2025 OCP EMEA Summit

Tracks
Keynotes	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Executive Session	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Women in OCP	[Jump To Section]
Artificial Intelligence (AI)	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Cyber Security and Data Protection	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
DC Physical Infrastructure	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
DC Sustainability	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
EMEA Deployments of OCP Recognized Solutions	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Immersion Cooling	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
IT Infrastructure	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Liquid Cooling	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Systems Management	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Special Focus: OpenRAN	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Special Focus: Photonics	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
OCP Talks	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Start-Up Showcase	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Future Technologies Symposium	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
FTS AI / HPC	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
FTS Data Center Sustainability	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
FTS Special Focus: Quantum	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
Optics for AI Clusters and DC Workshop – hosted by IPEC	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]
SONiC Open Insight Forum hosted by STORDIS	[Jump To Section]	[YouTube Playlist]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Welcome to the 2025 OCP EMEA Summit	Kali Burdette (OCP – Director of Global Events)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Message from the CEO	George Tchaparian (OCP – CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Cloud Services Environmental Impact Assessment Tools – presented by OVH	Grégory Lebourg (OVH – Global Environmental Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Meta’s Innovations in Open-Source AI and Hardware – presented by Meta	Ola Tørudbakken (Meta – Engineering Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Liquid Cooling Enables Heat Reuse and Energy Recycling – presented by Supermicro	Rich Lappenbusch (Supermicro – Senior Principal)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Startup Panel: Accelerating European Startups for Innovation	Moderator: Raúl Álvarez (OCP – European Market Development Manager) Phillip Burr (Lumai – Head of Product) David Garcia (YPlasma – CEO) Marc Gaucheron (SiPearl – Sr. Director of Product Marketing) Ana González (iPronics – VP Business)	[Video]
Unlocking the Network Edge – presented by Intel	Daniel Lynch (Intel – Senior Marketing Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Balancing Compute Memory and Networking for AI – presented by Broadcom	Ram Velaga (Broadcom – SVP and GM- Core Switching Group)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Accelerating European Open Collaboration for Digital Sovereignty – presented by Submer and Openchip	Francesc Guim (Openchip and Software Technologies – Chief Executive Officer) Pol Valls Soler (Submer – Co-Founder)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Sustainability Panel: All in on AI- and What About Sustainability?	Moderator: Max Smolaks (Uptime Institute – Research Analyst) Garry Connolly (Digital Infrastructure Ireland – Founder) Samina Husain (ECMA International – Secretary General) Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology) Alexander Rakow (Schneider Electric – Director of Sustainability- Data Centers)	[Video]
Data Center Evolution: Powering the AI Revolution Sustainably – presented by Google	Madhusudan Iyengar (Google – Principal Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
AI Infrastructure: Innovating for Secure and Sustainable Growth – presented by Microsoft	Bryan Kelly (Microsoft – Partner Architect- Microsoft- Azure- Strategic Planning and Architecture)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Closing Remarks	Kali Burdette (OCP – Director of Global Events)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Castrol and IEIT Systems Strategic Partnerships on Liquid Cooling – presented by Castrol	David Leung (IEIT Systems – IEIT Systems Senior Server Product Line Director) Miguel Navarro (Castrol – Castrol Thermal Management Business Development Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Executive Session – presented by Digital Infrastructure Ireland	Jo-Ann Garbutt (Digital Realty – Sustainability Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Leveraging OCP for Sovereign AI Plans – presented by Supermicro	Rich Lappenbusch (Supermicro – Senior Principal)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Scalable- AI-Ready Rack Cooling Solutions – presented by Flex and JetCool	Ludwig Haber (JETCOOL Technologies – VP- Advanced Projects) Eoghan Dillon (Flex – Senior Director for Strategy and Solution Design)	[Video]
The Critical Role of SONIC in AI Rack Topology: Enabling Scalable- Open- and Efficient Networks – presented by Celestica	Matt Roman (Celestica – Sr. Director PLM)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unlocking the Future of Data Center Efficiency: Open Compute Project and Firmware Innovations – presented by AMI	Sanjoy Maity (AMI – Chief Executive Officer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Women in OCP (WOCP) Networking	Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director) Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology)		[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
