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...

Shachi Agarwal is a Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm with over a decade of experience in embedded systems and storage technologies, including UFS, eMMC/SD, NOR/NAND.She specializes in low-level driver development, system bring-up, storage tools, and performance optimization.Her work focuses on...

Richelle Ahlvers runs Technology Initiatives and Ecosystem Enabling for the Datacenter and AI business for  Intel, promoting and driving enablement of new technologies and standards strategies. Richelle has spent over 30 years in Enterprise R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, spanning...

Waheed Ahmed is an automotive technology leader with 23+ years of experience in software for automotive systems and low-level software. He is a subject matter expert in automotive base software and hypervisors, with extensive experience in system software architecture, platform development, and...

Mike Allison is a Sr. Director in the Samsung Semiconductor Product Planning and Business Enablement team focusing on standards for existing and future NAND products. He is a participating member of NVM Express, DMTF, PCI-SIG, SNIA, and OCP. He is a member of the NVMe Board of Directors, chair of...

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...

Khayam Anjam is a Staff Engineer at Micron Technology. As part of Micron’s Data Center Workload Engineering team, he works on LPDDR and GDDR memory—characterizing and optimizing modern AI workloads across GPU-accelerated and data center platforms. He also contributes to technical papers, internal...

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...

Cameron Bahar is GM of Scale AI at Everpure, leading the company's AI and exascale infrastructure business serving GPU cloud providers and AI-native enterprises. Previously, he was SVP at Oracle leading OCI Storage and Data Management Platform Services, and held senior roles as Global CTO at...

Karthik is an Associate Director at Samsung Electronics (SSIR), he has experience of 21 years in Embedded System Testing and last 13 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...

Omar Barraza is a highly experienced marketing professional with a proven track record of growing revenue by working directly with leaders at startups, small and medium businesses, and enterprise organizations. He has over 20 years of experience as a full-time employee, including launching...

Stephen Bates is an Fellow in the AI Business Unit at AMD, where he leads work on communication and storage architectures and associated software for AI and data-centric systems. He is a recognized expert in high-performance technologies including NVMe, RDMA, TCP/IP, and non-volatile memory, with...

Valentin (Val) Bercovici is the Chief AI Officer at WEKA. He has extensive experience in the data infrastructure industry, having previously been the Chief Technology Officer at NetApp/SolidFire, where he drove innovation in cloud storage and data management solutions. Val co-authored the Windows...

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 .

Frank Berry is Founder and Senior Analyst at IT Brand Pulse, an independent analyst firm focused on enterprise infrastructure for AI.  Since 2008, the company has been recognised as the only analyst firm conducting "IT" brand leader research, and is now recognized as the only analyst firm ...

Simone Bertolazzi, PhD, is a Principal Technology & Market analyst, Memory, at Yole Group. As member of Yole’s memory team, he contributes on a day-to-day basis to the analysis of memory markets and technologies, their related materials, device architecture and fabrication processes. Simone...

Kurtis Bowman is a technologist at AMD and Chair of the UALink Consortium, where he helps drive the development of open, high-performance scale-up interconnect standards for next-generation AI and HPC systems. At FMS 2026, Kurtis will present on UALink, an open accelerator interconnect designed to...

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.

One of Nathan Brookwood's associates characterized his career by the word-length of the machines with which he had been associated. Early in his career he developed 12-bit insights on a 12-bit DEC PDP-8 system.  He graduated to 16-bit insights on a DEC PDP-11, and 32-bit insights on 32-bit DEC...

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.

Dr. Yu-Ming Chang has served as Director at Wolley since 2016, leading technology and product development in storage-class memory (SCM) controllers and NVMe-over-CXL solutions. Before joining Wolley, he was a manager at the Emerging System Lab of Macronix Taiwan and a technical consultant for the...

Rakesh Cheerla is the VP of Product at Netpreme, an early-stage startup pioneering AI memory tiering. A product leader with deep silicon and systems roots, he has shipped networking, storage, and AI infra products at Intel, Xilinx (AMD), Enfabrica, and Axiado. For the past five years, his focus has ...

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...

Chaonan Chan is a senior staff engineer at Phison, specializing in system-on-chip design, verification and implementation. With deep expertise in SoC IP integration, timing and power analysis, and digital IC design, he collaborates across architecture, firmware, hardware and backend teams to...

David Chen has more than 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, David currently...

Carina Chen drives Samsung’s DRAM portfolio marketing with cross‑industry experience in semiconductor marketing, venture capital, and consumer electronics. Her areas of focus include DRAM product transitions, Hyperscaler marketing, CXL marketing, and ecosystem enablement..

