Open Innovation AI at ISC High Performance 2026
Last week, Open Innovation AI was in Hamburg for ISC High Performance 2026, Europe’s biggest gathering of the HPC community and one of the few events where infrastructure people, AI teams, and enterprise buyers are all in the same building.
Representing Open Innovation AI at the Congress Center Hamburg were Massinissa Lourdjane, VP of Technology Engineering, and Badr Baddou, VP of Platform, who spent the week with partners, technology leaders, and enterprise teams from across the HPC and enterprise AI landscape.
Across the ISC show floor, the focus was clear: hardware. Racks, switches, dense GPU systems, cooling technologies, and high-performance infrastructure were everywhere. In that environment, Open Innovation AI stood out by focusing on the software layer that turns compute capacity into something organizations can actually operate, govern, and scale.
That message resonated strongly throughout the week. Many of the conversations came back to the same challenge: how can organizations share expensive GPU capacity across teams, departments, or even institutions while maintaining proper isolation, quotas, governance, and control?
Multi-tenancy was one of the recurring themes, both at the hardware and software layers. It is also one of the core problems OICM was built to solve as an AI control plane for organizations running AI at scale.
Throughout the event, Massi and Badr delivered live demonstrations to technology leaders and enterprise teams. The discussions focused on how governments, enterprises, and research organizations can move beyond experimentation and begin operating AI in production across on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.
Open Innovation AI was also present alongside its partners Everpure and MEGWARE. Delivering production-ready AI infrastructure is an ecosystem effort, and being on the ground together made the conversations even more valuable.
Several discussions from ISC High Performance 2026 are already developing into deeper technical conversations that will continue in the weeks ahead.
See you at the next one
Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk. If you didn’t catch us in Hamburg and want to continue the conversation about sovereign AI infrastructure, GPU orchestration, or running AI in production, get in touch with our team.
