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==Welcome to the oCP Future Technologies Initiative==
The OCP Future Technologies Initiative is a formal project within the Foundation whose mission is to build a future-focused Community within OCP to serve as forward-looking funnel for ideas and technologies three-to-five years into the future.

In 2019, the Foundation initiated the OCP Future Technologies Symposium, a bi-annual event that features a call for posters, and brings together academia, the technology industry, startups, venture capital and analyst firms to solve future challenges facing the industry, and accelerate productization through partnerships and open source R&D. All submissions are featured and the winners are announced at the Summit events OCP holds each year. 

 At the end of 2020, the Symposium and Foundation leaders decided it was time to organize a regular interface with the OCP Community and the research industry to better focus their continued efforts and to initiate funding and commercialization of these early stage innovations. Focused on building pipelines of talent to work on specific problems, the OCP Future Technologies Initiative will ultimately hand off promising efforts to OCP Projects, with the ultimate goal of commercialization.

===Leadership===
* Program Chairs
:- [mailto:allan.smith@opencompute.org Allan Smith] (Facebook)
:- [mailto:lesya.dymyd@opencompute.org Lesya Dymyd] (2crsi)

===Workstreams===
The Future Technologies Initiative will focus on three specific technical areas, in alignment with the OCP Foundation Incubation Committee leaders in their Technology Roadmap. They will be:

* Software Defined Memory
* Cloud Service Model
* AI HW-SW Design Collaboration

Each focus area will be led by an industry veteran; Manoj Wadekar, Storage Hardware Architect at Facebook will lead the Software Defined Memory group and Murugasamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu, a lead cloud solutions architect and Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, will lead the Cloud Service Model group. There is a search underway for a leader of the AI HW-SW Co-Design group. 

==Get Involved==
There are several ways to get involved in the OCP Future Technologies Initiative:

* Join the mailing list to receive updates: [https://ocp-all.groups.io/g/Future-Technologies-Initiative FTI Mailing list]
* Join the mailing list of each group
:- [https://ocp-all.groups.io/g/Software-Defined-Memory Software Defined Memory]
:- [https://ocp-all.groups.io/g/Cloud-Service-Model Cloud Service Model]
:- [https://ocp-all.groups.io/g/AI-HW-SW-CoDesign AI HW-SW Design Collaboration]

* Join the conversation in the [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12464540/ FTI LinkedIn Group]
* Connect with the FTI team and the community, give advice and contribute.
* Join the OCP Future Technologies Symposium [this will be linked to the new FTS Page], in November 2021, in conjunction with the OCP Global Summit. Submit a paper, propose participants, attend! 
The next OCP Future Technologies Symposium will be held as a Day 0 event prior to the start of the 2021 OCP Global Summit to be held in November, and will be a Hybrid event – meaning it will be in-person at the San Jose Convention Center, in San Jose, CA, and will also allow for virtual attendance and participation. 

==Past FTI Events==
* 2021 Future Technologies Initiative Kickoff Webinar
:- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YfYmUWFt_8 Video]
:- [https://146a55aca6f00848c565-a7635525d40ac1c70300198708936b4e.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/images/1da1e37821a422333c9b931390bac962075d20f2.pdf Slides]