A Blueprint for Scalable AI Computational Infrastructure	James Kelly (OCP – VP Market Intelligence and Innovation)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Advanced NIC simulation for AI back end use cases	Vijay Inavolu (Marvell – Senior Principle Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Challenges and Opportunities: Making OCP More Inclusive to influence NeoCloud GPU Cloud Providers- ISVs- and Enterprises	Moderator: Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development) Jonmichael Hands (Solidigm Technology – Advisor Sustainabilty) Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Walter Goodwin (Fractile – CEO) Avi Shetty (Solidigm Technology – Sr Director- AI Ecosystem and Partnerships)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Challenges and Trends in Sparse Matrix Multiplication on HPC Workloads	Hector Arroyo (OpenChip – Research Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Challenges in implementing AI/ML training job recovery from GPU/Accelerator data poisoning events	Anil Agrawal (Meta Platform Corp – Hardware Systems Engineer) David Xiao (Meta – Engineering Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
AI System Validation- Meta Perspective	Carlos Fernandez (Meta – AI System Validation Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Extreme Savings through Modern Storage Architecture	Kyle Lamb (VAST DATA – Field CTO HPC)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
LLM Inference Performance Projection	Mohan J Kumar (Intel – Intel Fellow) Chuan Song (Intel Corporation – Principal Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Meta’s ORv3 “HPR Next” Ecosystem Solution	Glenn Charest (Meta – Mechanical Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Mitigating Silent Data Corruption: Industry- Academia Collaboration and Progress	Emel Goksu (Meta – Ecosystem and Partnerships Lead)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP AI Strategic Initiative	Rob Coyle (OCP – Director of Technical Programs)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP AI Strategic Initiative AI ML Physical Infra Workshop 1	Cliff Grossner, Ph. D. (OCP – Chief Innovation Officer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OOP/FP GPU Programming and Debugging using Open-Source GpuScript	Alan Rock (Summit Peak Technologies – President)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
AI Factory Cyber Security and data protection through enhanced IT-OT resilience chain integration and consideration	Ken Aduddell (Rockwell Automation – Hyperscale Industry Leader)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
An Update on OCP L.O.C.K.	Eric Eilertson (Microsoft – Security Architect) Jeff Andersen (Google – Staff Software Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Caliptra – Subsystem Firmware Stack	Raghu Krishnamurthy (NVIDIA – Principal Security Architect) Bryan Kelly (Microsoft – Partner Architect- Microsoft- Azure- Strategic Planning and Architecture) Bharat Pillili (Microsoft – TBD) Christopher Swenson (Microsoft – Principal Firmware Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Centralized System Security Hub for Server Platforms	Phanikumar Kancharla (Marvell – Sr Principal Engineer) Craig Barner (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP and SESIP: Envisioning A Scalable Security Framework To Streamline CRA Compliance For Data Centres	Jeremy O’Donoghue (GlobalPlatform – Director- Engineering. Chair- GlobalPlatform Attack Experts WG) Christian Walter (9elements GmbH – Managing Director Firmware)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP Composable Security Architecture Episode 3: Introducing OpenPRoT	Louis Ferraro (AMD – Security Architect) Miguel Osorio (Google – Staff Software Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP S.A.F.E. Update and The Five Most Asked Questions	Eric Eilertson (Microsoft – Security Architect) Nick Hummel (Google – Security Engineer) ilja van Sprundel (IOActive – Sr. Director of Operating Systems Security)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
One Audit- Multiple Certifications: Harmonizing Security Standards	Pascal van Gimst (Keysight Technologies – Global Sales Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Privacy for AI from NP-Hard Problems (Universal Compute on Encrypted Data)	Rohit Khera (Marvell – Distinguished Engineer- Cryptography Engineering)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Update to OCP Attestation Specification to improve interoperability through convergence on industry standards	Fabrizio Damato (AMD – Security Architect) Jeff Andersen (Google – Staff Software Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Beyond ORv3 HPR Busbars: Enabling Next Gen AI Rack Power Levels with Liquid Cooling	Hal Loket (TE Connectivity – System Architect)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Comprehensive Solutions for ORV3 Ecosystem: Ship-loadable Packaging and Essential Accessories	Said Almadhoun (Rittal – Mechanical Design Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Data Center Facilities Update	Karl Rabe (WoodenDataCenter – MD and Founder)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Modular Design in liquid cooling system to meet AI’s Demands	Stephan ANGER (StÃ¤ubli – Engineering Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Requirements/Considerations of Next Generation PSU and Power Shelves	Harry Soin (Advanced Energy – Senior Technical Marketing Director) Cihan Aydin (Delta Electronics Inc. – Senior Design Engineer Power Electronics)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Revolutionizing Data Centers Through Robotics Physical Automation	Moderator: Rob Lawson-Shanks (Molg – CEO and Co-Founder) Eric Xu (Meta – Sr Manager- Robotics) Wolfgang Hillinger (DS Automotion – CEO) Sven Schreiner (Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH – General Manager Data Center Solutions)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
