Austin Hipes VP, Engineering, UNICOM Engineering Austin leads Product Development, IT Infrastructure, Regulatory Services, and Sales Engineering. He plays a key role in supporting sales design initiatives and educating customers on hardware innovations and emerging technology trends. With over 25 years of experience, Austin specialized in designing systems and solutions for network equipment providers, enterprise storage, hyperconverged systems, data center infrastructure and carrier-grade deployments. Austin actively contributes to industry initiatives. He chairs the Technical Committee for IT Equipment (ITE) within the OCP Cooling Environments Immersion Group, serves on the IT Advisory Council (ITAC) for Dell Technologies, and is a member of Intel’s Channel Board of Advisors (BOA) for Datacenter & AI (DCAI). Rusty Cone General Manager, VP Business Development, UNICOM Engineering Rusty Cone is the General Manager and Vice President of Business Development at UNICOM Engineering. He joined Alliance Systems in 1999 as President and Chief Operating Officer and has since played a key role in the company’s evolution into UNICOM Engineering. With more than two decades of experience in high-tech manufacturing and quality process management, Rusty oversees all aspects of the company’s daily operations including sales and marketing, engineering, finance, operations and customer support.
Cameron Cross Sales Director, Immersion Cooling, Shell Cameron leads the development of our Data Center fluids business, including OEM ecosystem collaborations, product and services development and data center customer growth.
Punith Shivaprasad Product Application Specialist - Process Oil and Wax, Shell Punith is the technical lead for liquid cooling which is part of the global commercial technology lubricants team based in Houston, Texas. He joined Shell in 2007 and provides technology support to customers in the data center industry. Punith has a PhD in civil engineering from University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, India, and did postdoctoral research at Clemson University, South Carolina. Christopher Liljenstolpe Sr. Director, Data Center Architecture & Sustainability, Cisco Christopher is the Sr. Director of Next Generation Data Center Design in the Infrastructure and Security Business Unit at Cisco. He is trying to fit the round pegs of next generation ultra-high density power, cooling, connectivity and network fabrics into the square holes that are the reality of physical and logical infrastructure. Over his 30+ years in his career he created Project Calico, the container networking and policy enforcement stack, and was the co-founder of Tigera, built bioinformatics clusters for cancer genomics, worked on early implementations of distributed routing systems, was the chief architect of two major ISPs/Telcos (iMIC/Cable & Wireless and Telstra) and the APAC CTO (IP) for Alcatel. He has co-chaired IETF working groups in both the Operations and Security Areas, was the executive director of the SSIA, been active in the ITU-T, NANOG, and APRICOT, and been a frequent industry conference speaker. 25
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