Overview
The 2026 OCP Korea Tech Day brings together keynotes, technical tracks, demonstrations, and networking across its main program day, with a reception held in the evening.
| Time | Session Title / Type | Organization | Speaker / Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00~10:00 | Registration | – | – |
| 10:00~10:05 | Opening Ceremony | OCP APAC Community Lead | JungSoo Kim |
| 10:05~10:20 | Special Speech: Grid to Chip, Hyperscale to Regional: OCP’s Open Data Center Ecosystem in 2026 | OCP Foundation | James Kelly, VP Market Intelligence & Innovation |
| 10:20~10:35 | Flash in the AI Datacenter: New Roles and Requirements for SSDs and Controllers | FADU | Andy Kim, VP |
| 10:35~10:50 | Keynote Session ②: Storage: Past, Present and Future | SANDISK |
Ross Stenfort Distinguished Engineer |
| 10:50~11:05 | Keynote Session ③: AI Storage for the Long- and Short-Term Memory of AI Agents — Cost-Efficient Infrastructure Powered by an In-House Vector DB and the VDPU Accelerator | Dnotitia | Hongchan Roh CDO |
| 11:05~11:20 | Keynote Session ④: Data Center Infrastructure Transformation for Next-Generation AI Computing | Supermicro | Anthony Kim Director |
| 11:20~11:35 | Keynote Session ⑤: Expanding AI Infrastructure: An MDC Strategy for Sovereign AI and Physical AI | IA | DongChuel Choi Chairman |
| 11:35~11:50 | Keynote Session ⑥: GPUs, Foundation Models, and LLMOps: On Sovereign AI Transformation (AX) | Acryl | Jin Park CEO |
| 12:00~13:30 | Lunch & Booth tour |
| Time | Server / Storage / Memory Session | Speaker | Scale-up & Scale-out Networking Session | Speaker | OpenInfra Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30~14:00 | Datacenter Storage Journey Discussion | Ross Stenfort / Distinguished Engineer | Importance of validating efficiency of AI network | Keysight Technologies / DO-HO KIM Solution Engineer | ItWorked,But…:UndergraduateStudents’ JourneyintoOpenStack Contribution | KyungpookNationalUniversity / JiyoungHwang, Ju-young Lee |
| 14:00~14:30 | OCP 101: How to Engage with the Open Compute Project Community | OCP Foundation / Michael Schill, Sr. Community Director | Revolutionizing Networking for Gigawatt AI Factories | NVIDIA / QINGCHUN SONG | GitAIOps – A 4-Layer Architecture for Predictable AI-Assisted Operations | MegazoneSoft / Ju-young |
| 14:30~15:00 | Use cases for NAND in a new AI world | Fadu / Young paik | e‑Tube RF Transmission Over Plastic Waveguides : Optimal Path Beyond Copper for AI Scale Up | Point2 Technology / Thomas Cho CTO | Air to Liquid, Single Phase to Two Phase Cooling | Parker hannifin Korea / Geum-seok Ryu Manager |
| 15:00~15:30 | Strategy for Building Sustainable AI Infrastructure Based on AI Semiconductors and Arm Servers | XSLAB / FunFun Yoo CEO | ITU-T Trends and the International Standardization of VQML | LIG Accuver / Sojung Lee Team Leader | Private AI Architecture for Data Sovereignty: From Modular Infrastructure to Accelerators and AI Services | iA cloud / DongHee Yang CTO |
| 15:30~16:00 | Break Time & Booth Tour | |||||
| 16:00~16:30 | The Data Infrastructure for Thinking Machines: VAST AI OS | VAST Data / Yong-Shin Noh Sr. System Enginner | Automated SDN Operations for AI Data Centers | SB Information Technology / Junho Jeong Director | Evolution of OpenStack Releases and Kolla-Ansible SLURP Upgrade Strategy | Open Source Consulting / hocheol, Shin Team Leader |
