Anand Ramesh is Sr. Vice President, Advanced Technology at EdgeConneX, a hyperlocal to hyperscale datacenter solutions provider. At EdgeConneX, Anand helps deploy leading-edge datacenter technologies that offer significant improvements in total cost of ownership (TCO), performance and sustainability. Prior to EdgeConneX, Anand spent ~ 15 years at Google, where he built technologies and teams in datacenter & software infrastructure, automotive mapping and power electronics systems. Anand also spent two years as VP, Infrastructure at Renovo Auto, a Silicon Valley based autonomous vehicle infrastructure software provider (since acquired by Woven Planet Holdings/Toyota). He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.