Alonso Cheng is a lead engineer on the CXL/PCIe VIP development team at Siemens, with over 10 years of experience in the EDA industry. He has contributed to the development and delivery of PCIe, and CXL VIPs and has played a key role in several high‑priority customer verification projects. In...

Ilya Cherkasov is a Principal Engineer and Product Manager at KIOXIA America, Inc., with over 15 years of experience in SSDs.

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 the 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...

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...

Samantha Clarke is Vice President at VDURA, where she drives global sales, business development, and strategic partnerships across the AI and high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystems. With over two decades of leadership in data storage infrastructure, she specializes in architecting...

Seamus Connor is a technical leader at Everpure within the Hyperscale Line of Business, helping drive strategy and execution for hyperscale storage platforms. With more than 19 years of experience in systems and infrastructure engineering, he works across hardware and software boundaries to align...

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...

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business/ technology consultant.  He has over 45 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions.  Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports and...

Jon joined TweakTown in 2013 and has since reviewed hundreds of SSDs, HDDs, and storage devices. Jon became a computer enthusiast when Windows XP launched. He was into water cooling and benching ATI video cards with modded drivers. Jon has been building computers for others for more than 20...

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...

Cristian Dominguez Bencomo is Vice President at Flexxon, leading the company's US OEM business and driving go-to-market for X-PHY, Flexxon's cybersecurity innovation arm and the industry's first AI-embedded Cyber Secure SSD - bringing AI threat detection to the firmware and NAND layer...

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...

Ed Dawson is a seasoned professional in the field of storage hardware strategy planning, currently serving as a key member of the team at Microsoft. With a strong background in SSD, NAND, and HDD technologies and a deep understanding of the evolving cloud and AI landscape for memory and storage...

Kevin is the senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA, joining from Mellanox Technologies where he was senior vice president of Marketing. He has been a founder or senior executive at five startups that have achieved positive outcomes. Combining both technical and business expertise, Deierling ...

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...

Working as Director of Engineering at Samsung Semiconductor India Research Bangalore , having 20 +years of experience in Design Verification. Deep Expertise in Memory subsystems for DRAM [LPDDR,HBM] and UFS Flash Storage

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...

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...

Nhan Do received his bachelors of arts in Physics and Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the University of California at Irvine. Upon his graduation in 1999, Nhan joined Silicon Storage Technology (SST) as a device...

Vincent V. Doan is a distinguished reliability engineering leader with more than two decades of experience across storage, aerospace, telecom, semiconductor, and consumer electronics industries.  Vincent has held engineering and leadership roles at various companies from PCB fabrication, magnetic...

Acquired a Ph.D degree in 2002 (X-ray spectroscopy) and served as a researcher in Samsung Electronics, Huawei, HGST, VmWare, ByteDance and IBM. As a Linux kernel developer maintains and contributes to HFS/HFS+, NILFS2, CephFS file system drivers, and designed a SSDFS open-source file system and ML...

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.

Geof Findley has over 38 years in the technology industry and currently is the World Wide Vice President of Business Development and Sales at Montage Technology, Inc. since March 2018. Prior to this role, Geof Findley spent 19 years at Intel Corporation, where positions included Director of Memory...

Doug Finke is the Chief Content Officer of Global Quantum Intelligence (GQI) and the Managing Editor of the Quantum Computing Report by GQI, which he founded in 2015 as the first news and analysis website dedicated to quantum technology. He brings a broad range of experience to help explain and...

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...

As Director of Channel Sales and New Business Development for Fujifilm’s Data Storage Solutions Division, Rich drives revenue and channel/end user understanding of the purpose and value proposition of modern tape technology. Rich joined Fujifilm in 2003 as Director of Product Management, Computer...

I'm a systems engineer at Microsoft in the Core Operating Systems group working on storage and file systems. I've worked on the entire storage stack, from device drivers (NVMe, UFS, eMMC, etc.) to our modern file system, ReFS.

Mr. Gervasi has nearly 5 decades of experience in high speed memory subsystem definition, design, and product development.  He piloted the definition of Double Data Rate SDRAM since its earliest inception, authoring the first standard specification, and created the Automotive SSD standard.  With...

Jay Gite is a Thermal Engineer at NVIDIA, where he specializes in architecting, designing, and executing air cooled and liquid cooled solutions for HPC data center products. He also has prior experience working on battery thermal management at Tesla and working on consumer electronic products at...

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...

Turguy Goker is a seasoned technology leader with deep expertise in advanced development and innovation in data storage. As Director of Advanced Development for Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology at Quantum, he plays a key role in shaping next-generation solutions for managing and preserving data at ...

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...

