2026 OCP EMEA Summit

Date:
April 29–30, 2026
Time:
6:30 AM
Location:
Dublin, Ireland April 29-30, 2025
The Innovation Village at 2026 OCP EMEA Summit

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Tracks  
Keynotes [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Executive Session [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
AI Clusters [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
AI Open Data Center [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Cooling Environments & Liquid Cooling [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
EMEA Market Impact & Adoption Stories [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS Keynotes [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS AI / HPC [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS Quantum [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
FTS Sustainability [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
IT Infrastructure: Network & Storage [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Immersion Cooling [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Open Chiplet Economy [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Photonics [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Security [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
SONiC Workshop [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Sustainability [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
Systems Management [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]
The AI Computing Continuum: Extending AI from Data Center to the User [Jump To Section] [YouTube Playlist]

Keynotes (Custom order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
2026 OCP EMEA Keynote   Video  
Welcome to the 2026 OCP EMEA Summit
  • Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager)
  • Ewa McCurdy (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Solution Provider Program Manager)
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CEO Address: Advancing the OCP Data Center Ecosystem Vision
  • George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – CEO)
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The Fungible Data Center: A Blueprint for the AI Era
  • Amber Huffman (Google – Technologist- AI & Infrastructure)
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The 1 MW Rack and Going Beyond the Sidecar: Optimizing 800 VDC for Power Distribution
  • Sebastien Cruz Mermy (Schneider Electric – VP Datacenters Innovations)
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The Rise of AI and the Need for Data Centre Sustainability
  • Javier Peman (NVIDIA – Director – Cloud- Iberia)
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Scaling AI Clusters: Neocloud Innovations- Challenges- and Collaborative Pathways in the OCP Community
  • Moderator: James Kelly (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – VP Market Intelligence and Innovation)
  • Yann-Guirec Manac’h (Scaleway – Office of the CTO)
  • Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies)
  • Peter Sheh (Crusoe – Sr. Product Manager)
  • Jonmichael Hands (FarmGPU – Chief Executive Officer)
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From Training Titans to Inference for Billions: Open Infrastructure for the Next Era of AI
  • Robert Hormuth (AMD – CVP- Architecture & Strategy)
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Scaling Trusted AI Infrastructure
  • Bryan Kelly (Microsoft – Partner Architect- Microsoft- Azure- Strategic Planning & Architecture)
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Open- Heterogeneous Infrastructure for Sustainable Agentic AI
  • Anil Nanduri (Intel Corporation – Vice President- AI Products & GTM)
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Distributed Computing @ Scale for AI Training & Inference
  • Hasan Siraj (Broadcom – Head of Software Products)
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Infrastructure for the AI Era: High Density Racks- Intelligent Power- Liquid Cooling — Delivered with Speed and Expertise
  • Thomas Schreiner (Rittal – Director Global Business Development IT)
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Direct Current Powering the Data Center – The Industry’s Critical Shift to Meet IT Demands
  • Moderator: Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Senior Director of Member Experience)
  • Paolo Catapane (ABB – Chapter Leader Solution Product Management)
  • JP Buzzell (Eaton – VP- Data Center Chief Architect)
  • Tony Landry (Schneider Electric – Technical Architect)
  • Brian Deckard (Siemens – Emerging Technology Standardization)
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Scaling AI Infrastructure with Open Systems and Arm-Based Silicon
  • Eddie Ramirez (Arm – VP of Marketing- Cloud AI Business Unit- Arm)
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Executive Session (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Boost your air-cooled server performance with an Industrial Two-Phase Passive Cooling Solution presented by Valeo
  • Olivier de Laet (Calyos – Founder)
  • Frédéric Petit (Valeo – Research and Innovation Director)
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Breaking through the Network Wall with High Radix Switching presented by Eridu
  • Mike Capuano (Eridu – Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer)
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Evolving the Infrastructure Stack: Rack‑Scale Designs- Open Firmware- and Intelligent Sustainability presented by AMI
  • Zachary Bobroff (AMI – Director of Product Office)
