About the OCP Korea Tech Day
OCP Korea Tech Day is the official annual conference of the Open Compute Project Foundation and the OCP Korea Community, held since 2019.
As Korea’s dedicated forum for open, data center–focused innovation, the event brings together hyperscalers, semiconductor leaders, infrastructure providers, and enterprise decision-makers from across Korea and around the world.
Amid a historic transformation driven by AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the data center industry is redefining performance, power efficiency, and scalability. Open hardware standards and collaborative engineering are no longer optional – they are foundational to sustainable growth.
Through technical sessions, keynote presentations, and exhibitions, OCP Korea Tech Day showcases cutting-edge advancements across AI infrastructure, edge computing, cloud platforms, semiconductors, and next-generation data center design. The event serves as a high-impact platform for knowledge exchange, industry alignment, and meaningful business engagement.
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Keynote (Custom order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Opening Ceremony Jungsoo Kim (OCP APAC & Korea – Lead) Video G-Drive Dropbox Grid to Chip, Hyperscale to Regional: OCP’s Open Data Center Ecosystem in 2026 James Kelly (OCP Foundation) Video G-Drive Dropbox Flash in the AI Datacenter: New Roles and Requirements for SSDs and Controllers Andy Kim (FADU – VP.Tech.Collaboration) Video G-Drive Dropbox Storage: Past, Present and Future Ross Stenfort (SANDISK – Distinguished Engineer) Video G-Drive Dropbox AI Storage for the Long- and Short-Term Memory of AI Agents Hongchan Roh (Dnotitia – CDO) Video Data Center Infrastructure Transformation for Next-Generation AI Computing Anthony Kim (Supermicro Korea – Director) Video G-Drive Dropbox Expanding AI Infrastructure: An MDC Strategy for Sovereign AI and Physical AI Han Seong-Yong (iA – CEO) Video GPUs, Foundation Models, and LLMOps: On Sovereign AI Transformation (AX) Jin Park (Acryl – CEO) Video G-Drive Dropbox
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AI Factory & Data Center I (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Beyond the Spec Sheet: Field Lessons from Building an Immersion Cooling System for AI Data Centers Taehong Lee (SAMHWA ACE – Managing Director) Considerations for implementing DLC Jeongbeom Ko (Empyrion Digital – Lead Mech. Engineer) G-Drive Dropbox Current Status of OCP ORv3-Based High-Density Rack Standards and Implementation Strategies for AIDC in Korea SungYun Kim (TERATEC – CTO) G-Drive Dropbox Data Center Market Growth and Infrastructure Transformation Driven by the AI Supercycle Joonhwa Song (KDCEA – Director) GPU Cooling: From Air Cooling to Liquid Cooling Yongsoo Youn (NHN Cloud – Director) Quick disconnector for data center liquid cooling Young Jun (STAUBLI KOREA – Local Division Director) Lee G-Drive Dropbox Scalable Unit Design and Deployment Considerations for High-Density AI Infrastructure Anthony Kim (Supermicro Korea – Director) G-Drive Dropbox The Evolution of AI Servers: Changing Cooling Requirements and Next-Gen Solution Young Mo Kim (DEFOG – CTO)
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AI Factory & Data Center II (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides AI Semiconductor Solutions for the Agentic AI Era JinWon Lee (HyperAccel – CTO) Data Center: from the Grid to the Chip KangHyun Yi (Daegu University – Professor) G-Drive Dropbox F1-Style AI DC Operations: 4 Core Pillars Park Jaewook (SK broadband – Manager) G-Drive Dropbox High-Power energy storage and solving the AI data center power problem Derek Laan (Echion Technologies – Korea Business Development Manager) G-Drive Dropbox Improving