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Keynotes (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAY 1 | |||
| Welcome to the 2026 OCP Global Summit | George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building the Next Era of AI Infrastructure | Dr. Lisa Su (AMD – Chair and Chief Executive Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Concrete to Code: Engineering AI Infrastructure at Gigawatt Scale | Santosh Janardhan (Meta – Head of Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Agentic Decade Starts with Open Infrastructure | Mohamed Awad (Arm – EVP & General Manager of Cloud AI Business Unit) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure Through Open Innovation | Asad Khamisy (Broadcom – Senior Vice President and General Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Factories at Scale: Advancing Open Infrastructure for Agentic AI | Ian Buck (NVIDIA – VP of Hyperscale and HPC Computing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| DAY 2 | |||
| OCP Welcome Address | George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Intelligence Infrastructure: Scaling AI for the Frontier Era | Reynold D’Sa (Microsoft – CVP) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure Responsibly Through Open Standards | Pradeep Vincent (Oracle – EVP) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Women in OCP (WOCP) – Community First, AI Forward | Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology) Anu Ramamurthy (Microchip – Associate Fellow, Design) Allison Boen (Alcatex and Shell Fluid – President at Alcatex and Shell Fluid Brand Ambassador) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Secure Control and Management Plane (SCMP): From AI Racks to Autonomous Infrastructure | Ford Tamer (Lattice Semiconductor – Chief Executive Officer, Director) Sanjoy Maity (AMI – Senior Vice President and General Manager, AMI Business Unit, Lattice Semiconductor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scalable and Open AI Solutions: From Cloud to Sovereign to Edge | Trish Damkroger (HPE – Senior Vice President & General Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Put Every Prompt in Its Place | Nic Dubé (Intel – CVP of Data Center Systems & Solutions) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Shifting to DC Power Distribution in Data Centers: A Collaborative Journey | Paolo Catapane (ABB – Senior Global Product Manager / Chapter Leader Solution Product Management) Peter De Bock (Eaton – Eaton) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Intelligent Infrastructure for the Intelligence Era | Partha Ranganathan (Google – VP and Engineering Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Executive Sessions (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 224G AECs for AI Data Centers: Extending Reach, Enhancing Telemetry, and Redefining Copper | Clay Miller (Molex – Senior New Product Development Manager) Rajesh Annapillai (Broadcom Inc. – Physical Layer Products, Product Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A High-Density, Liquid-Cooled Optical Interconnect Architecture for Next-Generation AI Networks | Terry Little (Foxconn Interconnect Technology – Development Engineering Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A system approach to AI infrastructure presented by Rittal | Andy Gill (Rittal – CSO HPC Systems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Accelerate your AI journey with QCT: From system-level to AI Factory presented by QCT | Jack Luoh (QCT and Quanta Computer – Product and Solution Executive) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Open AI Infrastructure Management through Community and Ecosystem Collaboration | Hancock Chang (MiTAC – Director, Solution Enabling Division.) James Shie (MiTAC – Solution Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Infrastructure validation at scale presented by Keysight | Ram Periakaruppan (Keysight Technologies – VP & GM of Network Applications & Security Business) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Your Way: Compute Agnostic, Rack-Scale Architecture for AI Factories presented by Astera Labs | Chris Petersen (Astera Labs – Vice President & Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Betting on the Network: Meta’s Case for Full-Stack, Open AI Networking presented by Meta | Omar Baldonado (Meta – Director of Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Megawatts- Engineering Liquid Cooling for AI at Scale presented by Envicool | Ning Liu (Envicool – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Power Density: Building a Safe 800V DC Ecosystem presented by Eaton | Joe Skorjanec (Eaton – Product Line Manager DC Power) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking the Walls: Open Scale-Across for the AI Era presented by Cisco | Rakesh Chopra (Cisco – Cisco Fellow) Tom Wiliams (Cisco – Vice President, Product Management) Vipul Deokar (Meta – VP – Core Network Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building Open Heterogeneous Infrastructure for Agentic AI presented by Intel | Anil Nanduri (Intel Corporation – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building the AI Factory: Overcoming the Infrastructure Challenges of AI at Scale presented by Wiwynn | Tony Wen (Wiwynn Corporation – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Characterization of Hose Material Effects on Coolant Chemistry During Accelerated Aging | Matthew Schantz (Gates Corporation – Data Center Applications Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Co-Designing High-Speed Copper and Optical Interconnects | Brian Kirk (Amphenol – Chief Technology Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling the AI Revolution: Scaling Performance Through Advanced Liquid Cooling Technologies | Patrick Liu (Auras Technology Co., Ltd. – Thermal Engineer) Ali Heydari (NVIDIA – Technical Director and Distinguished Engineer, Data Center Cooling & Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Delta 800 VDC Power and Cooling Solutions for Data Centers presented by Delta | Ralf Pieper (Delta – R&D Senior Director) Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Designing the next AI fabric: When compute meets optics presented by Celestica | Tareq Bustami (Celestica – VP Market Technology) Manish Mehta (Broadcom – VP of Marketing and Operations) Binbin Guan (OpenAI – Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Dispersion Managed Transceiver for Next-Gen AI Fabrics | Grace Zhang (Linktel – Director of Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Eliminate Every Obstacle Between Your Data and Your GPUs presented by Dell Technologies | Peter Corbett (Dell Technologies – Fellow) Kirankumar Bhusanurmath (Dell Technologies – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling High-Performance Thermal Management for 1600G AI Data Center Interconnects | Robbie Xu (Luxshare-Tech – Head of US/EMEA Sales and Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Every Megawatt Counts: The Path to Building AI Factories with DSX MaxLPS presented by NVIDIA | Ajay Kamalvanshi (NVIDIA – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Forging an Open Control Plane for the AI Era presented by Lattice | Mamta Gupta (Lattice Semiconductor – AVP Marketing) Kelly Bryant (AMI – Solutions Strategy) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Blueprint to Revenue: Engineering and Executing AI Cloud Gigafactories with NVIDIA | Wil Wellington (Lenovo – Global Director – AI Data Center Services at Lenovo CSP) John Donovan (Lenovo – Executive Director and GM of AI and Scale Cloud, Lenovo CSP) Denis Skrinnikoff (IREN – Chief Technology Officer at IREN) Chris Marriott (NVIDIA – VP/GM, Enterprise Platforms and Solutions) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Chip to Grid: Scaling Holistic AI Data Center Co-Design Through Open Standards | Amber Huffman (Google – Technologist, AI & Infrastructure) Tom Garvens (Google – VP of Hardware Platform Engineering, Google Cloud) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Chips to Compute: Delivering AI Infra at GW Speed presented by Ingrasys | ZongChang Liu (Foxconn – CDO of Foxconn Industrial Internet Co.) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Dirt to Tokens: Building AI Infrastructure as an Integrated System presented by Flex | Rob Campbell (Flex (Flextronics) – President) Chris Butler (Flex (Flextronics) – President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From grids to bits presented by BizLink | Hendrik Coldenstrodt (BizLink Technology, Inc. – Chief Technology Officer) Terry WU (BizLink International Corp., – Product Line Manager) Helmut Jungsthoefel (BizLink Technology – .) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From LPO to NPO to CPO: The open optical roadmap for AI infrastructure presented | Tim Zhou (Micas Networks – VP of Customer Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Open Standards to AI Factories: DCBBS, Modular Design, and the Latest in Liquid Cooling | Magelli Roxas (Supermicro – Senior Rack Product Manager) Steven Huang (Supermicro – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Switches to Systems presented by Jabil | Abhinav Sharma (Arista – Leader, Mechanical NPI Engineering) Matt McGuff (Jabil – Senior Director, Technology) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Innovation on Diagnosis and Maintenance of AI Datacenters presented by Aivres | James Zou (Aivres – R&D Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Inside AMD Helios™: Engineering AI at Rack Scale presented by AMD | Andrew Dieckmann (AMD – Corporate Vice President & General Manager) Steve Scott (AMD – Corporate Fellow) Alan Smith (AMD – Corporate Fellow) | Video | |
| Introduction to Memory-centric AI Rack Systems (MARS) presented by SK hynix | Hoshik Kim (SK hynix – Senior Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Joint Session: Inventec Autonomous AI Factory Agents powered by NVIDIA, presented by Inventec | JK Jung (Inventec Corporation – Senior Director) Alvin Clark (NVIDIA – Global Developer Relations Manager – Industrial and Manufacturing, NVIDIA) | Video | |
| Keep Your Compute Running at Full Throttle with Highly Scalable Memory | Hojun Shim (Samsung Electronics – Corporate VP) | Video | |
| Liquid-Cooled Power Shelf and 800 VDC platform for next generation datacenters | Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) Roya Movahedi (Megmeet – Chief Marketing Officer) Lei Shi (Megmeet – Chief Engineer of Advanced Power Solutions BU) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Multi-Dimensional Scalability for AI infrastructures | Clayton Wagar (Nokia – Principal Consulting Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Next-Generation Power & Cooling Solutions presented by TCT | Royal Liu (Thermal Control Technology(Shenzhen) Co.- Ltd – CT0) Arthur Wang (XFusion – Director of Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| nVent RDHX cooling for AMD Helios™ presented by nVent | Sam Dore (nVent – Product Manager – Liquid Cooling) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Optical Interconnect Solutions for AI Scaling presented by Terahop | Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu (TeraHop – VP Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Rack, Liquid Cooling, Now What? Operationalizing the Next Gen Datacenter presented by HPE | Joseph “JBK” Knight (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Chief Technologist – Service Providers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open, Modular Rack-Scale AI Infrastructure for the Agentic Era presented by HYVE | Dr. Dimitrious Ziakas (HYVE – HYVE) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Powering the AI Era: Building Sustainable and efficient Infrastructure at Cloud Scale | Brijesh Warrier (Microsoft – VP of Software Engineering) Nithish Mahalingam (Microsoft – Partner Director of Engineering) | Video | |
| Powering the AI Revolution: Navigating the 800V-to-Chip Frontier presented by LITEON | Teng Long (LITEON – Professor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rethinking CPU Performance for the Agentic AI Era presented by Arm | Ravi Malhotra (Arm – Director Solutions Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Inference Infrastructure from Silicon to System presented by ASRock Rack | Charlotte Li (ASRock Rack – Director of Product Marketing) Jeff Chan (ASRock Rack Inc. – Senior VP) Sammy Huang (Arm – Director of Ecosystem Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure: The Pivotal Role of Silicon Photonics in Full-Stack Optical Interconnects | Haijiang Yu (Genuine Optics – Chief Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Al Factory for the Rubin Era: Advanced Liquid Cooling and End-to-End L13 Deployment | Christopher Liang (Pegatron – Sr VP of Product Strategy) | Video | |
| Scaling Direct Current in Data Centers: From Proven Industrial Concepts to Open Standardization | Martin Wetter (Phoenix Contact – Executive Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Solving Power Density and Bandwidth Challenges in AI Infrastructure presented by TE Connectivity | Gaurav Jain (TE Connectivity – Senior Director, Product Management) Ram Kasiraman (TE Connectivity – Senior Manager, Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Spearheading a New Security Standard for Data Centers presented by Marvell | Cary Ussery (Marvell – Senior Vice President, Multimarket Business Group General Manager & Engineering) Bryan Kelly (Microsoft – Partner Architect, Microsoft, Azure, Strategic Planning & Architecture) Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardization that Enables Innovation: Building Deployment Confidence for Scalable Liquid Cooling | Sébastien LAFOND (Danfoss – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The AMI Vision for Open: Building an Open Control Plane for the AI Data Center Era presented by AMI | Munir Ahmad (Lattice Semiconductor – Compute Architect) B Parthiban (AMI – Corporate VP, Boot Firmware Group) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The New Tokenomics: How Data Infrastructure Increasingly Sets AI ROI presented by Solidigm | Ace Stryker (Solidigm – Director of AI & Ecosystem Marketing) Steen Graham (Metrum AI – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Path to Infinite Inference presented by d-Matrix | Sid Sheth (D-Matrix – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Silicon Heartbeat of the AI Economy: the Efficiency Paradox in Next-Gen Data Center Silicon | Bhushan Chitlur (MediaTek – Chief Architect for the Data Center and AI Group) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Validation Challenges for Next-Generation AI Power Racks: From 100kW to MW Scale presented by Chroma | Larry Sharp (Chroma – Sr. Applications Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Wider. Slower. Better: Optics That Can Beat Copper presented by Credo | Bill Brennan (Credo – President and CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Expo Hall Sessions (Alphabetical order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Pathway to 224/448 Gbps Copper and Optical Connectivity in AI Infrastructure presented by Samtec | Video | G-Drive Dropbox | |
| Agentic AI: The Agentic Rack, Powered by Intel Xeon Processors presented by Intel | Jatin Upadhyay (Intel – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Aivres Liquid-Cooling AI Data Center Solutions Based on NVIDIA GPUs, presented by Aivres | William Ye (Aivres – Validation Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Any Rack, Everywhere: Future-Readiness for the 800 VDC Transition presented by Vertiv | Scott Armul (Vertiv – Chief Product & Technology Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building AI Infrastructure Faster: Prefabricated Modular Liquid-Cooled Data Centers | Kent Pang (BEEHE – US Account Executive) | Video | |
