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Keynotes (Custom order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides OCP Welcome Address George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Silicon to Systems Driving Innovation for Azure Compute and AI Gohar Waqar (Microsoft) Sushant Gupta (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox Scaling the AI Factory: Open Networking for the Gigascale Era Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA) Video G-Drive Dropbox From CPUs to AI Compute Platforms: Scaling Open Infrastructure with Arm Michael Wong (Arm) Video G-Drive Dropbox Building Open Datacenters for Agentic AI: A Blueprint for AI at Scale Ravi Kuppuswamy (AMD) Video G-Drive Dropbox The AI Computing Continuum: Extending AI from Data Center to the User Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open Ethernet Fabrics for AI Training and Inference Mohan Kalkunte (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox The Fungible & Sustainable Data Center: A Blueprint for the AI Era Greg Moore (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Advanced Packaging: Enabling AI at Scale CP Hung (ASE) Video G-Drive Dropbox Accelerating Energy-Efficient Computing through Systems-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Subi Kengeri (Applied Materials) Video G-Drive Dropbox Advancing 3DIC Technologies to Propel AI Innovations Jun He (TSMC) Video G-Drive Dropbox Community in Action: Setting the Stage for Two Days of Collaboration and Innovation Dirk Van Slyke (Open Compute Project Foundation) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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AI Clusters (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Accelerating AI Infrastructure with OCP Signal Conditioner Standard Footprint Susmita Joshi (Astera Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI Clusters Track Kickoff Zane Ball (Open Compute Project (OCP)) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI Fabric Architecture Options: PCIe, ESUN, Copper, and Co-Packaged Optics Matt Holdrege (Microchip) Video G-Drive Dropbox Atomicity for AI Fabrics: Why RoCE’s Completion Is a Lie Paul Borrill (DAEDAELUS) Video G-Drive Dropbox Benchmarking GPU AI Cluster Health: Toward an Open Standard for Infrastructure Readiness AKASH BORATE (Factryze) Video G-Drive Dropbox Beyond 1.0: UEC and UALink AI Networking Kurtis Bowman (AMD) J Metz (AMD) Video G-Drive Dropbox Building Interoperable Open-Source Firmware and Software for Next Gen Disaggregated AI Racks Winston Thangapandian (AMI) Video G-Drive Dropbox Embedding Intelligence into Hardware-Software Co Design Through Autonomous Validation Agents Smitha Kashyap C (Microsoft) Chockalingam Arumugam (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox Emulating AI Data Center Fabric Around an Accelerator for Network-Aware Validation Ashutosh Kumar (Keysight Technologies) Suranjan Saha (Keysight Technologies) Video G-Drive Dropbox Enabling AI Networking @ Scale with Multi-path Reliable Connections (MRC) Guohan Lu (Microsoft) Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox Engineering Design Automation for Next-Generation Data Center Infrastructure: Taming the Optical Interconnect Complexity Crisis Dwayne Holst (Sumitomo Electric Lightwave) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Training to Tokens: Revolutionizing AI Inference with In-Network Compute via PCIe 6.0 to UALink 2.0 Caleb Shetland (Astera Labs) Helia Naeimi (Astera Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox High-Performance AI Fabrics Built on Open Standards: Scaling 800G and 1.6T Infrastructures Arun Solleti (Celestica) Art Fewell (Hedgehog) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open cluster designs for AI: Blueprints for open-source AI infrastructure Bhaskar Chinni (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox Panel – Powering AI at Scale: Inside the UALink Ecosystem Matt Holdrege (Microchip) Helia Naeimi (Astera Labs) Michael Lee (Synopsys) Kurtis Bowman (UALink Consortium) Video G-Drive Dropbox Scale-Up Ethernet — Transport (SUE-T) Bhaskar Chinni (Broadcom) Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox Scaling AI Infrastructure Across DC and Beyond: Meta’s Journey with NSF and BAG Jalpa Patel (Meta) Ankur Singh (Meta) Video G-Drive Dropbox Standardized Evaluation of AI Cluster Fabrics Using InfraGraph, Chakra, and ASTRA-sim