Chat with the Experts

Tuesday August 6th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

This event will allow you to meet one-on-one with a large number of experts within the flash memory industry. With 40 tables devoted to each of 40 industry topics, take advantage of this the opportunity to have casual conversations with these important industry players while enjoying some beer and pizza.

Organizers: Jay Kramer, President, Network Storage Advisors


Technology Tables

3D Memory Technology for AI Applications

Andy Hsu

CEO @ NEO Semiconductor

Jian Chen

Senior Fellow @ Micron

Simone Bertolazzi

Principle Analyst @ Yole Group

2D DRAM / 3D DRAM Memory Strategies

Shyam Sharma

Senior Software Architect @ Cadence

Jeongdong Choe

Senior Technical Fellow @ TechInsights

Ju Jin An

Memory Product Engineer @ IBM

Quantum Computing & Quantum Communications

WeiTi Liu

General Partner @ Quantum Technology

Memory for Quantum Computing

Jean Bozman

VP and Principal Analyst @ Cloud Architects Advisors

Jung Yoon

Distinguished Engineer & CTO @ IBM

3D NAND Flash Technology

Ray Tsay

VP Engineering @ NEO Semiconductor

3D NAND Market Dynamics

Mark Webb

Principal/Consultant @ MKW Ventures

Thibault Grossi

Sr Technology and Market Analyst @ Yole Group

SSD’s For Modern AI Use Cases

Praveen Midha

Dir Segment & Tech Marketing @ Sandisk

Reliability and Performance SSDs

Davide Villa

Chief Revenue Officer @ Xinnor

Mike Heumann

Managing Partner @ G2M Communications

RDMA Interconnects / Remote Persistent Memory

John F. Kim

Director of Storage Marketing @ NVIDIA

NVMe / NVMe over Fabric

Mark Miquelon

Director of Product Alliance Engineering, Data Center Systems @ Western Digital

Ronen Hyatt

CEO and Chief Architect @ UnifabriX

Next Generation Controllers

Erich Haratsch

Senior Director Architecture @ Marvell

Enterprise Controllers

Andy Higginbotham Sr.

Director, Enterprise Marketing and Business Development @ Phison

Form Factors / Low Power

Don Jeanette

Vice President @ TrendFocus

Omar Mohammad

Technical Marketing Manager @ Macronix


Applications Tables

Enterprise Data and Analytics Apps

Ruchi Agarwal

Director Global Black Team for Cloud Scale Analytics @ Microsoft

KV Storage / Cloud Database Apps

Alok Shankar

Software Development Manager @ Adobe

Automotive Applications

Syed Hussain

Director Global Segment Marketing @ GigaDevice

Craig Nunes

AI Business Lead @ Sonatus

Aerospace and Data Centers in Space

Paul Armijo

President & CEO @ Armijo Innovations

George Williams

Chief AI Officer @ Armijo Innovations

Generative AI

Prasad Venkatachar

AI Solutions Engineering Director @ VAST Data

OpenAI and ChatGPT

Tejas Chopra

Sr. Software Engineering @ Netflix

AI Workloads and Storage Implications

Dmitry Livshits

CEO @ Xinnor

Richard Fetik

CEO and Founder @ Data Confidential


Industry Standards Tables

Ultra Accelerator Link (UA Link)

