Hello everybody and welcome to our 4th SlideShare post! The slides you are seeing are taken from our fourth webinar: A Workforce for the 21st Century Datacenter (you can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1dVJ4VNtg). Our special guest, Jeff Omelchuck (Executive Director at Infrastructure Masons) helped us understand how to address this skills shortage and the importance of the human factor in the 21st century datacenter. We hope you find it informative and that you subscribe to our page. We are also very happy to hear your thoughts. Learn more about Immersion Cooling here: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_immersion_cooling And in our Blog: https://submer.com/blog/what-is-immersion-cooling — Follow us online here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Submer Twitter: https://twitter.com/submertech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/submertech/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/submertech/ Website: https://submer.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/submer-immersion-cooling/

1. Submer Webinar:
A Workforce for the 21st
Century Datacenter
Jeff Omelchuck
Executive Director of Infrastructure Masons
Twitter: @submertech @InfraMason
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Facebook: @submertech
@infrastructuremasons

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5. A warm welcome to our education
expert for this webinar...
Jeff Omelchuck
Executive Director
Infrastructure Masons
Jeff has worked for over 37 years across industries,
consulting, and non-profit sectors with a focus on
technology. He is currently Executive Director at
Infrastructure Masons -- a professional association
where tech leaders connect, grow, and give back to
the infrastructure industry and community.

6. Who “wants” to work in a datacenter?
● The truth is that very few current
datacenter employees set out to make
their career in the datacenter industry.
● Most stumble upon datacenter job
opportunities via skill descriptions or
are recruited.
How Do We Change That?

7. Roles and positions of today
● More than network engineers.
● Datacenters are complex businesses
requiring a wide range of professional
team members.
http://datacenterpeople.org/2018/06/22/great-datacenter-skills-shortage-stem-initiatives-sufficient/

8. Positions Needed Most... Now
● Changing from custom,
bespoke infrastructures
toward fixed forms & broad
standards.
● Drifting towards “The Edge.”
https://data-economy.com/finding-the-right-skills-to-support-the-cloud-driven-data-center-landscape/
https://datacenterfrontier.com/2018-data-center-skills-update

9. The Next Generation
● Rapidly aging workforce.
● More than growth… the challenge is
replacement as well.
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/addressing-data-center-skills-shortage
"We, as a industry, are young in that we formed in
the last 20 or so years. Those that started in the
industry are now starting to retire. Through normal
growth we'd be able to handle that, but with an
industry that's doubling in size every four or five
years, that means a doubling in requirements
as well."

10. Where People
Are Needed
Most… Now
http://www.turnerandtownsend.com/en/insights/data-centre-cost-index-2018/
The Hottest Datacenter Markets in the
World Right Now

11. Solving the Problem

12. iMasons Focus
● Improving the Education Pipeline
● Increasing Diversity
● Increasing Awareness

13. Education for the Datacenters of Tomorrow
Objective: Increase the Quantity & Quality of DI Education
● iMasons Scholarship Program for
high-quality training & education programs
● The $1 Million Challenge
● Creating a community of support

14. Diversity: An Economic Imperative
● Currently, women comprise <6% of the
datacenter workforce across all positions
● iMasons Initial Focus: Gender Diversity
IMWomen https://imasons.org/women-
committee/
● iMasons D&I Gala at DataCloud World
June 4-6, Monaco
● iMasons “Diversity Champion Award:”
https://imasons.org/diversity-award/
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3301883/data-center-staff-are-aging-faster-than-the-equipment.html

16. Diversity Champion Award Winner 2018

17. The “Invisible” Industry
● The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry No One Can See
● Awareness and Branding
● “DI Intro” Animated Video

18. New Datacenters — New Roles
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/industry-perspectives/data-center-dream-team-your-staff-and-automation

19. Sourcing Staff: Hire Military Veterans
Salute - https://saluteinc.com
● Vets are ….
○ “Ready to Work”
○ Diverse Representation
● Salute Partnership
○ Active in 5 countries
○ Already placed 1200 positions

20. What You Can Do
● Join: imasons.org/join
● Sponsor: D&I Gala, June 5th in Monaco
● Host: Food for Thought Dinner
● Mentor: Scholarship Student
● Support: DI Awareness
● Hire: Women and Vets

21. EuroHPC Summit, Poznan, 13-17 May
DCD Madrid, Madrid, 29 May
Datacloud Global Congress, Monaco, 4-6 June
Teratec 2019, Paris, 11-12 Jun
ISC High Performance 2019, Frankfurt, 16-20 Jun
DCD SF, San Francisco, 11-12 Jul
OCP Regional Summit, Amsterdam, 26-27 Sep
GITEX 2019, Dubai, 6-10 Oct
DCD London, London, 5-6 Nov
Supercomputing 2019, Denver, 18-21 Nov
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