2026 OCP EMEA Summit

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Keynotes	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Executive Session	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
AI Clusters	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
AI Open Data Center	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Cooling Environments & Liquid Cooling	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
EMEA Market Impact & Adoption Stories	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS Keynotes	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS AI / HPC	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS Quantum	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS Sustainability	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
IT Infrastructure: Network & Storage	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Immersion Cooling	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Open Chiplet Economy	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Photonics	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Security	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
SONiC Workshop	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Sustainability	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Systems Management	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
The AI Computing Continuum: Extending AI from Data Center to the User	[Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]

Keynotes (Custom order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
2026 OCP EMEA Keynote		Video
Welcome to the 2026 OCP EMEA Summit	Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager) Ewa McCurdy (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Solution Provider Program Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
CEO Address: Advancing the OCP Data Center Ecosystem Vision	George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – CEO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Fungible Data Center: A Blueprint for the AI Era	Amber Huffman (Google – Technologist- AI & Infrastructure)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The 1 MW Rack and Going Beyond the Sidecar: Optimizing 800 VDC for Power Distribution	Sebastien Cruz Mermy (Schneider Electric – VP Datacenters Innovations)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Rise of AI and the Need for Data Centre Sustainability	Javier Peman (NVIDIA – Director – Cloud- Iberia)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling AI Clusters: Neocloud Innovations- Challenges- and Collaborative Pathways in the OCP Community	Moderator: James Kelly (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – VP Market Intelligence and Innovation) Yann-Guirec Manac’h (Scaleway – Office of the CTO) Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Peter Sheh (Crusoe – Sr. Product Manager) Jonmichael Hands (FarmGPU – Chief Executive Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
From Training Titans to Inference for Billions: Open Infrastructure for the Next Era of AI	Robert Hormuth (AMD – CVP- Architecture & Strategy)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling Trusted AI Infrastructure	Bryan Kelly (Microsoft – Partner Architect- Microsoft- Azure- Strategic Planning & Architecture)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Open- Heterogeneous Infrastructure for Sustainable Agentic AI	Anil Nanduri (Intel Corporation – Vice President- AI Products & GTM)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Distributed Computing @ Scale for AI Training & Inference	Hasan Siraj (Broadcom – Head of Software Products)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Infrastructure for the AI Era: High Density Racks- Intelligent Power- Liquid Cooling — Delivered with Speed and Expertise	Thomas Schreiner (Rittal – Director Global Business Development IT)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Direct Current Powering the Data Center – The Industry’s Critical Shift to Meet IT Demands	Moderator: Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Senior Director of Member Experience) Paolo Catapane (ABB – Chapter Leader Solution Product Management) JP Buzzell (Eaton – VP- Data Center Chief Architect) Tony Landry (Schneider Electric – Technical Architect) Brian Deckard (Siemens – Emerging Technology Standardization)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling AI Infrastructure with Open Systems and Arm-Based Silicon	Eddie Ramirez (Arm – VP of Marketing- Cloud AI Business Unit- Arm)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Executive Session (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Boost your air-cooled server performance with an Industrial Two-Phase Passive Cooling Solution presented by Valeo	Olivier de Laet (Calyos – Founder) Frédéric Petit (Valeo – Research and Innovation Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Breaking through the Network Wall with High Radix Switching presented by Eridu	Mike Capuano (Eridu – Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Evolving the Infrastructure Stack: Rack‑Scale Designs- Open Firmware- and Intelligent Sustainability presented by AMI	Zachary Bobroff (AMI – Director of Product Office)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Future Proofed DLC Piping Infrastructure presented by Georg Fischer	Mark Bulmer (Georg Fischer – GMD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Harness AI Opinions with Sensor Facts – sensorCFD AI presented by AKCP	Brad Klein (AKCP – Manager) Andrej Tihonov (AKCP – Engineering Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Multi-Core Fiber – A solution for scale-up- out- and across presented by Sumitomo Electric Lightwave	Teylor Bremekamp (Sumitomo Electric – Fiber Network Design Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Next Gen AI Data Centers with Industry-proven Direct Current Power Supply presented by ODCA	Hartwig Stammberger (Eaton – Chair of the Board of Open Direct Current Alliance ODCA)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Redefining Storage for the AI Era presented by Seagate	Maarten Guijt (Seagate Technology – VP Europe)	Video
