Sessions 2025
AI / ML
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.
Cloud Storage
Jason Goldschmidt
Member of Technical Staff
Dell Technologies
Sustainability & Green
Chih-Tsung Huang
Senior Director
Cisco
Wei-Jen Huang
Distinguished Engineer
Cisco
AI / ML
Mohamad EL-Batal
Chief Technologist of Cloud Storage Systems
Seagate Technology
File Systems
Meetakshi Setiya
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Babar Khan
AI Engineer and PhD Candidate
Independent
AI / ML
Cliff Tavares
Senior Director Engineering
Keysight Technologies
Venkat Pullela
Chief Technologist, Networking, USA
Keysight Technologies
AI / ML
Huihuo Zheng
Computer Scientist
Argonne National Laboratory
Cloud Storage
Jeff Terrace
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Jim Pinkerton
Principal Engineer
Magic Memory
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Solidigm
Shyam Iyer
Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair
Dell Technologies -- SNIA
Cloud Storage
David Slik
Scientist
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Emerging Technologies
Jim Handy
General Director
Objective Analysis
Tom Coughlin
President
Coughlin Associates
File Systems
Sergei Platonov
VP of Strategy
Xinnor
Cloud Storage
Scott Hoag
Principal Product Manager
Microsoft
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer
Western Digital
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer
Western Digital
Cloud Storage
Mariusz Barczak
Principal Engineer - Storage Software Architect
Solidigm
Modeling & Simulation
Anisa Su
Associate Engineer
Samsung
Adam Manzanares
Director
Samsung
Magic Memory
Scott Lee
Principal Software Engineer Lead
Microsoft
Chet Douglas
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Emerging Technologies
Ace Stryker
Director of Market Development
Solidigm
Modeling & Simulation
Hemant Gaikwad
Technical Staff
Dell Technologies
Rahul Vishwakarma
CTO
WorkOnward
AI / ML
Eshcar Hillel
Principal Research Scientist
Pliops
AI / ML
Wesley Vaske
SMTS, Storage Solutions Architect
Micron Technology
Magic Memory
Nilesh Shah
VP Business Development
ZeroPoint Technologies
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Curtis Stevens
Strategist
Seagate Technology
Dave Craton
Senior Staff Product Manager
Seagate Techology
File Systems
Mariam Gewida
Product Manager
Microsoft
Tanmay Pydisetti
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Data Security
Bill Gervasi
Principal Memory Solutions Architect
MPS
Junjian Zhao
Technical Marketing & Apps Engineering
MPS
AI / ML
Nuthan Prasad B N
Expert
HPE
Dhishankar Sengupta
Distinguished Technologist, USA
HPE
File Systems
John Groves
Technical Director
Micron Technology
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
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
Suresh Rajgopal
SSD Systems Architect - DMTS
Micron Technology
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Clarete Crasta
Principal Engineer
HPE
David Emberson
Senior Distinguished Technologis
HPE
Cloud Storage
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer
Western Digital
Rick Kutcipal
At-Large Director, Board of Directors
SNIA SCSI Trade Association (STA)
File Systems
Abhinav Agarwal
Senior Software Engineer
Rubrik
Avishek Ganguli
Senior Software Engineer
Rubrik
Computational Storage
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Solidigm
Solid State Storage Solutions
Mike Allison
Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards
Samsung
Lee Prewitt
Director of Cloud Hardware Storage
Microsoft
Data Security
Vivek Kohli
Product Management
Self Employed
Rajeev Angal
Architect, Senior Director Cybersecurity
Self Employed
Computational Storage
Brian Atkinson
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
AI / ML
Ugur Kaynar
Technical Staff
Dell Technologies
Keynote
Riley Thomasson
Member of Technical Staff
Pure Storage
Cloud Storage
Akshay Agrawal
Principal Product Manager
Microsoft
Preethi Thippeswamy
Product Manager
Microsoft
Data Security
Paul Suhler
Principal Engineer, SSD Standards -- Security in Storage Working Group Chair
KIOXIA -- IEEE
File Systems
