15,000 attendees. 948 speakers. 578 sessions. 22 content tracks. One record-breaking Summit! The 2026 OCP Global Summit was our largest yet, bringing together innovators from more than 3,400 organizations across 64 countries to advance the future of open computing and AI infrastructure. From major industry announcements and emerging technologies to new research highlighting the growing impact of open collaboration, this year's Summit delivered plenty to talk about. 📊 What were the biggest takeaways? Explore the numbers, innovations and milestones that defined the 2026 OCP Global Summit — plus a look at what's ahead as we move to San Francisco in 2027! 🔗 Read the full Summit recap: bit.ly/4iwYunu #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #OpenInnovation

2026 OCP Global Summit recordings are now available! Catch up on keynotes, technical sessions, and industry insights from the OCP Community as we continue to advance open computing and scale innovation for the AI era — free and open to everyone! ▶️ Watch anytime, anywhere: bit.ly/3VPItjP Keep learning. Keep innovating. Keep the momentum going! #OCPSummit26 #OpenComputeProject #AIInfrastructure #OpenComputing

That’s a wrap on the 2026 OCP Global Summit! 🎉 What an incredible week in San Jose! The global OCP Community came together for four days of innovation, collaboration, and meaningful connections, all focused on advancing the future of open computing and AI infrastructure. 🌎 15,000 attendees 🎤 948 speakers 💡 578 sessions 📚 22 content tracks Beyond these numbers, the real impact of the Summit lies in the ideas shared, partnerships strengthened, and innovations that will continue to move our industry forward. A heartfelt THANK YOU to our attendees, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and Community leaders who made this year's Summit possible. Your dedication, expertise, and commitment to open collaboration are what make the OCP Community so powerful. And while this year's Summit has come to a close, the momentum is just beginning! Thank you for an unforgettable week! #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #OpenInnovation #OCPCommunity

👏 A huge THANK YOU to our 2026 OCP Global Summit sponsors! We are grateful for your continued partnership, commitment to open innovation, and investment in the OCP Community. #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #OCPCommunity #OpenInnovation

As we wrap up an incredible week at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, we’re excited to share new research that puts real numbers behind the value of open collaboration. OCP recently completed a comprehensive end-user value study, conducted by SG Strategy, drawing on 170+ industry interviews and 450 survey responses to better understand the economic, operational, and strategic impact of participating in the OCP Community. The findings speak for themselves: ✅ Approximately 5% reduction in total cost of ownership on average ✅ Up to 15% faster infrastructure deployment ✅ Up to 30% shorter qualification timelines ✅ 2x more qualified vendor options, strengthening supply chain resilience For hyperscale operators, the study also found significant returns, with some reporting 150x ROI from their OCP investments. As we close out another Global Summit filled with innovation, collaboration, and Community engagement, these findings reinforce what makes OCP so impactful: working together to accelerate innovation and deliver measurable value across the global data center ecosystem. Explore the full findings: bit.ly/4yMgtMo #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #DataCenter #OpenInnovation

It's the FINAL DAY of the 2026 OCP Global Summit! What an incredible week it's been in San Jose! From inspiring keynotes and technical deep dives to groundbreaking innovations and meaningful connections, the OCP Community has come together to help shape the future of open infrastructure. But we're not done yet! There's still plenty to explore on Day 4. Here's what's ahead today: 🔹 Technical Breakout Sessions | 8:00 AM–4:00 PM 🔹 Expo Hall Sessions | 8:00 AM–2:00 PM 🔹 Expo Hall & Innovation Village | 8:00 AM–2:00 PM Make the most of these final opportunities to discover new technologies, connect with industry leaders and engage with the global OCP Community. Let's finish #OCPSummit26 strong!

🎥 Day 1 and Day 2 content from the 2026 OCP Global Summit is now available! Catch up on keynotes, industry insights, photos and the latest innovations shaping the future of open computing and AI infrastructure. Whether you joined us in San Jose or followed along from afar, revisit the conversations and ideas driving our Community forward. ▶️ Watch the Day 1 & Day 2 recordings: bit.ly/4yh6spr Stay tuned for more Summit content coming soon! #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #OpenInnovation

Congratulations to the 2026 OCP Future Technologies Symposium (FTS) Best Paper Award Winners! We’re excited to recognize the outstanding research and innovation celebrated at this year’s OCP Future Technologies Symposium, held in conjunction with the 2026 OCP Global Summit! These award-winning papers highlight groundbreaking approaches to advancing AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and sustainability. 🏆 Overall Best Paper Award: “Copper Sintering BGA Interconnect for Mitigating Electromigration in High-Current AI Power Delivery” -Chengjie Du, Xufu Ren, and Prof. Teng Long | University of Cambridge 🏆 AI/HPC Best Paper Award: “Wavelength-Granular OCS with Solid-State OPA: Energy-per-Bit for AI Fabrics” -Zhongxiang Zhang and Shan Che | Shenzhen Litratech Co. Ltd. and Pixora LLC 🏆 Sustainability Best Paper Award: “Towards Sustainable AI Data Centers Through Direct Waste Heat Recovery Enabled by Membrane-Assisted Heat Sink Technology” -Saeed Moghaddam and Roshith Mittakolu | University of Florida and University of Maryland, College Park 👏 Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you for your contributions to advancing the next generation of open computing technologies and helping shape the future of AI infrastructure. #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #Innovation #Sustainability