Reducing Compliance Complexity: A Unified OCP Safe and SESIP Path to CRA presented by Brightsight	Pol Matamoros (Brightsight – Location Manager- Brightsight Barcelona)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Removing the Bottleneck: Building Scalable Infrastructure for the Generative AI Era	Matt Roman (Celestica – Sr. Director- Product and Technical Marketing)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
SONiC – NOS of choice for AI data Centre presented by Upscale AI	Prosenjit Pal (UpscaleAI – VP AI Networking Software) RamanaMohanRao Dasari (Upscale AI – Director- AI Networking software)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Future of Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling presented by CoolIT Systems	Kamal Mostafavi (CoolIT Systems – Chief Technology Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Power Solution Has Changed — Efficiency Must Follow the Load presented by OmniOn Power	Philip Zuk (OmniOn Power – SVP and GM AI/Datacenter BU)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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AI Clusters (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Adaptive DTC Liquid Cooling for AI Clusters: Managing Variable Workloads and Improving Energy Efficiency	David Beberide Sabarich (UniSCool – Business Development Director) Montse Vilarrubí Porta (UniSCool – COO & co-founder)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Composable at Scale: Integrating Memory- Fabric- and System Architecture for Million-GPU AI	Moderator: Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development) Manoj Wadekar (Meta – Networking AI Technologist) Daniel Perez-Lopez (iPronics – Founder & CTO) Chris Nicol (d-Matrix – VP) Jae Lee (Rebellions – Head of Forward Deployed Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Composable Memory Fabrics for XPU-Scale AI Data Services	Vijay Inavolu (Marvell – Senior Principle Engineer) Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell – Sr. Director Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Deploying large-scale heterogeneous accelerator in hyperscale production	Yao Rong (Meta – Systems Engineer- AI Systems) Antonis Michaloliakos (Meta – Production Systems Engineer- AI Systems) Nischay Tata (AMD – Fellow- Systems Design Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
GPU Communication Library in Meta-Scale AI Clusters	James Hongyi Zeng (Meta – Senior Engineering Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
High Performance at Scale and Reliability by Design: Operating META’s largest AI clusters	Jose Leitao (Meta – Principal Network Engineer) Guille Cobo (Meta – Senior Production Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
High-Performance AI Fabrics Built on Open Standards: Scaling 800G and 1.6T Infrastructures	Arun Solleti (Celestica – Technical Product Marketing) Art Fewell (Hedgehog – Technical Marketing Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
OCP Defines New AI Scale Up Network Specification – ESUN (Ethernet for Scale Up Network)	Manoj Wadekar (Meta – AI Systems Technologist)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
OCP Open Systems for AI Community Update	Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Senior Director of Member Experience)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Open cluster designs for AI: training cluster architecture.	Josue Mora Acosta (SYSTEM-STACK – CEO) Lowell Lamb (Broadcom – TBD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Open Compute Project Reference Architectures for AI Training and Inference	Moderator: James Kelly (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – VP Market Intelligence and Innovation) Marc Austin (Hedgehog – Chief Hedgehog) Matt Roman (Celestica – Sr. Director- Product and Technical Marketing) Jonmichael Hands (FarmGPU – Chief Executive Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Panel: Revolutionizing AI Heat Management: The Superior Efficiency of Two-Phase Liquid Cooling in High-Density Infrastructures	Moderator: Nicolas Bontigui (SemiAnalysis – Research Analyst) Olivier de Laet (Calyos – Founder) Shahar Belkin (ZutaCore- Inc. – EVP Product Development) Richard Bonner (Accelsius – CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scale Up and Scale Out AI Fabrics: A Polymorphic Ethernet Architecture for ‘System of Systems’.	S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scale‑Up Ethernet Transport (SUE-T)	Lowell Lamb (Broadcom – TBD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Silent Data Corruption in AI	Emel Goksu (Meta – Ecosystem & Partnerships Lead) Łukasz Tuz (Intel – Cloud Software Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Business Case for Density	Rich Lappenbusch (Super Micro Computer- Inc – Senior Principal)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Using Hybrid Strategy to Achieve AI Capacity Agility – Top Lessons Learned	Jin Zhang (Meta – Director) Polina Vasileva (Meta – Technical Program Manager) Anton Marchenko (Meta – Network Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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AI Open Data Center (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Accelerating Speed to Power: Introducing the DCFlex Tiered Flexibility Framework	Zane Ball (Open Compute Project (OCP) – CTO) Anuja Ratnayake (EPRI – Emerging Technologies Executive)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Bridging the Worlds of Data Centers and Direct Current Microgrids	Brian Deckard (Siemens – Emerging Technology Standardization) Laurens Mackay (DC Opportunities – CEO & Founder)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
