Broadcom Sets AI Networking Showcase With More Than 15 Companies at OCP Summit

Broadcom’s AI infrastructure showcase runs October 12–15, 2026, at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose. Its keynote starts October 12 at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time, with partner demonstrations planned across the show floor. Broadcom’s announcement gives an in-person venue but no livestream link; the confirmed program is a showcase, not a product launch.

Announced October 8, the program brings together Broadcom’s networking hardware, rack designs and optical connections. The company says it will work with more than 15 companies on demonstrations. Its featured equipment includes Ethernet switches, network interface cards, PCIe components and integrated optics for Open Rack Version 3 solutions.

The keynote: open networks and modular racks

Asad Khamisy, senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Core Switching Group, will deliver “Scaling AI Infrastructure Through Open Innovation” in the South Hall of the San Jose Convention Center. Broadcom says he will discuss open networking, optical interconnects and modular rack designs, alongside the challenges of building switch hardware for AI networks.

The hardware lineup spans several product families rather than one device. Broadcom lists Tomahawk 6, Tomahawk Ultra and Jericho 4 Ethernet switches; Thor Ultra 800G and Thor 2 400G network interface cards; and third-generation TH6-Davisson co-packaged optics. The company presents that portfolio as its approach to bandwidth demands from larger, more complex AI models.

Where the partner demonstrations will be

The named show-floor demonstrations concentrate on Tomahawk 6 and Tomahawk 6-Davisson optics. Broadcom identifies five partners and their booth locations, giving attendees specific stops for the hardware portion of its program:

• Accton/Edgecore Networks: Tomahawk 6 demonstrations in Expo Hall 3, Booth D1.
• Alpha Networks: live demonstrations of its liquid-cooled Tomahawk 6 solution in Expo Hall 3, Booth D9.
• Celestica: Tomahawk 6-Davisson 102.4T co-packaged optics and Tomahawk 6 in Expo Hall 2, Booth C2.
• Delta Electronics and Micas Networks: Tomahawk 6-Davisson 102.4T co-packaged optics in Expo Hall 3, at Booths D5 and E5, respectively.

Technical sessions beyond the keynote

Broadcom’s speaking schedule also includes sessions with engineers from its partners and AI customers. On October 12, Manish Mehta joins Celestica’s Tareq Bustami and OpenAI’s Binbin Guan for “Designing the Next AI Fabric: When Compute Meets Optics.” On October 14, Broadcom’s Eric Spada and OpenAI’s Guohan Lu will discuss AI networking using Multi-path Reliable Connections.

Other scheduled discussions cover Ethernet transport for scale-up networking with Arista Networks, firmware-update authorization with Lenovo and Microsoft, and precision timing with Nokia. The agenda therefore reaches beyond faster connections to include transport, firmware policy and timing—separate technical subjects within Broadcom’s summit program.