Wednesday 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
Fred Knight
Principal Engineer @ KIOXIA America
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
