Full Agenda

Solid State Storage Solutions

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Host Management of NVM Express™ Exported NVM Subsystems in PCIe™ SSDs

Mike Allison , Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards Samsung

Lee Prewitt , Director of Cloud Hardware Storage Microsoft

Sustainability & Green

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Advancing the AI Factory Sustainability

Chih-Tsung Huang , Senior Director Cisco

Wei-Jen Huang , Distinguished Engineer Cisco

Data Security

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

New Developments in Data Security Algorithms

Paul Suhler , Principal Engineer, SSD Standards -- Security in Storage Working Group Chair KIOXIA -- IEEE

AI / ML

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Storage for AI 102, A Further Perspective on Storage use in AI Workflows

Curtis Ballard , Strategist, Technology Enablement -- Technical Counci HPE -- SNIA

Solid State Storage Solutions

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Sprandom - A Fast Method to Reduce the Random Preconditioning Time of SSDs from Days to Hours

Steven Sprouse , Distinguished Engineer SanDisk

Sustainability & Green

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

SNIA Emerald Update for V1.0 Device and V5.0 System Specifications

Wayne Adams , SNIA Chairman Emeritus Industry Advisor

Data Security

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

SPDM PQC & Authorization

Jeff Hilland , President / SPDM WG Co-chair; Distinguished Technologist HPE

Brett Henning , Security Architect -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair Broadcom -- DMTF

AI / ML

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Why does NVMe need to evolve for efficient storage access from GPUs?

Chandra Guda , SSD Systems Architect - SMTS Micron Technology

Suresh Rajgopal , SSD Systems Architect - DMTS Micron Technology

Solid State Storage Solutions

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Navigating NVMe-oF Authentication: Best Practices for Key Management in Pre-AVE and Post-AVE Deployments

Swati Chawdhary , Sr. Fellow AMD

Sustainability & Green

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Panel: Driving Sustainability in Datacenters – Standardizing Carbon Assessment Methodologies

Shruti Sethi , Senior PM Microsoft

Ines Sousa , Senior Sustainability Industry Advisor Microsoft

Bahar Riazi , Technical Program Manager - Net Zero Google

Alan Deng , Senior Supply Engagement Manager - Net Zero Google

Lisa Rivalin , Staff System Engineer, AI Fleet - Sustainability Meta

Data Security

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Emerging Trends in Automotive Fabrics and Data Security

Bill Gervasi , Principal Memory Solutions Architect MPS

Junjian Zhao , Technical Marketing & Apps Engineering MPS

AI / ML

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Disaggregated KV Storage: A New Tier for Efficient Scalable LLM Inference

Eshcar Hillel , Principal Research Scientist Pliops

Magic Memory

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

Disrupting the GPU Hegemony: Can Smart Memory and Storage Redefine AI Infrastructure

Nilesh Shah , VP Business Development ZeroPoint Technologies

Jungmin Choi , Director of Memory Systems Sk Hynix

Vikas Chaudhary , VP & GM MaxLinear

Nilesh Gharia , Founder & CTO Numem

Andrew Greene , Member Technical Staff Zyphra

Modeling & Simulation

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

Total Cost and Performance Analysis of SSDs in AI Data Centers

Andy Banta , Storage Janitor Magnition IO

Scott Shadley , Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist Solidigm

Data Security

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

Inspired by Nature: Biomimicry of the Immune System for Ransomware Mitigation

Vivek Kohli , Product Management Self Employed

Rajeev Angal , Architect, Senior Director Cybersecurity Self Employed

AI / ML

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

Rethinking Storage for the AI/ML Era: Disaggregation Powered with FDP

Sathish Kumar M , Associate Technical Director Samsung Semiconductor India Research

File Systems & Protocols

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Open Flash Platform: An Initiative for Open, Highly Efficient AI Storage

David Flynn , CEO, Co-Founder Hammerspace

Modeling & Simulation

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

CXL Ecosystem Innovation Leveraging QEMU-based Emulation

Anisa Su , Associate Engineer Samsung

Adam Manzanares , Director Samsung

Magic Memory

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Radical Reduction in Computing Costs with AI-powered Predictive Memory Technology

Gary Smerdon , Founder and CEO MEXT

AI / ML

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

KV-Cache Storage Offloading for Efficient Inference in LLMs

Ugur Kaynar , Technical Staff Dell Technologies

File Systems & Protocols

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Scalable Metadata in Distributed File Systems: Revisiting the GoogleFS Design for Exabyte-Scale Namespaces

Piotr Modrzyk , Principal Architect Leil Storage

Modeling & Simulation

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Simulating CXL.mem for Fun and Profit

Khaled Diab , Senior Researcher HPE

Magic Memory

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Towards Memory Efficient RAG Pipelines with CXL Technology

Arun George , Associate Technical Director Samsung Semiconductor India Research

Roshan Nair , Staff Engineer Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore

AI / ML

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Scaling RAG with NVME: DISKANN's Hybrid Approach to Vector Databases Indexing

Alessandro Goncalves , Solutions Architect Solidigm

File Systems & Protocols

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Zoned XFS: Transparent and Efficient Zoned Storage Support For Scalable Storage Systems

Christoph Hellwig , Kernel Hacker [N/A]

Damien Le Moal , Distinguished Engineer Western Digital

Modeling & Simulation

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Smarter Cloud Storage—Optimizing Costs with Tiering and Automation

Shruti Sethi , Senior PM Microsoft

Vignesh Shanbhag , PM Microsoft

Magic Memory

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

CXL Memory in Windows

Chet Douglas , Principal Software Engineer Microsoft

AI / ML

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

448G/lane? PCIe™ 7.0? E2 form factor? Suffer the egos of the opinionated experts working to meet the bandwidth, interconnect, and capacity for these AI capable interconnects and form factors.

Anthony Constantine , Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Micron Technology

Mike Allison , Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards Samsung

Paul Coddington , Principal Storage Solutions Architect Solidigm

John Geldman , SSD IO Standards Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

File Systems & Protocols

4:35 PM - 5:25 PM

Highly Scalable, Masterless, Distributed Filesystem at Rubrik

Abhinav Agarwal , Senior Software Engineer Rubrik

Avishek Ganguli , Senior Software Engineer Rubrik

Modeling & Simulation

4:35 PM - 5:25 PM

Design Specification and AI-Driven Digital Twin Architecture for Storage Devices

Hemant Gaikwad , Technical Staff Dell Technologies

Rahul Vishwakarma , CTO WorkOnward

Magic Memory

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM

Advantages of CXL Memory Pooling and Tiering

Anil Godbole , MWG Co-Chair CXL Consortium

Computational Storage

5:00 PM - 5:25 PM

Host Addressing of NVMe Subsystem Local Memory

Jason Molgaard , Principal Storage Solutions Architect Solidigm

AI / ML

4:35 PM - 5:25 PM

Small Granularity Graph Neural Network Training and the Future of Storage

John Mazzie , MTS, Systems Performance Engineer Micron Technology

Keynote

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Welcome Remarks and Keynote Introduction

Scott Shadley , Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist Solidigm

Keynote

8:45 AM - 9:25 AM

Keynote to be announced

Keynote

9:25 AM - 10:10 AM

Storage Blending: The Evolving Role of HDD and SSD in Data Systems for an AI and Analytics Era

Steven Wells , Retired Self

Curtis Ballard , Strategist, Technology Enablement -- Technical Counci HPE -- SNIA

Mohamad EL-Batal , Chief Technologist of Cloud Storage Systems Seagate Technology

Madhavan Ravi , Hardware Systems Engineer Meta

Currie Munce , Senior Storage Strategist & Advisor Micron Technology

Keynote

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Maximizing the Benefits of QLC Flash with Pure's Hyperscale Solution for Applications Ranging from AI/ML to HDD Displacement

Riley Thomasson , Member of Technical Staff Pure Storage

Keynote

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

SNIA and OCP - Driving Open Storage and Networking

James Kelly , VP Market Intelligence and Innovation OCP Foundation

Keynote

11:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Storage.AI™ from SNIA - Industry Leaders and Partners Join Forces

J Metz , Chair of SNIA’s Board of Directors; Technical Director for Systems Design AMD

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

SSD Virtualization: Enabling New Possibilities for SSD-Based Ecosystems

Daniel Helmick , Principal Architect Samsung

AI / ML

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Storage Devices for the AI Data Center

Erich Haratsch , Senior Director Marvell

Computational Storage

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Pushdown Analytics on pNFS: Enabling Efficient Scientific Insight with Open Tools

Qing Zheng , Scientist Los Alamos National Laboratory

File Systems & Protocols

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Taming the Multi-Protocol Jungle: Unifying File and Object Access in Modern Data Workflows

Erez Zilber , SW Architect VAST Data

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Storage Multi-Queue on Windows - A New Stack for High Performance Storage Hardware

Scott Lee , Principal Software Engineer Lead Microsoft

AI / ML

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Storage for AI in Public Clouds: Case Study of Vela in IBM Cloud

Vasily Tarasov , Principal Research Scientist IBM

Magic Memory

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM

SNIA SDXI v1.1 Data Movement Accelerator Interface Update

William Moyes , Fellow AMD

Shyam Iyer , Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair Dell Technologies -- SNIA

Magic Memory

2:25 PM - 2:50 PM

Can SDXI work with NVMe?

Jason Molgaard , Principal Storage Solutions Architect Solidigm

Shyam Iyer , Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair Dell Technologies -- SNIA

File Systems & Protocols

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Choosing Your AI Storage Protocol: A Deep Dive into SMB and NFS Performance, Tuning, and Overhead

Sergei Platonov , VP of Strategy Xinnor

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

3:05 PM - 3:55 PM

Why should we have yet another Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor for SSDs?

Anthony Constantine , Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Micron Technology

AI / ML

3:05 PM - 3:55 PM

Storage Implications for the New Generation of AI Applications

CJ Newburn , Distinguished Engineer NVIDIA

Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Senior Research Scientist NVIDIA

Cloud Storage

3:05 PM - 3:30 PM

Report from September ‘25 Cloud Object Storage Plugfest (community driven S3 compatibility testing)

Jeff Terrace , Senior Staff Software Engineer Google

Frank Borich , Principal Engineer IBM

Cloud Storage

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM

SNIA Cloud Object Storage Test Tools - Foundation for Heterogeneous Multi-Vendor Interoperability

Adam Gray , Principal Software Engineer -- Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools Provisional TWG Chair IBM -- SNIA

Michael Hoard , Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community SNIA

File Systems & Protocols

3:05 PM - 3:55 PM

Eliminating NTLM in Storage: Modernizing SMB Authentication on Windows

Mariam Gewida , Product Manager Microsoft

Tanmay Pydisetti , Software Engineer Microsoft

Emerging Technologies

4:05 PM - 4:30 PM

OCP Storage Project Update

Ross Stenfort , Hardware Systems Engineer Meta

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

4:30 PM - 4:55 PM

Fibre Channel Update - What you need to know about the Dawn of 256GFC (Gen 9)

Howard Johnson , Technology Architect -- Chair Broadcom -- INCITS/Fibre Channel Technical Committee

Mark Jones , Director of Technical Marketing -- Chair Broadcom -- Fibre Channel Industry Association

AI / ML

4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Towards Building Flexible, Efficient and Resilient Training with Adaptive Checkpointing on AMD GPU Platforms

Pratik Mishra , Senior Staff - Research AMD

Cloud Storage

4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Accelerating Object Storage for AI/ML with S3 RDMA

Jason Goldschmidt , Member of Technical Staff Dell Technologies

File Systems & Protocols

4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Activating Untapped Tier 0 Storage Within Your GPU- and CPU-based Compute Clusters

Floyd Christofferson , VP Product Marketing Hammerspace

Cloud Storage

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Cloud Storage Considerations for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in AI Applications

Scott Hoag , Principal Product Manager Microsoft

AI / ML

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Discussion and Analysis of the MLPerf Storage Benchmark Suite and AI Storage Workloads

Wesley Vaske , SMTS, Storage Solutions Architect Micron Technology

Emerging Technologies

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Chiplets, UCIe, Persistent Memory, and Heterogeneous Integration: The Processor Chip of the Future!

Jim Handy , General Director Objective Analysis

Tom Coughlin , President Coughlin Associates

File Systems & Protocols

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

Famfs: Get Ready for Big Pools of Disaggregated Shared Memory

John Groves , Technical Director Micron Technology

Cloud Storage

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Blending Objects and Files in Google Cloud Storage

Jeff Terrace , Senior Staff Software Engineer Google

Hsiu-Fan Wang , Senior Staff Software Engineer Google

AI / ML

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Assessing AI Storage Communication Performance At Scale

Cliff Tavares , Senior Director Engineering Keysight Technologies

Venkat Pullela , Chief Technologist, Networking, USA Keysight Technologies

Emerging Technologies

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Data-Intensive Inference Done Better: Scaling Models and RAG in Limited Memory with SSD Offload

Ace Stryker , Director of Market Development Solidigm

File Systems & Protocols

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Scaling Secure File Access - what's New in Linux SMB3.1.1: Performance, Security, and Beyond

Steven French , Principal Software Engineer Microsoft

Cloud Storage

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

CSAL with Core Scaling for RAID5F: Revolutionizing Cloud Storage Performance and Reliability