Stefan Metzmacher
Software Architect
SerNet
Emerging Technologies
Ross Stenfort
Hardware Systems Engineer
Meta
Lee Prewitt
Director of Cloud Hardware Storage
Microsoft
Management
Nathan Hanford
Computer Scientist
Livermore Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
AI / ML
David Flynn
CEO, Co-Founder
Hammerspace
AI / ML
Joshua Freilich
Principal Engineer
Pure Storage
Sustainability & Green
Shruti Sethi
Senior PM
Microsoft
Ines Sousa
Senior Sustainability Industry Advisor
Microsoft
Bahar Riazi
Technical Program Manager - Net Zero
Alan Deng
Senior Supply Engagement Manager - Net Zero
Lisa Rivalin
Staff System Engineer, AI Fleet - Sustainability
Meta
Computational Storage
Qing Zheng
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Magic Memory
Gary Smerdon
Founder and CEO
MEXT
File Systems
Jason Lee
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cloud Storage
Jeff Terrace
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Frank Borich
Principal Engineer
IBM
AI / ML
Sathish Kumar M
Associate Technical Director
Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Cloud Storage
Daniel Gryniewicz
EnSoftware Development Manager, Object Storage
IBM
Yuval Lifshitz
Senior Technical Staff Member, Israel
IBM
File Systems
Ralph Böhme
Software Engineer
SerNet Samba Team
File Systems
Piotr Modrzyk
Principal Architect
Leil Storage
AI / ML
Alessandro Goncalves
Solutions Architect
Solidigm
File Systems
Steven French
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
AI / ML
John Mazzie
MTS, Systems Performance Engineer
Micron Technology
Modeling & Simulation
Shruti Sethi
Senior PM
Microsoft
Vignesh Shanbhag
PM
Microsoft
Keynote
James Kelly
VP Market Intelligence and Innovation
OCP Foundation
Cloud Storage
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
Sustainability & Green
Wayne Adams
SNIA Chairman Emeritus
Industry Advisor
Magic Memory
William Moyes
Fellow
AMD
Shyam Iyer
Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair
Dell Technologies -- SNIA
Data Security
Jeff Hilland
Distinguished Technologist -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair
HPE
Brett Henning
Security Architect -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair
Broadcom -- DMTF
Solid State Storage Solutions
Steven Sprouse
Distinguished Engineer
SanDisk
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Daniel Helmick
Principal Architect
Samsung
Emerging Technologies
Addison Snell
CEO
Intersect360 Research
Keynote
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
AI / ML
Curtis Ballard
Strategist, Technology Enablement -- Technical Counci
HPE -- SNIA
AI / ML
Vasily Tarasov
Principal Research Scientist
IBM
AI / ML
CJ Newburn
Distinguished Engineer
NVIDIA
Vikram Sharma Mailthody
Senior Research Scientist
NVIDIA
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Scott Lee
Principal Software Engineer Lead
Microsoft
Jeff Bromberger
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
File Systems
Erez Zilber
SW Architect
VAST Data
Management
Jeff Hilland
Distinguished Technologist -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair
HPE
Modeling & Simulation
Andy Banta
Storage Janitor
Magnition IO
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist
Solidigm
AI / ML
Pratik Mishra
Senior Staff - Research
AMD
Magic Memory
Arun George
Associate Technical Director
Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Roshan Nair
Staff Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Annmary Justine Koomthanam
Senior Research Engineer
HPE
Srikant Varadan
Distinguished Technologist
HPE
Cloud Storage
Carl D'Halluin
CTO
Datadobi
Management
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair ------- Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
SNIA ------------ Intel
AI / ML
Chandra Guda
SSD Systems Architect - SMTS
Micron Technology
Suresh Rajgopal
SSD Systems Architect - DMTS
Micron Technology
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Micron Technology
File Systems & Protocols
Christoph Hellwig
Kernel Hacker
[N/A]
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer
Western Digital