ESS in Hyperscale & AI Data Centers: OCP Ready Requirements Update	Dan Lambert (ZincFive- Inc. – Senior Product Manager) SHRIKANTH VENKATESHAPPA (Rittal – Global Business Development IT Power Distribution)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Key Performance attributes – ORv3 and HVDC Power Systems	Harry Soin (Advanced Energy – Senior Technical Marketing Director) Cihan Aydin (Delta Electronics Inc. – Senior Design Engineer Power Electronics)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
LVDC Power Distribution OCP project	JP Buzzell (Eaton – VP- Data Center Chief Architect) Paolo Catapane (ABB – Chapter Leader- Solution Product Management Infrastructure)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
LVDC Powering the Future Data Center: A Call to Action on Standardization and Native Designs	Jason Adrian (Google – ML Systems Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Modular Technology Cooling: The Lego © “Pipeline” from 100 kW to 1 MW per Rack	Moderator: Don Mitchell (Victaulic – Mission Critical Division Manager) Ian Francis (Digital Realty – Global Design and Engineering SME) Justin Seter (DLB Associates Consulting Engineers – Strategic Initiatives Officer) Malcolm Howe (Cundall – Partner) José Castañeda (AirTrunk – Vice President- Innovation and Intelligence)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
ORW Rack Frame Specification Proposal Update	Darryl Daniel (Meta – Mechanical Engineer) Paul Clements (Rittal – Design)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Robotics as Infrastructure for AI-Driven Data Centers	Moderator: Eric Xu (Meta – Sr Manager- Robotics) Eric Xu (Meta – Sr Manager- Robotics) Wolfgang Hillinger (DS Automotion – CEO) Sven Schreiner (Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH – Chief Growth & Strategy Officer Data Center Solutions)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling Cooling for AI: Modular TCS Insights from the OCP Community	Don Mitchell (Victaulic – Mission Critical Division Manager) Dariusz Raczkowski (Catalyst Commissioning Group LLC – Director- Client Services) Ian Francis (Digital Realty – Global Design and Engineering SME)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Silicone-jacketed cables for future power dense architectures	Hendrik Coldenstrodt (BizLink Technology- Inc. – Chief Technology Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Sustainable Power using Fuel Cells for Load Following Applications	Razvan Panati (Bloom Energy – VP Product Strategy)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Technical Operations Practices for High Efficiency AI Factories	Moderator: Rich Lappenbusch (Super Micro Computer- Inc – Senior Principal) Imran Latif (JCI – VP Global Technology & Innovation Data Centers) Sven Schreiner (Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH – Chief Growth & Strategy Officer Data Center Solutions)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The “Next MV” Moment: Why 1GW AI Campuses Force Superconductor Adoption	Moderator: William Reynolds (MetOx International – Strategy Lead) Karl Rabe (WoodenDataCenter – MD & Founder) Jie Li (Canyon Magnet Energy – CSO) Marie Hayden (MetOx International – TBD) Tatjana Grun (Vision Electric Superconductors – TBD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Open Data Center Initiative for AI: Advancing OCP Community Work Toward Open- Scalable- and Energy-Ready Data Centers	Steve Helvie (Open Compute Project (OCP) – VP Channel Development) Zane Ball (Open Compute Project (OCP) – CTO) Paul Artman (AMD – Director System Design) Mark Bailey (Google – Distinguished Engineer- ML Systems Architecture) Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Towards Interoperable AI-Ready Data Center Standards: Bridging Power- Cooling- and Architecture	Moderator: Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead) Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO) Jason Adrian (Google – ML Systems Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Cooling Environments & Liquid Cooling (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Bio-based fluids for European AI data centres	David Gyulnazaryan (Impleon – Decarbonisation & Heat Reuse) Massimiliano Dall’Armellina (Frigel Group – Sales Business Development Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Coldplate Base Specification	Brian Pilapil (CoolIT Systems – Thermal Mechanical Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Cooling Environments: Industry Analytics- Project Progress and Cold Plate Developments	Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead) Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Door Heat Exchanger Sub-Project Updates	Jabari George (J.M. Gross Engineering – Mechanical Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
