Past Symposium Events

Date:
October 13, 2026
Time:
4:00 PM
Location:
San Jose, CA
OCP Future Technologies Symposium

2026 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (2026 OCP EMEA Regional Summit)

29 April, 2026 – Barcelona, Spain

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 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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Poster Titles Link
30% More Tokens Per Watt : The Dual-Path Power Revolution [Poster]
A Workload-Specific Approach to Performance Transparency [Poster]
AI Datacenters as Grid-Responsive Flexible Loads : Real-Time GPU Power Modulation [Poster]
Cable-Free Physical Layers for Rack-Scale AI/HPC Systems [Poster]
Capacitor Array Block (Supercap) for Enhanced Power Delivery in High Power AI Applications [Poster]
De-electrified cooling driven by low-grade waste heat [Poster]
Demonstrating a Deployable Optical Inference Server for Billion-Parameter-Scale LLMs [Poster]
Eliminating DDR5 Thermal Throttling with Solid- State Cooling [Poster]
Enabling Petawatt AI Clusters with Real-time Energy Routing (RER)     [Poster]
Enhancing AI Data Center Efficiency : OCP OFP8 Lossless Compression for LLM Inference [Poster]
High-Efficiency Two-Phase DI Water DLC for Next-Gen AI Servers [Poster]
Iron-Sodium Batteries for Emissions-Free Backup and Load-Leveling at AI Data Centers [Poster]
Meeting AI Power Density at Scale: Superconducting Distribution for Multi-MW Data Halls [Poster]
PFAS-Free Two-Phase Direct-to-Chip Coolin : Using a Glide Refrigerant  [Poster]
Solving the Data Center Power Gap with Scrap Aluminum  [Poster]
System-Level Efficiency Gains of Superconducting Distribution for AI Clusters [Poster]
Transforming Power Delivery for the AI Era [Poster]
Utilizing Data Center Waste Heat to Generate High-Temperature Steam via an Adsorption Heat Pump [Poster]
Validating Extreme IT Loads: A Cost-Effective Cooling Test Methodology using Server Emulators [Poster]

2025 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (2025 OCP Global Summit)

13 October 2025, San Jose, CA

FTS – AI / HPC (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
AI Scaling with NeuraScale High-Radix Switches
  • Saurabh Gayen (Baya Systems)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
AI/HPC Lightning Talks
  • Tong Zhang (ScaleFlux), Tushar Krishna (Georgia Institute of Technology), SHRIKANTH VENKATESHAPPA (Rittal Gmbh co & KG), Puneet Sharma (HPE), Mike Klasen (ZincFive), Wongyu Shin (Rebellions)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Vertical Power Delivery for 850A AI ASIC
  • Shenli Zou (Meta)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]

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FTS – Data Center Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Biochar in Data Center Decarbonization
  • Seth Kane (University of California Davis)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Sustainability Lightning Talks
  • Jeff CA Chen (Wiwynn Corporation), Jake Hsieh (Wiwynn Corporation), David Beberide Sabarich (Universal Smart Cooling SL (UniSCool)), Yungchang Liang (XMight Smart Energy Corp), Matthew Stewart (Bentaus), Robert Davidoff (Bentaus), Mehdi Asheghi (Stanford University), Kai-Bin Huang (Fu Jen Catholic University)
 [Video]   
Two-Phase Micropillar Evaporators to Enable Cooling of Next-Generation GPU Servers
  • Richard Bonner (Accelsius), Qingyang Wang (Accelsius)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]

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FTS – Keynotes & Awards (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Diverse, Dynamic Datacenters with Microgrids
  • Andrew Chien (U Chicago)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Enabling AI Infrastructure PHY Test presented by Teradyne
  • Matt Knowles (Teradyne)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
FTS Awards Ceremony
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden)
 [Video]   
Poster Session Break
    
Towards Data Gravity Centric AI: Integrating PNM, PIM and Fabric-level Computing Paradigms presented by Mayank Saxena, Senior Director of Memory Solutions Lab, Samsung
  • Mayank Saxena (Samsung)
 [Video]   
Welcome to the Future Technologies Symposium
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]

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FTS – Quantum (Data Center Design) (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
A Vision for the Future of Quantum Computing and Networking
  • Reza Nejabati (Cisco Systems Inc.)
 [Video]   
Bridging Product and Facility Requirements for Quantum Computing Architectures and Datacentre Environments
  • Jonathan Burnett (National quantum computing centre)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computing as-a-service
  • Philip Clarke (Oxford Quantum Circuits Ltd), Owen Arnold (Oxford Quantum Circuits Ltd)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Hyperconverged Quantum Cluster: Architecture and Operational Insights from a Live Quantum Datacenter
  • Dr. Nikola Šibalić (Quantum Machines)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Project KirQ (Canada)
  • Philippe Barraud (Numana)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Quantum at OCP
  • Yogendran Boniface ()
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Quantum Market Overview
  • Noah El Alami (IDTechEx)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Quantum Presentation
  • Damien Petty ()
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Quantum Secure Networks Partnership Update
  • Inaki Barettini (ICFO)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Retrofitting Data Centers for Quantum Computers
  • Kristine Rezai ()
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Scaling Cryogenics for the Quantum Age
  • Kyle Thompson (Maybell Quantum)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Wrap Up and Q&A
  • Yogendran Boniface ()
 [Video]   

