data center technology development at Nvidia. In this role, he is developing direct to chip liquid cooling technologies using cold plates, cooling distribution units and manifolds for cooling of Nvidia’s high heat density. Prior to Nvidia, he worked as senior director in charge of Rigetti’s Quantum Computers using the most futuristic technology in today’s data center compute. Accomplishments include, setting up the first Quantum Cloud Services enabling over the cloud access of the Quantum Computers. Prior to that he served as Senior Technical Director and Chief Data Center Architect at Baidu, the largest search engine and AI company in China. In this role, he was server and data center architect in charge of hardware and data center design, development and deployment in China’s largest data center search and AI company. He was responsible for development of cutting edge data center and server hardware technology such as IDEC and free air-cooled data center design, high power density server rack design, liquid cooling of GPU/CPU servers and liquid cooled heat exchanger rack and data center solutions for achieving extremely low data center PUE/WUE at Baidu’s data centers in China. Formerly, he was Senior Hardware Engineer at Twitter where he was responsible for grounds up development of Twitter’s data center ODM server development. Earlier, he was Senior Hardware Engineer at Facebook where he helped in developing Facebook’s original OCP server and data center products. Prior to that he worked at Sun Microsystems and spend about 10 years as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Iran. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana, M.S., Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and M.A. in applied mathematics from University of California, Berkeley. He has over 25 issued patents in data center cooling technologies.

Nvidia

Distinguished Engineer

Ali Heydari

Distinguished Engineer, Nvidia

Matt Pfile

Founder & CEO, Crane Data Centers

Moderator

Greg Stover

Global Director, Hi-Tech Development, Vertiv

Managing Hardware In a Software World:

What Have Been the Most Notable Advances in Hardware Innovation Thus Far Shaping the Future of Data Centers

Zaid Ali Kahn

Zaid is currently GM in Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering where he leads systems engineering and hardware development for Azure including AI systems and infrastructure. Zaid is part of the technical leadership team across Microsoft that sets AI hardware strategy for training and inference. Zaid's teams are also responsible for software and hardware engineering efforts developing specialized compute systems, FPGA network products and ASIC hardware accelerators. Prior to Microsoft Zaid was head of infrastructure at LinkedIn where he was responsible for all aspects of architecture and engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage and Hardware. Zaid also led several software development teams focusing on building and managing infrastructure as code. This included zero touch provisioning, software-defined networking, network operating systems (SONiC, OpenSwitch), self-healing networks, backbone controller, software defined storage and distributed host-based firewalls. The network teams Zaid led built the global network for LinkedIn, including POP's, peering for edge services, IPv6 implementation, DWDM infrastructure and datacenter network fabric. The hardware and datacenter engineering teams Zaid led were responsible for water cooling to the racks, optical fiber infrastructure and open hardware development which was contributed to the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP). Zaid holds several patents in networking and, is a sought-after keynote speaker at top tier conferences and events. Zaid is currently the chairperson for the OCP Foundation Board. He is also currently on the EECS External Advisory Board (EAB) at UC Berkeley and a board member of Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), a global Internet think tank promoting Internet diversity. Zaid has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.

Microsoft

GM, Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering

Zaid Ali Kahn

GM, Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering, Microsoft

Rebecca Weekly

VP, Infrastructure, GEICO

John Hanahan

Senior Director, Digital Services Product Management, Equinix

Nabeel Mahmood

Co-Founder, Nomad Futurist Foundation

Kevin Imboden

Global Director, Market Research & Intelligence, EdgeConneX

Moderator

Jordan Burnsed

Senior Director, Critical Infrastructure, InVue Security Products

Getting To the Bottom Line:

The Best Practices Around Maximizing Efficiency And Reducing Energy Without Increasing Your Costs

Jackie Pasierbowicz

Edge Market Manager, Stulz

Conor Aarset

Account Director, Critical Facilities, T5 Data Centers

Chris Pruitt

Senior Director, Operations - Silicon Valley, CoreSite

Moderator

Craig Compiano

CEO, Modius

WHY YOU NEED TO ATTEND THIS 2023 DATA CENTER Ops & Cooling Event

What You'll Takeaway From The Conference And Key Questions Asked

Power and cooling are one the largest, critical segments of the data center industry, what innovations are making operations run more efficiently?
How will the power limitations in Northern Virginia impact how business is getting done in the West Coast?
High performance computing increasing in adoption - what implications does this have on power usage, server design and efficiency?
What are the impacts on uptime availability, resiliency, sustainability, and power costs of ever-higher power densities and cooling requirements?
Air cooling, liquid cooling, or other? Which technique is best when considering cost and scale?
Sustainability is becoming an increasing priority, but how do we ensure we're on the right path?
A new standard of optimal temperature is becoming more prevalent? Who can apply this tactic and why?
Is the current infrastructure ready for new technologies? How do we brace for the future?
With increasing spend on IT from hyperscalers and enterprises, how are operators planning for more density?

How You'll Do More Business From Attending: Dive into power, cooling, density, DCIM trends that industry experts are currently adopting, and how to optimize your data center for the most optimal performance. With rack densities increasing and capacity continuing to hit limitations, maximizing what you have currently and running it efficiently will be a key differentiating factor.

Relevant Industry News & Developments:

Who You’ll Meet While Networking: Owners, providers, engineers, brokers, contractors, director of operations, director of operations, CIOs, investors, lawyers, CEOs, vice president of design and construction

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Venue

San Jose Marriott
301 S Market Street
San Jose, CA, 95113

Ballroom: Salon 1-3
Floor: 2nd Floor

Parking Information:

Valet: $49 per day
Self-Park: San Jose Convention Center - $30 per day

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Agenda

Time	Activity
7:30 AM 8:25 AM	Registration, Breakfast and Networking
8:25 AM 8:30 AM	Opening Remarks
8:30 AM 9:10 AM	Density Done Right: Enabling High Performance Compute Through Effective Rack Management And Cooling Strategies As the demand for high performance computing continues to grow, data centers must find ways to maximize rack density while minimizing energy consumption and reducing cooling costs. How is this being achieved today?
9:10 AM 9:35 AM	Networking Break
9:35 AM 10:20 AM	Managing Hardware In a Software World: What Have Been the Most Notable Advances in Hardware Innovation Thus Far Shaping the Future of Data Centers As data centers continue to evolve and expand in complexity, effective hardware management strategies become crucial for maximizing efficiency, reliability and cost-effectiveness. What does the future of data center management look like? Is automation and AI the answer?
10:20 AM 11:00 AM	Getting To the Bottom Line: The Best Practices Around Maximizing Efficiency And Reducing Energy Without Increasing Your Costs With all data center operators, from colocation to hyperscale, looking for ways to improve energy usage within their facilities, understanding best practices and effective strategies that can be applied in-room is a critical piece to the puzzle. So, how are operators running their facilities at peak efficiency? What are some important best practices that can be applied elsewhere?
11:00 AM 11:30 AM	Post-Event Networking