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

Sessions 2025

Conference Sessions
"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


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


Accelerating Object Storage for AI/ML with S3 RDMA
Jason Goldschmidt
Jason Goldschmidt
Member of Technical Staff
Dell Technologies


Always-On Diagnostics: eBPF-Powered Insights for Linux SMB and NFS Clients
Meetakshi Setiya
Meetakshi Setiya
Software Engineer
Microsoft


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


Blending Objects and Files in Google Cloud Storage
Jeff Terrace
Jeff Terrace
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Google
Jim Pinkerton
Jim Pinkerton
Principal Engineer
Google
Can SDXI work with NVMe?
Jason Molgaard
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Solidigm
Shyam Iyer
Shyam Iyer
Distinguished Engineer
Dell
CDMI 3.0: Standardized Management of any URI-accessible Resource
David Slik
David Slik
Scientist
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.


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
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Choosing Your AI Storage Protocol: A Deep Dive into SMB and NFS Performance, Tuning, and Overhead
Sergei Platonov
Sergei Platonov
VP of Strategy
Xinnor


Command Duration Limits - Improving IOPS per TB in HDDs
Landsman Dave
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer, Director of Industry Standards
Western Digital
Damien Le Moal
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer
Western Digital Research
CXL Ecosystem Innovation Leveraging QEMU-based Emulation
Anisa Su
Anisa Su
Associate Engineer
Samsung
Adam Manzanares
Adam Manzanares
Director
Samsung
CXL Memory in Windows
Scott Lee
Scott Lee
Principal Software Engineer Lead
Microsoft
Chet Douglas
Chet Douglas
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Data-Intensive Inference Done Better: Scaling Models and RAG in Limited Memory with SSD Offload
Ace Stryker
Ace Stryker
Director of Market Development
Solidigm


Demystifying Data Flows During LLM Training
William Lynn
William Lynn
Fellow
AMD


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
Disaggregated KV Storage: A New Tier for Efficient Scalable LLM Inference
Eshcar Hillel
Eshcar Hillel
Principal Research Scientist
Pliops


Discussion and Analysis of the MLPerf Storage Benchmark Suite and AI Storage Workloads
Wesley Vaske
Wesley Vaske
SMTS, Storage Solutions Architect
Micron


Drive Regeneration in Action: Enhancing Fault Tolerance in Datacenters
Curtis Stevens
Curtis Stevens
Strategist
Seagate Technology
Dave Craton
Dave Craton
Senior Staff Product Manager
Seagate Technology
Eliminating NTLM in Storage: Modernizing SMB Authentication on Windows
Mariam Gewida
Mariam Gewida
Product Manager
Microsoft
Tanmay Pydisetti
Tanmay Pydisetti
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Famfs: Get Ready for Big Pools of Disaggregated Shared Memory
John Groves
John Groves
Technical Director
Micron Technology


Global Distributed Client-side Caching for HPC/AI storage systems
Clarete Crasta
Clarete Crasta
Principal Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
David Emberson
Senior Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HDD Innovation for Hyperscale: CDLs, SMR, Depop and SCSI Advancements in Linux
Damien Le Moal
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer
Western Digital Research
Rick Kutcipal
Rick Kutcipal
CTO
WorkOnward
Host Addressing of NVMe Subsystem Local Memory
Jason Molgaard
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Solidigm


Host Management of NVM Express™ Exported NVM Subsystems in PCIe™ SSDs
Michael Allison
Sr. Director NAND Product Planning - Standards
Samsung
Lee Prewitt
Lee Prewitt
Director of Cloud Hardware Storage
Microsoft
Integrating Computational Storage Devices into Storage Software Stacks
Brian Atkinson
Brian Atkinson
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory


KV-Cache Storage Offloading for Efficient Inference in LLMs
Ugur Kaynar
Ugur Kaynar
Technical Staff
Dell


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


New Developments in Data Security Algorithms
Paul Suhler
Paul Suhler
Principal Engineer, SSD Standards -- Security in Storage Working Group Chair
KIOXIA -- IEEE