Mariusz Barczak , Principal Engineer - Storage Software Architect Solidigm

AI / ML

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Beyond Throughput: Benchmarking Storage for the Complex I/O Patterns of AI with MLPerf Storage and DLIO

Huihuo Zheng , Computer Scientist Argonne National Laboratory

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Towards Unified Knowledge Platforms: Evolving Storage Systems for Generative and Agentic AI

Annmary Justine Koomthanam , Senior Research Engineer HPE

Srikant Varadan , Distinguished Technologist HPE

File Systems & Protocols

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM

Always-On Diagnostics: eBPF-Powered Insights for Linux SMB and NFS Clients

Meetakshi Setiya , Software Engineer Microsoft

Cloud Storage

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

RGW: The Extensible, Retargetable, Scriptable S3 (and Swift!) Gateway of Ceph Object Storage

Daniel Gryniewicz , EnSoftware Development Manager, Object Storage IBM

Yuval Lifshitz , Senior Technical Staff Member, Israel IBM

AI / ML

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

Gen6 is coming, but what is Needed from NV Storage?

Suresh Rajgopal , SSD Systems Architect - DMTS Micron Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

Global Distributed Client-side Caching for HPC/AI Storage Systems

Clarete Crasta , Principal Engineer HPE

David Emberson , Senior Distinguished Technologis HPE

File Systems & Protocols

11:35 AM - 12:25 PM

New Transports in Samba: QUIC and SMB-Direct Support

Stefan Metzmacher , Software Architect SerNet

Cloud Storage

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Modern Data Management at Exabyte Scale — With Visibility, Efficiency, and Control

Akshay Agrawal , Principal Product Manager Microsoft

Preethi Thippeswamy , Product Manager Microsoft

AI / ML

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Demystifying Data Flows During LLM Training

William Lynn , Fellow AMD

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

HDD Innovation for Hyperscale: CDLs, SMR, Depop and SCSI Advancements in Linux

Damien Le Moal , Distinguished Engineer Western Digital

Rick Kutcipal , At-Large Director, Board of Directors SNIA SCSI Trade Association (STA)

File Systems & Protocols

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Samba 2025: Enterprise-Ready, Cloud-Optimized

Ralph Böhme , Software Engineer SerNet Samba Team

Cloud Storage

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

CDMI 3.0: Standardized Management of any URI-accessible Resource

David Slik , Scientist Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

AI / ML

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Optimizing Hyperscale Flash Storage: Innovations in large-capacity QLC, Host-Based FTL, Configurable Indirection Unit and Application-Optimized Data Placement

Joshua Freilich , Principal Engineer Pure Storage

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

SMR and HAMR Advancing HDD Areal Density

Babar Khan , AI Engineer and PhD Candidate Independent

File Systems & Protocols

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Recent Updates to the Grand Unified File Index Toolset

Jason Lee , Scientist Los Alamos National Laboratory

Cloud Storage

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

War Stories from the Storage Trenches: Moving Data Across NFS, SMB, and S3

Carl D'Halluin , CTO Datadobi

AI / ML

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

AI Driven Mass-Storage Evolution

Mohamad EL-Batal , Chief Technologist of Cloud Storage Systems Seagate Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Drive Regeneration in Action: Enhancing Fault Tolerance in Datacenters

Curtis Stevens , Strategist Seagate Technology

Dave Craton , Senior Staff Product Manager Seagate Techology

Management

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

What’s New with SNIA Swordfish®: Standards-Based Storage Management for Enterprise and Data Center

Richelle Ahlvers , SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives Intel

Emerging Technologies

4:35 PM - 5:25 PM

Media Objectives for Next-Generation Video Games

John Carlsen , Principal Syncopated Systems

AI / ML

4:35 PM - 5:25 PM

Enhancing Defect Triaging in Storage Systems Using Generative AI from Integration Test-Based Knowledge Graphs

Nuthan Prasad B N , Expert HPE

Dhishankar Sengupta , Distinguished Technologist, USA HPE

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

4:35 PM - 5:25 PM

Command Duration Limits - Improving IOPS per TB in HDDs

David Landsman , Distinguished Engineer Western Digital

Damien Le Moal , Distinguished Engineer Western Digital

Management

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM

The Latest Features in DMTF Redfish® for Storage Management

Jeff Hilland , President / SPDM WG Co-chair; Distinguished Technologist HPE

Management

5:00 PM - 5:25 PM

OFA Sunfish: New Applications for Distributed Storage with SNIA Swordfish®

Nathan Hanford , Computer Scientist Livermore Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory