SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
2022 SDC India Agenda
Agenda is subject to change. Sessions will be made available on-demand (via the event platform) at the listed times.
All timings are in the India timezone (IST)
| Friday August 5th | ||
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| 08:50 | Welcome to SDC India 2022 Sanjay Agrawal, Chair, SNIA India |
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| 09:00 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Professor Sowmyanarayanan Sadagopan,
Chairman, BoG, IIITDM-Kancheepuram & Founding Director IIIT Bangalore
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| 09:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Sridhar Sabesan, Director, Platform Engineering
Western Digital®
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| 10:10 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Dia Ali, Data Intelligence Global Solution Leader
Hitachi Vantara
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| 10:50 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Sumith Makam, Principal Engineer
NetApp
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| 11:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTERakesh A Hanumanthappa, Manager, Customer Success
VIAVI Solutions
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| Breakout sessions - available at the listed times | ||
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Track One |
Track Two |
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| 12:10 |
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERMurali Krishna, Senior Principal Engineer
Amazon Web Services
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TECHNOLOGY PARTNERVarun Kumar Paliwal, Technical Lead &
Ankit Kumar, Senior Software Engineer
Mindteck
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| 12:50 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| Storage Architecture, Management and Performance | Emerging Technologies | |
| 13:00 |
Shiva Pahwa, Senior Manager &
Sathyashankara Bhat Muguli, Director
Micron Technology
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Hemant Gaikwad, Senior Principal Engineer &
Shelesh Chopra, Senior Director, Software Engineering
Dell Technologies
Rahul Vishwakarma, Graduate Student
California State University
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| 13:20 |
Pidad D'Souza, System Performance Architect &
John Lewars, Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM
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Kannadasan Palani, Senior Test Manager
Msys Technologies
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| 13:40 |
Sandeep Patil, STSM, Master Inventor &
Ramakrishna Vadla, Senior Software Engineer
IBM
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Gururaj Kulkarni, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff &
Cherami Liu, Architect
Dell Technologies
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| 14:20 |
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Staff Software Engineer
Mukul Kumar Singh, Senior Engineering Manager
Cloudera
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Boris Tankhilevich, CEO
Magtera, Inc.
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| Cloud Storage | ||
| 14:40 |
Ujjwal Lanjewar, Software Architect
Madhavrao Vemuri, Software Architect
Seagate Technology
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Krishna Kanth Reddy, Associate Director
Kanchan Joshi, Associate Director
Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR)
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| Computational Storage | ||
| 15:00 |
Data Analytics with Computational Storage and PostgreSQL
Ajay Joshi, Technologist
Western Digital
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| 15:20 |
Girija Swami, Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Prashant Wakchaure, Principal SQA Engineer
Veritas
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Girjesh Rajoria, Software Engineer
Red Hat
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| Data and Storage Management | ||
| 15:40 |
Anand Reddy, Senior Performance Engineer
Komprise
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Srija Malyala, Software Developer
Vaishnavi SG, Software Developer
AMD
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| 16:00 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 16:10 |
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION HOSTED BY WESTERN DIGITAL
Moderated by Sridhar Sabesan, Director, Platform Engineering, Western Digital
Will one data centre architecture fit for all?
An open house discussion on Data, Applications, Fabric : Converged vs Hyperconverged vs Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure including:
Structured vs Unstructured data
Trend in application workloads
Converged vs Hyper Converged vs Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI)
Fabrics of choice in data centres – RoCE vs TCP vs FC
Panelists:
Kumar Ranjan (Director, Test Engineering, WD)
Senthil Kumar Veluswamy (Technologist, Firmware Engineering, WD)
Pavan Gururaj (Sr. Manager, Solution Engineering, WD)
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| 17:00 |
SNIA INDIA BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION
Moderated by Sunil Patil, Delivery Head, Software Product Engineering, Tata Consultancy Services
Into the Metaverse- A Decentralized Storage Approach
The world is slowly catching up to the Web 3.0 wave with Metaverse rage. The way we will work, socialize, collaborate or shop may change dramatically in the coming future. This world is vast, complex and richly detailed which would need a re-thinking the way we store data, especially user generated content like NFTs and Avatars. Decentralized technology is the bedrock for Metaverse and so in the discussion we aim to touch upon elements of decentralized storage and its implications on the storage industry. Also, we plan to gauge the preparedness maturity of the industry for the incoming metaverse wave.
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| 17:50 |
Conference sessions end. |
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| SATURDAY AUGUST 6TH | ||
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| 08:50 | Introduction to SNIA Michael Oros, Executive Director, SNIA |
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| 09:00 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Murali Brahmadesam, CTO & Head of Engineering
Razorpay
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| 9:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Vijay Mhaskar, VP Engineering and Pune center site lead
Veritas
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| 10:10 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Karnendu Pattanaik, Senior Manager
Somesh Joshi, Software Engineer
Dell Technologies
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| 10:50 |
PREMIER PARTNER KEYNOTE
Tom Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect Storage Software
IBM
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| 11:30 |
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERCyberstorage - A Security First Storage Approach Sanjeev Kumar, Lead, Software Product Engineering – Storage, Compute and Manageability
Tata Consultancy Services
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Track One |
Track Two |
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| 12:10 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 12:20 | NVM Express | Data Protection and Security |
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Kanchan Joshi, Associate Director
Anuj Gupta, Software Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR)
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Mohamed Ashraf Kottilungal, Senior Solution Architect
MSys Technologies
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| 12:40 |
Badarinarayan Joshi, Associate Technical Director
Arun V Pillai, Staff Engineer
Chaehwan Yang, Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR)
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Nibu Habel, Principal Engineer
NetApp
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| Emerging Technologies | ||
| 13:00 |
Krishan Rai, Senior Manager
Abhin Balur, Senior Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies
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Anupam Chomal, Software Security Expert
CARIAD
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| 13:40 |
Abhilash Nag, Principal Engineer II
Shiva Pahwa, Senior Manager
Micron Technologies
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Sravan Kumar Reddy Bhavanam, Member Technical Staff
Nutanix
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| 14:00 |
Supriya Kannery, Software Senior Principal Engineer
Prajwala B Patil, Software Quality Senior Engineer
Nisha Moyal, Software Engineer
Dell Technologies
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Vishwas Saxena, Senior Technologist, Firmware Engineering
Western Digital
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| 14:20 | Cloud Storage | Containers and file systems |
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Umang Kumar, Master Technologist
Subhadip Das, Expert Technologist
Chaitra Sankar, Senior Cloud Developer
HPE
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Sushantha Kumar, Lead Architect
Pravin Ranjan, Senior System Architect
Huawei Technologies
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| 14:40 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 14:50 |
Swati Chawdhary, Senior Manager
Abdul Ahad Amir, Senior Staff Engineer
Samsung
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Deepak Ghuge, Software Architect and Master Inventor
Rasika Vyawahare, Quality Engineer
Rahul Nema, Lead Architect
IBM
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| 15.10 |
Pranav Sahasrabudhe, Senior Staff Engineer
Sarang Sawant, Senior Staff Engineer
Seagate Technology
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Aparna Bindage, Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Sheryl Francis, Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Veritas
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| SMB | ||
| 15:30 |
Shyam Prasad, Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
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Sanil Kumar D
TOC Co-Chair, Arch Lead, SODA Foundation & Chief Architect, Huawei
Joseph Vazhapilly
Lead Architect, Huawei / Maintainer , SODA Projects
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| Storage Networking | ||
| 16:10 |
Fausto Vaninetti, Technical Solutions Architect
Cisco Systems
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Kaustubh Katruwar, Senior Software Engineer
Sasikanth Eda, Cloud Storage Engineer
IBM
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| 16:30 | NETWORKING BREAK | NETWORKING BREAK |
| 16:40 |
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION HOSTED BY DELL TECHNOLOGIES
Resilience against Ransomware
Moderated by Ravi Chitloor, Senior Director, Senior Distinguished Engineer Dell Technologies with
Kalyan Gunda, Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
KiranKumar MalleGowda, Technical Staff, Dell Technologies
We invite you to a very engaging and insightful BoF session on Resilience against Ransomware, please join us and listen to the Domain SME’s as well ask them any questions on one of the top most tech and business priority around safeguarding the businesses against the ransomware.
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| 17:30 |
SNIA INDIA BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION
Understanding the impact and potential for AIOPs – lets discuss!
Moderated by Piyush Gupta, Program Director, IBM Storage Development
Simplification of IT Operations is an ongoing challenge given to technology companies to make their customer more efficient from cost as well as operations stand point. Lot of innovation has been going in this space , use of Artificial intelligence in IT operations seems to revolutionise this space and offer a lot of promise to simplify and optimise. AIOps is defined as a dynamic way to simplify IT operations, reduce administrative cost , and bring a predictive angle to the operations. Currently AIOps is seen as a combination of automation with analytics and application of artificial intelligence like ML , deep learning etc.
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| 18:20 |
Conference sessions end. |
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