Call for Presentations

2025 OCP EMEA Summit - Breakout Sessions

The 2025 OCP EMEA Summit Call for Presentations is organized as seven main categories: Artificial Intelligence (AI),  DC Sustainability, Cyber Security and Data Protection, EMEA Deployments of OCP Recognized Solutions, Scalable IT Infrastructure, DC Physical Infrastructure, and Systems Management. In addition, invited talks will discuss photonics, OpenRAN, and others. OCP invites speakers to submit an abstract to be considered for a presentation.

Breakout Session Categories:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI):
  • Use cases (Adoption)
  • New architectures for AI Clusters 
  • Data formats for deep learning
• 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 
• Cyber Security and Data Protection:
  • Data security and compliance
  • Cyber security 
  • Data sovereignty 
• EMEA Deployments of OCP Recognized Solutions: 
  • OCP market impact
    • Deployed AI Configured Racks and Data Centers
    • Open Rack (ORV3) deployed use cases
    • Disaggregated networking deployments 
  • Successful sustainability projects and results 
  • OCP S.A.F.E., OCP Ready, and OCP Experience Center Program Successes
  • Cloud Services delivered using OCP recognized equipment in EMEA
• IT Infrastructure
  • Server:
    • Modular Hardware System
    • Open Chiplet Economy
    • Composable Memory Systems
    • HPC/OAI/NIC
  • Storage
  • Networking
  • Hardware device security
• DC Physical Infrastructure
  • Facilities automation   
  • Rack and Power
  • Cooling:
    • Immersion
    • Cold plate
    • Advanced Cooling Facilities
• Systems Management
  • Hardware management
  • Test and validation
  • Open system firmware
• Other OCP Projects

Special Focus Sessions:

• OpenRAN
  • The OCP Community believes the market is ready for an open hardware xG radio unit. Work towards a  common open radio unit platform with extensive modularity, and a common base that  can be shared is underway. The intent is to enable multiple use cases while maintaining basic commonality and compatibility to keep costs low. 
• Photonics
  • The enormous challenge in front of the industry scaling AI clusters is to provide the interconnect bandwidth this will require while reducing the power consumption curve of today’s interconnect technology. The next generation of optical networking will be a critical component needed to build these AI clusters. Topics to be discussed include expected architectures for AI clusters and their interconnection requirements, advances in optical networking, and the expected improvements in energy consumption.

Important Deadlines:

December 11  -  Call for Presentations Open
February 10  -  Call for Presentations Closes
Week of Feb 24  -  Speakers Notified - Accept or Reject
March 24  -  Presentations Due to OCP
March 25 - April 4  -  Presentation Review Period
April 21  -  Speaker Final Presentations Due
April 29-30  -  OCP EMEA Summit

OCP Presentation Acceptance Criteria:

Breakout Sessions

• Must discuss work done collaboratively within OCP Projects  
• Must discuss work done in the open, not proprietary or containing confidential information 
• Should report on engineering or scientific results, must not be commercial
• Must be prepared to meet submission deadlines outlined below

In Summary, work done by an individual organization outside of the OCP Community that is proprietary, is not appropriate for presentation in an OCP Breakout Session and will most likely be rejected.

Special Focus Sessions

• Preference is given to OCP Community aligned, collaborative, novel and aspirational ideas
• Should report on engineering or scientific results, must not be commercial
• Must not contain confidential information
• Must be prepared to meet submission deadlines outlined below

Click here to submit an abstract for the Breakout Sessions.

OCP Future Technologies Symposium

The Future Technologies Symposium is co-located with the 2025 OCP EMEA Summit, in Dublin, Ireland. This event spotlights promising future technologies in the IT Ecosystem. The event will be held in the afternoon on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 with a half-day program on AI/HPC and Data Center Sustainability. There will be a $10,000 US prize awarded to the best paper, judged by the FTS program committee.

Click here for full details on submitting a paper for FTS.

The submission period for both OCP EMEA Summit and Future Technologies Symposium ends Monday, February 10 at 11:59 PM PST.

Please do not submit unless you can meet the following deadlines:

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Please note:

• The 2025 OCP EMEA Summit is an in-person event only. Live streaming or remote presentation is not 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 2024 OCP EMEA Summit, please contact Kate Hendle, Manager of Events, at kate@opencompute.org.