The Vertiv AI Innovation Roadshow Nigeria
Theme:
AI-Ready Infrastructure: Powering the Future of Enterprise Innovation



Time: 09:00 WAT
Date: 26 June, 2025
Event overview
The Vertiv AI Solutions Innovation Roadshow – Lagos Edition is a high-impact executive event designed to explore the evolving demands of AI-ready infrastructure in enterprise environments. As organizations across sectors face exponential data growth and distributed workloads, the need for robust, scalable, and energy-efficient infrastructure has never been more urgent. This roadshow brings together CIOs, IT leaders, and infrastructure experts from Nigeria’s most critical sectors – banking, oil & gas, telecoms, manufacturing, and more – to share insights, innovations, and strategies for building future-proof digital environments.
Anchored around Vertiv’s global thought leadership on the eight infrastructure imperatives for AI, the event will feature technical deep dives by Vertiv, a customer use-case spotlight, and a forward-looking roundtable on AI for enterprise. From power optimization and cooling innovation to managing hybrid architectures, attendees will gain practical knowledge and strategic clarity to accelerate their organization’s AI transformation. The Lagos event marks a pivotal moment for enterprise IT leaders to connect, collaborate, and take bold steps toward infrastructure modernization in the age of intelligent systems.
Vertiv’s international roadshow is coming to Nigeria!
Key Themes:
Building AI-Ready Infrastructure
As enterprises embrace artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC), they must rethink their core infrastructure to support the unique demands of AI workloads. This includes preparing for dense compute environments, increasing processing capacity, and ensuring data flows seamlessly across core, edge, and hybrid environments. The roadshow will explore how organizations can modernize existing data centers and design new ones with AI-readiness at the center.
Power and Cooling for the AI Era
AI workloads demand significantly more power and generate more heat than traditional enterprise systems. This event will address how organizations can optimize power usage, improve energy efficiency, and implement next-generation cooling solutions such as liquid and hybrid cooling. With energy availability and cost becoming critical concerns, these sessions will offer insights into building sustainable and cost-effective digital infrastructure.
Sector-Specific Innovation and Resilience
From financial services to oil & gas and telecoms, enterprises are facing data challenges unique to their sectors. Via an industry roundtable, the event will highlight real-world use cases and discuss how infrastructure decisions are being shaped by industry-specific needs. In a world where downtime is unacceptable, emphasis will also be placed on ensuring digital resilience and designing infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and always-on.
Who should attend
Audience
CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT Managers, Data Center Managers, Infrastructure Heads from Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Healthvare, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Colocation/Data Center, Transportation, and Retail industries
Speakers

Wotjek Piorko
Managing Director Africa, Vertiv

Luther Ogbaji
Thermal Application Engineer, Vertiv

Wole Abu
Managing Director West Africa, Equinix

Jon Abbott
Technologies Director & Industry Advisory, Strategic Clients EMEA, Vertiv

Okechi Osuagwu
Regional Account Manager Sales, Vertiv

Gerald Madondo
Country Director, Turner & Townsend

Johnson Agogbua
Founder/Chief Executive Offier, Kasi Cloud Data Centers

Jon Abbott
Technologies Director & Industry Advisory, Strategic Clients EMEA, Vertiv

Okechi Osuagwu
Regional Account Manager Sales, Vertiv

Gerald Madondo
Country Director, Turner & Townsend

Sofiat Ojurongbe
Regional Account Manager Sales, Vertiv

Sofiat Ojurongbe
Regional Account Manager Sales, Vertiv