Vertiv Celebrates Engineers, Focuses on the Future and AI Imperatives at Company Technology Fair Event

WESTERVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 26, 2024--

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), 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.

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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:

In addition to Kleyman, special guests will discuss the future of the data center and other topics. This year’s guests include:

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.

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 Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.

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Vertiv Technology Fair 2024 (Photo: Business Wire)

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Kip Lewis returned an interception 61 yards for the game-winning touchdown, and No. 21 Oklahoma rallied from an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Auburn, 27-21 on Saturday for its first-ever Southeastern Conference win.

“That was my first experience with Sooner magic as a head coach,” Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said. “That was an amazing last four drives on offense and defense. ... We played our best ball when it mattered most.”

It was Oklahoma’s first SEC road game after leaving the Big 12. The Sooners bounced back from a loss at home to Tennessee the previous week in their SEC opener.

True freshman quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. gained 230 yards of total offense in his first career start for Oklahoma after replacing Jackson Arnold during the Tennessee game.

The Sooners (4-1, 1-1 SEC) struggled on offense for much of this game, but they took advantage of several missed opportunities by the Tigers (2-3, 0-2). Oklahoma stopped Auburn on fourth down at the 1-yard line in the first quarter, and the Tigers missed two chances at a short field goal late in the second quarter.

Auburn’s Payton Thorne passed for 338 yards and three touchdowns, but his sixth interception of the season turned out to be the decisive play.

“I’ve got to make sure that (Thorne) understands the situation better, and we should’ve had runs there,” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze said. “I have to be clearer with him on what we have to do there.”

Oklahoma’s Jovantae Barnes cut into Auburn’s 21-10 lead with 8:32 remaining with a 2-yard touchdown run that was set up by a 60-yard pass from Hawkins to J.J. Hester. The 2-point conversion failed, leaving the Tigers ahead by five points.

Lewis then intercepted Thorne, who was making his return to the starting lineup after a two-game absence, and ran it all the way back with 4:06 left to play.

After a late Oklahoma field goal extended the visitors’ lead to six points, Thorne’s last-second pass came up short of the end zone.

Auburn finished the game with nearly 200 more yards of offense than Oklahoma.

“We didn’t play very well,” Venables said. “But we played amazingly when we needed to.”

Oklahoma: The Sooners’ slow offensive start, marked by a large number of injuries at wide receiver and inconsistent line play, continued Saturday. But Hawkins could provide a real spark going forward with his dual-threat ability alongside what has been a strong defense under Venables so far this season.

Auburn: Penalties, questionable clock management and empty scoring drives continue to haunt the Tigers, who have lost all three of their home games against power-conference opponents this season. Now Auburn will start the toughest stretch of its schedule with a losing record.

After a 22-yard run from Jarquez Hunter with a little more than 11 minutes remaining and a two-score lead, Thorne threw back-to-back incompletions before a run for no gain. That led to a missed 51-yard field goal.

The possession only took 1:31 off the clock, and it opened the door for Oklahoma’s rally.

Oklahoma will have a good chance to climb back into the Top 20 with this road comeback win.

Oklahoma: Has an off week before facing No. 1 Texas in Dallas on Oct. 12.

Auburn: Visits No. 2 Georgia next Saturday.

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Auburn wide receiver Malcolm Simmons catches a pass for a touchdown during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)