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BICSI Virtual ICT Forum - The Future of Data Centre Management - 8th April 2021

Mar 26, 2021

Where are we heading and how do we properly manage increasingly complex digital infrastructure?

 
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For this virtual event, which is to be hosted via Zoom. Our speakers Jeff Safovich and Mark Acton will be joining Corning and nVent SCHROFF in delivering three technical presentations for the purpose of educating ICT professionals from around the world.

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The event, which is running between 12:30pm - 16:30pm IST (UTC +05:30) / 8:00am - 12:00pm BST (UTC +01:00) will see our speakers discussing "The future of Data Centre Management - Where are we heading and how do we properly manage increasingly complex digital infrastructure" as the first presentation of the day.


During our hour and ten-minute slot, we will be providing insights into the future of data centre management:  The issues we currently face, what we should be doing now and a glimpse of the future we can work towards. This session will help people understand the current situation, guide them in their current decision making and help them prepare for the future. Please see below for the full agenda and a brief description of our speakers. The timings for this agenda are in Indian Standard time (UTC +05:30).

TIME SECTION SPEAKER(S)
12:30-12:40 Welcome, Introductions, and Meeting Overview BICSI Global Region Director Ninad Desai, RCDD, NTS, OSP, TECH, CT
12:40-13:40 The Future of Data Centre Management - Where are we going and how do we properly manage increasingly complex digital infrastructure? Mark Acton - Business Strategy and Technology Director & Jeff Safovich - CTO - RiT Technologies
13:40-13:50 RiT Technologies - What's New, What's It Do? Mark Acton - Business Strategy and Technology Director - RiT Technologies
13:50-13:55 Delegate Break
13:55-14:55 Prepare for the Next-Gen Data Center Salim Chalha, RCDD, PMP - Technical Support Manager, Data Center Solutions - Corning
14:55-15:05 Corning - What's New, What's It Do? Mahmoud Al Ghazali, RCDD - Data Centre Sales Manager, Middle East - Corning
15:05-15:10 Delegate Break
15:10-16:10 Cooling High-Density Heat Loads in Data Centres Kailash K - Lead manager, Product Marketing - nVent SCHROFF
16:10-16:20 nVent SCHROFF - What's New, What's It Do? Cengiz Askeroglu - Sales Manager - nVent SCROFF
16:20-16:30 Closing Remarks and Door Prizes BICSI Global Region Director Ninad Desai, RCDD, NTS, OSP, TECH, CT

Speakers:

Jeff Safovich

CTO, RiT Tech


Mr. Safovich is a Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology) graduate engineer. With over 25 years of technology experience, he spent seven years a team leader and later a development group leader at Comverse.


Mr Safovich later went on to co-found three startups including Zoomd, an innovative MarTech company which went public in 2017, and SphereUp which was acquired in 2015. Jeff specializes in product strategy, software architecture and algorithms.

Mr Safovich is a guest speaker in conferences and innovation hubs, where he promotes technology innovation as a driver to foster business growth.

Mark Acton

Business Strategy and Technology Director, RiT Tech


With over 25 years of experience in the Data Centre sector industry Mark has been a specialist in the field of Data Centre Operations for over 20 years, concentrating on the delivery of business critical services from highly reliable, world class Data Centres with 24x365 availability expectations.


A Technical Operations Manager with extensive international experience and solid technical skills combining Data Centre Facilities Design, IT and Facilities Operational Management with Technical Consulting. Regular public speaker, conference host and industry advisor on data centre technical issues as well as being involved in International (ISO) data centre Standards development.

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