EkkoSense Leveraging Influence Board Platform to Support Infrastructure Masons’ Scholarship Fund

Part of major drive to ‘bridge the talent gap’ and increase digital infrastructure industry recruitment to support continued sector growth.

May 9, 2019 EkkoSense, an M&E Capacity Planning, Monitoring and Simulation specialist for critical live environments, has announced that it has become a supporter of the Infrastructure Masons (iM) Scholarship Fund, set up to help bridge the talent gap in the digital infrastructure sector.

The iM Scholarship fund supports educational programs, funds scholarships and seeks to help to define the digital infrastructure job ladder to support the evolving needs of industry sector businesses.

Student tour of a Data Center in NOVA. iMasons increasing awareness of Digital Infrastructure Industry amongst young people

Simon Allen Executive Director of The Infrastructure Masons:

“one of the biggest challenges facing the fast-growing digital infrastructure sector is the shortage of talent entering our industry. IM’s mission is to ‘Unite the Builders of the Digital Age’ by creating the platform for our members to connect, grow and give back. One of our key current initiatives is ‘Bridging the Talent Gap’, where Infrastructure Masons is focused on funding scholarships for approved degrees and certificates. We’re delighted that EkkoSense is supporting IM, and – specifically – our Education Challenge fund, with projects including the creation and support of a community of digital infrastructure educators, alignment of mentoring and internship programs, as well as the funding of scholarships.”

Hosted by Tesla and the iMasons Women Committee, 50 girls participated in the world-wide Hour of Code event.

Dean Boyle, CEO EkkoSense added: “as an organisation we’re focused on building out our business providing powerful, software-driven thermal optimisation solutions for critical live environments – however we’re also aware that we’re part of broader digital infrastructure community, so we’re proud to be supporting the Infrastructure Masons activities via The Influence Board. At EkkoSense we’re already engaged with local universities supporting PhD and research programmes and one of our senior engineers won last year’s DCS Individual of the Year Award.”

The Infrastructure Masons

The mission of Infrastructure Masons is to Unite the Builders of the Digital Age by creating the platform for members to connect, grow and give back. Whenever iM members meet – they leave their companies at the door. The current priority of iM is to Bridge the Talent Gap (by Promoting Awareness, EDU & Scholarships and addressing Diversity). iM are raising $1m for scholarships – 50% for women. Last year iM awarded the Digital Infrastructure Industries 1st Diversity Champion award. https://imasons.org

The Influence Board

The Influence Board (https://influenceboard.com) was conceived of, and created by, one of the largest networks of influential people in the U.S. and Europe: www.CXOmembers.com as a platform to help vendors meet relevant influencers whilst raising money for charity in a creative new way.

For vendors – a way to cut through the noise and get the attention needed.

For influencers – a way to intelligently filter vendor requests for relevancy, and a mechanism to raise money for charitable causes.

ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE MASONS

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a non-profit, professional association of technology and business leaders who represent over $150Bn in infrastructure projects in over 130 countries. The organization is guided by an Advisory Council comprised of global leaders who manage some of the largest digital infrastructure portfolios in the world. The iMasons vision is to Unite the Builders of the Digital Age by enabling our global membership to Connect, Grow, and Give Back. Members leave their companies at the door and connect as individuals. IMasons has four strategic industry priorities – increase Awareness, enhance Education opportunities, champion Diversity & Inclusion, and promote Sustainability through deep member engagement.

About EkkoSense:

EkkoSense is an industry leader in the provision of advanced sensing technology, SaaS DCIM-class visualisation & monitoring software and analytics solutions for critical facilities such as data centres. The company is committed to eliminating thermal risk and helping organisations to monitor, manage and maximise their data centre performance.

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