Performance, Power, and Reliability via Lifecycle Monitoring and In-Chip Telemetry Dong Hung Lee (proteanTecs – Country Manager) LS Ultracapacitor, Leading Solution in AIDC and Grid Energy Storage Jung gul lee (LS materials – General Manager) Motion Architecture for Heavy-Load Server Rack Handling Robots in AI Data Centers Yongsuk Hwang (OOTTUM – CEO) G-Drive Dropbox Superconducting Total Power Solution for High-Density, High-Efficiency End-to End Power Infrastructure Jinbae Na (LS Cable&System – Engineer) Tokens Are the New Oil, NeoClouds Are the New Refineries JaemanAn (VESSL AI – CEO)
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AI Solution (Accel. AI Cluster) (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides A Methodology for Successfully Transforming Monolithic Systems into Cloud-Native Microservices Architectures Hangyoo (Twolinecloud – Vice President) Woo G-Drive Dropbox Accelerating Industrial AI Transformation with Ultra-Fast AI Inference on Tenstorrent AI Accelerators Hyunggi Chang (Tenstorrent – Staff Engineer) G-Drive Dropbox AI INFERENCE ERA Daniel LEE (AMD – Channel Sales Manager) AI-Native Infrastructure: Cloud-Native GPU Orchestration for the AI-Native Era YoungHwan Kim (KETI – Chief Researcher) Building a Hybrid AI Accelerator Testbed by Bridging Public Cloud OpenStack-based On-Prem Infrastructure Yubin Kim (Lablup – Software Engineer) From Cloud to Edge: AirCloud’s Distributed xPU Production AI Cloud Byungsu Park (AIEEV – CIO) GPU Infrastructure Reliability Engineering in the Era of Agentic AI Jihwan Chun (VESSL AI – CTO) KV Cache Tiering for LLM Inference: From GPU Memory to Shared Storage Andy Kim (FADU – VP.Tech.Collaboration) G-Drive Dropbox Mixture of AI Factories: Open, Scalable, Efficient Chih-Tsung Huang (Cisco – Senior Director) G-Drive Dropbox Scaling AI Inference with RNGD Clusters Donggun Kim (FuriosaAI – Head of Product)
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Cooling & Power (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Direct-to-Liquid (DLC) Cooling System and PG base Coolant Dae Seong Kang (SK picglobal – Team Leader) Experimental Evaluation of Suitable Refrigerants for Two-Phase Direct-to-Chip Cooling Jungsub Kim (LG Electronics – Research Fellow) Latest Trends in AI Data Center Liquid Cooling and Quick Disconnect Couplings, AI Data Centers: EPDM Hose Kits, Manifolds, and Cold Plates JinBaek Kim (CEJN KOREA – Managing Director) JungHo Jang (IMMERSEKOOL – CEO & President) G-Drive Dropbox ORV3 and HVDC Power Systems for AI datacenter Melvin Choi (Advanced Energy – Sr. Field Application Engineer) G-Drive Dropbox Post liquid cooling connectivity for AI & HPC infrastructure (QD) Young Jun Lee (STAUBLI KOREA – Local Division Director) G-Drive Dropbox Rethinking AI Liquid Cooling: What Really Wins — Direct-to-Chip or Immersion? Taeyong Jung (LG Electronics – Professional Research Engineer) The Biostatic propylene glycol-based heat transfer fluid : Kixx DLC Fluid PG25 WooKyun Synn (GS Caltex – Manager) G-Drive Dropbox Thermal-Hydraulic Design of PG25-Cooled RDHx Cores: From Channel-Height Scaling to Advanced Plate-Fin Development Xizhi Song (University of Birmingham – PhD Student) G-Drive Dropbox
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OpenInfra (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Air to Liquid, Single Phase to Two Phase cooling Guemseok Ryu (Parker Hannifin Korea – FCG Thermal management Territory Manager) Evolution of OpenStack Releases and Kolla-Ansible SLURP Upgrade Strategy hocheol Shin (Open Source Consulting – Team Leader) G-Drive Dropbox GitAIOps: A Three-Tier Memory Structure for AI Agents Hoon Jo (MegazoneSoft – AI & Cloud Native Engineer) G-Drive Dropbox It Worked, But…: Undergraduate Students’ Journey into OpenStack Contribution JiyoungHwang (KyungpookNationalUniversity – Undergraduate Student) Open Infrastructure: Global Trends Seongsoo Cho (Open Infrastructure: Global Trends – Organizer) G-Drive Dropbox Private AI Architecture for Data Sovereignty: From Modular Infrastructure to Accelerators and AI Services DongHee Yang (iA cloud – CTO) G-Drive Dropbox The New Normal of Infrastructure in the AI Era: Accelerating Innovation with Kubernetes Ian Choi (AWS Korea – Containers Specialist) G-Drive Dropbox
