Sessions 2025
AI / ML
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm
Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff,
Micron Technology
Mike Allison
Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards,
Samsung
John Geldman
Director of SSD Industry Standards,
KIOXIA
Cloud Storage
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm
Jason Goldschmidt
Member of Technical Staff,
Dell Technologies
File Systems & Protocols
Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm
Floyd Christofferson
VP Product Marketing,
Hammerspace
Sustainability & Green
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am
Chih-Tsung Huang
Senior Director,
Cisco
Wei-Jen Huang
Distinguished Engineer,
Cisco
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm
Anil Godbole
MWG Co-Chair,
CXL Consortium
Birds-of-a-Feather
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 8:00pm
Jonmichael Hands
CEO
FarmGPU
Nader Salessi
Advisor,
MaxLinear
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm
Mohamad EL-Batal
Office of the CTO Chief Technologist,
Seagate Technology
Thomas Prohofsky
Principal Engineer, CTO Office,
Seagate Technology
File Systems & Protocols
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am
Meetakshi Setiya
Software Engineer,
Microsoft
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am
Cliff Tavares
Senior Director Engineering,
Keysight Technologies
Venkat Pullela
Chief Technologist, Networking,
Keysight Technologies
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am
Huihuo Zheng
Computer Scientist,
Argonne National Laboratory
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am
Jeff Terrace
Senior Staff Software Engineer,
Hsiu-Fan Wang
Senior Staff Software Engineer,
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 2:25pm
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect,
Solidigm
Shyam Iyer
Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair
Dell Technologies -- SNIA
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm
David Slik
Scientist,
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Birds-of-a-Feather
Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 8:00pm
Venkat Pullela
Chief Technologist, Networking,
Keysight Technologies
Emerging Technologies
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am
Jim Handy
General Director,
Objective Analysis
Tom Coughlin
President,
Coughlin Associates
File Systems & Protocols
Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm
Sergei Platonov
VP of Strategy,
Xinnor
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am
Scott Hoag
Principal Product Manager,
Microsoft
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer,
Western Digital
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer,
Western Digital
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm
Pramod Peethambaran
Director of Engineering,
Samsung
Birds-of-a-Feather
Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 7:00pm
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect,
Solidigm
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am
Mariusz Barczak
Principal Engineer - Storage Software Architect,
Solidigm
Sarika Mehta
Senior Storage Solutions Architect,
Solidigm
Modeling & Simulation
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm
Anisa Su
Associate Engineer,
Samsung
Adam Manzanares
Director,
Samsung
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm
Chet Douglas
Principal Software Engineer,
Microsoft
Scott Lee
Principal Software Engineer Lead,
Microsoft
Emerging Technologies
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm
Ace Stryker
Director of Market Development,
Solidigm
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm
William Lynn
Fellow,
AMD
Modeling & Simulation
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm
Hemant Gaikwad
Technical Staff,
Dell Technologies
Rahul Vishwakarma
CTO
WorkOnward
Birds-of-a-Feather
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 8:00pm
Bruce Thompson
CEO,
In2Bank
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am
Eshcar Hillel
Principal Research Scientist,
Pliops
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am
Wesley Vaske
SMTS, Storage Solutions Architect,
Micron Technology
Magic Memory
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am
Nilesh Shah
VP Business Development,
ZeroPoint Technologies
Jungmin Choi
Director of Memory Systems
Sk Hynix
Vikas Chaudhary
VP & GM,
MaxLinear
Nilesh Gharia
Founder & CTO,
Numem
Stephen Bates
Fellow,
AMD
Jonmichael Hands
CEO
FarmGPU
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am
Curtis Stevens
Strategist,
Seagate Technology
Dave Craton
Principal Product Manager,
Seagate Techology
File Systems & Protocols
Winchester - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm
Mariam Gewida
Product Manager,
Microsoft
Tanmay Pydisetti
Software Engineer,
Microsoft
Data Security
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm
Bill Gervasi
Principal Memory Solutions Architect,
