- Vertiv DCD Management & Operations Innovation Day 2026
- 2026/08/19 13:00
- 2026/08/19 16:00
- August 19, 2026
Vertiv DCD Management & Operations Innovation Day 2026
Register nowAdvancing more efficient, resilient data center operations through innovation
Join Vertiv and DatacenterDynamics (DCD) for Management & Operations Innovation Day 2026. The program explores the technologies, strategies, and operational innovations designed to support improvements in performance, resilience, and efficiency across the data center industry.
The event examines how operators can adapt infrastructure, operations, and management approaches to support evolving business requirements. Topics address maintaining reliability and scalability as operational demands continue to change.
Why attend?
DCD Management & Operations Innovation Day 2026 is built for data center professionals seeking actionable perspectives on the operational challenges shaping the industry today. Attendees will come away with:
- Emerging trends shaping data center management and operations.
- Approaches designed to support operational efficiency and resilience.
- Frameworks for managing evolving infrastructure requirements.
- Innovations designed to support reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Best practices for addressing operational challenges across modern data center environments.
- Perspectives on preparing for future operational demands.
What to expect
The event runs as a single-day virtual broadcast on August 19, 2026, structured across three dedicated episodes. Each episode is available live at broadcast time and remains accessible on demand after the event concludes.
Throughout the program, speakers will address:
- Operational strategies for modern data center environments.
- Approaches to managing data center infrastructure and resources.
- Technologies designed to support greater operational visibility and control.
- Innovation opportunities across power, cooling, and critical infrastructure management.
- Operational guidance and technical perspectives from data center engineers and specialists.
A post-event editorial will summarize key insights and discussion themes from across the three episodes.
Featured episodes
Martin Olsen
VP, Segment Strategy and Deployment
Stephen Worn
CTO and Managing Director, NAM, DatacenterDynamics
Designing for operability - How system-level infrastructure improves lifecycle resilience
AI infrastructure may be procured as individual components, but operators inherit a complete system and the interfaces between them. As density, deployment speed, and workload variability increase, those interfaces can drive commissioning delays, cost uncertainty, service complexity, and operational risk. This session will examine how integrating power, thermal, controls, deployment, commissioning, and lifecycle services can improve operational resilience. We will unpack:
- How repeatable architectures and system-level commissioning preserve design intent from factory testing through to operations
- How a system-level approach can improve cost predictability and accelerate issue resolution
- Maintaining performance as infrastructure scales and develops
- How creating a repeatable operations blueprint supports technology refresh cycles
Veselin Pizurica
Senior Director & Chief Architect of AI/ML, Vertiv
Emma Strutton
Head of Channels, DCD (moderator)
Leonard Donnelly
Vice President, Digital Services and Platform Strategy, Vertiv
From reactive to predictive - Managing AI infrastructure with better operational intelligence
As AI infrastructure becomes more interconnected, traditional maintenance models are not enough. Operators need earlier visibility into changing conditions across power, thermal, controls, and service domains before small deviations become uptime or performance issues. This session will explore how data, analytics and digital services are supporting infrastructure, and why having system-aware operations is now crucial for hosting high-density workloads. Key points of discussion include:
- How condition monitoring, anomaly detection, and analytics provide a system-wide view of infrastructure health
- Moving beyond individual asset maintenance to optimize the performance of the entire infrastructure ecosystem
- The role of integrated data in prioritizing service actions and improving operational resilience
- How moving from reactive decision-making to proactive monitoring leads to site optimization and reduced risk of downtime
Eyad Muammar
Senior Director, Head of Global Lifecycle Services, Vertiv
James Raddings
Digital Portfolio Lead, DCD (moderator)
Fluid management for AI-scale operations - Protecting the thermal chain
Liquid cooling is not a one-time commissioning event. As AI deployments scale, fluid quality, flow balance, cleanliness, and loop integrity become continuous operating requirements across the thermal chain. This session will focus on the practical realities of managing liquid-cooled environments over time, including the importance of maintaining end-to-end oversight of the entire thermal chain. We will explore:
- Why changes in racks, workloads, and cooling loops can affect system balance
- How contamination and debris can compromise flow and thermal performance
- How operators should think about flushing, monitoring, commissioning, and ongoing service practices
- The importance of repeatability as workloads and cooling requirements change
Event highlights
- One-day virtual innovation event focused on data center management and operations.
- Three broadcast episodes available live and on demand.
- Industry discussions featuring Vertiv speakers and external data center professionals.
- Post-event editorial summarizing key insights and discussions.
Who should attend?
- Data center owners and operators
- Facilities and operations professionals
- Data center managers and engineers
- Critical infrastructure and facilities teams
- Colocation and cloud providers
- IT and infrastructure decision-makers
- Consultants and data center specialists
Secure your spot now!
Join Vertiv and DatacenterDynamics for Management & Operations Innovation Day 2026 and explore the operational strategies, infrastructure innovations, and technologies designed to support the future of data center management.
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