Senad Durakovic (Marvell Technology, Inc.) Felicity Aktan (Marvell) Henry Kang (Marvell) Video G-Drive Dropbox UALink 2.0 Specification Update: Advancing Accelerator Interconnect Technology for AI Workloads Kurtis Bowman (AMD) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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AI Computing Continuum (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides AI Research Coop: AI Infrastructure with Cooperative Ownership and Operation Hideyuki Shimonishi (University of Osaka) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI-Native Edge MHS 1.0 Dirk Blevins (Intel) David Heinrich (HPE) Venkataraman Prasannan (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI-Native RAN over AI-Native Reconfigurable xHaul Mitsuhiro Kuchitsu (Rakuten Mobile) Video G-Drive Dropbox Arm System Architecture in the AICC, from Cloud to Edge Dong Wei (ARM) Ann Cheng (Arm Ltd) Video G-Drive Dropbox Driving the Computing Continuum in OCP & IOWN Global Forum Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Sean Varley (Ampere) Hidetsugu Sugiyama (Red Hat) Xiaojing Zhang (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc.) Katsushi Shindo (NTT) G-Drive Dropbox Empowering the AI Computing Continuum: Real-World Experiences in IOWN Implementation Yi-Neng Lin (Edgecore Networks) Video G-Drive Dropbox Implementing AICC: Transforming Warehouse Edge via IOWN APN and Remote Green GPU Consolidation Atsuko Tamekawa (KYOCERA Communication Systems Co., Ltd.) Masashi Takebe (NTT Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Industry-Led AI Infrastructure Requirements: How IOWN GF Defines What Open Design Needs for the AI Continuum Katsutoshi Itoh (Sony) Video G-Drive Dropbox Liquid cooling in Edge Rick Liou (intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox MHS Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Workstream Update and Guidelines for Adoption Todd Rosedahl (Jabil) David Heinrich (HPE) Dirk Blevins (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Network Layer for the AI Computing Continuum: Connecting Geographically Distributed Compute Sites Takuya Miyasaka (KDDI) Video G-Drive Dropbox OCP AICC Project Overview and Direction Dirk Blevins (Intel) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open Adapter Card (OAC) – The Definition of a Sub-Rackscale Acceleration Form Factor Dirk Blevins (Intel) Robert Hormuth (AMD) Video G-Drive Dropbox Remote GPU over APN: Enabling Secure and Sustainable AI Training with Disaggregated Storage and Compute Xiaojing Zhang (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc.) Video G-Drive Dropbox Sync-Across Compute and Networking for Financial DCI: An IOWN Global Forum Use Case for OCP Collaboration Yuuichi Chiba (MUFG Bank) Naoto Umemori (NTT DATA) Video G-Drive Dropbox The AICC Opportunity & Collaboration Sean Varley (Ampere) Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Up, Out, and Across: How Industry Infrastructure is Evolving to Support Frontier AI Robert Hormuth (AMD) Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation) Venkataraman Prasannan (Intel) Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo) Harsha Bojja (Google) G-Drive Dropbox Watt-Bit Integration Government Strategy for the Design and Development of National Digital Infrastructure in Japan Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Adoption of OCP-Recognized Equipment & Facilities (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Accelerating Liquid Cooling Deployment Through UQD Interoperability and Qualification Frameworks Elizabeth Langer (CPC) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI-Driven Structural Design Convergence Chien Yun Hsu (Wistron Corporation) Hsiao Yuan Peng (Wistron Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Data Center Power Infrastructure: PSU testing JONATHAN SHECHTER (Teledyne LeCroy) Video G-Drive Dropbox Faster to Market with OCP-Defined Hardware: How Intel PAE-Driven ODM Platform Readiness Accelerates OEM Deployment of Intel Xeon 6 (GNR-D) for 5G/vRAN Workloads in APAC Rick Liou (intel) Sy Jong Choi (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Compliance to Deployment: Lithium-Ion Safety and Handling Across the APAC Supply Chain Joel Chakkalakal (Americase, LLC.) Ryan Paquet (Hazmat Safety Consultants (HSC)) Dalan Zartman (Energy Security Agency (ESA)) John Redman (Americase) Video G-Drive Dropbox Leading the Future