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Future Proofed DLC Piping Infrastructure presented by Georg Fischer
  • Mark Bulmer (Georg Fischer – GMD)
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Harness AI Opinions with Sensor Facts – sensorCFD AI presented by AKCP
  • Brad Klein (AKCP – Manager)
  • Andrej Tihonov (AKCP – Engineering Director)
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Multi-Core Fiber – A solution for scale-up- out- and across presented by Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
  • Teylor Bremekamp (Sumitomo Electric – Fiber Network Design Engineer)
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Next Gen AI Data Centers with Industry-proven Direct Current Power Supply presented by ODCA
  • Hartwig Stammberger (Eaton – Chair of the Board of Open Direct Current Alliance ODCA)
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Redefining Storage for the AI Era presented by Seagate
  • Maarten Guijt (Seagate Technology – VP Europe)
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Reducing Compliance Complexity: A Unified OCP Safe and SESIP Path to CRA presented by Brightsight
  • Pol Matamoros (Brightsight – Location Manager- Brightsight Barcelona)
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Removing the Bottleneck: Building Scalable Infrastructure for the Generative AI Era
  • Matt Roman (Celestica – Sr. Director- Product and Technical Marketing)
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SONiC – NOS of choice for AI data Centre presented by Upscale AI
  • Prosenjit Pal (UpscaleAI – VP AI Networking Software)
  • RamanaMohanRao Dasari (Upscale AI – Director- AI Networking software)
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The Future of Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling presented by CoolIT Systems
  • Kamal Mostafavi (CoolIT Systems – Chief Technology Officer)
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The Power Solution Has Changed — Efficiency Must Follow the Load presented by OmniOn Power
  • Philip Zuk (OmniOn Power – SVP and GM AI/Datacenter BU)
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AI Clusters (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Adaptive DTC Liquid Cooling for AI Clusters: Managing Variable Workloads and Improving Energy Efficiency
  • David Beberide Sabarich (UniSCool – Business Development Director)
  • Montse Vilarrubí Porta (UniSCool – COO & co-founder)
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Composable at Scale: Integrating Memory- Fabric- and System Architecture for Million-GPU AI
  • Moderator: Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development)
  • Manoj Wadekar (Meta – Networking AI Technologist)
  • Daniel Perez-Lopez (iPronics – Founder & CTO)
  • Chris Nicol (d-Matrix – VP)
  • Jae Lee (Rebellions – Head of Forward Deployed Engineering)
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Composable Memory Fabrics for XPU-Scale AI Data Services
  • Vijay Inavolu (Marvell – Senior Principle Engineer)
  • Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell – Sr. Director Engineering)
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Deploying large-scale heterogeneous accelerator in hyperscale production
  • Yao Rong (Meta – Systems Engineer- AI Systems)
  • Antonis Michaloliakos (Meta – Production Systems Engineer- AI Systems)
  • Nischay Tata (AMD – Fellow- Systems Design Engineer)
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GPU Communication Library in Meta-Scale AI Clusters
  • James Hongyi Zeng (Meta – Senior Engineering Manager)
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High Performance at Scale and Reliability by Design: Operating META’s largest AI clusters
  • Jose Leitao (Meta – Principal Network Engineer)
  • Guille Cobo (Meta – Senior Production Engineer)
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High-Performance AI Fabrics Built on Open Standards: Scaling 800G and 1.6T Infrastructures
  • Arun Solleti (Celestica – Technical Product Marketing)
  • Art Fewell (Hedgehog – Technical Marketing Engineer)
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OCP Defines New AI Scale Up Network Specification – ESUN (Ethernet for Scale Up Network)
  • Manoj Wadekar (Meta – AI Systems Technologist)
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OCP Open Systems for AI Community Update
  • Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Senior Director of Member Experience)
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Open cluster designs for AI: training cluster architecture.
  • Josue Mora Acosta (SYSTEM-STACK – CEO)
  • Lowell Lamb (Broadcom – TBD)
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Open Compute Project Reference Architectures for AI Training and Inference
  • Moderator: James Kelly (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – VP Market Intelligence and Innovation)
  • Marc Austin (Hedgehog – Chief Hedgehog)
  • Matt Roman (Celestica – Sr. Director- Product and Technical Marketing)
  • Jonmichael Hands (FarmGPU – Chief Executive Officer)
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Panel: Revolutionizing AI Heat Management: The Superior Efficiency of Two-Phase Liquid Cooling in High-Density Infrastructures
  • Moderator: Nicolas Bontigui (SemiAnalysis – Research Analyst)
  • Olivier de Laet (Calyos – Founder)
  • Shahar Belkin (ZutaCore- Inc. – EVP Product Development)
  • Richard Bonner (Accelsius – CTO)
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Scale Up and Scale Out AI Fabrics: A Polymorphic Ethernet Architecture for ‘System of Systems’.
