Our 2026 Speakers

Balakrishna Ademmagari is a Senior Engineer and Reliability Qualification Lead in Reliability Engineering at SanDisk, with 8+ years of experience in NAND flash reliability and product qualification. Based in Bangalore, India, he leads end‑to‑end reliability qualification, endurance validation, and...

Luis Ancajas is Director for Disaggregated Memory Systems, at Micron Technology, where he leads strategy and ecosystem partnerships for next‑generation memory solutions supporting AI and data‑center workloads. With a background in computer architecture and semiconductors, he focuses on advancing...

TrendForce Research Manager Bryan Ao focuses on demand trends of NAND Flash storage solutions used by server OEMs, data center operators, and AI or edge computing service provider. He previously worked in an electronic component distributor specializing in mobile device memory solutions and SSD...

R&D technologist at SanDisk focused on NAND flash memory. Performs algorithmic development across ML/AI, error correction codes (ECC), and signal processing for memory systems, with recent contributions to scaling and characterization. Holds an M.Sc. in EE from Tel Aviv University and 70+...

Karthik is an Associate Director at Samsung Electronics (SSIR), he has experience of 21 years in Embedded System Testing and last 12 years in Memory Solutions Tests for NVMe, SAS, CXL, etc. He currently works on architecting the test coverage and test solutions for NVMe Enterprise SSDs. Driving...

Danny Berler is lead security architect at SanDisk, provides next gen security solutions for the companies consumer, client and enterprise products. working closely with engineering team to provide end to end security solutions to protect user data and SanDisk intellectual property .

Rory joined KIOXIA America in 2017.  He has founded, built teams, and delivered product at four storage startups which were acquired ($400M, $165M and two undisclosed). Rory has more than twenty-five years of experience in data storage systems, data protection systems, and high-performance...

Jean S. Bozman is President of Cloud Architects Advisors, analyzing technology and business strategies for data centers and for multi-cloud deployments of AI systems and enterprise data. She was Research Vice President in IDC’s Worldwide Server group (2002-2014), then worked at SanDisk. She founded ...

Kevin Brandt is systems architect at Micron working on SSDs. He has been involved in development and architecture of a wide variety of SSD products from client to enterprise and SATA to NVMe. He has a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.

Berardino Carnevale is a Senior Technical Marketing and Product Manager at Rambus Security IP, focused on aligning security architectures with customer requirements and market needs for advanced semiconductor platforms. He works closely with engineering and customers to translate complex security...

Pinaki Chanda is an experienced engineering leader with extensive experience in developing advanced technology solutions, particularly in data compression, storage systems, and video transport. He is currently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at MaxLinear, where he leads the...

Jeff Chang is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Astera Labs where he focuses on the AI switch industry. He has more than 15 years’ experience with SSD and high-speed connectivity solutions. He previously held senior roles in product management, procurement and engineering at...

With 15+ years at ATP, Crystal is an expert in product development and market enablement including Aerospace and LEO satellites. She specializes in translating complex client requirements into innovative industrial solutions. Crystal holds an MBA from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

With over a decade of experience in top tech companies like Sun Microsystems and Dell, James leads the technology roadmap and analytics for AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions at DDN. Holding a PhD in Theoretical Physics, he brings deep scientific insight into advancing full-solution...

Flexible Data Placement (FDP) is redefining how large-capacity QLC SSDs can be deployed in modern data centers in this AI era, enabling more efficient data placement and improved system-level optimization. This presentation explores how large-capacity QLC SSDs are evolving to meet the rapidly...

Avdhesh Chhodavdia is a security technologist at Astera Labs, where he drives architecture and security initiatives for next-generation connectivity solutions. With over a decade of experience in platform security, Avdhesh has been instrumental in shaping the design and deployment of advanced data...

Kun-Chi Chiang is a Project Department Manager in the Product R&D department at Macronix and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.  He received his M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from National Kaohsiung University of Applied...