of AI: How APAC is Adopting OCP Designs to Build the AI Datacenter William Lee (IDC) Video G-Drive Dropbox Modular AI Infrastructure for Rapid Cluster Deployment John Hsia (Pegatron Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Navigating the OCP S.A.F.E. process for vendors Rob Wood (Tetrel Security) Rickey Wang (Tetrel Security) Video G-Drive Dropbox OCP Membership Overview Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP)) Video G-Drive Dropbox Semianalysis – Tokenomics Dan Nishball (SemiAnalysis) Video G-Drive Dropbox Welcome & Overview Michael Schill (Open Compute Project) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Chiplets & Advanced Packaging (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Accelerating Chiplet Design with OCP Standards Compliant Chiplet Framework and Automation Michael Posner (Cadence Design Systems) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI ASIC Design with System Technology Co-optimization of Multi-physics at Co-Package-Optics Technology Sheng-Fan Yang (GUC) Video G-Drive Dropbox Beyond Today: Shaping the Future of the Semiconductor quality and reliability Kotaro Hasegawa (Advantest) Video G-Drive Dropbox Challenges on the Road to Heterogeneous 3D Integration Jawad Nasrullah (Palo Alto Electron) Subi Kengeri (Applied Materials) Harish Bharadwaj (Broadcom) Rozalia Beica (Rapidus Design Solutions) Kotaro Hasegawa (Advantest) Bob Wheeler (LightCounting) G-Drive Dropbox Chiplet Identity and Roots of Trust in FCSA Systems: An Architecture-Agnostic Security View Mark Knight (Arm) Kent Chuang (PUFsecurity) Video G-Drive Dropbox Driving Data Center throughput through 3.5D Heterogeneous Scale-In Harish Bharadwaj (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Chips to Systems: Advanced Packaging for the AI Age Rozalia Beica (Rapidus Design Solutions) G-Drive Dropbox Innovative Process and Tool Technology Solutions for 3D-IC Heterogeneous Integration Packages Albert Lan (Applied Materials) Video G-Drive Dropbox Interposer design flow with 3D Automation loading Slammer for ASIC/xPU. Li-Chung(Leo) CHEN (google) Jimmy Chen (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Multiphysics Fusion for Multi-Die Designs: Power Delivery, Thermal, and SI Co-Design Shekhar Kapoor (Synopsys) Video G-Drive Dropbox OCP Open Chiplet Economy Jawad Nasrullah (Palo Alto Electron) Video G-Drive Dropbox Productising Chiplets with OCE and the Foundation Chiplet System Architecture Mark Knight (Arm) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Cooling Environments (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Advanced Thermal Management for High-Density AI Servers: Cold Plate Optimization and CDU Specification Requirements Fangchou Lin (AVC) Video G-Drive Dropbox Advancing AI Datacenter Cooling: Intel’s Intelligent Rack Liquid Cooling Control Center Architecture Dong-han Wu (Intel) Jay Wu (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Beyond WUE 0: Measuring and Engineering Water-Positive Cooling for Negative-WUE Data Centres Rishab Vardhan Harikrishnan (Oracle) Swapnil Shrivastav (Uravu Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox Busbar Cooling Challenges and Emerging Opportunities for Next-Generation AI Platforms Hans Chan (Microsoft) JK WU (Microsoft) Kent Kao (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox CDU Filter Health & Reducer-Induced Bubble Formation: A Reproducible Design-Margin Methodology for AI Data-Center Liquid Cooling Ray Hsieh (Cooler Master Technology Inc.) Video G-Drive Dropbox Conformal Cooling for Connectors: Physics‑Driven Channels Where Heat Happens Nrupathunga Chakravarthy SR (Molex) Babu Rao Ponangi (Molex) Yashwanth K (Molex) Video G-Drive Dropbox Daikin’s Perspective on Next-Generation Cooling Technologies Haruki Sekiyama (Daikin Industries Inc.) Video G-Drive Dropbox Enabling High-Density Data Center Cooling : The Critical Role of Brazed Plate Heat Exchangers Mike Lu (KAORI HEAT TREATMENT CO., LTD) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Material Composition to Effective Thermal Conductivity: A Physics-Based Method for Improving PCBA Level Thermal Simulation Accuracy Zi Ping Wu (Microsoft) Steven Chien (Wiwynn Corporation) Adee Ho (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox From OCP workstream to AI mainstream. Immersion’s time is now Alex Chou (Submer) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Rack to Facility: Designing