The Breakout Sessions for the 2027 OCP Canada Tech Day is organized by our Program Committee. Speakers will receive an invitation from the Committee.
AI Data Centers
The AI Data Center breakout session focuses on all aspects of AI data centers, covering industry-wide and open common elements in the data hall, within data center facilities, and how the data center interacts with the power grid. Within the data hall, this breakout session will look at the latest innovations in building, cooling and powering AI rackscale systems, and connecting them to form AI Clusters. Within the data center facilities the discussion will focus on power conversion and distribution with the move to 800VDC distribution on the horizon and the evolution to 1,500 VDC on the drawing board, safe design, operation, and maintenance of energy storage architectures and on-site energy generation, and management systems evolving to manage the entire data center and grid interactions.
AI Computing Continuum
AI Computing Continuum aims to accelerate the next wave of AI: Inference. This requires the adoption of scalable, interoperable, and sustainable AI systems beyond traditional hyperscale data centers by defining open, modular infrastructure standards that work across diverse hyperscale adjacent environments—including regional colocation, enterprise on premises, telco points of presence, and industrial sites. This breakout session will cover recent developments in Agentic AI, and introduce new compelling use cases that will deploy in neoclouds, industrial sites and regional data centers. It will also explore new server and rack level architectures that will meet the needs of AI at the edge, and the latest innovations in open hardware xG radio units. It will conclude with a discussion on how the OCP Community can help with this important next phase of AI.
Photonics and Interconnect
One can no longer question the transition from copper to photonics for interconnect is an imperative. Taking a balanced view there will be room for copper for years to come, but that role is clearly diminishing. The drive is on to determine how the different photonics technologies and their deployment to build large scale and reliable AI clusters will manifest, XPO, NPO, or CPO. This track will cover some of the latest innovations vying to capture the market with deep dive discussions on the engineering trade-offs and also share resiliency results from actual system deployments at scale. This breakout session wraps up with a discussion on how standards are needed now to help this very fragmented industry move forward.
Quantum Integration
The discussion in the quantum breakout session centers on how to enable a future where quantum information technologies are seamlessly integrated, efficiently managed, and sustainably scaled within open, general-purpose data center environments. While some vendors may claim this is a solved problem, many of us in the data center industry do not agree. The breakout session will include a market update from Bloomberg Research, followed by a discussion on building fault tolerant quantum machines and how to scale them, and sessions on quantum communications discussing live testbeds. Learn about the next disruption, after AI by attending this Breakout Session.
OCP Presentation Acceptance Criteria:
- Preferably discuss work done collaboratively within OCP Projects
- Must discuss work done in the open, not proprietary or containing confidential information
- Might discuss work that is adjacent to OCP Projects and relevant to OCP Community
- Should report on engineering or scientific results, must not be commercial
- Must be prepared to meet submission deadlines outlined below
In summary, work done by an individual organization outside of the OCP Community that is proprietary, is not usually appropriate for presentation in an OCP Breakout Session and will most likely be rejected.
If you have any questions regarding speakers or sessions for the 2027 OCP Canada Tech Day, please email [email protected].
