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| Keynotes | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Executive Sessions | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Expo Hall Sessions | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Data Center Development Best Practices | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| AI Clusters | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| AI Computing Continuum | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| AI Open Data Center | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Cooling Environments | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Market Impact & Adoption | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Networking | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Server | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| FTS: Quantum (Data Center Design) | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| IPEC Workshop | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| Manageability Workshop | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
| OIF Workshop | [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist] |
Keynotes (Custom order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome to the 2026 OCP Global Summit | George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building the Next Era of AI Infrastructure | Dr. Lisa Su (AMD – Chair and Chief Executive Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Concrete to Code: Engineering AI Infrastructure at Gigawatt Scale | Santosh Janardhan (Meta – Head of Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Agentic Decade Starts with Open Infrastructure | Mohamed Awad (Arm – EVP & General Manager of Cloud AI Business Unit) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure Through Open Innovation | Asad Khamisy (Broadcom – Senior Vice President and General Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Factories at Scale: Advancing Open Infrastructure for Agentic AI | Ian Buck (NVIDIA – VP of Hyperscale and HPC Computing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Welcome Address | George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Intelligent Infrastructure for the Intelligence Era | Partha Ranganathan (Google – VP and Engineering Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure Responsibly Through Open Standards | Pradeep Vincent (Oracle – EVP) | G-Drive Dropbox | |
| Women in OCP (WOCP) – Community First, AI Forward | Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology) Anu Ramamurthy (Microchip – Associate Fellow, Design) Allison Boen (Alcatex and Shell Fluid – President at Alcatex and Shell Fluid Brand Ambassador) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Secure Control and Management Plane (SCMP): From AI Racks to Autonomous Infrastructure | Ford Tamer (Lattice Semiconductor – Chief Executive Officer, Director) Sanjoy Maity (AMI – Senior Vice President and General Manager, AMI Business Unit, Lattice Semiconductor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scalable and Open AI Solutions: From Cloud to Sovereign to Edge | Trish Damkroger (HPE – Senior Vice President & General Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Put Every Prompt in Its Place | Nic Dubé (Intel – CVP of Data Center Systems & Solutions) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Shifting to DC Power Distribution in Data Centers: A Collaborative Journey | Paolo Catapane (ABB – Senior Global Product Manager / Chapter Leader Solution Product Management) Peter De Bock (Eaton – Eaton) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Intelligence Infrastructure: Scaling AI for the Frontier Era | Reynold D’Sa (Microsoft – CVP) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Executive Sessions (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 224G AECs for AI Data Centers: Extending Reach, Enhancing Telemetry, and Redefining Copper | Clay Miller (Molex – Senior New Product Development Manager) Rajesh Annapillai (Broadcom Inc. – Physical Layer Products, Product Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A High-Density, Liquid-Cooled Optical Interconnect Architecture for Next-Generation AI Networks | Terry Little (Foxconn Interconnect Technology – Development Engineering Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A system approach to AI infrastructure presented by Rittal | Andy Gill (Rittal – CSO HPC Systems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Accelerate your AI journey with QCT: From system-level to AI Factory presented by QCT | Jack Luoh (QCT and Quanta Computer – Product and Solution Executive) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Open AI Infrastructure Management through Community and Ecosystem Collaboration | Hancock Chang (MiTAC – Director, Solution Enabling Division.) James Shie (MiTAC – Solution Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Infrastructure validation at scale presented by Keysight | Ram Periakaruppan (Keysight Technologies – VP & GM of Network Applications & Security Business) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Your Way: Compute Agnostic, Rack-Scale Architecture for AI Factories presented by Astera Labs | Chris Petersen (Astera Labs – Vice President & Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Betting on the Network: Meta’s Case for Full-Stack, Open AI Networking presented by Meta | Omar Baldonado (Meta – Director of Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Megawatts- Engineering Liquid Cooling for AI at Scale presented by Envicool | Ning Liu (Envicool – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Power Density: Building a Safe 800V DC Ecosystem presented by Eaton | Joe Skorjanec (Eaton – Product Line Manager DC Power) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking the Walls: Open Scale-Across for the AI Era presented by Cisco | Rakesh Chopra (Cisco – Cisco Fellow) Tom Wiliams (Cisco – Vice President, Product Management) Vipul Deokar (Meta – VP – Core Network Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building Open Heterogeneous Infrastructure for Agentic AI presented by Intel | Anil Nanduri (Intel Corporation – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building the AI Factory: Overcoming the Infrastructure Challenges of AI at Scale presented by Wiwynn | Tony Wen (Wiwynn Corporation – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Characterization of Hose Material Effects on Coolant Chemistry During Accelerated Aging | Matthew Schantz (Gates Corporation – Data Center Applications Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Co-Designing High-Speed Copper and Optical Interconnects | Brian Kirk (Amphenol – Chief Technology Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling the AI Revolution: Scaling Performance Through Advanced Liquid Cooling Technologies | Patrick Liu (Auras Technology Co., Ltd. – Thermal Engineer) Ali Heydari (NVIDIA – Technical Director and Distinguished Engineer, Data Center Cooling & Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Delta 800 VDC Power and Cooling Solutions for Data Centers presented by Delta | Ralf Pieper (Delta – R&D Senior Director) Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Designing the next AI fabric: When compute meets optics presented by Celestica | Tareq Bustami (Celestica – VP Market Technology) Manish Mehta (Broadcom – VP of Marketing and Operations) Binbin Guan (OpenAI – Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Dispersion Managed Transceiver for Next-Gen AI Fabrics | Grace Zhang (Linktel – Director of Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Eliminate Every Obstacle Between Your Data and Your GPUs presented by Dell Technologies | Peter Corbett (Dell Technologies – Fellow) Kirankumar Bhusanurmath (Dell Technologies – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling High-Performance Thermal Management for 1600G AI Data Center Interconnects | Robbie Xu (Luxshare-Tech – Head of US/EMEA Sales and Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Every Megawatt Counts: The Path to Building AI Factories with DSX MaxLPS presented by NVIDIA | Ajay Kamalvanshi (NVIDIA – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Forging an Open Control Plane for the AI Era presented by Lattice | Mamta Gupta (Lattice Semiconductor – AVP Marketing) Kelly Bryant (AMI – Solutions Strategy) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Blueprint to Revenue: Engineering and Executing AI Cloud Gigafactories with NVIDIA | Wil Wellington (Lenovo – Global Director – AI Data Center Services at Lenovo CSP) John Donovan (Lenovo – Executive Director and GM of AI and Scale Cloud, Lenovo CSP) Denis Skrinnikoff (IREN – Chief Technology Officer at IREN) Chris Marriott (NVIDIA – VP/GM, Enterprise Platforms and Solutions) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Chip to Grid: Scaling Holistic AI Data Center Co-Design Through Open Standards | Amber Huffman (Google – Technologist, AI & Infrastructure) Tom Garvens (Google – VP of Hardware Platform Engineering, Google Cloud) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Chips to Compute: Delivering AI Infra at GW Speed presented by Ingrasys | ZongChang Liu (Foxconn – CDO of Foxconn Industrial Internet Co.) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Dirt to Tokens: Building AI Infrastructure as an Integrated System presented by Flex | Rob Campbell (Flex (Flextronics) – President) Chris Butler (Flex (Flextronics) – President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From grids to bits presented by BizLink | Hendrik Coldenstrodt (BizLink Technology, Inc. – Chief Technology Officer) Terry WU (BizLink International Corp., – Product Line Manager) Helmut Jungsthoefel (BizLink Technology – .) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From LPO to NPO to CPO: The open optical roadmap for AI infrastructure presented | Tim Zhou (Micas Networks – VP of Customer Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Open Standards to AI Factories: DCBBS, Modular Design, and the Latest in Liquid Cooling | Magelli Roxas (Supermicro – Senior Rack Product Manager) Steven Huang (Supermicro – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Switches to Systems presented by Jabil | Abhinav Sharma (Arista – Leader, Mechanical NPI Engineering) Matt McGuff (Jabil – Senior Director, Technology) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Innovation on Diagnosis and Maintenance of AI Datacenters presented by Aivres | James Zou (Aivres – R&D Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Inside AMD Helios™: Engineering AI at Rack Scale presented by AMD | Andrew Dieckmann (AMD – Corporate Vice President & General Manager) Steve Scott (AMD – Corporate Fellow) Alan Smith (AMD – Corporate Fellow) | Video | |
| Introduction to Memory-centric AI Rack Systems (MARS) presented by SK hynix | Hoshik Kim (SK hynix – Senior Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Joint Session: Inventec Autonomous AI Factory Agents powered by NVIDIA, presented by Inventec | JK Jung (Inventec Corporation – Senior Director) Alvin Clark (NVIDIA – Global Developer Relations Manager – Industrial and Manufacturing, NVIDIA) | Video | |
| Keep Your Compute Running at Full Throttle with Highly Scalable Memory | Hojun Shim (Samsung Electronics – Corporate VP) | Video | |
| Liquid-Cooled Power Shelf and 800 VDC platform for next generation datacenters | Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) Roya Movahedi (Megmeet – Chief Marketing Officer) Lei Shi (Megmeet – Chief Engineer of Advanced Power Solutions BU) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Multi-Dimensional Scalability for AI infrastructures | Clayton Wagar (Nokia – Principal Consulting Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Next-Generation Power & Cooling Solutions presented by TCT | Royal Liu (Thermal Control Technology(Shenzhen) Co.- Ltd – CT0) Arthur Wang (XFusion – Director of Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| nVent RDHX cooling for AMD Helios™ presented by nVent | Sam Dore (nVent – Product Manager – Liquid Cooling) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Optical Interconnect Solutions for AI Scaling presented by Terahop | Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu (TeraHop – VP Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Rack, Liquid Cooling, Now What? Operationalizing the Next Gen Datacenter presented by HPE | Joseph “JBK” Knight (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Chief Technologist – Service Providers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open, Modular Rack-Scale AI Infrastructure for the Agentic Era presented by HYVE | Dr. Dimitrious Ziakas (HYVE – HYVE) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Powering the AI Era: Building Sustainable and efficient Infrastructure at Cloud Scale | Brijesh Warrier (Microsoft – VP of Software Engineering) Nithish Mahalingam (Microsoft – Partner Director of Engineering) | Video | |
| Powering the AI Revolution: Navigating the 800V-to-Chip Frontier presented by LITEON | Teng Long (LITEON – Professor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rethinking CPU Performance for the Agentic AI Era presented by Arm | Ravi Malhotra (Arm – Director Solutions Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Inference Infrastructure from Silicon to System presented by ASRock Rack | Charlotte Li (ASRock Rack – Director of Product Marketing) Jeff Chan (ASRock Rack Inc. – Senior VP) Sammy Huang (Arm – Director of Ecosystem Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure: The Pivotal Role of Silicon Photonics in Full-Stack Optical Interconnects | Haijiang Yu (Genuine Optics – Chief Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Al Factory for the Rubin Era: Advanced Liquid Cooling and End-to-End L13 Deployment | Christopher Liang (Pegatron – Sr VP of Product Strategy) | Video | |