European 1MW rack – HDINI	Luis Castrillo (Castrol (BP) – Senior Technologist) Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Guidelines and Base Specification for Dielectric fluid-Based Two-Phase Cold Plate heat transfer fluids	Shahar Belkin (ZutaCore Ltd. – EVP Product)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Harmonizing Open Compute Infrastructure with Global Standards	Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO) Maryam Mohagheghi (HF Sinclair – Product Specialist)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
PBMC (Pivoting Blind Mate Coupling) Update & Specification	Glenn Charest (Meta – Mechanical Engineer) Andy Holst (Parker Hannifin – Product Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Total cost of ownership (TCO) model for liquid cooled data centers. New tool release in insights for economisation	Andy Young (Asperitas – CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
UQDv2 – Interoperability & Future Roadmap	Elizabeth Langer (CPC – Principal Technologist – Thermal)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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EMEA Market Impact & Adoption Stories (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Discover how Scaleway leverages OCP’s open designs to transform cloud and AI operations	Yann-Guirec Manac’h (Scaleway – Office of the CTO) Albane Bruyas (Scaleway – COO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
From Idea to Impact: The spec that connects liquid to the rack	Moderator: Barry Nielsen (CPC – Sr. Applications Development Manager- Thermal Management) Elizabeth Langer (CPC – Principal Technologist – Thermal) Paul Artman (AMD – Director System Design) Timothy Marquis (Parker Hannifin – Engineering Manager) Kamal Mostafavi (CoolIT Systems – Chief Technology Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
How OCP can help run an Sovereign cloud in germany	Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Impact of EU CRA and other regulations to the OCP ecosystem	Stefano Righi (AMI – Chief Security Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Outsmarting Supply Chains: How Remanufactured OCP Racks Slash Lead Times and Deployment Costs	Mark Hall (Sims Lifecycle Services – GTM Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Total Risk of Ownership (TRO) of AI Factories	Moderator: Rich Lappenbusch (Super Micro Computer- Inc – Senior Principal) Imran Latif (JCI – VP Global Technology & Innovation Data Centers) Dr. Umaima Haider (University of East London – Senior Lecturer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Understanding the EMEA Adoption of OCP Designs – A View from IDC on Adoption- Spend- and Buyer Intent	Chris Drake (IDC – Senior Research Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Welcome & Kickoff: Adoption- Ecosystem Growth- and the Path to Participation	Ewa McCurdy (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Solution Provider Program Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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FTS Keynotes (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
FTS Awards Ceremony	Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers) David Beberide Sabarich (UniSCool – Business Development Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
FTS Chair Keynote	Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)	Video
Heat Reuse and Other Concepts for Net Zero Energy Data Centres	Jaume Salom (IREC – Catalonia Institute for Energy Research – IREC)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
No Storage – No AI presented by Cerabyte	Steffen Hellmold (Cerabyte- Inc. – President)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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FTS AI / HPC (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
AI Datacenters as Grid-Responsive Flexible Loads: Real-Time GPU Power Modulation	Robert Davidoff (Bentaus – CEO) Matthew Stewart (Bentaus – Co-Founder and CRO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
FTS AI/HPC Lightning Talks	Phillip Burr (Lumai – Head of Product) Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development) Ash Chary (Flops Index – Founder) Andrew Nelson (FLOPS – Head of Research) Taner Dosluoglu (weeteq – CEO) Timour Paltachev (Rivvor – Chief Science and Product Officer) Konstantin Tiutin (RIVVOR Inc. – CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Meeting AI Power Density at Scale: Superconducting Distribution for Multi-MW Data Halls	SHRIKANTH VENKATESHAPPA (Rittal – Global Business Development IT Power Distribution) Tatjana Grun (Vision Electric Superconductors – TBD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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FTS Quantum (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Characterizing Open Quantum Security Services. The QSNP Approach	Diego Lopez (Telefonica – Senior Technology Expert)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Commercial Quantum Advantage in Hybrid Compute Clusters	James Fletcher (ORCA Computing Ltd. – Head of Solutions Architecture)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Making Quantum Datacenter Ready: Challenges and Opportunities	Álvaro Caride-Tabarés Sánchez (IQM – tbc)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
