The 2025 OCP Global Summit was an astounding success, our biggest and best yet, with 10,835 people attending the event in San Jose, CA.! Thank you to our amazing Members, Sponsors, Partners, Volunteers, Staff and the entire OCP Community!
At the 2025 Global Summit, industry leaders, researchers and pioneers from all around the world engaged in collaboration at a level we had not ever seen before, with a focus on the current challenges deploying AI and beyond. Through this collaborative spirit, we aim to accelerate the development of efficient, scalable, and sustainable open compute solutions that power the future of technology.
Our theme this year was Leading the Future of AI…. You can see a full explanation here.
Tracks, sessions and workshops
The Community leadership arranged 22 dynamic content tracks, with an impressive 771 speakers across 527 sessions. The Innovation Village had six OCP project related stations as well as ten emerging technology demonstrations, and we hosted four co-located events with our partners including: SONiC Workshop, P4 Workshop, DMTF Manageability Workshop, and IPEC Workshop.
All the sessions from 2025 OCP Global Summit were recorded. The videos & slides from all the presentations will be posted HERE in the coming weeks.
Announcements
This year, there were some exciting announcements. OCP launched the “Open Data Center for AI” strategic initiative in response to an industry wide Call for Collaboration on AI Data Center Infrastructure Standards. The Foundation also announced the launch of OCP Academy! The Community came together for a new important initiative: a new collaboration at OCP covering Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN).
Further announcements include the expansion of the Open Chiplet Economy, as well as strategic collaborations between OCP and ASHRAE, OIX and SNIA. There was also an announcement on the expansion of the OCP Foundation’s Board of Directors, with the addition of AMD, Arm and NVIDIA.
You can always check the latest OCP announcements on the news section of our website and our social media pages.
Future Technologies Symposium
The 2025 OCP Future Technologies Symposium was held on October 15, day three of the OCP Global Summit, and gathered people from academia, research, industry and startups to showcase the future technologies that will impact the OCP Community in the next 3-5 years. The OCP Future Technologies Symposium (FTS) spotlights promising technologies in the IT Ecosystem and brings to the OCP Community a forward-looking funnel of technologies which focus on solving future problems facing the industry, and accelerate productization through partnerships and open source R&D.
After receiving a record number of submissions, this year’s program included more than 60 speakers and displayed work in 30 posters. Talks included invited keynotes, author presentations in two technological tracks: AI/HPC and Data Center Sustainability, and a FTS breakout: Quantum (Hybrid data centers and communications networks). Additionally, there were two Future Technologies Initiative (FTI) special focus tracks: Data Centric Computing and Short Reach Optical Interconnects. A new FTI workstream focused on NeoCloud Operators was launched.
The Best FTS Paper and the $10,000 prize was awarded to Universal Smart Cooling (UniSCool), who presented a paper titled “Disruptive Cold Plate Configuration with Self-adaptive Fins for Local Control of Heat Extraction Capacity”. The Best Sustainability Paper was awarded to Accelsius: “Two-Phase Micropillar Evaporators to Enable Cooling of Next-Generation GPU Servers” and the Best AI/HPC Paper award went to ZincFive: “New Battery Capability for Dual-Use UPS Power and AI Factory Dynamic Power Management”.
All sessions from the OCP FTS and FTI Breakout sessions will be available soon on the Past Events section of our website.
OCP Global Summit numbers
We saw almost 11,000 registrations this year; a 53.7% increase over last year!
The attendee breakdown by job role is:
- Engineer – 24%
- Sales & Business Development – 15%
- Executive Leadership – 10%
- Research & Strategy – 9%
- Technology Architect – 9%
- Product Management – 9%
- Infrastructure & Operations – 6%
- Marketing & Events – 5%
- Supply Chain & Procurement – 3%
- Media & Analyst – 2%
- Finance – 2%
- Software Development – 1%
- Technical Programs – 1%
- Academic – 1%
- Other – 4%
There were attendees from 2,023 organizations, and from 58 countries around the world, including representatives from the following countries:
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Here is a breakdown of the attendee Regions of Residence:
- Asia Pacific 17%
- Caribbean & Latin America 1%
- Europe, Middle East & Africa 5%
- North America 77%
We couldn’t put on such an amazing event without our dedicated sponsors; we had 142 this year, with 129 booths filling up three full halls at the San Jose Convention Center with the latest innovations.
There were also 191 media and analysts registered for the Summit, including staff from 125 of the world’s leading news and research organizations, including:
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And we could not have hosted an event of this magnitude without the help of our long-time event production partner FNTECH, who consistently delivers professional events of the highest quality.
Save the date for these Upcoming 2026 OCP Summits:
2026 OCP EMEA Summit
- April 29-30, 2026: Barcelona, Spain
- Click here for sponsorship information.
2026 OCP APAC Summit
- August 11-12, 2026: Taipei City, Taiwan
- For information, email [email protected]
2026 OCP Global Summit
- October 12-15, 2026: San Jose, CA
- Click here for sponsorship information.
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