MPS
Junjian Zhao
Technical Marketing & Apps Engineering,
MPS
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am
Emily Kilian
Principal Software Engineer,
Microsoft
Yuemin Lu
Principal Product Manager/Architect,
Microsoft
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm
Nuthan Prasad B N
Expert,
HPE
Dhishankar Sengupta
Distinguished Technologist, USA
HPE
File Systems & Protocols
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am
John Groves
Technical Director,
Micron Technology
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 4:30pm
Howard Johnson
Technology Architect, Broadcom; Chair,
INCITS/Fibre Channel Technical Committee
Mark Jones
Director of Technical Marketing -- Chair
Broadcom -- Fibre Channel Industry Association
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am
Suresh Rajgopal
SSD Systems Architect - DMTS,
Micron Technology
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 11:35am
Clarete Crasta
Principal Engineer,
HPE
David Emberson
Senior Distinguished Technologist,
HPE
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer,
Western Digital
Rick Kutcipal
At-Large Director, Board of Directors,
SNIA SCSI Trade Association (STA)
File Systems & Protocols
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 8:30am
Abhinav Agarwal
Senior Software Engineer,
Rubrik
Avishek Ganguli
Senior Software Engineer,
Rubrik
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 5:00pm
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect,
Solidigm
Solid State Storage Solutions
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am
Mike Allison
Senior Director - NAND Product Planning - Standards,
Samsung
Lee Prewitt
Director of Cloud Hardware Storage
Microsoft
AI / ML
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm
Ugur Kaynar
Technical Staff,
Dell Technologies
Keynote
Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 10:20am
Riley Thomasson
Member of Technical Staff,
Pure Storage
Emerging Technologies
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm
John Carlsen
Principal,
Syncopated Systems
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm
Akshay Agrawal
Principal Product Manager,
Microsoft
Preethi Thippeswamy
Product Manager,
Microsoft
Solid State Storage Solutions
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am
Swati Chawdhary
Senior Manager,
Samsung
Data Security
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm
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
Software Architect,
SerNet
Birds-of-a-Feather
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 7:00pm
HimaBindu Tummala
Distinguished Engineer
Dell Technologies
Emerging Technologies
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm
Ross Stenfort
Hardware Systems Engineer,
Meta
Management
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 5:00pm
Nathan Hanford
Computer Scientist,
Livermore Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
File Systems & Protocols
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm
David Flynn
CEO, Co-Founder,
Hammerspace
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm
Joshua Freilich
Principal Engineer,
Pure Storage
Sustainability & Green
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 10:35am
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
Birds-of-a-Feather
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 7:00pm
Wayne Adams
SNIA Chairman Emeritus,
Industry Advisor
David Slik
Scientist,
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 1:30pm
Gary Smerdon
Founder and CEO,
MEXT
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm
Jeff Terrace
Senior Staff Software Engineer,
Frank Borich
Principal Software Engineer,
IBM
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am
Sathish Kumar M
Associate Technical Director,
Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Birds-of-a-Feather
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 7:00pm
Michael Hoard
Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community
SNIA
Adam Gray
Principal Software Engineer, IBM; Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools Provisional TWG Chair,
SNIA
Birds-of-a-Feather
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 8:00pm
Jason Goldschmidt
Member of Technical Staff,
Dell Technologies
File Systems & Protocols
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 1:30pm
Ralph Böhme
Software Engineer,
SerNet Samba Team
File Systems & Protocols
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm
Piotr Modrzyk
Principal Architect,
Leil Storage
AI / ML
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm
Alessandro Goncalves
Solutions Architect,
Solidigm
File Systems & Protocols
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 9:30am
Steven French
Principal Software Engineer,
Microsoft
Modeling & Simulation
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm
Diman Zad Tootaghaj
Senior Researcher
HPE
AI / ML
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 4:35pm
