OCP Educational Webinar Program
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Educational Webinar Program
OCP’s educational webinar program is designed to help sponsors establish themselves as marketplace thought leaders. Each webinar topic is selected based upon current market trends and are a collaborative effort between the sponsor, an established industry analyst, and the OCP Market Intelligence staff. While the OCP staff host the webinar, it is primarily led by the selected analyst to provide vendor-neutral market analysis, which lends credibility and draws audiences. Together with you as the sponsor, they review content to ensure your message addresses market needs and consistency across all OCP webinar content. Each hour-long webinar typically includes back and forth between the sponsor(s) and the analyst. We include audience poll questions to boost engagement and finish with live Q&A to encourage attendance to the end.
OCP provides the webinar platform and promotion needed to attract a targeted audience, webinar live broadcast, and webinar content hosting while continuing to drive attendance on demand for 90 days. After 90 days content files are provided to sponsors, including distribution rights. OCP also provides sponsors with reports, including leads with live and on-demand attendees’ GDPR and CCPA compliant contact information.
Webinars may have multiple sponsors, with a maximum of three. Fees per sponsor for a multi-sponsor webinar are $10,000 with the option for single sponsor webinars at $20,000.
Projected Results
We guarantee 250 leads and typically attract over 600 registrants per webinar, with over 200 of them attending live. With later promotion, on-demand viewing continues to grow reach. The sponsors can provide direction on target audience, including company market segment and participant interests.
Educational Webinars
- Target attendees by vertical and interest
- Tap into cloud provider community
- Participants are active in the community
Engagement
Target webinar participants drawn from the OCP database. They are active within its community and engaged in meeting the market and shaping the future. Employees from government and enterprise represent near 72% of the OCP database while cloud providers account for 6%.
OCP maintains mailing lists with diverse interests that will be tapped to generate webinar attendees targeted by these interests. The 2024 interest profile of subscribers is shown below. Their interests vary from data center facilities to IT infrastructure (server, network, storage) and include important topics such as AI and HPC, sustainability, cooling, edge computing, as well as vertical-specific interests such as telecom and security.
The OCP community database permits targeting a broad spectrum of the market. With the ability to target specific verticals and interests, actual attendance on any individual webinar will vary.
Sponsor Testimonials
Participating in the OCP Educational Webinar Program uniquely allowed Accelsius speak to an audience that was highly targeted, ensuring our message resonated with those who matter most in the industry. The organizational support from OCP was top-notch, making the process seamless and the event itself both educational for attendees and beneficial for our brand's visibility. Being able to partner with an analyst on the webinar through OCP's non-commercially focused platform, highlighting the technology challenges and our part in the solution, garnered credibility and audience engagement through the polling questions and the live Q&A. We highly recommend the OCP Educational Webinar Program to any organization looking to engage with thought leaders and practitioners in technology.
- Liz Cruz, CMO, Accelsius
Topics Available for Sponsorship
The webinar topics have been carefully selected by the team and represent the most important industry trends to watch. For more information about the topics, please consult the calendar below. Feel free to listen to the latest webinars on-demand. Custom topics are also possible with the analyst of your choice.
If you need further information and are interested to discuss sponsoring an OCP Educational Webinar Program, please contact Cliff Grossner via cliff.grossner@opencompute.org.
| Topic | Title | Brief Abstract | Analyst |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerated Computing | Accelerated Computing Architectures for AI | This webinar will provide a perspective on the rollout of accelerated computational infrastructure in the data center, the different accelerated compute architectures and how they will be tuned for specific workloads, and a perspective on workloads deployed on-premises or in the public cloud. | Baron Fung, Dell’Oro Group |
| AI Cluster Optical Interconnect | Choosing Optical Transceivers vs CPO for AI Clusters | This webinar will bring together industry experts and leading vendors to discuss the optical challenges and potential solutions associated with the scaling of AI clusters, addressing issues such as bandwidth, I/O density, latency and power efficiency. | Bob Wheeler, LightCounting |
| AI Cluster Optical Interconnect | Scaling AI Clusters with Hollow Core Fibre Interconnects | Hollow Core Fibre (HCF) offers low loss, reduced non-linear effects, and up to 30% faster data transmission compared to standard single-mode fibers. Can HCF revolutionize AI cluster interconnects despite the dominance of conventional fibers? This webinar discusses HCF's market potential, initial use cases, and strategic adoption. | Roy Rubenstein, LightCounting |
| AI Cluster Optical Interconnect | Scaling AI Clusters with PCIe over Fiber | The PCI-SIG's Optical Workgroup is developing PCIe over fiber to extend connectivity across multiple racks in complex AI systems. With PCIe Gen6 at 64Gbps per lane and NVLink at 200G per lane, the high power of 200G optics prompts exploration of "slow and wide" strategies, like using more PCIe Gen5 or Gen6 lanes. This webinar explores scaling AI clusters with PCIe, focusing on bandwidth, I/O density, and latency challenges. | Bob Wheeler, LightCounting |
| Chiplets for Specialized Silicon | The Emerging Chiplet Economy | This webinar will cover the top trends driving the need for Chiplets, relevant silicon and Chiplet roadmaps, latest support tools for the emerging Chiplet Economy, and present example SiP using Chiplets for modern workloads. | Tom Hackenberg, Yole Group |
| Co-packaged optics (CPO) | The path to high volume Co-Packaged Optics: why, how, and when? | This webinar will outline key requirements for CPOs to achieve mass deployment, the roadmap of major Cloud SPs and timeline of volume adoption of CPOs. | Sameh Boujelbene, Dell'Oro Group |
| Open RAN Deployments | Common mistakes and lessons learned when deploying Open RAN/vRAN | This webinar will explore what the leading open RAN/vRAN CSPs did to successfully rollout their network despites many challenges that led to making mistakes and correcting them. The objective of this webinar is to analyze and share the common mistakes found in current open RAN/vRAN deployments and learn from them as well as from the corrective solutions. | Stephane Teral, Teral Research |
| Open RAN System Integration | Succeeding with Open RAN/vRAN System Integration | This webinar will explore what the open RAN/vRAN architecture is and what’s required for a successful implementation, what the leading use cases are, what types of networking technologies and IT practises it leverages, and ultimately begin translating that to the new requirements on end-to-end mobile networks and the hard problems that need to be solved from design to rollout and service provisioning. | Stephane Teral, Teral Research |
| Quantum Computing | Scaling qubits to kickstart the quantum computing era | This webinar will bring together industry experts and leading suppliers to discuss the importance and status of quantum computing, explain its challenges, and the potential solutions for scaling quantum chips and quantum PICs. | Roy Rubenstein Light Counting |
| RAN architecture (including private 5G) | A Pragmatic Approach to OpenRAN | This webinar will around the current status of disaggregated architectures in the RAN for both private and public networks, the benefits of a multi-vendor ecosystem and the value of an open architecture for enterprise applications. | Roy Chua, AvidThink |
| Openness and disaggregation in data center infrastructure | Open and disaggregated architectures for data center workloads — cloud and AI | This webinar will address the role of open networking architectures in the data center and how disaggregation can bring value. It will look at the role of merchant silicon and the SONiC network operating system and how the combination can provide improved TCO, flexibility, and enable innovation. | Roy Chua, AvidThink |