Fred Knight | Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
KIOXIA

Fred Knight has over 45 years of experience in the computer and storage industry.  He currently represents KIOXIA in several US national standards bodies, international standards bodies and several Industry Associations, including SNIA, NVM Express, Trusted Computing Group (TCG), INCITS SCSI (T10), and INCITS ATA/ACS (T13).   Previously, Fred was the chair of the SNIA Hypervisor Storage Interfaces working group, the primary author of the SNIA HSI White Paper, the author of the IETF iSCSI update RFC, and the editor for the SCSI SAM-6 standard and SCSI SES-3 standard.
Fred received several awards for excellence and innovation while working at NetApp as well as the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his contributions to both T10 and T11 and the INCITS Merit Award for his longstanding contributions to the international work of INCITS. He also received the prestigious IEC 1906 award in 2022 for his international work in IEC.