New Transports in Samba: QUIC and SMB-Direct Support
Stefan Metzmacher
Stefan Metzmacher
software architect
SerNet


OCP Storage Project Update
Ross Stenfort
Ross Stenfort
Hardware Systems Engineer
Meta
Lee Prewitt
Lee Prewitt
Director of Cloud Hardware Storage
Microsoft
Panel: Driving Sustainability in Datacenters – Standardizing Carbon Assessment Methodologies
Shruti Sethi
Shruti Sethi
Senior PM
Microsoft


Pushdown Analytics on pNFS: Enabling Efficient Scientific Insight with Open Tools
Qing Zheng
Qing Zheng
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory


Radical Reduction in Computing Costs with AI-powered Predictive Memory Technology
Gary Smerdon
Gary Smerdon
Founder and CEO
MEXT


Recent Updates to the Grand Unified File Index Toolset
Jason Lee
Jason Lee
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory


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

Bharti Soni
Bharti Soni
Senior Staff Software Engineer
IBM ISDL
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
Samba 2025: Enterprise-Ready, Cloud-Optimized
Ralph Böhme
Ralph Böhme
Software Engineer
SerNet Samba Team


Scaling RAG with NVME: DISKANN's Hybrid Approach to Vector Databases Indexing
Alessandro Goncalves
Alessandro Goncalves
Solutions Architect
Solidigm


Scaling Secure File Access - what's New in Linux SMB3.1.1: Performance, Security, and Beyond
French Steven
Steven French
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft


Smarter Cloud Storage—Optimizing Costs with Tiering and Automation
Shruti Sethi
Shruti Sethi
Senior PM
Microsoft
Vignesh Shanbhag
Vignesh Shanbhag
PM
Microsoft
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
SNIA Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) Community
SNIA
SNIA Emerald Update for V1.0 Device and V5.0 System Specifications
Wayne Adams
Wayne Adams
SNIA Chairman Emeritus
Industry Advisor


SPDM PQC & Authorization
Jeff Hilland
Jeff Hilland
Distinguished Technologist -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair
HP Labs -- DMTF
Brett Henning
Brett Henning
Security Architect -- President / SPDM WG Co-chair
Broadcom -- DMTF
Storage Blending: The Evolving Role of HDD and SSD in Data Systems for an AI and Analytics Era
Steven Wells
Steven Wells
Retired
Self


Storage Devices for the AI Data Center
Erich Haratsch
Erich Haratsch
Senior Director
Marvell Semiconductor


Storage for AI in Public Clouds: Case Study of Vela in IBM Cloud
Vasily Tarasov
Vasily Tarasov
Principal Research Scientist
IBM


Storage Multi-Queue on Windows - A New Stack for High Performance Storage Hardware
Scott Lee
Scott Lee
Principal Software Engineer Lead
Microsoft
Jeff Bromberger
Jeff Bromberger
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Taming the Multi-Protocol Jungle: Unifying File and Object Access in Modern Data Workflows
Erez Zilber
Erez Zilber
SW Architect
VAST Data


Towards building flexible, efficient and resilient training with adaptive checkpointing on AMD GPU platforms.
Pratik Mishra
Pratik Mishra
Senior Staff - Research
AMD


Towards memory efficient RAG pipelines with CXL technology
Arun George
Arun George
Associate Technical Director
Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore
Roshan Nair
Roshan Nair
Staff Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore
Towards Unified Knowledge Platforms: Evolving Storage Systems for Generative and Agentic AI
Annmary Justine Koomthanam
Annmary Justine Koomthanam
Senior Research Engineer
Hewlett Packard enterprise
Srikant Varadhan
Srikant Varadhan
Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard enterprise
Unlocking Next-Level Linux Desktop Integration: SMB3.1.1 POSIX Extensions in GNOME
Volker Lendecke
Volker Lendecke
Developer -- Developer
SerNet GmbH -- Samba Team


War Stories from the Storage Trenches: Moving Data Across NFS, SMB, and S3
Carl D'Halluin
Carl D'Halluin
CTO
Datadobi


Why are we doing EDSFF E2?
Anthony Constantine
Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Micron


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
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 Research

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