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2025 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (2025 OCP EMEA Summit)

29 April 2025, Dublin, Ireland

Future Technologies Symposium (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
FTS Awards Ceremony
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)
  • Phillip Burr (Lumai – Head of Product)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
FTS Keynote: Advanced Thermal Design for Evolving Industries
  • Dr. Anthony Robinson (Trinity College Dublin – Associate Professor)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
FTS Kick-off Address: Introducing the EU Funded Project NexusForum.EU
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Performance Evaluation of a Next Generation Ester Based Dielectric Liquid for Single-Phase Immersion Cooling presented by Oleon
  • Beau Van Vaerenbergh (Oleon – R&D Project Lead)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Pioneering Sustainable Cooling: Innovating Thermal Technology for the Future presented by Alfa Laval Technologies
  • Anna Blomborg (Alfa Laval – Head of Data Centers)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]

FTS AI / HPC (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Beyond 400Gbps Lane Rate Transmission
  • Hadrien Louchet (Keysight Technologies – Solution Manager)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Compression Enabled MRAM Memory Chiplet Subsystems for LLM Inference Accelerators
  • Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development)
  • Angelos Arelakis (zeropoint technologies – CTO)
  • Andy Green (Numem- UK – TBD)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Differential Power Processing for Ultra-Efficient Rack Level Power Conversion
  • Michael Solomentsev (Palanquin Power – CEO)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Enhancing RAS in AI Hardware and High-Performance Computing with Real-Time Health Monitoring
  • Guy Gozlan (proteanTecs – Machine Learning and Algorithms Director)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]

FTS Data Center Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
An Experimental Assessment of DBD Plasma Actuators Versus a Conventional Fan for Heat Sink Cooling
  • Miguel Cota (YPlasma – CTO)
  • David Garcia (YPlasma – CEO)
   [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
High-Performance Two-Phase Cooling under Different Cold Plate Orientations
  • Richard Bonner (Accelsius – CTO)
  • Qingyang Wang (Accelsius – Senior R&D Thermal Engineer)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Nano-dielectric Oils for Immersion Cooled Data Centers
  • Sana Fateh (Synano – CEO)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
New Low Hanging Fruit. Reducing PUE by Making Power from Chiller Waste Heat.
  • Nate Turner (Hayzel- LLC. – CEO)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
System Integration of a Computing Cluster- a Heat Recovery System and an Adsorption Chiller for Cold Production
  • Rémi Bouzel (Qarnot Computing – Scientific Director)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Poster Titles Link
Differential Power Processing for Ultra-Efficient Rack Level Power Conversion [Poster]
Beyond 400Gbps Lane Rate Transmission [Poster]
Self-adaptive fins for local control of heat extraction capacity [Poster]
Cooling High-Performance 2.5kW Processors: Experimental Data and two phase Sidecar Solutions for Full Rack Efficiency [Poster]
New Low Hanging Fruit. Reducing PUE by Making Power from Chiller Waste Heat. [Poster]
System Integration of a Computing Cluster- a Heat Recovery System and an Adsorption Chiller for Cold Production [Poster]
High-Performance Two-Phase Cooling under Different Cold Plate Orientations [Poster]
The 4: 1 Switched Auto-transformer Converter for 48V Onboard Power Solutions [Poster]
An Experimental Assessment of DBD Plasma Actuators Versus a Conventional Fan for Heat Sink Cooling [Poster]
Mitigating Congestions in Large-Scale LLM Training with RoCEv2 Feedback and SRv6 [Poster]
Compression Enabled MRAM Memory Chiplet Subsystems for LLM Inference Accelerators [Poster]
Nano-dielectric Oils for Immersion Cooled Data Centers [Poster]

2024 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (2024 OCP EMEA Regional Summit)