I am an AI transformation engineer with a background in semiconductor manufacturing.I focus on data analytics, web-based engineering platforms, and building agentic AI systems that support data-driven and autonomous decision-making in fab operations.

Haerang Choi received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University in 2021. Since then he has been involved in the Processing-in-Memory (PIM) development project at SK hynix. Currently serving as Team leader of the AI Memory Solution Hardware Team, he leads the...

Tejas Chopra is a Sr. Engineer working on ML & AI Platform at Netflix. He is also the creator of Headroom - a Context optimization platform, founder of EnsolAI, 2x TEDx speaker, and has built a career in Distributed Systems and Cloud Infrastructure. Tejas holds a Masters degree in Electrical...

Elly Chu has 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, specializing in leading OEM projects and controller product marketing in IC design houses. With expertise in product design-in, design-win management, and building successful customer relationships, Elly currently focuses on PCIe...

Steve Chung received his Ph. D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He is the Chair professor of NYCU (former NCTU) with past administrative position in managing International Office, a visiting prof. to both Stanford and UC-Merced, CA, in 2021 and 2008 respectively. He was...

With over a decade of experience in top tech companies like Sun Microsystems and Dell, James leads the technology roadmap and analytics for AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions at DDN. Holding a PhD in Theoretical Physics, he brings deep scientific insight into advancing full-solution...

For her decades of contributions to file systems and archival storage, including developing QFS and SAM-QFS. Her work proved the feasibility of integrating high-performance archiving into large-scale system implementations.

Roger Cummings is CEO and President of PEAK:AIO, a platform purpose-built to help enterprise organisations scale, govern, and secure their AI and HPC workloads by transforming commodity hardware into high-performance, software-defined storage systems.Roger brings a proven record of building and...

Mark Dancho is a Distinguished Engineer in SSD firmware at Sandisk. He has 15 years of experience as an SSD firmware engineer. Mark has over 20 US patents on SSDs, firmware, and NAND endurance techniques. Mark currently serves as firmware architect for high-capacity SSD storage products, including...

Kai-Uwe Demasius is cofounder and CTO of SEMRON GmbH, a Dresden-based AI accelerator startup. He is an expert in memcapacitive devices and 3D NAND technology. Kai-Uwe earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle under the supervision of Stuart Parkin. He studied...

Shubham Subhash Deshmukh is a Staff Engineer (MLE) at Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR), Bengaluru. He has over 8 years of working experience in Machine learning, LLM, inference optimization, and large-scale AI systems.  Shubham is the first author for 6+ research papers across ACM and...

With over 12 years of experience in the semiconductor industry (Smart Modular, MPS and now Renesas), Nishant specializes in driving product marketing, Go-To market strategies with proven success in managing product roadmaps and ecosystem partnerships in the memory and storage domain. He brings...

Ben Di Qual is Senior Director of Product Management for Hyperscale at Pure Storage, leading AI-ready storage solutions for hyperscalers. With over 20 years in cloud and infrastructure, he has driven large-scale AI, HPC, and storage platforms across Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and now Pure...

Prashant Dixit, Architect, has overall 20 years of experience in design and verification industry and is currently working in developing the verification solutions for UCIe at Siemens EDA. He also manages the Verification IPs team which deals with the development, testing and deployment of...

Mohamad El-Batal serves as the Seagate’s Office of the CTO Chief Systems Technologist focusing on Storage Systems Software and Emerging Memory Solutions. In his role, Mohamad is given the opportunity to help shape the systems strategy and its future foundational technology roadmaps.

Mathew Fleming is the VP of Global Business Development at Slipstream, the inventors of the Inline NVMe Interface — a groundbreaking FTL-Free, Zero-DRAM flash memory controller that fundamentally reimagines how flash storage is architected. With a career built at the frontier of flash memory...

Hammerspace co-founder and Chief Executive Officer David Flynn is a recognized leader in IT innovation who has been architecting disruptive computing platforms since his early work in supercomputing and Linux systems. David pioneered the use of flash for enterprise application acceleration as...