Day 3 of the 2026 OCP Global Summit is here! The energy continues as we kick off another exciting day of innovation, collaboration and connection across the OCP Community! There’s plenty to explore today, including: 🔹 Breakout Sessions & Future Technologies Symposium | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 🔹 Expo Hall Sessions | 9:00 AM – 4:55 PM 🔹 Expo Hall & Innovation Village | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM 🎉 Block Party | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM — Join us as we wrap up the day with networking and community connections Whether you're diving into technical discussions, discovering new technologies or connecting with industry peers, we're excited for another day of advancing open innovation together. #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #OpenInnovation #DataCenter

IDC Raises 2029 Forecast for OCP-Recognized Infrastructure Spending by 2.7x to $800 Billion! Today at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, the Open Compute Project Foundation announced findings from its latest IDC Market Impact Study, highlighting the growing adoption of OCP-recognized infrastructure worldwide. Key findings from the 2026 study: $800 billion in projected annual spending on OCP-recognized IT equipment by 2029—2.7x last year's forecast for the same year. • $892 billion in projected annual spending by 2030. • 51% of spending across the infrastructure categories studied is projected to go toward OCP-recognized equipment by 2030. • $628 billion in projected AI-related spending on OCP-recognized infrastructure in 2030. These findings reflect the growing role of open designs, industry collaboration and the OCP Community in advancing the next generation of AI infrastructure. From silicon and servers to networking, cooling, power and the grid, OCP continues to drive innovation across the entire data center ecosystem. Explore the full findings:bit.ly/3TxzGCo #OpenCompute #OCPSummit26 #AIInfrastructure #OpenHardware #DataCenter #AIInnovation

Realizing the OCP Open Data Center Ecosystem Vision AI is transforming the data center landscape at an unprecedented pace, and the OCP Community is helping drive the innovation needed to meet the challenge. As compute demands accelerate and rack power densities approach 1MW and beyond, open standards and industry collaboration are more important than ever. Over the past year, the OCP Foundation and its growing global Community have made significant progress across the AI infrastructure ecosystem: 🔹 Power & Cooling — Advancing megawatt-scale racks, 800VDC power distribution and next-generation cooling technologies. 🔹 AI Clusters & Networking — Developing open architectures and scalable, high-performance infrastructure. 🔹 Silicon Innovation — Supporting open chiplet ecosystems, AI silicon diversity and co-optimized designs. 🔹 AI Beyond Hyperscale — Extending open, modular infrastructure to regional data centers, enterprises and the edge. 🔹 Chip-to-Grid Collaboration — Expanding open standards and innovation across the entire data center ecosystem. 🔗 Explore the progress, key milestones and what's ahead: opencompute.org/news/realizi… #OpenCompute #OCPSummit26 #AIInfrastructure #OpenHardware #DataCenterInnovation

Meet OCP Nexus™ — 15 Years of Open Hardware Knowledge, Now Easier to Explore! We're excited to introduce OCP Nexus™, a new AI-powered knowledge assistant launching in conjunction with 2026 OCP Global Summit! From technical specifications and white papers to OCP projects, Marketplace resources and Summit sessions, Nexus helps you find the information you need through simple, natural-language conversations. 💡 Ask questions. Explore technical resources. Discover connections. Plan your Summit experience. 15 years of OCP innovation. One new way to explore it. Read the full announcement at bit.ly/4jQOYN0 #OCPNexus #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #OpenHardware

The wait is almost over! The 2026 OCP Global Summit kicks off TOMORROW! We’re excited to welcome the global OCP Community to San Jose for four days of innovation, collaboration and connection! From inspiring keynotes and 22 technical tracks to cutting-edge demonstrations, hands-on workshops and networking opportunities, this year’s Summit will bring together the people and technologies shaping the future of open infrastructure. #OCPSummit26

🌟 Volunteer Spotlight🌟 The Open Compute Project is powered by a global community of volunteers who contribute their time, expertise and ideas to help move open infrastructure forward. Today, we’re spotlighting Anu Ramamurthy of Microchip, who has been contributing to the OCP Community since 2021. “The most rewarding part of OCP is the people—the willingness to help, share knowledge, and grow together.” — Anu What is your role in the OCP Community? Anu is an Associate Technical Fellow at Microchip and an active contributor helping advance interoperability, standards development, and emerging technology initiatives within OCP. Why do you volunteer your time to OCP? Anu values the exceptional people she has met through OCP and the culture of support, collaboration, and mentorship that exists throughout the community. What impact has OCP had on you professionally? OCP has provided visibility into emerging technologies, opportunities to contribute to specifications, and valuable connections across the industry. It has also played a significant role in her own professional growth. What are you most excited about right now? Anu is excited about advancements within the Systems and FCSA workstreams, interoperability initiatives, and the continued evolution of co-packaged optics technologies. Something people may not know about you? Anu is passionate about mentoring women in technology and believes mentorship is as much about learning from others as it is about teaching. Thank you, Anu, for your leadership, collaboration and commitment to the OCP Community! #OpenCompute #OCPCommunity #VolunteerSpotlight #OpenInfrastructure