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Scale-up & Scale-out Networking (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides Accelerator – Importance of validating efficiency of AI network Do-Ho Kim (Keysight Technologies – Solution Engineer) Automated SDN Operations for AI Data Centers Junho Jeong (SB Information Technology – Leader) G-Drive Dropbox Designing and Debugging Scale-Up and Scale-Across Networking for the AI Factory Wei-Jen Huang (Cisco – Distinguished Engineer) e-Tube RF Transmission Over Plastic Waveguide: Scale Up Beyond Copper with Copper-Like Simplicity, Economics, and Reliability Thomas Cho (Point2 Technology – CTO) G-Drive Dropbox ITU-T Trends and the International Standardization of VQML Sojung Lee (LIG Accuver – NW Tech Dept. Team Leader) Revolutionizing Networking for Gigawatt AI Factories Qingchun Song (NVIDIA – Sr. Director) Scale-Up Ethernet Transport (SUE-T) and ESUN Chintan Shah (Broadcom – Chief Network Architect) G-Drive Dropbox Trends in Scale-Across Transfer Technology Between AI Data Centers Sunghyuk Park (WooriNet – Head of Business Planning) G-Drive Dropbox
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Server/Storage/Memory (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides A New Standard for Virtualization Infrastructure: Synology PAS7700 : High-Performance, Always-On Enterprise Storage Powered by Active-Active NVMe YUNWON HAN (ABLESTOR – Manager) G-Drive Dropbox Datacenter Storage Journey Discussion Ross Stenfort (SANDISK – Distinguished Engineer) G-Drive Dropbox OCP 101: How to Engage with the Open Compute Project Community Michael Schill (OCP Foundation – Senior Director) G-Drive Dropbox Open Flash Platform and Linux Standard-based High Performance Parallel File System for AI Sangsoon Im (Hammerspace – Sr Systems Engineer) Strategy for Building Sustainable AI Infrastructure Based on AI Semiconductors and Arm Servers FunFun Yoo (XSLAB – CEO) G-Drive Dropbox The Data Infrastructure for Thinking Machines: VAST AI OS Yong-Shin Noh (VAST Data – Sr System Engineer) G-Drive Dropbox Use cases for NAND in a new AI world Young paik (FADU)
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Systems for AI(Accel. AI Computing) (Alphabetical order)
Title Speaker(s) Video Slides AI Data Center (AIDC) Standardization Trends and TTA’s Response Guk Hyeon Jeong (TTA – Associate Researcher) AI Data Center Infrastructure Ike Lee (KTNF – Product Planning) Beyond GPU Management: Optimizing GPU Cluster Networks with GPUBase Ikjun Yeom (Acryl – CTO) G-Drive Dropbox Enhancing Industrial Competitiveness through Edge AI Tony An (Advantech KR – VP) G-Drive Dropbox From Construction to Assembly: The New Data Center Paradigm Hyunjun Ju (UNIWIDE – Genaral Manager) G-Drive Dropbox NPUaaS: A Redesign of the AI Semiconductor Cloud Service Platform Hyunhwa Choi (ETRI – Principal Researcher) G-Drive Dropbox Secure and private AI agents with confidential computing Joongi Kim (Lablup – CTO) G-Drive Dropbox The Trust Layer for Open AI Infrastructure: Non-Human Identity (NHI) and Machine Economy Standards Seokbin Yoon (Sogang AI.SW Grad School – Professor) G-Drive Dropbox Why EDGE AI FOUNDATION? Younki (EDGE AI FOUNDATION – Managing Director) Wyi (APAC) G-Drive Dropbox
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