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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

15 December 2025

Migrating charging stations is a complex process, especially when it involves hundreds or thousands of units that must switch to a new backend while minimizing downtime. During this webinar Franc Buve from OCA will present a step-by-step guide, including common hurdles in the migration process and how to solve them. After that, our guest speakers from GreenFlux, Driivz and Last Mile Solutions will take over, sharing their recent real-life experiences with the migration process.

Want to know more about the migration process of charging stations. Download the whitepaper here.

10 December 2025

UPI is widely used in India and enables instant account-to-account payments using QR codes or mobile apps. It has transformed digital transactions, offering instant, 24/7 payments directly between bank accounts. This capability makes it a natural fit for public EV charging, where drivers can pay quickly without the friction of cards, wallets, or cash. During this webinar  our Indian guest speaker, Saket, will tell you everything about EV charging in India and about UPI.

Additionally, OCA’s Franc Buve will walk you trough our recently published UPI whitepaper which explores how UPI can be integrated into EV-charging payments, looking at both simple and advanced integration models. It highlights how OCPP supports these scenarios through features such as remote transaction control and prepaid transaction limits. Download the whitepaper here.

21 November 2025

M-PESA allows users to send and receive money through their mobile phones without requiring a bank account. Together with Kenyan EV expert Francis Romano, OCA director Lonneke Driessen and OCA protocol specialist Franc Buve. We’ll look at the current state of EV charging in Kenya and then focus on M-PESA, a payment app for EV charging, which is widely used in Kenya and other African countries.

This webinar is based on the OCPP & M-PESA Mobile payments whitepaper. This paper explores how M-PESA can be integrated into EV charging payments, looking at both simple and advanced models of integration. It also highlights how the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) supports these scenarios through features such as remote transaction control and prepaid transaction limits. Download the whitepaper here.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recordings Webinar archive: 2020 - 2024

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