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The 2024 OCP Regional Summit Call for Content is focusing on six main categories: DC sustainability, artificial intelligence, security and data protection, power and cooling, sustainable and scalable computational infrastructure, and EMEA deployments of OCP recognized solutions. In addition, invited talks will discuss quantum technology, optics, telecommunications, and others. OCP invites speakers to submit proposals - more details can be found below.

Seeking compelling presentations in the following categories:

New topic areas for 2024:

• DC Sustainability: 
  • Carbon reporting
  • Energy efficiency
  • Heat reuse 
  • Data center optimization (operational efficiency, white space utilization)
  • Regulations such as EU Directives
  • Hardware life cycle management, circular economy 
• Artificial Intelligence (AI):
  • Use cases (Adoption)
  • Computational architectures for AI
  • Data center automation
• Security and Data Protection:
  • Data security and compliance
  • Cyber security 
  • Data sovereignty 
• Power and Cooling:
  • Reducing use of electricity and water
  • Power grid constraints (mitigation and availability)
  • Liquid cooling
  • Power cogeneration
• Sustainable Scalable Computational Infrastructure:
  • IT Infrastructure including servers (modularity) and High Performance Compute (HPC), architecture such as PCIe, CXL, optical interconnect, network, storage, rack and power
  • Datacenter facilities for high density compute (AI/ML)
  • Edge computing, networking, telecom
  • Establishing an open chiplet economy
  • Device security: hardware root of trust, firmware validation
  • Timing in datacenters
• EMEA Deployments of OCP Recognized Solutions:
  • Open rack use cases
  • AI configured racks and data centers
  • OCP Experience Center housed demonstrations
  • Heat reuse projects
  • SONiC deployments at scale
  • Cloud services delivered using OCP recognized equipment in EMEA

Important Deadlines:

Relevant Criteria that applies to submissions:

• Your product is based on an approved specification (listed in the Contribution Database) and is present in the OCP Marketplace by April 29, 2024. 
• You are deploying OCP recognized cards/accessories/components/ modules in your traditional product and will illustrate why you chose OCP.
• Your specification has been approved by OCP and is listed in the OCP Contribution Database by April 29, 2024.
• Your facility has completed the OCP Colo Self Assessment and is listed in the OCP Marketplace by April 29, 2024.
• You are a Data center facility operator showcasing OCP best practices.
• You are an organization who has adopted OCP solutions on the OCP Marketplace (OCP recognized products, OCP Ready™ Facility, Integrated Solutions or Circular Economy solutions) by April 29, 2024.
• Your organization is sharing learnings from OCP deployments demonstrating business value such as reduction in CAPEX, OPEX and Energy Efficiency. 
• Your organization has built a managed service or professional services offering for deploying and supporting OCP solutions. Highlighting specific examples of performing these services to enterprise level customers in key vertical markets such as telecom, CSP, retail, public sector, etc.
• Your organization is testing its software on OCP recognized products and listed in an OCP Github repository.
• Your organization is developing an open tool to support OCP recognized products which is listed in an OCP Github repository.
• Your organization has built integrated solutions using OCP recognized hardware which leverages enterprise software; highlighting use cases, workloads and can share specific examples of end user deployments along with business results. This may include: 
  • OCP approved documents (white papers, guidelines, reference designs, etc)
  • OCP Accepted™ or OCP Inspired™ products
  • OCP recognized Integrated Solutions
  • OCP recognized Circular Economy solutions
  • Use of tools, firmware and software on the OCP Github repository
• Your organization has a new contribution (with a signed Contribution License Agreement) that is in process and you are looking for feedback from the Project Commmunity. 
• The current Project Community is discussing on-going work streams and you have additional information in support of these work streams and the data is open for discussion and not confidential. 
• Your organization is part of a Relevant Adjacent Community and you can describe how the OCP Community is impacted by your work and how that work will benefit both communities.
• Other - please provide explanation of relevance to OCP outside of above criteria

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Please note:

• The 2024 OCP Regional Summit is an in-person event only.
  (Live streaming and remote presentation will not be supported for this event.)
• Acceptance of an Abstract does not guarantee a speaking engagement of any sort.
• OCP Foundation and Project Leadership will review qualified presentations and selections will be determined by content and relevance. The OCP Foundation may accept or reject any presentation in its sole discretion at any time. OCP will treat all information you provide in accordance with our privacy policy. Content should not be commercial in nature and should not be proprietary or contain confidential information.
• By submitting this abstract you are agreeing to the OCP event terms and conditions.

If you have any questions regarding speakers or sessions for the 2023 OCP Regional Summit, please contact Kate Hendle, Manager of Events, at kate@opencompute.org.