  • S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA)
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Scale‑Up Ethernet Transport (SUE-T)
  • Lowell Lamb (Broadcom – TBD)
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Silent Data Corruption in AI
  • Emel Goksu (Meta – Ecosystem & Partnerships Lead)
  • Łukasz Tuz (Intel – Cloud Software Architect)
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The Business Case for Density
  • Rich Lappenbusch (Super Micro Computer- Inc – Senior Principal)
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Using Hybrid Strategy to Achieve AI Capacity Agility – Top Lessons Learned
  • Jin Zhang (Meta – Director)
  • Polina Vasileva (Meta – Technical Program Manager)
  • Anton Marchenko (Meta – Network Engineer)
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AI Open Data Center (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Accelerating Speed to Power: Introducing the DCFlex Tiered Flexibility Framework
  • Zane Ball (Open Compute Project (OCP) – CTO)
  • Anuja Ratnayake (EPRI – Emerging Technologies Executive)
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Bridging the Worlds of Data Centers and Direct Current Microgrids
  • Brian Deckard (Siemens – Emerging Technology Standardization)
  • Laurens Mackay (DC Opportunities – CEO & Founder)
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ESS in Hyperscale & AI Data Centers: OCP Ready Requirements Update
  • Dan Lambert (ZincFive- Inc. – Senior Product Manager)
  • SHRIKANTH VENKATESHAPPA (Rittal – Global Business Development IT Power Distribution)
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Key Performance attributes – ORv3 and HVDC Power Systems
  • Harry Soin (Advanced Energy – Senior Technical Marketing Director)
  • Cihan Aydin (Delta Electronics Inc. – Senior Design Engineer Power Electronics)
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LVDC Power Distribution OCP project
  • JP Buzzell (Eaton – VP- Data Center Chief Architect)
  • Paolo Catapane (ABB – Chapter Leader- Solution Product Management Infrastructure)
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LVDC Powering the Future Data Center: A Call to Action on Standardization and Native Designs
  • Jason Adrian (Google – ML Systems Architect)
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Modular Technology Cooling: The Lego © “Pipeline” from 100 kW to 1 MW per Rack
  • Moderator: Don Mitchell (Victaulic – Mission Critical Division Manager)
  • Ian Francis (Digital Realty – Global Design and Engineering SME)
  • Justin Seter (DLB Associates Consulting Engineers – Strategic Initiatives Officer)
  • Malcolm Howe (Cundall – Partner)
  • José Castañeda (AirTrunk – Vice President- Innovation and Intelligence)
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ORW Rack Frame Specification Proposal Update
  • Darryl Daniel (Meta – Mechanical Engineer)
  • Paul Clements (Rittal – Design)
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Robotics as Infrastructure for AI-Driven Data Centers
  • Moderator: Eric Xu (Meta – Sr Manager- Robotics)
  • Eric Xu (Meta – Sr Manager- Robotics)
  • Wolfgang Hillinger (DS Automotion – CEO)
  • Sven Schreiner (Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH – Chief Growth & Strategy Officer Data Center Solutions)
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Scaling Cooling for AI: Modular TCS Insights from the OCP Community
  • Don Mitchell (Victaulic – Mission Critical Division Manager)
  • Dariusz Raczkowski (Catalyst Commissioning Group LLC – Director- Client Services)
  • Ian Francis (Digital Realty – Global Design and Engineering SME)
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Silicone-jacketed cables for future power dense architectures
  • Hendrik Coldenstrodt (BizLink Technology- Inc. – Chief Technology Officer)
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Sustainable Power using Fuel Cells for Load Following Applications
  • Razvan Panati (Bloom Energy – VP Product Strategy)
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Technical Operations Practices for High Efficiency AI Factories
  • Moderator: Rich Lappenbusch (Super Micro Computer- Inc – Senior Principal)
  • Imran Latif (JCI – VP Global Technology & Innovation Data Centers)
  • Sven Schreiner (Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH – Chief Growth & Strategy Officer Data Center Solutions)
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The “Next MV” Moment: Why 1GW AI Campuses Force Superconductor Adoption
  • Moderator: William Reynolds (MetOx International – Strategy Lead)
  • Karl Rabe (WoodenDataCenter – MD & Founder)
  • Jie Li (Canyon Magnet Energy – CSO)
  • Marie Hayden (MetOx International – TBD)
  • Tatjana Grun (Vision Electric Superconductors – TBD)
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The Open Data Center Initiative for AI: Advancing OCP Community Work Toward Open- Scalable- and Energy-Ready Data Centers
  • Steve Helvie (Open Compute Project (OCP) – VP Channel Development)
  • Zane Ball (Open Compute Project (OCP) – CTO)
  • Paul Artman (AMD – Director System Design)
  • Mark Bailey (Google – Distinguished Engineer- ML Systems Architecture)
  • Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead)
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Towards Interoperable AI-Ready Data Center Standards: Bridging Power- Cooling- and Architecture
  • Moderator: Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems)
  • Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead)
  • Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO)
  • Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO)
  • Jason Adrian (Google – ML Systems Architect)
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Cooling Environments & Liquid Cooling (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Bio-based fluids for European AI data centres
  • David Gyulnazaryan (Impleon – Decarbonisation & Heat Reuse)
  • Massimiliano Dall’Armellina (Frigel Group – Sales Business Development Manager)
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Coldplate Base Specification
  • Brian Pilapil (CoolIT Systems – Thermal Mechanical Engineer)
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Cooling Environments: Industry Analytics- Project Progress and Cold Plate Developments
  • Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead)
  • Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO)