| Scaling Direct Current in Data Centers: From Proven Industrial Concepts to Open Standardization | Martin Wetter (Phoenix Contact – Executive Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Solving Power Density and Bandwidth Challenges in AI Infrastructure presented by TE Connectivity | Gaurav Jain (TE Connectivity – Senior Director, Product Management) Ram Kasiraman (TE Connectivity – Senior Manager, Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Spearheading a New Security Standard for Data Centers presented by Marvell | Cary Ussery (Marvell – Senior Vice President, Multimarket Business Group General Manager & Engineering) Bryan Kelly (Microsoft – Partner Architect, Microsoft, Azure, Strategic Planning & Architecture) Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardization that Enables Innovation: Building Deployment Confidence for Scalable Liquid Cooling | Sébastien LAFOND (Danfoss – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The AMI Vision for Open: Building an Open Control Plane for the AI Data Center Era presented by AMI | Munir Ahmad (Lattice Semiconductor – Compute Architect) B Parthiban (AMI – Corporate VP, Boot Firmware Group) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The New Tokenomics: How Data Infrastructure Increasingly Sets AI ROI presented by Solidigm | Ace Stryker (Solidigm – Director of AI & Ecosystem Marketing) Steen Graham (Metrum AI – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Path to Infinite Inference presented by d-Matrix | Sid Sheth (D-Matrix – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Silicon Heartbeat of the AI Economy: the Efficiency Paradox in Next-Gen Data Center Silicon | Bhushan Chitlur (MediaTek – Chief Architect for the Data Center and AI Group) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Validation Challenges for Next-Generation AI Power Racks: From 100kW to MW Scale presented by Chroma | Larry Sharp (Chroma – Sr. Applications Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Wider. Slower. Better: Optics That Can Beat Copper presented by Credo | Bill Brennan (Credo – President and CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Expo Hall Sessions (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI: The Agentic Rack, Powered by Intel Xeon Processors presented by Intel | Jatin Upadhyay (Intel – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Aivres Liquid-Cooling AI Data Center Solutions Based on NVIDIA GPUs, presented by Aivres | William Ye (Aivres – Validation Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Factory Floor to AI Factory: Deploying Intel® Xeon® 6 AI Infrastructure at Scale presented by Lenovo | James McFadden (Lenovo – Executive Director, Supply Chain Quality and Engineering, Lenovo ISG) David Hanley (Lenovo – Executive Director – Cloud Service Provider, Global Supply Chain, Lenovo) David Lee (Intel – GM & Sr. Engineering Leader, Intel) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Fleet to Firmware: Bringing AI-Native Security to Open Hardware with Project Equilibrium presented by Google | Andres Lagar-Cavilla (Google – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Silicon to Rack: Arm and Meta Scaling AI Infrastructure Through OCP presented by Arm | Prasanna Jayaraman (Arm – Solution Architect) Damien Chong (Meta – Hardware TLM) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Going Wide: Scalable and Reliable Optical Interconnects for AI Clusters presented by Credo | LK Bhupathi (Credo – AVP) | Video | |
| Hyperscale Storage Solutions for NeoClouds presented by Everpure | Prathamesh Nalawade (Everpure – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| LITEON 1MW Power Rack Solution for AI Data Center presented by LITEON | Terry Zhang (LITEON – Engineering Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MetaRoCE: Rethinking RDMA for the AI presented by Meta | Arvind Srinivasan (Meta – System Architect) Sandeep Nagaraja (Meta – Software Engineering) Balakrishnan Raman (AMD – AMD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Microgrids at Scale: Resilient Power Infrastructure for AI Data Centers | Nick Baileys (Delta Electronics (Americas) Ltd. – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Powering AI Infrastructure: Innovations in Compute, Power, Connectivity and Cooling presented by Wiwynn | Lentis Pai (Wiwynn Corporation – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Tiering the Agent’s Memory: From CXL Pooling to SSD-Backed KV Cache Offloading presented by Samsung | Youngha Choi (Samsung – Principal Engineer, NAND Product Planning Team, Memory Business) Jinin So (Samsung Electronics – Senior Director) | Video |
Data Center Development Best Practices (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gigawatt AI Data Center Era | Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista – Chief Architect and Co-Founder) | Video |
