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

Sessions 2025

Conference Sessions

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm

Anthony Constantine

Anthony Constantine

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Micron Technology

Mike Allison

Mike Allison

Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards

Samsung

Paul Coddington

Paul Coddington

Principal Storage Solutions Architect

Solidigm

John Geldman

John Geldman

SSD IO Standards

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Cloud Storage

Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm

Jason Goldschmidt

Jason Goldschmidt

Member of Technical Staff,

Dell Technologies

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm

Floyd Christofferson

Floyd Christofferson

VP Product Marketing

Hammerspace

Sustainability & Green

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am

Chih-Tsung Huang

Chih-Tsung Huang

Senior Director,

Cisco

Wei-Jen Huang

Wei-Jen Huang

Distinguished Engineer,

Cisco

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm

Anil Godbole

Anil Godbole

MWG Co-Chair

CXL Consortium

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm

Mohamad EL-Batal

Mohamad EL-Batal

Chief Technologist of Cloud Storage Systems

Seagate Technology

File Systems & Protocols

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am

Meetakshi Setiya

Meetakshi Setiya

Software Engineer,

Microsoft

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am

Cliff Tavares

Cliff Tavares

Senior Director Engineering

Keysight Technologies

Venkat Pullela

Venkat Pullela

Chief Technologist, Networking, USA

Keysight Technologies

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am

Huihuo Zheng

Huihuo Zheng

Computer Scientist,

Argonne National Laboratory

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am

Jeff Terrace

Jeff Terrace

Senior Staff Software Engineer,

Google

Hsiu-Fan Wang

Hsiu-Fan Wang

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 2:25pm

Jason Molgaard

Jason Molgaard

Principal Storage Solutions Architect,

Solidigm

Shyam Iyer

Shyam Iyer

Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair

Dell Technologies -- SNIA

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm

David Slik

David Slik

Scientist,

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

Emerging Technologies

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am

Jim Handy

Jim Handy

General Director,

Objective Analysis

Tom Coughlin

Tom Coughlin

President

Coughlin Associates

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm

Sergei Platonov

Sergei Platonov

VP of Strategy,

Xinnor

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am

Scott Hoag

Scott Hoag

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am

David Landsman

David Landsman

Distinguished Engineer,

Western Digital

Damien Le Moal

Damien Le Moal

Distinguished Engineer,

Western Digital

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm

Pramod Peethambaran

Pramod Peethambaran

Director of Engineering

Samsung

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am

Mariusz Barczak

Mariusz Barczak

Principal Engineer - Storage Software Architect

Solidigm

Modeling & Simulation

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm

Anisa Su

Anisa Su

Associate Engineer,

Samsung

Adam Manzanares

Adam Manzanares

Director

Samsung

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm

Chet Douglas

Chet Douglas

Principal Software Engineer,

Microsoft

Scott Lee

Scott Lee

Principal Software Engineer Lead,

Microsoft

Emerging Technologies

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am

Ace Stryker

Ace Stryker

Director of Market Development,

Solidigm

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm

William Lynn

William Lynn

Fellow,

AMD

Modeling & Simulation

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm

Hemant Gaikwad

Hemant Gaikwad

Technical Staff

Dell Technologies

Rahul Vishwakarma

Rahul Vishwakarma

CTO

WorkOnward