QRMI: Middleware for First-Class Quantum Resources in Compute Infrastructures	Aleksander Wennersteen (Pasqal – Technical lead quantum-centric HPC)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum at OCP	Jonathan Burnett (National quantum computing centre – Deputy director of research)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum Computing Meets the Data Centre: Europe’s Deployment Path	Oscar Diez (European commission – Deputy Head of Unit Quantum Technologies)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum is Not an Island: Market Outlook for 2026+	Noah El Alami (IDTechEx – Senior Technology Analyst)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum-Classical Hybrid Opportunities: Available now within the Modern Data Center	Simon Muskett (Digital Realty – Principal- AI & Quantum)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Room-Temperature QPUs as Scalable HPC Accelerators	Florian Preis (Quantum Brilliance – VP Quantum Systems and Solutions)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
When the Ground Moves: Lessons from Electromagnetic Noise in Cryogenic Quantum Systems	Diego Fernández (Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech – Product Owner of Setup Integration)	Video
Wrap Up	Jonathan Burnett (National quantum computing centre – Deputy director of research)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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FTS Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
FTS Sustainability Lightning Talks	GUIDO MACCHI (Tokamak Energy Ltd – Business Development Manager) Sath Ganesarajah (+BE Company Ltd – Founder & CEO) Ching-chih Wei (CreAlien Co.- Ltd – CEO) Ben Kaun (Inlyte Energy – Chief Commercial Officer) Gerro Prinsloo (LoadCrest – Co-Founder) Richard Bonner (Accelsius – CTO) Qingyang Wang (Accelsius – Principal Engineer) Yajing Zhao (Orien Energy – CEO) Tina Stark (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden – R&D Engineer) David Esteban Avilés (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden – Researcher)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Low-Temperature Waste Heat to Cooling: High-Power-Density Adsorption Chillers for De-Electrified Cooling in Data Centers	Silvan Suter (Thermal Transformer – CEO Thermal Transformer) Erich Rütsche (Thermal Transformer – CEO Thermal Transformer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Reducing Material Intensity and Lifecycle Emissions Using Superconducting Power Distribution in AI Data Centers	Bender Kutub (VEIR – Manager Product Management)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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IT Infrastructure: Network & Storage (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
400G Channels for AI Applications: Passive and Active Copper Cable Assemblies to Enable Scale Up/Scale Out	Ashika Pandankeril Shaji (TE Connectivity – Manager System Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
From Modular Chassis to Modular Network Spine	Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer) Ariff Premji (Nexthop Systems Inc. – VP Customer Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Innovating Network Protocol Stacks for Scalable AI Infrastructure (Scale-Up- Scale-Out- and Scale-Across)	Clarence Filsfils (Cisco – Cisco Fellow) Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Unleashing AI Scale-Up: UALink- OCP- and the Future of Open Interconnects	Kurtis Bowman (AMD – Director- Architecture and Strategy)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Unlocking Capacity and Performance of 30TB+ HM-SMR for Server and JBOD Ecosystems	David Gerstein (Leil Storage – CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Immersion Cooling (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Community Update – Immersion IT Equipment (ITE) Workstreams Update	Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Deploying Immersion Native ITE in AI NeoCloud: An OCP Collaboration Story	Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Establishing Cleaning Chemistry Guidelines to Enable Reliable Immersion Cooling	Chelsea Jewell (KYZEN Corporation – Application Lab Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Final Base Specification – Power Distribution in Single-Phase Immersion	Kevin Gero (Murata – Senior Applications Marketing Manager) Oriol Chavanel (Submer – Ecosystem Tech Lead and EMEA Server AM)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Fluids Technical Committee Progress Report: Building the Standards Framework for Immersion Cooling	Romà Suris Valls (Submer – EMEA Labs Manager) Alex Mcmanis (ENEOS – Senior Technical Account Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
From Framework to Adoption: OCP Component Compatibility Testing Guidelines for Immersion Cooling	Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Betsy Cossette (ExxonMobil – Data Center / Immersion Cooling Market Development – AMR & EU)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
High-Speed Interconnect Signal Integrity in Immersion Cooling Technology (Whitepaper Abstract)	Tina Bao (TE Connectivity – Senior System Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Immersion Cooling in 2026: Project Progress- Industry Adoption- and the Path Ahead	Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) Gemma Reeves (Alfa Laval – Global Business Development Manager Data Centers) Allison Boen (Alcatex and Shell Fluid – President at Alcatex and Shell Fluid Brand Ambassador) Pete Morgan (SwRI – Sr. Program Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Immersion Solutions: Integrating Cooling- Power- Hardware- and Economics	Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Kevin Gero (Murata – Senior Applications Marketing Manager) Andy Young (Asperitas – CTO) Michael Jones (Vertiv – Principal Architect) Oriol Chavanel (Submer – Ecosystem Tech Lead and EMEA Server AM)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Long term thermal performance and material compatibility for Nano-oils	Sana Fateh (Synano – CEO) John Bean (Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) – CTO) Phillip Hjelmeborn Kaae (Grundfos – Lead Application Manager- IT Cooling)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Thermochemical Reliability Workstream Update	Betsy Cossette (ExxonMobil – Data Center / Immersion Cooling Market Development – AMR & EU) Bobby Glidwell (Magnalytix – Director of Technology)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Open Chiplet Economy (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Accelerating Composable Chiplets with the OCP Foundation Chiplet System Architecture	Mark Knight (Arm – Director of Product Management)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Enabling Affordable Chip Design with Open Chiplet Atlas™ Ecosystem	Lichen Weng (Tenstorrent – SoC Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Engineering the Chiplet Era: Electrical-Optical Connectivity as the Foundation	Letizia Giuliano (Qualcomm – VP Product Management and Marketing)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Open AI Fabric: An OCP MHS Reference Architecture for Modular Photonic Switching	Bijan Nowroozi (Lightmatter – Head of Ecosystem Development)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Open Silicon for Sustainable AI: Rethinking Accelerator Economics from Data Center to Edge	Moderator: Anshul Saxena (Openchip and Software Technologies S.L. – Principal Product Manager) Gilberto Rodríguez (Openchip – Vice President Business Development) Eric Eppe (Eviden – Group Vice President – CTO Advanced Computing) Mark Knight (Arm – Director of Product Management)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Pre-Silicon Chiplet Verification for Datacenters	Ravi Narayanaswami (Cadence Design Systems – Distinguished Engineer) Marc Meunier (Arm – Director- HW Ecosystem)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Shift-Left Firmware Enablement for the Open Chiplet Economy: From Emulation to System-Ready Silicon	Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO) Ravi Narayanaswami (Cadence Design Systems – Distinguished Engineer) Vincent Casillas (SiPearl – VP R&D System & Software)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Standardizing System-Level Interoperability for Multi-Vendor Chiplets	Gilberto Rodríguez (Openchip – Vice President Business Development) Fady Dahoud (GSOC – Director of SoC Platform)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Photonics (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Advanced photonic technologies for future systems: Optical computing or optics for computing?	Bert Offrein (IBM – Manager Co-packaged Optics)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Beyond the Rack: Sovereign AI via European Pluggables	Magnus Olson (ESTEL – CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Energy-Efficient VCSEL-based Transceivers for AI Datacenters	Hideyuki Nasu (Furukawa Electric Co.- Ltd. – Fellow)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Energy‑Efficient Optical Interconnects for Multi‑Rack AI Pods	Fotini Karinou (Microsoft – Principal Hardware Architect – Optical Technologies)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
PICs for Quantum and AI	Valerio Pruneri (ICFO – PIXEurope Pilot Line Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Revolutionizing Networking for Gigawatt AI Factories	Yuval Borenstein (NVIDIA – PM)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling AI Networks: Incremental Innovation or Photonic Disruption?	Moderator: Roy Rubenstein (LightCounting – Consultant) Jeremy Witzens (Astera Labs – AVP Optical Connectivity) Nicola Calabretta (Eindhoven University – Professor) Chris Collins (Credo – AVP of Product- DSP and Optical) Paul Wallace (Oriole Networks – Product Director)	Video
Silicon Photonics Switching: From Technology to Deployment	Daniel Perez-Lopez (iPronics – Founder & CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Towards wafer-scale optical interconnect relying on Silicon Photonics and advanced 3D assembly	Peter Ossieur (IMEC – Scientific Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Welcome & Kickoff Address	Richard Pitwon (Resolute Photonics)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Security (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
An update on OCP L.O.C.K.	Eric Eilertson (Microsoft – Security Architect) Carl Lundin (Google – Software Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Attested fine‑grained device restoration	Ahmad Atamli (Nvidia – Sr Director of Hardware Architecture)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Beyond Software Vulnerabilities: Why Physical Attacks Matter for Cloud Hardware	jasper van woudenberg (Keysight Technologies – Senior Principal Security Technologist)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Caliptra as Server Security Hub	Phanikumar Kancharla (Marvell – Sr Principal Engineer) Craig Barner (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Caliptra Trademark Audit: A Practitioner’s Guide	jasper van woudenberg (Keysight Technologies – Senior Principal Security Technologist)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Caliptra Update	John Traver (AMD – Security Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Composable Security Architecture Episode 4: Bringing Together Platform Ingredients	Louis Ferraro (AMD – Security Architect) Miguel Osorio (Google – Senior Staff Software Engineer) Marvin Gudel (9elements – Open Source Firmware Developer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Enhanced Adam’s Bridge Leveraging Architectural Masking for Secure PQC Acceleration	Emre Karabulut (Microsoft – Hardware Security Engineer) Michael Norris (Microsoft – Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Enhancing Security via Remote Attestation – for Complex Data Centre Scenarios	Yogesh Deshpande (Arm – Principal Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Introducing OCP S.O.L.I.D.	