Webinars

The Open Charge Alliance regularly hosts webinars on specific topics relating to OCPP. The webinars give you the chance to learn about the latest OCPP developments and to ask your questions to the OCA team and to industry experts. Did you miss a webinar? Watch all recordings here!

For upcoming OCPP webinars, please check our event calendar.

Recordings Recent OCA webinars: 2025

Australia's EV Integration Journey. Lessons from the Grid Edge.

25 September 2025

Have you ever wondered what challenges Australia faces in EV integration? In this OCA webinar, three Australian experts discuss EV challenges and solutions down under! Our speakers are OCA ambassador and Greenergenic co-founder Riccardo Pagliarella, Eloise Taylor from ARENA (Australian Renewable Energy Agency) and Dean Spaccavento from Reposit. Learn about Australia’s energy transition and DER landscape, the V2G opportunity, hurdles and gaps, and VPPs.

Tutorial: How the OCPP Certification Program works

2 July 2025

This tutorial guides you through the OCPP Certification Program, including the newly added option to certify product family members. If you are a vendor and you want an OCPP certification for your Charging Station or CSMS, then this video is for you.  Watch it to learn step-by-step how to receive your OCPP certificate. The OCPP Certification Program gives you the opportunity to validate your OCPP implementation on conformance with the OCPP 2.0.1 or 1.6 specification. Click here for more information.

OCPP 2.Lite by Franc Buve

27 March 2025

Join this webinar by Franc Buve from OCA to learn about the paper ”OCPP for Resource Constrained Devices”. You can find the latest version of this whitepaper here. OCA established the OCPP Lite Working Group, that has defined the smallest possible implementation of OCPP 2.0.1. In this webinar, the results of their efforts are presented. The objective of OCPP2.Lite is to address the needs of specific markets, particularly those requiring cost efficient charging infrastructure for low-cost vehicles such as 2-wheelers and 3-wheelers.

The Future of Electric Mobility. A United States Perspective by Rish Ghatikar and Michael Barnard

21 March 2025

Listen to OCA ambassador Rish Ghatikar and guest speaker Michael Barnard, who share their insights on the evolving electric transportation and charging landscape, grid integration, industry disruptions, and open standards in the United States.

Topics include:
1. EV Adoption & Grid Integration: trends, infrastructure challenges & VGI solutions
2. Disruptions in Charging: Uni-/bi-directional charging, network standards & OCPP’s role
3. New Electrification Opportunities: Fleet, medium- & heavy-duty transport & key case studies
4. The Future of Open Standards: Evolving OCPP & enabling seamless grid interoperability

Eichrecht and OCPP by Robert Schlabbach and Patrick Rademakers

19 March 2025

In this OCA webinar, our guest speakers Robert Schlabbach from Ubitricity and Patrick Rademakers from JIBE Company talk about ‘Signed meter values in OCPP’, a topic on which OCA released a whitepaper recently. Support for sending signed meter values is needed in order to comply with German Eichrecht. The whitepaper outlines the standardized method for sharing signed meter values between a Charging Station (CS) and a Charging Station Management System (CSMS). The purpose of which is to provide consumers a way of validating the validity of chargeable measurand(s) (Wh, Time, etc), in compliance with applicable laws or regulations in different jurisdictions. Watch this webinar to learn more and ask all your questions.

Release of OCPP 2.1 by Jacob Betz and Franc Buve

13 March 2025

At the end of January 2025, OCA launched OCPP 2.1. In this webinar we provide an in-depth explanation of the new functionalities introduced in OCPP 2.1. The session also covers how to migrate from OCPP 2.0.1 to OCPP 2.1 and explain how backwards compatibility works in OCPP 2.1. The speakers are Jacob Betz from Vector Informatik and Franc Buve, Protocol Specialist at OCA.

Meet the new 2025 Working Groups

6 March 2025

In this webinar, the (interim) Chairs provide information about the OCA Working Groups for everyone who is interested in joining. They share insights into the projects and topics that will be adressed by OCA in 2025. In the end, we had an open discussion to answer the participants’ questions. There are three new Working Groups: Commissioning, Cyber Security and Networking / Local Controller.

New certification program – the 9 point improvement plan by Paul Klapwijk

5 February 2025

Listen to Paul Klapwijk, chair of the compliance working group at OCA, to get the updates about the new and improved certification program (2025). OCA’s certification program has been available since 2019, and a significant number of products have already been certified. Certification of OCPP is increasingly being recommended or even mandated by governments in various regions. This means we must ensure that our certification program remains clear and efficient and it is increasingly pragmatic, maintainable and affordable. With this in mind, we have reviewed the program and, in collaboration with test labs and market participants, made adjustments to its structure. These changes aim to ensure the program maintains its quality and aligns with the needs of the market and governmental requirements.

IEC Publication by Lonneke Driessen and Hussein al Haj Hassan

23 January 2025

In this webinar, we discussed the IEC approval of OCPP (IEC 63584). This approval was one of the biggest milestones for OCA in 2024! Lonneke Driessen and Hussein al Haj Hassan talked about the collaboration with IEC and how you can contribute.