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am

Eshcar Hillel

Eshcar Hillel

Principal Research Scientist,

Pliops

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am

Wesley Vaske

Wesley Vaske

SMTS, Storage Solutions Architect,

Micron Technology

Magic Memory

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am

Nilesh Shah

Nilesh Shah

VP Business Development

ZeroPoint Technologies

Jungmin Choi

Jungmin Choi

Director of Memory Systems

Sk Hynix

Vikas Chaudhary

Vikas Chaudhary

VP & GM

MaxLinear

Nilesh Gharia

Nilesh Gharia

Founder & CTO

Numem

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am

Curtis Stevens

Curtis Stevens

Strategist,

Seagate Technology

Dave Craton

Dave Craton

Senior Staff Product Manager

Seagate Techology

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm

Mariam Gewida

Mariam Gewida

Product Manager,

Microsoft

Tanmay Pydisetti

Tanmay Pydisetti

Software Engineer

Microsoft

Data Security

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm

Bill Gervasi

Bill Gervasi

Principal Memory Solutions Architect

MPS

Junjian Zhao

Junjian Zhao

Technical Marketing & Apps Engineering

MPS

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm

Nuthan Prasad B N

Nuthan Prasad B N

Expert

HPE

Dhishankar Sengupta

Dhishankar Sengupta

Distinguished Technologist, USA

HPE

File Systems & Protocols

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am

John Groves

John Groves

Technical Director,

Micron Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 4:30pm

Howard Johnson

Howard Johnson

Technology Architect -- Chair

Broadcom -- INCITS/Fibre Channel Technical Committee

Mark Jones

Mark Jones

Director of Technical Marketing -- Chair

Broadcom -- Fibre Channel Industry Association

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am

Suresh Rajgopal

Suresh Rajgopal

SSD Systems Architect - DMTS

Micron Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am

Clarete Crasta

Clarete Crasta

Principal Engineer,

HPE

David Emberson

David Emberson

Senior Distinguished Technologis

HPE

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am

Damien Le Moal

Damien Le Moal

Distinguished Engineer,

Western Digital

Rick Kutcipal

Rick Kutcipal

At-Large Director, Board of Directors

SNIA SCSI Trade Association (STA)

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm

Abhinav Agarwal

Abhinav Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer,

Rubrik

Avishek Ganguli

Avishek Ganguli

Senior Software Engineer

Rubrik

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 5:00pm

Jason Molgaard

Jason Molgaard

Principal Storage Solutions Architect,

Solidigm

Solid State Storage Solutions

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am

Mike Allison

Mike Allison

Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards

Samsung

Lee Prewitt

Lee Prewitt

Director of Cloud Hardware Storage

Microsoft

Data Security

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm

Vivek Kohli

Vivek Kohli

Product Management

Self Employed

Rajeev Angal

Rajeev Angal

Architect, Senior Director Cybersecurity

Self Employed

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm

Ugur Kaynar

Ugur Kaynar

Technical Staff,

Dell Technologies

Keynote

Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 10:20am

Riley Thomasson

Riley Thomasson

Member of Technical Staff,

Pure Storage

Emerging Technologies

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm

John Carlsen

John Carlsen

Principal

Syncopated Systems

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm

Akshay Agrawal

Akshay Agrawal

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Preethi Thippeswamy

Preethi Thippeswamy

Product Manager

Microsoft

Solid State Storage Solutions

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am

Swati Chawdhary

Swati Chawdhary

Senior Manager

Samsung

Data Security

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm

Paul Suhler

Paul Suhler

Principal Engineer, SSD Standards, KIOXIA; Security in Storage Working Group Chair,