Luis Freeman is a Technical Project Manager in the IBM Supply Chain Engineering Organization. Luis is responsible for the Selection and Qualification of Storage Devices used across IBM Products and Services. In this role, Luis interlocks with the SSD Suppliers, IBM Brand Development teams and the...

Pankaj Goel is a seasoned technology leader and Director at Siemens EDA with over 20 years of industry experience in semiconductor design and verification. With deep expertise in Verification IP (VIP), he plays a pivotal role in driving high-quality verification solutions for complex designs. Over...

Stephen Gold is a SSD portfolio architect, driving architectural solutions for Sandisk's next-generation enterprise SSD product line. Stephen also drives Sandisk's enterprise ecosystem strategy, working with partners and enterprise SSD customers to imagine and architect new solutions to...

Mark Golez is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Solidigm, where he focuses on advancing SSD firmware and performance quality (PQ) at scale. In this role, he leads innovation across firmware, tools, and AI-driven optimization techniques to deliver real-world performance improvements for next...

Peter Graumann has been working in the communications industry for over 35 years.  He was a co-founder of two successful startups, Siworks in 1998 and Rad3 Communications in 2008.  Peter has worked on high-speed communications systems focusing on PHY processing and Forward Error Correction (FEC)...

Gary Grider is the Senior Director for Computing Technologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gary helps shape the direction of technologies to be used at the laboratory for all HPC and AI endeavors. Until recently, Gary was the longtime Leader of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Division at ...

Sumit has been in the storage industry for 30 years, and he has been deeply involved in flash-based storage as part of industry efforts including FDP. He has been in Meta since 2020 where he has been working on the server side of the Tectonic stack to improve it for flash and AI. Previously, he...

Sakul Gupta, is a Sr. Principal Security Firmware, Member Of Technical Staff at Micron Technology Inc, leading Secure Enclave firmware development on CXL DDR memory controllers and contributes to SSD security. He provides thought leadership from Micron to forums like the various memory and storage...

Yehuda Hahn is a storage ecosystem engineering lead at Sandisk, focusing on client SSDs. He works closely with the ecosystem to innovate and create next‑generation client SSD protocols, architecture, and solutions. His work spans industry collaboration, standards‑driven interfaces, and end‑to‑end...

With over 13 years of experience in Validation and Reliability Software Engineering, I have progressed from Validation Engineer to Product Owner and Reliability Architect. I focus on embedded storage systems and real-time applications in automotive and mobile platforms, with an emphasis on adaptive ...

Justin Heindel leads product management, business development, and business operations for Everpure’s Hyperscale Line of Business. Justin has over 20 years of product management, business and engineering leadership experience in storage and semiconductors. Prior to Pure, Justin was VP of Marketing...

Steffen Hellmold is the President of Cerabyte, Inc. He is responsible for driving business development efforts, scaling up the customer and partner ecosystem, leading industry and marketing engagements, and providing industry thought leadership. Steffen has more than 25 years of industry experience ...

Dan is a Principal Architect focusing on future generation NVMe SSDs for Samsung Semiconductor.  A strong background in HDD Control Systems has folded into performance FW in SSDs and future product architectures for storage products of several different medias.  Dan has worked closely with...

Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat. Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. His executive leadership experience also includes: Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise...

Steve Hetzler joined Micron Technology in 2025 as the High Capacity Storage Solutions Architect. Steve has spent most of his career working on storage architecture. Before joining Micron, he spent 4+ years at Meta as a technical on backend and archival storage. Prior to his time at Meta, he was at...

R. Scott Hills is the VP of Business Development at ANAFLASH Inc. He has an extensive background in the semiconductor industry. He has worked at several Intellectual Property (IP) companies including ARC International, Cortus, and Seamless Devices/Microsystems. Along with working at Integrated...

Daniel Hsieh is a seasoned Project Deputy Manager at Silicon Motion Inc., with a strong background in memory and storage technologies. With a proven track record of successfully leading projects in the industry, Daniel brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. His insights into the...