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Door Heat Exchanger Sub-Project Updates
  • Jabari George (J.M. Gross Engineering – Mechanical Engineer)
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European 1MW rack – HDINI
  • Luis Castrillo (Castrol (BP) – Senior Technologist)
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)
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Guidelines and Base Specification for Dielectric fluid-Based Two-Phase Cold Plate heat transfer fluids
  • Shahar Belkin (ZutaCore Ltd. – EVP Product)
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Harmonizing Open Compute Infrastructure with Global Standards
  • Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO)
  • Maryam Mohagheghi (HF Sinclair – Product Specialist)
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PBMC (Pivoting Blind Mate Coupling) Update & Specification
  • Glenn Charest (Meta – Mechanical Engineer)
  • Andy Holst (Parker Hannifin – Product Engineering)
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Total cost of ownership (TCO) model for liquid cooled data centers. New tool release in insights for economisation
  • Andy Young (Asperitas – CTO)
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UQDv2 – Interoperability & Future Roadmap
  • Elizabeth Langer (CPC – Principal Technologist – Thermal)
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EMEA Market Impact & Adoption Stories (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Discover how Scaleway leverages OCP’s open designs to transform cloud and AI operations
  • Yann-Guirec Manac’h (Scaleway – Office of the CTO)
  • Albane Bruyas (Scaleway – COO)
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From Idea to Impact: The spec that connects liquid to the rack
  • Moderator: Barry Nielsen (CPC – Sr. Applications Development Manager- Thermal Management)
  • Elizabeth Langer (CPC – Principal Technologist – Thermal)
  • Paul Artman (AMD – Director System Design)
  • Timothy Marquis (Parker Hannifin – Engineering Manager)
  • Kamal Mostafavi (CoolIT Systems – Chief Technology Officer)
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How OCP can help run an Sovereign cloud in germany
  • Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO)
  • Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead)
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Impact of EU CRA and other regulations to the OCP ecosystem
  • Stefano Righi (AMI – Chief Security Architect)
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Outsmarting Supply Chains: How Remanufactured OCP Racks Slash Lead Times and Deployment Costs
  • Mark Hall (Sims Lifecycle Services – GTM Director)
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The Total Risk of Ownership (TRO) of AI Factories
  • Moderator: Rich Lappenbusch (Super Micro Computer- Inc – Senior Principal)
  • Imran Latif (JCI – VP Global Technology & Innovation Data Centers)
  • Dr. Umaima Haider (University of East London – Senior Lecturer)
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Understanding the EMEA Adoption of OCP Designs – A View from IDC on Adoption- Spend- and Buyer Intent
  • Chris Drake (IDC – Senior Research Director)
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Welcome & Kickoff: Adoption- Ecosystem Growth- and the Path to Participation
  • Ewa McCurdy (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Solution Provider Program Manager)
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FTS Keynotes (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
FTS Awards Ceremony
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)
  • David Beberide Sabarich (UniSCool – Business Development Director)
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FTS Chair Keynote
  • Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers)
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Heat Reuse and Other Concepts for Net Zero Energy Data Centres
  • Jaume Salom (IREC – Catalonia Institute for Energy Research – IREC)
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No Storage – No AI presented by Cerabyte
  • Steffen Hellmold (Cerabyte- Inc. – President)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Commercial Quantum Advantage in Hybrid Compute Clusters
  • James Fletcher (ORCA Computing Ltd. – Head of Solutions Architecture)
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Making Quantum Datacenter Ready: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Álvaro Caride-Tabarés Sánchez (IQM – tbc)
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QRMI: Middleware for First-Class Quantum Resources in Compute Infrastructures
  • Aleksander Wennersteen (Pasqal – Technical lead quantum-centric HPC)
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Quantum at OCP
  • Jonathan Burnett (National quantum computing centre – Deputy director of research)
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Quantum Computing Meets the Data Centre: Europe’s Deployment Path
  • Oscar Diez (European commission – Deputy Head of Unit Quantum Technologies)
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Quantum is Not an Island: Market Outlook for 2026+
  • Noah El Alami (IDTechEx – Senior Technology Analyst)
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Quantum-Classical Hybrid Opportunities: Available now within the Modern Data Center
  • Simon Muskett (Digital Realty – Principal- AI & Quantum)
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Room-Temperature QPUs as Scalable HPC Accelerators
  • Florian Preis (Quantum Brilliance – VP Quantum Systems and Solutions)
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When the Ground Moves: Lessons from Electromagnetic Noise in Cryogenic Quantum Systems
  • Diego Fernández (Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech – Product Owner of Setup Integration)
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Wrap Up
  • Jonathan Burnett (National quantum computing centre – Deputy director of research)
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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)
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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)
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Reducing Material Intensity and Lifecycle Emissions Using Superconducting Power Distribution in AI Data Centers
  • Bender Kutub (VEIR – Manager Product Management)