AI Clusters (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Cluster Benchmarks – Establishing a standardized evaluation system for Superpods | Zhenzhong Bao (Huawei – Standard Representative) Yun Zhao (Huawei – Senior Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Tokenomics Explained | Shruti Koparkar (NVIDIA – AI Product and GTM Leader) Eduardo Alvarez (NVIDIA – Sr Technical Lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Physical Digital Twins: Why Logical Digital Twins Are Essential for AI Factory Design, Validation, and Operations | Avi Alkobi (NVIDIA – Sr. Director Business Development) Abhijit Lahiri (Keysight Technologies – Sr. Director, Product Management, AI Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bring Your Own XPU: An Open Rack for Inference Performance and TCO | Chris Petersen (Astera Labs – Vice President & Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| CLARA: Automated AI cluster architecture design tool | Rainy Yan (Lenovo – AI Cluster Automation Engineer) Reece Neff (Lenovo – Cluster Solution Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Current Activities in the Open Cluster Designs for AI Strategic Initiative | Lowell Lamb (Broadcom – TBD) Loren Staley (Celestica – Principle Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Benchmark to Bottleneck: Agentic AI for Datacenter Workload Analysis | Meha Virapandiane (Intel – SoC Functional Validation Engineer) Ho-Sup Chung (Intel – Cloud Systems and Solutions Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Model-Based Testing for Open-Source Software Components: Public Modeling Library and Interaction-Level Validation | Mengqi Liu (Alibaba – Senior Engineer) Ali Kheradmand (Google – Senior Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
AI Computing Continuum (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Computing Continuum Use Cases and Collaboration Items | Naoto Umemori (NTT DATA – Senior Manager, Executive IT Specialist(Platform)) Hidetsugu Sugiyama (Red Hat – Chief Architect, Telecommunications – CTO Office) Xiaojing Zhang (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. – Director) Junichi Sugiyama (1Finity – Technology Director) Koji Watanabe (NTT – Senior Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Computing Continuum: Extending the Open Data Center Ecosystem Across Cloud, Edge, and Industry | Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation – NTT, Inc & IOWN Global Forum TWG Chair) Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HPE Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI-Native Edge MHS 1.0 | David Heinrich (HPE – Fellow) Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking the Data Center Walls: Unifying AI Fabrics for Agentic AI at the Edge | Prakash Jain (Celestica – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bridging the AI Continuum: Trust, Orchestration, and Open Standards | Steven Yates (Federant – Co-Founder & CEO) Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HPE Fellow) Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From AI PC to AI Infrastructure: Platform Contracts for Scalable CPU-Accelerator Systems | Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow) Suraj Varma (Arm, Inc. – Senior Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Autonomous AI-RU: Closing the RIC intelligence gap to the radio through the ruApp | Laawanya Kishor (UGECO PRIVATE LIMITED – Founder and Director) Rexy Geevarghese (Bell Canada – RAN Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Open Adapter Card – Light | Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HPE Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Two Years of x86 Ecosystem Collaboration: Open Infrastructure, AI Readiness, and Developer Predictability | Jeff McVeigh (Intel – VP, Data Center) Stephen Watt (Red Hat – VP, Distinguished Engineer, Research and Emerging Technologies) Andrew Wheeler (HPE – Deputy CTO, SVP, and Director for HPE Labs) Martin Dixon (Google – Director, Infrastructure Performance) Jon Lange (Microsoft – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
AI Open Data Center (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 VDC AI Factories: From Architecture Alignment to Industry Deployment | Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Automation-Ready Infrastructure Design: From Light to Compute | Mike McKee-Hector (Microsoft – Hardware Engineer) Dave Evans (Google – Mechatronics Engineer) Ryan Olson (Meta – Product Design Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond the Build: Autonomous Robotics and the Future of Data Center Operations | Shashank Gupta (Fleet Data Centers – VP of Customer Engineering) Rob Lawson-Shanks (Molg – CEO and Co-Founder) Evan Johnson (Microsoft – Director of Automation) Maureen Tate (NVIDIA – Sr Solutions Architect for Data Centers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Can the Industry Sustain AI? The Water-Energy Nexus Debate | David Quirk (DLB Associates Consulting Engineers – CEO) Michael Obradovitch (Ecolab – Vice President Global Accounts) Megan Schneider (Accenture – Client Account Leadership / Strategy & Consulting) Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Senior Director of Member Experience) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Flexibility the Grid Can Count On: Turning Curtailable Load Into Interconnection Capacity | Sean James (NVIDIA – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Material Handling Automation for Next-Generation Datacenter Operations | Rachel Soukup (Google – Senior Automation Systems Engineer) Ben Wong (Meta – Hardware Engineer) Amir Porter (Microsoft – Project Manager) | Video | |