Chih-Tsung Huang is the Senior Director of Hardware Engineering in the Common Hardware Group. Chih-Tsung is responsible for delivering Sustainable AI infrastructure solutions for silicon, hardware systems and optics in Cisco’s switching, routing, optical, access and IoT portfolios. Chih-Tsung has...

Yu-Ming Huang is a project department manager at Macronix with 13 years of experience, focusing on error handling for non-volatile memory and the ongoing development of AI technologies. He received the B.S. degree in Communication Engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, in 2011, and...

Minsoon Hwang is a director and a SoC Architec in SKhynix, where he works on design and analysis of mixed signal circuits and memory and storage architecure after 2011. He previously worked at LG Electronics on the field of CDMA basestations and flat panel displays. He has written technical...

Karin Inbar is a Chief System & FW Architect for next-gen Enterprise SSDs at SanDisk. In this role, she defines end-to-end system solutions from compute to storage, ASIC requirements and firmware flows, tailored to evolving industry standards and customer requirements. Her expertise spans the...

The software architect of SSD Storage in ByteDance, in charge of the in-house SSD development, including the analysis of   technical requirements for internal business, firmware design/development, product delivery and maintainess.Expertise in Enterprise/Data Center SSD design from PCIe Gen 3 to...

Youngbin Jin, Ph.D., is a Staff Engineer at Solidigm, specializing in datacenter SSD competitive analysis, performance evaluation, and storage virtualization technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from...

The presenter is a Software Architect at SK hynix, currently serving as Team Leader of the AI Memory Solution System team. He leads research and development in the fields of AI Data Center Solutions and New Memory Technologies, focusing on next-generation memory architectures and AI-optimized...

Trent Johnson is a Hardware Architect at IBM, with a focus on the IBM FlashCore Module (Solid State Drive). He joined IBM as part of the Cleversafe Acquisition where he was the System Hardware Architect of exabyte-scale Object Storage. Prior to Cleversafe, he developed system-level manufacturing...

Vishal Jose Mannanal is a Storage Technologist at Dropbox, where he works on large scale HDD fleet engineering, qualification and reliability for exabyte scale storage infrastructure. His work focuses on high density magnetic recording technologies including SMR and HAMR, fleet level telemetry...

Kanchan is a Associate Director at Samsung (SSIR), where he leads a team adding advances in the Linux Storage Stack.His current work revolves around developing generic OS interfaces for new NVMe features. In past, he has presented at SDC, OSS, LPC, and LSFMM. He has engaged in system-software...

Sandeep Kaipu is an Engineering Manager at Broadcom. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise AI infrastructure and engineering leadership, he has driven large-scale platform innovations, holds multiple patents, and authored the book “AI Engineering Leadership”. He advises academic...

Himani Kaushik is a Verification IP Engineer at Siemens EDA, where she works on the development of advanced verification solutions for next generation interconnect technologies. She is currently involved in creating cutting-edge verification IP for UCIe, contributing to industry ready, high...

Chander Kavalipati is a senior manager in Data Center Solutions business unit of Microchip Technology Inc. Chander has worked on the development of several enterprise storage products for over 20 years. In his current role, Chander is working on the security architecture for Microchip's next...

Ilya Kazansky is CEO and co-founder of SPhotonix, where he leads the commercialization of 5D optical memory and advanced optics. He is a technology entrepreneur and senior executive with 15+ years of experience building companies and products across IoT, AI, machine learning, and big data. At...

He is a Distinguished Engineer at SK hynix with extensive experience in system architecture and performance analysis of DRAM-based server platforms and emerging memory solutions. His work spans CXL memory (expansion and pooling), PIM, and MRDIMM to enable scalable data center systems. More...

Harry Kim is the CPO and co-founder of XCENA. He is an experienced system software architect with 10 years of SoC expertise. He has developed hardware and software solutions for memory, storage, and processor systems. Before joining XCENA, he worked at SK Hynix as an SSD controller and firmware...