The 2026 OCP Global Summit is officially SOLD OUT, and registration is now closed. Onsite registration will not be available. We’re incredibly grateful for the tremendous response from the OCP Community. To ensure we are fair and consistent across the Community, OCP is unable to make individual registration exceptions. Join the Notification List: If additional tickets become available, everyone on the Notification List will be notified by email at the same time. Any available tickets will be offered on a first come, first served basis. 🔔 forms.gle/P6UVMcGTDLyAnEYJA Speakers & Previously Issued Promo Codes: If you are a confirmed speaker or have a previously issued promo code, your spot is reserved—but you must complete your registration and redeem your code by 5:00 PM PT today, October 6. As the OCP Community continues to grow, we’re already looking ahead to 2027, when the OCP Global Summit moves to the Moscone Center in San Francisco with expanded capacity to welcome even more of our global Community.

What’s ahead across 22 technical tracks at the 2026 OCP Global Summit? From megawatt-scale rack power and liquid cooling to 1.6T networking, composable memory, chiplets, photonics, open firmware and AI-scale validation, the program goes deep into the engineering challenges behind next-generation AI infrastructure. Plus, co-located workshops offer additional deep dives into manageability, SONiC, scalable AI infrastructure, optical interconnects and more. 🔗 Preview the 22 tracks and start planning your Summit agenda: bit.ly/3TDmlbA Planning to join us in San Jose? Registration is filling quickly and will close once maximum capacity is reached. Onsite registration may not be available, so register soon to secure your spot: bit.ly/46ZDYFB #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #DataCenter

It’s #TrackTuesday! 👀 Leading up to the 2026 Global Summit, this week we are featuring four tracks: Storage + Time Appliances (TAP) + Data Centric Computing + Test & Validation From moving and storing data more efficiently to synchronizing, testing and validating increasingly complex systems, these four tracks dig into the engineering needed to scale AI-era compute from component to fleet. Explore QLC and AI-optimized storage, precision timing and synchronization, near-data processing and computational memory, plus AI-driven hardware validation, compliance and manufacturing testing. Explore the tracks and start building your #OCPSummit26 agenda at bit.ly/4g5mq05 📍 San Jose, California 📅 October 12–15, 2026

The 2026 OCP Global Summit is approaching capacity, and you won't want to miss this year's extraordinary keynote lineup. We are excited to welcome Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD, to the OCP Global Summit keynote stage! One of the technology industry's most influential leaders, Dr. Su has led AMD's transformation into a leader in high-performance and adaptive computing, helping advance the next generation of computing and AI technologies. And she's part of a powerful lineup of keynote speakers bringing perspectives from across the global technology ecosystem, including AMI/Lattice Semiconductor, Arm, Broadcom, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle. Under this year's theme, Scaling Innovation for the AI Era, the OCP Global Summit will bring together the leaders and innovators shaping what's next for open technology in AI Data Centers covering everything from Chip to Grid, including , compute, networking, power, cooling, DC facility power distribution, energy generation and storage, end to end management, and sustainability. October 12–15, 2026 San Jose, California Registration is filling quickly. Tickets are limited, and the Summit may sell out before the event. Once maximum capacity is reached, registration will close and onsite registration may not be available. Don't wait to secure your place alongside the global OCP Community. View the keynote lineup and full schedule: 2026ocpglobal.fnvirtual.app/… Register now: opencompute.org/summit/globa… #OCPSummit26 #OpenCompute #AIInfrastructure #AI #DataCenters #OpenInfrastructure #AMD #Innovation

As we celebrate the 3-year anniversary of OCP S.A.F.E., we’re proud to sponsor this event and highlight how Caliptra and OCP S.A.F.E. work together to raise the bar for silicon security assurance. Registration is now open for the OCP Caliptra Workshop 2026, hosted at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View on October 12 from 8.30am - 2pm Caliptra provides an open, industry-driven silicon Root of Trust that establishes a strong foundation for platform security. OCP S.A.F.E. complements that foundation with an independent security review framework. Together, they provide a path from open security architecture to independently assessed implementations, helping the ecosystem build greater confidence in the security of silicon and systems. The workshop will bring together silicon integrators, security experts, contributors, and ecosystem partners. This is a great opportunity to engage directly with the Caliptra community and see how open silicon security and independent security assurance can work hand-in-hand. Reserve your place through the RSVP link: bit.ly/3TMDO1h #Caliptra #OCPSAFE #OpenCompute #HardwareSecurity #SiliconSecurity #RootOfTrust #SecurityAssurance