Celebrating its 10th year, the four-day conference brought together Vertiv partners from across the region to advance collaboration, innovation, and growth in the AI era.
AUSTRALIA, 28th July 2026 – Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, convened channel leaders and partners from across Asia[1], including Australia and New Zealand, at the annual Vertiv Asia Partner Summit. Marking its 10th year, the Asia Partner Summit brought together over 300 channel and distribution partners across the region June 29th to July 2nd at The Westin Desaru Coast in Desaru, Johor, Malaysia.
Held under the theme "Metamorph," alluding to the major changes artificial intelligence (AI) has brought to the data centre industry, the four-day conference focused on equipping Vertiv partners on how to transform their businesses to capture emerging opportunities driven by AI, high-performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and digital infrastructure modernisation across Asia. As organisations deploy increasingly compute-intensive workloads and navigate rising power and cooling requirements, the summit explored how partners can help customers build resilient, scalable, and AI-ready infrastructure environments.
The event also served as a strategic platform for Vertiv and its channel partner ecosystem to align on regional market opportunities, technology priorities, and growth strategies. Through executive keynotes, technical workshops, and solution-focused sessions, attendees gained insights into AI infrastructure trends, sovereign and enterprise AI deployments, liquid cooling technologies, integrated modular solutions, next-generation power and thermal management systems, and intelligent infrastructure management. The discussions reinforced how Vertiv and its channel partners are working together to help customers accelerate AI adoption by addressing the growing demands of high-density computing environments.
"Enterprise AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to deployment across Australia and New Zealand. Success will depend on the ability to deliver resilient, scalable, and AI-ready infrastructure. Our partners play a critical role in helping customers design, deploy, and operate these environments, and the Asia Partner Summit strengthens the expertise and collaboration needed to accelerate Enterprise AI adoption across ANZ," said LuLu Shiraz, senior director, sales and country head, Vertiv ANZ.
Throughout the partner summit, participants engaged in sessions covering opportunities across edge, on-premise, and sovereign AI environments, as well as the intelligence and infrastructure stacks required for the AI era. Specialised breakout workshops explored Vertiv reference designs to simplify new and retrofit data centre planning, coolant distribution units and secondary fluid networks, integrated scalable systems, AI-ready power distribution, next-generation thermal technologies, in-rack infrastructure for high-density computing, chiller systems, and intelligent monitoring and management solutions.
Channel partners were also able to visit to the newly-opened Vertiv Johor factory, for an inside look at Vertiv's regional manufacturing capabilities that support Vertiv customers across the region with speed, scale, and operational excellence.
Celebrating Partner Excellence Across Asia
A key highlight of the Asia Partner Summit 2026 was the Partner Recognition Awards, which celebrated organisations demonstrating outstanding performance, technical leadership, market development, and customer impact across the region. The awards recognised excellence across strategic partnerships, sales leadership, solutions innovation, emerging partner growth, and vertical market success.
Strategic Partnership Awards
- 2025 Strategic Partnership Award: NVIDIA
- 2025 Strategic Partnership Award: Dell Technologies
Below are the awardees from Australia and New Zealand:
- 2025 Summit Leadership Award for Highest Sales Achievement, Distribution: Orion Computers Pty Ltd
- 2025 Rising Star Award: Air Water Power Pty Ltd
- 2025 Vertical Achievement Award for Mining: Total Data Centre Services
In addition to these awards, Vertiv also recognised partners across several categories, including innovation, emerging partner growth, and industry-specific achievements, highlighting the breadth and strength of its partner ecosystem throughout Asia.