Kyungtae Kim is a Quality Engineer at SK hynix, specializing in SSD validation and reliability assessment. With extensive experience in enterprise SSD qualification, he has been evaluating SSD stability and performance in emerging datacenter environments. Recently, he has focused on the impact of...

Mike is a Fellow at KIOXIA America, Inc. in the Technology and Storage Pathfinding team.  He has 25+ years of storage system development creating innovative technologies, building teams and delivering numerous products. Mike has 25+ storage related patents.  Mike has a BS in Electrical and Computer ...

Oleg is a systems architect at Sandisk with 14 years spanning SanDisk’s acquisition by Western Digital (2016) and Sandisk’s return as an independent company (2025), focused on NAND flash management algorithms and performance analysis. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from...

Andrey Kudryavtsev is a Senior Principal Product Manager at HPE, where he leads efforts in high-performance storage solutions for HPC, with a focus on K3000 DAOS (Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage), an open-source software stack. Before joining HPE, Andrey was at Micron Technology, where he...

Shiuan-Hao Kuo is an experienced project manager with 10 years at Silicon Motion, specializing in NAND interface architecture and pioneering research in LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) code algorithms. He played a key role in SMI’s early-stage development of the SCA interface, working closely with...

Mao-Ruei Li is a Project Deputy Manager of Storage Research Department II at Silicon Motion. Prior to this role, he focused on a VLSI architecture of SERDES. He received the Ph.D. Degrees in electrical engineering from Nation Tsing Hua University. His research in high speed SERDES and error...

Sean Lin (Yu-Hsiang Lin) is R&D Manager at Phison, where he leads development and research of error correction codes and high-speed DSP implementations. With over 10+ years of experience, he has developed multiple generations of LDPC solutions for embedded, consumer, automotive and enterprise...

Dr. Chanson Lin is the Founder / Chairman & CEO of EmBestor Technology, a company specializing in industrial, niche application, and embedded storage applications. The company focuses on memory storage controller design and flash memory-based storage architectures. He has over 20 years’...

Haining Liu is a senior firmware engineering leader at SanDisk with over 15 years of experience in enterprise SSD. He specializes in firmware architecture, performance optimization, and advanced NAND media management algorithms. His work also emphasizes improving firmware...

Dr. Yang Liu is a Co-Founder and the Chief Architect at ScaleFlux, where he is driving innovation and architecture for the company's storage and memory products. Previous roles in his 20+ year career of developing storage and networking products include engineering leadership positions with...

Xinnor is an Israel-based software company specializing in high-performance data storage solutions. Founded in 2022, the company develops xiRAID — a patented software RAID engine built on a decade of math research, unique erasure-coding algorithms, and deep knowledge of modern CPU...

Grant is a Distinguished Engineer at XCENA, where he focuses on software and ecosystem enablement for CXL memory and near-memory computing. Previously, he served as co-founder and CTO of Jackrabbit Labs, a memory fabrics company. An industry veteran with deep expertise in data...

Phil Manez is Vice President of Go-to-Market Execution at VAST Data, where he focuses on driving enterprise adoption of the company’s AI-native data platform. With deep experience in strategic account development and building high-performance teams, Phil works closely with large organizations to...

Gaurav Manocha is a R&D Engineering, Sr Staff Engineer for PCIe/CXL Transactor Development at Synopsys, bringing over 13+ years of experience in the EDA industry. He has extensive expertise in CXL and PCIe generations, as well as background of simulation-to-emulation VIPs. Prior to his work in...

David McIntyre drives customer solutions development and market enablement strategy at Samsung Semiconductor, where he leads teams to deliver compute, memory and storage solutions into the AI and data analytics markets. He has held senior management positions with Intel, AMD and IBM along with...

Keith McKay is the Sr. Director of Solutions Architecture and Technical Partnerships at ScaleFlux, where he helps integrate and optimize SSD solutions across a wide variety of applications. He has delivered NAND flash training in four different countries and regularly speaks at industry events. His ...