I lead Samsung Semiconductor's Global Open-ecoSystem Team (GOST - https://tinyurl.com/SamsungGOST), where I am responsible of our ecosystem activities and manage a distributed team of highly talented engineers. This includes defining our vision, strategy, internal / external communication, and...

Anna Gradie, BA, PCC, is an Executive Coach, speaker, and former tech co-founder/COO who helps women in tech build the confidence and leadership presence to thrive in demanding environments. With a decade leading operations and people strategy at an edtech company, where she helped scale the...

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)...

Adam Grenzebach is a Principal Hardware Engineer at Microsoft, where he leads initiatives in memory reliability, security, and large-scale deployment across Azure datacenter platforms. His work focuses on DRAM error telemetry, fault isolation, and the development of robust mitigation strategies to...

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 ...

Jack is the Founder and Chairman of Numem, a leader in low‑power, high‑performance memory solutions for Edge AI, Physical AI, and Data Center applications. He also serves on the Board or Advisory Board of multiple AI hardware and SaaS companies and is an active investor in more than 50 startups...

Bradley Guerke has been working in data storage technologies since 2008. Focus over the years has been on Read/Write Channel, System Design, and more recently in enterprise SSD quality and reliability.

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...

Josh works at IBM as a storage device qualification engineer and project manager. He has been at IBM for 4 years and was hired as a college new-graduate from Iowa State University with a BS in Computer Engineering. Throughout Josh's time at IBM, he has been focused on created storage device...

Hyeongseok Gwak, TL at SK hynix Memory Systems Research, leads LLM inference analysis & AI serving platform R&D. Focused on AI inference optimization & scalable Data Analytics Platforms for efficient, real-world deployment.

Majid Hadian is Principal Engineer with Google DeepMind. He joined Google in 2016 after his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and a stint as CalTech faculty.

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 ...

Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has over 35 years in the electronics industry including 20 years as a leading semiconductor and SSD industry analyst. Early in his career he held marketing and design positions at leading semiconductor suppliers including Intel, National Semiconductor, and...

Ulrich Hansen is a Principal Cloud Hardware Storage Architect at Microsoft Azure. In his current role, Ulrich is focusing on advanced engineering projects for storage devices to ensure next-generation SSDs and HDDs meet the demanding requirements of Azure’s Cloud solutions. Prior to joining...

Erich Haratsch is Senior Distinguished Engineer at Marvell, where he leads architecture definition for SSD and storage controllers. Before Marvell, he worked at Seagate and LSI on SSD and HDD controllers across multiple product generations, and earlier at Agere Systems on HDD controller...

Jason Hardy is vice president of storage technology at NVIDIA, where he drives storage architecture and ecosystem alignment for accelerated computing and enterprise AI. He’s led the development of high-performance storage systems and AI solutions supporting analytics, enterprise, and industrial...

John Harechmak is the World Wide Vice President of Field Engineering at PEAK:AIO, bringing over 25 years of expertise in systems engineering and customer success. A specialist in scaling technical organizations, his career includes senior leadership roles at Hammerspace, Cohesity, and NetApp, as...

Troy Hegr is a Sr. BD Manager at Ontrack Data Recovery, a global industry leader in data recovery, data erasure, cyber incident recovery, and data management/protection. Troy helps facilitate discussion and fosters partnerships in the technical community with leading data storage and computer...

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, a Lenovo company. 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...

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...

Kevin is a Senior Manager in the Managed Flash Applications Engineering group at KIOXIA America Inc.  He has worked in the memory industry for over 25 years and held various roles in engineering, marketing, and sales.  He is the technical support lead of the Managed Flash product line for all of...

Andy Hsu is the Founder/CEO of NEO Semiconductor, a company focused on 3D NAND flash memory and DRAM technologies. In 2018, the company made a breakthrough in the world's fastest 3D NAND flash memory architecture named X-NAND. The architecture was presented in Flash Memory Summit conference in...

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...

Stanley Huang is Associate Vice President of Edge SSD Business at Silicon Motion, where he is responsible for driving business strategy, product planning, and market development for the company's edge storage solutions. With more than 15 years of experience in the SSD industry, Stanley has...

Dan Hubbard is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Micron Technology focused on Enterprise SSD Systems Architecture and Industry Standards. Dan has over 20 years of experience in the memory and storage industry and holds more than 25 patents related to storage and NAND flash. In his ...

Andrea “Andi” Huels is the Chief AI Officer at BluSky AI, where she leads AI strategy and partnerships for modular AI Factories purpose-built for high-performance workloads. Recognized as one of the Top 24 AI Influencers of 2024, Andi has spent more than a dozen years shaping the AI landscape...

Neil Hutchison is a SSD System Architect with deep expertise in performance architecture driving architectural solutions for Sandisk's current and next-generation enterprise SSD product line. Neil is the co-chair for the SNIA Solid State Storage Technical Working Group driving industry...