| 16:30~17:00 | Open Flash Platform and Linux Standard-based High Performance Parallel File Storage for AI | Hammerspace / Sangsoon Im Sr. Systems Engineer | Scale-Across Transmission Technology Trends Between AI Data Centers | Woori-net / Seong-hyuk Park Director | The New Normal of Infrastructure in the AI Era: Accelerating Innovation with Kubernetes | AWS Korea / Ian Choi Containers Specialist |
| 17:00~17:30 | A New Standard for Virtualization Infrastructure: Synology PAS7700 – High-Performance, Always-On Enterprise Storage Powered by Active-Active NVMe |
ABLESTOR / Yunwon Han Manager | Designing and Debugging Scale-Up and Scale-Across Networking for the AI Factory | Cisco / Wei-Jen Huang | Open Infrastructure: Global Trends | OpenInfra Korea User Group / Seongsoo Cho CEO |
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17:30–18:00 |
Scale-Up Ethernet Transport (SUE-T) and ESUN |
Broadcom / Chintan Shah |
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| 17:30~18:00(30) | Closing | |||||
| Time | Systems for AI (Accel. AI Computing) | Speaker | AI Solution (Accel. AI Cluster) | Speaker | Cooling & Power | Speaker | AI Factory & Data Center (Track A) | Speaker | AI Factory & Data Center (Track B) | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30~13:55 | The Trust Layer for Open AI Infrastructure: Non-Human Identity (NHI) and Machine Economy Standards | AI·SW Graduate of Sogang University / Seokbin Yoon Collaboration Professor | AI INFERENCE ERA | AMD / Daniel Lee Manager | Quick Disconnector for Data Center Liquid Cooling | STAUBLI KOREA / Young Jun LEE Local Division Director | Improving Performance, Power, and Reliability via Lifecycle Monitoring and In-Chip Telemetry | proteanTecs / Dong Hyun Lee Country Manager | Data Center Market Growth and Infrastructure Transformation Driven by the AI Supercycle | Korea Datacenter efficiency Association / Joonhwa Song Director |
| 13:55~14:20 | Secure and private AI agents with confidential computing | Lablup / Joongi Kim CTO | KV Cache Tiering for LLM Inference: From GPU Memory to Shared Storage | FADU / AndyKim VP.Tech.Collaboration | GPU Infrastructure Reliability Engineering in the Era of Agentic AI | Advanced Energy / Melvin Choi Sr. Field Application Engineer | Agentic AI 시대의 AI 반도체 솔루션 | 하이퍼엑셀 / 이진원 CTO | GPU Cooling: From Air Cooling to Liquid Cooling | NHN Cloud / Yongsoo Youn Director |
| 14:20~14:45 | NPUaaS: A Redesign of the AI Semiconductor Cloud Service Platform | Electronics and telecommunications research institute / Hyunhwa Choi Principal Researcher | Mixture of AI Factories: Open, Scalable, Efficient | Cisco / Chih-Tsung Huang Senior Director | Latest Trends in AI Data Center Liquid Cooling and Quick Disconnect Couplings AI Data Centers: EPDM Hose Kits, Manifolds, and Cold Plates |
CEJN KOREA , IMMERSEKOOL / JINBAEK KIM CEO, JUNHO, JANG CEO | Four Essentials for AI Data Center Operations and OCP Standards |
SK broadband / Jaewook Park Manager | Considerations for implementing DLC | Empyriondigital / Jeongbeom Ko Director |
| 14:45~15:10 | Beyond GPU Management: Optimizing GPU Cluster Networks with GPUBase | Acryl / Ikjun Yeom CTO | AI-Native Infrastructure: Cloud-Native GPU Orchestration for the AI-Native Era | KETI / YoungHwan Kim Chief Researcher | Thermal-Hydraulic Design of PG25-Cooled RDHx Cores: From Channel-Height Scaling to Advanced Plate-Fin Development | University of Birmingham / Xizhi Song PhD student | Superconducting Total Power Solution :For High-Density and High-Efficiency End-to-End Power Infrastructure | LS Cable&System / Jinbae Na Engineer | The Evolution of AI Servers: Changing Cooling Requirements and Next-Gen Solution | DEFOG / Young Mo Kim CTO |
