IM Leadership Summit – May 2017
- May 17, 2017
- Half-Day Event
- California
On May 17, 2017, Infrastructure Masons held a half-day Leadership Summit at Uber in Palo Alto. About 80 Infrastructure Masons attended, a mix of partners and end users.
The agenda included an introduction by iMasons founder Dean Nelson; an update from the education committee by Winston Saunders; an introduction to Open19 by Yuval Bachar; a panel discussion with Dean Nelson, Christian Belady, and Joe Kava; a workshop in which participants discussed IM Fund investments and funding sources; and a presentation by Jim Grice of the National Data Center Coalition.
Key highlights:
- Two things came out of the last iMasons leadership meeting: 1) “We need to make the data center sexy. We have a brand problem; people don’t know we exist even though everyone uses the data center.” 2) “We have a talent problem. People don’t find it an interesting industry because they don’t know it exists, and they don’t know how much money they can make.”
- “Infrastructure Masons’ goal is to be 100% member driven. That’s why we’re going to start charging dues. But we have to give value. ‘Connect, grow, and give back’ is our compelling value proposition.”
- “We are working on the Data Center Performance Index (DCPI). A number of us end users need such a standard so we know what we’re getting when we procure data centers.”
- “Other areas we’re working on include the IM Fund, education committee, and developing a sponsorship committee to avoid conflicts of interest.”
