The 2019 Open Compute Project | The Open Compute Project | 14 March 2019 | San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos Street San Jose, CA 95113, USA

The 2019 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit will be held March 14-15 at the San Jose Convention Center. The annual Summit brings together more than 3,400 key decision makers, executives, engineers, developers and suppliers. Together, they help grow, drive and support the open hardware ecosystem in, near and around the datacenter and beyond.

The OCP Summit features:

• keynote presentations by industry titans
• product, innovation and future-looking announcements in the Executive and Expo Hall Tracks from Summit sponsors
• Engineering workshops that feature in-depth discoveries from our OCP Project groups.
• An expo hall packed with the latest OCP hardware and software offerings
many opportunities for attendees to network with your peers in the industry

2019 Speakers

Jason Adrian
Microsoft Azure Storage Hardware

Aidin Aghamiri
IT Renew CEO

Muhammad Ahmad
Seagate Sr. Engineering Manager

Nishi Ahuja
Intel Corporation Senior Principal Engineer

Zaid Ali
LinkedIn Head of Infrastructure Engineering

Husam Alissa
Microsoft

Resul Altinkilic
Rittal Product Manager Global IT Key Accounts

Alexey Andreyev
Facebook Network Team

Samit Ashdhir
Facebook

Jeff Autor
DMTF Distinguished Technologist

Omar Baldonado
Facebook Director of Engineering

Stephen Bates
Eideticom CTO

Michael Beatty
Data Center Dimensions Data Center Consultant

Boris Beletsky
Silicom AVP Emerging Technologies

Oren Benisty
Silicom EVP Strategic Sales

Ash Bhalgat
Mellanox Technologies Sr. Marketing Director

Sumithra Bhojan
AT&T-Access Network Architecture and Design Principle member of technical staff

Lester Bird
Juniper Networks Distinguished Engineer

Bradley Bishop
IBM Senior Software Engineer

Matias Bjørling
Western Digital Director, Solid-State System Software

Elad Blatt
Silicom CSO

James Borden
Seagate Technology Principal Cloud Architect

Maikel Bouricius
Asperitas Energy Innovation Director

Lawrence Brakmo
Facebook Kernel Software Engineer

Rolf Brink
Asperitas CEO

Samuel Brumhard
Rittal Product Manager

Rocky Bullock

Mallik Bulusu
Microsoft Cloud Firmware Architect

Wim Buters
Asperitas Senior Account Executive

Jorge Campello
Western Digital Senior Director

Bob Cantrell
Flex Power Modules Senior Field Engineer

Patrick Caporale
Lenovo Principal Engineer

Steven Carlini
Schneider Electric Vice President, Innovation & Data Center

Bill Carter
OCP CTO

Paul Carter
Metaswitch Networks Ltd Networking Product Line Manager

Greg Casey
GenZ - Dell/EMC Dell CTO - Server Strategist

Stephano Cetola
Intel Corportation Software Applications Engineer

Reddy Chagam
Intel Corporation Principle Engineer

Abhijit Chakravarty
Facebook Manufacturing and Quality Engineer

Alan Chang
Inspur Sr. Director - Server Product

Antson Chang
Wiwynn Corporation Assistant Technical Director

Jeffery Chang
Lite-On Storage Principal Engineer

Jean-Jacques Chanut
ITRenew Industrial Designer

Alfred Chao
MiTAC Special assistant to President Office

William Chen
Cisco Product Manager

Tiffany Chiang
Delta Electronics Senior Software Engineer, Information & Communications Technology

Damien Chong
Facebook Hardware Engineer

Nicola Cinagrossi
Bel Power Solutions and Protection Engineering Director

Trevor Cooper
Intel Corporation Principal Engineer

Rob Coyle
PCX Corporation Director of Sales

Liz Cruz
IHS Markit Associate Director, Cloud & Data Center Research Practice

Lalita Damaraju
Facebook Network Team

Mark Dansie
Inflectiontech Ltd Technical Project Manager

Saurav Das
Open Networking Foundation (ONF) VP of Engineering

Sai Dasari

Chris Davis
Facebook Core Data Production Engineer

Joel Dedrick
Toshiba Memory America, Inc. VP & GM KumoScale - Shared, Accelerated Storage

Kevin Deierling
Mellanox Technologies VP Marketing

Alex Doyle
Cumulus Networks Software Build Engineer

Jim Dworkin
Xilinx Director of Data Center Marketing

Rick Eads
Keysight Principal Engineer

Zoh Ebrahimzadeh
Facebook Hardware Engineer

Yigal Edery
Microsoft Program Manager

Thomas Eklund
Kaloom, Inc. VP of Marketing and Strategy

Scott Emery
Cumulus Networks Principal Engineer

John Fan
Delta Electronics Prinicpal Software Engineer, Information & Communications Technology