| 15:10~15:35 | From Construction to Assembly: A New Paradigm for Data Centers | Uniwide / HyunJun Joo Manager | Building a Hybrid AI Accelerator Testbed by Bridging Public Cloud OpenStack-based On-Prem Infrastructure | Lablup / Yubin Kim Software Engineer | Introduction to PG25 Coolant for DLC | SK picglobal / Dae Seong Kang Team Leader | Tokens Are the New Oil, NeoClouds Are the New Refineries | VESSL AI / JaemanAn CEO | Beyond the Spec Sheet: Field Lessons from Building an Immersion Cooling System for AI Data Centers | SAMHWA ACE / Taehong Lee Managing Director |
| 15:35~16:00 | Break Time & Booth Tour | |||||||||
| 16:00~16:25 | EDGE AI FOUNDATION | EDGE AI FOUNDATION / Younki Wyi Managing Director, APAC | Scaling AI Inference with RNGD Clusters | Furiosa AI / Donggun Kim Head of Product | Rethinking AI Liquid Cooling: What Really Wins — Direct-to-Chip or Immersion? | LG Electronics / Taeyong Jung Professional Research Engineer | Data Center: from the Grid to the Chip | Daegu University / KangHyun Yi Professor | High-Flow Quick Couplings for AI Data Center Liquid Cooling Modular Infrastructure | STAUBLI KOREA / Young Jun Lee Local Division Director |
| 16:25~16:50 | AI Data Center Infrastructure | KTNF / Ike Lee Managing Director | A Methodology for Successfully Transforming Monolithic Systems into Cloud-Native Microservices Architectures. | Twolinecloud / Hangyoo, Woo Vice President | The Biostatic Propylene Glycol-based Heat Transfer Fluid : Kixx DLC Fluid PG25 | GS Caltex / WooKyun Synn Manager | LS Ultracapacitor, Leading Solution in AIDC and Grid Energy Storage | LS materials / Jung gul lee Team Leader | Current Status of OCP ORv3-Based High-Density Rack Standards and Implementation Strategies for AIDC in Korea | TERATEC / SungYun Kim CTO |
| 16:50~17:15 | AI Data Center (AIDC) Standardization Trends and TTA’s Response | TTA / Guk Hyeon Jeong Associate Researcher | 클라우드에서 엣지까지: AirCloud의 분산 xPU 프로덕션 AI 클라우드 | 에이아이브 / 박병수 CIO | Experimental Evaluation of Suitable Refrigerants for Two-Phase Direct-to-Chip Cooling | LG Electronics / Jungsub Kim Research Fellow | High-Power Energy Storage and Pathways to Sustainable Growth of AI Compute | Echion Technologies / Derek Laan Korea Business Development Manager | AI Factories and the Energy Imperative: Scaling AI-as-a-Service Through Intelligent Data Center Design and Sector Coupling | Huawei / Henrik Børling BDD Head of DCF Nordics / 6G AI Sweden / Zaman CEO |
| 17:15~17:40 | Edge AI Computing Platform for the Era of Physical AI | Advantech KR / DongHwan An Vice President | GPU Infrastructure Reliability Engineering in the Era of Agentic AI | VESSL AI / Jihwan Chun CTO | Closing | Closing | Motion Architecture for Heavy-Load Server Rack Handling Robots in AI Data Centers | OOTTUM / Yongsuk Hwang CEO | Scalable Unit Design and Deployment Considerations for High-Density AI Infrastructure | Supermicro / Anthony Kim Director |
| 17:40~18:05 | Accelerating Industrial AI Transformation with Ultra-Fast AI Inference on Tenstorrent AI Accelerators | Tenstorrent / Hyunggi Chang Staff Engineer | ||||||||
| 17:40~18:05(25) | Closing | |||||||||