5 principles of integrated OCP data centre design	Stijn de Kruijf (Royal HaskoningDHV – Lead data centre design and sustainability)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Advancing the harmonization of environmental assessment standards in the ICT sector	Chris Eckstein (Fraunhofer – Research Associate)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Breaking-down IT hardware component emissions for sustainable decision-making at scale	Lisa Rivalin (Meta – Production System Engineer) Emre Tepedelenlioglu (Meta – Production Systems Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Data and AI for Stronger Faster Greener Concrete	Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation) Nishant Garg (University of Illinois – Assistant Professor) John Kim (AWS – Principal Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Decarbonising Data Centres: A Roadmap to Net Zero	Bob Burgoyne (Carbon Trust – Associate Director) Izzy Richardson (Carbon Trust – Senior Business Development Analyst)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Digital Infrastructure Carbon Disclosure: Progress and Challenges	Moderator: Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director) Andrea Desimone (Schneider Electric – Sustainability Solutions Manager) Ryan Cornwell (Google – Technical Program Manager- Strategic Initiatives) Jim Dietz (ZincFive – VP of Critical Materials and Sustainability)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Disruptive Sustainability in Data Centers: From Concept to Reality	Moderator: Joel Chakkalakal (Critical Risk Solution – Nomad Futurist- EOL and Sustainable Reuse Solution Architect) Chris Egloff (Americase – VP) Allison Boen (Alcatex Data Center Services – Consultant) Tom Delahunty (Iron Mountain – VP and General Manager) Simon Allen (Cato Digital – Cato Digital Europe)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Heat Exchange Platform	Moderator: Jaime Comella (AQ Compute – Head of Sustainability and Innovation) Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – Representative) Pauline Lucas (Euro Heat and Power – Policy Director) Jo-Ann Garbutt (Digital Realty – Sustainability Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Heat Reuse Subproject – Update	Petter Terenius (Uppsala University – Lecturer) Gemma Reeves (Alfa Laval – Business Development Manager Data Centers) Jaime Comella (AQ Compute – Head of Sustainability and Innovation)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Kubernetes Emissions Insights: Bridging Data Center and IT Sustainability	Julie Chenadec (Aknostic – Relationship Development Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Power- Telemetry and Performance metrics role for improving Energy Efficiency	Babak Falsafi (Swiss Datacenter Efficiency Association – President)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Powering the Digital Future Sustainably: Clean Alternatives to Data Center Standby Power	Moderator: Kially M. Ruiz (Cibao Cloud Technologies- Inc. – CEO) Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – Representative) Todd Noe (Microsoft – Director of Nuclear and Energy Innovation) Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
The EU’s role in setting sustainability standards for the data center market industry	Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
The Hidden Power of IT Longevity: Cutting Waste- Boosting Efficiency	Tomás O’Leary (Origina – Chief Executive Officer and Founder)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unlocking the Power of Resource Optimization: CXL and Pre-Owned OCP Equipment	Sean Magann (Sims Lifecycle Services – Chief Commercial Officer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unraveling the Efficiency- Performance and Sustainability Trade-offs: Case study of Liquid Assisted Air Cooling vs Traditional Air Cooling	Leslye Paniagua (Cloudflare – Systems Hardware Engineer) Sharon Alper (Cloudflare – Systems Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unveiling Closed-Loop Data Center Packaging: Sustainability and Efficiency at Scale	Dan Sowell (Transpak – VP- Engineering)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Updates from the OCP Sustainability Project	Alexander Rakow (Schneider Electric – Director of Sustainability- Data Centers)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
A journey to Open Rack V3	Stephane Dutilleul (Scaleway – VP Hardware Engineering) Hugo Collignon (Scaleway – Hardware Architect)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Accelerating Deployment Efficiency: Collaborative Innovations for Speed and Quality in Next-Generation Data Centers	Kelvin Akehurst (Cloudflare – Infrastructure Strategy and Growth) Alex Chou (MiTAC – Product Marketing Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
AQ Compute’s BCN 1 – OCP Ready v2 for Hyperscale	Jaime Comella (AQ Compute – Head of Sustainability and Innovation)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Building a scalable alternative to hyperscale clouds with OCP solutions	Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Freerk-Ole Zakfeld (ScaleUp Technologies – Head of Cloud Operations)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
How can the adoption of OCP solutions be improved in EMEA	Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Powering Sustainable HPC: Scotland’s Advantage in the Next Generation of Data Centers	David Mckenna (DataVita – Business Development Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Streamlining OCP Deployments with Integrated Rack Solutions	Giuseppe Leto (Vertiv – Senior Director IT Systems Business- EMEA)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Sustainable AI-ready capacity – myth or reality?	Jakob Bergstedt (Conapto – Head of Operations)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
When Single-Phase Immersion Cooling is the Right Choice for EMEA	Brian Kinkade (FUCHS LUBRICANTS CO. – Market Development Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Architecting the datacenter requirements for scaling AI clusters	Moderator: Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO) Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead) Mohan J Kumar (Intel – Intel Fellow)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Immersion Cooling: Progress- Trends- and Industry Growth	Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Immersion IT Equipment (ITE) Workstreams Update	Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Immersion Reliability Committee Update	Brian Kinkade (FUCHS LUBRICANTS CO. – Market Development Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Immersion Server Demonstrated Reliability at Datacenter Scale Deployment	Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Immersion Solutions: A Systems-Level Approach to Cooling at Scale	Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Kevin Gero (Murata – Sr. Product Marketing