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...

Ronen Hyatt is the CEO and Chief Architect of UnifabriX, a system and silicon startup targeting the Memory Wall with CXL-based Software-Defined Memory Pools and CXL Fabrics. Ronen is an expert in system architectures with over 20 years of experience leading and delivering silicon designs running...

Neville Ichhaporia is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SSD Business Unit at KIOXIA America, Inc., responsible for SSD marketing, business management, product planning, and engineering, overseeing the SSD product portfolio aimed at cloud, data center, enterprise, and client computing ...

Alper Ilkbahar Executive Vice President, CTO Sandisk Alper Ilkbahar is Executive vice president, CTO at Sandisk, overseeing NAND technology development, next-generation technologies, corporate research functions, and market development. Most recently, Ilkbahar served as senior vice president of ...

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...

Klaus is a principal software engineer with Samsung Semiconductor Denmark Research where he leads a small, dedicated team tasked with technology adoption and enablement of emerging technologies in the open ecosystem. He is involved with the NVMe® community as a technical proposal co-author and as...

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

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...

  William Jo is a senior SoC, storage, and memory systems architect with over 18 years of experience spanning SSD firmware, storage controller architecture, FPGA prototyping, RTL development, and hardware/software co-design. He has led advanced architecture efforts across...

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 an Associate Director at Samsung (SSIR), where he leads a team advancing the Linux storage stack. His current work focuses on designing generic operating system interfaces for emerging NVMe features. As a Linux kernel contributor, he has architected scalable and efficient I/O paths that...

Jason Jung is a Principal Hardware Engineer in Micron’s TPG Pathfinding Storage and Memory Systems Group (Richardson, Texas, USA). He has over 25 years of experience in scale-up chipset design, disaggregated memory systems, and near-memory compute. He earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from...

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...

Nidish Kamath is the Director of Product Management for Memory Interface IP at Rambus. He previously held marketing and product management roles at AMD, Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory), Avalanche Technologies, Brocade and Qualcomm, where he worked on computational storage, SmartNICs and GPU...

Uksong Kang is Vice President at SK hynix, where he leads the Next Generation Product Planning Team and is responsible for defining future memory and storage products and their associated strategies. Drawing on his prior leadership experience in DRAM Product Planning and DRAM Design, he brings deep ...

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...

Ugur Kaynar is a Distinguished Engineer leading AI inference acceleration in the Dell AI Data Platform, driving innovation across storage connectors, protocols, data paths, and end‑to‑end I/O pipelines for large‑scale AI systems. She advances storage technologies for AI workloads and builds an open ...

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...

Rachana Khamamkar is an embedded software engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. on the Core Boot team, where she develops Primary Boot Loader software for production platforms. Her work sits at the intersection of boot architecture and storage technology, enabling reliable storage access at the...

Bill Insup Kim is a principal engineer at Samsung Electronics leading automotive eStorage supplier management, with over 18 years of experience in ASPICE-compliant development of automotive memory solutions such as UFS and eMMC, including functional safety and cybersecurity integration. He has...

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...

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...

Chunsung Kim, EVP of Solution Development at SK hynix, currently leads the development of the company’s solution products. With over 15 years of experience in S.LSI development, Chunsung Kim established and built SK hynix’s in-house NAND Flash controller teams and capabilities in 2011. Possessing a ...

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 ...

Axel is a physicist and computer scientist by training, and he is the Founder, President and CEO of Abacus Semiconductor Corporation. He was also the Founder and CTO of an AI-enhanced security processor company, for which he developed the underlying technology and was instrumental in the...

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...

Nikita Kothari is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where she builds AI-driven enterprise solutions that integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, and intelligent automation to enhance personalization, access, and system trust. With over a decade of experience spanning...

Oleg is a systems architect at Sandisk, where he has worked since 2012 on NAND flash management algorithms, performance analysis, and storage architecture. His work centers on architecting solid-state storage systems and enabling artificial intelligence workloads both in and with the help of...

Randy Kreiser has over 3 decades of experience in the High-Performance Computing and Storage industry.  Currently Randy is Field Chief Technology Officer for Graid Technology specializing in high-speed storage architecture and file systems.  His vast experience puts him in a unique position to...

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...

Santosh Kumar is currently working at SK Hynix America as Sr. Director, Advanced Memory Enabling and in-charge of next generation memory solutions like PIM, HBF, CXL, etc. He has been working at SK hynix America for more than 13 years and has hold various technical and planning leadership role in...

Jai Kumar is a Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom with more than 25 years of experience in networking, systems, and advanced computing technologies. He holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi and a graduate degree in Machine Learning from Georgia...

