Mark Gusakov is the CEO of The Data Center Alliance, Managing Partner of Conn3ct Data, former Chief Certification Officer for the International Data Center Authority, Advisory Board Mileva Fund Chairman for Nomad Futurists and sits on the Advisory Council for iMasons. As a globally-recognized and professional speaker on energy and power, education, skilled trades, workforce development, supply chain impacts, Edge computing, facility resiliency, redundancy and operational stability, as well as fluid power expertise regarding liquid cooling applications, his thought leadership ensures a vast array of topics can be covered by proposing solutions and not dwelling on problems. Throughout his 20-year career spanning Automation, Process Control, and Value-Added Consultation, Gusakov's goal has been to address disparate approaches in an effort to break down siloed experiences across people, systems and equipment to achieve overall performance excellence. Gusakov continues to pursue advocacy for the digital infrastructure community and stresses the importance of data-driven accuracy for management and operational success. With his transition to promote community relationship improvement in the digital infrastructure industry he is working diligently on demystifying the global digital economy and the nuclear power industry for the next generation of talent. While he sits on several advisory boards, he is passionate about his work supporting EPRI in the Data Center Nuclear collaboration initiative, US Department of Energy Fission for the Future and support of the Idaho National Laboratory for the alignment of power in data center consideration. Gusakov holds ATS Accreditation from Uptime Institute, LSS Yellow Belt, Parker PTAC Specialist, Festo Product Specialist and Eaton Product Specialist Certifications