Scalable CDU-Based Liquid Cooling System Ming Tien (nVent) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Silicon to Scalable AI Infrastructure: 6kW+ AI ASIC Innovation to Liquid-Cooled Infrastructure Carrie Chen (Intel) Nishi Ahuja (Intel Corporation) Shawn Ma (Wiwynn Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Liquid-to-Air HRU Cooling at Scale: Serviceability and Fleet‑Safe Maintenance Practices Haman Yu (Microsoft) Robert Tsai (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox Material Compatibility, Reliability, and Safety Risks in Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Julie Shih (UL Solutions) Video G-Drive Dropbox New thin film for water immersion cooling system Cheng-Chang Chen (Industrial Technology Research Institute) Video G-Drive Dropbox Optimizing Heat Rejection in Liquid-Cooled Data Centers Surender Dhanasekaran (Super Micro Computer, Inc) Matthew ZHUANG (supermicro) Video G-Drive Dropbox Particle Control in DC Hex Cooling Yuzhou Lin (Wiwynn Corporation) Vinayak Vats (Shinwa Controls America) Video G-Drive Dropbox Project Deschutes Update Edward Kung (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Rethinking AI Infrastructure through Total Risk of Ownership (TRO) RT Huang (Supermicro) RT Huang (Supermicro) Video G-Drive Dropbox Technical Challenges and Key Considerations in Transitioning from Single-Phase to Two-Phase DLC Jake Hsieh (Wiwynn Corporation) Webb Chen (Asia Vital Components) Video G-Drive Dropbox The Resilience Gap: Why Hardware Protection is the Final Frontier in Data Center Reliability Cassandra Zentner (actnano) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Future Technologies Symposium (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides 2026 OCP APAC Summit FTS Opening Remarks Tzi-cker Chiueh (Delta Electronics) Video G-Drive Dropbox e‑Tube RF Transmission Over Plastic Waveguide: Scale Up Beyond Copper with Copper‑Like Simplicity, Economics, and Reliability Sean Park (Point2 Technology) Video G-Drive Dropbox Enabling Scalable AI Data Centers Through Solid-State Transformer Technology Peter Barbosa (Delta) Video G-Drive Dropbox Enhancing Cold Plate Performance Using Diamond-based Materials Jake Hsieh (Wiwynn Corporation) Nick Liu (Wiwynn) Video G-Drive Dropbox Intelligent Memory: The Green Evolution of Silicon Tuo-Hung (Alex) Hou (NYCU) Video G-Drive Dropbox Operating Superconducting Quantum Processors at Scale: Autonomous Bring-Up and Calibration Chiidong Chen (SINICA Academia) Video G-Drive Dropbox Overview of Evaporative Cooling for High-Load Data Center Servers Hiroshi Esaki (Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo)) Takeshi Yajima (Takeshi Yajima) Ph.D. (Ph.D. (MESH-X)) Video G-Drive Dropbox Power. Speed. Scale. Enabling AI Infrastructure with PCIe Gen 7 Gen 8 and High-Voltage Connectivity – Sponsored by TE Connectivity Jacky Hsu (TE Connectivity) Michelle Ku (TE Connectivity) Video G-Drive Dropbox Probabilistic Digital Twins for AI-Native Infrastructure Operations Hideyuki Shimonishi (University of Osaka) Video G-Drive Dropbox Two-Dimensional Transistors for Ultra-Low-Power Electronics Beyond Silicon Lain-Jong (Lance) Li (National University of Singapore) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Networking (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Accelerate cloud scale validation with AVS and TH6 BCMSIM Runip Gopisetty (Broadcom) Abhishek Verma (Google) Preet Thakkar (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Chaos by Design: Repeatable Worst-Case Traffic Emulation for Validating AI Scale-Up and Scale-Out Network Fabrics Neil Holmquist (Viavi Solutions) Video G-Drive Dropbox Deep Networking: From Open Networking to Intelligent Infrastructure DJ Spry (Aria Networks) Video G-Drive Dropbox Delivering a FBOSS Ready Platform: A Celestica Perspective Purush Gupta L B (Celestica) Tao Ren (Meta) Video G-Drive Dropbox Enabling open network switch hardware and software designs through FBOSS OSS Ryan Torres (Nexthop.AI) Srikrishna Gopu (Meta) Video G-Drive Dropbox Fast Optical Circuit Switching in the Scale-Up Jonathan Förste (Linque) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Time Coordinated Computing to Carrier-Grade O-RAN: Statistical Proof of Intel Xeon 6 GNR-D Timing Accuracy with GNSS, DPLL, SyncE & PTP IEEE 1588 Rick Liou (intel) Sy Jong Choi (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Hyperscale Efficiency: Why