| Burning Cash: The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Thermal in Your AI Strategy presented by Frore | Seshu Madhavapeddy (Frore Systems – Founder & CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Changing workloads demand Active Compute Fabric presented by Cornelis Networks | Jayraj Nair (Cornelis Networks – Field CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooler System, Hotter Innovation presented by HFH Thermal | Yalin Cui (Hongfuhan Technology Co. – Technical Specialist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Direct Medium-Voltage-to-800VDC Conversion for AI Data Centers presented by Luxshare-Tech | Jingkui Shi (Luxshare‑Tech and Zinsight Technology – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Driving Efficiency Through Innovation Across the Operating Range and Power Chain, Aligning Power | Philip Zuk (OmniOn Power – SVP and GM AI/Datacenter BU) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling an Open Near-Package Ecosystem for AI Scale-Up presented by Molex | Bill Wilson (Molex – Group Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Engineering the Transition to 800 VDC presented by MEGMEET | Ted Shi (Megmeet – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Evolving the Infrastructure Stack: Rack Scale Designs, Open Firmware, and Intelligent Sustainability | Zachary Bobroff (AMI – Director of Product Office) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Expo Hall Session presented by Eaton | Video | ||
| Expo Hall Session presented by Nvent | Sam Dore (nVent – Product Manager – Liquid Cooling) | Video | |
| Extending Copper for Efficient Next-Generation Scale-Up Networks presented by Ciena | Matt Bolig (Ciena – Senior Advisor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fanless Servers Are Coming: The Peripheral Coldplate Roadmap Behind 100% Heat Capture | Brad Zakaib (CoolIT Systems – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Factory Floor to AI Factory: Deploying Intel® Xeon® 6 AI Infrastructure at Scale | James McFadden (Lenovo – Executive Director, Supply Chain Quality and Engineering, Lenovo ISG) David Hanley (Lenovo – Executive Director – Cloud Service Provider, Global Supply Chain, Lenovo) David Lee (Intel – GM & Sr. Engineering Leader, Intel) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Fleet to Firmware: Bringing AI-Native Security to Open Hardware with Project Equilibrium | Andres Lagar-Cavilla (Google – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Silicon to Rack: Arm and Meta Scaling AI Infrastructure Through OCP presented by Arm | Prasanna Jayaraman (Arm – Solution Architect) Damien Chong (Meta – Hardware TLM) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| FUJITSU-MONAKA: Optimized for High Performance and Energy Efficiency for AI, presented by Fujitsu | Masato Fukumori (Fujitsu – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fungible Power Architectures for the 800V DC Transition presented by Edged Infrastructure | James Feasey (Edged Infrastructure – Senior Director, AI Infrastructure) Wes Short (Edged Infrastructure – Senior Director, Infrastructure Projects) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Going Wide: Scalable and Reliable Optical Interconnects for AI Clusters presented by Credo | LK Bhupathi (Credo – AVP) | Video | |
| How can high-speed interconnect solutions drive next generation AI data centres at 448G and beyond? | Hendrik Coldenstrodt (BizLink Technology – Chief Technology Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Hyperscale Storage Solutions for NeoClouds presented by Everpure | Prathamesh Nalawade (Everpure – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Liquid Cooling Designed for Maximum Uptime and Reliability presented by Nidec | John Mitchem (Nidec America Corporation – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Liquid-cooling Approaches for E1.S SSDs presented by KIOXIA | Paul Wu (KIOXIA – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| LITEON 1MW Power Rack Solution for AI Data Center presented by LITEON | Terry Zhang (LITEON – Engineering Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MetaRoCE: Rethinking RDMA for the AI presented by Meta | Arvind Srinivasan (Meta – System Architect) Sandeep Nagaraja (Meta – Software Engineering) Balakrishnan Raman (AMD – AMD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Microgrids at Scale: Resilient Power Infrastructure for AI Data Centers | Nick Baileys (Delta Electronics (Americas) Ltd. – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Multi-Core Fiber – A solution for scale up, out, and across presented by Sumitomo Electric | Dwayne Holst (Sumitomo Electric Lightwave – Applications Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| One Abstraction, Many Transports: Push-Mode Communication from Chiplet to Rack presented by d-Matrix | Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti (d-Matrix – Sr. Principal AI Systems Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open, Trusted, and Secure SONiC at Scale presented by Cisco | Will Eatherton (Cisco – Senior Vice President) Dina Papagiannaki (Microsoft – Corporate Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Powering AI Infrastructure: Innovations in Compute, Power, Connectivity and Cooling | Lentis Pai (Wiwynn Corporation – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Compute Fabrics: The Pivotal Role of NPO in Full-Stack Optical Interconnects | Haijiang Yu (Genuine Optics – Chief Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling the Future of Open Infrastructure with Advanced Cooling presented by MiTAC | Raymond Huang (MiTAC – General Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Changing Course of Storage in an AI World presented by FADU | Young Paik (FADU – VP of Business Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Tiering the Agent’s Memory: From CXL Pooling to SSD-Backed KV Cache Offloading presented by Samsung | Youngha Choi (Samsung – Principal Engineer, NAND Product Planning Team, Memory Business) Jinin So (Samsung Electronics – Senior Director) | Video | |
| Water or Glycol for D2C? A Quantitative Tradeoff Analysis Across Thermal, Operational, and Program | Dolly Batra (Ecolab – Dr.) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Data Center Development Best Practices (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gigawatt AI Data Center Era | Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista – Chief Architect and Co-Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
AI Clusters (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bring Your Own XPU: An Open Rack for Inference Performance and TCO | Chris Petersen (Astera Labs – Vice President & Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Current Activities in the Open Cluster Designs for AI Strategic Initiative | Lowell Lamb (Broadcom – TBD) Loren Staley (Celestica – Principle Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| CLARA: Automated AI cluster architecture design tool | Rainy Yan (Lenovo – AI Cluster Automation Engineer) Reece Neff (Lenovo – Cluster Solution Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Why Logical Digital Twins Are Essential for AI Factory Design, Validation, and Operations | Avi Alkobi (NVIDIA – Sr. Director Business Development) Abhijit Lahiri (Keysight Technologies – Sr. Director, Product Management, AI Infrastructure) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Tokenomics Explained | Shruti Koparkar (NVIDIA – AI Product and GTM Leader) Eduardo Alvarez (NVIDIA – Sr Technical Lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Cluster Benchmarks – Establishing a standardized evaluation system for Superpods | Zhenzhong Bao (Huawei – Standard Representative) Yun Zhao (Huawei – Senior Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Benchmark to Bottleneck: Agentic AI for Datacenter Workload Analysis | Meha Virapandiane (Intel – SoC Functional Validation Engineer) Ho-Sup Chung (Intel – Cloud Systems and Solutions Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Model-Based Testing for Open-Source Software Components | Mengqi Liu (Alibaba – Senior Engineer) Ali Kheradmand (Google – Senior Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Computing Continuum: Building Open Infrastructure Standards for the Next Wave of AI | Andi Huels (https://bluskyaidatacenters.com/ – Chief AI Officer) Jacob Yundt (CoreWeave – AI Infra) Sanee Iqbal (RealTime Labs – TBD) Kevin Tubbs (VDURA – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking up the Monolith – An Open Architecture for Multi-rack Scale-up Domain of 5000+ GPUs | Promode Nedungadi (Eridu – Chief Technology Officer) Dan Daly (Delos Data – CTO & Co-Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Tahan: An Open, Ethernet-Based Scale-Up Switch for Meta’s MTIA Accelerators | Ashutosh Grewal (Meta – Software Engineer) Vimal Vasudevan (Meta Platforms inc. – Technical Program Manager, Network Hardware) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Validation methodologies for ESUN ecosystem | Venkat Pullela (Keysight – CTO, AI Infrastructure) Manoj Wadekar (Meta – Networking AI Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Test Methodology and Practice for Multi-Accelerator Copper Scaleup Domain Interconnect and Comm | Yao Rong (Meta – Systems Engineer, AI Systems) Karthik Ganesan (Meta – AI/HPC System Performance Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling AI Networking @ Scale with Multi-path Reliable Connections (MRC) | Guohan Lu (OpenAI – Member of Technical Stuff) Eric Spada (Broadcom Inc. – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Network Configurations for Optimal AI Fabrics including MRC and SRv6 | Mohammad Hanif (Broadcom – Sr. Director, Engineering) Arihant Jain (Arista Networks – Sr. Product Line Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A Comparative Analysis of Next-Generation Networking Standards for Large-Scale DC Deployments | S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA) Mohammad Hanif (Broadcom – Sr. Director, Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Demystifying MRC and UET: A Panel of Experts | Eric Spada (Broadcom Inc. – Distinguished Engineer) Rip Sohan (Broadcom – Fellow Engineer) Keith Underwood (HPE – Fellow) Mark Handley (OpenAI – Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Powering AI at Scale: Inside the UALink Ecosystem | Priyank Shukla (Synopsys – Sr. Director of Product Management) Helia Naeimi (Astera Labs – Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer) Matt Holdrege (Microchip – Research Fellow) Josh Collier (Intel – Sr. Principal Eng.) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SUE-T – An Ethernet transport for Scale-Up Networking | Tom Emmons (Arista Networks – Software Engineer) Karen Schramm (Broadcom – VP of Architecture) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fast switching OCS for AI, Hyperscale Data Centers: Benefit, Technologies and Potential Applications | James Burch (Lumotive – Lead Systems Engiineer) Vivek Sarathy (iPronics – VP of Product) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Co-Designing AI Fabrics: Inside Google’s Virgo Network and the Campus-as-a-Computer | Sunil Ahluwalia (Google – Group Product Manager) JK Lee (Google – Sr. Staff SW Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Multi-planar AI Scale Out Fabrics | Devang Patel (AMD – Network Architect) Alan Judge (Arista Networks – Distinguished Engineer, Head of Cloud & AI Architecture) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| End-to-End AI backend fabric design | Sandeep Balani (Broadcom – Product Management Leader) Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom – Senior Director, Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Single Data Centers to Multi-Region AI Clusters: The Rise of Scale Across | Spencer Giacalone (Ciena – Senior Director, Cloud AI Architecture) Helen Xenos (Ciena – Senior Product Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scale Across: To ‘Go Forward” or To “Go Backwards”, That is the question | Jai Kumar (Broadcom – Distinguished Engineer) Tom Emmons (Arista Networks – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scale-across Networking: Panel discussion on routing and transport equipment implications | Jeff Rahn (Meta – Optical Network Engineer) Yawei Yin (Microsoft – Sr. Principal Network Developer, Azure Fiber & AI) Xiguang – Henry Wu (Broadcom – Product Marketing) Tad Hofmeister (Google – Hardware Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MX v1.1: Advancing Open Standards for Low-Precision AI with MicroXcaling formats | Partha Maji (Microsoft – Partner Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Node-to-Rack Efficiency for Real-World AI Inference Arm & FuriosaAI for Scalable Open Infrastructure | Jihoon Yoon (Furiosa AI – Product Manager) Satadal Bhattacharjee (Arm – Global Head of Cloud and AI Infrastructure Silicon) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Purpose-Built AI Models via OCP Aligned Distributed Inference Fabrics | Art Fewell (Hedgehog – Technical Marketing Engineer) Arun Solleti (Celestica – Director Technical Product Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| BUILDING AI RACK SYSTEM WITH OPEN STANDARDS | Shangxin Du (AMD – Director Product Management) Mike Wong (HPE – Sr Director Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| USB to Rule Them All: One Manageability Interface for AI Platforms | MARIUSZ ORIOL (NVIDIA – Manageability Architecture) Bharat Pillili (Microsoft – Partner Hardware Engineer) Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Arm – Distinguished Engineer and System Architect) Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) Supreeth Venkatesh (AMD – Fellow, Server Manageability Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Unified Telemetry for Next-Generation Rack-Scale Infrastructure | Antonis Michaloliakos (Meta – Production Systems Engineer, AI Systems) Nischay Tata (AMD – Fellow, Systems Design Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Unified Full-Stack Telemetry for AI Systems: From Silicon to Cluster | Janusz Jurski (Intel – architect) Karthik Raman (Intel – Lead Systems Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Achieving AI Cluster Reliability at Scale: Lessons in Reducing Workload Interruptions | Bob Wang (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer, NPI AI) Ramachandra Reddy Kallam (Meta – Production Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Customer-Contextual Fault Management for Bare Metal GPU Infrastructure | Aimer Bhat (Oracle – Sr. Principal Engineer) Jim Britton (Oracle – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Inference with Arm AGI CPU, Rebellions RebelCard, and OCP ORv3 Rack Design | Jennifer Glore (Rebellions – EVP of Product Management) Dilip Ramachandran (Arm – Sr. Director of Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cluster-less Validation of AI Accelerator Silicon Under Real Workloads | Matt Bergeron (Meta – Engineer) Ashutosh Kumar (Keysight Technologies – R&D Engineer) Cosmin-Nicolae Prunaru (Keysight Technologies – R&D Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Next Generation Optically Integrated Platform Solution for AI Data Centers | John Chiang (Celestica – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Secure Multi-Tenancy for Open AI Clusters | Manish Vachharajani (Hedgehog – CTO) Art Fewell (Hedgehog – Technical Marketing Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI‑Ready Network Infrastructure: Practical Realities of High‑Power, Liquid‑Cooled Rack Integration | Rob Nance (Jabil – Director of Technology) Arihant Jain (Arista Networks – Sr. Product Line Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Evolution of Congestion Control in AI Ethernet Fabrics | Mohammad Hanif (Broadcom – Sr. Director, Engineering) Mehak Mahajan (Broadcom – Senior Director, Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Training to Tokens: Revolutionizing AI Inference with In-Network Compute | Caleb Shetland (Astera Labs – Director, Product Applications) Helia Naeimi (Astera Labs – Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond GPUs: Building the Open Operations Layer for AI Factories and Token Economies | Naren Shankar (hosted.ai – Founder) Peter Sheh (Crusoe – Sr. Product Manager) Jonmichael Hands (FarmGPU – Chief Executive Officer) Preeti Vasaikar (PerceptEye – Cofounder/CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
