BluSky AI officer joins OCP Summit panel on open infrastructure
BluSky AI's Chief AI Officer, Andi Huels, appeared as a panellist at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, California, on 14 October. The session, titled "AI Computing Continuum: Building Open Infrastructure Standards for the Next Wave of AI," brought together infrastructure architects from CoreWeave, VDURA and Real Time Labs to discuss interoperability frameworks as AI workloads spread beyond centralised hyperscale facilities.
The OCP Global Summit runs 12 to 15 October and has been designated sold out by the Open Compute Project Foundation, with the annual event drawing up to 9,000 participants. The programme focuses on computing systems, networking, power, cooling, storage and the development of open interoperability standards for AI infrastructure.
The panel
Moderated by Nilesh Shah, VP of Business Development at Zeropoint Technologies, the session included Jacob Yundt, Director of Compute Architecture at CoreWeave; Sanee Iqbal from Real Time Labs; and Kevin Tubbs, CTO of VDURA. Discussion covered reference architectures and collaborative frameworks designed to connect AI infrastructure across centralised and distributed environments, including cloud, enterprise and regional deployments.
Trent D'Ambrosio, CEO of BluSky AI, said the summit "provides an important forum for industry leaders to discuss the standards, architectures, and collaboration needed to support the next phase of AI infrastructure." BluSky did not announce a product, partnership, customer win or commercial milestone in conjunction with the appearance.
BluSky AI is an OTCQB-listed company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its principal product is the SkyMod, described as a modular, rapidly deployable data centre unit aimed at small to mid-sized enterprises and academic institutions that need high-performance computing capacity without the capital commitment of a full hyperscale build.
Market context
The OCP is a significant venue for open hardware standards in the data centre sector, with Meta, Microsoft and Google among its founding and contributing members. Open rack specifications, power bus designs and cooling standards developed under the OCP banner have been adopted widely across hyperscale and co-location operators. Smaller vendors, including modular and edge data-centre companies, increasingly seek a presence at the summit to signal credibility with larger infrastructure buyers and to participate in standards working groups that shape future procurement requirements.
The push for open AI infrastructure standards is accelerating as inference workloads diversify away from a handful of centralised cloud regions. Distributed inference, sovereign AI deployments and enterprise on-premises AI are driving demand for interoperability between heterogeneous compute platforms. Standards bodies including the OCP, JEDEC and the Ultra Ethernet Consortium are all active in adjacent specification work, and the outcome of these efforts will affect how modular vendors like BluSky AI position their products against both hyperscaler managed services and established co-location providers.
For BluSky AI, participation at the OCP Summit is primarily a visibility and business development exercise at this stage. The company has not disclosed revenue figures, named commercial customers, or published independent benchmarks for its SkyMod units. Investors and prospective customers will look for those data points as the company seeks to move from conference participation to contracted deployments.