Tian Fang
Facebook

Jason Feist
Seagate CTO Office

Robert Feng
American Portwell Technology Director of Product Marketing

Ali Fenn
ITRenew Chief Innovation Officer

David Fermor
Delta Electronics Vice President of Engineering, Information & Communications

John Fernandes
Facebook Thermal Engineer

Steve Fingerhut
Pliops President

Tom Friend
SK hynix Director

Kazuhide Fujimi
Yahoo Japan Corporation Server Infrastructure Architect

Srinivas Gadgil
Flex Chief Engineer – HW & SW platforms

Edward Galley
Facebook Manufacturing Quality Manage

Alireza Ghaffarkhah
Google Staff SWE

Siddharth Gogar
Flex SDN Developer

Dror Goldenberg
Mellanox Technologies VP Software Architecture

Devjit Gopalpur
Google Software Engineer

Gundrala Goud
Microsoft

Cliff Grossner
IHS Markit Executive Director Research and Analysis

Jessica Gullbrand
Intel Corporation

Wilson Guo
Inspur Senior Director

Manish Gupta
Juniper Networks Engineering Director

Song Hang
Intel Corporation System Architect

Steve Hanna
Micron Sr Product Marketing Manager

Erich Haratsch
Seagate Technology Managing Technologist

Shaun Harris
Microsoft

Shaun Harris
Microsoft Director of Engineering, Windows Cloud Server

Mika Hatanpää
Nokia ATF Cloud DC HW R&D Lead

Joshua Held
Facebook Mechanical Engineering Manager

David Hendricks
Facebook Firmware Engineer

Arie van der Hoeven
Seagate Technology Principal Project Manager

John Hu
Inspur VP, Inspur Group

Yuval Itkin
Mellanox Technologies Distinguished Architect, SW

Norm James
IBM

Sarathy Jayakumar
Intel Corporation

Shuai Jiang
Google

Tiffany Jin
Facebook

Matty Kadosh
Mellanox Technologies

Ashoka Kallappa
Cisco

Akira Kamio
Yahoo Japan Corporation

Navneeth Kankani
Facebook

Paul Kappler
Intel Corporation

Eli Karpilovski
Broadcom Inc.

Petr Kastovsky
Netcope Technologies

Bryan Kelly
Microsoft

Sami Khan
Facebook

Changhoon Kim
Barefoot Networks

Heather Kirksey
The Linux Foundation

Michael Klempa
UNH-IOL

Chris Koch
Google

Sumeet Kochar
Lenovo

Mikhail Korshunov
Cisco

Menno Kortekaas
Circle B

Stijn de Kruijf
Royal HaskoningDHV

Mohan J Kumar
Intel Corporation

Eric Kuo
MiTAC Computing Technology Corp.

Francis Lam
Huawei Technologies

Tom Lattin
HPE

Jackie Lee
Wiwynn Corporation

Jimmy Leung
Facebook

John Leung
Intel Corporation

Alfie Lew
Inspur Systems

Jon Lewis
Dell EMC

Xin Li
Google

Yueming Li
Facebook

Geon Liao
Wiwynn Corporation

Thomas Van Liefde
ITRenew

Gan Shun Lim
Google

Peter Liu
Huawei Technologies

Xin Liu
Microsoft

Guohan Lu
Microsoft

Steven Lu
Wiwynn

Sidney Mair
Penguin Computing

Raghavendra Mallya
Juniper Networks

Dave Maltz
Microsoft

Roberto Mari
Barefoot Networks

Matt McCormick
Microsoft

Mike Meche
AT&T Converged Access & Device Technology

Jared Mednick
Salesforce

James Mihm
Intel Corporation

Raymond Miles
ZT Systems

Steve Mills
Facebook

Ronald Minnich
Google

Yahya H. Mirza
Aclectic Systems Inc.

Noam Mizrahi
Marvell

Mark Mokryn
Pliops

Mike Moore
Nokia

Steven Moore
Rittal

Veerendra Mulay
Facebook

Anu Murthy
FADU

Manish Muthal
Xilinx

Murugasamy Nachimuthu
Intel Corporation

Sam Naghshineh
Facebook

Vinay Nallamothu
Juniper Networks

Scott Neal
Schneider Electric

Shashank Neelam
Google

Robert Neff
Flex

Long Nguyen
Broadcom Inc.

