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
Jeongdong Choe
Senior Technical Fellow @ TechInsights
Jian Chen
Visiting Scientist @ Stanford University
Simone Bertolazzi
Principle Analyst @ Yole Group
RDMA Interconnects / Remote Persistent Memory
Rob Davis
Vice President @ NVIDIA
John F. Kim
Director of Storage Marketing @ NVIDIA
Stephen Bates
Chief Architect Emerging Storage Systems @ Huawei
Memory for Quantum Computing
WeiTi Liu
General Partner @ Quantum Technology
RISC-V
Axel Kloth
President & CEO @ Scalable Systems Research Labs Inc.
New and Emerging Memory
Mark Webb
Principal/Consultant @ MKW Ventures
Joe O'Hare
Senior Director of Marketing @ Everspin Technologies
PCI Express
Pichai Balaji
Senior Director, Product Marketing @ Marvell
Mamta Rana
Sr. Principal Product Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems
Richard Solomon
Technical Marketing Manager @ Synopsys
PCIe SSDs
Ethan Sloan
Sr. Manager Flash Marketing @ Western Digital
Zaki Hassan
Director of Flash Marketing @ Western Digital
Reliability and Performance SSDs
Davide Villa
Chief Revenue Officer @ Xinnor
Mike Heumann
Managing Partner @ G2M Communications
NVMe / NVMe over Fabric
Bill Martin
Principal Engineer, SSD IO Standards @ Samsung
Mark Pastor
Western Digital
OpenFabrics Alliance
Mark Miquelon
Director of Product Alliance Engineering, Data Center Systems @ Western Digital
3D NAND Flash Technology
Ray Tsay
VP Engineering @ NEO Semiconductor
Walt Coon
VP NAND & Memory Research @ Techinsights
Jung Yoon
Distinguished Engineer & CTO @ IBM
2D DRAM / 3D DRAM
Mike Howard
VP DRAM & Memory Markets @ TechInsights
Shyam Sharma
Senior Software Architect @ Cadence
Ju Jin An
Memory Product Engineer @ IBM
Unified Memory Architecture
Richard Fetik
CEO and Founder @ Data Confidential
Enterprise Controllers
Andy Higginbotham Sr.
Director, Enterprise Marketing and Business Development @ Phison
Next Generation Controllers
Erich Haratsch
Senior Director Architecture @ Marvell
Endurance / RAID
Dmitry Livshits
CEO @ Xinnor
iOS iAP2 Support Portable SSD
Calvin Chang
CEO @ Vinpower
Form Factors/Low Power
Don Jeanette
Vice President @ TrendFocus
Applications Tables
KV Storage / Cloud Database Apps
Alok Shankar
Software Development Manager @ Oracle
Shyam Burkule
Software Engineer @ Meta
Cloud Observability / IT Ops Management
Taruna Gandhi
Head of HPE OpsRamp Marketing @ OpsRamp (HPE)
Enterprise Data and Analytics Apps
Ruchi Agarwal
Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Automotive Applications
Syed Hussain
Director Global Segment Marketing @ GigaDevice
Automotive - Robotaxi & PAV (Personal AV)
Fen Chen
Principal Reliability/Validation Engineer @ Cruise LLC
Aerospace and Data Centers in Space
Tinh Ngo
VP Business & Technology Development @ Virtium
Paul Armijo
President & CEO @ Armijo Innovations
George Williams
Chief AI Officer @ Armijo Innovations
Flash for AI ML Apps / Neural Compute
Dave Eggleston
Sr. Business Development Manager @ Microchip Licensing Division
Pratibha Rathore
Tech Lead, Applied Research (AI/ML) @ Meta
Arun Seresh
Sr. Principle / Consulting MTS @ Oracle
Generative AI
Prasad Venkatachar
Sr. Director Products and Solutions @ Pliops
Tejas Chopra
Sr. Software Engineering @ Netflix
Industry Standards Tables
Ultra Accelerator Link (UA Link)
Willie Nelson
Industry Technology Enabling Manager, SNIA CXL Liaison @ Intel
David McIntyre
Director Product Planning & Business Enablement @ Samsung
Jim Pappas
Director of Technology Initiatives @ Intel
CXL Consortium / CXL Expanders / CXL Apps
Anil Godbole
Zeon CXL Strategy & Marketing Manager @ Intel
Larrie Carr
VP of Engineering @ Rambus
Thad Omura
SVP Business and Corporate Development @ Astera Labs
Geof Findley
VP Sales & Business Development @ Montage Technology
Chiplets / UCIe
Debendra Das Sharma
Senior Fellow @ Intel
Gerald Pasdast
Senior Principle Engineer @ Intel
ECC / Error Recovery
Jeff Yang
Silicon Motion @ Silicon Motion
Storage Security
Festus Hategekimana
Security Architect @ Solidigm
Paul Suhler
Principle Engineer, SSD Industry Standards @ KIOXIA
Blockchain Cryptocurrency
Niall Macleod
Director Applications Engineering @ Western Digital