AI Computing Continuum (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Computing Continuum: Extending the Open Data Center Ecosystem Across Cloud, Edge, and Industry | Masahisa Kawashima (NTT Corporation – NTT, Inc & IOWN Global Forum TWG Chair) Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HPE Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking the Data Center Walls: Unifying AI Fabrics for Agentic AI at the Edge | Prakash Jain (Celestica – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI Computing Continuum Use Cases and Collaboration Items | Naoto Umemori (NTT DATA – Senior Manager, Executive IT Specialist(Platform)) Hidetsugu Sugiyama (Red Hat – Chief Architect, Telecommunications – CTO Office) Xiaojing Zhang (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. – Director) Junichi Sugiyama (1Finity – Technology Director) Koji Watanabe (NTT – Senior Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Two Years of x86 Ecosystem Collaboration: Open Infrastructure, AI Readiness, and Developer… | Jeff McVeigh (Intel – VP, Data Center) Stephen Watt (Red Hat – VP, Distinguished Engineer, Research and Emerging Technologies) Andrew Wheeler (HPE – Deputy CTO, SVP, and Director for HPE Labs) Martin Dixon (Google – Director, Infrastructure Performance) Jon Lange (Microsoft – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI-Native Edge MHS 1.0 | David Heinrich (HPE – Fellow) Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Open Adapter Card – Light | Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HPE Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Autonomous AI-RU: Closing the RIC intelligence gap to the radio through the ruApp | Laawanya Kishor (UGECO PRIVATE LIMITED – Founder and Director) Rexy Geevarghese (Bell Canada – RAN Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From AI PC to AI Infrastructure: Platform Contracts for Scalable CPU-Accelerator Systems | Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow) Suraj Varma (Arm, Inc. – Senior Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bridging the AI Continuum: Trust, Orchestration, and Open Standards | Steven Yates (Federant – Co-Founder & CEO) Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager) Vincent Nguyen (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HPE Fellow) Dirk Blevins (Intel – Senior Platform Architect, Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
AI Open Data Center (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Systems for AI Why Open Communities Are Essential for the Next Era of Computing Infrastructure | Michael Sweeney (Phaidra.ai – AI Factory Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond the Build: Autonomous Robotics and the Future of Data Center Operations | Shashank Gupta (Fleet Data Centers – VP of Customer Engineering) Rob Lawson-Shanks (Molg – CEO and Co-Founder) Evan Johnson (Microsoft – Director of Automation) Maureen Tate (NVIDIA – Sr Solutions Architect for Data Centers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Material Handling Automation for Next-Generation Datacenter Operations | Rachel Soukup (Google – Senior Automation Systems Engineer) Ben Wong (Meta – Hardware Engineer) Amir Porter (Microsoft – Project Manager) | Video | |
| Automation-Ready Infrastructure Design: From Light to Compute | Mike McKee-Hector (Microsoft – Hardware Engineer) Dave Evans (Google – Mechatronics Engineer) Ryan Olson (Meta – Product Design Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Supporting load smoothing, Fault Ride-through (FRT), and back up in 800 Vdc critical powertrains | Stuart Sheehan (Schneider Electric – Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| 800 VDC AI Factories: From Architecture Alignment to Industry Deployment | Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Flexibility the Grid Can Count On: Turning Curtailable Load Into Interconnection Capacity | Sean James (NVIDIA – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Can the Industry Sustain AI? The Water-Energy Nexus Debate | David Quirk (DLB Associates Consulting Engineers – CEO) Michael Obradovitch (Ecolab – Vice President Global Accounts) Megan Schneider (Accenture – Client Account Leadership / Strategy & Consulting) Rob Coyle (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Senior Director of Member Experience) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling Grid-Compliant Data Center Growth Through Advanced Energy Storage | Jason Barmann (EPC Power – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The New Focus on Energy Storage Systems Safety | Daniel Lambert (ZincFive, Inc. – Senior Energy Storage Standards Specialist) Shrikanth Venkateshappa (Axiom – Director of Accounts) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Compliance Gap: ESS Safety in the Age of AI Infrastructure | Shrikanth Venkateshappa (Axiom – Director of Accounts) Mauro Leuce (Digital Realty – Senior Director) Mike Pagel (Americase – Senior Consultant) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Quantified Benefits and Open Challenges Applied to a 250 MW Reference Architecture | Frances Bosman (VEIR – Frances Bosman – Manager – Solutions Engineering) Peter Gross (PMG Associates Consulting and Advisory – Consultant, Tech Executive, Board Member, Investor, Corporate Advisor) Chris Thompson (Vertiv – VP, Advanced Technology) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Modular Technology Cooling Workstream – 2026 Update | Dariusz Raczkowski (Catalyst Commissioning Group LLC – Director, Client Services) Sara Hitt (Vertiv – Technical Business Development) Jerrod Buterbaugh (AMD – Principal – Thermal and Power Architecture) Rajat Bhagat (Arcadis – Senior Mechanical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Digital Twin to Production Readiness: A Closed-Loop Approach to AI Factory Deployment at Scale | John Hsia (Pegatron Corporation – Project Director) | Video | |
| Forged from Scratch: A DEC/HAC Playbook for Humidification-Off and Right-Sized DP Operation | Yusuke Tatsumi (Actapio, Inc. – Manager & Principal Engineer) Osamu Kurino (Actapio, Inc. – Datacenter Manager) | Video | |
| Challenges for High Density Workloads in Modular Data Center | Daniel Robbins (RakworX – Executive Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Evaluating Heat Rejection System Configurations for AI Data Centers: A Multi-Metric Analysis | Bahareh Eslami (NVIDIA – Sr. Mechanical Engineer) Doug Asay (NVIDIA – Sr. Data Center Cooling Infrastructure Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Next-Generation ML Infrastructure: The Open DC Architecture | Ayan Majumdar (Google – HW Lead) Paul Artman (AMD – Director System Design) Mike Edie (Meta – Systems Engineer) Maureen Tate (NVIDIA – Sr Solutions Architect for Data Centers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Hardware Mitigations for AI/ML Workloads Power Fluctuation | Vijay Boovaragavan (Google – Staff Hardware Engineer) Xiong Li (Google – Staff Electrical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Large-Scale Deployment of 800Gb/s Active Electrical Cables in Meta Data Centers for AI Applications | Jingyu Yu (Meta – Component Quality Engineer) Abhijit Chakravarty (Meta – Tech Director – Optics & Interconnects) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Technoeconomic comparison of DC-and AC-coupled solar microgrids, natural gas, and grid | Alex Newkirk (Berkeley National Lab – Energy Technology Researcher) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Path to the Megawatt Rack: A Grid-Aware, Symmetric High-Power UPS for AI Data Centers | Tyler Andrews (Echion Technologies – VP of Business Development) Drew Schaller (Proper Voltage – Technical Solutions Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Future of Fuel Cells in Datacenters – High Temperature Fuel Cells. | Afshin Majd (Microsoft – Director of Power Innovation) Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead, Data Center Innovation) Alberto Ravagni (Net Zero Innovation Hub – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| COMMISSIONING LIQUID COOLED DATA CENTERS WITH COMPUTING EQUIPMENT FOR OPERATIONAL READINESS | Vahideh Radmard (NVIDIA – Senior Mechanical Engineer) John Herboth (Glumac – Commissioning Authority) Sara Hitt (Vertiv – Technical Business Development) Eric Kumar (Google – TBD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The AI Factory Digital Twin: Optimizing Tokens per Watt Across the Full Stack | Kourosh Nemati (NVIDIA – Senior Data Center and Infrastructure Engineer) Sherman Ikemoto (Cadence – Group Director Sales Development) Matthew Käufeler (Cadence – Senior Principal Product Engineer) Usha Kodali (NVIDIA – Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
AI Open DC: Power Distribution (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| +/-400V / 800V On-Board Power Delivery Requirements | James Sun (Microsoft – PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ENG MANAGER) Sachin Madhusoodhanan (Google – Power Engineer) LJ (Jian) Lu (Google – Onboard Power Technical Lead Manager) Shengwen Xu (Meta – Power Design Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Implementing OCP LVDC Frameworks with a 600kW, 800VDC Sidecar Power System Design | Guang Yang (Siemens – Director of R&D – Advanced Development) Tero Järveläinen (Skeleton Technologies – Chief Product Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Defining End-to-End 800VDC System Performance Requirements | Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| LVDC: Building an Open and Evolving Ecosystem | Jason Adrian (Google – AI Systems Architect) Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Short Circuit Bolted Fault Analysis of LVDC Power Distribution Systems for Datacenter Uses | Sarkis Juana (UL Solutions – Sr. R&D Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| 800VDC Power Systems: Redefining Protection, Coordination & System Safety | Manav Patel (Schneider Electric – Vice President, Strategy & Transformation) Tony Landry (Schneider Electric – Technical Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| LVDC Architecture Fundamentals How Topology, Protection, and Standardization Define DC Power Systems | Brian Deckard (Siemens – Emerging Technology Standardization) Giel Van den Broeck (Direct Energy Partners – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| 2-Wire vs. 3-Wire at 800VDC: Grounding, Fault Behavior, and Protection for AI Data Centers | Lizhi Wang (Siemens – Research Scientist) Guang Yang (Siemens – Director of R&D – Advanced Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Reliability, Availability, & Maintainability of High-Temperature Superconducting Power Distribution | Bender Kutub (VEIR – Manager Product Management) Lee Prescott (Red Engineering Design – Chief Technology Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Closing the Standards Gap for LVDC Power Distribution | Lisa Grams (UL Solutions – Vice President of Product Management) Michael Jensen (UL Solutions – Sr. Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rethinking Power Safety: The Inherent Benefits of 800V Low Voltage DC Architectures | Susmita Panda (Google – Senior Data Center Engineer) Satarupa Bal (Google – Power Electronics Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| DC Arc Flash – Learnings from Practical Study and Test Results | Tony Landry (Schneider Electric – Technical Architect) Stuart Sheehan (Schneider Electric – Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Designing Safe 800 VDC Systems: Protection, Fault Management, and Operations | Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) Xianyong Feng (Microsoft – Principal Power System Engineer) Sai Somayajula (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| What the Automotive Industry Can Teach Us About 800 VDC Data Centers | Adam Morton (Flex – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Integrating Solid State Transformer to Data Center LVDC Ecosystem | Satarupa Bal (Google – Power Electronics Engineer) Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) Ashish Upreti (Google – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Grid Interconnection Requirements for Large Loads and Path to Next-Generation Data Center Power | Sai Somayajula (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) Mike Tu (NVIDIA – Principal Electrical Engineer) Eric Mannarino (Equinix – Design Delivery Principal) Joshua Piruzza (Danovo Energy Solutions – Consultant) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Grid Requirements and Mitigation options for Large Scale AI/ML Loads | Ashish Upreti (Google – Staff Engineer) Mike Della Penna (Google – Technical Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Using the Full Low Voltage Direct Current Range up to 1500V for Data Centers | Laurens Mackay (DC Opportunities – CEO & Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Solid-State Circuit Breaker (SSCB) and DC Fault Manager | Ke Sun (Vertiv – System Solution Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Cooling: Cold Plate (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold plate subproject update | Emily Clark (Dell – Thermal Technologist) Berhanu Wondimu (Intel Corporation – Mechanical/Thermal Design Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Considerations for Shipping and Storage of 1-Phase Cold Plate Liquid Cooled Racks & Servers | Cheng Chen (Meta – Thermal Engineer) Sean Sivapalan (NVIDIA – OCP Project co-Lead and META Technical Sourcing Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fluid Velocity and Erosion Updates | Pradip Sairam Pichumani (Meta – Failure Analysis Lead) Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling the 448G Frontier: Thermal Architecture for 500 W-Class HSIO Using Direct-to-Chip | Divya Bandaru (TE Connectivity – Staff System Architect) Sridhar Mukthineni (TE Connectivity – Sr. Manager R&D Product DVL engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Pushing the Single-Phase Cold Plate Limit | Weihua Tang (Google – Tech lead manager) REMCO VAN ERP (Corintis – CEO and Co-Founder) Oscar Farias Moguel (Microsoft – Principal Thermal Engineer) Yin Hang (Meta – Technical Lead Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Latest Advancements with Thermal Interface Materials | Ryan Mayberry (Indium Corporation – Sr. Application Development Engineer) Milad Samie (CoolIT Systems – Senior R&D Specialist, Advanced Technology) Jake Terracina (actnano – Principal Engineer) Darshan Ravoori (Graphcore – Thermal Engineer) Stephen Stagon (Boston Materials – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Reducing Operational Complexity Through Standardized Two-Phase Liquid Cooling for AI Infrastructure | Jake Hsieh (Wiwynn Corporation – Assistant Technical Manager) Powpow Wu (ASRock Rack Inc. – Thermal Engineer) REMCO VAN ERP (Corintis – CEO and Co-Founder) Jiu Xu (Meta – Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A Novel Liquid Cooling Solution: A Negative-Pressure Two-Phase Water-Boiling Cold Plate | Liang-Ching Cheng (Wistron Corporation – Engineer) | Video | Dropbox |