Paul McLeod has over 20 years of experience in the storage and server industry including 12 years Supermicro where he is currently a product director.  He was previously a Sr. Field Applications Engineer at Supermicro and a Product Marketing Engineer at Promise Technology.  Paul was an early...

After graduating from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh with a BEng(Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I joined the Royal Air Force which took me across the world for two years to places like Bahrain, the Falklands and Germany (to name a few). Keen to put down roots, I joined Quarch ...

Rohan Mehta is a Member of Technical Staff - Systems Performance Engineer at Micron Technology, where he works on the Data Center Workload Engineering team. Since 2025, his work has focused on application‑level tracing, performance characterization, and data analysis to guide next‑generation SSD...

Onur Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he previously held the Strecker Early Career Professorship. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, systems, hardware security, and...

Trond Myklebust, co-founder and CTO, brings more than 20 years of experience with networked storage and Linux kernel development.  As the maintainer and lead developer for the Linux kernel NFS client, Trond has nurtured the community to architect and develop several generations of networked...

Helia Naeimi is a Fabric Technologist for Astera Labs. She has 10+ years’ experience including deep computer and networking expertise, with a strong track record of developing product architecture specifications and architecting novel networking accelerator solutions. Prior to Astera Labs, Helia...

Chris J. Newburn, who goes by CJ, is a Distinguished Engineer who drives HPC strategy and the technical IO roadmap in NVIDIA GPU Cloud, focused on pushing the envelope for storage and networking programming models at scale, data center architecture and security, and scaled systems. He is a...

Eyal Nitzan is a Senior Staff Algorithm Engineer in Machine Learning R&D at Kioxia Corporation, where he develops machine-learning and signal-processing algorithms for NAND flash memory controllers, focusing on adaptive read optimization and threshold estimation. He is a co-inventor on multiple ...

Mats Öberg is Associate Vice President, DSP Architecture at Marvell. He leads research and development of advanced signal processing for SSDs and HDDs, as well as compute and machine learning technologies for next‑generation storage products. Since joining Marvell, Mats has guided the development...

I began my professional journey with Red Hat, where I had the opportunity to build a strong foundation in open-source technologies and distributed systems. Currently, I am working as a Backend Engineer at IBM, continuing to deepen my expertise in large-scale, enterprise-grade storage...

Sowmya Rao Panuganti is an Associate Director in Samsung Electronics’ Memory Solutions team. She leads the pre‑silicon validation group that qualifies a wide range of Enterprise and Client NVMe, SAS, and CXL controllers. With more than 18 years of experience, she began as a Validation Test Engineer ...

Hardware Systems Engineer at Meta working on design of AI and Compute systems.

Sang Wook Park, Ph. D. is an engineer of Plug Etch team in R&D center, SK hynix since 2021. Prior to joining SK hynix, he was a manager of C&F group in etch business unit for Applied Materials, USA. He received a Ph. D. degree in materials science and engineering from University of...

Kyumin Park is a seasoned expert in the Memory Business at Samsung Electronics, with two decades of experience in system-level memory analysis and architecture. She specializes in evaluating next-generation memory solutions, particularly CXL-based products and composable memory systems. Throughout...

Kangkyu Park is a System Architecture Engineer at SK hynix. He received the B.S. degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Handong Global University, Pohang, South Korea in 2017, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National...

Liam Parker is a senior technologist specializing in SSD systems architectures responsible for next generation enterprise products. He has extensive experience in data placement technologies like ZNS & FDP. He has deep expertise in SSD and system algorithms for reducing write...

Having 14+ years of experience in ASIC industry, mainly in verification, with key accomplishment of GDDR, HBM memory protocol expert. Other key works in Ethernet, AMBA, MIPI CSI-DPhy, Bluetooth. Leading team to develop complete verification IPs.

