Schneider Electric’s Innovation Day: Reinventing cooling in the AI era

As AI reshapes the global data centre landscape, Schneider Electric is bringing together technology pioneers, consultants, and enterprise leaders for its highly anticipated Innovation Day: Reinventing Cooling for the AI Era.

Held at Hilton Sydney on 23 September 2025, the event will showcase breakthrough approaches to cooling innovation, unlocking new levels of performance, scalability, and sustainability for AI-ready data centres across Australia and New Zealand. 

The Innovation Day presents a platform for industry experts, ecosystem partners, and Schneider Electric’s global leaders to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore how advanced cooling technologies are transforming the backbone of the digital economy.

Senior speakers will discuss the rapid rise of AI workloads and unveil strategies to enable data centres to cool smarter, scale faster, and operate more sustainably. The programme will also spotlight how Schneider Electric’s acquisition of a majority stake in Motivair, a global leader in liquid cooling and thermal management, strengthens its ability to deliver comprehensive solutions, from grid to chip, and chip to chiller.

Key highlights:

AI-ready infrastructure: Expert talks on designing sustainable, high-performance data centres optimised for artificial intelligence.

Liquid cooling innovation: Technical deep dives into direct-to-chip liquid cooling, CFD design, and modular retrofit solutions.

Global case studies: Insights from early adopters demonstrating transitions from air to liquid cooling.

Hands-on experience: Live demonstrations and interactive displays at the Innovation Hub.

Schneider Electric is the only end-to-end provider of liquid cooling solutions purpose-built for AI and high-performance computing, enabling faster deployment, smarter operations, and more sustainable performance at scale.

“AI is transforming how we think about data centre design, and cooling has become a critical enabler,” said Farokh Ghadially, Vice President, IT & Datacentres, Schneider Electric. “The 2025 Innovation Day will highlight how Schneider Electric, together with Motivair, is leading a new era of cooling innovations which empower customers across ANZ to scale rapidly, confidently, and sustainably, meeting the demands of high-density, AI-driven workloads with precision and purpose.”

Schneider Electric speakers will share insights on how collaboration with the AI ecosystem, combined with its extended Secure Power portfolio, is delivering scalable, sustainable, and future-ready solutions for enterprise, hyperscale, and edge environments.

Schneider Electric speakers include:

Farokh Ghadially, Vice President, IT Business Pacific Region

Joe Craparotta, Vice President, Cloud and Service Providers, Pacific 

Astrid Groves, Alliance lead Pacific

Andrew Bradner, Vice President, Global Cooling Business

Media attendance

Media are welcome to attend Innovation Day: Reinventing Cooling for the AI Era. Key speakers will be available for interview.

Places are limited, so journalists interested in attending should contact kathleen.walsh@iconagency.com.au to facilitate registration and interview requests.

Please note that the event opens at 9am on Tuesday, 23 September 2025.