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IT Infrastructure: Network & Storage (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
400G Channels for AI Applications: Passive and Active Copper Cable Assemblies to Enable Scale Up/Scale Out
  • Ashika Pandankeril Shaji (TE Connectivity – Manager System Architect)
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From Modular Chassis to Modular Network Spine
  • Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer)
  • Ariff Premji (Nexthop Systems Inc. – VP Customer Engineering)
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Innovating Network Protocol Stacks for Scalable AI Infrastructure (Scale-Up- Scale-Out- and Scale-Across)
  • Clarence Filsfils (Cisco – Cisco Fellow)
  • Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer)
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Unleashing AI Scale-Up: UALink- OCP- and the Future of Open Interconnects
  • Kurtis Bowman (AMD – Director- Architecture and Strategy)
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Unlocking Capacity and Performance of 30TB+ HM-SMR for Server and JBOD Ecosystems
  • David Gerstein (Leil Storage – CTO)
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Immersion Cooling (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Community Update – Immersion IT Equipment (ITE) Workstreams Update
  • Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering)
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Deploying Immersion Native ITE in AI NeoCloud: An OCP Collaboration Story
  • Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies)
  • Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering)
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Establishing Cleaning Chemistry Guidelines to Enable Reliable Immersion Cooling
  • Chelsea Jewell (KYZEN Corporation – Application Lab Manager)
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Final Base Specification – Power Distribution in Single-Phase Immersion
  • Kevin Gero (Murata – Senior Applications Marketing Manager)
  • Oriol Chavanel (Submer – Ecosystem Tech Lead and EMEA Server AM)
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Fluids Technical Committee Progress Report: Building the Standards Framework for Immersion Cooling
  • Romà Suris Valls (Submer – EMEA Labs Manager)
  • Alex Mcmanis (ENEOS – Senior Technical Account Manager)
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From Framework to Adoption: OCP Component Compatibility Testing Guidelines for Immersion Cooling
  • Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies)
  • Betsy Cossette (ExxonMobil – Data Center / Immersion Cooling Market Development – AMR & EU)
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High-Speed Interconnect Signal Integrity in Immersion Cooling Technology (Whitepaper Abstract)
  • Tina Bao (TE Connectivity – Senior System Architect)
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Immersion Cooling in 2026: Project Progress- Industry Adoption- and the Path Ahead
  • Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO)
  • Gemma Reeves (Alfa Laval – Global Business Development Manager Data Centers)
  • Allison Boen (Alcatex and Shell Fluid – President at Alcatex and Shell Fluid Brand Ambassador)
  • Pete Morgan (SwRI – Sr. Program Manager)
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Immersion Solutions: Integrating Cooling- Power- Hardware- and Economics
  • Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies)
  • Kevin Gero (Murata – Senior Applications Marketing Manager)
  • Andy Young (Asperitas – CTO)
  • Michael Jones (Vertiv – Principal Architect)
  • Oriol Chavanel (Submer – Ecosystem Tech Lead and EMEA Server AM)
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Long term thermal performance and material compatibility for Nano-oils
  • Sana Fateh (Synano – CEO)
  • John Bean (Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) – CTO)
  • Phillip Hjelmeborn Kaae (Grundfos – Lead Application Manager- IT Cooling)
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Thermochemical Reliability Workstream Update
  • Betsy Cossette (ExxonMobil – Data Center / Immersion Cooling Market Development – AMR & EU)
  • Bobby Glidwell (Magnalytix – Director of Technology)
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Open Chiplet Economy (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Accelerating Composable Chiplets with the OCP Foundation Chiplet System Architecture
  • Mark Knight (Arm – Director of Product Management)
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Enabling Affordable Chip Design with Open Chiplet Atlas™ Ecosystem
  • Lichen Weng (Tenstorrent – SoC Architect)
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Engineering the Chiplet Era: Electrical-Optical Connectivity as the Foundation
  • Letizia Giuliano (Qualcomm – VP Product Management and Marketing)
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Open AI Fabric: An OCP MHS Reference Architecture for Modular Photonic Switching
  • Bijan Nowroozi (Lightmatter – Head of Ecosystem Development)
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Open Silicon for Sustainable AI: Rethinking Accelerator Economics from Data Center to Edge
  • Moderator: Anshul Saxena (Openchip and Software Technologies S.L. – Principal Product Manager)
  • Gilberto Rodríguez (Openchip – Vice President Business Development)
  • Eric Eppe (Eviden – Group Vice President – CTO Advanced Computing)
  • Mark Knight (Arm – Director of Product Management)
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Pre-Silicon Chiplet Verification for Datacenters
  • Ravi Narayanaswami (Cadence Design Systems – Distinguished Engineer)
  • Marc Meunier (Arm – Director- HW Ecosystem)
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Shift-Left Firmware Enablement for the Open Chiplet Economy: From Emulation to System-Ready Silicon
  • Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO)
  • Ravi Narayanaswami (Cadence Design Systems – Distinguished Engineer)
  • Vincent Casillas (SiPearl – VP R&D System & Software)
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Standardizing System-Level Interoperability for Multi-Vendor Chiplets
  • Gilberto Rodríguez (Openchip – Vice President Business Development)
  • Fady Dahoud (GSOC – Director of SoC Platform)
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Photonics (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Advanced photonic technologies for future systems: Optical computing or optics for computing?