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...

Sameer Kuppahalli is a semiconductor industry executive specializing in memory-interface and connectivity technologies. He serves as Vice President and General Manager of the Memory Interface and Analog and Mixed Signals product group at Renesas Electronics. Prior to that, he held leadership roles...

Josephine Lau is a seasoned expert in the memory and storage industry and a key contributor to Yole Group’s market intelligence activities, with a focus on the global NAND and DRAM sectors. As a co-author of several of Yole’s flagship memory market reports, she brings sharp analytical insight and a ...

Hayley LeBlanc is a Senior Researcher in the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research. Her current research looks at new and emerging memory technologies for machine learning workloads and on capacity management in cloud storage services. Previously, Hayley has worked on storage systems for...

Kyung Soo Lee is a senior Principal Engineer at SK hynix, a leading global semiconductor company. With over a decade of experience in the memory and storage technologies, he is a visionary leader driving innovation at the forefront of field. His expertise lies in developing emerging memory and...

Jihyo Lee is the CEO and co-founder of FADU, a leading fabless semiconductor company revolutionizing data center and storage solutions for next-generation computing architectures. Under his leadership, FADU has become a hub of innovation, bringing together top industry talent to drive advancements...

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...

Eui-cheol Lim is a Research Fellow and leader of Solution Advanced Technology team in SK Hynix. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1993 and 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from Sungkyunkwan University, suwon, Korea in 2006. Dr.Lim joined SK Hynix in...

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’...

Andrew Lin is Deputy Director at Phison Electronics, where he has spent his career on NAND flash translation layer (FTL) design. He currently focuses on enterprise QLC SSDs and system architecture — including work like aiDAPTIV+, which uses flash as an intelligent extension of GPU memory for...

Daniel Lipovitch is Director of Technical Marketing at Weebit Nano, covering NVM in AI applications including NMC, IMC and neuromorphic computing. Lipovitch has nearly 25 years of semiconductor industry experience spanning engineering, product development, and technical marketing. Prior to joining...

Experienced in Semiconductor engineering, market consultancy, research, and analysis in the Semiconductor industry for 10+ years.  In-depth Global Semiconductor Manufacturing market research, including supply, demand, technology development, policy, and geopolitical impact monitoring. Focus on...

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...

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...

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...

David Logue Data Recovery Manager & Lead Engineer, Ontrack Dave Logue has spent more than 25 years at the intersection of data recovery and data security — recovering what others declare unrecoverable, and verifying that what should be gone truly is. As the Data Recovery Operations Manager...

John Lorenz is the Director of Memory & Computing research at Yole Group.He leads the growth of the team’s technical expertise and market intelligence, while managing key business relationships with industry leaders. John also drives the development of Yole Group’s market research and strategy...

Partner & Head of Business Development, Investments at Aventurine Capital Group, LLC30+ years of experience as a high-tech executive across corporations and startupsSenior Director at Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), driving global industry collaborationChief Marketing Officer (CMO) at...

Simon A. F. Lund is a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics, where he leads the Systems Advancement and Integration (SAI) group and the Accelerator-integrated Storage I/O (AiSIO) project. His work focuses on open, portable system-software architectures for integrating storage with GPUs and...

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...

Dr. Vikram Sharma Mailthody is Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research. He is one of the core architects of NVIDIA Dynamo - distributed inference at scale product and co-leads Storage-Next initiative. His work focuses on solving foundational systems-level challenges in emerging data center...

Khurram Malik is a seasoned technology leader and product marketing executive at Marvell, where he leads the memory and storage subsystem product portfolio. His focus spans some of the most transformative technologies shaping modern infrastructure - including custom HBM (High Bandwidth...

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...

Mr. Katsuki Matsudera is a General Manager of the Memory Technical Marketing Managing Department at KIOXIA Corporation. He has played a key role of the planning and marketing of KIOXIA’s groundbreaking BiCS FLASH™ Generation 8 3D flash memory, utilizing CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array)...

Brian McCarson is a seasoned technology executive with nearly 30 years of industry experience, currently serving as a Corporate Vice President at Microchip Technology, where he leads the Data Center Solutions Business Unit. His background includes more than two decades at Intel Corporation as Vice...

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 14 years at Supermicro where he is currently a Product Director for storage servers.  He was previously a Sr. Field Applications Engineer at Supermicro and a Product Marketing Engineer at Promise Technology. ...

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 ...

PANKAJ MEHRA is Professor of Research in Computer Science and Engineering department at The Ohio State University. Pankaj's prior academic positions include Visiting and Assistant Professor of CSE at IIT Delhi, Faculty Visitor at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Industry Visitor at Stanford CS...