| Open Systems for AI Why Open Communities Are Essential for the Next Era of Computing Infrastructure | Michael Sweeney (Phaidra.ai – AI Factory Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Supporting load smoothing, Fault Ride-through (FRT), and back up in 800 Vdc critical powertrains | Stuart Sheehan (Schneider Electric – Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Cooling Environments (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building a Scalable Waste Heat Ecosystem: Datacenter Waste Heat, Offtakers, and Market Platforms | Maria Viitaniemi (Microsoft – Microsoft Cloud Operation & Innovation. Technical Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling Distribution Unit Sub-Project Overview and Updates | Pardeep Shahi (NVIDIA – Senior Mechanical Engineer) Hussam Kabbani (Google – Staff Thermal System Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling Environments Kick-off and Lightning Talks | Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Door Heat Exchanger Sub-Project Updates and Lightning Talks | Rajesh Kasukurthy (AMD – Thermal Engineer) Dominik Sporna (Valeo – Customer Chief Engineer) Joe Thomas (STULZ – Director Consultant Management Europe) Mohamad Hnayno (OVHcloud – Dr. Eng. Design Solutions Team Leader) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Heat Reuse Sub-Project Overview and Updates + Economics Tool Contribution | Jaime Comella (DayOne – Senior Design Manager) Jack Kolar (Dataquarium – CEO) Gemma Reeves (Alfa Laval – Global Business Development Manager Data Centers) Ahliana Byrd (Ascentra Innovations – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Waste Heat Recovery Pathways for AI Data Centers: Emerging Opportunities, Decarbonization Potential, and Future Perspectives | Yingbo Zhang (UC Santa Barbara – Research Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| What Shapes CDU Performance? A Comparative Study of Design Choices for 2.3 MW Systems | Jake How (Gamma Technologies – Senior Staff Application Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Market Impact & Adoption (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| A unified power management solution for AI data centers and legacy data centers | shuming Zhu (AMI – Solution Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Infrastructure to Impact: Implementing Sovereign AI at Denvr Dataworks | Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Projects to Platforms: Reducing Risk in AI Infrastructure Through Standardization and Ecosystem Integration | Troy Goldschmidt (Kele Incorporated – VP of Critical Environments) PE | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Silicon to Services | Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis – Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Intelligent Power Smoothing at the Vera-Rubin Rack | Gabriele Gorla (NVIDIA – VP of Engineering) Rouslan Dimitrov (NVIDIA – AI Datacenter Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Modular by Design: Building AI Clusters from Factory-Built Units | Alex Akesson (Crusoe Energy Systems – Director, Product Management) Bill Stube (Crusoe Energy Systems – Senior Director, Research and Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Adapter Card – AI From Small Pod to Enterprise Scale | Kevin Mundt (AMD – Fellow – Mechanical System Architect) Alex Sanville (Dell Technologies – Technical Staff, Engineering Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardizing AI Data Centers to Unlock Faster Access to Power | Anuja Ratnayake (EPRI – Emerging Technologies Executive) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Welcome & Overview: Adoption, Ecosystem Growth, and the Path to Participation | Ewa McCurdy (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Solution Provider Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Networking (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging the Gap: Accelerating Open-Source Agility on Cisco Silicon One Platforms | Masiuddin Mohammed (Cisco – Principal Solutions Engineer) Wei-Jen Huang (Cisco Systems Inc. – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Closing the Observability Loop in SAI: From Performance Telemetry to Platform Constraint