| System-level Challenges and Considerations in Transitioning from Single-Phase to Two-Phase Cooling | Jake Hsieh (Wiwynn Corporation – Assistant Technical Manager) Yuzhou Lin (Wiwynn Corporation – Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Chemical-Free Water Chemistry Management for Reliable Operation of Copper Cold Plates | Stirling Boston (EasyWater – A Watts Brand – Director of Sales) Fei Dai (Goaland – CTO) Kelley Mullick (Avayla – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Deep Dive: Biomanagement for Liquid Cooling | Dakota Bunn (Ecolab – Principal Microbiologist) Sean Sivapalan (NVIDIA – OCP Project co-Lead and META Technical Sourcing Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fluid Monitoring: From Sensors to Insights | Mike Murcia (Ecolab – Corporate Scientist) Sean Barlett (Switch – Principal Availability Engineer Water Systems) Pascal Michel (Nordran, Inc. – CEO) Sreya Dutta (Dynalene Inc. – R&D Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Cooling: Immersion (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| OCP Immersion Project: Scaling Open Collaboration for Immersion Cooling Adoption | Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) Jessica Gullbrand (Eaton – Eaton Principal Data Center Technology & OCP Immersion Co-Chair) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Immersion Cooling Safety: From Fluid Qualification to System Compliance | Lizzy Fernando (UL Solutions – Product Manager) Mark Olson (UL Solutions – Principal Chemist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP/SwRI Collaboration – Data Center Immersion Fluids Consortium | Pete Morgan (SwRI – Sr. Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Thermochemical Reliability Workstream Update | Samantha Yates (Intel – Principal Engineer) Brian Kinkade (FUCHS LUBRICANTS CO. – Market Development Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Material Compatibility and Long-Term Hardware Integrity of Enterprise SSDs in Two-Phase Immersion | Youngnam Kim (Samsung Electronics – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rack Scale Reliability Demonstration Testing of an Intel Datacenter Certified Immersion Solution | Samantha Yates (Intel – Principal Engineer) Betsy Cossette (ExxonMobil – Data Center / Immersion Cooling Market Development – AMR & EU) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Community Update – Immersion Fluids Workstreams Update | Kris Fletcher (Independent – Independent) Spencer Kerns (Chevron Phillips Chemical Company – PAO Research Chemist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Before the Fluid: How Pre-Immersion Cleaning Chemistry Shapes Long-Term Electronic Reliability | Chelsea Jewell (KYZEN Corporation – Application Lab Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Moving Beyond Interchangeability: Characterizing Esters among Coolants for Immersion | Stefan Maier (Evonik Operations GmbH – Technical Program Lead) Beau Van Vaerenbergh (Oleon – Technical Program Lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fluid Oxidation and Electronic Reliability: A Multi-Fluid EID Measurement Study | Bobby Glidwell (fluidiQ by Magnalytix – VP of Technology) Vanja Boyd (ExxonMobil – Application Development Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Community Update – Immersion IT Equipment (ITE) Workstreams Update | Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A Practical Infrastructure Solution for Component and Device Level SSD Qualification in Single-Phase | Jason Brand (Solidigm Technology – Engineering Manager) Justin Boldrini (Solidigm – Thermal Validation Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Immersion Solutions: Integrating Cooling, Power, Hardware, and Economics | Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Kevin Gero (Murata – Senior Business Development Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Deploying Immersion Native ITE in AI NeoCloud: An OCP Collaboration Story Continued | Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) Austin Hipes (UNICOM Engineering – Chief Technologist / VP Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Cooling Environments (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooling Environments Kick-off and Lightning Talks | Steve Mills (META – OCP Steering Committee Member and META Tech Lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| What Shapes CDU Performance? A Comparative Study of Design Choices for 2.3 MW Systems | Jake How (Gamma Technologies – Senior Staff Application Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling Distribution Unit Sub-Project Overview and Updates | Pardeep Shahi (NVIDIA – Senior Mechanical Engineer) Hussam Kabbani (Google – Staff Thermal System Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Door Heat Exchanger Sub-Project Updates and Lightning Talks | Rajesh Kasukurthy (AMD – Thermal Engineer) Dominik Sporna (Valeo – Customer Chief Engineer) Joe Thomas (STULZ – Director Consultant Management Europe) Mohamad Hnayno (OVHcloud – Dr. Eng. Design Solutions Team Leader) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building a Scalable Waste Heat Ecosystem: Datacenter Waste Heat, Offtakers, and Market Platforms | Maria Viitaniemi (Microsoft – Microsoft Cloud Operation & Innovation. Technical Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Heat Reuse Sub-Project Overview and Updates + Economics Tool Contribution | Jaime Comella (DayOne – Senior Design Manager) Jack Kolar (Dataquarium – CEO) Gemma Reeves (Alfa Laval – Global Business Development Manager Data Centers) Ahliana Byrd (Ascentra Innovations – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Waste Heat Recovery Pathways for AI Data Centers | Yingbo Zhang (UC Santa Barbara – Research Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Managing Liquid Cooling At-Scale: Tooling, Telemetry, and Reliability for High-Density AI Racks | Zach Miller (Meta – Systems Engineer) Kalpak Dhake (Meta – Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Machine-Verifiable CDU Safety Procedures: A Worked Extraction from OCP Project Deschutes | Nauman Rafique (Visum AI – Co-founder) Marco Pritoni (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Staff Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Air vs. Liquid: Where Does Air Cooling Still Win for General Compute? | Jayesh Shah (Microsoft – Director, Infrastructure Architecture) Stewart Nguyen (Lenovo – System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Know Before You Flow — PG25 Mixing Thresholds for DLC | Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology) Jake Davis (Meta – Mechanical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Maximizing Cooling Performance in Data Centers by Optimizing Fluid Velocity Limits | Matthew Schantz (Gates Corporation – Data Center Applications Engineer) William Grant (Gates Corporation – Director, Fluid Power Product Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fluid Flush/Fill Cart for Pre-Deployment Conditioning of Liquid-Cooled IT Systems | Himanshu Modi (NVIDIA – Data Center Cooling Engineer) Kevin Joseph (Meta – Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rack-Scale Weight Reduction and Reliability Validation for Liquid-Cooled Server Systems | Jeff CA Chen (Wiwynn Corporation – Technical Supervisor) Shawn Ma (Wiwynn Corporation – Thermal Technology Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Liquid Cooling Market Update: Industry Dynamics, Adoption Signals, and the Road to Scale | Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Liquid Cooling Bazaar | Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Market Impact & Adoption (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome & Overview: Adoption, Ecosystem Growth, and the Path to Participation | Ewa McCurdy (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Solution Provider Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Silicon to Services | Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis – Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Modular by Design: Building AI Clusters from Factory-Built Units | Alex Akesson (Crusoe Energy Systems – Director, Product Management) Bill Stube (Crusoe Energy Systems – Senior Director, Research and Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Designing AI Infrastructure for the Inference Era | Ty Schmitt (Dell – Fellow/VP) Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) Curtis Aubry (Vantage Data Centers – VP, Product Strategy) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Infrastructure to Impact: Implementing Sovereign AI at Denvr Dataworks | Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Projects to Platforms: Reducing Risk in AI Infrastructure Through Standardization and Ecosystem | Troy Goldschmidt (Kele Incorporated – VP of Critical Environments) PE | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A unified power management solution for AI data centers and legacy data centers | shuming Zhu (AMI – Solution Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardizing AI Data Centers to Unlock Faster Access to Power | Anuja Ratnayake (EPRI – Emerging Technologies Executive) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Intelligent Power Smoothing at the Vera-Rubin Rack | Gabriele Gorla (NVIDIA – VP of Engineering) Rouslan Dimitrov (NVIDIA – AI Datacenter Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Adapter Card – AI From Small Pod to Enterprise Scale | Kevin Mundt (AMD – Fellow – Mechanical System Architect) Alex Sanville (Dell Technologies – Technical Staff, Engineering Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Designing Rack Scale AI: The OCP Advances its Vision of a Single “Chip to Grid” AI Production System | Chris Drake (IDC – Senior Research Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| PG25 at Scale: What We’ve Learned and Where We’re Going | Keegan Yaroch (DOW Chemical – Associate TS&D Scientist) Paul Artman (AMD – Director System Design) Jacob Paugh (ChemTreat – Senior Director Global High Tech) Cam Turner (Microsoft – Principal Technical Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Missing Layer: Why Compute Hardware Needs a BOM Interchange Standard | Jacob Wright (Meta – AI Infrastructure PLM) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Compute Demand to Capacity Delivered Unlocking the Data Center Value Chain for the AI Build-Out | Denise Lee (McKinsey & Company – Partner) Elia Berteletti (McKinsey & Company – Partner) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| More Tokens, Same Megawatts: How Agentic AI Rewrites AI Factory Economics | Imran Latif (JCI – Global VP Global Technology & Innovation Data Centers) Mohamed Eissa (Johnson Controls – Principal Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Upgrading OCP S.A.F.E. and S.O.L.I.D. for the AI age | Zahra Lak (Microsoft – Principal HW Security Engineer) Jeff Andersen (Google – Staff Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Overcoming OCP Adoption Barriers in European Data Centers | Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Recent Open-Networking Deployment: Feedback and Trends | Sujay Gupta (Edgecore – Product Line Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP in Action: How RackRenew’s Hardware Enables Brigade’s Open, Self-Service Platform | Matty Bakkeren (RackRenew – Global Partnerships & Alliances Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Networking (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPU Sled Design Standard in a Modular SmartSwitch by Cisco and AMD | Murali Venkat (Cisco – Principal Engineer) Pirooz Tooyserkani (Cisco Systems, Inc. – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Meta 102.4T Ethernet Switch | Rongchun Zhou (Meta – Network Hardware Engineer) Reza Niazmand (Meta – Technical Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Switch Platform Architecture: A Unified Network Switch Platform Reference Design | Tao Ren (Meta – Software Engineer) Ying Xie (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| More Signal, Less Noise: Improving AI Cluster Returns Through Standardized Transceiver Telemetry | Chris Collins (Credo – AVP of Product) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Operating Linear Pluggable Optics at Hyperscale: From Link Management to Production Reliability | Amin Yekani (Meta – Optical Engineer) Qing Wang (Meta – Optical Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SONiC for OTN: Expanding SONiC and OCP SAI into Optical Transport Network | xuemei shi (Alibaba – Technical Engineer) Eddie Ruan (Alibaba – Senior Staff Engineer / Director Network System Software) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Closing the Observability Loop in SAI: From Performance Telemetry to Platform Constraint Discovery | Ravindranath Coimbatore Kanakarajan (Marvell – Distinguished Engineer) Jai Kumar (Broadcom – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| NVIDIA SDK + FBOSS: Building Production-Ready AI Network Fabrics | Harish Krishnamoorthy (NVIDIA – Principal Solutions Architect) Parvez Shaikh (Meta – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bridging the Gap: Accelerating Open-Source Agility on Cisco Silicon One Platforms | Masiuddin Mohammed (Cisco – Principal Solutions Engineer) Wei-Jen Huang (Cisco Systems Inc. – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open, AI-Ready FBOSS: From Platform Bring-up to Solution Qualification for the OCP Ecosystem | Benoit Sigoure (Nexthop AI – Software Engineer) Srikrishna Gopu (Meta – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Optically-Accelerated AI Clusters Enabled by Interoperable Multi-Vendor OCSs: Use Cases | Iwan Kartawira (iPronics – Network Specialist) Kazuaki Ueda (KDDI Corporation – Research Engineer / Standardization Specialist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardizing OCS Interfaces for Seamless Integration | Richard Yu (Google – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Zero-Touch OCS Fabrics for AI Scale-Out Infrastructure at Hyperscale | Michael DeMerchant (Lumentum Operations LLC – Product Line Manager, OCS) Kannan Raj (Oracle – AI Infrastructure Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| ESUN: Open Ethernet for the AI Scale-Up Era | Pratik Marolia (Microsoft – Principal System Architect) Manoj Wadekar (Meta – Networking AI Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardizing Ethernet Scale-Up Validation: Test Strategy and Current Progress on LLR/CBFC | Haiyang Zheng (Alibaba Cloud – Staff Engineer) Yuanwen (Daisy) Sun (Keysight – Principal Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The UALink Switch API – A Common Abstraction for Scale-Up AI Switches | Ayyappa Nuthalapati (Marvell – Senior Principal Software Architect) Ravindranath Coimbatore Kanakarajan (Marvell – Distinguished Engineer) Justin King (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Srv6 powered backbone networks | Jasmeet Bagga (Facebook – Software Engineer) Andrey Golovanov (Meta – Network Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Beyond the Cloud Boundary: High-Capacity Interconnects Between Hyperscalers and GPUaaS | Krithika Moorthy (Cisco – Senior Leader, Product Management) Anish Narsian (Microsoft – PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENG MANAGER) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling AI Infrastructure Across DC and Beyond: Meta’s Journey with BAG | Jalpa Patel (Meta – Technical Program Manager) Hany Morsy (Meta – Network Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Deep Buffers: The Essential Foundation for Scalable AI Training and Inference Infrastructure | Golan Schuzkin (Broadcom – Broadcom Fellow) Hugh Holbrook (Arista Networks – Chief Development Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bridging On-prem and Cloud — GPU Networking at Meta Scale | Carmen Au (Meta – Software Engineering Manager) Adi Gangidi (Meta – RDMA Network / Comms Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SRv6 Deployments in Scale-Out and Scale-Across Networks | Clarence Filsfils (Cisco – Cisco Fellow) Guohan Lu (OpenAI – Member of Technical Stuff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Traffic Engineering in AI DCI/WAN for AI Traffic | Yuanchao SU (Alibaba Cloud – Director of WAN Architecture & Development) Clarence Filsfils (Cisco – Cisco Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MetaRoCE in Software | Ashkan Nikravesh (Meta – Software Engineer) Yiorgos Nikolaidis (Meta – Software engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MRC: A Purpose-Built RDMA Transport for AI Training Networks | Abdul Kabbani (Microsoft – Partner, Network Silicon Architect) Wael Noureddine (Microsoft – VP, Silicon Architecture) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Clustermapper: Deterministic path diagnosis for AI backend networks using SRv6 | Ryder Lewis (OpenAI – Member of Technical Staff) Guohan Lu (OpenAI – Member of Technical Stuff) | Video | |
| Beyond Traditional BGP: Decoupling Route Distribution for Large-Scale AI Clusters at Alibaba | Eddie Ruan (Alibaba – Senior Staff Engineer / Director Network System Software) Dennis Cai (Alibaba – TBD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Networking In Silo is Not Enough – Building End-to-End Automation for AI Factories the IREN Use Case | Amir Elbaz (BE Networks – Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BE-Networks) Kim Kwa (IREN – Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Open Platform Firmware (OPF) (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Platform Firmware (OPF) – project update | Murugasamy Nachimuthu (Oracle – Architect) Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow, Chief Firmware Architect) | Video | Dropbox |
| openSFI Update: Advancing Silicon Firmware Interoperability | Allison Goodman (TBD – Senior Principal Engineer) Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow, Chief Firmware Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Flash-less Boot in OCP Systems: A Streaming Firmware Architecture for Secure and Scalable | Munir Ahmad (Lattice Semiconductor – Compute Architect) Alex Cervantes (Intel – Cloud and AI Systems Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Code to Data: Advancing the Unified Platform Configuration Interface (UPCI) | Felix Polyudov (AMI – AMI Fellow) Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Decoupling Silicon Dependencies from Control Plane Firmware | Sarathy Jayakumar (AMD – Fellow – Compute and AI systems Architect) Rama Bhimanadhuni (Microsoft – Principal Engineering lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building Bridges for Adoption: OCP, Standards Bodies, and Open‑Source Firmware | Michael Kinney (Intel – Principal Engineer, FW Development) Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow) Christian Walter (9elements – Managing Director Firmware) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Memory Safe Security Across Firmware Stack | Giri Mudusuru (Microsoft – Principal Firmware Architect) Tim Lewis (Insyde Software – CTO) Bertrand Achard (Google – Boot Services lead) Raj Kapoor (AMD – Fellow, Chief Firmware Architect) Oleg Ilyasov (American Megatrends (AMI) – BIOS Core Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Trusted, AI-Ready Open Firmware: From Auditable Foundations to Agentic Lifecycle Automation | Paul Grimes (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Chitrak Gupta (American Megatrends (AMI) – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Next Evolution of Intel’s FSP: Aligning to openSFI and UPCI | Michael Kinney (Intel – Principal Engineer, FW Development) Chad Tsai (intel – Technical Lead, Firmware Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Rack & Power (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rack and Power ( Opening and update) | Steven Moore (Rittal – Global Key Account Director) Harry Soin (Advanced Energy – Senior Technical Marketing Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Rack Wide (ORW): Progress, Validation, and What’s Next | Cecilia Galvan (Meta – Mechanical Engineer) Richard Banyard (Rittal – Head of Design) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| ORv3 Risk Assessment of Multi-degree of Freedom Transportation Vibration | Ken Leung (Google – Senior Mechanical Engineer) Eric Joneson (TransPak – VP of Field Data & Packaging Analytics) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Hyperscale Power Delivery: Managing Aggregated and Cascaded Power Shelf Architectures | Praveen Kumar Velpuri (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) Yang Hsiung (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Powering the AI Rack of the Future: A Scalable 800 V DC Sidecar Architecture | Sven Finke (Bosch – Product Director 800VDC Power Rack) Justin Mark Herrmann (Rittal – Product Manager Energy & Power Solutions) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling 1MW+ IT rack power with an open rack busbar interface | Hal Loket (TE Connectivity – System Architect) Aniket Singh (TE Connectivity – Global Product Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| High-Power-Density BBU and CBU Design for Evolving AI Data Center Power Architectures | Takuya Tsutsumi (Panasonic Corporation – General Manager) Hank Tsuda (Panasonic Corporation – Engineering Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Orv3 Power architectures for Higher Power work loads | Cihan Aydin (Delta Electronics Inc. – Senior Design Engineer Power Electronics) Harry Soin (Advanced Energy – Senior Technical Marketing Director) | Video | |
| Mitigating AI Training Power Oscillations: Utility Requirements and In-Rack Power Filtering | Bo Wen (Microsoft – Principle Electrical Engineer) Xianyong Feng (Microsoft – Principal Power System Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Simplifying High-Density Deployments: Reducing AC Whip Complexity in Multi-Power Shelves Open Rack | Fabricio Alves Borges (Schneider Electric – Product Leader of AC and DC power distribution) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling OCP for Supercomputing: The Cray GX Infrastructure | Javier Izquierdo (HPE – Director, HPC Platform Engineering) Brian Purcell (HPE – Senior Distinguished Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MGX Power Rack Reference Design | Jared Huntington (NVIDIA – Power Architect Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| 800V direct-to-server and power shelf solutions | Harry Soin (Advanced Energy – Senior Technical Marketing Director) Andy Brown (AEI – Advanced Energy – Marketing Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| 800V Data Center DC/DC Design Considerations, Topology Comparisons, and Trade-offs | David Reusch (Texas Instruments – Data Center Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Applying OCP ORv3 and ORW Design Principles to Rack-Scale Arm AI Infrastructure with Supermicro | Marc Meunier (Arm – Director, HW Ecosystem) Daniel Chen (Supermicro – Sr. Director, AI/HPC Solution Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Power Distribution sub-project at OCP – Low Voltage DC Distribution in Data Centers | Paolo Catapane (ABB – Senior Global Product Manager / Chapter Leader Solution Product Management) JP Buzzell (Bitdeer – EVP Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Security (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Introduction to Attesting Hitlessly Updatable Systems | Matt King (NVIDIA – Security Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Integrated HSM: Bringing Silicon-Level Key Security to the Server Tray | Craig Barner (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer) Vishal Soni (Microsoft – Principal Firmware Architect) Mohan Kumar (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Architecture and Ecosystems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Endorsements for Attestation: A Common Language for the Whole Supply Chain | Paul Howard (Arm – Senior Principal Software Architect) Shefali Kamal (Fujitsu – Software Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Device Identity Provisioning over SPDM | Fabrizio Damato (AMD – Security Architect) Xiaoyu Ruan (Intel – Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Future-proof security in TPM with SPDM and PQC capabilities | Antonio Javier Cabrera Gutierrez (Infineon Technologies – Staff Security Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP L.O.C.K. and FIPS | Gwangbae Choi (Samsung Electronics – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Data Center Trust: Open Standards for Attestation, Device Identity, and Post-Quantum | Shiva Dasari (HPE – Senior Distinguished Technologist) Jeff Andersen (Google – Staff Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Upgrading OCP S.A.F.E. and S.O.L.I.D. for the AI age | Zahra Lak (Microsoft – Principal HW Security Engineer) Jeff Andersen (Google – Staff Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Caliptra Security Through Open-Source DV Infrastructure | Andreas Kurth (lowRISC – Director of Hardware Engineering) Zachary Halvorsen (Google – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Baremetal Security Architecture | Bharat Pillili (Microsoft – Partner Hardware Engineer) Darpana Munjal Loodu (Microsoft – Principal Firmware Engineering Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Out of Band Seamless Updates with Runtime Authorization | Anahit Tarkhanyan (Intel – Data Center Security Lead) Eli Kupermann (Intel – Security FW Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Secure Key Distribution Protocol for SoC Hardware Blocks | Craig Barner (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer) Chandra Shekhar Reddy (Marvell – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Securing Links to Securing Pods- Security of Scale-Up Networks | Avdhesh Chhodavdia (Astera Labs – Security Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Package-Aware Integrity: From Source-Agnostic Publication to Full-System Attestation | Felipe Zimmerle da Nobrega Costa (KonaSense – CTO) Dhananjay Phadke (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Confidential Storage | Srini Narayanamurthy (Google – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| BMC-Mediated Platform Composite Attestation via Redfish | Xiling Sun (Microsoft – Principal firmware engineer) Roksana Golizadeh Mojarad (Microsoft – Principal Security Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Caliptra Subsystem 2.2: USB 2.0 and OCP Streaming Boot | Caleb Whitehead (Microsoft – Hardware Engineer) Bart Vertenten (NXP Semiconductors – Senior System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Architectural Masking for PQC: Adam’s Bridge 3.0 Leveraging NTT Linearity | Mojtaba Bisheh-Niasar (Microsoft – Principal Security Architect) Kiran Upadhyayula (Microsoft – Sr Hardware Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Static Identity: Enabling Secure Certificate Refresh in Silicon Roots of Trust | Emre Karabulut (Microsoft – Hardware Security Engineer) VISHAL MHATRE (Microsoft – Principal Software Developer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Server (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Workstream Overview, Updates, and Progress Towards Industry Adoption | Todd Rosedahl (Jabil – Director — Systems and AI Strategy) David Heinrich (HPE – Fellow) Chitrak Gupta (American Megatrends (AMI) – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Onward Towards Industry Adoption – Demonstrating Modular Plug-and-Play (M-PNP) Tools and POC Work | Phillip Leech (HPE – Senior Technologist / Customer Architect) Bill Scherer (HPE – Architect) Munir Ahmad (Lattice Semiconductor – Compute Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Addressing Discovery and Topology Challenges in M-PESTI Systems | Tamer GUDU (AMD – SMTS Silicon Design Engineer) Aleksandar Jovanovic (AMD – Senior Engineering Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP NIC 2026: Gen 7 and liquid cooling – More speed and power ahead | Thomas Ng (Intel – Platform Architect) Jason Rock (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SPEC CPU 2026 – What’s new, what’s improved, and why it matters | David Reiner (SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) – President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Breaking the Memory Capacity-Bandwidth Tradeoff for Agentic Inference | Allan Cantle (Nallasway – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Reducing Parasitics, Improving Performance: The Case for Low Inductance Interconnects. | Quresh Bohra (TE Connectivity – Staff System Architect) Tony Howard (TE Connectivity – Staff System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| MHS: Datacenter-Secure Control Module (DC-SCM) 3.0 Specification Update | Tim Lambert (Dell Technologies, Inc. – Fellow / VP) Javier Lasa (Intel – Platform Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems: Extending the MHS Platform Contract | Bijan Nowroozi (Lightmatter – Head of Ecosystem Development) Morris Repeta (Dell – Director, Advanced Hardware Technologies, Office of the CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SBSA: Advancing Arm Server System Architecture in the OCP Ecosystem | Dong Wei (ARM – Lead Standards Architect and Fellow) Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Arm – Distinguished Engineer and System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Adapter Card (OAC) – Sub-Rackscale Acceleration Lives On | Gregory D Sellman (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Brian Aspnes (Intel – Senior Principal Hardware Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Managing Open Adapter Card (OAC) | Ross Hamilton (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff – AI Platforms) Marko Bartscherer (Intel – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Copper Interconnect Innovations for Realizing 400G Electrical | Andrew Kim (Luxshare-Tech – Director of Engineering) Jinhua Chen (Luxshare-ICT – Technical Advisor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Co-Packaged Copper at 448G: Balancing Electrical Efficiency with System Level Complexity | Sakina Naqvi (TE Connectivity – System Architect) Usman Saeed (TE Connectivity – Systems Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Hyperscale Cloud Networking from 400G to 800G: System Integration Lessons and Implications | Lucy Yu (MSFT – Principal System Technical Lead) Faye Yang (Microsoft – Principal Hardware Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Architecting Openness: How Switches