2026 OCP Global Summit

The 2026 OCP Global Summit runs October 12-15, 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, convening the open hardware community behind the world's AI data centers. Programming centers on AI-ready infrastructure: GPU platform design, advanced liquid cooling, high-voltage DC power distribution, modular data center architectures, and the open firmware, silicon and networking standards underneath them.

Date

October 12–15, 2026

Location

San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California, United States

Format

In-Person

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Open Compute Project Foundation

Source

daily-ingest

• ✓CTO
• ✓VP of Infrastructure
• ✓Data Center Leader
• ✓Chief Architect
• ✓Head of AI Infrastructure
• ✓Hardware Engineer
• ✓Cloud Operations Leader

If your AI roadmap depends on getting GPUs powered, cooled and racked, OCP is where the reference designs and the power/cooling economics are set — a CTO or VP of infrastructure can leave with vendor-neutral specifications that cut capex risk and avoid lock-in on the most expensive line item in the AI budget. It is also the fastest way to see what hyperscalers will standardize on 12-18 months before it reaches the enterprise market.

• ✓Sessions on AI factories: GPU platform design, high-density servers and modular data center architectures
• ✓Deep dives on advanced liquid cooling and high-voltage DC power distribution
• ✓Open firmware, rack management and hardware security tracks
• ✓Large exhibit floor of hyperscalers, ODMs, silicon and networking vendors

• ★The venue where hyperscalers publish open specifications for the racks, cooling and power that AI clusters actually run on
• ★Vendor-neutral: contributions are open hardware specs, not proprietary roadmaps, so designs are portable across suppliers
• ★Concentrated coverage of the two hardest AI build-out constraints — power delivery and liquid cooling