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

Sessions 2025

Conference Sessions
Modeling & Simulation
"State of the HPC-AI Market" -- Highlights from End-User Research on Technology Gaps for HPC and AI
Addison Snell

Addison Snell

CEO

Intersect360 Research

AI/ML
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

Anthony Constantine

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Micron Technology

Cloud Storage
Accelerating Object Storage for AI/ML with S3 RDMA
Jason Goldschmidt

Jason Goldschmidt

Member of Technical Staff

Dell Technologies

Sustainability & Green
Advancing the AI Factory Sustainability
Chih-Tsung Huang

Chih-Tsung Huang

Senior Director

Cisco

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Wei-Jen Huang

Distinguished Engineer

Cisco

Magic Memory
Advantages of CXL Memory Pooling and Tiering
Anil Godbole

Anil Godbole

MWG Co-Chair

CXL Consortium

AI/ML
AI Driven Mass-Storage Evolution

Mohamad EL-Batal

Chief Technologist of Cloud Storage Systems

Seagate Technology

File Systems & Protocols
Always-On Diagnostics: eBPF-Powered Insights for Linux SMB and NFS Clients
Meetakshi Setiya

Meetakshi Setiya

Software Engineer

Microsoft

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Are we Chasing a Mirage with SMR Disks?
Babar Khan

Babar Khan

AI Engineer and PhD Candidate

Independent

AI/ML
Assessing AI Storage Communication Performance At Scale
Cliff Tavares

Cliff Tavares

Senior Director Engineering

Keysight Technologies

Venkat Pullela

Venkat Pullela

Chief Technologist, Networking, USA

Keysight Technologies

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

Huihuo Zheng

Computer Scientist

Argonne National Laboratory

Cloud Storage
Blending Objects and Files in Google Cloud Storage
Jeff Terrace

Jeff Terrace

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google

Jim Pinkerton

Jim Pinkerton

Principal Engineer

Google

Magic Memory
Can SDXI work with NVMe?
Jason Molgaard

Jason Molgaard

Principal Storage Solutions Architect

Solidigm

Cloud Storage
CDMI 3.0: Standardized Management of any URI-accessible Resource
David Slik

David Slik

Scientist

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

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

Jim Handy

General Director

Objective Analysis

Tom Coughlin

Tom Coughlin

President

Coughlin Associates

File Systems & Protocols
Choosing Your AI Storage Protocol: A Deep Dive into SMB and NFS Performance, Tuning, and Overhead
Sergei Platonov

Sergei Platonov

VP of Strategy

Xinnor

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

Scott Hoag

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Command Duration Limits - Improving IOPS per TB in HDDs
Landsman Dave

David Landsman

Distinguished Engineer

Western Digital

Damien Le Moal

Damien Le Moal

Distinguished Engineer

Western Digital

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

Mariusz Barczak

Principal Engineer - Storage Software Architect

Solidigm

Magic Memory
CXL Ecosystem Innovation Leveraging QEMU-based Emulation
Anisa Su

Anisa Su

Associate Engineer

Samsung

Adam Manzanares

Adam Manzanares

Director

Samsung

Magic Memory
CXL Memory in Windows
Lee

Scott Lee

Principal Software Engineer Lead

Microsoft

Chet Douglas

Chet Douglas

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

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

Ace Stryker

Director of Market Development

Solidigm

AI/ML
Demystifying Data Flows During LLM Training
William Lynn

William Lynn

Fellow

AMD

Modeling & Simulation
Design Specification and AI-Driven Digital Twin Architecture for Storage Devices
Hemant Gaikwad

Hemant Gaikwad

Technical Staff

Dell Technologies

Rahul Vishwakarma

Rahul Vishwakarma

CTO

WorkOnward

AI/ML
Disaggregated KV Storage: A New Tier for Efficient Scalable LLM Inference
Eshcar Hillel

Eshcar Hillel

Principal Research Scientist

Pliops

AI/ML
Discussion and Analysis of the MLPerf Storage Benchmark Suite and AI Storage Workloads
Wesley Vaske