Manager) Andy Young (Asperitas – CTO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Industry Liaison Update on progress to accelerate immersion cooling by cooperating with industry standards organizations	Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Optimizing Immersion Fluids: Insights into Lifecycle Management- Cleaning and Longevity	Peter Cooper (Submer – VP Fluids and Chemistry)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Pumping Innovation – Long-term Testing with an Immersion Cooling Fluid	Sandra Duncker (Castrol Germany GmbH – Senior Technologist Thermal Management Fluids) Yann Passard (Wilo Group – Group Director Market Segment OEM)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Accelerating AI data processing at scale: Driving for efficiency and sustainability	Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell – Sr. Director Engineering) Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development) Parvez Shaik (Rambus – Senior Director of Product Management and Engineering)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Building Source Routed AI Backend Network with SRv6	Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Partner Software Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
DC-MHS Modular Plug-and-Play Workstream Overview	Todd Rosedahl (Jabil – Director — Systems and AI Strategy) Kasper Wszolek (Intel Corporation – Principal Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Enabling a true open ecosystem for 3D IC design	Anthony Mastroianni (Siemens EDA – Advanced Packaging Solutions Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Introducing the HIGHER project; a European Data Center-ready Technologies approach to True Hardware Modularity leveraging OCP Standards.	Vincent Casillas (SiPearl – VP R&D System and Software) Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
MHS DC-SCM for Edge- AI and Multi-Node: Latest 2.2 spec updates and start of the DC-SCM 3.0 workstream	Kasper Wszolek (Intel Corporation – Principal Engineer) Todd Rosedahl (Jabil – Director — Systems and AI Strategy)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
State of the European HPC Market: Trends- Challenges and Opportunities	Eric Schnepf (ISC Group – Independent HPC Consultant and Senior Advisor for ISC Group)	[Video]
Testing Systems-in- Package based on Chiplets	Mike Bartley (Tessolve – SVP VLSI)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
The RISC Paradigm Shift: Open Hardware Advancements and the Path to Sustainable Digitalization	Moderator: Çağatay Yilmaz (Research Institutes of Sweden – Project Manager) Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers) Vincent Casillas (SiPearl – VP R&D System and Software) Jean-Marie Verdun (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Distinguished Technologist Open Platform) Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO) Joseph Gonnachon (2CRSI – Chief Marketing Officer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
What’s New in DC-MHS	Dirk Blevins (Intel Corporation – Senior Platform Architect- Senior Principal Engineer) Andrew Junkins (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Rob Nance (Jabil – Director of Technology)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Cooling Bazaar	Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) Rich Lappenbusch (Supermicro – Senior Principal)	[Video]
Door Heat Exchanger Sub-Project Updates	Jabari George (J.M. Gross Engineering – Mechanical Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Erosion in Liquid Cooling Systems: Investigating Velocity-Dependent Degradation Mechanisms	Christy Gonis (CoolIT Systems – R&D Specialist)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Essential AI Infrastructure: From Technical Challenges to Policy Solutions	Moderator: Allison Boen (Alcatex Data Center Services – Consultant) Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) Erica Thomas (Liquid Cooling Coalition – Executive Director) Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
PBMC (Pivoting Blind Mate Coupling) Introduction	Glenn Charest (Meta – Mechanical Engineer) Andy Holst (Parker Hannifin – Product Engineering)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unified Redfish Schema for Managing OCP Liquid Cooling Equipment	Michael Jones (Vertiv – Principal Architect)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Welcome to Cooling Environments and Cold Plate Subproject Update	Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Workstream Update – UQDv2.0	Elizabeth Langer (CPC – Principal Technologist – Thermal) Travis Gaskill (NVIDIA – Thermal / Mechanical Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
A Unified Approach for AI Infrastructure Manageability Using Open-Source Firmware	Adonay Berhe (AMI – Product Marketing Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Advanced Server Management on Arm	Jose Marinho (Arm LTD – Staff Engineer) Marvin Drees (9elements Cyber Security – Firmware Developer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
AI Infrastructure Rack Management: Exploring Scalable Solutions Through Open-source Collaboration	Brian Vandecoevering (American Megatrends (AMI) – Senior Director – Product Manager and Solutions Architect) Anil Agrawal (Meta Platform Corp – Hardware Systems Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Building a common firmware distribution platform	Jean-Marie Verdun (HPE – Senior Strategist- Open Platform)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Developing for Purpose- Efficiency- Reliability- and Interoperability with Arm Purpose-Built Silicon with Open-Source Firmware	Zachary Bobroff (AMI – Director of Product Office) Dong Wei (ARM – Standards Architect and Fellow)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP Error Categorization with GenAI/ML : Optimizing the test error categorization cycle	Gustavo Castellanos (Meta – Network Engineer) Arushi Sharma (Meta – Hardware Analytics Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open Boot and Management Framework – on the mission for Universal- Vendor Agnostic DC-SCM	Kasper Wszolek (Intel Corporation – Principal Engineer) Bharat Pillili (Microsoft – TBD)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open Silicon Firmware Interface (openSFI)	Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow – Chief Firmware Architect) Allison Goodman (Intel – Senior Principal Engineer) Paul Grimes (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open Panel Discussion	Moderator: Jean-Marie Verdun (HPE – Senior Strategist- Open Platform) Jean-Marie Verdun (HPE – Senior Strategist- Open Platform) Moderator Christian Walter (9elements GmbH – Managing Director Firmware) Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow – Chief Firmware Architect) Srini Narayana (AMI) Felix Polyudov (AMI) Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO)	[Video]
Systems Management Track Overview	Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow – Chief Firmware Architect) Dong Wei (ARM – Standards Architect and Fellow) Jean-Marie Verdun (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Distinguished Technologist Open Platform)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unified Platform Configuration: OPF initiative to simplify platform configuration	Felix Polyudov (AMI – Fellow- Firmware Core Architecture)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Future Generation Networks (CONNECT)	Holger Claussen (Tyndall – Head of Wireless Communications Laboratory)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Green FPGA: The Role of FPGA in Waveform Agnostics Radio Unit (RU) for 5G and 6G Applications	Munir Ahmad (Lattice Semiconductor Corp – Compute Architect) Hossam Fattah (Lattice Semiconductor – 5G Architect)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Lessons Learned and Scaling OpenRAN vDUs for the Future	Kevin Devey (Intel – Platform Solutions Architect)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Market Overview	Stéphane Téral (T – Founder and Chief Analyst)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open Hardware Radio Unit for OpenRAN	Dennis Osterland (Massive Beams – CTO and Co-Founder) Andreas Benzin (Massive Beams – CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open Ireland Research Testbed	Marco Ruffini (Trinity College Dublin – Full Professor and Fellow)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open RAN deployment use cases sharing	Hancock Chang (MiTAC – Director- Solution Enabling Dept.) Alex Chou (MiTAC – Product Marketing Director)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OpenRAN at OCP	Steve Helvie (OCP – VP Channel Development)
Secure Connectivity in Data Centers – the Private Network Opportunity	Cathal Fitzpatrick (Druid Software – Head of Product Management)	[Video]
Small and Macro Cell Power Efficiency and Security	Benjamin Emes (Analog Devices – Technical Marketing)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Towards a Sustainable Future for OpenRAN	Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom / i14y – VP Convergent Networks)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Vodafone’s Requirements and Interests in the Context of Open Radio Units	Lino Delizia (Vodafone – Open-RAN Senior Engineer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
HPC Infrastructures: Hi Level Architecture and Role of the Network	Mattia Paladino (E4 Company – Technical EU Project Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Key Technologies for Energy-Efficient Pluggable Optics in AI/ML Applications	Tiger Ninomiya (Accelink Technologies – Principal Technologist)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
LRO-based Pluggable VCSEL and SiP Transceivers for AI clusters	Maxim Kuschnerov (Huawei Technologies – Director R&D)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Optical Interconnects: Powering the Future of AI Infrastructure	Roy Rubenstein (LightCounting – Consultant)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Panel: Discussing the Challenges and Solutions for Next Generation Computing Interconnect	Moderator: Andrew Schmitt (Cignal AI – Founding and Directing Analyst) Duncan Roweth (HPE – HPE Fellow) Ben Lee (NVIDIA – Principal Research Scientist) Maxim Kuschnerov (Huawei Technologies – Director R&D) George Zervas (Oriole Networks – Co-founder and CTO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Photonic Integrated Switch Fabrics: from Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Integrations	Richard Penty (Cambridge University – Professor)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Photonic Interconnect for Next-Generation AI Systems	Ben Lee (NVIDIA – Principal Research Scientist)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Photonic Networks for AI: Challenges and Opportunities	George Zervas (Oriole Networks – Co-founder and CTO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Photonic-Electronic Integration Technologies for Future Datacentres	Peter O’Brien (Tyndall National Institute – Head of European Photonics Academy)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Photonics in Supercomputer Systems for HPC and AI	Duncan Roweth (HPE – HPE Fellow)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Unlocking Optical Parallelism: High-Power- Multi-Wavelength Lasers for AI and Cloud Scaling	Frank Smyth (Pilot Photonics – Founder and CTO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
How to Build Your Brand in the OCP Community	Dirk Van Slyke (OCP – Chief Marketing Officer)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Humble beginnings to Now – an interview with Bill Carter- Fellow Emeritus of the OCP Foundation	Rob Coyle (OCP – Director of Technical Programs) Bill Carter (OCP – Fellow Emeritus)	[Video]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video
Bio-based DC Decarbonisation	Karl Rabe (WoodenDataCenter – MD and Founder)	[Video]
More Power for AI Workloads with Energy-Efficient End-to-End Two-Phase Cooling	Shahar Belkin (ZutaCore Ltd. – EVP Product)	[Video]
SILITH – Industrialize Silicon Photonics to Mass Production	Bill Zheng (Silith Tehcnology – R&D Engineer)	[Video]
The Performance Benefits of Two-Phase- Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling	Richard Bonner (Accelsius – CTO)	[Video]
Thermal Management with DBD Plasma Actuators: A New Frontier for Data Centers	Miguel Cota (YPlasma – CTO)	[Video]

