Sessions 2026
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Keynote
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Rebecca Weekly
VP of Platform and Infrastructure Engineering, GEICO
Keynote
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Joshua Freilich
Principal Engineer, Everpure
AI - Inference
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Himabindu Tummala
Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
Data / Storage Architecture
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Jeff Bromberger
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Storage Media
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Jacob Schmier
Senior Firmware Engineer, Sandisk
Carson Tunnell
Staff Engineer, Sandisk
File Systems & Protocols
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Ben Jarvis
Distinguished Engineer, Quantum
Sustainability & Green
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Jason Holpuch
Hardware Technologist, GEICO
Data / Storage Architecture
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Kalyan Gunda
Senior Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Unstructured Storage, Dell Technologies
Masood Noori
Solution Technologist, Seagate
AI - Inference
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Kapil Karkra
Senior Principal Engineer, AI Storage and Software Solutions, Solidigm
Nate Marushak
AI Technologist, Solidigm
Data Movement & Placement
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Inho Song
Computer Science Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech
Shoaib Asif Qazi
Computer Science Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech
AI - Inference
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Tejas Chopra
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Inc.
Computational Storage
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Pankaj Mehra
Professor of Research, The Ohio State University
Founder and CEO, Elephance Memory, Inc.
AI - Inference
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Zhe Wang
Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom Inc
Kyuho Son
Staff Software Enginee, Samsung Electronics
AI - Inference
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Alessandro Goncalves
Storage Solutions Architect, Solidigm
Harsha Vardhan Simhadri
Partner Researcher, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Data / Storage Architecture
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Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology
Ross Stenfort
Distinguished Engineer, Sandisk
Data Movement & Placement
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Stephen Bates
Fellow, AMD
Memory and Memory Fabrics
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Grant Mackey
Distinguished Engineer, XCENA
File Systems & Protocols
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Steven French
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
File Systems
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Rohan Puri
Senior Staff Engineer, DataDirect Networks (DDN)
Sustainability & Green
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Lisa Rivalin
Staff System Engineer, AI Fleet - Sustainability, Meta
Ines Sousa
Senior Sustainability Industry Advisor,, Microsoft
Data Movement & Placement
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Stephen Bates
Fellow, AMD
Storage Media
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Keith MacLean
System Architect, Micron Technology
AI - KV Cache
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Abhishek Gupta
Storage Architect, Cerebras Systems
Rohan Puri
Senior Staff Engineer, DataDirect Networks (DDN)
AI - KV Cache
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Yu-Ming Chang
Engineering Director, Wolley
AI - Inference
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Frank Ferro
Product Marketing Group Director, Cadence
Sustainability & Green
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Chih-Tsung Huang
Senior Director of Hardware Engineering, Common Hardware Group, Cisco
Data / Storage Architecture
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Trent Johnson
Hardware Architect, IBM
Technical Council, SNIA
Memory and Memory Fabrics
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Satananda Burla
Distinguished Engineer, Marvell
Gaurav Agarwal
Senior Distinguished Engineer, Marvell
Memory and Memory Fabrics
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Jack Guedj
Co-Founder & CEO, Numem
CMS MRAM Alliance SIG, Co-Chair, SNIA
Memory and Memory Fabrics
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Thomas Jew
Fellow, NXP
Steffen Hellmold
Fellow, Everspin
Memory and Memory Fabrics
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Thomas Boone
Distinguished Engineer, Western Digital
AI - Inference
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Wes Vaske
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology
AI Data Workloads TWG Chair, SNIA
Data / Storage Architecture
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Anthony Constantine
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology
John Geldman
Director, SSD Industry Standards, KIOXIA
Trent Johnson
Hardware Architect, IBM
Technical Council, SNIA
Glen Hanna
Principal System Architect, Lenovo, ISG
File Systems & Protocols
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Brian Atkinson
HPC Engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Harechmak
WW VP, Field Engineering, PEAK:AIO
File Systems & Protocols
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Endric Schubert
CTO, Missing Link Electronics
Ulrich Langenbach
Director of Engineering, Missing Link Electronics
Cloud & Object Storage
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Adam Gray
Principal Software Engineer, IBM
Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools TWG Chair, SNIA
Michael Hoard
Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) Community, SNIA
File Systems & Protocols
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Yadavendra Yadav
Software Architect, IBM
Data / Storage Architecture
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Filip Blagojevic
Research Scientist, Western Digital
Data / Storage Architecture
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Klaus Jensen
Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics
AI - Inference
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Curtis Ballard
Storage Technology Architect, AMD
Data / Storage Architecture
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CJ Newburn
Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
Vikram Sharma Mailthody
Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Data / Storage Architecture
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Alessandro Goncalves
Storage Solutions Architect, Solidigm
Data Movement & Placement
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Jason Goldschmidt
Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
AI - KV Cache
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Skyler Windh
MTS Systems Software Engineering, Micron Technology
Katya Giannios
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Micron Technology
File Systems & Protocols
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Ronnie Sahlberg
Hacker, Australia