Rohan Mehta is a Member of Technical Staff - Systems Architect 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 solutions architecting with systems modeling and data...

J is Technical Director for Systems Design for AMD where he works to coordinate and lead strategy on various industry initiatives related to systems architecture, including advanced networking and storage. He has a unique ability to dissect and explain complex concepts and strategies, and is...

Jason Molgaard is an experienced storage controller RTL design engineer and architect having worked for various storage device companies architecting and designing HDD and SSD storage controllers.  As a Principal Storage Solutions Architect on the Solidigm Architecture and Pathfinding Team, Jason...

John Monroe has been involved with the storage industry for more than 40 years, beginning in 1980. •  From 1997 to 2022, Monroe was a VP Analyst at Gartner, covering the history and forecasting the future of consumer and enterprise storage markets. •  From 1990 to 1997, he was the VP of all storage ...

Federica “Fred” Monsone is founder and CEO of A3 Communications, a specialist technology PR agency focused on enterprise data storage, data protection, and memory, across the USA and Europe. With nearly 30 years’ experience in communications, Fred has worked with over 200 organisations, from...

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...

Mishali Naik, Ph.D., is a Senior Principal Engineer with expertise and interests in AI, computer systems and architecture, integrated hardware and software solutions and co-design, application-level performance analysis and optimization, and domain-specific customization.  She is leading AI and...

Chandra Nelogal is a Technologist working in the area of data storage and security at Wiwynn Corporation.  As part of the role his focus areas include technical path finding, strategic initiatives, partner engagement and industry standards.  Prior to Wiwynn, he worked in enterprise storage on...

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...

ND Ngoka is a Senior Startup Solutions Architect for Generative AI at AWS, helping startups build and scale innovative AI-powered applications on the cloud.

Bao D. Nguyen is an embedded software engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. with 15 years of experience in storage software. Bao has worked on storage drivers and technologies including eMMC/SD, NOR/NAND, and UFS across early boot, engineering tools, and the Linux kernel.

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 ...

Dilim is a Principal Storage Systems Performance Engineer at Micron with a focus on AI storage solutions at scale. He is motivated in moving beyond the hy(AI)pe and truly understanding how this technology works and can be designed to work better for everyone. Before this second tenure at Micron, he ...

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...

Michael is an evangelist for open ecosystems to accelerate data center HW and SW deployments. With over a decade in x86/Arm system integration, virtualization, and SaaS- he offers valuable customer insights to product and R&D teams developing AI Inferencing infrastructure and rack management...

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.

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.

Sergei Platonov is the Vice President of Strategy at Xinnor, a technology company specializing in storage solutions. He began his tech industry career in 2010 after graduating with a degree in Computer Science, and joined an SDS start-up in 2009. Throughout his career, Sergei has been instrumental...

Molly Presley is SVP of Global Marketing at Hammerspace and host of the Data Unchained podcast. She is a technology marketing leader focused on AI infrastructure and modern data platforms, with experience building product marketing organizations, global user communities, and customer advisory...

Thomas Prohofsky serves as a technologist in Seagate’s Office of the CTO focusing on Cloud Native storage architectures and AI data pipelines.  In his role, Thomas is given the opportunity to research innovative solutions to the increasing demand for data from machine learning deployments on...

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...

Sumit is a storage industry veteran with over 30 years of experience. Sumit has been focused on defining the technology roadmaps for key industry leaders including SandForce, LSI, and Toshiba. Sumit has a long history with bringing successful products to market with numerous teams and large-scale...

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.

Devesh Rai has held senior software engineer positions over the past 24+ years.  Devesh’s extensive experience includes designing and developing host I/O stack, distributed file system, DRaaS, and architecture of firmware for NVMe SSDs.

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...

Chris Ramseyer is a seasoned technology professional with a passion for driving innovation in the memory and storage industry. Chris' career started with a twenty year stretch in media as a product reviewer with sixteen of those focusing exclusivly on storage including some of the first...

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...

I build the data infrastructure that makes enterprise AI practical.As Co-founder and CTO at Scality, I lead technology strategy, architecture, and innovation for distributed storage platforms designed for AI data pipelines, cyber-resilient protection, and cloud-scale applications. My work sits at...

John is the founder of SASI and provides M&A advisory services to private and public companies in the technology market. His primary focus is in cloud infrastructure technologies covering storage, compute, networking, and security across software, SaaS, appliance and pure service business...

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 Principal Firmware Engineer 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.

W. David Schwaderer is the ShapeShift® Ciphers CEO. He has 12 issued and pending patents owned by ShapeShift Ciphers.. David has authored dozens of industry articles and eleven technical books that explain complex technology in approachable ways. He has developed six commercial software programs...

