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Whether you're helping build the digital age or just interested in how the foundation of the internet of everything works - the Digital Foundation Podcast is an independent platform where the voices of technology and business leaders from around the world can be heard to help with awareness of what's going on in the Digital Infrastructure industry. About our hosts: Carrie Goetz is CTO StrategITcom helping shape the technology direction for companies and public entities as well as an industry ...
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Episode 20: Free Water Cooling - Meet Jim Connaughton, CEO of Nautilus DT
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Nautilus DT is an American company developing floating data centers. As well as almost zero environmental impact these innovative Data Centers can be located on the industrial side of town creating jobs and delivering technology that can help address Digital Exclusion. Another advantage of this innovative and sustainable approach is that the floati…
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The information and communication technology (ICT) industry is the largest industry sector in Japan which also has more cloud-ready Fortune 2,000 businesses than any market outside the United States. Japan has a dynamic and growing Digital Infrastructure industry and iMason members have connected to launch an iMason Japan Chapter which recently hel…
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Ep18: Bill Kleyman meets Capstone Student Jai Huntley
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iMasons developed a senior Capstone Project which was piloted at Hampton University, a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in So. Virginia, USA for the 20/21 academic year. This was a very successful program with many students securing jobs in our industry and is being ramped out to 4 Universities in phase #2. iMasons have recently part…
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Ep17: The World’s First Climate Positive Data Center
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Ecodatacenter in Falun, Sweden has recently been declared “The World’s First Climate Positive Data Center”. So, what’s the secret sauce? Join us as Julie meets former CEO and Senior Advisor Lars Shedin, COO Dan Anderson, and Board Member Jan Fahlén as they discuss that, and the future of data centers in the Nordic Belt and beyond.…
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Lakisha Woods, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and Rhea Williams, VP Compass Data Centers, join Carrie and Simon as part of iM Women’s, “Women in Construction Month” In a year marked by crisis and uncertainty, the choices companies make today will have consequences on gender equality for decades…
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Ep15: Julie Albright meets Fabrice Coquio - President and Managing Director Interxion France
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Want to know what's happening in France? Check this out. New addition to the Digital Foundation Podcast, Dr. Julie Albright, talks to industry leader Fabrice Coquio - President and Managing Director of Interxion France and founding member of the France Data Center association. Fabrice is a Data Centre industry specialist with 30 years of experience…
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Ep14: Mental Wellbeing - Practical steps to reduce the negative impact of work related stress
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The pressures on those working in the Digital Infrastructure sector are beginning to weigh heavily on people having to cope with dramatically increasing demand and tightening supply chains. Whilst work-related stress and anxiety are nothing new - no industry or sector has expanded as quickly in history. We're joined by 3 subject matter experts - Dr…
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Ep13: We have to think differently to save the planet
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Hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, as well as many of 40+ iMasons Partner Companies, have made bold commitments to Sustainability and are applauded for their leadership. But, the big question remains - is this enough to save the planet? Many say we need to do much more and start thinking differently, including Christian B…
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Ep12: What can we do to protect ourselves from Cyber Attacks?
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Carrie and Simon are joined by Bill Kleyman - EVP of Digital Solutions at Switch, Chairperson of the iMason Millennials/GenZ member resource group, and Cyber security expert. Stories in the press about serious cyber attacks are appearing with alarming and seemingly increasing regularity. We ask Bill, how can an industry that takes security so serio…
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Ep11: Is it time for the Digital Infrastructure industry to share data on incidents?