Charles Prost is the Director of Engineering Innovation and Programs at Scality, where he leads high-stakes technical partnerships alongside strategic initiatives in AI integration, industrialized performance, and developer experience. In his current role, he orchestrates complex hardware-software...

Product/Technical Marketing Professional with experience in disruptive technology driven innovation. Key player in  a technical marketing/product development team to meet customer and end user demands with strong customer orientation, strategic planning and leadership skills.

Kartik Rai is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Siemens EDA, where he is a key R&D engineer for the CXL/PCIe Verification IP and custom VIP solutions for Intel proprietary protocols. He specializes in CXL memory subsystem verification, having led the development of features including...

Ayswarya Rajagopalan is a Principal Engineer in Reliability Engineering with deep expertise in solid‑state drives (SSDs). She leads the reliability execution team, owning end‑to‑end validation—from test infrastructure and testing methodology to execution, data analytics, and product...

Vijaya Rana is a Reliability Engineer with experience spanning the semiconductor, consumer electronics, and memory technology sectors. She has experience in  reliability engineering and analysis, as well as material characterization for complex hardware systems. Her work focuses on reliability...

Ben is an Application Engineer and Solutions Architect at ScaleFlux, with over a decade of experience in SSD architecture, customer enablement, and storage security. Prior to ScaleFlux, he held technical and security-focused roles at Intel and Solidigm, working extensively on enterprise storage...

Robert Rosenberg is the Chief Commercial Officer at Asine Ltd., where he leads global business strategy and customer success for ruggedized SSD and Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions. A specialist in professional reinvention, Robert transitioned from a high-level career in financial...

Mahinder has 20+ years of engineering leadership in innovative storage technologies development, building teams and product delivery.   Currently Mahinder heads SSD technology strategy at KIOXIA America, Inc., collaborating with industry experts.  He has several pending storage related patents.

Vishwas Saxena is a senior engineering leader and Distinguished Engineer at Sandisk with deep expertise in AI, machine learning, security, and system‑level software. He has architected and led multiple products across emerging technology areas and brings over 25 years of industry experience...

Hadi Sayed is a Product Manager at KIOXIA America, Inc.  Hadi has built his career in the NAND flash storage industry, with previous roles at Swissbit, CNEX Labs, and DapuStor.    Hadi holds a B.S. In Computer Engineering and a M.S. In Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Jacob Schmier is a Senior Technologist in Firmware Engineering at SanDisk, developing enterprise SSD firmware for next‑generation platforms. His work centers on implementation and technical leadership driving performance, reliability, and efficiency in data‑center storage.

Nilesh Shah is VP of Business Development at ZeroPoint Technologies, focused on AI-era memory efficiency. He advises emerging compute platforms, GPU cloud initiatives, and next-generation storage architectures, and serves as an advisor to the Xcelerated Compute Show and to venture capital firms...

I am a director leading the planning team for CXL DRAM products and working on CXL-based DRAM solutions from device-level to pooling-system products.

Shobe is a senior hardware and infrastructure leader with experience designing and operating large-scale compute/storage environments. He has led complex infrastructure deployments across global operations, with a focus on storage systems, platform reliability, and operational scale. His work...

Thermal mechanical Lead Engineer responsible for future thermal solutions for SSD's. This includes integration of SSD's in air, liquid and immersion cooled platforms with an experience of ~15 years working in different industries including turbomachinery, power plants, and...

Dheeraj is a Senior Engineer at Oracle, spearheading the qualification and optimization of high-performance SSDs for Oracle’s global cloud and AI/ML infrastructure. He drives technical evaluations, benchmarking, and test automation, ensuring hardware compatibility with demanding workloads and...

Joe Soares is a Principal Mechanical Engineer at Micron Technology, where he is part of the SSD Hardware Engineering organization. In this role, he is responsible for mechanical and thermal design of SSDs, with a focus on thermal optimization, form‑factor innovation, and pathfinding for...

