Innovation Unwrapped is a fast-paced overview of what’s ahead for iMasons Innovation in 2026 and beyond.

In this recorded session, iMasons Innovation Committee leaders share highlights from the committee’s roadmap, upcoming initiatives, and opportunities for members and partners to get involved — from new working groups to future events and collaborations. This session covers:

• Innovation Committee priorities and roadmap
• Current projects and incubator updates
• Upcoming events and opportunities to engage
• How members and partners can participate

Whether you’re an active iMasons member or exploring ways to collaborate, this session offers a clear look at how innovation is being shaped across the iMasons community.

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What if everything we know about data centres — from power and cooling to management — needed to be reinvented from scratch? In this episode of the iMasons Podcast, Romain Tranchant sits down with Yuval Bachar, Founder & CEO of ECL, to explore how he’s redefining what a sustainable, modular, and energy-conscious data centre can be.

Yuval shares how innovation now moves in 12-month cycles instead of four-year ones, and why leaders must create space for teams to take risks, fail fast, and learn faster. They talk about the shift from competition to collaboration, the coming energy crunch, and how data-centre operators might soon play a direct role in power generation.

It’s a conversation about technology, leadership, and mindset — from lessons borrowed from NASA to the optimism and curiosity that fuel every breakthrough. If you want to hear how true innovation happens when we dare to start from zero, this episode is for you.

Guest: Yuval Bachar, Founder and CEO of Edge Cloud Link

Moderator: Romain Tranchant, iMasons Innovation Committee Chair

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What happens when a century-old manufacturer decides that sustainability isn’t a department — it’s the business itself?

In this episode of the iMasons Podcast, I sit down with Burt Fealing, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Sustainability Officer at Southwire, to explore how one of America’s largest wire and cable companies is rewiring its operations for a carbon-neutral future.

We talk about what it really takes to align five ESG pillars with commercial reality, how to trace embedded carbon all the way back to the mine, and what happens when transparency meets tough internal resistance. Burt shares lessons from Southwire’s journey to carbon neutrality by 2025, the breakthroughs that worked, and the strategies that didn’t.

It’s a conversation about leadership under pressure, the courage to publish real data, and how sustainability becomes transformative only when it stops being convenient. If you want to hear what ESG looks like when it’s lived, not just written — this episode is for you.

Guest:

Burt Fealing, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Sustainability Officer at Southwire

Moderator: Romain Tranchant, iMasons Innovation Committee Chair

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Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, non-profit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all.

#iMasons #InfrastructureMasons #Innovation #ThoughtLeadership