This agenda for Open Compute Summit IV is subject to change without notice.
Day 1
| 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration Opens | |
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Breakfast/Sponsor Booths Open | |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Keynote Sessions | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Sponsor Breakouts/Executive Sessions/Hardware Hackathon | |
| 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Technical Tracks | |
| 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Shuttles to Cocktail Party | |
| 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM | Cocktail Party @ Computer History Museum |
Day 2
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration/Breakfast/Sponsor Booths Open | |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Continuation of Technical Tracks/Hardware Hackathon | |
| 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Plenary Session/Hackathon Prizes/Roundup | |
| ~ 5:00 PM | Summit Concludes |
Keynote Addresses
You can stream videos of the keynote addresses on the summit video page.
Keynotes, announcements, and presentations from industry luminaries, including:
- Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder and Chairman, Arista Networks
- Frank Frankovsky, Chairman, Open Compute Foundation, and VP Hardware Design & Supply Chain, Facebook
- Paramesh Gopi, President and CEO, Applied Micro
- Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
- Jay Parikh, VP Infrastructure Engineering, Facebook
- Jimmy Pike, VP and Senior Fellow, Dell
- Justin Rattner, CTO and Senior Fellow, Intel
- Mark Roenigk, COO, Rackspace
Executive Sessions
You can stream videos of the executive sessions on the summit video page.
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Announcements and presentations from industry luminaries, in the following order:
The all-flash data center: Hyperscale acceleration
David Flynn; Co-Founder, CEO, and President; Fusion-io
Disaggregation and next-generation systems design
Jason Taylor, PhD; Director, Capacity Engineering & Analysis; Facebook
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Storage innovations in the mega data center
Greg Huff; Chief Technology Officer; LSI
Data center efficiency and upper management: What will make the C level pay attention?
Jon Koomey, PhD
Joe Higgins; Corporate Sustainability Officer and VP of Engineering; Fidelity
Break: 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Announcements and presentations from industry luminaries, in the following order:
An introduction to the AMD Open 3.0 modular server
Suresh Gopalakrishnan; Vice President and General Manager, Servers; AMD
Hardware performance and operational efficiencies in Facebook data centers
Delfina Eberly; Director, Data Center Operations; Facebook
The Open Compute Project data center: Wiwynn compute and storage offerings
Paul Ju; Senior VP; Wiwynn
Pursuing greater efficiencies in leased facilities
Dan Lee; Data Center Mechanical Engineer; Facebook
Veerendra Mulay; Thermal Engineer – Hardware; Facebook
Data to data cities: The centralization of data efficiency
Aaron Olbrich; Senior Fellow, Enterprise Storage Solutions; SanDisk
Building interoperability in low-power SOCs
George Grey; CEO; Linaro
A “precision fit” approach to vanity-free hyperscale computing
Melissa Massa, Vice President, ZT Systems
Technical Tracks
You can stream videos of the technical tracks on the summit video page.
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Technical Track #1 – Storage – Ballroom E/F: Building on the Facebook storage contributions from May 2012, we’ll discuss next generation storage solutions for scale computing.
Technical Track #2 – Open Rack – Room 209/210 (2nd floor): Establishing a next-generation standard interface between the server and the rack and examining early implementations.
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Technical Track #3 – Motherboard Design – Room 203 (2nd floor): Discussing next-generation board design as it applies to definitional technology.
Technical Track #4 – OCP Compliance and Interoperability – Room 207 (2nd floor): Deep dive into creating a transparent and scalable approach that ensures solutions meet minimum OCP standards for compliance and interoperability and are branded as such.
Technical Track #5 – Open Hardware Management – Room 204 (2nd floor): A continuation of the Open Hardware Management charter with specification of use and coding milestones outlined.
Technical Track #6 – Virtual IO – Room 206 (2nd floor): A focus on providing devices capable of Virtual IO within an Open Compute framework.