The OCP Future Technologies Initiative's temporary co-leads are Dirk Van Slyke andCliff Grossner.

Scope

The OCP Future Technologies Initiative (FTI) is a formal effort within the Foundation to build a future-focused Community within OCP to serve as a forward-looking funnel for ideas and technologies two-to-five years into the future.

FTI brings into the OCP Community  academia, industry researchers, startups, venture capital and analyst firms to solve future challenges facing the industry, and accelerate productization.

Focused on building pipelines of talent to work on specific problems, the OCP Future Technologies Initiative will ultimately hand off promising efforts to OCP Projects, with the ultimate goal of commercialization.

Workstreams

The Future Technologies Initiative will focus on specific technical areas, in alignment with the OCP Foundation Steering Committee and Foundation leadership.

Each focus area will be led by an expert in the field, and will call on volunteers and expertise from a range of member companies, academia, and related standard bodies. Current FTI workstreams include:

• Bill Martin,SSD I/O Standards at Samsung at Samsung has been selected as Technical Chair of theData Centric Computing workstream along withJason Molgaard, Storage Device Architecture at Solidigm.
• Bobby Lu,Prinical Engineer at Lightelligence, and Ron Swartzentruber,Director of Engineering at AMD, will lead theShort Reach Optical Interconnect workstream.

We would like to thank Murugasamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu, lead cloud solutions architect and Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, who successfully led theCloud Service Model workstream to graduation from FTI, now within theHardware Management Project. Likewise, we thank Weifeng Zhang, Corporate VP, Head of Labs at Lenovo Research, who served as Technical Chair of theAI HW-SW Design workstream which also graduated to a Subproject under theServer OCP Project.

This marks the third successful FTI workstream transition, after the initial transition of the Software Defined Memory workstream to create a new OCP Subproject, now calledComposable Memory Systems.

Get Involved

There are several ways to get involved in the OCP Future Technologies Initiative: 

• Join the conversation in theFTI LinkedIn Group.
• Join theFTI mailing list to connect with the FTI team and the community, give advice and contribute.
• Join theOCP Future Technologies Symposium.

OCP Future Technologies Initiative Calendar

The calendar displayed here is updated nightly from the project'sGroups.io Calendar