2024 OCP EMEA Regional Summit - By The Numbers

The 2024 OCP EMEA Regional Summit was a huge success and our largest EMEA event to date, with 725 people joining us in Lisbon, Portugal! Thank you to our amazing Members, Sponsors, Partners, Volunteers and Community!

Content Highlights

The OCP Regional Summit in Europe serves as a platform where technical and business leaders from EMEA come together to tackle crucial issues related to data center sustainability, energy efficiency, and heat reuse. The focus is on exploring how innovations from hyperscale data center operators can contribute to solving these challenges. The Summit also highlights deployments of specific OCP-recognized data center equipment in the EMEA region.

The key areas of emphasis for 2024 included Data Center Sustainability, AI, Security & Data Protection, Power & Cooling, and Deployments. Additionally, invited talks dove into topics such as quantum technology, optics and telecommunications. Participants learned how innovations within the OCP Community are pivotal in developing and implementing a sustainable and scalable computational infrastructure for the future.

The OCP Community leadership arranged 9 dynamic Breakout Session tracks, included 3 Special Focus Tracks: OpenRAN, Optics for AI Clusters, and Quantum. We also spent a half day on AI.

The Summit featured an impressive 191 speakers across 284 sessions. Stordis also hosted a colocated workshop on SONiC.

The Future Technologies Symposium focused on Sustainability in Data Centers and AI/HPC, and featured several technology demonstrations in the expo hall. Click here to read more.

The Innovation Village featured 6 stations in the expo hall. Click here to read more.

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CLICK HERE to view the recordings and slides from all the sessions from the 2024 OCP Regional Summit. These will be populated in the coming weeks. Click here to view the photos from the event.

OCP Regional Summit Numbers

The 2024 OCP Regional Summit had 725 attendees, 41 sponsors and 25 Expo Hall booths. We couldn't put on such an amazing event without our dedicated Sponsors and Members, so thank you all for supporting OCP!

The attendee breakdown by organizational role was as follows:

  • 19% Engineers
  • 18% Senior Executives
  • 17% Business Development
  • 10% Technology Architects
  • 8% Product Managers
  • 7% Marketing
  • 5% Research
  • 5% Operations & Admin
  • 3% Media and Analysts
  • 1% Academia & Students
  • 1% Investors
  • 1% Procurement
  • 5% Other

There were attendees from 315 organizations, and from 33 countries around the world.

  • 71% of attendees were from EMEA - Europe, Middle East & Africa
  • 24% were from North America
  • 5% were from Asia Pacific

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Participating countries included:

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Egypt
  • England
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Sinapore
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Turkey
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

There were quite a few exciting announcements made at the OCP Regional Summit. You can always see the latest Foundation news by checking out our Blog.

We could not have hosted an event of this magnitude without the help of our long-time event production partner FNTECH.

OCP plans to host the 2025 Regional Summit April 29-30 in Dublin, Ireland. More details coming soon!

To view all of our upcoming events, CLICK HERE.

Thanks to everyone who participated and/or sponsored the 2024 OCP Regional Summit. We hope to see you all in San Jose October 15-17 for the 2024 OCP Global Summit! Sponsorship sales are open, and registration and calls for participation will be announced shortly.


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