The Open Compute Project is hosting an Engineering Workshop prior to the official opening of DCD>Connect | Silicon Valley. Our co-located workshop will share the work the OCP community is doing in liquid cooling, edge, and future technologies including composable memory systems.  The OCP workshop is open to DCD attendees and anyone interested in the OCP Community.

Contact [email protected] for more details. If you are already registered for the DCD event, please join us at 9 am.

Workshop Agenda:

9:00am (PST) - OCP Overview & History 

• Rob Coyle - Community Technical Program Manager, Open Compute Project 

9:10  Don't Fear Liquid Cooling - Plan for IT

• Terry Rennaker -  Vice President, Development, Hyperscale at Equinix
• Todd Gale - Vice President - Engineering at Flexential
• Tim Chadwick - CEO at AlfaTech
• Sara Martin - Associate Principal | Market Sector Leader at HED
• Moderator – Don Mitchell – OCP Cooling Environments Project Co-Lead

9:50 Defining Data Center in Edge/Telco - Contributions & Opportunities

• Ripin Checker - Director, Cisco / OCP Telco Project Lead
• Bijan Norwoozi - CTO, Open Compute Project 

10:20 Future Technologies in OCP : FTI & FTS  

• Lesya Dymyd - Chair, OCP Future Technologies Symposium

10:45 Composable Memory Systems: journey from an idea to an initiative

• Manoj Wadekar - Hardware Systems Technologist, Meta

11:05 Panel Discussion - Scaling Innovation Through Collaboration
11:35 Workshop Recap

• Bijan Norwoozi - CTO, Open Compute Project