John Mazzie
MTS, Systems Performance Engineer,
Micron Technology
Modeling & Simulation
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm
Shruti Sethi
Senior PM,
Microsoft
Vignesh Shanbhag
PM,
Microsoft
Birds-of-a-Feather
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 7:00pm
Steven French
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am
Babar Khan
AI Engineer and PhD Candidate,
Independent
Keynote
Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 11:00am
James Kelly
VP Market Intelligence and Innovation,
OCP Foundation
Cloud Storage
Winchester - Wed Sep 17 | 4:00pm
Adam Gray
Principal Software Engineer, IBM; Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools Provisional TWG Chair,
SNIA
Michael Hoard
Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community
SNIA
Sustainability & Green
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am
Wayne Adams
SNIA Chairman Emeritus,
Industry Advisor
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm
William Moyes
Fellow
AMD
Shyam Iyer
Distinguished Engineer -- Technical Council, SDXI TWG Chair
Dell Technologies -- SNIA
Data Security
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm
Jeff Hilland
President / SPDM WG Co-Chair; Distinguished Technologist,
HPE
Brett Henning
Security Architect, Broadcom; President / SPDM WG Co-Chair,
DMTF
Solid State Storage Solutions
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 9:30am
Steven Sprouse
Distinguished Engineer,
SanDisk
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm
Daniel Helmick
Principal Architect,
Samsung
Keynote
Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 8:45am
Addison Snell
CEO,
Intersect360 Research
Keynote
Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 9:25am
Steven Wells
Retired,
Self
Curtis Ballard
Technical Council, SNIA; Strategist, Technology Enablement,
HPE
Mohamad EL-Batal
Office of the CTO Chief Technologist,
Seagate Technology
Madhavan Ravi
Hardware Systems Engineer,
Meta
Currie Munce
Senior Storage Strategist & Advisor
Micron Technology
Birds-of-a-Feather
Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 8:00pm
Steven Wells
Retired,
Self
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 1:00pm
Erich Haratsch
Senior Director,
Marvell
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 8:30am
Curtis Ballard
Technical Council, SNIA; Strategist, Technology Enablement,
HPE
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm
Vasily Tarasov
Principal Research Scientist,
IBM
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm
CJ Newburn
Distinguished Engineer,
NVIDIA
Wen-Mei Hwu
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist and Senior Research Director,
NVIDIA
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 2:00pm
Scott Lee
Principal Software Engineer Lead,
Microsoft
Birds-of-a-Feather
Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 7:00pm
J Metz
Chair of SNIA’s Board of Directors; Technical Director for Systems Design,
AMD
Keynote
Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 11:30am
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
SW Architect,
VAST Data
Emerging Technologies
Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm
Bruce Thompson
CEO,
In2Bank
Management
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 4:35pm
Jeff Hilland
President / SPDM WG Co-Chair; Distinguished Technologist,
HPE
Modeling & Simulation
San Tomas + Lawrence - Mon Sep 15 | 11:35am
Andy Banta
Storage Janitor,
Magnition IO
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist,
Solidigm
Birds-of-a-Feather
Winchester - Mon Sep 15 | 8:00pm
Steffen Hellmold
President,
Cerabyte
AI / ML
Stevens Creek - Tue Sep 16 | 4:05pm
Pratik Mishra
Senior Staff - Research,
AMD
Magic Memory
Lafayette - Mon Sep 15 | 2:30pm
Arun George
Associate Technical Director,
Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Roshan Nair
Staff Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
San Tomas + Lawrence - Wed Sep 17 | 10:35am
Annmary Justine Koomthanam
Senior Research Engineer,
HPE
Srikant Varadan
Distinguished Technologist,
HPE
Cloud Storage
Lafayette - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm
Carl D'Halluin
CTO,
Datadobi
Keynote
Santa Clara Ballroom - Tue Sep 16 | 8:30am
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist,
Solidigm
Management
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 3:35pm
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
SSD Systems Architect - SMTS,
Micron Technology
Suresh Rajgopal
SSD Systems Architect - DMTS,
Micron Technology
File Systems & Protocols
Lafayette - Wed Sep 17 | 2:30pm
Rui Su
Co-Founder,
Juicedata
Data Architecture / Storage Architecture
San Tomas + Lawrence - Tue Sep 16 | 3:05pm
Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff,
Micron Technology
File Systems & Protocols
Stevens Creek - Mon Sep 15 | 3:35pm
Christoph Hellwig
Kernel Hacker,
[N/A]
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer,
Western Digital