2024 OCP Global Summit, By the Numbers!

George Tchaparian, CEO - OCPThe 2024 OCP Global Summit was an astounding success, our biggest and best yet, with 7,047 people attending the event in San Jose, CA.! Thank you to our amazing Members, Sponsors, Partners, Volunteers, Staff and the entire OCP Community!

At the 2024 Global Summit, industry leaders, researchers and pioneers from all around the world engaged in collaboration at a level we had not ever seen before, with a focus on the challenges the industry will be facing in the coming years. Through this collaborative spirit, we aim to accelerate the development of efficient, scalable, and sustainable open compute solutions that power the future of technology.

Read more about this year's theme: From Ideas to Impact!

Tracks, sessions and workshops

The Community leadership arranged 23 dynamic content tracks (19 Project-focused and four Special Focus), with an impressive 610+ speakers across 425+ sessions. The Innovation Village had eight OCP project related stations as well as seven emerging technology demonstrations, and we hosted three co-located events with our partners including: SONiC Workshop, Memory Fabric Forum, and DMTF Manageability Workshop.

View the available videos and slides from the presentations

Announcements

x86 Ecosystem Advisory GroupThis year, there were some exciting announcements, including approved AI related Contributions from NVIDIA and Meta, as well as establishment of strategic alliances between OCP and Ecma and the Net Zero Innovation Hub, and the opening of the Open Chiplet Economy in the OCP Marketplace. And AMD and Intel announced a groundbreaking collaboration on the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group.

There was also an announcement on the OCP Foundation’s progress on the Open Systems for AI Strategic Initiative, expressing the OCP Community’s intent to drive forward with a sustainable and efficient computational infrastructure for AI.

You can always check the latest OCP announcements on the blog section of our website and our social media pages.

Future Technologies Symposium

The 2024 OCP Future Technologies Symposium was held on October 16, Day two of the OCP Global Summit, and gathered people from academia, research, industry and startups to showcase the future technologies that will impact the OCP Community in the next 3-5 years. The OCP Future Technologies Symposium (FTS) spotlights promising technologies in the IT Ecosystem and brings to the OCP Community a forward-looking funnel of technologies which focus on solving future problems facing the industry, and accelerate productization through partnerships and open source R&D.

This year’s program included more than 100 speakers: invited keynotes, author presentations in two technological tracks: AI/HPC, and Data Center Sustainability. It also included a special focus track on Quantum (Hybrid data centers and communications networks). Additionally, there were three Future Technologies Initiative (FTI) breakout sessions: AI HW SW Co-Design, Data Centric Computing and Short Reach Optical Interconnects.

The Best FTS Paper and the $10,000 prize was awarded to Lumai, who presented a paper titled “Efficient Data Center Scale AI Acceleration Using 3D Optics”.

All sessions from the OCP FTS and FTI Breakout sessions will be available soon on the Past Events section of our website.

OCP Global Summit Numbers

We saw 7,000+ registrations this year; a 60% increase over last year!

The attendee breakdown by job role is:

  • Engineer - 21%
  • Sales & Business Development - 17%
  • Executive Leadership - 9%
  • Marketing & Events - 8%
  • Research & Strategy - 8%
  • Technology Architect - 8%
  • Infrastructure & Operations - 7%
  • Product Management - 6%
  • Software Development - 3%
  • Technical Programs - 3%
  • Academic - 2%
  • Media & Analyst - 2%
  • Supply Chain & Procurement - 2%
  • Finance - 1%
  • Other - 3%

There were attendees from almost 1,400 organizations, from 46 countries around the world.

View the list of organizations who participated

Here is a breakdown of the attendee Regions of Residence:

  • Asia Pacific 17%
  • Caribbean & Latin America 1%
  • Europe- Middle East & Africa 5%
  • North America 77%

23% of our attendees were international representatives, including the following countries:

  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Lebanon
  • Lithuania
  • Mexico
  • Malaysia
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Panama
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Industry analysts and media presence

There were also 146 media and analysts onsite at the event, including staff from 108 of the world's leading news and research organizations including:

  • 650 Group
  • AvidThink
  • Barclays
  • Beijing E7Research
  • Blackrock
  • Bloomberg
  • Bank of America
  • Cambrian-AI Research- LLC
  • Cignal AI
  • Citigroup
  • Cleveland Research
  • CloserStill Group
  • Cloud Architects Advisors
  • Converge! Digest
  • Data Center Dynamics
  • Dell'Oro Group
  • Digital Realty
  • Digitimes
  • Edgewater Research
  • EE Times
  • Evercore
  • Forbes
  • GigaOM
  • Hyperion Research
  • IDC
  • IEEE
  • Ignition Research
  • Inflection Point Research
  • Informa Tech (Omdia)
  • Insight 64
  • Intersect360 Research
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Jefferies LLC
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Light Counting
  • Morgan Stanley
  • nikkei
  • Raymond James
  • RBC Capital Markets
  • RCD Advisors
  • Rosenblatt Securities
  • ROTH Capital
  • S&P Global Market Intelligence
  • Schonfeld
  • SDx Central
  • SemiAnalysis
  • Semiecosystem
  • Seoul Economic Daily
  • Sequoia Capital Global Equities
  • ServeTheHome
  • SiliconAngle
  • SiTime
  • Space Global
  • TechInsights
  • Teral Research
  • The Bhatt Report
  • The Futurum Group

We couldn't put on such an amazing event without our dedicated sponsors; we had 113 this year, with 100 booths filling up two full halls at the San Jose Convention Center with the latest innovations.

And we could not have hosted an event of this magnitude without the help of our long-time event production partner FNTECH, who consistently delivers professional events of the highest quality.

Save the date for these Upcoming Events:

2025 OCP EMEA Summit

  • April 29-30, 2025: Dublin, Ireland
  • Click here for sponsorship information.

2025 Asia Events (dates TBD)

  • Bejing, PRC
  • Taipei City, Taiwan
  • Suwon, South Korea

2025 OCP Global Summit

  • October 14-16, 2025: San Jose, CA
  • Click here for sponsorship information.

2026 OCP Regional Summit

  • April 28-29, 2026: Barcelona, Spain

2026 OCP Global Summit

  • October 13-15, 2026: San Jose, CA

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