  • Bert Offrein (IBM – Manager Co-packaged Optics)
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Beyond the Rack: Sovereign AI via European Pluggables
  • Magnus Olson (ESTEL – CTO)
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Energy-Efficient VCSEL-based Transceivers for AI Datacenters
  • Hideyuki Nasu (Furukawa Electric Co.- Ltd. – Fellow)
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Energy‑Efficient Optical Interconnects for Multi‑Rack AI Pods
  • Fotini Karinou (Microsoft – Principal Hardware Architect – Optical Technologies)
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PICs for Quantum and AI
  • Valerio Pruneri (ICFO – PIXEurope Pilot Line Director)
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Revolutionizing Networking for Gigawatt AI Factories
  • Yuval Borenstein (NVIDIA – PM)
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Scaling AI Networks: Incremental Innovation or Photonic Disruption?
  • Moderator: Roy Rubenstein (LightCounting – Consultant)
  • Jeremy Witzens (Astera Labs – AVP Optical Connectivity)
  • Nicola Calabretta (Eindhoven University – Professor)
  • Chris Collins (Credo – AVP of Product- DSP and Optical)
  • Paul Wallace (Oriole Networks – Product Director)
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Silicon Photonics Switching: From Technology to Deployment
  • Daniel Perez-Lopez (iPronics – Founder & CTO)
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Towards wafer-scale optical interconnect relying on Silicon Photonics and advanced 3D assembly
  • Peter Ossieur (IMEC – Scientific Director)
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Welcome & Kickoff Address
  • Richard Pitwon (Resolute Photonics)
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Security (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
An update on OCP L.O.C.K.
  • Eric Eilertson (Microsoft – Security Architect)
  • Carl Lundin (Google – Software Engineer)
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Attested fine‑grained device restoration
  • Ahmad Atamli (Nvidia – Sr Director of Hardware Architecture)
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Beyond Software Vulnerabilities: Why Physical Attacks Matter for Cloud Hardware
  • jasper van woudenberg (Keysight Technologies – Senior Principal Security Technologist)
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Caliptra as Server Security Hub
  • Phanikumar Kancharla (Marvell – Sr Principal Engineer)
  • Craig Barner (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer)
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Caliptra Trademark Audit: A Practitioner’s Guide
  • jasper van woudenberg (Keysight Technologies – Senior Principal Security Technologist)
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Caliptra Update
  • John Traver (AMD – Security Architect)
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Composable Security Architecture Episode 4: Bringing Together Platform Ingredients
  • Louis Ferraro (AMD – Security Architect)
  • Miguel Osorio (Google – Senior Staff Software Engineer)
  • Marvin Gudel (9elements – Open Source Firmware Developer)
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Enhanced Adam’s Bridge Leveraging Architectural Masking for Secure PQC Acceleration
  • Emre Karabulut (Microsoft – Hardware Security Engineer)
  • Michael Norris (Microsoft – Engineer)
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Enhancing Security via Remote Attestation – for Complex Data Centre Scenarios
  • Yogesh Deshpande (Arm – Principal Engineer)
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Introducing OCP S.O.L.I.D.
  • Nick Hummel (Google – Security Engineer)
  • Eric Eilertson (Microsoft – Security Architect)
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Secure RPMC and Flash Key Provisioning Using Caliptra‑SS
  • Emre Karabulut (Microsoft – Hardware Security Engineer)
  • Vishal Soni (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer)
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SONiC Workshop (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Bazel for SONiC: What We’ve Learned and Contributed
  • Borja Lorente (Aspect Build – Aspect Build)
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Configuring and Debugging the Physical Layer in SONiC
  • Bobby McGonigle (Nexthop AI – Nexthop AI)
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Deploying 10-000+ SONiC Switches: Broadcom’s Data‑Center and Campus Transformation
  • S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA)
  • Tobin Hawkshaw (Broadcom – Network Architect)
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Enabling Topology Visibility in BGP Fabrics with BGP-LS.
  • Ahmed Abdelsalam (Cisco – Engineering Technical Leader)
  • Yijiao Qin (Alibaba – Software Engineer)
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EVPN Multi-Site in the Real World: SONiC- Failures- and Hard Lessons
  • Patrice Brissette (Cisco Systems Inc. – Distinguished Engineer)
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How SONiC Powers the World’s Largest AI Infrastructure
  • Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer)
  • Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom – Senior Director- Engineering)
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SONiC Scale Up Working Group Introduction
  • Guohan Lu (Microsoft – Principle Software Engineer)
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SONiC Workshop Closing Remarks
  • Łukasz Łukowski (STORDIS – Chief Commerce and Communication)
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SONiC Workshop Welcome & Opening Remarks
  • Łukasz Łukowski (STORDIS – Chief Commerce and Communication)
  • Arpit Joshipura (The Linux Foundation – TBD)
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Sustainability (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
A Framework for Reliable Hardware Circularity at Scale
  • Markandeya Mudigonda (Meta – Production Systems Engineer)
  • Supraja Narayanan (Meta – INFRASTRUCTURE DATA CENTER PROGRAM MANAGER)
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Advancing Carbon Disclosure for Data Center IT- MEP Equipment- and Building Materials
  • Moderator: Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director)
  • Howard Hsu (Meta – Meta)
  • Andrea Desimone (Schneider Electric – Sustainability Solutions Manager)
  • Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director)
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Data Quality Scoring System for Datacenter IT Embodied Carbon Accounting
  • Mischa Weiss-lijn (Google – Group Product Manager- Cloud Sustainability Tools)
  • Tali Brennan (Meta – Net Zero Program Manager)
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DCF Sustainability Contributions: Clean Backup Power and Low Carbon Material Framework
  • Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation)
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Fan- PSU & Idle Power in Air-Cooled/Liquid-Cooled Servers
  • Xavier OUVRARD (EPFL – Dr)
  • August Ning (EPFL – Postdoctoral Researcher)
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Heat reuse subproject update: Heat Reuse Platform initiative- Policies- Reference Design- and Economics
  • Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – CEO)
  • Petter Terenius (Uppsala University – Researcher)
  • Jack Kolar (Dataquarium – CEO)
  • Gabriel Lazar (Submer – ESG Sustainability Specialist)
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Integrating On-Prem Power Generation and Thermally Driven Cooling in AI Factories: A System-Level Perspective
  • Bahareh Eslami (NVIDIA – Sr. Mechanical Engineer)
  • Saket Karajgikar (NVIDIA – Principal Mechanical Engineer)
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OCP ready badge for Net Zero Innovation Hub tested solutions
  • Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – Representative)
  • Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation)
  • Kially M. Ruiz (Cibao Cloud Technologies- Inc. – CEO)
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Product Category Rules for Datacenter Equipment: Collaborative Progress & Industry Call to Action
  • Moderator: Karsten Schischke (Fraunhofer Research Institute – Group Manager – Policy- Ecodesign and Circular Materials)
  • Ines Sousa (Microsoft – Sr Sustainability Industry Advisor)
  • Ryan Bradley (AWS – Sr. Mgr- AWS Sustainability- Services- Science- Infrastructure- and Innovation)
  • Lisa Rivalin (Meta – Systems Engineer)
  • Stephan Benecke (Google – Head of Carbon Footprinting- Cloud Environmental & Social Responsibility)
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Scaling Design for Sustainability Across Meta’s Hardware Organization
  • Lisa Rivalin (Meta – Systems Engineer)
  • Emre Tepedelenlioglu (Meta – Production Systems Engineer)
  • Alexandra Bruefach (Meta – Research Scientist)
  • Lars-Åke Ragnarsson (imec – Program Director)
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Shifting Circularity Upstream: Using Diagnostic Data and Agentic AI to Extend Data Center Asset Lifecycles
  • Shahriyar Rahmati (Reconext – CEO)
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The Hidden Opportunity: Energy Savings in Legacy Platforms Through Open Source Power Controls and Advanced Management Techniques
  • Stefan Demski (Intel – Senior Embedded Software Engineer)
  • Mateusz Stencel (Intel – Embedded Software Engineer)
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Updates from the OCP Sustainability Project