24 April 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Title Speaker(s)
OCP FTS Welcome and Kickoff
  • Lesya Dymyd, OCP Future Technologies Symposium Chair, OCP
 Video Slides
Silicon Dreams: Toward the AI Singularity
  • Dharmesh Jani, OCP IC Co-Chair and Meta Infra Ecosystem Lead, Meta
 Video Slides
Breaking the barrier, chip level cooling up to and beyond 1000W in single phase dielectric fluid
  • Kelley Mullick, Vice President, Iceotope Technologies
 Video Slides
Direct-to-chip, Two-Phase Cooling Performance Metrics and PFAS Sustainability
  • Richard Bonner, CTO, Accelsius
 Video Slides
Chiplet-Based Compressed LLC Cache & Memory Expansion
  • Nilesh Shah, VP Business Development, zeropoint technologies
 Video Slides
Ceramic Nano Memory enabling the AI Storage Dataverse
  • Steffen Hellmold, Director, Cerabyte- Inc.
  • Christian Pflaum, CEO, Cerabyte- Inc.
 Video Slides
Air or liquid cooled servers – the right product for the right place!
  • Deborah Andrews, Professor of Design for Sustainability and Circularity, London South Bank University / CEDaCI project
  • Stefan Frenzel, Managing Director, DME
 Video Slides
FTS Announcement
  • Lesya Dymyd, OCP Future Technologies Symposium Chair, OCP
 Video Slides
Analog In-memory computing with multilevel memristive devices for high performance computing
  • Glenn Ge, Presenter, TetraMem Inc.
 Video Slides
Delivering Performant AI Solutions
  • Alex Ramirez, Platforms Performance Engineer, Google
 Video Slides
Large Memory Server Design Overview
  • Todd Rosedahl, Senior System Architect, Jabil
 Video Slides
Novel Power Optimization Methods for AI/HPC Chips: Workload-Aware Adaptive Voltage Scaling
  • Andrea Matteucci, Product Manager, proteanTecs
 Video Slides
FTS Wrap-up
  • Lesya Dymyd, OCP Future Technologies Symposium Chair, OCP
 Video Slides

2023 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (2023 OCP Global Summit)

18 October 2023, San Jose, CA

Title Speakers
2023 FTS Welcome and Kickoff Lesya Dymyd (OCP) | Allan Smith (OCP) Video  
2023 FTI Updates: AI HW-SW Codesign, Cloud Service Model, Data Centric Computing Allan Smith (OCP FTI) | Weifeng Zhang (Lightelligence) | Sammy Nachimuthu (Intel) | Yang Seok (Samsung) Video  
FTI Announcement: Optics Introduction, CSM Transition Allan Smith (OCP) Video  
Toward scalable and reliable optical compute interconnects Alan Liu (Quintessent) Video  
Unlocking the Full Device Potentials Together – presented by Samsung Sungwook Ryu (Samsung) Video Slides
DC Sustainability: High-Heat-Flux Rack Level Direct-to-Chip Two-Phase Cooling Using Sustainable Fluids Richard Bonner (Accelsius) Video Slides
DC Sustainability: Liquid Cooling for Optical Networking Equipment Behzad Mohajer (Ciena) | Peter Ajersch Video Slides
DC Sustainability: The Circular Data Centre Compass – supporting Sustainability and Circularity in the Data Centre Industry Deborah Andrews (London South Bank University / CEDaCI project) Video Slides
Importance of a Test and Measurement Partner to Accelerate Innovation – presented by Spirent Communications Kevin Chang (Spirent Communications) Video  
Other (Server & Power): A M-CRPS compatible totem-pole bridgeless PFC with re-rush current control and extreme low iTHD Sheng-Yang Yu (Texas Instruments) Video Slides
Other (Server & Power): Active Tuning Control for Practical Implementations of Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters Rose Abramson (UC Berkeley) | Haifah Sambo () Video Slides
Other (Server & Power): A 1200-A/48-V-to-1-V Switching Bus Converter for Next-Generation Ultra-High-Power Microprocessors Yicheng Zhu (University of California- Berkeley) | Robert Pilawa-Podgurski (UC Berkeley) Video Slides
Network: Ultra low-power, high-density parallel microLED optical links Rob Kalman (Avicena Tech) Video Slides
Network: Ultra-Dense and Ultra-Low Power 16×112-Gbps Linear-Drive Silicon Photonics for ML/AI Peter Winzer (Nubis Communications) Video Slides
Guessing at the future of Generative AI Zaid Kahn (Microsoft ) | Allan Smith (OCP) Video  
AI/HPC: BBCube 3D: Heterogeneous 3D Integration to Provide TB/s Bandwidth with Lowest Bit Access Energy for AI/HPC applications Norio Chujo (Hitachi- Ltd.) Video Slides
AI/HPC: Advanced package technologies for chiplet adoption and memory integration in HPC/AI applications Yan Li (Samsung) Video Slides
AI/HPC: The Future of AI/ML Innovation is Row-Scale Disaggregation Matthew Williams (Rockport Networks) Video Slides
ERA of Core Scaling – presented by AMD Robert Hormuth (AMD) Video Slides
Quantum: Low-Loss Connections to Optical Fibers for Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits Ryan Vallance (Senko Advanced Components) Video Slides
Quantum: Advances in the Quantum Interconnect Technology Richard Pitwon (Resolute Photonics) Video Slides
Quantum: How to build a Quantum Data Center with Virtual Quantum Processors Karl Rabe (WoodenDataCenter) Video Slides
FTS WrapUp and FTI Breakout Kickoff Lesya Dymyd (OCP) | Allan Smith (OCP) Video  
OCP Future Technology Symposium Awards Ceremony Introduction by Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista), Presented by Lesya Dymyd (OCP) | Allan Smith (OCP) Video  

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