Nilesh Shah
VP Business Development @ ZeroPoint Technologies
Cybersecurity Storage
Bill Basinas
Sr. Director Product Marketing @ INFINIDAT
Ransomware / Data Recovery / Data Sanitization/Erasure
Troy Hegr
Sr. Manager Global Business Development @ Ontrack
Dave Logue
Lead Data Recovery Engineer @ Ontrack
Data Placement (FDP & Zoned Storage)
Matias Bjørling
Distinguished Engineer Emerging System Architecture Group @ Western Digital
Dan Helmick
Principal Architect @ Samsung
Javier Gonzalez
Lead Global Open-Source Team @ Samsung
NVM Express Specifications
John Geldman
Director, SSD Industry Standards @ KIOXIA
Storage Management / NVMe Live Migration
Richelle Ahlvers
Storage Technology Enablement Architect, Vice Chair SNIA @ Intel
Michael Allison
Senior Director @ Samsung
Backup & Disaster Recovery / Archive
Xinde Hu
System Architect @ Cohesity
Nelson Nahum
CEO, Founder @ Geyser Data
Rich Gadomski
Head of Tape Evangelism @ FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc
Vikranth Etikyala
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @ SoFi
Storage Solutions Tables
All Flash Arrays
Ashutosh Datar
Member of Technical Staff @ Pure Storage
Rupin Mohan
Sr Director of Strategic Planning @ HPE
Gary Lyng
VP Product Solutions Marketing @ Hitachi Vantara
Storage Software / Cloud Storage
Saish Sali
Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Alok Ranjan
Software Engineering Manager @ Dropbox
Mohamad El-Batal
ChiefTechnologist, CTO Office @ Seagate
Colby Gray
Sales Engineer @ Kove
Composable Storage / Enterprise Storage Protection
Scott Hamilton
Sr Director Product Management & Marketing @ Western Digital
Kelley Osburn
Senior Director of OEM and Channel Business Development @ GRAID Technology
DNA Storage
Dave Landsman
Director of Industry Standards @ Western Digital
Computational Storage
Scott Shadley
Long Term Strategic Planner @ Solidigm
Harshit Rastogi
Engineering Manager @ Twilio
SSD Benchmarks and Testing / Test Equipment
Tahmid Rahman
Director, Product Marketing @ Solidigm
Mike McKean
President @ Encore Semi, Inc.
Sustainability / Green Storage
Wayne Adams
Storage Industry Consultant, Chair Emeritus, SNIA @ SNIA
Eden Kim
CEO @ Calypso Systems
Sue Ryan
VP Marketing @ Frore Systems
Dave Verburg
Sr. Technical Staff Member @ IBM
Miscellaneous Tables
Big Data Storage
Vidhya Arvind
Staff Software Engineer @ Netflix
Mitesh Mangaonkar
Tech Lead Data Engineer @ Airbnb
Memory & Storage Markets
Jean Bozman
VP and Principal Analyst @ Cloud Architects Advisors
Ronen Hyatt
CEO and Chief Architect @ UnifabriX
Marketing
Beth Caltagirone
Head of Marketing @ StorPool
Andrea Eaken
Director of Marketing @ Graid Technology
Joe Hupcey
Product Marketing Management @ Siemens Digital Industries Software
US & International PR
Federica (Fred) Monsone
Founder and CEO @ A3 Communications
Georgiana Comsa
Founder @ Silicon Valley PR
Data Storage Partnerships & Alliances
Mike Jochimsen
Director Alliances @ INFINIDAT
IT End Users / Data Storage Strategies
Fred Moore
President @ Horison Information Strategies
Data Storage Management
Richelle Ahlvers
Storage Technology Enablement Architect, Vice Chair SNIA @ Intel
Industry Analysts
Josephine Lau
Technology & Market Analyst @ Yole Group
John Lorenz
Analyst, Computing & Software @ Yole Group
Asia
Harry Fu
Director Research & Development @ Sage Microelectronics
Chris Tsu
President @ Sage Microelectronics
Patents & Intellectual Property
T. Kim Parnell
Fellow, ASME @ Parnell Engineering and Consulting (PEC)
SuperWomen in FMS / Coach for Women in Tech
Anna Gradie
Confindence Coach @ Anna Gradie
Molly Presley
SVP Marketing @ Hammerspace
Diversity Equity & Inclusion Programs
Caecilia Gotama
CEO and Founder @ BRDG (Bridge to Connect)
Natasha Beckley
CMO @ Quantum
Recruiter / Career Planner
John Mein
Professional Recruiter @ Mein Executive Group
IT Industry Press / Storage Publications
Philippe Nicolas
Data Storage Market Observer & Analyst @ Storage Newsletter
Academia/Education
Joseph Wei
Managing Director @ Storage NewsletterTechnology Ventures Group
Volunteering for FMS 2025 / New Topics for FMS 2025
Chuck Sobey
FMS General Chair @ Channel Science