Nishank is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zscaler specializing in AI security, distributed systems, and large-scale cloud infrastructure. He contributes to Zscaler’s AI Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform, building systems that discover, classify, and govern sensitive data across...

Julien Su is a Director in Product R&D Division at Macronix, specializing in hardware/software co-design at different areas in storage field specific to Flash devices. His expertise spans Flash design, SSD controller development, RAID sub-system and storage system applications. Julien has been...

Dr. Sundararaman has been leading IBM's industry leading high performance storage product portfolio. Additional detail will be provided once selected.

Rob Sykes is Director of Technical Product Marketing at Micron Technology where he focuses on the definition of Micron's SSD Enterprise Controllers. As a technology leader and visionary for over 25 years, he has been a key figure in the development of multiple generations of PCIe/NVMe...

Raghu Vamsi is an Associate director at Samsung India, responsible for Architecting and System software development for CXL. He leads a team responsible for development of Processing Near Memory Architecture, Software stack and Solutions for CXL and AXDIMM, Host software and mass production...

Mr. Tavallaei is a seasoned systems architect and technology strategist with over three decades of leadership in memory systems, interconnect technologies, and hyperscale infrastructure. He currently serves as Senior Principal Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor Inc. and CXL Consortium Board...

Raj Uppala is the Sr. Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Rambus for the Silicon IP business unit. Prior to Rambus, Raj held several roles at Western Digital in product management, product marketing, and ecosystem partnerships, for the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) product line and a Smart Video...

Wes Vaske is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Micron Technology. As a Storage Solutions Architect with over 15 years of experience in data center storage systems, he is currently focused on developing high-performance NVMe solutions for AI workloads. He is a lead contributor to the MLPerf...

He is working as AI Solutions Director at VAST Data.  He has 20 years of progressive experience in Solution architecture, Product Strategy & Management, Marketing and IT Services.

Dave Verburg is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM responsible for storage device strategy and quality.  He has been with IBM since 1991, starting in disk drive manufacturing, and spending the last 15 years of his career working with HDD and SSD quality and technology.  Dave has presented to...

I am a Senior Engineer at Siemens EDA specializing in VIP development for Compute Express Link (CXL), working on the CXL Upper Layer and CXL-Cache/Mem Protocol Interface (CPI).

David Wang is a Technical Director at Silicon Motion, where he has led HW/FW co-design and FW architecture design for PCIe Gen5, Gen6 and next-gen enterprise SSD controllers since 2020. His work focuses on high-performance I/O processing, controller micro-architecture, optimized HW/FW codesign for...

Hiroshi Watanabe, PhD, is a professor teaching flash memory and semiconductor technologies in dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He has published many journal & conference papers and invented more than 150 granted patents all over...

Ted Weatherford is Vice President of Business Development at Xsight Labs, leveraging over three decades of experience in semiconductor product management, strategic marketing and business development roles. Ted builds commercial dream teams and is known for securing early key customer design-wins...

Wendell Wenjen is Sr. Director of Storage Market Development at Supermicro, where he leads storage product marketing. He has held senior product management and marketing roles at Intel, Seagate, LG Electronics, Flex, and Acer, and holds degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and ...

Skyler Windh is an MTS Systems Software Engineer in Micron’s TPG Pathfinding Storage and Memory Systems Group (Richardson, Texas USA). He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California (Riverside, California USA) in 2018. His research interests include multithreading and...

Al Yanes has served as president of the PCI-SIG® since 2003 and chairman since 2006 and is a Distinguished Engineer for IBM in the Systems & Technology Division. He has 26 years of experience working with ASIC design in the I/O industry. Yanes holds 25 patents for PCI™ and other I/O...

Denny Yu is a Senior Project Manager at Silicon Motion with 23 years of experience in the technology sector. His expertise spans RF engineering, project management, and product marketing across major ODM module customer and IC design houses. At SMI, Denny specializes in eMMC and UFS product...

Tong Zhang is a Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), NY. In 2002, he received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of RPI. He has graduated 20 PhD students, and ...