2025 OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day

Date:
July 9, 2025
Time:
4:00 AM – 1:00 PM

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Driving a Sustainable Data Center Ecosystem in Southeast Asia

Setting the Stage for Transformation

As digital infrastructure rapidly evolves, Southeast Asia is at the forefront of data center growth in APAC. With surging AI workloads, and expanding connectivity, the region faces mounting challenges in power consumption, operational efficiency, and sustainability. The Open Compute Project (OCP) has been pioneering innovations that redefine how data centers are designed, built, and operated-ushering in a new era of efficiency and sustainability from Silicon to System, Rack to Power, and ultimately to Deployment in Facilities.

Event Partner:

w.media

2025 OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day (Chronological order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
View the YouTube Playlist of all recordings below
Welcome Address
  • James Loggie – Business Analyst (W.Media)
     
Ideas to Impact: Introducing the OCP as a Catalyst for AI Infrastructure in Southeast Asia
  • Steve Helvie – VP of Emerging Markets (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP))
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Vision Kickoff – Open Infrastructure at Scale: Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Data Center Growth in Southeast Asia
  • Moderator: Steve Helvie – VP of Emerging Markets (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP))
  • Gavin Chua – APAC Head of Stakeholder Engagement (Meta)
  • Kavickumar Muruganathan – ESG Policy & Planning Director, APAC (Microsoft)
  • Marcus Tong – Cluster Director, Infrastructure Planning & Facilitation (Infocomm Media Development Authority)
  • Bryan Yue – Lead, Data centre public affairs, APAC (Google)
 [Video]   
Tokenomics and the AI Factory Stack: Why Asia Needs More Datacenters
  • Dan Nishball – Director of Research (semianalysis)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Accelerating AI from Semiconductor to Data Center Infrastructure
  • Wai Chung Ngai – Director of APJ Field Application Engineering (AMD)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Cooling Datacentres: Tackling Emissions in Pursuit of Efficiency
  • Thiru Prakassh – Regional Datacentre Lead APAC (OVHcloud)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Advancing AI Efficiency: Intel’s Innovations in Compute, Cooling, and Openness
  • Hariprasad Reddy – Telco Cloud Specialist & AI Community Lead (Intel)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Sustainability for AI/ML
  • Sunny Xue – Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (Google)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Power in the Ever-changing OCP Environment – OCP Rack Power
  • Kevin Gero – Sr. Applications Marketing Manager (Power & Infrastructure) (muRata)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Removing the barriers of adoption of liquid cooling technology
  • Asanka De Silva – General Manager, APAC (Submer)
  • Andie Yen – Deputy Director, Data Center Infrastructure and Advanced Cooling Technology Business Development Head (Giga Computing)
  • Miguel Navarro – Data Centre; Head of Partnerships & Business Development (BP Castrol)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Data Center revolution to support the evolution
  • Joshua Buzzell – VP, Data Center Chief Architect (EATON)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Advancing Open Modular Liquid Cooling for Dense Compute at Scale: Introducing Supermicro’s Second-Generation Architecture (DLC-2)
  • Daniel Kapesa – Product Manager – Liquid Cooling Solution (Supermicro)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
From Analyst to Innovator: Why Liquid Cooling Is the Future of AI Factories
  • Lucas Beran – Director of Product Marketing (ACCELSIUS)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
SGTech Data Centre Chapter: Powering Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
  • Ashton Soh – Chair, Data Centre Chapter, SGTech (SGTECH)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Cooling in Context: Asia’s Role in the Global Infrastructure Shift
  • Moderator: Steve Helvie – VP of Emerging Markets (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP))
  • Chinmay Kulkarni – DC Product Manager (Danfoss)
  • Mathias Wernitz – Key Accounts International Sales (STULZ)
 [Video]   
Microsoft’s Role in Driving Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Through Community Collaboration
  • Kavickumar Muruganathan – ESG Policy & Planning Director, APAC (Microsoft)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Setting the Global Benchmark: Advancing Liquid Cooling Standards for High-Density Data Centres in Tropical Climates (IMDA working group)
  • Professor Poh Seng (PS) Lee – Head of NUS Mechanical Engineering & Executive Director of ESI (National University of Singapore)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Driving Sustainable Infrastructure Through OCP Collaboration
  • Peter Tan – Business Development Manager (SIMS Lifecycle Services)
  • Eric Mah – Program Manager (SIMS Lifecycle Services)
 [Video] [G-Drive]
[Dropbox]
Inside the APAC Buildout: Trends, Pressure Points, and What’s Next
  • Moderator: Dan Nishball – Director of Research (semianalysis)
  • Asher Ling – Chief Technology Officer & Managing Director, Singapore & Malaysia (PDG)
 [Video]   
The way forward – how the OCP can support Southeast Asia
  • Steve Helvie – VP of Emerging Markets (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP))