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

Sessions 2023

Conference Sessions
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Update on Standards for Consuming DNA Data Storage Archives
Daniel Chadash
Principal Engineer
Emerging Technologies
Versity Gateway, an Open Source High Performance Object to File Translation Tool
Ben McClelland
VP of Strategy
NVM Express
libvfn: A Low-level NVMe Application and VFIO Driver Framework
Klaus Jensen
Staff Software Engineer
NVMe-oF
Booting over an NVMe/TCP Transport
Charlie Rose
Software Senior Principal Engineer
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Approximate DNA Storage with High Robustness and Density for Images
Bingzhe Li
VP of Strategy
DNA Data & Archival Storage
DNAe2c ECC for DNA Data Storage: 10x Improvement over RS Codes
Mario Montana
Chief Strategy and Alliance Officer
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Bit-to-DNA Writing Machines: a Microfluidic Platform and Future Data Center Operation Overview
Henrique Reis Wisinewski
Researcher
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Pantheon DNA Data Storage CODEC: Experiences, Challenges, and Innovations
André da Costa Martins
VP of Strategy
NVMe-oF
NVMe over Fabrics Security Update
Claudio DeSanti
VP of Strategy
NVM Express
xNVMe and io_uring NVMe Passthrough – What does it Mean for the SPDK NVMe Driver?
Simon Lund
Staff Software Engineer
Storage Resource Management
Implementing Out-of-Band Open Source Management using Swordfish
Jeremy Kerr
Principal & Software Developer
Storage Resource Management
Sunfish Open Source Management for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructures
Russ Herrell
Distinguished Technologist
Storage Resource Management
Survey of Redfish Open-source Reference Implementations
John Leung
Principal Engineer
NVM Express
NVM Express State of the Union – 2023 NVMe® Annual Update
Ross Stenfort
Hardware Systems Engineer
Emerging Technologies
Grokking Lossless Data Compression
Nilesh Shah
VP Business Development
Storage Resource Management
Comprehensive SNIA Swordfish® Overview
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Establishing Endurance and Data Retention Metrics in a DNA Data Storage System
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer
Computational Storage
Emulation framework for Computational Storage using QEMU, SPDK, and libvfio-user.
Abhishek Gupta
Senior Staff Engineer
Sustainability / Green
Sustainability Opportunities for Cloud Storage
Shruti Sethi
Senior PM
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Sharpening Our Pencil on Carbon Measurement and Reduction
Erik Riedel
VP of Strategy
Storage Performance / Workloads
Understanding Applications Through NVMe Driver Tracing Using BPF
John Mazzie
MTS, Systems Performance Engineer
Computational Storage
Leveraging Computational Storage for Simulation Science Storage System Design
Gary Grider
Leader, High Performance Computing (HPC) Division
Data Placement
Towards Large-scale Deployments with Zoned Namespace SSDs
Matias Bjørling
Director of Technology
SMB & NFS
Windows Protocol Test Suites: Architecture, Design, and Usage for Testing Protocol Implementations
Obaro Ogbo
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Networking
Enhancing Network Performance with RDMA on Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
Ajay Sharma
Senior Software Engineer
Computational Storage
Hardware-accelerated Data Integrity Check on a CSD
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Is SSD with CXL interfaces brilliantly stupid or stupidly brilliant?
Yang Seok Ki
Vice President
Cloud Storage
Massively Scalable Storage for Stateful Containers on Azure
Malcolm Smith
Software Engineering Manager
DPUs
Open Programmable Infrastructure Project Introduction: How we can Together Implement DPU/IPU Infrastructure Across all Vendors
Joseph White
Fellow
DPUs
Disaggregated Storage using OPI and Marvell Octeon DPUs
Satananda Burla
Technical Staff
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Long Term Preservation and Archive Storage
Shashidhar Joshi
Principal, Azure Storage Platform Planning
Storage Performance / Workloads
Benchmarking Storage with AI Workloads
Devasena Inupakutika
SSD IO Standards
Solid State Storage Solutions
Standardized Storage Telemetry for Secure Fleet Monitoring and Debug
Steven Wells
Retired
Solid State Storage Solutions
Does Gen6x4 Make Sense for SSDs Claiming 25W Due to Standard Form Factor Recommendations
Steven Wells
Retired
Storage Networking
Fibre Channel, what’s old is new again, 128GFC and beyond
Craig Carlson
Assistant Professor
Storage Networking
How Bad is TCP? (And What Are the Alternatives?)
Endric Schubert
Senior Software Engineer
DPUs
Open Programmable (OPI) Project’s DPU/IPU Related Demos of our PoC and Lab Efforts
Dan Daly
Senior Principal Engineer
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Software-Enabled Flash™ For Storage Developers
Eric Ries
SVP Memory and Storage Strategy Division
Cloud Storage
New Cloud Workloads’ Implications for Storage Media Futures
Swapna Yasarapu
Principal, Azure Storage Platform Planning
Storage Performance / Workloads
What 10 Years of Drive Stats Data Can Tell Us
Andrew Klein
Staff Software Engineer
Cloud Storage
Beyond S3 Compatibility Claims: A Deep Dive into Real-World Incompatibilities
Gregory Touretsky
Senior Director
DPUs
SPDK based IPU/DPU Storage Solutions
Naru Sundar
Lead Software Architect, Network Connectivity Group
Cloud Storage
The Authoritative Core Model: Design Patterns for Hybrid Multicloud and Edge-Core-Cloud Architectural Strategies
Glenn Dekhayser
VP of Strategy
Data Placement
Flexible Data Placement Open Source Ecosystem
Adam Manzanares
Director
Storage Architecture
Multi Queue Linux Block Device Drivers in Rust
Andreas Hindborg
Staff Engineer
Emerging Technologies
SoC Construction Using Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe): A Game Changer
Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards
Solid State Storage Solutions
Maximizing EDSFF E3 SSD design
Trent Johnson
SSD Hardware Architect
Cloud Storage
Data Management In The Hybrid Multi-cloud Era
Rakesh Jain
STSM and Researcher, SODA TOC Co-Chair
Magic Memory Access
SNIA SDXI Specification v1.0 and Beyond
Storage Architecture
SFF TA TWG Changes Coming to a Server Near You
Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
NVMe-oF
Breaking Boundaries: Expanding Ceph's Capabilities with NVMe-oF
Orit Wasserman
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Storage Architecture
PCIe® 7.0 Specification: 128 GT/s Bandwidth for Future Data-Intensive Markets
Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards
Storage Architecture
Software-Enabled Flash™ Capabilities and Demonstrations
Scott Stetzer
VP, speaking on behalf of the Software-Enabled Flash™ Project
Computational Storage
NVMe Computational Storage Standards
Kim Malone
Storage Software Architect
SMB & NFS
Reparse Points Current Status
Volker Lendecke
Developer
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Developer
Computational Storage
Standardizing Computational Storage
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
SMB & NFS
Standards-Based Parallel Global File Systems and Automated Data Orchestration with NFS
David Flynn
CEO, Co-Founder
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Storage in Space Enables and Accelerates Edge of the Edge Computing on the International Space Station (ISS)
Mark Fernandez
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
SMB & NFS
Samba io_uring Status Update
Stefan Metzmacher
Software Architect
Solid State Storage Solutions
Deep Dive and Comparison of NVMe RAID Solutions: Performance Analysis and Datapath Breakdown
Davide Villa
Chief Revenue Officer
Data Placement
Zones and The Art of Log Structured Storage
Hans Holmberg
Senior Technologist
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Ceramic Nano Memory – Data Storage for the Yottabyte Era
Christian Pflaum
VP of Strategy
Cloud Storage
Why Today’s Cloud & Hyperscale Storage Topologies use SAS: A Look Into Meta’s Grand Canyon
Rick Kutcipal
At-Large Director, Board of Directors
Global
Break
Global
SDC Networking Reception
Global
Birds of a Feather Sessions
Global
IO Lab Reception
Global
Break
AI / ML
Applying AI/ML Methodologies to Categorize Storage Workloads and Replaying them in Standard Test Environments
Dhishankar Sengupta
Distinguished Technologist, USA
Magic Memory Access
CXL Memory Disaggregation and Tiering: Lessons Learned from Storage
Andy Mills
Snr Director, Advanced Product Development
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Inside the Cloud: A Deep Dive into Cold Data Archiving
Vikranth Etikyala
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Global
Break
Global
Registration Open - Breakfast
Global
Lunch
Global
Break
Global
Lunch
Global
Break
Global
Registration Open - Breakfast
Global
Break
Global
Registration Open - Breakfast
Global
Break
Global
Registration Open - Breakfast
Data Security
TCG Storage Work Group Update
Chandra Nelogal
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Magic Memory Access
CXL: Advancing Coherent Connectivity
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
SMB & NFS
Advancing Access to Remote Files: Exploring Recent Enhancements to the Linux SMB3.1.1 Client
Steven French
Principal Software Engineer
Emerging Technologies
Introducing the Need for NFS-SSD the Ethernet Direct Attached SSD that Natively Speaks Network File System
David Flynn
CEO, Co-Founder
Sustainability / Green
AI's Environmental Storage Problem: Pioneering Architectures that Achieve a 90% Carbon Footprint Reduction
Damein Morgan
Senior Software Engineer
Emerging Technologies
KV-CSD: An Ordered, Hardware-Accelerated Key-Value Store For Rapid Data Insertion and Queries
Qing Zheng
Scientist
Magic Memory Access
CXL and the Art of Hierarchical Memories: Their Management and Use
Andy Banta
Storage Janitor
Data Security
SPDM 1.3 and Beyond
Chandra Nelogal
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Storage Architecture
Live Migration for PCIe SSDs
Dan Helmick
Principal Product Manager
Magic Memory Access
Fabric Attached Memory – Hardware and Software Architecture
David Emberson
Senior Distinguished Technologis
Magic Memory Access
Compute Express Link™ (CXL™): Enabling an interoperable ecosystem for heterogeneous memory and computing solutions
Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards
Data Security
Storage Security Update for Developers
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
SMB & NFS
net use //samba/cloud: Scaling Samba
Ralph Böhme
Software Engineer
Data Security
How to use an Encryption Key per IO
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Storage Architecture
Computational Storage Service: A Real-Time Smart Data Lake
Donpaul Stephens
Staff Engineer
Data Security
An Introduction to the IEEE Security in Storage Working Group
Paul Suhler
Principal Engineer, SSD Standards
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Security in Storage Working Group Chair
AI / ML
An AI Inference Engine for Object Storage Systems
Dan Pollack
CTO
Magic Memory Access
Riding the Long Tail of Optane’s Comet - Emerging Memories, CXL, UCIe, and More
Jim Handy
General Director
Data Placement
What is the NVM Express® Flexible Data Placement (FDP)?
Michael Allison
Sr. Director NAND Product Planning - Standards
Data Security
Data Immutability – Retention Locking/WORM
Sailu Yallapragada
Distinguished Engineer
AI / ML
In-SRAM Compute For Generative AI and Large Language Models
George Williams
Head of AI
Data Placement
Host Workloads Achieving WAF==1 in an FDP SSD
Dan Helmick
Principal Product Manager
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Welcome Remarks by J Metz
Data Security
Storage Sanitization - Why, When, and How
Paul Suhler
Principal Engineer, SSD Standards
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Security in Storage Working Group Chair
Cloud Storage
Re-thinking Security in a Distributed Storage System
Istvan Fajth
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Computational Storage
Programming with Computational Storage
Emerging Technologies
Overcoming SMBus limitations with I3C
Janusz Jurski
Platform Architect - Principal Engineer
DNA Data & Archival Storage
Cerabyte – Permanent Data Storage
Christian Pflaum
VP of Strategy
Birds-of-a-Feather
Alliance Partner Social Event/BoF
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
Birds-of-a-Feather
Flexible Data Placement - What, How, and Why
Bill Martin
SNIA Technical Council
Birds-of-a-Feather
What’s New with SAS Storage & SAS Plugfest
Rick Kutcipal
At-Large Director, Board of Directors
Birds-of-a-Feather
Software-Enabled Flash Deeper Dive
Scott Stetzer
VP, speaking on behalf of the Software-Enabled Flash™ Project
Birds-of-a-Feather
Swordfish Client-Vendor Meetup
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
Data Security
Build FIPS into Your Storage Products
Jeremy Allison
Engineer
Global
Lunch
Birds-of-a-Feather
Green, sustainable, long-term storage
SW Worth
Geek
Computational Storage
Envisioning a Computational Storage Architecture with an SDXI Data Mover: Early Efforts
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Birds-of-a-Feather
SFF TA evolution as seen from the Opinionated Experts
John Geldman
SSD IO Standards
Data Placement
Bridging the Gap Between Host Managed SMR Drives and Software-Defined Storage
Piotr Modrzyk
Principal Architect
Birds-of-a-Feather
Navigating S3 Compatibility Challenges: An Interactive BoF Discussion
Gregory Touretsky
Senior Director
Birds-of-a-Feather
What is happening with Computational Storage
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Magic Memory Access
Optimizing complex hierarchical memory systems through simulations
Andy Banta
Storage Janitor
Cloud Storage
New Developments in Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL), an FTL in SPDK
Kapil Karkra
Principal Engineer, Storage Software Architecture
Birds-of-a-Feather
Grokking Lossless Compression
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist
Computational Storage
TRUCKS KEEP RIGHT: Maximizing Efficiency with Fibre Channel Virtual Lanes
Nishant Lodha
Director of Emerging Technologies

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