SNIA Developer Conference 2024 | SNIA | 16 September 2024 | Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

This conference is a premier educational conference dedicated to to providing vendor-neutral information on advancements in data technology. Delve into a dynamic environment featuring curated tutorials, insightful sessions, and keynote speakers selected by industry experts. Whether you're a software engineer, product manager, or CTO, SDC caters to professionals across all disciplines. Join us at SDC to embrace the evolving landscape of technology and expand your expertise.

Why attend?
Attending SDC is a cost-effective way to acquire training in a host of different areas through tutorials, sessions, Keynote speakers, and special events. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from the experts all in one place.

Agenda:
From advancements in AI, CXL and NVMe to the latest on cloud and computational storage, SDC has something for everyone. Our 2024 agenda is currently in development. In the meantime you can review last year’s full agenda and presetnations.

2024 Speakers

Wayne Adams
SSS TWG Chair, SNIA

Richelle Ahlvers
Storage Technology Enablement Architect, Intel

Michael Allison
Sr. Director NAND Product Planning - Standards, Samsung

Curtis Ballard
Distinguished Technologist, HPE

Andy Banta
Storage Janitor, Magnition IO

Ralph Böhme
Software Engineer Team Lead, SerNet / Samba Team

Jessica Bresnahan
Software Developer, Data Storage Science LLC

Garret Buban
Partner Architect, Microsoft

Satananda Burla
Senior Principal Engineer, Marvell

Craig Carlson
Storage and Networking Architect, AMD

Debashis Chatterjee
Senior Director of Engineering, Intel

Chris Cheng
Distinguished Technologist, HPE

Yongjin Choi
Principal Engineer, HPE

Tejas Chopra
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Inc.

Floyd Christofferson
VP Product Marketing, Hammerspace

Paul Coddington
Mechanical Engineer, Amphenol

Anthony Constantine
Member, SNIA Technical Council

Tom Coughlin
President, Coughlin Associates

Dave Craton
Sr. Staff Program Manager, Seagate Technology

Raj Kumar Dani
Associate Director, Samsung Semiconductor India Research

Dhruvil Darji
Senior System Software Engineer, Nvidia Inc

Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards, Intel

Günther Deschner
Software Development Manager, IBM

Jegan Devaraju
Group Engineering Manager - Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft

David Du
Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Mohamad EL-Batal
Chief Technologist Systems, Seagate

David Emberson
Senior Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Doug Farley
Technologist, Dell

David Flynn
CEO & Founder, Hammerspace

Steven French
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, Microsoft

Hemant Gaikwad
Technical Staff, Dell Technologies

John Geldman
Director, SSD Industry Standards, Kioxia

Arun George
Associate Technical Director, Samsung Semiconductor India Research Ltd, Bangalore

Bill Gervasi
Principal Systems Architect, Nantero

Katya Giannios
Machine Learning Engineer, Micron Technology

Jonmichael Hands
VP of Storage Business Development, Chia Project

Jim Handy
General Director, Objective Analysis

Nathan Hanford
Computer Scientist, Livermore Computing Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dan Helmick
Principal Architect, Samsung

Brett Henning
Security Architect, Broadcom

Jeff Hilland
Distinguished Technologist / President, HPE / DMTF

Devasena Inupakutika
Senior Performance Engineer, Samsung

Shyam Iyer
Distinguished Engineer, Dell

Randy Jennings
Member of Technical Staff, Pure Storage

Howard Johnson
Technology Architect, Broadcom

Mark Jones
Director Technical Marketing and Performance, Broadcom ECD

Hyung Seuk Kim
Principal Engineer, Samsung

Sebastian Kirsch
Managing Director, Technology, Cerabyte

Vamshidhar Kommineni
Group Product Manager, Microsoft

Mukul Kotwani
Distinguished Technologist, HPE

Ulrich Langenbach
Director of Engineering, Missing Link Electronics

Mourad Larbi
Machine Learning Specialist, HPE

Olivier Lauvray
CTO, Biomemory

Volker Lendecke
Developer, SerNet GmbH / Samba Team

Charles Lever
Linux Kernel Architect, Oracle

Bingzhe Li
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

Chris Lionetti
SNIA Board of Directors Chair; Reference Architect, Intel

Heiner Litz
Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Bill Lynn
AMD Fellow, AMD

Grant Mackey
CTO, Jackrabbit Labs

Andrew Maier
Firmware Team Lead, Eideticom

Adam Manzanares
Director, Samsung

William Martin
SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair / Principal Engineer, SSD IO Standards, Samsung

Mohiuddin Mazumder
Principal Engineer, Data Center Group, PCI-SIG, Intel

Alex Merced
Senior Technical Evangelist, Dremio

Pratik Mishra
Sr. Staff, AMD

Piotr Modrzyk
Principal Architect, Leil Storage

Utsav Mohata
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jason Molgaard
Co-Chair SNIA Technical Council and Principal Storage Solutions Architect, Solidigm

John Mulligan
Principal Software Engineer, IBM

Trond Myklebust
CTO and Linux Kernel Maintainer, Hammerspace

Roshan Nair
Staff Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor India Research

Eriko Nurvitadhi
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, MangoBoost, Inc.

Madhav Pandya
Partner Software Engineer, Microsoft

Christian Pflaum
CEO, Cerabyte - Ceramic Data Solutions Holding GmbH

Oscar Pinto
Principal Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor Inc

Sergei Platonov
VP of Strategy, XINNOR

Daniel Pollack
CTO, Data Storage Science LLC

Shyam Prasad
Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Rohan Puri
Staff Engineer, Samsung

Ned Pyle
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Andrew Quinn
Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Arun Raghunath
Principal Engineer, Intel

Suresh Rajgopal
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology

Bharath S M
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mohinder Saluja
Director SSD Technologies, KIOXIA

Sundararajan Sankaranarayanan
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology

Steve Scargall
Senior Product Manager and Software Architect, MemVerge

Joel Schipper
Senior Product Application Engineer, Seagate

Michael Schmidt
CTO, simplyblock.io

Endric Schubert
CTO, MLE

Dhishankar Sengupta
Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Saurabh Sensharma
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Shruti Sethi
Senior PM, Microsoft

Rena Shah
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

Eric Shobe
Hardware Manager, Dropbox

David Slik
Researcher, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Mike Snitzer
Senior Principal Engineer, Hammerspace

Sujit Somandepalli
Principal Storage Solutions Engineer, Micron Technology

Ioan Stefanovici
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Donpaul Stephens
Founder & CEO, AirMettle, Inc.

Paul Suhler
Chair, IEEE Security in Storage Working Group, KIOXIA

Brad Suinn
SMB Plumber, Apple

Andy Tomlin
CEO, QiStor

Sandeep Ummadi
Senior Engineering Manager, Dropbox

Jason Vallery
Group Product Manager - Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft

Arie van der Hoeven
Principal Product Manager, Seagate Technology

Yixun Wei
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Ian Wigmore
Cloud Storage Architect / Senior Principal Engineer, Intel

George Williams
Head of AI, Ansible AI

Alan Wright
Software Architect, Hammerspace

Yadavendra Yadav
Software Architect, IBM

2024 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Hammerspace
• SNIA/SFF TA TWG

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Celestica
• Chelsio Communications Accelerate

SNIA SMB3 INTEROPERABILITY LAB:
• Microsoft

CLOUD OBJECT STORAGE PLUGFEST:
• SNIA CSTI / Cloud Storage Technologies

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Cerabyte

WIFI SPONSOR:
• SNIA / SFF TA TWG