Jia Ning
Facebook

Steven Noble
Big Switch Networks

Shahar Noy
Marvell

Brian O'Connor
Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

Ryan O'Leary
Google

Mikko Ohvo
Nokia

Thad Omura
ScaleFlux

Lentis Pai
Wiwynn Corporation

Elaine Palmer
IBM, Research Division

Dan Pitt
Sr. VP, MEF Forum, and President, Palo Alto

Ashwin Poojary
Facebook

Roopa Prabhu
Cumulus Networks

Lee Prewitt
Microsoft

Vijay Rao
Facebook

Ashik Ratnani
Facebook

Kumuthini Ratnasingham
Juniper networks

Aviad Raveh
Mellanox Technologies

Brevan Reyher
Rackspace/OCP Foundation

Andres Rodriguez
Intel Corporation

Nicolas Roels
Thales

Mark Roenigk

Brandon Rubenstein
Microsoft

Alex Saroyan
XCloud Networks

Dale Sartor
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Yusuke Sato
Yahoo Japan

Scott Shadley
NGD Systems

Hemal Shah
Broadcom Inc.

Arkadiy Shapiro
Barefoot Networks

Mark Shaw
Microsoft

Hao Shen
Facebook

Jay Shenoy
Hyve

Eric Shobe
Dropbox

Natarajan Sivagar
Google

Michael Smullen
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Roberto Söderhäll
Swedish Modules

Harry Soin
Artesyn Embedded Technologies

Richard Solomon
Synopsys

Edmund Song
Intel Corporation

Justin Song
Alibaba Cloud

Suresh Srinivas
Intel Corporation

Tim Stevenson
Cisco

Will Stewart
HARTING

Junho Suh
SK Telecom

Niveditha Sundaram
Intel

Amal Tariq
Facebook

Siamak Tavallaei
Microsoft

Abdellah Tazi
AT&T

Samuli Toivola
Nokia

Jeffrey Townsend
Big Switch Networks

Nikos Triantafillis
Apstra

Sunay Tripathi
MobiledgeX

Kushagra Vaid
Microsoft Corporation

Jean-Marie Verdun
ITRenew

Nicolaas Viljoen
Netronome

Bapi Vinnakota
Netronome

Vignesh Vishwanathan
Facebook

Manoj Wadekar
Facebook

Tim Walker
Seagate Technology

Gavin Wang
Inspur Systems

Guohui Wang
Alibaba Group

Xu Wang
Facebook

Jason Waxman
Intel

Ben Wei
Facebook

Joe Wei
Wiwynn Corporation

Craig White
Nokia

Christopher Winslow
Flex

Dolly Wu
Inspur Systems

Michael Xin
Cambridge Industries

Zhenggen Xu
Linkedin

Ethan SL Yang
Wiwynn

Sam Yang
Wiwynn Corporation

Zhengyu Yang
Facebook

Shao Yen
Wiwynn Corporation

Theodros Yigzaw
Intel

Lihua Yuan
Microsoft

Maria C. Yuang, Ph.D
Delta Electronics

Vincent Zeng
Facebook

Yangming Zhang
Alibaba Group

Whitney Zhao
Facebook

Yangfan Zhong
Alibaba Group

Feng Zhu
Alibaba Group

2019 Sponsors

PLATINUM
• facebook
• HUAWEI
• inspur
• intel
• Microsoft
• Linked in

GOLD
• QCT
• Mellanox
• wiwynn
• SEAGATE
• MARVELL
• XILINX
• zt Systems
• AMPERE
• Hewlett Packard
• TRENEW
• DELTA
• Western Digital
• SAMSUNG
• hyve

SILVER
• CIG
• LITEON
• MICROn
• JUNIPER
• flex
• TOSHIBA
• Schneider
• MiTAC

BRONZE
• PENGUIN COMPUTING
• RITTAL
• AOI
• Edge corE
• ARTESYN
• CUMULUS
• molex
• Auras
• NOKIA
• SK hynix
• samtec
• 3M
• 2crsi
• LIQID
• Ruijie
• ixia
• BAREFOOT
• TELECOM INFRA

COPPER
• eoptolink
• STARLINE
• ASRock
• GIGABYTE
• muRata
• NETRONOME
• obel
• Amphenol
• MANZAI
• LATTICE
• big switch
• TE connectivity
• APRCUS
• CIARA
• STORDIS

START-UP
• NEPHOS
• Innovium
• submer
• XCLOUD
• apstra

POWER-UP STATIONS
• GEIST

LUNCH SPONSOR
• LENOVO

LANYARDS
• QCT

TOTE BAGS
• FINISAR

COFFEE STATIONS
• JUNIPER

HYDRATION STATIONS
• DELLEMC

SNACK SPONSOR
• AMDA

NON-PROFIT
• OpenPOWER
• OpenCAPI
• OPENSTACK FOUNDATION
• THE LINUX FOUNDATION
• SNIA
• DMTF