Nick Hummel (Google – Security Engineer) Eric Eilertson (Microsoft – Security Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Secure RPMC and Flash Key Provisioning Using Caliptra‑SS	Emre Karabulut (Microsoft – Hardware Security Engineer) Vishal Soni (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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SONiC Workshop (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Bazel for SONiC: What We’ve Learned and Contributed	Borja Lorente (Aspect Build – Aspect Build)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Configuring and Debugging the Physical Layer in SONiC	Bobby McGonigle (Nexthop AI – Nexthop AI)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Deploying 10-000+ SONiC Switches: Broadcom’s Data‑Center and Campus Transformation	S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA) Tobin Hawkshaw (Broadcom – Network Architect)	Video
Enabling Topology Visibility in BGP Fabrics with BGP-LS.	Ahmed Abdelsalam (Cisco – Engineering Technical Leader) Yijiao Qin (Alibaba – Software Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
EVPN Multi-Site in the Real World: SONiC- Failures- and Hard Lessons	Patrice Brissette (Cisco Systems Inc. – Distinguished Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
How SONiC Powers the World’s Largest AI Infrastructure	Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer) Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom – Senior Director- Engineering)	Video
SONiC Scale Up Working Group Introduction	Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer)	Video
SONiC Workshop Closing Remarks	Łukasz Łukowski (STORDIS – Chief Commerce and Communication)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
SONiC Workshop Welcome & Opening Remarks	Łukasz Łukowski (STORDIS – Chief Commerce and Communication) Arpit Joshipura (The Linux Foundation – TBD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
A Framework for Reliable Hardware Circularity at Scale	Markandeya Mudigonda (Meta – Production Systems Engineer) Supraja Narayanan (Meta – INFRASTRUCTURE DATA CENTER PROGRAM MANAGER)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Advancing Carbon Disclosure for Data Center IT- MEP Equipment- and Building Materials	Moderator: Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director) Howard Hsu (Meta – Meta) Andrea Desimone (Schneider Electric – Sustainability Solutions Manager) Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Data Quality Scoring System for Datacenter IT Embodied Carbon Accounting	Mischa Weiss-lijn (Google – Group Product Manager- Cloud Sustainability Tools) Tali Brennan (Meta – Net Zero Program Manager)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
DCF Sustainability Contributions: Clean Backup Power and Low Carbon Material Framework	Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Fan- PSU & Idle Power in Air-Cooled/Liquid-Cooled Servers	Xavier OUVRARD (EPFL – Dr) August Ning (EPFL – Postdoctoral Researcher)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Heat reuse subproject update: Heat Reuse Platform initiative- Policies- Reference Design- and Economics	Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – CEO) Petter Terenius (Uppsala University – Researcher) Jack Kolar (Dataquarium – CEO) Gabriel Lazar (Submer – ESG Sustainability Specialist)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Integrating On-Prem Power Generation and Thermally Driven Cooling in AI Factories: A System-Level Perspective	Bahareh Eslami (NVIDIA – Sr. Mechanical Engineer) Saket Karajgikar (NVIDIA – Principal Mechanical Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
OCP ready badge for Net Zero Innovation Hub tested solutions	Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – Representative) Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation) Kially M. Ruiz (Cibao Cloud Technologies- Inc. – CEO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Product Category Rules for Datacenter Equipment: Collaborative Progress & Industry Call to Action	Moderator: Karsten Schischke (Fraunhofer Research Institute – Group Manager – Policy- Ecodesign and Circular Materials) Ines Sousa (Microsoft – Sr Sustainability Industry Advisor) Ryan Bradley (AWS – Sr. Mgr- AWS Sustainability- Services- Science- Infrastructure- and Innovation) Lisa Rivalin (Meta – Systems Engineer) Stephan Benecke (Google – Head of Carbon Footprinting- Cloud Environmental & Social Responsibility)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling Design for Sustainability Across Meta’s Hardware Organization	Lisa Rivalin (Meta – Systems Engineer) Emre Tepedelenlioglu (Meta – Production Systems Engineer) Alexandra Bruefach (Meta – Research Scientist) Lars-Åke Ragnarsson (imec – Program Director)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Shifting Circularity Upstream: Using Diagnostic Data and Agentic AI to Extend Data Center Asset Lifecycles	Shahriyar Rahmati (Reconext – CEO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Hidden Opportunity: Energy Savings in Legacy Platforms Through Open Source Power Controls and Advanced Management Techniques	Stefan Demski (Intel – Senior Embedded Software Engineer) Mateusz Stencel (Intel – Embedded Software Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Updates from the OCP Sustainability Project	Alexander Rakow (Schneider Electric – Director of Sustainability- Data Centers) Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