IEEE

File Systems & Protocols

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am

Stefan Metzmacher

Stefan Metzmacher

Software Architect,

SerNet

Emerging Technologies

San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm

Ross Stenfort

Ross Stenfort

Hardware Systems Engineer

Meta

Management

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 5:00pm

Nathan Hanford

Nathan Hanford

Computer Scientist,

Livermore Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm

David Flynn

David Flynn

CEO, Co-Founder

Hammerspace

Sustainability & Green

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am

Shruti Sethi

Shruti Sethi

Senior PM,

Microsoft

Ines Sousa

Ines Sousa

Senior Sustainability Industry Advisor

Microsoft

Bahar Riazi

Bahar Riazi

Technical Program Manager - Net Zero

Google

Alan Deng

Alan Deng

Senior Supply Engagement Manager - Net Zero

Google

Lisa Rivalin

Lisa Rivalin

Staff System Engineer, AI Fleet - Sustainability

Meta

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm

Gary Smerdon

Gary Smerdon

Founder and CEO,

MEXT

File Systems & Protocols

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm

Jason Lee

Jason Lee

Scientist,

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm

Jeff Terrace

Jeff Terrace

Senior Staff Software Engineer,

Google

Frank Borich

Frank Borich

Principal Engineer

IBM

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am

Sathish Kumar M

Sathish Kumar M

Associate Technical Director

Samsung Semiconductor India Research

Cloud Storage

Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am

Daniel Gryniewicz

Daniel Gryniewicz

EnSoftware Development Manager, Object Storage

IBM

Yuval Lifshitz

Yuval Lifshitz

Senior Technical Staff Member, Israel

IBM

File Systems & Protocols

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm

Ralph Böhme

Ralph Böhme

Software Engineer,

SerNet Samba Team

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm

Piotr Modrzyk

Piotr Modrzyk

Principal Architect

Leil Storage

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm

Alessandro Goncalves

Alessandro Goncalves

Solutions Architect

Solidigm

File Systems & Protocols

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am

Steven French

Steven French

Principal Software Engineer,

Microsoft

Modeling & Simulation

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm

Khaled Diab

Khaled Diab

Senior Researcher

HPE

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm

John Mazzie

John Mazzie

MTS, Systems Performance Engineer

Micron Technology

Modeling & Simulation

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm

Shruti Sethi

Shruti Sethi

Senior PM,

Microsoft

Vignesh Shanbhag

Vignesh Shanbhag

PM

Microsoft

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am

Babar Khan

Babar Khan

AI Engineer and PhD Candidate

Independent

Keynote

Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 11:00am

James Kelly

James Kelly

VP Market Intelligence and Innovation

OCP Foundation

Cloud Storage

Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 3:30pm

Adam Gray

Adam Gray

Principal Software Engineer, IBM; Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools Provisional TWG Chair,

SNIA

Michael Hoard

Michael Hoard

Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community

SNIA

Sustainability & Green

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am

Wayne Adams

Wayne Adams

SNIA Chairman Emeritus,

Industry Advisor

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm

William Moyes

William Moyes

Fellow

AMD

Shyam Iyer

Shyam Iyer

Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair

Dell Technologies -- SNIA

Data Security

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm

Jeff Hilland

Jeff Hilland

President / SPDM WG Co-chair; Distinguished Technologist,

HPE

Brett Henning

Brett Henning

Security Architect -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair

Broadcom -- DMTF

Solid State Storage Solutions

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am

Steven Sprouse

Steven Sprouse

Distinguished Engineer

SanDisk

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm

Daniel Helmick

Daniel Helmick

Principal Architect

Samsung

Keynote

Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 8:45am

Addison Snell

Addison Snell

CEO,

Intersect360 Research

Keynote

Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 9:25am

Steven Wells

Steven Wells

Retired,

Self

Curtis Ballard

Curtis Ballard

Technical Council, SNIA; Strategist, Technology Enablement

HPE

Mohamad EL-Batal

Mohamad EL-Batal

Chief Technologist of Cloud Storage Systems

Seagate Technology

Madhavan Ravi

Madhavan Ravi

Hardware Systems Engineer

Meta

Currie Munce

Currie Munce

Senior Storage Strategist & Advisor

Micron Technology

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm

Erich Haratsch

Erich Haratsch

Senior Director,

Marvell

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am

Curtis Ballard

Curtis Ballard

Technical Council, SNIA; Strategist, Technology Enablement

HPE

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm

Vasily Tarasov

Vasily Tarasov

Principal Research Scientist,

IBM

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm

CJ Newburn

CJ Newburn

Distinguished Engineer

NVIDIA

Vikram Sharma Mailthody

Vikram Sharma Mailthody

Senior Research Scientist

NVIDIA

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm

Scott Lee

Scott Lee

Principal Software Engineer Lead,

Microsoft

Keynote

Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 11:30am

J Metz

J Metz

Chair of SNIA’s Board of Directors; Technical Director for Systems Design

AMD

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm

Erez Zilber

Erez Zilber

SW Architect,

VAST Data

Management

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm

Jeff Hilland

Jeff Hilland

President / SPDM WG Co-chair; Distinguished Technologist,

HPE

Modeling & Simulation

San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am

Andy Banta

Andy Banta

Storage Janitor

Magnition IO

Scott Shadley

Scott Shadley

Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist

Solidigm

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm

Pratik Mishra

Pratik Mishra

Senior Staff - Research,

AMD

Magic Memory

Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm

Arun George

Arun George

Associate Technical Director

Samsung Semiconductor India Research

Roshan Nair

Roshan Nair

Staff Engineer

Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am

Annmary Justine Koomthanam

Annmary Justine Koomthanam

Senior Research Engineer,

HPE

Srikant Varadan

Srikant Varadan

Distinguished Technologist

HPE

Cloud Storage

Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm

Carl D'Halluin

Carl D'Halluin

CTO,

Datadobi

Keynote

Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 8:30am

Scott Shadley

Scott Shadley

Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist

Solidigm

Management

Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm

Richelle Ahlvers

Richelle Ahlvers

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

Intel

AI / ML

Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am

Chandra Guda

Chandra Guda

SSD Systems Architect - SMTS,

Micron Technology

Suresh Rajgopal

Suresh Rajgopal

SSD Systems Architect - DMTS

Micron Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture

San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm

Anthony Constantine

Anthony Constantine

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Micron Technology

File Systems & Protocols

Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm

Christoph Hellwig

Christoph Hellwig

Kernel Hacker,

[N/A]

Damien Le Moal

Damien Le Moal

Distinguished Engineer,

Western Digital