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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Steffen Hellmold

President,

Cerabyte

Steffen Hellmold is the President of Cerabyte, Inc. He is responsible for driving business development efforts, scaling up the customer and partner ecosystem, leading industry and marketing engagements, and providing industry thought leadership. Steffen has more than 25 years of industry experience in product, technology, business & corporate development as well as strategy roles. He served as Senior Vice President, Business Development, Data Storage at Twist Bioscience and held executive management positions at Western Digital, Everspin, SandForce, Seagate Technology, Lexar Media/Micron, Samsung Semiconductor, SMART Modular and Fujitsu. He has been deeply engaged in various industry trade associations and standards organizations, including co-founding the DNA Data Storage Alliance in 2020 and the USB Flash Drive Alliance, where he served as president from 2003 to 2007. He holds an Economic Electrical Engineering degree (EEE) from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Birds-of-a-Feather

Toward an ISO Standard for an Open Long-Term Storage Framework TV
Steffen Hellmold
Steffen Hellmold
Cerabyte

Toward an ISO Standard for an Open Long-Term Storage Framework TV

Submitted by brooke.candelaria on

The arrival of true permanent and long-term storage technologies brings a new challenge: ensuring that the data we preserve today remains retrievable and meaningful in the distant future. What must a future IT expert know in order to independently access and interpret data stored on today’s long-term media? This session will launch a multidisciplinary discussion aimed at answering that question, with the ultimate goal of developing a new international standard for digital preservation.

Panel Discussion: DNA Data Storage - Preserving Our Digital Legacy

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Today, information is being digitized on a massive scale, by servers in datacenters, by mobile devices, and by networks of sensors everywhere around us. Artificial intelligence techniques and ubiquitous processing power are making it possible to mine this massive ocean of data; however, integral to harnessing this data as knowledge is the ability to store it for long periods of time.

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