Enable the Future of Open Adapter Card Platforms | Chris Blackburn (Astera Labs – Director of Field Applications Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Reimagining Data Center Power: High-Density Architectures for Next-Gen AI Compute | Gration Dsilva (AMD – PMTS Systems Design Engineer) Luocheng Wang (AMD – SMTS Systems Design Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Accelerating High-Power Server Design Through Board-Level Electro-Thermal Co-Simulation of VRMs | Steven Chien (Wiwynn Corporation – Technical Supervisor) Zi Ping Wu (Microsoft – Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Fragmentation to Footprint: The OCP Standard for AI Signal Conditioners | Casey Morrison (Astera Labs – Chief Product Officer) Liang Xue (Astera Labs – Associate VP, Advanced Hardware Engineering) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Server: Composable Memory Systems (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiered Memory for LLM Inference: A Modeling Framework for KV-Cache Offload | Khayam Anjam (Micron Technology – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Managing Orchestration Memory with the CMS Memory Fabric Manager | Hongjian Fan (Seagate – Electrical Engineer) Han Deok Lee (Samsung – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| CXL in Hyperscale Environment: Fleet-Scale Challenges, Failure Modes, and the Path to Debuggability | Vineet Parekh (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer) Markandeya Mudigonda (Meta – Production Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cost-Efficient LLM Inference via Peer-to-Peer GPU-to-Memory Expansion Datapath | Moshe Twitto (Astera Labs – Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Addressing Memory Wall challenge for AI and General Compute platforms | Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam (Microsoft Corporation – Senior Principal Storage Systems Architect) Grant Mackey (XCENA – Distinguished Engineer) Mohamad El-Batal (Seagate – Chief Systems Technologist) Samir Rajadnya (Microsoft – Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Disaggregated CXL Memory Architecture for Agentic AI: Dynamic Pooling, Sharing, and PNM Offloading | Kyumin Park (Samsung Electronics (Semiconductor) – Team Lead) Harry Kim (XCENA – Chief Product Officer) Jinin So (Samsung Electronics – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| XPU Scale Composable Smart Memory Fabric | Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer) Satananda Burla (Marvell – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond DRAM: Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory via Compute Interconnects for AI | Feng Zhu (Alibaba Cloud Computing – Director of Engineering) Shu Li (Alibaba Cloud Computing – Chief Storage Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Server: Open Chiplet Economy (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Open Chiplet Economy: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead | Anu Ramamurthy (Microchip – Associate Fellow, Design) Jawad Nasrullah (Palo Alto Electron – CEO) Mark Knight (Arm – Director of Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Custom HBM as a System: Co-designing the Base Die, Die-to-Die Power, and Package Thermals for AI | Hsin-wei Tseng (Marvell – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling up AI Compute, Memory and Connectivity | Igor Elkanovich (GUC – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building Interoperable AI Systems with Chiplets: Arm Neoverse and Cadence in an Open Ecosystem | Michael Posner (Cadence Design Systems – Group Director) Saif Elsaady (Arm – Hardware Ecosystem Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Security of Multi-chip ICs & Security Chiplets with Caliptra: Building a Hardware Root of Trust | Matt Holdrege (Microchip – Research Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Die-to-Die Solutions for Optical Chiplets | Kevin Donnelly (Eliyan – VP) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI-native Virtual Chiplet Eco-systems with industry best practices to accelerate Chiplet adoption | Matt Holdrege (Microchip – Research Fellow) Marc Meunier (Arm – Director, HW Ecosystem) Nandan Nayampally (Baya Systems – TBD) Lichen Weng (Tenstorrent – SoC Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bunch of Wires Flexi 1.0 : a low cost, low power D2D interface | Morgan Whately (Infineon Technologies – Distinguished Engineer) Kash Johal (YorChip – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Advancing Chiplet Flexibility: Updates in 2.0 OCE Transaction and Link Layer Specification | Brian Murray (VeriSilicon – SoC Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| System level standards for Multi vendor chiplet interoperability | Itai Nadler (GSOC LTD – CEO) Rob Pelt (AMD – Fellow) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Securing the Open Chiplet Ecosystem: Defining a Common Security Architecture for FCSA | Dominic Brown (Arm – Senior Principal Engineer) Sylvain Guilley (Secure-IC – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Agile Silicon–Will Open Chiplet Architectures Keep Pace with Fast-Evolving AI Dataflows | Luisa Gonzalez-Guerrero (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Research Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Federated Chiplet Design and Simulation | Kevin Cameron (Cirrus Logic – Consultant) David Ratchkov (Palo Alto Electron – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| An Open Lightweight Serial Interconnect for Composable AI Architectures | Vishal Shah (Credo – VP of Product) Allan Cantle (Nallasway – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Introduction to a new OCP FCSA Sub-Project Workstream | Junie Um (Cadence Design Systems – Distinguished Engineer) Kurt Herremans (imec – Program Director Automotive) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Physical AI: Addressing the barriers to interoperable chiplets in automotive and robotics | David Glasco (Cadence Design Systems – Vice President, Engineering) Bart Plackle (IMEC – Senior Vice President Automotive) Mukund Chavan (Rivian – Vice President of ASIC Design) CP Hung (ASE – VP of Corporate R&D) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Storage (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage Track Introduction | Ross Stenfort (SanDisk – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Comprehensive Testing for OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD Specification Compliance | Timothy Sharp (Microsoft Corp – Principal Hardware Engineer) Nick Kriczky (Teledyne Lecroy – VP – Products and Services) Rick Walsh (SANBlaze – Sr. Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SNIA SFF spec updates to the Storage Form Factor | Anthony Constantine (Micron Technology – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| QLC Storage in Hyperscalefleet | Vineet Parekh (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer) Joseph Cirnigliaro (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Near-Line SSD: the Path to the Future | David Palmer (Micron Technology – SMTS – Datacenter System Architecture) Steve Hetzler (Micron Technology – DMTS HIGH CAPACITY STORAGE ARCHITECTURE) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| QLC Writes the end of SLC caching | Stephen Gold (SanDisk – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Optimizing SSD Performance Testing using FIO Sprandom | Vincent Fu (Samsung – Senior Staff Software Engineer) Dan Helmick (Samsung – Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| High Capacity QLC Innovation | Yang Liu (ScaleFlux – VP of HW Engineering) Rory Bolt (Kioxia America Incorporated – Sr Fellow / Principal Architect) Sebastien Jean (Phison Electronics – CTO) Mark Dancho (SanDisk – TBD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| NVM Express State of the Union: NVMe® Technology Roadmap for Hyperscale Infrastructure | Ross Stenfort (SanDisk – Distinguished Engineer, SSD Architecture) Chris Sabol (Google – Storage Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| IO Prioritization for Optimized Command Handling | Yuliya Tarnikova (Google – Staff Software Engineer) Dan Helmick (Samsung – Principal Architect) Chaitanya Kulkarni (NVIDIA – Sr. Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Recent Advancements in OCP Telemetry for SSDs | Kevin Brandt (Micron Technology – DMTS – Systems Architect) Dhankaran Ajravat (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Open Flash Platform: Serverless Exabyte-Scale Flash Storage with Xsight Labs and Hammerspace | Floyd Christofferson (Hammerspace – VP Product Marketing) Gary Grider (Los Alamos National Lab – Senior Directory for Computing Technologies) Ted Weatherford (Xsight Labs – VP Business Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Vertical Optimizations for KV$ Infrastructure | Dongjoo Seo (Samsung – Team Lead) Javier Gonzalez (Samsung – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Increasing Block Sizing Changes Data Placement Economics | Mike James (SanDisk – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Storage Specifications Update and What Customers Care About | David Black (Dell Technologies – Sr. Distinguished Engineer) Timothy Sharp (Microsoft Corp. – Senior Hardware Engineer) Chris Sabol (Google – Storage Architect) Jeff Wolford (HPE – Distinguished Technologist) Vineet Parekh (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Adopting high-capacity HDDs, navigating throughput and IOPS Limits using SAS/NVME interfaces | Hariharan Kumar (Microsoft – Senior Director/Principal PM) Balaji Natrajan (Microsoft – System Architect & Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Storage as a Performance Tier for LLM Serving | Joohee Lee (SK hynix – Research Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Storage Track Close | Ross Stenfort (SanDisk – Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Sustainability (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Updates from an exciting year with the OCP Sustainability Project, DCF Sustainability Project | Alexander Rakow (Schneider Electric – Director of Sustainability, Data Centers) Shruti Sethi (Microsoft – Senior PM) Priya Chhiba (Google – Sustainability Lead, Data Center Innovation) Sung A Kim (bp Castrol – Global Head of DC Technology) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Cooling the Cloud: Regional Tradeoffs in U.S. Data Center Cooling Architectures | Sammy Houssainy (Daikin Applied Americas – Energy Modeling Manager) Karim Shalash (Daikin Applied Americas – Data Center Solutions Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Performance-Normalized Embodied Rack Carbon Intensity for Next-Generation Hardware | Kali Frost (Microsoft – Senior Applied Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| DCEM workstream update: Case studies of metric measurements from servers to data centers | Babak Falsafi (Swiss Datacenter Efficiency Association – President) Murugasamy Nachimuthu (Oracle – Architect) Sadas Shankar (SLAC – Research Technical Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Sustainability and best practices for water efficiency | Rishab Vardhan Harikrishnan (Oracle – Principal Product Mgr) Derek Kauneckis (Vertiv – TBD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Climate Volatility in Daily Operations, A Community Conversation with Operators, Hyperscalers | Maheshwari Neelam (USRA – Senior Earth Scientist) Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director) Emily Wasley (Meta – Head of Climate Risk) Jessica Gullbrand (Eaton – Eaton Principal Data Center Technology & OCP Immersion Co-Chair) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Next-Generation Sustainability Dashboards: AI-Powered Optimization for Data Centers | Arun Mahendran (Lenovo – Senior Firmware Architect) Manish Baing (Lenovo – Advisory Firmware Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Digital Infrastructure in Hardware Manufacturing: Real-Time Telemetry, Automated Carbon | Malcolm Hegeman (Google – Program Manager, Supply Chain Sustainability) Brandon Weilbacher (Flex – Senior Director, Technology Strategy) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Enabling Scalable Waste Heat Recovery: Operational Realities, Design Principles, and Value | Emily Matys (Microsoft – Senior Technical Program Manager) Eric Peterson (Microsoft – Principal Infrastructure Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standardizing Data Center Operational Carbon Tracking: Supplier Metrics vs. Operator Needs | Sheng Zhong (ABB – ABB Sustainability Project Manager – North America) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Operationalizing the PCR: LCA at Scale and the Open Enablers Program | Josue Campos (Meta – Technical Program Manager) Mackenzie Clark (Google – Sr. Software Engineer, Data Center Sustainability) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Silicon to System: Embedding Power Efficiency as a Core Design Principle for Scalable AI | Devang Soparkar (Microsoft – Principal Platform Architect) Nilanjan Palit (Intel – Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Old Batteries, New Intelligence: Powering AI Sustainably | Arya Sasne (Crusoe Energy Systems – Associate Product Manager) Sharmila Bokka (Crusoe Energy Systems – Senior Electrical Engineer) | Video | |