Wesley Vaske

SMTS, Storage Solutions Architect

Micron Technology

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

Nilesh Shah

VP Business Development

ZeroPoint Technologies

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Drive Regeneration in Action: Enhancing Fault Tolerance in Datacenters
Curtis

Curtis Stevens

Strategist

Seagate Technology

Dave Craton

Dave Craton

Senior Staff Product Manager

Seagate Techology

File Systems & Protocols
Eliminating NTLM in Storage: Modernizing SMB Authentication on Windows
Gewida

Mariam Gewida

Product Manager

Microsoft

Tanmay Pydisetti

Tanmay Pydisetti

Software Engineer

Microsoft

Data Security
Emerging Trends in Automotive Fabrics and Data Security
Bill Gervasi

Bill Gervasi

Principal Memory Solutions Architect

MPS

Zhao

Junjian Zhao

Technical Marketing & Apps Engineering

MPS

AI/ML
Enhancing Defect Triaging in Storage Systems Using Generative AI from Integration Test-Based Knowledge Graphs
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Nuthan Prasad B N

Expert

HPE

Dhishankar Sengupta

Dhishankar Sengupta

Distinguished Technologist, USA

HPE

Magic Memory
Famfs: Get Ready for Big Pools of Disaggregated Shared Memory
John Groves

John Groves

Technical Director

Micron Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Fibre Channel Update - What you need to know about the dawn of 256GFC (Gen 9)
Howard Johnson

Howard Johnson

Technology Architect
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Chair

Broadcom
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INCITS/Fibre Channel Technical Committee

Mark Jones

Director of Technical Marketing
--
Chair

Broadcom
--
Fibre Channel Industry Association

AI/ML
Gen6 is coming, but what is needed from NV Storage?
Suresh Rajgopal

Suresh Rajgopal

SSD Systems Architect - DMTS

Micron Technology

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Global Distributed Client-side Caching for HPC/AI storage systems
Clarete Crasta

Clarete Crasta

Principal Engineer

HPE

David Emberson

David Emberson

Senior Distinguished Technologis

HPE

Cloud Storage
HDD Innovation for Hyperscale: CDLs, SMR, Depop and SCSI Advancements in Linux
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
Highly scalable, masterless, distributed filesystem at Rubrik
Abhinav Agarwal

Abhinav Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer

Rubrik

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Avishek Ganguli

Senior Software Engineer

Rubrik

Computational Storage
Host Addressing of NVMe Subsystem Local Memory
Jason Molgaard

Jason Molgaard

Principal Storage Solutions Architect

Solidigm

Solid State Storage Solutions
Host Management of NVM Express™ Exported NVM Subsystems in PCIe™ SSDs
Allison Mike

Mike Allison

Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards

Samsung

Prewitt Lee

Lee Prewitt

Director of Cloud Hardware Storage

Microsoft

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

Vivek Kohli

Product Management

Self Employed

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Rajeev Angal

Architect, Senior Director Cybersecurity

Self Employed

Computational Storage
Integrating Computational Storage Devices into Storage Software Stacks
Brian Atkinson

Brian Atkinson

Scientist

Los Alamos National Laboratory

AI/ML
KV-Cache Storage Offloading for Efficient Inference in LLMs
Ugur Kaynar

Ugur Kaynar

Technical Staff

Dell Technologies

Keynote
MAINSTAGE "Industry Visionary" Presentation: Maximizing the Benefits of QLC Flash with Pure's Hyperscale Solution for Applications Ranging from AI/ML to HDD Displacement
Riley Thomasson

Riley Thomasson

Member of Technical Staff

Pure Storage

Cloud Storage
Modern Data Management at Exabyte Scale— With Visibility, Efficiency, and Control
Akshay Agrawal

Akshay Agrawal

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Preethi Thippeswamy

Product Manager

Microsoft

Data Security
New Developments in Data Security Algorithms
Paul Suhler

Paul Suhler

Principal Engineer, SSD Standards
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Security in Storage Working Group Chair

