 Welcome everyone to JSA TV Live, the live streaming newsroom for data center professionals. I'm Jamie Scado-Cutaya of JSA and today we are speaking with investors, data center platform owners and energy specialists as they converge right here at Platform Congress along the French Riviera. So bonjour everyone, I'm Jamie Scado-Cutaya, joining me today we have Vincent Barrow. He is the vice president of Secure Power and data center business for Schneider Electric. Welcome to JSA TV Live, Vincent. Nice to be with you Jamie. It is a pleasure to have you here on this beautiful gorgeous day and the event is definitely kicking up. You can feel the energy on the floor and of course this is the inaugural Platform Congress event and we're so excited to be part of it Schneider of course here in a big way. Tell us why do you believe Platform Congress is such an important event for our industry? First of all there's a lot of energy today but I can tell you there was a lot of energy last night as well. Yes, they did the initial cocktail reception. Exactly. So as you can see despite of it there's a lot of people today here and mainly in conference now. I mean why is it really interesting because we know very well as Schneider's organizer so even for us it was a bet, let's be honest because it's the first one. But we know that the team of Gregory, Philippe etc. have a huge track record in the industry in this type of event so it was a non-brainer and as we can see today it was the right choice to be there. Yes, for us as well, you know you get the call from Philippe or Nikola and they say come on out and you said okay tell me when, tell me when. What is really interesting and not expected is I mean first of all winter is coming so we know unfortunately with last year experience that in winter comes as well as COVID. So I think it's maybe the last opportunity in Europe and definitely in France to be each other. Let's see. Yeah. Finger crossed that this year would be better. So that's great and as we all know there's a geopolitical situation which is weird and to be all together today give us certainty to share all our problems, all our questions and it's great to confirm some assumptions that we have and how will we work together in the future for this industry. I'm going to agree more and time is of the essence. The timing of this so critical, so much at risk today and sustainability being of course a founding pillar of Schneider these days. Your efforts within the digital infrastructure community is really a big theme on display here at Platform Congress as well as you know a major part of your core values at Schneider. So can you tell us some of the initiatives your team is currently working on in terms of sustainability? Yeah. So first of all sustainability is not a new topic for us so more than 15 years we do sustainability so it's really core for DNA and the best way to prove it is really to see the type of acquisitions that we did from day one. What is the real topic that we see at the moment is really electricity 4.0. So what this means is how to be more efficient with the energy is really to mix digital and electricity. More digital, more electricity is really the future of sustainability and definitely what we do is to support our customer through the whole life cycle from consulting, services, infrastructure, software. I mean we have a lot of solutions but clearly what we see a lot more at the moment. Hello lady. It's really to talk about the digital twin. Yes. How do you manage fully digitally your infrastructure and your energy management is a big topic and as you can see with Schneider and as you said we are a lot of people there to support and work the talk because the main topic is now it's time to act so you need supplier who are able to do and the good thing is we have the solution to support our customer with their challenges. Yeah. So what advice do you have for data center providers as we're further pushing growing together to keep sustainability and energy at our core focus? Do you have any advice for us? Yeah, first of all I think as I said it's time to act. So when we talk about data center infrastructure you talk to three years in advance so if you don't plan now and if you don't talk to the people in the industry who know how to manage it you will be in trouble. And we did a big research with Forester which really show that customer but even employee are looking to see more sustainability and purpose driven topic. If you don't take care of it now you will be very fast in trouble because you will lose your business and you will lose your customer. That's right. It's not a nice to have it's a must have and it's a competitive issue now buyers are coming to us saying I want the more greener data center and Schneider can get you there right? Yeah and the thing is I mean if you thought in the past maybe we see sometimes that's really building quick energy in order to do it then to solve it or maybe it's dead. So you have to really think CAPEX but as well OPEX and then of course services because at the end of the day I mean you need to be sustainability but sustainable but at the same time to be resilient so the equation is not easy to do and you need people to support you and that's what we do. That's right. That's right. Alright so shifting gears just a little here to another big industry topic the edge. What are the biggest hurdles that you see operators running into regarding edge deployment and how can Schneider's eco structure solutions help? So the main problem with the edge is in fact we talk about hybrid infrastructure so you have the link between big data center cloud anywhere in the world then you've got the medium data center and the small data center which are at the edge what means edge because the world is sometimes here it's a real world is how you are closer to the people to do better that's the main topic but if you want to manage it with less people how do you do this and what does eco structure we help you to standardize your infrastructure with the right products with the right solution and at the same time to really drive them I give you one example and I'm based in Switzerland so I can talk about banking if you have a bank with large data center with confidentiality and with small branch if you don't have people in the branch to manage it how do you manage that right and that's what we do we are on play you call Schneider yes I love it I love it so where can our viewers go to learn more okay so to learn more easy our website and I mean we have people everywhere in Europe so just reach us and that's it that's it guys Schneider electric.com thank you so much thank you very much for your time here on JSA TV and thank you viewers for tuning in as always and stay safe guys happy networking