Discovery | Ravindranath Coimbatore Kanakarajan (Marvell – Distinguished Engineer) Jai Kumar (Broadcom – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| DPU Sled Design Standard in a Modular SmartSwitch by Cisco and AMD | Murali Venkat (Cisco – Principal Engineer) Pirooz Tooyserkani (Cisco Systems, Inc. – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Meta 102.4T Ethernet Switch | Rongchun Zhou (Meta – Network Hardware Engineer) Reza Niazmand (Meta – Technical Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| More Signal, Less Noise: Improving AI Cluster Returns Through Standardized Transceiver Telemetry in the OCP Optics Reliability Workstream | Chris Collins (Credo – AVP of Product) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| NVIDIA SDK + FBOSS: Building Production-Ready AI Network Fabrics | Harish Krishnamoorthy (NVIDIA – Principal Solutions Architect) Parvez Shaikh (Meta – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open, AI-Ready FBOSS: From Platform Bring-up to Solution Qualification for the OCP Ecosystem | Benoit Sigoure (Nexthop AI – Software Engineer) Srikrishna Gopu (Meta – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Operating Linear Pluggable Optics at Hyperscale: From Link Management to Production Reliability | Amin Yekani (Meta – Optical Engineer) Qing Wang (Meta – Optical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SONiC for OTN: Expanding SONiC and OCP SAI into Optical Transport Network | xuemei shi (Alibaba – Technical Engineer) Eddie Ruan (Alibaba – Senior Staff Engineer / Director Network System Software) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Switch Platform Architecture: A Unified Network Switch Platform Reference Design | Tao Ren (Meta – Software Engineer) Ying Xie (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Server (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addressing Discovery and Topology Challenges in M-PESTI Systems | Tamer GUDU (AMD – SMTS Silicon Design Engineer) Aleksandar Jovanovic (AMD – Senior Engineering Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking the Memory Capacity-Bandwidth Tradeoff for Agentic Inference | Allan Cantle (Nallasway – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MHS: Datacenter-Secure Control Module (DC-SCM) 3.0 Specification Update | Tim Lambert (Dell Technologies, Inc. – Fellow / VP) Javier Lasa (Intel – Platform Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Workstream Overview, Updates, and Progress Towards Industry Adoption | Todd Rosedahl (Jabil – Director — Systems and AI Strategy) David Heinrich (HPE – Fellow) Chitrak Gupta (American Megatrends (AMI) – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP NIC 2026: Gen 7 and liquid cooling – More speed and power ahead | Thomas Ng (Intel – Platform Architect) Jason Rock (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Onward Towards Industry Adoption – Demonstrating Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Tools and POC Work | Phillip Leech (HPE – Senior Technologist / Customer Architect) Bill Scherer (HPE – Architect) Munir Ahmad (Lattice Semiconductor – Compute Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems: Extending the MHS Platform Contract | Bijan Nowroozi (Lightmatter – Head of Ecosystem Development) Morris Repeta (Dell – Director, Advanced Hardware Technologies, Office of the CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Reducing Parasitics, Improving Performance: The Case for Low Inductance Interconnects. | Quresh Bohra (TE Connectivity – Staff System Architect) Tony Howard (TE Connectivity – Staff System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SBSA: Advancing Arm Server System Architecture in the OCP Ecosystem | Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow) Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Arm – Distinguished Engineer and System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SPEC CPU 2026 – What’s new, what’s improved, and why it matters | David Reiner (SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) – President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
FTS: Quantum (Data Center Design) (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scaling Photonic Quantum Computers | Jonah Hill (Xanadu – Xanadu) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
IPEC Workshop (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond Pluggable Optics: The Emerging Role of Near-Packaged Optics in AI Infrastructure | Weiping Huang (Ligent Tech – Founder) | Video | |
| Beyond Pluggables: Building the NPO Ecosystem for scaling AI | Ge Nan (Meta – Technical Sourcing Manager) | Video | |
| How can Near Packaged Optics continue the eco-system success of pluggable optics | Yawei Yin (Microsoft – Sr. Principal Network Developer) | Video | |
| Market Forecast for CPO/NPO | Vlad Kozlov (LightCounting – Founder & CEO) | Video | |
| NPO Standardization: IPEC and the Global Landscape | Eric Bernier (Huawei – Leader of Advanced Photonics) | Video | |
| NPO Through and Investor’s Lens – How Investors Underwrite an Architectural Transition | Subu Subrahmanyan (Capital Group – Tech Investor) | Video | |
| NPO to Enable Scale-up & Scale-out Interconnects for AI Networks | Samuel Liu (Lumilens – Co-Founder and VP Product) | Video | |
| OpenCPX: A standardized pluggable NPO socket family ready for AI-scale deployment | Peter Winzer (Ciena – Vice President) | Video | |
| Optical sources for CPO and NPO interconnects | Matt Sysak (Lumentum – VP) | Video | |
| Optics for NVIDIA Spectrum-X Multiplane Network Architecture | Daniel Kuchta (NVIDIA – Principal Hardware System Architect) | Video | |
| Rethinking AI Scale-up with optics: from pluggable to (n)PO | Zhiping Yao (Alibaba Group – principal engineer) | Video | |
| Revolutionizing AI Scale Up with Pluggable NPO – Opening Remarks | Frank Chang (Source Photonics – CTO) | Video | |
| The case for NPO today | David Huff (Genuine Optics – Vice President) | Video | |
| Toward NPO Deployments in AI Fabrics | Kannan Raj (Oracle – AI Infrastructure Architect) | Video |
Manageability Workshop (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crypto for SPDM: From Legacy to Quantum-Resistance and More | Wilson Young (Solidigm Technology – Security FW Engineering Manager) Xiaoyu Ruan (Intel – Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | |
| OCP RAS API PLDM Modeling | Justin King (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Arm – Distinguished Engineer and System Architect) Janusz Jurski (Intel – architect) | Video | |
| Policy Model, Redfish for Personal Devices, Redfish for Backup Power and Energy Storage Systems | Divyanand Malavalli (AMD – Manageability Software Architect) Jeff Autor (Vertiv – Principal Software Architect) Mike Raineri (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | |
| Redfish Aliasing Support and Redfish Streaming Telemetry Enhancements | Bill Scherer (HPE – Architect) Hari Ramachandran (Microsoft Corporation – Principal Engineer) Jeff Autor (Vertiv – Principal Software Architect) | Video | |
| Redfish Native Fleet-Scale GPU Observability Assistant for AI Cluster Operational Efficiency | Cyril Jose (AMD – DCGPU Systems Debug and Serviceability Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Remote Attestation of Devices with Redfish and SPDM | Jeff Hilland (Intel – Principal Architect) Mike Raineri (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | |
| SPDM Update: Hybrid, Authorization Policy and Standard Signatures (FRU) | Jeff Hilland (Intel – Principal Architect) Brett Henning (Broadcom Inc. – Distinguished Security Architect) Bill Scherer (HPE – Architect) | Video | |
| Using SPDM for PLDM Firmware Updates: Authorization Policy and Measurement Manifest Capabilities | Patrick Caporale (Lenovo – Distinguished Engineer) Brett Henning (Broadcom Inc. – Distinguished Security Architect) Scott Phuong (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) | Video |
OIF Workshop (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coherent Optics and Management for the AI Era: OIF is Enabling Interoperability for Real-World Networks | Ian Betty (Ciena – OIF Board Member, Ciena) Steven Hand (Nokia of America Corporation – OIF Board Member, Nokia) Jeffery Maki (HPE – OIF Board Member and Physical Layer User Group Working Group Chair, HPE) Tom Issenhuth (Huawei – OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee Co-Chair, Physical & Link Layer, Huawei) | Video | |
| Defining Electrical 448G/Lane: OIF’s Work on Next-Generation Interfaces | Nathan Tracy (TE Connectivity – OIF President, TE Connectivity) Yi Tang (Cisco – OIF Board Member and PLL Working Group Electrical Vice Chair, Cisco) Cathy Liu (Broadcom Inc. – OIF Board Member; Distinguished Engineer and Director) | Video | |
| Enabling AI Scale-Up: Why Standards Matter and the Need for Industry Alignment | Fotini Karinou (Microsoft – Director of Optical Technologies & Architecture) | Video | |
| Enabling an Open, Scalable, Sustainable AI Infrastructure: Welcome, Introduction and OIF Overview | Nathan Tracy (TE Connectivity – OIF President) | Video | |
| Energy Efficient Interfaces: OIF is Enabling the Next Generation of AI | Jeffrey Hutchins (Ranovus – OIF PLL Working Group Energy Efficient Interfaces Vice Chair, Ranovus) Sam Kocsis (Amphenol – OIF Technical Committee Chair, Amphenol) | Video | |
| From Package to DCI: OIF Enablers in Oracle Cloud and AI Networks | Mark Filer (Oracle – Architect) | Video | |
| Industry Perspective | Alan Weckel (650 Group – Co-founder and analyst) | Video |