What’s in a Rack? Standardizing Taxonomy for Scalable LCA	Vincenzo Ferrero (Amazon – Sustainability Scientist) Kali Frost (Microsoft – Senior Applied Scientist)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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Systems Management (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Agentic AI Meets Open and Secure Firmware: Accelerating Firmware Development & Deployment	Sudan Varadachari Ayanam (AMI – Vice President Technology and Architecture)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Canopy: Upstream OpenBMC for HPE ProLiant Gen11 and Beyond	Christian Grönke (9elements – Lead Firmware Engineering) Jean-Marie Verdun (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Distinguished Technologist Open Platform)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Datacenter Power and Thermal Management on ARM Systems	Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) Marc Meunier (Arm – Director- HW Ecosystem)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Establishing Server Remote Management Standards for Arm-based Servers in OCP	Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
From Code to Data: Advancing the Unified Platform Configuration Interface (UPCI)	Felix Polyudov (AMI – AMI Fellow) Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
IT System Management Track Intro – Open Platform Firmware (OPF) role and project update	Murugasamy Nachimuthu (Oracle – Architect) Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow- Chief Firmware Architect)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
OBMF for Efficient Management of AI Platforms	Kasper Wszolek (NVIDIA – Senior Architect – Data Center Management) Janusz Jurski (Intel Corporation – architect) MARIUSZ ORIOL (NVIDIA – Manageability Architecture) Bharat Pillili (Microsoft – TBD)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
openSFI: Refining the Contract Between Host Firmware and Silicon – An Update	Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow- Chief Firmware Architect) Albert Rennie (AMD – Principle Member of Technical Staff)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Scaling Code Coverage for Robust Open System Firmware	Dos Terasaka (AMI – Solution Architect) Srini Narayana (AMI – VP- Boot Firmware)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
State of firmware: Needs and requirements for Europeans end users	Moderator: Jean-Marie Verdun (HPE – Senior Strategist- Open Platform) Stéphane Dutilleul (Scaleway – VP Hardware Engineering) Gilles Lasnier (OVHcloud – PU.Baremetal – Hardware Engineering – IT Director) Christian Walter (9elements – Managing Director Firmware) Anisse Astier (Criteo – Linux Engineer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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The AI Computing Continuum: Extending AI from Data Center to the User (Alphabetical order)

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Accelerating the Edge Revolution: AI Inferencing- vRAN & Telco on Edge MHS 1.0	Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Rob Nance (Jabil – Director of Technology)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
AI Computing Continuum – Opportunity for IOWN and OCP	Sean Varley (Ampere – Vice President of Business Development) Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation – Technology WG Chair- IOWN Global Forum)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Establishing hardware requirements for Arm-based servers at OCP	Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
MHS Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Workstream Update and Guidelines For Adoption	Phillip Leech (HPE – Senior Technologist / Customer Architect) Todd Rosedahl (Jabil – Director — Systems and AI Strategy)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Sub-Rackscale Acceleration – Evolution and Definition of High Powered Adapters	Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Jared Wright (Qualcomm – DTS)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Evolving AI Fabric: Unifying Regional AI Factories and Edge Clouds through Scale-Across Networking	Dom Schaeffer (Nokia – Director IP Consulting Engineering)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
The Next Wave of AI – Inference Outside the Hyperscale Data Center	Moderator: Guy Currier (The Futurum Group – Research Director) Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow) Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development) Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation – Technology WG Chair- IOWN Global Forum) Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Towards a European Open Infrastructure: Insights from HIGHER- CAPE- and CHORYS	Moderator: philippe bonnet (university of copenhagen – professor) Jens Hagemeyer (University of Bielefeld – Research Associate) Manolis Marazakis (FORTH – Principal Research Scientist) philippe bonnet (university of copenhagen – professor)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox
Towards Modular Software-Defined Edge Servers Using OCP DC-MHS Specifications	Jean-Marc Philippe (Thales – Research Engineer) Loïc Nasello (2CRSI – Technical director)	Video
Why AI Computing Continuum at OCP	Cliff Grossner- Ph. D. (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Chief Innovation Officer)	Video	G-Drive Dropbox

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