Assaf Sella is VP & CTO of the KIOXIA Israel Development Center, where he leads research in generative AI, AI infrastructure, and deep neural network technologies for enhancing Flash memory reliability. Before joining KIOXIA, Assaf served as CTO of Texas Instruments Israel and held senior...

Dongjoo Seo is an engineer and researcher at Samsung, focusing on system-level performance for large-scale AI workloads. His current interests include KV-cache efficiency for foundation model inference covering memory footprint reduction, bandwidth-aware caching, and end-to-end latency optimization ...

Scott Shadley, is a Director of Storage Strategy at Solidigm, where his focus is on efforts to drive adoption of new storage technologies, including computational storage, storage-based AI, and post quantum cryptography. Over his 27 years in the semiconductor and storage space, Scott has been...

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...

Shamil joined Silicon Motion as Senior Director of Enterprise Product Marketing and brings more than 15 years of experience in the Enterprise SSD and controller industry. He has a proven track record of driving strategic growth, customer engagement, and design wins with leading Tier 1 and Tier 2...

Shyam has over 26 years of experiences in various fields of Electronic Design Automation. His area of expertise includes processor architecture, interconnects, storage, and memory sub systems. He is currently working as Distinguished Engineer responsible for the entire memory sub system...

Viral Sharma is a Senior Manager in the Verification IP team at Synopsys leading teams focused on NVMe Verification IP and GenAI-based verification automation. His current focus is on NVMe’s evolving role in AI compute infrastructure – enabling high throughput, low latency storage critical for GPU...

Eran Sharon is a Distinguished Engineer at Sandisk, managing the Advanced Algorithms & Research team, developing Error Correction Coding, Signal Processing, ML/AI, and Cryptographic solutions for Storage. Eran received his PhD in EE (2009) from Tel-Aviv University. He has 50+ academic...

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

Sam Shim is a Principal Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor with 19+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure. He works at the Samsung Memory Application eXperience Lab (MAX Lab), helping organizations unlock the full potential of modern infrastructure through hands-on access to...

Riichiro Shirota is a distinguished professor at National Tsing-Hua University, renowned for his groundbreaking research in the field of memory and storage technologies. With over 23 years of experience in the Toshiba corportation in Japan, he has made significant contributions to the development...

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...

Shu Zhenyu is a Technical Lead for High-Performance Storage Systems at Xiaohongshu Inc. (RedNote), responsible for the design and development of data-center-scale storage infrastructure serving object, file, and AI training workloads.   His work spans distributed storage architecture, storage...

Pitamber Shukla is a seasoned Senior Manager and Solutions Architect at Microchip Technology, with a proven track record of driving innovation in the field of memory and storage solutions. With over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Dr. Shukla possesses a deep understanding of...

Thermal mechanical Principle 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...

Carter Snay is the leader of the Datacenter group at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Labs (UNH-IOL), where they bridge the gap between high-performance data infrastructure and decentralized systems. Carter leads the NVMe® Interoperability and Compliance efforts at UNH-IOL, acting...

Jinin So is a Senior Director & System Architect at Samsung, responsible for developing advanced CXL products and technologies, including CMM-DC (Computing), CMM-B (Disaggregated Memory System), and SMDK (Software Stack for CXL Products). He has played a key role as the lead architect in...

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...

Taeksang Song is a Corporate VP at Samsung Electronics where he is leading a team dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge technologies including SOCAMM, MRDIMM, CXL memory expander, fabric-attached memory solution and processing near memory accelerator to meet the evolving demands of next-generation...

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...

Ioan Stefanovici is a Principal Researcher in the Future AI Infrastructure team at Microsoft Research Cambridge. His research focuses on inventing the future infrastructure for AI systems, with a particular interest in novel and disruptive memory and storage technologies.Previously, Ioan spent over ...

Ross Stenfort is a Distinguished Engineer at SanDisk with 30+ years of experience shaping the storage industry from storage systems, SSDs, flash controllers, and storage ASICs to the standards that define how the ecosystem moves forward. He plays an active role in OCP, SNIA/SFF, and NVM...

Per Stenström is Chief Science Officer of ZeroPoint Technologies and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Computer Architecture. His scientific production comprises four textbooks, more than 200 publications and about thirty patents. He has held several leadership roles in the Computer ...

Hello, my name is Nathan Stephens and I am one of the founders of Greenie Genie. Our goal is to lay the foundation of recycling habits in the youth through automation, gamification, and the use of Ai. Our product instills recycling habits early on through a gamified recycling bin that teaches the...

Vaughn is a VP of Systems Engineering at VAST Data. He helps organizations capitalize on what’s possible from VAST’s AI Operating Systems in a multitude of environments including A.I. & deep learning, data analytics, animation & VFX, media & broadcast, health & life sciences, data...