KIOXIA
--
IEEE

File Systems & Protocols
New Transports in Samba: QUIC and SMB-Direct Support
Stefan Metzmacher

Stefan Metzmacher

Software Architect

SerNet

Emerging Technologies
OCP Storage Project Update
Ross Stenfort

Ross Stenfort

Hardware Systems Engineer

Meta

Prewitt Lee

Lee Prewitt

Director of Cloud Hardware Storage

Microsoft

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

Nathan Hanford

Computer Scientist

Livermore Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

File Systems & Protocols
Open Flash Platform: An Initiative for Open, Highly Efficient AI Storage
David Flynn

David Flynn

CEO, Co-Founder

Hammerspace

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

Joshua Freilich

Principal Engineer

Pure Storage

Sustainability & Green
Panel: Driving Sustainability in Datacenters – Standardizing Carbon Assessment Methodologies
Shruti Sethi

Shruti Sethi

Senior PM

Microsoft

Computational Storage
Pushdown Analytics on pNFS: Enabling Efficient Scientific Insight with Open Tools
Qing Zheng

Qing Zheng

Scientist

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

Gary Smerdon

Founder and CEO

MEXT

Management
Recent Updates to the Grand Unified File Index Toolset
Jason Lee

Jason Lee

Scientist

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sustainability & Green
Redefining Storage for a Sustainable Future: The IBM FlashSystem Blueprint
Aakanksha Mathur

Aakanksha Mathur

Senior Staff Software Engineer

IBM ISDL

Soni

Bharti Soni

Senior Staff Software Engineer

IBM ISDL

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

Jeff Terrace

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google

Frank Borich

Frank Borich

Principal Engineer

IBM

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

Sathish Kumar M

Associate Technical Director

Samsung Semiconductor India Research

Cloud Storage
RGW: The extensible, retargetable, scriptable S3 (and Swift!) gateway of Ceph Object Storage
Daniel Gryniewicz

Daniel Gryniewicz

EnSoftware Development Manager, Object Storage

IBM

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Yuval Lifshitz

Senior Technical Staff Member, Israel

IBM

File Systems & Protocols
Samba 2025: Enterprise-Ready, Cloud-Optimized
Ralph Böhme

Ralph Böhme

Software Engineer

SerNet Samba Team

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

Piotr Modrzyk

Principal Architect

Leil Storage

AI/ML
Scaling RAG with NVME: DISKANN's Hybrid Approach to Vector Databases Indexing
Alessandro Goncalves

Alessandro Goncalves

Solutions Architect

Solidigm

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

Steven French

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Modeling & Simulation
Simulating CXL.mem for Fun and Profit
Khaled Diab

Khaled Diab

Senior Researcher

HPE

AI/ML
Small Granularity Graph Neural Network Training and the Future of Storage
John Mazzie

John Mazzie

MTS, Systems Performance Engineer

Micron Technology

Modeling & Simulation
Smarter Cloud Storage—Optimizing Costs with Tiering and Automation
Shruti Sethi

Shruti Sethi

Senior PM

Microsoft

n

Vignesh Shanbhag

PM

Microsoft

Keynote
SNIA and OCP - Driving Open Storage and Networking
James Kelly

James Kelly

VP Market Intelligence and Innovation

OCP Foundation

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

Adam Gray

Principal Software Engineer
--
Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools Provisional TWG Chair

IBM
--
SNIA

Michael Hoard

Michael Hoard

Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community

SNIA

Sustainability & Green
SNIA Emerald Update for V1.0 Device and V5.0 System Specifications
Wayne Adams

Wayne Adams

SNIA Chairman Emeritus

Industry Advisor

Magic Memory
SNIA SDXI v1.1 Data Movement Accelerator Interface Update
Moyes

William Moyes

Fellow

AMD

Shyam Iyer

Shyam Iyer

Distinguished Engineer
--
Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair

Dell Technologies
--
SNIA

Data Security
SPDM PQC & Authorization
Jeff Hilland

Jeff Hilland

Distinguished Technologist -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair

HPE

Brett Henning

Brett Henning

Security Architect
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President / SPDM WG Co-chair

Broadcom
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DMTF

Solid State Storage Solutions
Sprandom - A fast method to reduce the random preconditioning time of SSDs from days to hours.
Sprouse

Steven Sprouse

Distinguished Engineer

SanDisk

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
SSD Virtualization: Enabling New Possibilities for SSD-Based Ecosystems
Daniel Helmick

Daniel Helmick

Principal Architect

Samsung

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

Steven Wells

Retired

Self

Curtis Ballard

Curtis Ballard, Mohamad EL-Batal, Madhavan Ravi, Currie Munce

Hardware Systems Engineer

Meta

AI/ML
Storage Devices for the AI Data Center
Erich Haratsch

Erich Haratsch

Senior Director

Marvell

AI/ML
Storage for AI 102, A Further Perspective on Storage use in AI Workflows
Curtis Ballard

Curtis Ballard

Strategist, Technology Enablement
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Technical Counci

HPE
--
SNIA

AI/ML
Storage for AI in Public Clouds: Case Study of Vela in IBM Cloud
Vasily Tarasov

Vasily Tarasov

Principal Research Scientist

IBM

AI/ML
Storage Implications for the New Generation of AI Applications
Newburn

CJ Newburn

Distinguished Engineer

NVIDIA

n

Vikram Sharma Mailthody

Senior Research Scientist

NVIDIA

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Storage Multi-Queue on Windows - A New Stack for High Performance Storage Hardware
Lee

Scott Lee

Principal Software Engineer Lead

Microsoft

Bromberger

Jeff Bromberger

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

File Systems & Protocols
Taming the Multi-Protocol Jungle: Unifying File and Object Access in Modern Data Workflows
Erez Zilber

Erez Zilber

SW Architect

VAST Data

Management
The Latest Features in DMTF Redfish® for Storage Management
Jeff Hilland

Jeff Hilland

Distinguished Technologist -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair

HPE

Modeling & Simulation
Total Cost and Performance Analysis of SSDs in AI Data Centers

Andy Banta

Storage Janitor

Magnition IO

scott

Scott Shadley

Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist

Solidigm

AI/ML
Towards building flexible, efficient and resilient training with adaptive checkpointing on AMD GPU platforms.
Pratik Mishra

Pratik Mishra

Senior Staff - Research

AMD

Magic Memory
Towards memory efficient RAG pipelines with CXL technology
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
Towards Unified Knowledge Platforms: Evolving Storage Systems for Generative and Agentic AI
Annmary Justine Koomthanam

Annmary Justine Koomthanam

Senior Research Engineer

HPE

Srikant Varadhan

Srikant Varadhan

Distinguished Technologist

HPE

File Systems & Protocols
Unlocking Next-Level Linux Desktop Integration: SMB3.1.1 POSIX Extensions in GNOME
Volker Lendecke

Volker Lendecke

Developer
--
Developer

SerNet GmbH
--
Samba Team

File Systems & Protocols
War Stories from the Storage Trenches: Moving Data Across NFS, SMB, and S3
Carl D'Halluin

Carl D'Halluin

CTO

Datadobi

Management
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
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Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives

SNIA
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Intel

Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Why are we doing EDSFF E2?
Anthony Constantine

Anthony Constantine

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Micron Technology

AI/ML
Why does NVMe need to evolve for efficient storage access from GPUs?
Chandra Guda

Chandra Guda

SSD Systems Architect - SMTS

Micron Technology

Suresh Rajgopal

Suresh Rajgopal

SSD Systems Architect - DMTS

Micron Technology

File Systems & Protocols
Zoned XFS: Transparent and Efficient Zoned Storage Support For Scalable Storage Systems
Christoph Hellwig

Christoph Hellwig

Kernel Hacker

[N/A]

Damien Le Moal

Damien Le Moal

Distinguished Engineer

Western Digital

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