Beer, Pizza & Chat with Experts

Enjoy a beer and pizza while connecting with leading experts from across the industry. Explore discussion tables covering topics such as AI, storage technologies, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and emerging trends in a relaxed, social setting.

⏰ 07:15 PM - 8:30 PM — Beer, Pizza and Chat with the Experts

3D Memory Technology for AI Applications

Explore structural architectures built explicitly to scale heavy training and generative computational stacks.

2D DRAM / 3D DRAM Memory Strategies

Jeongdong Choe TechInsights
Shyam Sharma Cadence

HBM and Beyond

Marc Greenberg Marc Greenberg Consulting
John Lorenz Yole Group

3D NAND Flash Technology

Mark Webb MKW Ventures

SSDs For Modern AI Use Cases

Andy Higginbotham Sr. Phison
Gordon Waidhofer Microchip Technology

Reliability and Performance SSDs

Chris Lien ATP Electronic Taiwan
Jonn Wu ATP Electronic Taiwan

RDMA Interconnects / Remote Persistent Memory

Discuss the physical fabric routing demands enabling lower latency pooled platform access.

NVMe / NVMe over Fabric

Fred Knight Kioxia America
Jeffry Molanus Lightbits Labs

Next Generation Controllers

Erich Haratasch Marvell

MRAM

Simone Bertolazzi Yole Group
Tom Coughlin FMS General Chair
Jack Guedj Numen

Form Factors / Low Power

Junichi Hyodo ScaleFlux

Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage

Jay Kramer Network Storage Advisors
Omar Barraza Network Storage Advisors

KV Storage / Cloud Database Apps

Alok Shankar Adobe
Pichai Balaji ScaleFlux

Automotive Applications

Craig Nunes Sonatus
Syed Hussain GigaDevice
Peggy Lin Silicon Motion

Space

Paul Armijo Armijo Innovations
George Williams Armijo Innovations

GenAI

Nd Ngoka Amazon Web Services

AI Workloads and Storage Implications

Dmitry Livshits Xinnor
Richard Fetik Data Confidential

Ultra Accelerator Link (UA Link)

Analyze upcoming infrastructure scale standards built for high performance data transfers.

CXL

Geof Findley Montage Technology
Anil Godbole Intel

Chiplets / UCIe Consortium

Break down modern system-on-chip scaling methodologies and architectural roadmaps.

PCI Express

Richard Solomon Synopsys

Cybersecurity Storage

Adam Grenzebach Microsoft

Storage Security

Nikita Kothari Salesforce
Benjamin Reese ScaleFlux

AI Data Center Storage Architecture / Memory & Storage AI Acceleration

Nilesh Shah ZeroPoint Technologies
Vishal Shah Credo

Ransomware / Data Recovery / Data Sanitization/Erasure

Troy Hegr Ontrack
Dave Logue Ontrack

StorageNext - NVIDIA Initiative & Accelerator Managed Storage

CJ Newburn NVIDIA
Pitamber Shukla Microchip

Storage Management / NVMe Live Migration

Richelle Ahlvers Intel
Michael Allison Samsung
Daniel Helmick Samsung Semiconductor

Backup & Disaster Recovery / Archive

Turguy Goker Quantum Corp

Enterprise Storage for AI Workloads

Shlomo Hadad Asine
Erich Herzog INFINIDAT (Lenovo)
Rupin Mohan HPE

Education Outreach

Bill Gervasi Monolithic Power System

Storage Software / Cloud Storage

Alok Ranjan Dropbox

Intelligent Storage Management

Ashutosh Datar Pure Storage

Computational Storage

Jason Molgaard Solidigm
Keith McKay ScaleFlux

Multi-Tiered AI Storage

Wendell Wenjen Supermicro
Iman Anvari Seagate

Sustainability / Green Storage

Dave Verberg IBM

Big Data Storage

Vidhya Arvind Netflix

US & International PR

Federica Monsone A3 Communications

Industry Analysts

Josephine Lau Yole Group

All-Flash & Hybrid Storage Strategies

Discuss the performance balancing act of modern configurations across infrastructure tiers.

SuperWomen of FMS

Connect with female leaders, founders, and innovators breaking new grounds in memory sciences.

Venture Capital / Mergers & Acquisitions

Steve Mitzenmacher Zumaya
Axel Kloth Abacus Semiconductor
John Rotchford SASI
Avery Lu Aventurine Capital Group

IT Industry Press / Storage Publications

Meet with prominent press entities, journalists, and editors tracking storage innovation.

AI Data Center Memory - Reliability Availability Serviceability

David McIntyre Samsung Electronics

Software Defined Memory

Delve into next-generation software execution layers abstracting dynamic system memory fields.