| Closing the Loop: Structural Steel Reuse in Hyperscale Datacenter Construction | John O’Sullivan (Microsoft – Principle Programme Manager) Anjali Bhagat (Microsoft – Principal Program Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Closing the Visibility Gap: An AI-Driven Supply Chain Intelligence Framework for Water Stewardship | Ojonimi Bako (Kaya AI – CEO and Founder) Michael Obradovitch (Ecolab – Vice President Global Accounts) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Product Category Rule-style Specification for Life Cycle Assessment on Datacenter ICT-Equipment | Lisa Rivalin (Meta – Senior Staff Systems Engineer) Stephan Benecke (Google – Head of Carbon Footprinting, Cloud Environmental & Social Responsibility) Ines Sousa (Microsoft – Sr Sustainability Industry Advisor) Vincenzo Ferrero (Amazon – Sustainability Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Green Tokens: From Green Computing to Sustainably Intelligent | Yen Haw Chen (Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER) – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Increasing Rigor in Data Center Carbon Disclosure | Andrea Desimone (Schneider Electric – Sustainability Solutions Manager) Lalit Joshi (Microsoft – Sr. Sustainability Impact Manager) Malcolm Hegeman (Google – Program Manager, Supply Chain Sustainability) Miranda Gardiner (iMasons Climate Accord – Executive Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Systems Management (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware Management Project Journey | Hemal Shah (Broadcom – Distinguished Engineer and Architect) Jeff Hilland (Intel – Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Hardware Fault Management Workstreams Status and Relationship | Theodros Yigzaw (NVIDIA – Memory System Architect) Vilas Sridharan (AMD – RAS Architect) Janusz Jurski (Intel – architect) Shubhada Pugaonkar (NVIDIA – Server RAS Architect) Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Arm – Distinguished Engineer and System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Prescribing remote manageability for IT/OT | John Leung (Intel – Principal Engineer) Mike Raineri (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Hierarchical Device Managers to manage complex Multi-Rack systems | Avinash Natarajan (Celestica – Senior Principal, Design Engineering) Navinsennivel Nallasivam (Celestica – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| System-Level Manageability for GPU Platforms — Progress in the OCP System GPU Management Workstream | John Leung (Intel – Principal Engineer) Hari Ramachandran (Microsoft Corporation – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Creating Aggregation Pipelines to Conquer Large Telemetry Challenges | Jim Harford (Broadcom – System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP Auxiliary Management Controller overview | Gregg Shick (HPE – Validation Lead) Jeff Hilland (Intel – Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| DMTF PMCI Enhancements for OCP Hardware Management | Patrick Caporale (Lenovo – Distinguished Engineer) Hemal Shah (Broadcom – Distinguished Engineer and Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Runtime SBOMs: Extending DMTF Redfish to Connect Build-Time and Live Software State | Harsh Bhuwania (Microsoft – Senior Firmware Engineer) Prashant Dewan (Microsoft – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| GPU & CPU Diagnostics and RAS Standardization Advances for Hyperscale Infrastructure | Rama Bhimanadhuni (Microsoft – Principal Engineering lead) Taniya Siddiqua (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. – GPU RAS Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Graph Query Language APIs for OpenBMC Metrics; OpenRMC-DM as a Proxy GraphQL-Server | Avinash Natarajan (Celestica – Senior Principal, Design Engineering) Navinsennivel Nallasivam (Celestica – Staff Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Lab to Fleet: A Secure, Unified Debug Framework for Cloud Systems | Suresh Duthiraru (Microsoft – Debug Tools Architect) Rolf Kuehnis (Lauterbach Inc. – Strategic Technical Alliance Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OBMF Specifications and Workstream Status Update | ofer yehielli (Google – Technical Lead Manager) MARIUSZ ORIOL (NVIDIA – Manageability Architecture) Janusz Jurski (Intel – architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Operating OpenBMC at Hyperscale: What Works, What Breaks, and What Needs to Change | Thirupathaiah Annapureddy (Microsoft – PARTNER FIRMWARE ENG MGR) Hari Ramachandran (Microsoft Corporation – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Scale to Security: Evolving GPU Management Standards in 2026 | Krishna Sugumaran (AMD – Firmware Architect) Sujoy Sen (Google – Principal Engineer) Akkiah (Choudary) Maddukuri (Microsoft – Principal Engineer) Qian Wang (NVIDIA – Software Engineer) Balaji Vembu (Meta – Hardware Systems Engineer – AI systems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Test & Validation (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTAM: Three Years of Bridging Hyperscalers and Suppliers Through GPU Accelerator Compliance | Aditya Mishra (NVIDIA – Engineer) khader Basha (AMD – ENGINEER) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| T&V Update: Wind Tunnels & Bonsai servers | Jean-Marie Verdun (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Distinguished Technologist Open Platform) Arun Darlie Koshy (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Senior Engineer, Advanced Development, AI & Systems) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI-Native Hardware Validation: Building a Local-Context Agentic Test and Debug Platform | Wenxi Yan (Microsoft – Pri System Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Spec to Sign-off – How Microsoft is transforming the platform validation workflow leveraging AI | Rahul Shah (Microsoft – Partner Director of Software Engineering) Vikram Vemulapalli (Microsoft – VP, Hardware Test, Validation and Quality) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Fan Reliability Qualification: A standardized framework across the server fan supplier base | Mahendra Lokhande (Meta – Reliability Engineer) Kalpak Dhake (Meta – Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| High Speed Cable Cartridge AI System Validation | Granthana Rangaswamy (Meta – Sr Hardware Engineer) Yuvin M. Weerasinghe (Meta – Hardware System Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Tray to Training Job: L10-L12 Manufacturing Test | Meghan Kachhi (Cisco – Technical Marketing Engineer, Technical Leader) Sunny Dugar (Supermicro – TBD) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Product Intercept learnings and Compliance measurement for Diagnostics Standardization | Rajat Madhusudan (Microsoft – Principal Firmware Engineer) Jennifer Lee (Intel – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Time Appliances (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bounding Time Uncertainty in Distributed Systems | Gary Giust, PhD (SiTime – Sr. Director System Architecture) Kishan Shenoi (SiTime Corp – Senior Principal Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Precision Time for AI Infrastructure: Deploying PTP Boundary Clocks at Scale | Vikram Chandra (Nokia – Sr. Software Engineer) Bhaskar Chinni (Broadcom – Principal Product Line Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Timing Recovery Using PTP within NIC and Distribution by ePPS to Computing Modules | Sean Liu (Skyworks Solution – Sr. Principal Application Engineer) David Spencer (Skyworks Solutions Inc. – Senior Product Line Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A timecard as a resilient A-PNT custom solution | Yair Neugeboren (Oscilloquartz – Sr. Product Line Manager) Anil Reddy (Oscilloquartz – VP gLOBAL Business Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Multidomain Time Synchronization in the Modern Datacenter: From Network to Workload | Christopher Hall (Intel – Platform and Time Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Raspberry Pi Compute Module based Open Time Server Cluster (OTS-C) for Resilient Timing at the Edge | Wil Myrick (ENSCO – Chief Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| High Radix Switches and Precise Time | Dan Biederman (Eridu AI – Principal Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Clock-Aligned Telemetry for AI Clusters: From BMC to GPU to Fleet | Ahmad Byagowi (TBD – Research Scientist) Lukas Landgraf (turbalance – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Precision-Time Circuit Switching for AI Training Fabrics: When Packet Switching Is Enough | Sahas Munamala (OCP TAP – Engineer) Ahmad Byagowi (TBD – Research Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Time Appliances Open Discussion & Q&A 1 | Video |
OCP Special Focus: Photonics (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrated Optics at Scale for AI Infrastructure: From 51.2T CPO Validation to Meta’s 102.4T | Granthana Rangaswamy (Meta – Sr Hardware Engineer) Siamak Amiralizadeh (Meta – Optical Engineer) Xu Wang (Meta Platforms, Inc. – Hardware Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Optical Scale-Up AI Systems: Architectures, Standards, and Resiliency Strategies | Fotini Karinou (Microsoft – Director of Optical Technologies & Architecture, Microsoft Azure) Adrian Motamedi (Microsoft – Interconnect System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Lessons learned from GW-scale AI deployments | Mark Filer (Oracle – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Revolutionizing Networking for Gigawatt AI Factories | Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA – Senior Vice President) | Video | |
| The Interconnect Inflection Point: Evolving Intra- and Multi-Rack Scale-Up AI Networks | Akarsh Bhatnagar (Celestica – Product Line Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| System-Level Evaluation of XPO for High-Density Optical Interconnects in AI Infrastructure | Daniel Mohaghegh (Microsoft – Hardware Engineer) Sunil Priyadarshi (Arista Networks – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open NPO Standards: Building the Optical Interconnect Ecosystem for SuperPOD | Weiqiang Xu (Huawei – Standard representative) Qirui Fan (Huawei – Standard Representative) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Light on the Horizon: Architecting Scale Up Fabrics with NPO & CPO for the Next Gen Data Center | Chris Blackburn (Astera Labs – Director of Field Applications Engineering) Jignesh Shah (Astera Labs – Sr. Director of Product Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| 400G/lane Optics Module Connectors | Sam Kocsis (Amphenol – OIF Technical Committee Chair, Amphenol) Terry Little (Foxconn Interconnect Technology – Development Engineering Manager) Robbie Xu (Luxshare-Tech – Head of US/EMEA Sales and Marketing) Matthew Ho (TE Connectivity – Principal System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Optical Connectivity Solutions for AI Scaling | Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu (TeraHop – VP Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Future of Coherent Optics in the AI Era | Frank Chang (Ciena – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| External Laser Source Architectures for Deployable CPO-Based AI Networks | Christian Urricariet (Lumentum – Senior Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| High-Speed Open Silicon Photonics Reference Designs | Janos Veres (Flex – Sr Director, Assembly & Test Technologies) Bijan Nowroozi (Lightmatter – Head of Ecosystem Development) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Slow and Wide 12.8T VCSEL solutions | Oleg Shchekin (Lumentum – Head of High-Density Interconnects) Ramin Farjadrad (Eliyan – CEO) Chris Kocot (Coherent – TBA) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| CPO, OCI | Rajiv Pancholy (Broadcom – Director of Hyperscale Strategy and Products) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| CPO solution for AI that checks all the boxes | Tom Palkert (Samtec – System Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Photonics for AI – Aligning the Stack from Components to Cloud | Stephen Manley (Oracle – Senior Principal Network Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Alternate Scalable AI Interconnects | Sean Park (Point2 Technology – Chief Executive Officer) Mike Staskus (AttoTude – Product) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Standards and Future Technologies | Nathan Tracy (TE Connectivity – OIF President, TE Connectivity) Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu (TeraHop – VP Marketing) Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista – Chief Architect and Co-Founder) Rajiv Pancholy (Broadcom – Director of Hyperscale Strategy and Products) | Video |
OCP Regional Communities (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager) Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead) | Video | |
| OCP Europe Regional Community Track | Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager) | Video | |
| OCP In Europe: Market Research Insights by IDC | Chris Drake (IDC – Senior Research Director) | Video | |
| Europe on a Different Clock: Data Center and Liquid Cooling Market Analytics to 2035 | Rolf Brink (Promersion – CEO) | Video | |
| State of the European Data Center | Jaime Comella (DayOne – Senior Design Manager) | Video | |
| Panel: OCP Adoption on European Cloud Service Providers | Christoph Streit (ScaleUp Technologies – CEO) Stéphane Dutilleul (Scaleway – VP Hardware Engineering) Kal Aeolian (Verda – TBD) | Video | |
| OCP Adoption in Europe, a View from the PremDay User Group | Stéphane Dutilleul (Scaleway – VP Hardware Engineering) Mario Daijogo (Fastly – Principal Hardware Engineer) | Video | |
| Technical Matchmaking: Makers and Takers in the EU Ecosystem | Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead) | Video | |
| Panel: The European Chip Ecosystem: A Clear Path Forward | Bart Plackle (IMEC – Senior Vice President Automotive) Kevin Devey (OpenChip – System & Server Staff) Mark Knight (Arm – Director of Product Management) | Video | |
| Closing | Raúl Álvarez (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – European Market Development Manager) Jeroen Burks (OCP – EMEA co-lead) | Video |
FTI Workshop: Data Centric Computing (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCC Introduction and State of the Art | Jason Molgaard (Solidigm – Solidigm) Sakul Gupta (Micron Technology Inc. – Sr. Principal Firmware Security Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bridging Compute and Memory Fabric: Data Services for Direct XPU Access | Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Agentic AI Serving System with Computational Shared Memory Pool | Jongryool Kim (SKhynix – SKhynix) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Towards an Extensible Framework for Near-Data Processing in AI: Integration Experiences | Somnath Roy (Samsung Semiconductor Inc. – Sr. Principal Engineer) Wonjae Lee (Samsung – Staff Engineer) Vishnu Charan Thummala (Samsung – Samsung) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Deep dive into what allows 1 million GPUs talk to thousands of smart devices | Pankaj Mehra (The Ohio State University – The Ohio State University) Galen Shipman (Los Alamos National Laboratory – Scientist) Anand Jayarajan (NVIDIA – NVIDIA) Evangelos Georganas (Intel – Principal AI Engineer) Atharva Chougule (Stanford University – Stanford University) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| A System Architecture using Computational Memory for Differentially Private Training | Younghoon Min (SKhynix – SKhynix) Kiwan Maeng (Penn State University – Penn State University) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Bringing General-Purpose Parallel Programming to Near-Data Processing | Harry Kim (XCENA – Chief Product Officer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Near Data Processing opportunities for context engineering | Jon Hermes (Arm – Staff Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open Object Formats for Near Data Processing | Daniel Bittman (Elephance Memory – Elephance Memory) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond the Monolith: Open Middleware for Heterogeneous AI Infrastructure at Hyperscale | Gaurav Agarwal (Marvell – Senior Distinguished Engineer) Chris Gottbrath (Gottbrath Technologies LLC – Principal) Mayank Saxena (Samsung – Chief Technologist, Memory Solutions Lab) Harry Kim (XCENA – Chief Product Officer) Youngpyo Joo (SK hynix – Research Fellow of Software Solution) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