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]

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]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
DBD Plasma Actuators – Compact and Efficient Cooling Alternative for Electronics	Miguel Cota (YPlasma – CTO) David Garcia (YPlasma – CEO)	[Video]	[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]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Establishing Trust- Quality and Ease-of-Use in Creating New Network Services – the Quantum Secured Metro Network	Catherine White (BT – British Telecom)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Fitting Big Quantum Computers Through Small Doors	Eric Mansfield (0 – IQM Quantum Computers)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OCP Ready Program for Quantum	Steve Helvie (OCP – VP Channel Development)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Opportunities for Quantum Technology in Data Centers	Noah El Alami (IDTechEx – Technology Analyst)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Practical Quantum Acceleration for HPC and AI	James Fletcher (ORCA Computing Ltd. – Head of Solutions Architecture)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Preparing Your Facility for Quantum	Cliff Grossner, Ph. D. (OCP – Chief Innovation Officer) James Kelly (OCP – VP Market Intelligence and Innovation)	[Video]
Taming Quantum with Standards	Richard Pitwon (0 – Resolute Photonics)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
QSNP. The European Initiative for the Development of Quantum-Safe Networks	Inaki Barettini (0 – ICFO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Site-controlled Quantum Dots for Quantum Information Processing	Emanuele Pelucchi (Tyndall National Institute – Tyndall National Institute)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Software Infrastructure Quantum Computer Integration with HPC	Venkatesh Kannan (Irish Centre of High-End Computing – Associate Director (Solutions R&D))	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Connector and PCB Routing Study for 448G	Toshiyasu Ito (Yamaichi Electronics Co.- Ltd. – Fellow)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Enabling Scalable AI with 1.6T Pluggable Optics Based on 224G/lane	Tiger Ninomiya (Accelink Technologies – Principal Technologist)	[Video]
Learnings from 25 Years of Market History and a Forecast Update	Roy Rubenstein (LightCounting – Consultant)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
LPO: Current Status- Challenges- and the Future	Michael Xin (Cambridge Industries Group (CIG) – VP of Sales and Marketing)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Panel Discussion	Eric Bernier (IPEC/Huawei – Chief Editor)	[Video]
Silicon-organic Hybrid Electro-optic Modulators for Next Generation Optical Interconnects	Carsten Eschenbaum (SilOriX GmbH – CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
The Green Terabits: Innovations for Energy-Efficient High-Speed DCI	Muhammad Sarwar (Fujitsu – Global Planning and Strategy)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
The Introduction of IPEC and it’s Impact on AI	Eric Bernier (IPEC/Huawei – Chief Editor)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Ultra-Compact VCSEL-Based Transceivers Employing High-Density Electrical Pluggable Interface for AI/ML Interconnects	Hideyuki Nasu (Furukawa Electric Co.- Ltd. – Fellow)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Welcome Address	Eric Bernier (IPEC/Huawei – Chief Editor)	[Video]

