2026 OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day @ DCWA

Where Hyperscalers, Engineers, and Infrastructure Leaders Define How Data Centres are Built at Scale

The Open Compute Project (OCP) joined Data Centre World Asia (DCWA) 2026 as a conference partner, hosting the OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day on Level 3 from 29-30 September 2026.

This dedicated conference track brings a highly technical, design-led programme into the heart of Asia’s leading data centre event - bringing together the teams designing next-generation infrastructure with the wider APAC region.


*DCWA Exhibitors on Level 3 will be alongside the OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day conference.

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OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day: Overview

The Open Compute Project is a global community of engineers and technology leaders working to design and deploy the most efficient, scalable and sustainable infrastructure solutions for the world's largest data environments.

OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day brings that community to Singapore, right here at Data Centre World Asia, for technical sessions, industry dialogue, and peer exchange - focused on how open hardware and collaborative infrastructure design is shaping how infrastructure is designed, standardised and scaled globally. Key themes will include AI infrastructure, hardware design, energy resilience, sustainability, and data centre operations.

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Architecting Inference: The OCP Path from Token Demand to Data Center Design

September 29, 2026 · 10:00 – 17:00

A one-day deep dive on the infrastructure that will serve Southeast Asia's AI inference workloads through 2030 - built from the top down, grounded in open compute principles.

Overall Theme for the Day

Southeast Asia's AI build-out has moved from speculation to construction. Malaysia has formally restricted non-AI data centres to protect grid capacity. Singapore has reopened its allocation process under stricter green-power criteria. Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines have revived nuclear programmes citing AI demand explicitly. Johor is one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the world. None of this was true two years ago and the operational decisions being made now - on what clusters get built, what packaging gets specified, and what facilities get permitted - will define regional AI capacity for the rest of the decade. Architecting Inference is a day to think through those decisions from the top down, through the lens of the OCP Community focusing on token demand, cluster architecture and facility design. 

The conversation about AI infrastructure too often starts with hardware. This track starts with demand. Over the course of one day in Singapore, we trace the full top-down chain: from forecasting how many tokens users will actually consume, to designing the GPU clusters that will serve them, to building the facilities (power, grid, and cooling) that make those clusters physically possible. The format is OCP-flavoured throughout: open hardware, open specs and open architectural patterns, applied to the operational reality of six SEA markets.

Tokenomics — Demand Forecasting for AI Inference

Demand sets the floor for everything else. The first part of the day builds a bottom-up token-consumption model for the region: input/output token ratios by use case, country-level sizing across Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, and the diverging trajectories of hyperscaler, sovereign, and neocloud deployments. Attendees leave with a shared vocabulary for regional inference demand at the granularity infrastructure decisions actually require.

 

Cluster Architectures & Advanced Packaging

Once the demand picture is clear, we translate tokens into GPU hours and GPU hours into cluster designs. This section covers the architectural choices that matter for inference: network fabric design for east-west traffic, accelerator modules and DC-MHS reference designs from OCP, and the advanced-packaging supply chain (HBM, CoWoS, chiplets, 3D stacking).

Power, Grid Readiness & Cooling Strateg

Megawatts, not GPUs, are the binding constraint in most of SEA. We close the day with the physical layer: grid capacity, power and cooling structures needed to serve the Southeast Asian region. Attendees leave with a defensible point of view on where regional capacity actually lands and why.

Special Sessions — Photonics & Quantum

Two interstitial panels between modules look beyond the GPU paradigm: silicon photonics and optical interconnect as cluster-scale fabric, and the state of quantum deployments in Singapore and the country's emerging hybrid-quantum pilots along with the OCP’s efforts to ensure data center readiness for quantum deployments at scale.

Who should Attend

Inference platform engineers, hardware engineers, cluster architects, data centre developers and operators, sovereign-cloud strategists, GPU neocloud operators, and regional policy leads working on AI infrastructure in or for Southeast Asia.

How to Attend?

Access to the OCP Southeast Asia Tech day is provided as part of your ticket to Data Centre World Asia - register your interest to receive the latest updates when registration is open, and be kept up to date with the latest speakers and sessions.

OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day Conference Programme 2026

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09:00
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    30 mins
10:20
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    The Open Compute Project's Open Data Center for AI Strategic Initiative is tackling the critical infrastructure challenges—power, cooling, mechanical, and management telemetry—that must be solved to d ...
10:40
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    AI is entering an agentic era, where increasingly autonomous and intelligent workloads are driving new requirements across cloud and data center infrastructure. Meeting this shift demands open, modula ...
11:00
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    AI factories are being built in the open. As workloads shift toward agentic reasoning and inference-time scaling, the network has become the decisive variable in GPU utilization, token economics, and ...
11:40
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    APAC is emerging as one of the fastest-growing regions for AI infrastructure investment, with hyperscalers, telcos, sovereign AI and cloud operators racing to build capacity for the next wave of AI wo ...
12:20
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    30 mins
13:50
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    1. Establishing the Data Center as a standardised building typology across regional local authorities.     2. Standardising and modularising building blocks to work across several regions.
15:55
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    SS 726:2026 transforms liquid cooling from a proven technology into an industry-ready solution. It gives the ecosystem a common framework to build with confidence. Bottom line: The standard sets the d ...
10:00
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    10 mins
    •    Standardizing Scope 3: Unveiling the new OCP-iCA Embodied Carbon Disclosure Base Specification. How this open framework replaces fragmented vendor data with a unified product taxonomy across serv ...
10:10
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    •    Theme: Moving from voluntary corporate sustainability reporting to auditable, standardized data sheets for IT infrastructure.•    Core Focus: How global OEMs are implementing OCP-iCA templates to ...
10:30
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    45 mins
11:15
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    15 mins
11:30
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    30 mins
    · The Efficiency Paradox: Analyzing the critical trade-off illuminated by recent iMasons environmental data: where turning off evaporative water systems to lower Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) direct ...
12:00
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    50 mins
    · Small group sprint mapping localized hurdles: o Table 1 (IT Procurement): How can OCP-iCA Embodied Carbon base specification be embedded into formal request for proposals (RFPs) to filter out opaque ...
12:50
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    25 mins
13:15
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    15 mins
13:30
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    As APAC becomes the fastest-growing data center region in the world, open infrastructure has moved from a hyperscale niche to a mainstream design principle for building AI capacity at scale. Drawing o ...
13:50
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    Attendees will leave understanding why security assurance is repeated wastefully across the supply chain (every buyer, auditor and region re-reviewing the same silicon) and how a review-once, reuse-at ...
14:10
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    The evolution of data centers demands more than traditional power solutions. Whether you're optimizing existing facilities or building new capacity on greenfield gigawatt campuses, modern data centers ...
14:30
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    It is a common misconception that high-performance AI clusters require proprietary interconnects. This session proves that high-performance AI fabrics can be built entirely on open standards. We showc ...
15:10
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    As OCP infrastructure scales globally, organizations face a new challenge: what happens after first deployment? This session explores how server remanufacturing, GPU recertification and component reco ...
15:30
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    Discover how open requirements are shaping the next generation of liquid-cooling infrastructure, and why engineered polymers offer a reliable, scalable and efficient alternative to conventional materi ...
15:50
  1. Open Compute Project (OCP) Tech Day
    20 mins
    Learn about the trade-offs between Copper and Fiber Optics, PCIe and ESUN Ethernet, and UALink, as planned for new Hyperscale Data Center architectures.   AI infrastructure is entering a pivotal archi ...

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