SDC: StorageAI™ 2026 - Agenda

7:30 AM

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7:30 AM - 9:00 AM	| - Registration Open - Coffee & Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM

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9:00 AM - 9:10 AM	J Metz | SNIA - Chair, SNIA Board of Directors. AMD - Technical Director for Systems Design Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:10 AM

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9:10 AM - 9:50 AM	Curtis Ballard | SNIA - Co-Chair, SNIA Technical Council. HPE - Strategist, Technology Enablement Storage for AI 103, An Introduction to Storage for Inference

9:50 AM

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9:50 AM - 10:30 AM	David Black | Dell Technologies - Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure Systems Group AI Server Clusters – Networking and Storage

10:30 AM

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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM	| - AM break

10:50 AM

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10:50 AM - 11:20 AM	Jason Duquette | SNIA; Dell Technologies - Co-Chair, SNIA StorageAI Community; Distinguished Engineer, Chief Platform Architect StorageAI: A Rising Tide Floats all Boats

11:20 AM

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11:20 AM - 12:00 PM	Bill Lynn | AMD - Fellow, Systems Design Engineering Demystifying Data Flows through Typical LLM Training

12:00 PM

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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	| - Lunch

1:00 PM

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1:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Jason Goldschmidt | SNIA - Chair, Accelerated Object I/O TWG. Dell Technologies - Distinguished Engineer An Update on Accelerated Object Storage for AI/ML
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Anthony Constantine | NVMe - Board Member. Micron Technologies - Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Addressing QoS issues through IO Prioritization in NVMe

1:30 PM

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1:30 PM - 1:35 PM	| - Break

1:35 PM

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1:35 PM - 2:05 PM	Eshcar Hillel | AsteraLabs - Principal Research Scientist From Heuristics to Principles: A Practical Model for LLM Inference
1:35 PM - 2:05 PM	Chaitanya Kulkarni | NVIDIA - Senior Director NVMe LBA Access Control for GPU-Direct Storage in AI/HPC Workloads

2:05 PM

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2:05 PM - 2:10 PM	| - Break

2:10 PM

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2:10 PM - 2:40 PM	Ugur Kaynar | Dell - Distinguished Engineer, Storage Technologist – Storage CTO Scaling Inference with KV Cache Storage Offload and RDMA Accelerated Architecture
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM	Simon Lund | Samsung - Principal Engineer AiSIO: Orchestrating Storage I/O Across CPUs and Accelerators

2:40 PM

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2:40 PM - 2:55 PM	| - PM Break

2:55 PM

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2:55 PM - 3:25 PM	CJ Newburn | NVIDIA - Distinguished Engineer Scaling beyond memory: fine-grained GPU access to unbounded data for vector databases and graph neural networks
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3:25 PM

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3:25 PM - 3:30 PM	| - Break

3:30 PM

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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Wes Vaske | Micron Technology - Senior Member of Technical Staff Enabling AI Storage Benchmark Evolution at the Pace of AI
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Gary Grider | LANL - Leader, High Performance Computing (HPC) Division PNFS Past, Present, and Future: What’s all the excitement about?

4:00 PM

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4:00 PM - 4:05 PM	| - Break

4:05 PM

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4:05 PM - 4:35 PM	Erich Haratsch | Marvell - Senior Director Data Storage Innovations for Scalable AI Infrastructure
4:05 PM - 4:35 PM	Alessandro Goncalves | Solidigm - Solutions Architect DiskANN - VectorDB Indexing Offload

4:35 PM

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4:35 PM - 4:40 PM	| - Break

4:40 PM

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4:40 PM - 5:10 PM	Rory Bolt | KIOXIA America - Senior Fellow AI Storage Workloads: What is Different and Impacts on SSD Design
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM	John Mazzie | Micron Technology - Member of Technical Staff, Systems Performance Engineer Take a Break: A Deep Dive into Checkpointing

5:10 PM

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5:10 PM - 5:15 PM	| - Break

5:15 PM

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5:15 PM - 6:15 PM	Peter Corbett | Dell Technologies - Fellow, Storage System Architect  Birds of a Feather: Storage and Networking Considerations for AI Deployments
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM	Steven Wells | Industry Veteran - Fellow Emeritus, Birds of a Feather: Rearchitecting the Stack for AI: Data Access, Benchmarks, Scale, and SSD Innovation

6:15 PM

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6:15 PM - 7:15 PM	Jason Duquette | SNIA; Dell Technologies - Co-Chair, SNIA StorageAI Community; Distinguished Engineer, Chief Platform Architect Birds of a Feather: Building a Standards‑Driven Ecosystem for AI Storage
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM	Wes Vaske | Micron Technology - Senior Member of Technical Staff Birds of a Feather: Community discussion of Storage for AI Workload Definitions, Characterization, and Benchmarking needs and wants