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Carrie and Simon are joined by Peter Gross (Industry Legend and sitting on multiple industry Boards including DCiRN) and Dennis Cronin (CEO DCiRN). Data Centers are the beating heart of the global digital infrastructure that the world is now completely dependent upon. Yet unlike other critical industries such as aviation and nuclear - data centre f…
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Ep10: Digital Inclusion - An iMason Partner takes action
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Lockdown strategies prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic actually increased digital inequality and its consequences are even more severe now that the world is heavily relying on digital infrastructure. Of urgent concern is the impact of the pandemic on children being homeschooled in households often sharing one device, often a mobile phone, for the wh…
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Meet Richard Tang, the Founder and Chairman of Zen Internet, a successful business that's grown every year in it's 25 year history to become the biggest independent ISP in the UK employing over 500 people. Richard believes in driving goodness in society and has a unique business philosophy of always putting people first and that money should always…
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Ep8: What can Data Centers learn from other industries to become smarter?
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Data Centers have been called the ‘Factories of the Future’, yet there’ve been few attempts to double click on what this means in terms of possibilities and opportunities. Are there synergies that can be exploited between what data centers do and what is done in ‘industry’? Carrie and Simon meet two people from ABB who have the answers - Kevin Star…
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Ep7: Charisse Richards Nancy Novak discuss why Equality vs Equity is not well understood, ways to make a change and 1 thing that people can do today.
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Carrie and Simon are joined by Charisse Richards, Chief Information Officer at Judicial Branch of Arizona, Maricopa County and Nancy Novak, Chief Innovation Officer at Compass Data Centers to discuss the difference between Equity & Equality and share their thoughts and experiences on ways to make a change and take a look at what’s worked in the pas…
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Ep6: Meet Laurie Oswald, Senior Vice President Global Accounts at Vertiv – One of the first iMasons Foundation Partners and one of the biggest donors to the iM Scholarship fund.
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Laurie talks about the meeting with an iM scholarship recipient that solidified her, and Vertiv’s, personal commitment to support the iM Scholarship fund and the importance of encouraging the next generation of talent into our industry. Vertiv are also aligned to iMasons strategic priorities of inspiring Sustainability and championing Diversity and…
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Ep5: A guide to Diversity and Inclusion for the Digital Infrastructure Industry.
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Carrie and Simon are joined by Hannah Ormondroyd Chair of the iMasons D&I Committee and Head of People, Data Centre Solutions at CBRE who led the team producing the Digital Infrastructure Industry’s 1st ever Diversity and Inclusion Best Practice Guide and by Inge Woudstra CEO of the Big Fish Academy who was commissioned to conduct interviews and ga…
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Ep4: We all need luck. Michael Tobin - Entrepreneur, Maverick and Philanthropist
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Hosts Carrie Goetz and Simon Allen introduce a chat between iMasons Founder and Chairman, Dean Nelson and Michael Tobin. From humble beginnings to CEO of Telecity Group and awarded an OBE for his ‘Services to the Digital Economy' in The Queen's Birthday Honours List. Find out why Michael is swimming with sharks (real sharks), sleeping in hotels mad…
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Ep3: With Chinese Tech giants responding to China's new climate pledge, is the global Digital Infrastructure industry aligning on a sustainable future?
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Today we’re joined by Ruiqi Ye from Greenpeace East Asia in Beijing and Patrik Öhlund Chairman of the iMasons Sustainability based in Lulea, Sweden. We'll be discussing what the major Chinese internet / data center companies are doing in response to China's recent climate pledge to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060. A…
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Ep2: The Sun will never go down on Scott McNealy - Co-Founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems
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Hosts Carrie Goetz and Simon Allen introduce a chat between iMasons Founder and Chairman, Dean Nelson and Co-Founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy. Dean spent 20 years at “The University of Sun” resulting in quite a perspicacious and open (and often hilarious) conversation with Scott. 20 years ago Scott famously said “You have zero pri…
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Ep1: We are the Builders of the Digital Age.
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Hosts Carrie Goetz and Simon Allen chat with iMasons Founder and Chairman, Dean Nelson and Executive Director, Jeff Omelchuck for this kick off episode. Find out what sparked the creation of the iMasons, what's the purpose and priorities of iMasons, what's been achieved so far and why there's so much more to do. Also why Dean and many iMasons are h…
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