Willie Nelson

Industry Technology Enabling Manager, SNIA CXL Liaison @ Intel

Thad Omura

SVP Business and Corporate Development @ Astera Labs

CXL Consortium / CXL Expanders / CXL Apps

Anil Godbole

Zeon CXL Strategy & Marketing Manager @ Intel

Larrie Carr

VP of Engineering @ Rambus

Geof Findley

VP Sales & Business Development @ Montage Technology

Chiplets / UCIe Consortium

Brian Rea

Marketing Chair, UCIe Consortium @ Intel

Gerald Pasdast

Senior Principle Engineer @ Intel

PCI Express

Pichai Balaji

Senior Director, Product Marketing @ Marvell

Richard Solomon

Technical Marketing Manager @ Synopsys

Joe Hupcey

Product Marketing Management @ Siemens Digital Industries Software


Data Management Tables

Cybersecurity Storage

Bill Basinas

Sr. Director Product Marketing @ INFINIDAT

Storage Security

Festus Hategekimana

Security Architect @ Solidigm

Paul Suhler

Principle Engineer, SSD Industry Standards @ KIOXIA

AI Data Center Storage Architecture/Memory & Storage AI Accel

David McIntyre

Director Product Planning & Business Enablement @ Samsung

Nilesh Shah

VP Business Development @ ZeroPoint Technologies

Ransomware / Data Recovery / Data Sanitization/Erasure

Troy Hegr

Sr. Manager Global Business Development @ Ontrack

Dave Logue

Lead Data Recovery Engineer @ Ontrack

StorageNext - NVIDIA Initiative & Accelerator Managed Storage

CJ Newburn

Distinguished Engineer @ NVIDIA

Javier Gonzalez

Lead Global Open-Source Team @ Samsung

Storage Management / NVMe Live Migration

Dan Helmick

Principal Architect @ Samsung

Michael Allison

Senior Director @ Samsung

Backup & Disaster Recovery / Archive

David Feller

Chief Technology Officer @ Spectra Logic

Xinde Hu

System Architect @ Cohesity

Nelson Nahum

CEO, Founder @ Geyser Data


Storage Solutions Tables

Enterprise Storage for AI Workloads

Eric Herzog

CMO @ INFINIDAT

Rupin Mohan

Sr Director of Strategic Planning @ HPE

VMware Alternatives

George Crump

CMO @ Verge.IO

Storage Software / Cloud Storage

Saish Sali

Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix

Alok Ranjan

Software Engineering Manager @ Dropbox

Intelligent Storage Management

Richelle Ahlvers

Storage Technology Enablement Architect, Vice Chair SNIA @ Intel

Ashutosh Datar

Member of Technical Staff @ Pure Storage

Computational Storage

Jason Molgaard

Principal Storage Solutions Architect @ Solidigm

Scott Shadley

Long Term Strategic Planner @ Solidigm

ML Performance Storage and AI Storage Benchmarks

Tahmid Rahman

Director, Product Marketing  @ Solidigm

David Kanter

Founder, Head of MLPerf @ ML Commons

Curtis Anderson

Field CTO @ Hammerspace

Sustainability / Green Storage

Paul Borrill

CEO @ DAEDAELUS

Rafnesh Muchhal

Product Marketing @ Solidigm

Dave Verberg

Sr. Technical Staff Member @ IBM

Big Data Storage

Vidhya Arvind

Staff Software Engineer @ Netflix

Mitesh Mangaonkar

Tech Lead Data Engineer @ Airbnb

Virtualization & AI

Jason Yaeger

SVP Engineering @ Verge.IO


Miscellaneous Tables

US & International PR

Federica (Fred) Monsone

Founder and CEO @ A3 Communications

IT End Users / Data Storage Strategies

Fred Moore

President @ Horison Information Strategies

AI Hybrid Cloud Use Cases & Storage Strategies

Floyd Christofferson

VP Product Marketing @ Hammerspace

All-Flash & Hybrid Storage Strategies

Mike Jochimsen

Director Alliances @ INFINIDAT

Industry Analysts

Josephine Lau

Technology & Market Analyst @ Yole Group

John Lorenz

Analyst, Computing & Software @ Yole Group

FMS PDS Tutorials - Memory-Centric Computing/Emerging Memory Tec

Assaf Sella

VP Machine Learning R&D @ KIOXIA

FMS PDS Tutorials - HBM and Beyond / AiSAQ

Marc Greenberg

Principal Consultant & CEO @ Marc Greenberg Consulting

SuperWomen of FMS

Natasha Beckley

CMO @ Natasha Beckley

Beth Caltagirone

Head of Marketing @ StorPool

Betsy Doughty

VP Partner Marketing @ Hammerspace

Venture Capital / Mergers & Acquisitions

Axel Kloth

Founder, CEO @ Abacus Semiconductor

John Rotchford

Managing Director @ SASI

Steve Mitzenmacher

Corporate Development @ Zumaya

IT Industry Press / Storage Publications

Philippe Nicolas

Data Storage Market Observer & Analyst @ Storage Newsletter

Recruiter / Career Planner

John Mein

Professional Recruiter @ Mein Executive Group

Academia/Education

Joseph Wei

Managing Director @ Technology Ventures Group

Bill Gervasi

Memory Technology Analyst @ Discobolus Designs

Volunteering for FMS 2026 / New Topics for FMS 2026

Chuck Sobey

FMS Innovation Ambassador @ FMS

Tom Coughlin

FMS Conference Chair @ FMS

AI Data Center Memory - Reliability Availability Serviceability

Fen Chen

Data Center Product SME @ NVIDIA

Software Defined Memory

Dan Doyle

Business Operations @ Kove

Paul Krein

Sales @ Kove