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We recently wrapped the 2021 OCP Global Summit that was held both in-person and online simultaneously. This hybrid event is one of the first of its kind, with attendees participating onsite while others engaged with live-streaming and virtual tools.

Here are some of the numbers:

• We had 2,213 in-person attendees and 2,277 virtual attendees.

• The attendee breakdown by organizational role was as follows:

  • 29% Engineers

  • 16% Senior Executives

  • 14% Technology Architects

  • 14% Business Development 

  • 9% Product Managers

  • 5% Marketing/Communications/Events

  • 4% Research

  • 3% Media and Analysts

  • 2% Procurement/Supply Chain

  • 2% Operations

  • 2% Other (Academia, Consulting, Admin, Facility Management etc.)

• There were 12 Engineering Workshop tracks, comprising 175 sessions – our most ever!

• • Topics included: 2021 Strategic Initiatives, Cooling Environments, Data Center Facilities, Hardware Management, Networking, Open System Firmware, Rack & Power, Security, Server, Storage, Telco, Time Appliances Project

  • To view the ongoing work all of these groups are doing, check out the OCP Projects here.

THANK YOU to the 80 companies participating as sponsors, both in-person and virtually. These organizations hosted 13 executive talks, 23 expo hall talks and 44 sponsor stories.

• There were more than 100 media and analysts onsite at the event, including staff from some of the world’s leading news and analyst organizations:

There were team members from over 1,000 organizations, from 60 countries around the world (both in-person and virtual).

OCP Experience Center - OCP’s dedicated space where Members, Solution Providers and Partners showcased a variety of solutions built on OCP hardware, including both static and live demonstrations. The solutions showcased included: Open System Firmware, Hardware Management, TAP, Networking, Telco, Server, OAI, Test & Validation, and Storage

Virtual Numbers:

• Total livestream time: 212,260 minutes, 3,538 hours

• Total video on demand watch time: 271,278 minutes, or 4,521 hours

• 22,843 unique visitors

Symposium Data:

• C4P submissions: 31

• C4P accepted: 23

• Number of posters: 23

• Winning paper: Cloud & Heat Technologies (Leonie Banzer): Pushing the Boundary Conditions of Data Centers Facilitates Innovative Circular Economy Approaches 

Resident country of attendees (both live and virtual):

Check out this video to get a true sense of the Summit!

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