The call for proposals for the 2025 OCP EMEA Summit and Future Technologies Symposium is open. The submission period for both conference ends Monday, Feb. 10 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time.
When submitting your proposal, please make sure to select the appropriate event: OCP EMEA Summit or OCP Future Technologies Symposium. If in doubt and require guidance, to contact Kate Hendle, Manager of Events, at kate@opencompute.org.
The Open Compute Project issued the following statement:
OCP is about bringing Community-led hyperscale innovations to all. At the core of the OCP is its community of hyperscale data center operators, joined by telecom, colocation providers and enterprise IT users, working with vendors to develop open innovations that, when embedded in products, are deployed from the cloud to the edge.
The OCP Community is diverse, composed of engineers spanning from large companies working on projects that will deliver at-scale products and services to members from throughout the IT and Data center ecosystem. Collaborations within the OCP Projects typically target products and facilities to be introduced to the market within the next 12 months.The OCP Future Technologies Symposium is an effort to highlight academics, researchers and startups who are solving problems that will impact future products over the next 2-5 years.
2025 OCP EMEA Summit Breakout Sessions
The OCP Foundation is excited to announce that the 2025 OCP EMEA Summit will be held on April 29-30 in Dublin, Ireland. This Summit brings together EMEA’s technical and business leadership along with the OCP Community to discuss and share progress and ideas important to advancing the Data Center industry including emerging challenges such as data center sustainability, artificial intelligence, data center optimization, DC power & cooling, AI cluster interconnect, and security & data protection. Learn how innovations developed within the OCP Community will be instrumental in building and deploying the sustainable and scalable data centers of the future.
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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.
The 2025 OCP EMEA Summit Call for Presentations is organized as seven (7) main categories: Artificial Intelligence, DC Sustainability, Cyber Security and Data Protection, EMEA Deployments of OCP Recognized Solutions, IT Infrastructure, DC Physical Infrastructure, Systems Management
In addition, invited talks will discuss photonics, OpenRAN and others. OCP invites speakers to submit proposals. Please submit an abstract detailing your proposal for the OCP EMEA Summit to be considered for a presentation.
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
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 based upon the following criteria:
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The OCP Future Technologies Symposium is intended to bring to the OCP Community a forward-looking funnel of ideas and talent, with a focus on solving future problems facing the industry, and accelerate productization through partnerships and collaborative R&D. The global academic, research, startup and venture communities are invited to participate to show their cutting-edge technologies and ongoing research and development projects. It is a unique opportunity to expose up-and-coming, best-in-class researchers and students to the OCP Community for purposes of impacting future product development, training, networking and recruitment.
Speakers interested in proposing a relevant future technologies presentation at the 2025 EMEA FTS are invited to submit in the following categories:
AI/HPC – Includes topics aimed at future generations of AI Hardware and how it impacts AI cluster HW/SW design, etc.
DC Sustainability – Includes topics aimed at new methods to prolong product life cycles, application of cutting-edge materials and technologies in shaping the life cycle of data center products, innovative research focusing on sustainable practices and technologies in the data center industry, carbon capture technologies, etc.
Other Future Data Center Solutions – If you have a transformative idea outside of the above focus areas, examples include Quantum Technology or Power Co-generation, you may submit your work in this category.
Please submit a two page IEEE formatted paper for the OCP Future Technologies Symposium to be considered for a presentation and poster! Abstracts will not be considered.
Please do not submit unless you can meet the following deadlines:
Acceptance of a submission 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 the Call for Presentations for the 2025 OCP EMEA Summit or the Future Technologies Symposium, please contact Kate Hendle, Manager of Events or Jonae Powers, Event Coordinator.
Sponsorship and exhibit sales are open for the 2025 OCP EMEA Summit. Click here to view the Prospectus and learn more.