  • Alexander Rakow (Schneider Electric – Director of Sustainability- Data Centers)
  • Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead- Data Center Innovation)
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What’s in a Rack? Standardizing Taxonomy for Scalable LCA
  • Vincenzo Ferrero (Amazon – Sustainability Scientist)
  • Kali Frost (Microsoft – Senior Applied Scientist)
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Systems Management (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Agentic AI Meets Open and Secure Firmware: Accelerating Firmware Development & Deployment
  • Sudan Varadachari Ayanam (AMI – Vice President Technology and Architecture)
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Canopy: Upstream OpenBMC for HPE ProLiant Gen11 and Beyond
  • Christian Grönke (9elements – Lead Firmware Engineering)
  • Jean-Marie Verdun (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Distinguished Technologist Open Platform)
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Datacenter Power and Thermal Management on ARM Systems
  • Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems)
  • Marc Meunier (Arm – Director- HW Ecosystem)
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Establishing Server Remote Management Standards for Arm-based Servers in OCP
  • Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow)
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From Code to Data: Advancing the Unified Platform Configuration Interface (UPCI)
  • Felix Polyudov (AMI – AMI Fellow)
  • Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO)
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IT System Management Track Intro – Open Platform Firmware (OPF) role and project update
  • Murugasamy Nachimuthu (Oracle – Architect)
  • Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow- Chief Firmware Architect)
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OBMF for Efficient Management of AI Platforms
  • Kasper Wszolek (NVIDIA – Senior Architect – Data Center Management)
  • Janusz Jurski (Intel Corporation – architect)
  • MARIUSZ ORIOL (NVIDIA – Manageability Architecture)
  • Bharat Pillili (Microsoft – TBD)
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openSFI: Refining the Contract Between Host Firmware and Silicon – An Update
  • Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow- Chief Firmware Architect)
  • Albert Rennie (AMD – Principle Member of Technical Staff)
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Scaling Code Coverage for Robust Open System Firmware
  • Dos Terasaka (AMI – Solution Architect)
  • Srini Narayana (AMI – VP- Boot Firmware)
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State of firmware: Needs and requirements for Europeans end users
  • Moderator: Jean-Marie Verdun (HPE – Senior Strategist- Open Platform)
  • Stéphane Dutilleul (Scaleway – VP Hardware Engineering)
  • Gilles Lasnier (OVHcloud – PU.Baremetal – Hardware Engineering – IT Director)
  • Christian Walter (9elements – Managing Director Firmware)
  • Anisse Astier (Criteo – Linux Engineer)
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The AI Computing Continuum: Extending AI from Data Center to the User (Alphabetical order)

Title Speaker(s) Video Slides
Accelerating the Edge Revolution: AI Inferencing- vRAN & Telco on Edge MHS 1.0
  • Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff)
  • Rob Nance (Jabil – Director of Technology)
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AI Computing Continuum – Opportunity for IOWN and OCP
  • Sean Varley (Ampere – Vice President of Business Development)
  • Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation – Technology WG Chair- IOWN Global Forum)
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Establishing hardware requirements for Arm-based servers at OCP
  • Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow)
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MHS Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Workstream Update and Guidelines For Adoption
  • Phillip Leech (HPE – Senior Technologist / Customer Architect)
  • Todd Rosedahl (Jabil – Director — Systems and AI Strategy)
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Sub-Rackscale Acceleration – Evolution and Definition of High Powered Adapters
  • Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff)
  • Jared Wright (Qualcomm – DTS)
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The Evolving AI Fabric: Unifying Regional AI Factories and Edge Clouds through Scale-Across Networking
  • Dom Schaeffer (Nokia – Director IP Consulting Engineering)
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The Next Wave of AI – Inference Outside the Hyperscale Data Center
  • Moderator: Guy Currier (The Futurum Group – Research Director)
  • Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow)
  • Nilesh Shah (zeropoint technologies – VP Business Development)
  • Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation – Technology WG Chair- IOWN Global Forum)
  • Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff)
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Towards a European Open Infrastructure: Insights from HIGHER- CAPE- and CHORYS
  • Moderator: philippe bonnet (university of copenhagen – professor)
  • Jens Hagemeyer (University of Bielefeld – Research Associate)
  • Manolis Marazakis (FORTH – Principal Research Scientist)
  • philippe bonnet (university of copenhagen – professor)
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Towards Modular Software-Defined Edge Servers Using OCP DC-MHS Specifications
  • Jean-Marc Philippe (Thales – Research Engineer)
  • Loïc Nasello (2CRSI – Technical director)
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Why AI Computing Continuum at OCP
  • Cliff Grossner- Ph. D. (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Chief Innovation Officer)
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