The iMasons Innovation Podcast Thought Leadership
Episodes
#34 | Thought Leadership | Driving Operational Efficiency and Resilience in the Next Generation of Data Centres
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Originally streamed live on Oct 8, 2025. To participate in future sessions, live—and ask questions in real time—visit the Events – Infrastructur...
# 33 | Thought Leadership | Emissions Rising, Rules Tightening: Are Data Centres Compliance Ready?
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Originally streamed live on November 12th , 2025. To participate in future sessions, live—and ask questions in real time—visit the Events ...
#32 Innovation as the Catalyst for a New Supplier Engagement Model with Joel Farrington at Legrand
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Farrington, UK Sales Manager for Legrand’s Critical Power Division, shares his expertise in navigating complex power infrastructure decisio...
#31 Powering the Future: Renewables, Resilience, and the New Data Centre Playbook
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Originally streamed live on September 18, 2025. To participate in future sessions, live—and ask questions in real time—visit the Events – Infras...
Innovation You Can Join: The iMasons 2026 System
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Romain Tranchant, Chair of the iMasons Innovation Committee, reveals how innovation will operate at iMasons in 2026: as a stru...
Innovation Unwrapped: Inside the iMasons Innovation Committee
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Unwrapped is a fast-paced overview of what’s ahead for iMasons Innovation in 2026 and beyond. In this recorded session, iMasons Innovati...
#28 The Next Generation Data Centre: Innovation, Energy, and Optimism with Yuval Bachar
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if everything we know about data centres — from power and cooling to management — needed to be reinvented from scratch? In this episode of th...
#27 Can ESG Outweigh Profit? A Real Talk with Southwire’s General Counsel
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a century-old manufacturer decides that sustainability isn’t a department — it’s the business itself? In this episode of the...
#26 Shaping the Next Generation: Education, Talent, and Innovation with Nabeel Mahmood
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the iMasons Podcast, host Romain Tranchant sits down with Nabeel Mahmood, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Nomad Futurist, to ex...
#25 From Cost Center to Catalyst: Rethinking Infrastructure Investment
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Cowan is the founder of Next Wave Partners, a venture studio and investment fund redefining early-stage capital through founder-aligned financing...
#24 A Fresh Lens on Recruitment: Transferable Skills as a Growth Engine with Liam Round at Teksan
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Round, Managing Director for Teksan UK and Regional Director for Europe & Africa, joins us to share his inspiring journey from military servi...
#23 Thought Leadership | Turning AI’s Energy Demand into a Climate Opportunity | iMasons Panel at IRENA BONN
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair, Romain Tranchant, leads a panel at the IRENA Conference in BONN on behalf of the iMasons Climate Accords. This session u...
#22 | Thought Leadership | Digitising data centre construction with augmented reality and ultra-precise positioning
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Waleed Zafar. Waleed Zafar is the Director of Mission Critical at XYZ Reality, a c...
#21 iMasons Skills Matching - A new recruitment method is helping fix the shortage of skills
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Alison Marlow and Courtney Popp. Alison is Account Executive at Schneider Elect...
# 20 Agentic AI in the Data Center Sector
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Venessa Moffat, Executive Board Member at the Data Centre Alliance. Venessa h...
#19 Greenwashed or Green-Proof? What Data Centres Must Know About Energy Procurement
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Dan Tennakoon, CEO and Founder at RE24 - an enterprise platform that enables data cent...
#18 Incubator | Transform Basic Compliance into Performance Management with Maximilian Weidl, CEO of Clear Decisions
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Maximilian Weidl, CEO and Co-Founder at Clear Decisions. Clear Decisions is the fi...
#17 Thought Leadership | Liquid Cooling: Optimizing Capital Investment When the Cooling Solution Isn't Obvious
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Committee Chair and host Romain Tranchant interviews Markus Gerber, Sr. Business Development Manager at nVent. nVent provides a versatile r...
#16 Deep dive on immersion cooling with Scott Sickmiller
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Sickmiller is the CEO at Midas Immersion Cooling. Midas Immersion Cooling is the leading supplier of immersion cooling equipment solutions f...
Smarter recruitment: Innovative Tools and Techniques with Mike Meyer and Adelle Desouza
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The talent shortage in digital infrastructure is a growing challenge, but innovation is helping companies stay ahead. In this episode, Mike Meyer, Man...
Liquid Cooling: designing, building and commissioning liquid cooled data centres with Lawrence Hooker
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence Hooker is Operations Director for the data centre section at SES, a national design and build contractor, part of the Wates groups. He has ag...
Innovation Committee | Liquid Cooling: A Practical Perspective on Liquid and Immersion Cooling with Tony Virr
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Virr, Operations Director at Carbon-Z, is transitioning to new projects and programs at the end of January 2025. With extensive hands-on experien...
Thought Leadership - Jon Summers - Liquid cooling - A landscape overview of liquid cooling technologies and its use cases.
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Summers is the Scientific Lead in Data Centers at RISE – the Research Institutes of Sweden, Jon has agreed to talk to us about the different li...
Innovation Committee | Liquid Cooling: Key Drivers of Density Requirements with Duncan Ng
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Duncan Ng is the Vice President of Solution Engineering for Vultr, a global infrastructure as a service provider delivering GPU and Cloud Computing wh...
Innovation Committee | Practical use cases for AI in Data Centres with Obongofon Udombat
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Obongofon Udombat is a Data Scientist and freelance project manager in the space of AI and Green Technologies - iLabs. Obongofon currently volunteers ...
Innovation Committee | Certifications for Data Centre Sustainability with Dr Dina Nassar
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Dina Nassar has recently published her PhD results in the effectiveness of policies, best practices and certifications on sustainability. We deep d...
Innovation Committee | The Methodology of Carbon Accounting for Batteries with Thomas Verghese
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Verghese, business development manager at EnerSys. Tom has agreed to talk to us about how EnerSys is staying ahead of the changes, their effort...
Innovation Committee |The Research Side of Data Centers with Jon Summers
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Summers is a Scientific Lead in Data Centers at RISE – the Research Institutes of Sweden, Adjunct Professor in Fluid Mechanics at the Luleå Uni...
The Upcoming Field of Wind Engineering for Data Centers with Anke Beyer-Lout
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anke Beyer-Lout is Associate Principal at CPP Wind Engineering Consultants. Anke has degrees in meteorology and experience in using Wind Tunnels to op...
Innovation Committee | Decarbonization and Heat Re-Use in Data Centers with David G.
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David G. is an Executive Consultant for Impleon. David specializes in the design and implementation of liquid cooling and heat re-use technologies. In...
Innovation Committee | Optimizing the IT Stack and Upcoming Legislation with Rich Kenny
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Kenny is the managing director at InteractDC. Rich specialises in the optimisation of the IT stacks, reducing the IT server and network footprint...
Innovation Incubator | The Practical Side of Data Center Training with John Booth
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Booth is the Managing Director of National Data Center Academy, a venture that proposes on site, hands-on training for data centre personnel, fro...
Innovation Committee | The impact of AI on the Data Centre Optimization with Jasper de Vries
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jasper de Vries, CTO of CoolGradient, specialises in digital, data science and data analytics. In this episode, we are unpacking the current AI capabi...
Innovation Incubator | Social Good as a Service with Jay Frank
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Frank, the founder of Symbiotic, has joined the iMasons Innovation Incubator to develop his idea on providing social good from the transactions th...