SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
2021 SDC India Schedule
Schedule is subject to change. Sessions will be made available on-demand (via the event platform) at the listed times.
| Thursday August 5th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 08:55 | Introduction to Virtual SDC India Udayan Singh, Chair, SNIA India |
|
| 09:10 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Jim Handy, General Director
Objective Analysis
|
|
| 09:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Sridhar Sabesan, Director, Platform Engineering
Western Digital®
|
|
| 10:10 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Dr Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Fellow
Intel Corporation
|
|
| 10:50 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
|
|
| 11:10 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Vasu Yadlapalli, Software Senior Principal Engineer &
Joji John, Software Senior Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies
|
|
| Breakout sessions - available at the listed times | ||
|
Track One |
Track Two |
|
| 11:30 |
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERAkhtar Ali, Vice President, ISDL & Technical Computing Development
IBM
|
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSDF-ZNS Drives(Zoned Namespaces Specification)Arup Banerjee, Senior Vice President – Global Delivery and Practices & Niranjan R Nilugal, Product Test Architect
MINDTECK |
| 12:10 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| Containers | Emerging Standards | |
| 12:20 |
Parmeshwr Prasad, Software Principal Engineer &
Rahul Vishwakarma, Software Quality Senior Engineer
Dell Technologies
|
Nitin Kumar, Advisory Software Engineer &
Vijay Kumar Shankarappa, Advisory Software Engineer
IBM
|
| 13:00 | Data Management | Emerging Standards |
|
ALLIANCE PARTNER
Steven Tan, VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei/Board Chairman
SODA Foundation
|
Ravi Kiran Gummaluri, Engineering Lead
Micron
|
|
| 13:15 | Data Management/Containers | |
|
Sanil Kumar D, TOC, AWG Lead &
Amit Kumar Roushan, System Architect
SODA Foundation
|
||
| Containers | Data Protection and Security | |
| 13:40 |
Apurv Barve, Senior Principal Software Engineer &
Reena Kabra, Principal Software Engineer &
Prashant Bhople, Senior Software Engineer
Veritas
|
Krishnan Srinath, Director Engineering
Cisco Systems
|
| Storage Fabric Protocols | Data Protection and Security | |
| 14:00 |
Tej Parkash, Advisory Software Engineer &
Subhojit Roy, STSM
IBM
|
Anupam Chomal, Security Expert
CARIAD
|
| 14:40 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| Storage Fabric Protocols | Data Protection and Security | |
| 15:00 |
Bharti Soni, Senior System Staff Engineer &
Subhojit Roy, STSM
IBM
|
Anay Pathak, Advisory Consultant
Dell Technologies
|
| Cloud Storage | Storage Resource Management | |
| 15:40 |
Amit Deshmukh, Solutions Lead, Content and Data Intelligence
Hitachi Vantara
|
Sheetal Kulkarni, Senior Staff Engineer &
Mythri K, Senior Staff Engineer
Samsung
|
| Computational Storage | Storage Resource Management | |
| 16:00 |
Archit Somani, Research Scientist &
Sweta Kumari, Research Scientist
Huawei
|
Ajitha Robert, Cloud Stack Engineer
MSys Technologies
|
| Computational Storage | Storage Resource Management | |
| 16:20 |
SNIA Presentation
Scott Shadley, SNIA BoD Member, CS TWG Co-Chair
SNIA
|
Kannadasan Palani, Senior Test Manager
MSys Technologies
|
| 16:40 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 16:50 |
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION
Accelerating Everything as a Service - Roadmap and Elements
Moderator – Gajanan Kamble, Head, Software Product Engineering, Hitech Industry Vertical
Tata Consultancy Services
Synopsis - Technology companies today are rapidly transforming their solutions and offerings with various subscription based consumption models. We will discuss elements these companies need to focus for successful transformation. These elements include devising right roadmap, changing business strategy without disruption, product re-engineering, adopt modern engineering practices, and relevant IT system transformations. |
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION
Using collaborative SMB IO Labs to accelerate interop storage solutions
Moderators - Althea Champagnie, Principal Program Manager, Windows Interoperability, Microsoft & Zhenhua Hu, Software Engineer II, Windows Interoperability
Microsoft
Synopsis - SMB Interoperability (IO Labs) have been successfully run at other SNIA conferences to accelerate interoperable storage solutions by providing collaborative testing platforms, dedicated support resources, and access to interop SMEs. In this Open session, we will describe the activities and resources available at a typical IO Lab and provide an overview of the File Sharing Test Suites. Come and help us determine what you would want out of an SNIA India SMB IO Lab. |