Title	Speaker(s)	Video	Slides
Accelerating AI with Next-Gen Networking: SONiC Innovations and Scalable Designs	S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Final Wrap Up	Lukasz Lukowski (STORDIS – Chief Sales and Marketing Officer) Sunny Cai (The Linux Foundation – Marketing Communications Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Improving Performance of AI Cluster by Tuning AI Ethernet Switch Features in SONiC	Nanda Ravindran (Edgecore Networks – VP of Technical Sales)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
OpenLAN Switching – More Than Just Cloud Management	Gidi Navon (Marvell – Senior Principal Architect) Taras Chornyi (PLVision – Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Open-Source Operable SONiC	Matthias Haag (Uhurutec – Bare-Metal-Freak and CEO)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Overcoming Challenges in Lifecycle Management of SONiC NOS Switching Fabric: A Study on Maintenance- Upgrades- and Scalability	Amir Elbaz (BE Networks – Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BE-Networks)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Panel Discussion: Beyond InfiniBand – Migrating to Ethernet for High-Performance Networking	Moderator: Lukasz Lukowski (STORDIS – Chief Sales and Marketing Officer) George Daly (IONOS – Senior Manager- Datacenter Fabrics) René Mack (IONOS – Network Engineer) S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA)	[Video]
Revolutionizing Open Networking: Monsoon 2.0- AI-Enhanced ORCA- and Smart CLI for SONiC	Kamal Bhatt (STORDIS – Head of Value Driven Software Delivery)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
The Openness and Flexibility of Celestica SONiC	Paul Lysander (Celestica – Product Line Manager Networking Software)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]
Welcome and Opening Remarks – Open Source with Open Opportunities	Waldemar Scheck (STORDIS – Chief Executive Officer) Sunny Cai (The Linux Foundation – Marketing Communications Manager)	[Video]	[G-Drive] [Dropbox]

Index

Keynotes (Chronological order)

Executive Session (Alphabetical order)

Women in OCP (Alphabetical order)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Alphabetical order)

Cyber Security and Data Protection (Alphabetical order)

DC Physical Infrastructure (Alphabetical order)

DC Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

EMEA Deployments of OCP Recognized Solutions (Alphabetical order)

Immersion Cooling (Alphabetical order)

IT Infrastructure (Alphabetical order)

Liquid Cooling (Alphabetical order)

Systems Management (Alphabetical order)

Special Focus: OpenRAN (Alphabetical order)

Special Focus: Photonics (Alphabetical order)

OCP Talks (Alphabetical order)

Start-Up Showcase (Alphabetical order)

Future Technologies Symposium (Alphabetical order)

FTS AI / HPC (Alphabetical order)

FTS Data Center Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

FTS Special Focus: Quantum (Alphabetical order)

Optics for AI Clusters and DC Workshop – hosted by IPEC (Alphabetical order)

SONiC Open Insight Forum hosted by STORDIS (Alphabetical order)