The 2026 OCP EMEA Summit drew more than 2,000 attendees to Barcelona last week, and AMI was there throughout it all for a very full and exciting week. We kicked off with our inaugural Partnership Forum for Open Compute on Tuesday, April 28, followed by two days of technical sessions, product announcements, and demos on the OCP EMEA Summit show floor in Booth A23. Here is a look at what we shared and what comes next.
The Partnership Forum for Open Compute: Day Zero in Barcelona
The day before the Summit opened, AMI hosted our first-ever Partnership Forum for Open Compute at the SLS Barcelona hotel, together with the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP). This event brought together OCP EMEA Summit sponsors, ecosystem partners, and industry leaders for a full day of sessions that were laser-focused on the challenges of managing AI infrastructure at scale.
AMI Chief Commercial Officer Ken Sun opened the day with a keynote session framing the challenges facing every hyperscaler, neocloud, and data center operator in the room. He noted that AI compute deployment is growing at a pace that outstrips the management tools built for previous generations. Power demand per rack is climbing at unprecedented rates. Refresh cycles are collapsing. And the platforms themselves are fragmenting as new CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, and AI accelerators ship on increasingly shorter cadences.
Ken described these converging pressures as a “five-headed hydra,” with platform fragmentation, security, power and thermal management, fleet-scale operations, and resilience all interconnected. He pointed out that solving any of these issues in isolation would simply shift the problem elsewhere as he delivered his central thesis: no single infrastructure player can tackle this alone, and firmware is the common control plane that ties it all together. AMI’s answer is rooted in a unified, open approach to AI data center command and control, built on four decades of firmware expertise and partnerships across the entire data center value chain.
The Partnership Forum continued with sessions from AMI’s Chief Product Officer Zachary Bobroff and General Manager Anurag Bhatia on open systems for rack-scale AI, Oracle Architect Mohan Kumar on modern data center challenges, OCP Chief Technology Officer Zane Ball on open compute as a catalyst for innovation, and Arm Fellow Dong Wei on the open chiplet economy. AMI’s Matty Bakkeren and RackRenew’s Patrick Bliemer closed the morning sessions with a talk on sustainability through refreshed firmware. A panel moderated by TechArena’s Allyson Klein on “Challenges and Solutions to Managing Systems at Scale” rounded out the day, featuring voices from AMI, Arm, Microsoft, OCP, Oracle, and RackRenew.
AMI Introduces MegaRAC OneTree Community Edition, AMI Rack Manager & Partner Alliance
The next day, AMI used the OCP EMEA Summit stage to introduce three new initiatives:
- MegaRAC OneTree™ Community Edition (CE): Our new open-source, OpenBMC-based firmware solution provides a unified foundation for BMC management across diverse hardware environments. Released under the same license as the Linux Foundation’s OpenBMC™ project, MegaRAC OneTree CE addresses the persistent fragmentation of the data center control plane by providing a single, extensible codebase that works across heterogeneous silicon and platforms. It is currently available to the community on the OCP Marketplace.
- AMI Rack Manager: As AI infrastructure shifts from server-level to rack-level management, we previewed our new AMI Rack Manager software solution that unifies compute, power, cooling, and networking into a single management point. Built on our work with OCP’s OpenRMC-DM initiative, the Rack Manager is currently on track for OCP Marketplace listing.
- The AMI Partner Alliance: We also launched a formal Partner Alliance program to bring silicon vendors, OEMs, ODMs, ISVs, hyperscalers, and neoclouds together for joint innovation on open firmware. The mission: accelerate adoption, standardization, and interoperability of solutions across the data center value chain.
For full details on all three, read our announcement here.
AMI on the OCP EMEA Summit Stage
Beyond the Partnership Forum, the AMI team delivered five technical sessions during the OCP EMEA Summit on April 29. AMI Chief Product Officer Zach Bobroff led off with an Executive Presentation on rack-scale designs, open firmware, and intelligent sustainability. Stefano Righi, Senior VP of AMI’s Global Security Software Group, addressed the impact of EU CRA regulations on the OCP ecosystem. A joint session with Arm and Oracle explored data center power and thermal management on Arm® architectures, while AMI’s Dos Terasaka and Srini Narayana presented on collaborative efforts within the open system firmware project to improve platform quality through expanded code‑coverage practices. Closing out AMI’s sessions at the Summit, Sudan Ayanam explored how agentic AI can accelerate firmware development and deployment.
What Comes Next
Our Partnership Forum for Open Compute and presence at 2026 OCP EMEA Summit was just the starting point. The conversations we had in Barcelona about fragmentation, security, fleet-scale operations, and the need for a shared control plane will continue. On May 19, we are partnering with Meta to host a hybrid in-person/virtual OpenBMC Meetup on the Meta campus in Menlo Park, CA that will bring together engineers, operators, and ecosystem partners to shape the next phase of the OpenBMC community. Sessions and panels will cover debugging across silicon vendors, platform security and root of trust, BIOS/BMC integration, and practical approaches to solving the OpenBMC fork problem so the ecosystem can move forward together.
To learn more about MegaRAC OneTree Community Edition, the AMI Partner Alliance, or any of our OCP EMEA Summit announcements, we invite you to contact us at https://www.ami.com/contact/.
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