| 17:30 |
Conference sessions end. |
|
| FRIDAY AUGUST 6TH | ||
|---|---|---|
| 08:55 | Introduction to SNIA & SDC India Chris Lionetti, Vice-Chair, SNIA |
|
| 09:10 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Tom Coughlin, President
Coughlin Associates
|
|
| 09:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Cheryl George, Technical Marketing Engineer
NetApp
|
|
| 10:10 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Murali Brahmadesam, Director of Engineering, Aurora Databases
Amazon
|
|
| 10:50 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Ankit Mathur, Chief Architect, NAS Storage
Huawei
|
|
| 11:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Kiat Wee Ang, Technical Expert, Data Management and Protection
Hitachi Vantara
|
|
| 12:10 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| Breakout sessions - available at the listed times | ||
|
Track One |
Track Two |
|
| 12:20 |
TECHNOLOGY PARTNEREmergence of Persistent Storage Services in KubernetesSanjeev Kumar, Lead, Storage Centre of Excellence &
Pawan Ratwani, Solution Architect
Tata Consultancy Services
|
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERStorage and Data Protection Trends to watch in Cloud-native WorldAnand Kekre, Head of Technical Innovations
Veritas Technologies
|
| 13:00 | Data Management | Persistent Memory |
|
Professor Shobha G
RV College of Engineering
|
Rohit Ghivdonde, Member of Technical Staff &
Noufal Muhammed, Member of Technical Staff
Nutanix
|
|
| 13:20 | Data Management | Storage Performance/Workloads |
|
Hemant Gaikwad, Senior Principal Engineer &
Rahul Vishwakarma, Software Quality Senior Engineer
Dell Technologies
|
Shashikiran Revankar, Associate Technical Director &
Sandeep Yadav, Senior Staff Engineer
Samsung
|
|
| 13:40 | Data Management | Storage Performance/Workloads |
|
Ashit Kumar, Lead Architect, Huawei &
Sainath Mathur, Storage and Peripherals Practice Head, Wipro
SODA Foundation
|
Ganesh Babu Vasudevan, Senior Staff Engineer &
Mohan Raj Veerasamy, Associate Director
Samsung
|
|
| 14:00 | Data Management | Key Value |
|
Anand Reddy, Senior Performance Engineer
Komprise
|
Scaling out Distributed Storage Fabric with RocksDB
Sandeep Madanala, Senior Technical Manager &
Yasaswi Kishore, Senior Member Technical Staff &
Pulkit Kapoor, Member of Technical Staff &
Raghav Tulshibagwale, Staff Engineer
Nutanix
|
|
| 14:20 | File Systems | |
|
Abhijit Halder, Lead Architect
Huawei
|
||
| 14:40 | File Systems | Key Value |
|
Anil Dhaneshwar, Principal Software Engineer
Veritas
|
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Staff Software Engineer &
Mukul Kumar Singh, Engineering Manager
Cloudera
|
|
| 15:00 | Machine Learning | Cloud Storage |
|
Praveen Sathyanarayan Murthy, Expert Engineer &
Shifali Sood, System Software Engineer
HPE
|
Data Replication and Migration from Ceph RGW to Cloud
Soumya Koduri, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
|
|
| 15:20 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 15:30 | Machine Learning | Cloud Storage |
|
Swapnil Dombale, Senior Principal Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies
|
Sajal Jindal, Member of Technical Staff &
Arth Patel, Senior Member of Technical Staff &
Dheer Moghe, Principal Engineer
Nutanix
|
|
| 16:10 | Machine Learning | Storage Architecture |
|
Anand Kayande, Senior Principal Engineer
Veritas Technologies
|
Smita Raut, Senior Software Engineer &
Sandeep Ramesh Patil, STSM, Master Inventor
IBM
|
|
| 16:30 | Machine Learning | NVMe |
|
Jayanta Basak, Consultant and Chief Architect
Huawei
|
Karthik Balan, Associate Director &
Gollu Appalanaidu, Software Engineer
Samsung
|
|
| 16:50 | Computational Storage | Zoned Storage |
|
Sweta Kumari, Research Scientist &
Archit Somani, Research Scientist
Huawei
|
Aravind Ramesh, Principal Engineer
Western Digital
|
|
| 17:10 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 17:20 |
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION
Storage Architecture for Cloud and On-Prem Data Centre
Moderator – Niranjan Pendharkar
SNIA India Technical Council
Synopsis - Next Gen technologies - PMEMs, smartNICs, composable infrastructure, hyperconverged, disaggregated architecture, Kubernetes, integrated AI/ML are redefining standards for addressing traditional and cloud workloads. In this Open session, we discuss about the trends and their implications that will transform the Storage and Information Management Industry.
|
|
| 18:00 |
Conference sessions end. |
|