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.

Varun Sundaresan is a Senior Manager for Reliability Engineering at SanDisk. He has about 10+ years of experience in NAND Flash business and in total 18 years of Technological experience with Firmware, System Validation and OEM background. He manages the Reliability engineering for...

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, where he spearheads architecture, system software development, and mass production solutions for next-generation CXL and CXL Processing Near Memory (PNM) products. With a deep expertise spanning device firmware, host software stacks, and AI/ML...

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...

Alex TeChang Tseng has been working in semiconductor memory industry for 25 years. His working experience includes BSIM device modeling, DRAM/NOR/NAND Flash Memory circuit design and testing field, and also NAND Flash controller production development. He published 1st NAND Flash memory book in...

Namita Varerkar is a Senior Staff Product Marketing Specialist at Renesas, focused on SoC ecosystem enablement across memory technologies and DIMM components for next-generation compute platforms. With over a decade of experience in the memory and compute industry, she specializes in memory...

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 has been a lead contributor to the...

Mark Vena is the CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a technology industry veteran for over 25 years, Mark Vena covers numerous business, enterprise and consumer tech topics, including AI, semiconductor, PCs, smartphones, smart home, connected...

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...

Manoj Wadekar (Meta) is a leading figure in Meta's Networking division, focusing on advanced networking solutions & AI integration. His contributions in system architecture and network/memory/storage products have driven significant innovations in Meta's infrastructure, enhancing the...

Gordon Waidhofer is a member of the architecture team for Flashtec™ NVMe SSD Controllers within the Data Center Solutions Business Unit at Microchip Technology, Inc. Gordon has been working with SSD for 15 years, with decades of block, file, and networking storage technology experience. He focuses...

Jay Walstrum is a Senior Principal Datacenter Solution Architect for Micron’s Core Datacenter Business Unit, where he is focusing on new opportunities in the three to five-plus year timeframe. In his role, he also applies innovative technologies and memory/storage architectures to solve customer...

Po-Chun is a Senior Engineer at Siemens EDA and a member of the Siemens Avery VIP team, specializing in PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL) IC design verification. With over five years of experience in Verification IP (VIP) development, he focuses on PCIe/CXL protocol technologies and collaborates...

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...

Mark Webb is principal analyst and advisor at MKW Ventures Consulting LLC. His focus areas are memory technologies and semiconductor foundry processes and costs. Mark is a recognized expert in NAND, DRAM, HBM and Emerging Memory technologies and costs. Mark was previously Manufacturing Director in...

David Weeks is a supply chain risk management leader and Industry Practice Lead at Moody’s, with over twenty years of experience spanning supply chain risk management, operational resilience, and enterprise risk. He advises global enterprises and government organizations on third‑party...

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 ...

Jeremy is an accomplished storage technology leader with over 20 years of experience. At Micron he has a wide range of responsibilities, including product planning, marketing and customer support for Server, Storage, Hyperscale, and Client markets globally. Previously he was GM of the SSD business...

George Williams is the Chief AI Officer at Armijo Innovations.  He has held senior leadership roles in data science and artificial intelligence in industry such as Apple's New Product Architecture, as well as in academia at New York University's Courant Institute.  George can talk on a...

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...

Daniel Worledge is a Distinguished Research Scientist and the Senior Manager of MRAM at the IBM Almaden Research Center.  He leads teams in Yorktown Heights and Albany in New York, and in San Jose in California, doing scientific research and technology development of magnetoresistive random access...

Dr. Jonn Wu serves as the Special Technical Advisor to the President and CEO at ATP Electronics, where he provides strategic guidance on the development of next-generation flash memory technologies for mission-critical sectors. A seasoned innovator, Jonn transitioned to the semiconductor industry ...

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...

Shimeng Yu is the endowed Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a PhD degree from Stanford University in 2013. He is an elevated IEEE Fellow for contributions to non-volatile memories and in-memory computing. Prof. Yu’s general...

Ismail Emir Yuksel is a 3rd-year PhD student in the SAFARI Research Group at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Onur Mutlu. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, processing-in-memory, and hardware security, focusing on understanding, enhancing, and exploiting...

Eran Yuval serves as a lead for gaming and AI within Sandisk's Client SSD technical marketing team. Driven by his enthusiasm for improving how people interact with technology, he collaborates with the broader ecosystem, product managers, architects, and clients to innovate next-generation...

Dr. Tong Zhang is a recognized leader in data storage systems and VLSI signal processing, with more than 25 years of research experience and significant technical contributions to the field. He is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of ScaleFlux, where he leads technology pathfinding for...