Standards (SAI, gNMI, YANG) are the Only Cure for Vendor Lock-in Miroslav Miklus (PANTHEON.tech) Video G-Drive Dropbox One Fabric Isn’t Enough: Multi-Planar Ethernet for AI/ML Bhaskar Chinni (Broadcom) Arihant Jain (Arista Networks) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open Source development and onboarding for FBOSS network switches Jason Bos (Cisco) Vasant Patil (Meta) Video G-Drive Dropbox Optical Scale-Up Fabrics for Next-Generation AI Infrastructure Jeffrey Kung (Astera Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox RELIANT and NETRA – An agentic framework for observabity and autonomous management of Datacenter Networks Satananda Burla (Marvell) Waruna Fernando (Marvell) Video G-Drive Dropbox Scale Up Sophistry: Copper vs Optical is a False Dilemma Dan Nishball (SemiAnalysis) Video G-Drive Dropbox Securing the Photonic Attack Surface: An Open Framework for Hardening Optical Fabrics, Management Planes, and SFP Ports Prakash Suthar (Lattice Semiconductor) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Open Data Center for AI: Rack & Power, Power Distribution and Facility Design (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides 800V DC Power Trends Henrik Nilén (Vertiv) Video G-Drive Dropbox A backside vertical power architecture enable high efficiency, high density LGA Socket CPU (Google and Intel) Bryant Tsai (Intel) Cheng Chung Yang (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Actively‑Cooled Power Cables for Compact, High-Ampacity Rack Interconnects Babu Rao Ponangi (Molex) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI Data Center Infrastructure with High Power and Full Liquid Cooling Solution Chris Pai (Foxconn) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI-Ready Infrastructure: Vertical Rack Integration For Hyperscale Cloud Deployments Adam Morton (Flex) Video G-Drive Dropbox Capacitor Solution in AI Server David Lee (Samsung Electro-Mechanics) Hans Hwang (Samsung Electro-Mechanics) Video G-Drive Dropbox Constructing Resilient and Efficient AI Data Centers with Ultra-high-performance Concrete Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista) Video G-Drive Dropbox Emerging Challenges and Architecture Considerations for LVDC Power Distribution and Its Interface with Rack Power Systems Peter Barbosa (Delta) Video G-Drive Dropbox Empowering AI Ecosystems: The Evolution of Molded Inductors for Next-Generation ASICs ShuenChang Hung (Cyntec Co., Ltd) Video G-Drive Dropbox Grid to Core Architecture Evolution in AI Datacenter Marco Ruggeri (Renesas Electronics) Pietro Scalia (Renesas Electronics) Video G-Drive Dropbox HBSE /Hazard Based Safety Engineering Concept with Coolant and High Power yulianti darmanto (Google LLC) Video G-Drive Dropbox LVDC Power Distribution project Paolo Catapane (ABB) JP Buzzell (Bitdeer) Video G-Drive Dropbox Panel: 800VDC and Beyond: Building the Native DC Data Center Kelvin Huang (Microsoft) Peter Barbosa (Delta) Walter Lai (Google) Roy Luo (NVIDIA) Zane Ball (Open Compute Project (OCP)) Powering AI Infrastructure: From Power Shelf to Rack-Level Power Architecture Rafael Lee (LITEON) Video G-Drive Dropbox Standardizing Power Telemetry Semantics for Energy Efficient, Hyperscale Datacentre Operations Smitha Kashyap C (Microsoft) Chockalingam Arumugam (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox Telemetry-Driven Power Estimation for Rack-Level Provisioning in Public Cloud Data Centers Prateek Gupta (Microsoft Corporation) Adam Gustafson (Microsoft) Daniel Vengrin (Microsoft) Joe Gruher (Microsoft Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Validating High‑Power AI Rack Platforms with complex architecture: Lessons from Mt. Diablo 400 System Qualification Venkata Nagesh Babu Doddapaneni (Microsodt) Jimmy Wang (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox Welcome & Track Opening Kelvin Huang (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Photonics (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides A Hybrid Optoelectronic Computing Architecture for Energy-Efficient AI on Mature CMOS Nodes Erik Chen (Artilux) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI-assisted Design and Optimization Flow of Electro-Optical Integrated Circuits TungYu Su (Synopsys) Video G-Drive Dropbox Co-Packaged Optics and the Composable AI Cluster: Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Era Mark Wade (Ayar Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox Enabling Scalable CPO Manufacturing with SENKO Elastic Averaging Technology Chengting Chen (SENKO Advanced Components) Video G-Drive Dropbox Inside the Package: How CPO is Powering the Next Wave of AI Nicole Tien (ASE) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open Ethernet AI Fabrics Enabled by Co-Packaged Optics Bhaskar Chinni (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems: From Hyperscale Validation to Open Ecosystem Bijan Nowroozi (Lightmatter) Video G-Drive Dropbox PCIe 7 Signaling: Electrical Challenges and Transition to Optics Ryan Yue (Astera Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox Pushing the Boundaries of Storage and Memory with Light Richard Pitwon (Seagate) Video G-Drive Dropbox Ready to CPO: 2026 Progress Wataru Ishida (NTT Devices) Powen Tsai (Edgecore) Video G-Drive Dropbox Revolutionizing Networking for Gigawatt AI Factories Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA) Video G-Drive Dropbox Scaling Optical Interconnects to 400G-Per-Lane for AI Datacenters Anna Tatarczak (Coherent) Video G-Drive Dropbox Scaling Optical Test Strategies for Co-Packaged Optics Ines Brunn (VIAVI Solutions) Video G-Drive Dropbox Snap-Beam Connector, A Compact, Detachable Optical Connector for PIC in CPO Tsunetoshi Saito (Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.) Video G-Drive Dropbox Tradeoffs between Co-packaged, Near-package, and Front-panel Optics Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA) Mark Wade (Ayar Labs) Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista) Subi Kengeri (Applied Materials) Thomas Barber (GlobalFoundries) Bob Wheeler (LightCounting) G-Drive Dropbox Unlocking AI at scale: the rise of optical networking Thomas Barber (GlobalFoundries) Video G-Drive Dropbox Welcome & Opening Robert Lo (ITRI) Video XPO: Next Generation Liquid Cooled Pluggable Optics Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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SONiC Workshop (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Advancing SONiC Validation for AI Data Centers: RoCEv2 and Fabric-Scale Testing Abhijit Lahiri (Keysight Technologies) Video Closing Remarks Sunny Schatz (The Linux Foundation) Enabling Link-Layer UEC 1.0 Features in SONiC Ravindranath Coimbatore Kanakarajan (Marvell) Ravi Chandra Minnikanti (Marvell) Video How SONiC Powers the World’s Largest AI Infrastructure Guohan Lu (Microsoft) Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox Simulating large-scale fabrics with Aktive Kartikey Singh (Google) Abhishek Verma (Google) Video SONiC BMC for Liquid-Cooled Switches Guohan Lu (Microsoft) Ryan Torres (Nexthop AI) Video G-Drive Dropbox SONiC Secure Boot: from Factory to Production Marty Ma (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Video Welcome + SONiC State of the Union Sunny Schatz (The Linux Foundation) Video
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Server (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides A Modular PCIe Cassette Architecture for Scalable AI Systems Hardik Shah (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox Architecting AI Data Center Servers: Co-Engineering from Silicon to Rack Across the Ecosystem David Lee (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Architecting AI‑Ready Servers: System Architecture and Memory Trade‑offs Rajat Agarwal (Intel) Danny Volkind (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Breaking the PCIe Barrier: Enabling Scalable AI Infrastructure with Retimers and Active Electrical Cables Jeffrey Kung (Astera Labs) Video G-Drive Dropbox Breaking the Physical Limits: Synergizing HDI, mSAP, and Embedded Technology for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure Jason Chen (Unimicron Technology Co.) Video G-Drive Dropbox Building Open and Scalable AI Infrastructure with AMD and OCP Wai Chung Ngai (AMD) Video G-Drive Dropbox Caliptra Silicon Root of Trust in BMC SoCs Chiawei Wang (Aspeed Technologies, Inc.) Neal Liu (Aspeed Technologies, Inc.) Video G-Drive Dropbox Caliptra Subsystem Provisioning Zachary Halvorsen (Google) Timothy Trippel (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Composable Security Architecture: Raising the Security Bar for Datacenter Operational Technology Appliances Miguel Osorio (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Ensuring PCIe Compliance for OCP Extension Cards: Electrical Design and Validation Aligned with CEM Specifications Thonas Su (Intel) Brian Ho (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox From 40+ Fragmented CPLDs to a Common Standard: Meta’s Forward-Looking Framework LJ Chen (Meta) Ayo Wu (Meta Platforms, Inc.) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Caliptra Specification to Silicon Reality Bryan Kelly (Microsoft) Kent Chuang (PUFsecurity) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Generative to Agentic AI: Redefining Data Center Server Architectures for the Next Wave Jimmy Hsu (Intel) Avdhesh Chhodavdia (Astera Labs) Wai Chung Ngai (AMD) Jatin Upadhyay (Intel) Greg Moore (Google) David Lee (Intel) G-Drive Dropbox From Hyperscaler Requirements to Open Standards: Delivering AI Fabric RAS Through COSMOS and OpenBMC Caleb Shetland (Astera Labs) Janny Au (Insyde Software) Video G-Drive Dropbox From Physical to Virtual: CAE-based Methodology for Server Cable Routing Adam Hsu (Microsoft) Ollie Huang (Wiwynn Corporation) Kyan Chen (MSFT) Video G-Drive Dropbox Open Infrastructure to Agentic Al: Arm’s Silicon Vision for the Open Data Center Sammy Huang (Arm) Video G-Drive Dropbox Optimization of OCP PCIe Channel Design for Next-Gen AI DC-MHS with Electrical Validation Chiew Yee Ho (intel) Robert Chen (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox PCIe Gen6 System Design and Validation Strategy with non Standard Connector and Cable Linkage Scott Lee (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox Silicon-Native Root of Trust for OpenBMC: Integrating AST2700 iRoT into Open Data Center Firmware Chiawei Wang (Aspeed Technologies, Inc.) Neal Liu (Aspeed Technologies, Inc.) Jeff Chang (Insyde Software) Video G-Drive Dropbox SPEC CPU 2026 – What’s new, what’s improved, and why it matters David Reiner (SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation)) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Storage and Memory (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides AFPD Disk Failure Prediction and Detection and AI Transformation Neo Chen (Microsoft) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI System Bottlenecks Shift from Compute to Memory and Storage Gerry Juan (Intel) Jeff Su (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Applying Thermodynamics to Storage: Defining Entropy Metrics for Next-Gen SSDs Andrew Lin (Phison Electric) Video G-Drive Dropbox Beyond the I/O Wall: Scaling Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) for the Memory-Bound Era Scott Howard (VAST Data) Video G-Drive Dropbox Delivering AI Storage with Open, Flash-Optimized Architecture for Next-Gen Workloads Chandra Nelogal (Wiwynn Corporation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Feasibility Studies on Optical Solid-State Drives and Memory for AI Datacenters Ryuichi Fujimoto (Kioxia) Video G-Drive Dropbox KV Cache as a System‑Level Challenge: Rethinking Memory and CPU Roles in AI Inference Russal (LI-YING) Chang (Intel) Jeff Ke (Intel) Gerry Juan (Intel) Video G-Drive Dropbox Memory Errors as System Signals: Don’t Shoot the Messenger Meeta Saggi (Everpure) Video G-Drive Dropbox Opening Remarks Mohamad El-Batal (Seagate) Video G-Drive Dropbox Rethinking Enterprise TCO with QLC SSDs for Large-Scale Object Storage Seokhyun Ryu (Samsung Electronics) Video G-Drive Dropbox Silicon-Driven Storage: SSD Controllers, Storage Accelerators, and DPUs Powering the AI Data Center Erich Haratsch (Marvell) Video G-Drive Dropbox Smart Memory Fabrics for Data-Centric AI Serving at Scale Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell) Basavaraja M S (Marvell Technology) Video G-Drive Dropbox SNIA StorageAI and OCP Ecosystem J Metz (AMD) Video G-Drive Dropbox The Future of HDD Interfaces Mohamad El-Batal (Seagate) Todd Egbert (Broadcom) Video G-Drive Dropbox The Future of Next-Gen HDD Infrastructure: HAMR, HSMR, and Head depop Jim Hsu (Google) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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SystemReady Workshop by Arm (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Arm AGI CPU and CRB System Level Architecture and Design Prasanna Jayaraman (Arm) Video Compliance overview and Architecture Compliance Suite Hands-on Ann Cheng (Arm Ltd) Open discussion / FAQ Joyce Huang (Arm) Overview of SystemReady Program Dong Wei (ARM) Video Registration/Greeting Joyce Huang (Arm) Video
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