Portland, OR – October 1, 2025 – ZincFive®, the world leader in nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based solutions for immediate power applications, today announced that Michael Klasen, Director of Business Development, will join industry peers for the AI/HPC Lightning Talks session at the 2025 OCP Global Summit.
The OCP Global Summit is the industry’s premier gathering for the open compute community, bringing together thousands of technologists, operators, and business leaders to collaborate on scalable computing solutions. The 2025 Summit theme, “Leading the Future of AI”, reflects how the OCP Community is driving openness, efficiency, sustainability, and scalability to meet the infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence.
The AI/HPC Lightning Talks sessions will feature rapid-fire insights from industry leaders on how compute-intensive workloads are reshaping infrastructure requirements. As part of the program, Klasen will deliver a presentation titled, “New Battery Capability for Dual-Use UPS and AI Factory Dynamic Power Management,” which will assess the dual-use capability of nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery chemistry to mitigate AI dynamic loads while complementing well-established NiZn Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) backup power functionality.
WHAT: AI/HPC Lightning Talks: New Battery Capability for Dual-Use UPS and AI Factory Dynamic Power Management
WHEN: 9:45 AM – 10:10 AM PT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025
WHERE: 2025 OCP Global Summit
San Jose McEnery Convention Center | Lower Level – LL20BC
WHO:
- Michael Klasen, Director of Business Development, ZincFive
- Jinwook Oh, CTO/Co-Founder, Rebellions
- Shrikanth Venkateshappa, Global Business Development IT Power Distribution, Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
- Tong Zhang, Chief Scientist, ScaleFlux
- Tushar Krishna, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Puneet Sharma, Director, Networking and Distributed Systems Lab, HPE
To learn more about ZincFive, visit ZincFive.com.
To register for the 2025 OCP Global Summit, please click here.
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About ZincFive
ZincFive is the world leader in innovation and delivery of nickel-zinc batteries and immediate power solutions. Supported by an impressive portfolio of international patents, ZincFive technology harnesses The Power of Good Chemistry® to propel the world forward. ZincFive technology leverages the safety and sustainability of nickel-zinc chemistry to provide unparalleled high power density and performance for mission critical applications. ZincFive is a privately held company based in Tualatin, Oregon.
ZincFive and The Power of Good Chemistry are registered trademarks of ZincFive, Inc. and the ZincFive logo is a trademark of ZincFive, Inc.
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