FTI Workshop: Short Reach Optical Interconnects (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short Reach Optical Interface for Scale-up | Bobby Lu (Lightelligence – Principal Engineer) Ron Swartzentruber (tbd) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Laser Sources to Simplify Slow-and-Wide Optical Interconnects | Alan Liu (Quintessent – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Copper: Optical Opportunities for AI Scale-up Fabrics | Jian Chen (Dell – Dell) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rack-Ready High-Power ELSFPs: A Co-Development to Support CPO Deployment in AI Scale-Up and Out | Nandita Aggarwal (Ayar Labs – Sr. Manager, Laser Engineering) Willie Chen (Wiwynn Corporation – Thermal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Architecting Near-Packaged Optics for AI Datacenters: Key Technology Choices and Trade-offs | Armaghan Eshaghi (Nokia – Nokia) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Dense, reliable, and energy efficient interconnects for AI | Jeffrey Hutchins (Ranovus – OIF PLL Working Group Energy Efficient Interfaces Vice Chair) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| High-Density Optical I/O Using Micro-VCSEL Arrays and Multicore Fiber | Weipeng Zhang (LightXcelerate Inc – CTO) Manchen Hu (LightXcelerate – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| µLED Interconnects: Addressing the Future of Scale-In and Scale-Up Connectivity | Nigel Alvares (Avicena – Avicena) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Optical Scale-Up AI architecture with Co-Packaged Optics with Open Rack-Scale Infrastructure | Kinny Chen (Wiwynn Corporation – Sr. Manager) Vishal Chandrasekar (Ayar Labs – Product Management) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Predictable Performance, Link Stability and density: Advancing field ready lens connectivity | Rebecca Lovely (Corning – Corning) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Open CPX Optical Engine With Integrated Laser | Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu (TeraHop – VP Marketing) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scale-up optical reliability and GPU/system resiliency to optical link flaps | Eduard Roytman (Microsoft – Sr. Principal AI Systems Architect) Lenin Patra (Marvell – Marvell) Greg Link (Microsoft – Microsoft) Jeffrey Hutchins (Ranovus – OIF PLL Working Group Energy Efficient Interfaces Vice Chair, Ranovus) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
FTS: Keynotes & Awards (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| FTS Chair Keynote | Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Inference Data Center 2030: Memory Pod Fabric with Rightsized Compute presented by Samsung | Mayank Saxena (Samsung – Chief Technologist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| FTS Awards Ceremony | Jon Summers (Research Institutes of Sweden – Scientific Leader in Data Centers) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
FTS: AI / HPC (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Sintering BGA Interconnect for Mitigating Electromigration in High-Current AI Power Delivery | Chengjie Du (University of Cambridge – Research Fellow) Xufu Ren (University of Cambridge – PhD Student) Teng Long (LITEON – Professor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Wavelength-Granular OCS with Solid-State OPA: Energy-per-Bit for AI Fabrics | Zhongxiang ZHANG (Shenzhen Litratech Co. Ltd. – CEO) shan che (pixora llc – ceo) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| AI/HPC Lightning Talks | Gerald Bode (Nlevel – CTO) Florian Engel (Nlevel – CEO) Jaehoon Shim (Seoul National University – Ph.D. Student) Injae Kang (Seoul National University – Student) M A Awal (EPC Power Corporation – Lead Controls Engineer) Jason Barmann (EPC Power – Director, Data Center Products) Zhenshuai Rong (University of Cambridge – Mr) Yingchao Chi (University of Cambridge – PhD) Nauman Rafique (Visum AI – Co-founder) Marco Pritoni (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Staff Scientist) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
FTS: Data Center Sustainability (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Investigation of Diamond-Based Materials for Direct Liquid Cooling of Next-Generation AI Chips | Nick Liu (Wiwynn – Thermal Engineer) Jake Hsieh (Wiwynn Corporation – Assistant Technical Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Superconducting Power Busway for Hyperscale AI Datacentres: MW-Relevant 800VDC-HTS Busway System | GUIDO MACCHI (Tokamak Energy Ltd – Business Development Manager) Nadia Gjerdingen (Tokamak Energy Ltd – Product Development Manager) | Video | |
| Sustainability Lightning Talks | Pierre Huyn (Hitachi – Principal Research Architect) Boya Qu-Qizilbash (SemiValley Technologies- Inc. – CEO) Saeed Moghaddam (University of Florida – Professor) Roshith Mittakolu (University of Maryland at College Park – Graduate Research Assistant) Fanny Oukhemanou (Syensqo – Sustainable Heat Transfer Fluid Program Manager) Ching-chih Wei (CreAlien Co.- Ltd – CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
FTS: Quantum (Data Center Design) (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantum at OCP | Smriti Bajaj (Dell – Applied Researcher) | Video | |
| Quantum Computing Market in 2026: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges | Noah El Alami (IDTechEx – Senior Technology Analyst) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The Classical Infrastructure of Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing | Smriti Bajaj (Dell – Applied Researcher) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| From Quantum Breakthroughs to Data Center-Ready Quantum Secure Networks | Remon Berrevoets (Falqon® Systems – CTIO and Co-Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Quantum Networking for Scale-Out: Nu Quantum’s Entanglement Fabric | John Jarman (nuQuantum – International Technical Lead) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Toward Quantum Superconducting with IQM Quantum Processors | Khadijeh Sona Najafi (IQM – Quantum Solution Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Neutral atoms for computing and sensing | Paul Lipman (Infleqtion – CRO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Scaling Photonic Quantum Computers | Jonah Hill (Xanadu – Xanadu) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Broadening Quantum Computing Adoption: Killer Apps for 2030? | Jake Silverman (Bloomberg – Semiconductor Analyst) Andre Saraiva (Diraq – Diraq) Paul Lipman (Infleqtion – CRO) Khadijeh Sona Najafi (IQM – Quantum Solution Manager) | Video |
IPEC Workshop (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revolutionizing AI Scale Up with Pluggable NPO – Opening Remarks | Frank Chang (Source Photonics – CTO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| NPO Through and Investor’s Lens – How Investors Underwrite an Architectural Transition | Subu Subrahmanyan (Capital Group – Tech Investor) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Market Forecast for CPO/NPO | Vlad Kozlov (LightCounting – Founder & CEO) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Rethinking AI Scale-up with optics: from pluggable to (n)PO | Zhiping Yao (Alibaba Group – principal engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Pluggables: Building the NPO Ecosystem for scaling AI | Ge Nan (Meta – Technical Sourcing Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Toward NPO Deployments in AI Fabrics | Kannan Raj (Oracle – AI Infrastructure Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| How can Near Packaged Optics continue the eco-system success of pluggable optics | Yawei Yin (Microsoft – Sr. Principal Network Developer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OpenCPX: A standardized pluggable NPO socket family ready for AI-scale deployment | Peter Winzer (Ciena – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Pluggable Optics: The Emerging Role of Near-Packaged Optics in AI Infrastructure | Weiping Huang (Ligent Tech – Founder) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| The case for NPO today | David Huff (Genuine Optics – Vice President) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Optical sources for CPO and NPO interconnects | Matt Sysak (Lumentum – VP) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| NPO to Enable Scale-up & Scale-out Interconnects for AI Networks | Samuel Liu (Lumilens – Co-Founder and VP Product) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Optics for NVIDIA Spectrum-X Multiplane Network Architecture | Daniel Kuchta (NVIDIA – Principal Hardware System Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| NPO Standardization: IPEC and the Global Landscape | Eric Bernier (Huawei – Leader of Advanced Photonics) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
Manageability Workshop (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy Model, Redfish for Personal Devices, Redfish for Backup Power and Energy Storage Systems | Divyanand Malavalli (AMD – Manageability Software Architect) Jeff Autor (Vertiv – Principal Software Architect) Mike Raineri (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Redfish Native Fleet-Scale GPU Observability Assistant for AI Cluster Operational Efficiency | Cyril Jose (AMD – DCGPU Systems Debug and Serviceability Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Redfish Aliasing Support and Redfish Streaming Telemetry Enhancements | Bill Scherer (HPE – Architect) Hari Ramachandran (Microsoft Corporation – Principal Engineer) Jeff Autor (Vertiv – Principal Software Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Remote Attestation of Devices with Redfish and SPDM | Jeff Hilland (Intel – Principal Architect) Mike Raineri (Dell Technologies – Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SPDM Update: Hybrid, Authorization Policy and Standard Signatures (FRU) | Jeff Hilland (Intel – Principal Architect) Brett Henning (Broadcom Inc. – Distinguished Security Architect) Bill Scherer (HPE – Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Crypto for SPDM: From Legacy to Quantum-Resistance and More | Wilson Young (Solidigm Technology – Security FW Engineering Manager) Xiaoyu Ruan (Intel – Senior Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Using SPDM for PLDM Firmware Updates: Authorization Policy and Measurement Manifest Capabilities | Patrick Caporale (Lenovo – Distinguished Engineer) Brett Henning (Broadcom Inc. – Distinguished Security Architect) Scott Phuong (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| OCP RAS API PLDM Modeling | Justin King (AMD – Principal Member of Technical Staff) Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Arm – Distinguished Engineer and System Architect) Janusz Jurski (Intel – architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| PLDM Modeling for Common Crash Dump, Bulk Telemetry and Watchdog Timer Access | Lukasz Lanecki (Intel – Cloud Software Development Engineer) Patrick Schoeller (Intel – Software Enabling and Optimization Architect) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
OIF Workshop (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enabling an Open, Scalable, Sustainable AI Infrastructure: Welcome, Introduction and OIF Overview | Nathan Tracy (TE Connectivity – OIF President) | Video | |
| Enabling AI Scale-Up: Why Standards Matter and the Need for Industry Alignment | Fotini Karinou (Microsoft – Director of Optical Technologies & Architecture) | Video | |
| Defining Electrical 448G/Lane: OIF’s Work on Next-Generation Interfaces | Nathan Tracy (TE Connectivity – OIF President, TE Connectivity) Yi Tang (Cisco – OIF Board Member and PLL Working Group Electrical Vice Chair, Cisco) Cathy Liu (Broadcom Inc. – OIF Board Member; Distinguished Engineer and Director) | Video | |
| From Package to DCI: OIF Enablers in Oracle Cloud and AI Networks | Mark Filer (Oracle – Architect) | Video | |
| Industry Perspective | Alan Weckel (650 Group – Co-founder and analyst) | Video | |
| Energy Efficient Interfaces: OIF is Enabling the Next Generation of AI | Jeffrey Hutchins (Ranovus – OIF PLL Working Group Energy Efficient Interfaces Vice Chair, Ranovus) Sam Kocsis (Amphenol – OIF Technical Committee Chair, Amphenol) | Video | |
| Coherent Optics and Management for the AI Era: OIF is Enabling Interoperability for Real-World | Ian Betty (Ciena – OIF Board Member, Ciena) Steven Hand (Nokia of America Corporation – OIF Board Member, Nokia) Jeffery Maki (HPE – OIF Board Member and Physical Layer User Group Working Group Chair, HPE) Tom Issenhuth (Huawei – OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee Co-Chair, Physical & Link Layer, Huawei) | Video | |
| Panel Q&A discussion and closing remarks | Alan Weckel (650 Group – Co-founder and analyst, 650 Group) Nathan Tracy (TE Connectivity – OIF President, TE Connectivity) | Video |
SONiC Workshop (Date/time order)
| Title | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome & Opening Remarks | Arpit Joshipura (The Linux Foundation – TBD) | Video | |
| SONiC Community Year in Review: Powering the Open Network for the AI Era | Yanzhao Zhang (Microsoft – Principal PM Manager) Xin Liu (Microsoft – Partner PM) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Tier 1 Ranking Test: A Vendor-Neutral Framework for Benchmarking Switching ASICs via SAI in SONiC | Manodipto Ghose (Keysight Technologies – Product Manager, Cloud Industry Solutions Team) Shenglin Zhu (Alibaba – networking expert) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond Scale-Out: SONiC’s Path to Memory-Semantic AI Fabrics | Ravindranath Coimbatore Kanakarajan (Marvell – Distinguished Engineer) S. Kamran Naqvi (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect – EMEA) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| SONiC BMC for Unified Management and Next-Generation Liquid-Cooled Networks | Judy Joseph (Microsoft – Senior Software Developer) Roger Liao (Nexthop AI – Software Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Formal Methods in SONiC: Public Infrastructure and Advances | Mengqi Liu (Alibaba – Senior Engineer) Ali Kheradmand (Google – Senior Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Democratizing DPU High Availability with a SONiC-Driven DASH HA Control Plane | Changrong Wu (Microsoft – Software Engineer II) Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam (NVIDIA – NVIDIA) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Building AI Data Center Networks with SONiC : Key Insights from a Cisco Customer Pilot Journey | Siddesh Nayak (Cisco – Architect, CX) Bhavani Parise (Cisco – Principal Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Beyond the T2 PIN: Pizza-Box Disaggregation for Next-Gen Regional Hubs | Kamini Santhanagopalan (Broadcom – Senior Product Line Manager) Rita Hui (Microsoft – Principal Software Engineering Manager) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Architecting Autonomous Operations for OCP Hardware: An Agentic AI Pipeline for SONiC | Arun Solleti (Celestica – Director Technical Product Marketing) Robert Covington (Celestica – Dir, Sales Engineering) | Video | |
| 6-12x Route Programming Acceleration in SONiC: A Collaborative Profiling and Optimization Journey | Deepak Singhal (Microsoft – Senior Software Engineer) Amol Rawal (Nokia – Software Test Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Plug-and-Play ML Pipelines for SONiC: On-Device Intelligence with Advanced Feature Extraction | Venkata Ravichandra Mynidi (Marvell Technology – Senior Principal Engineer) Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin (Marvell Technology – Director) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Software-Assisted Congestion Signaling and Sub-Millisecond Telemetry in SONiC | Arpitha Raghunandan (Google – Software Engineer) Shane Gao (Google – Software Engineer) | Video | |
| Extending Community SONiC for Advanced Optics Telemetry Aligned with OCP Standards | Rajan Pai (Credo – VP, Optical Systems) Prince George (Microsoft – Senior Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Unlocking Nanosecond Precision with P2P Transparent Clocks | Bhaskar Chinni (Broadcom – Principal Product Line Manager) Eric Lance (Google – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| FIPS 140-3 Support in SONiC | Kenneth Cheung (Arista Networks – Software Engineer) Qi Luo (Microsoft – Software Engineer) | Video | G-Drive Dropbox |
| Hackathon Winners Announcement + Closing Remarks | Sunny Schatz (The Linux Foundation – Marketing Communications Manager) Filip Sterling (PANTHEON.tech – PANTHEON.tech) Sunesh Rustaji (Cisco – Cisco) Marty Ma (Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Director, Product Management) | Video |
