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Keynotes (Custom order)
Title
Speaker(s)
Video
Slides
OCP Foundation Opening Remarks
Cliff Grossner- Ph. D. (Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) – Chief Innovation Officer)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Supporting the Artificial Intelligence Opportunity for Canada
John Weigelt (Microsoft – National Technology Officer)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
From Open Infrastructure to Agentic AI: Arm’s Silicon Vision for the Open Data Center
Marc Meunier (Arm – Director- HW Ecosystem)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Open Ecosystems in the AI Era
Christopher Smith (AMD – Corp. Vice President- Platform Software & Firmware)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Multimodal Captioning-based VLM for Retail on Modular Hardware
Tim Miskell (Intel – Cloud Software Architect)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Optics at the Heart of AI Compute: The Path to Scalable- Efficient Interconnect through Open Standards
Hojjat Salemi (Ranovus – SVP of Business Development & Tech Partnerships)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Building Sovereign AI Stacks
Alan Weckel (650 Group – Market Expert)
Bernard Duval (Numana – Chief Executive Officer)
Hojjat Salemi (Ranovus – SVP of Business Development & Tech Partnerships)
Namir Anani (ICTC Canada – President & CEO)
Andrew Fenton (Telehouse Canada – Vice President of Sales & Marketing)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
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AI Computing Continuum (Alphabetical order)
Title
Speaker(s)
Video
Slides
AI accelerated xG radios – a Platform for Autonomy
Brad Deforge (Dell – Radio Systems Architect)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
AI Computing Continuum Opportunity
Jeff Wittich (Ampere – Chief Product Officer)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Architecting the AI-Native 6G Fabric for Agentic Systems
JP Lefebvre (Bell Canada – Network Technology Strategy)
Yazan Chakfeh (Bell – Wireless Network Strategy)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Beyond Packets: The Optical Network in Scale Across
Paulina Gomez (Ciena – Director- Portfolio Marketing)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Extending AI to the Service Provider Edge: Building the Distributed Compute Continuum
Russ White (Nokia – Principal Architect)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Hydro-Québec’s SONiC Journey: What It Really Takes to Deploy Open Networking in a Utility Environment
Eilidh Mekkaoui (E.C.I. Networks – Global Sales Director)
Jean-Guy Quenneville (Hydro Quebec – Researcher)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Sub-Rackscale Acceleration – Evolution and Definition of High Powered Adapters
Tim Miskell (Intel – Cloud Software Architect)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Survey of Future AI Solutions and Ingredients
Mohammad Alavirad (Dell Technologies – Senior Principal Consultant)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
The Intersection of Open Networking- AI-RAN and 6G
Femi Adeyemi (1Finity – Vice President- Strategic Product Management)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
The Next Wave of AI: Inference
Nazym Paltachev (rivvor – Chief Executive Officer)
Rob Wood (Tetrel Security – Managing Partner)
Roy Chua (AvidThink – Founder & Principal)
Remi Duquette (Maya HTT – Vice President)
Jeff Wittich (Ampere – Chief Product Officer)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Open Systems for AI (Alphabetical order)
Title
Speaker(s)
Video
Slides
800 VDC Evolution in the Data Center
JP Buzzell (Bitdeer – EVP Engineering)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Accelerating Liquid Cooling Adoption: CDU Efficiency- Faster Deployments- and Smarter Site Prep
Bob DeHoff (Boyd – Business development)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Built in Canada: Enabling the Sovereign AI Factory with Denvr Dataworks
Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Enabling High-Performance AI Infrastructure with Optics Reliability at 1.6T and Beyond
Anabel Alarcon (EXFO – Product Manager)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Ethernet as the Foundation for AI Networking in an Open Ecosystem
Shawn Nicholl (AMD – Director of Silicon Design Engineering)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
From Rack to Region: Open Architectures and Interconnects for High Performance AI Clusters
Bilal Riaz (Ciena – Senior Director- Product Line Management)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Innovative Immersion Technology Enabling Higher Data Center Efficiency and Lower Environmental Impact
David Arsenault (Hypertec – VP – Global Sales)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Open Architecture for AI Cluster Design
Loren Staley (Celestica – Principle Architect)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Panel: Racing the Clock: Building AI Data Centers at a Scale Nobody Planned For
Woo Jin Ho (Bloomberg – Senior Analyst)
Maxime Guevin (Vantage Data Centers – Senior VP & General Manager)
Guillaume Lemieux (5C – Director of Engineering)
Amy Short (Denvr Dataworks – Executive Officer – Advanced Data Center Technologies)
Angela Adam (eStruxture Data Centers – Senior Vice President- Sales & Marketing)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
The Fluid Nature of Data Center Cooling
Tom Corrigan (PFX Group – Director of Electrification)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
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Quantum (Alphabetical order)
Title
Speaker(s)
Video
Slides
Adding Quantum Computing to the HPC Toolbox
Suzanne Talon (Calcul Quebec – Directrice générale)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Beyond Quantum Compute: Building Quantum-Safe Communications for a Connected Future
Sylvain Chenard (Nokia – Quantum Safe Networks Solution Lead)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Building a Sovereign Quantum-Ready Data Center in Canada
Joseph Hickey (ROCKai – President & CEO)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
From 1 to 1000 qubits: the control challenges for state-of-the-art quantum computing
Arnaud Carignan-Dugas (Keysight Technologies – Application Development Scientist)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Future of Quantum Computing: Co-Locating Quantum and HPC (lessons learnt from a real deployment)
Alireza Najafi-Yazdi (Anyon Systems – Founder & CEO)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Leveraging Classical Infrastructure in Quantum-Enabled Environments
Burns Healy (Dell Technologies – Principal Researcher – Quantum Technology)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
NVQLink: The Open Architecture Bringing Real-Time Compute to QPUs
Linsey Rodenbach (NVIDIA – Developer Relations Manager- Quantum Computing)
Video
Project KirQ (Canada)
Philippe Barraud (Numana – Numana)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum Infrastructure for Data Centers: a Canadian Perspective
Alexandra Daoud (Quantum Industry Canada – Board Chair)
Burns Healy (Dell Technologies – Principal Researcher – Quantum Technology)
Francois Borrelli (Numana – Strategic Advisor)
Greg Dick (Open Quantum Design – CEO)
Per Nyberg (ORCA Computing Ltd. – Chief Commercial Officer)
Alireza Najafi-Yazdi (Anyon Systems – Founder & CEO)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum Market Overview
Jake Silverman (Bloomberg – Semiconductor Analyst)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
Quantum-Classical Integration for the Future of High Performance Computing
Frank Indiviglio (IQM – Director HPC & AI Solutions)
Video G-Drive Dropbox
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