PreConference Seminar C: Persistent Memory Introduction to Persistent System Memory - Jonathan Hinkle, Sr Research Staff Member, Lenovo NVDIMMs: The Go-To Technology for Boosting Application Performance - Arthur Sainio, Director Product Marketing, SMART Modular Technologies Software Defined Memory for Hybrid DRAM and Flash Solutions - Maher Amer, CTO, Diablo Technologies Lightweight User-Mode File Systems for Storage Class Memory - Yuangang Wang, Advanced Research Engineer, Huawei ThyNVM - Software-Transparent Crash Consistency for Persistent Memory - Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University

PreConference Seminar D: Flash Storage Networking Networked Flash Storage Overview - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies How Networking Affects Flash Storage Systems - Gunneswara Marripudi, Principal Software Architect, and Ilker Cebeli, Senior Director Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor Ethernet Networked Flash Storage - J Metz, Office of the CTO, Cisco Data Center Group InfiniBand Networked Flash Storage - Motti Beck, Sr Director Enterprise Market Development, Mellanox Technologies PCIe Networked NVM Storage - Peter Onufryk, Fellow NVM Solutions, Microsemi Fibre Channel Networked Flash Storage - Scott Kipp, Director Engineering, Brocade Communications Networks in the Time of Flash - Jim O'Reilly, Independent Consultant

PreConference Seminar H: Designing SSD Controllers Introduction - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate NAND Flash Basics and Error Characteristics - Thomas Parnell, Research Staff Member, IBM Laboratories - Zurich NAND Flash Media Management Algorithms - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate LDPC Codes: Principles and Implementation Aspects - Osso Vahabzadeh, Staff Design Engineer, Texas LDPC ASIC/Merchant Chip-Based Flash Controllers - Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications - David McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting

OPEN Session 101-A: Mobile Applications (Applications Track) PCIe NVMe* SSD in Smaller Form Factors - Becky Loop, Sr Principal Engineer, Intel, and Zhiping Yang, Storage Architect, Google

OPEN Session 101-B: Flash Memory Meets Film's Rising Capture/Content Requirements (Media/Entertainment Track) Solving big data set problems - Mike Schmit, Manager Digital Video Software, AMD Flash Memory Meets Film's Rising Capture/ Content Requirements - Jim Douglas, Workstation Product Manager, HP Introduction to "CFX" - Next Generation High-Performance Media Based on PCIe and NVMe - Shahar Noy, Sr Director Strategic Marketing/Business Development, Micron

Session U-1: Annual Update on Flash Technology (Flash Technology Track) Flash Technology: Annual Update - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

Session IT-1: Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA (Fabrics Track) Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA - Rob Davis, VP, Mellanox Technologies

Forum A-11: NVMe and PCIe SSDs Part 1 (PCIe Storage Track) NVM Express* Past, Present, and Future - Amber Huffman, Fellow/Director Storage Interfaces, Intel

Forum B-11: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track) An NVMe SSD Architecture for Accelerating Big Data Analytics - Bharadwaj Pudipeddi, CTO/Head Engineering, NVXL Technology SSD Architectures to Ensure Security and Performance - Jon Haswell, Sr Director Firmware Development, Micron Machine Learning Techniques for Improving Flash Endurance - Conor Ryan, CTO, NVMdurance New Approaches to Keeping Write Amplification from Reducing Flash Lifetime - Tim Canepa, Director Architecture, Seagate

Forum C-11: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track) How Accelerating SSD Capacities Will Revolutionize Enterprise Storage - Anders Graham, Product Marketing, Samsung A Comprehensive Approach to Flash-SSD Quality Management for Enterprise - Jung Yoon, Sr Technical Staff Member, IBM An Examination of User Workloads - Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems I/O Pattern based Optimization in SSD - Xiangfeng Lu, CTO, Memblaze Delivering on NoSQL Database Performance Requirements with NVMe SSDs - Vijay Balakrishnan, Principal Engineer, Samsung Designing SSD Firmware Overlays to Reduce Performance Impact - Tomislav Miladinovic, Firmware Design Engineer, Unigen

Forum D-11: Flash in Data Centers (Data Centers Track) Storage Class Memory and Operational Databases: Real-World Results - Brian Bulkowski, CTO/Founder, Aerospike, "NVMe Why NVMe Will Replace SATA SSDs in the Data Center - Michael Smullen, SSD Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor The Winning Combination is: FC-NVMe - Curt Beckmann, Principal Product Architect, Brocade Intent Defined Storage for Container Era - Ashok Rajagopalan, Head Product Management, Datera Developing a Server OS Drive for Big Data and Cloud Storage - CC Wu, Executive VP, Innodisk

OPEN Forum G-11: Enterprise Applications Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track) Why Does a Major Broadcasting Network In The Middle East Choose Flash Memory for Their Workflow? - Stephanie Brewer, Customer Advocate, AND Kurt Kuckein, Director of Product Management, Data Direct Networks McKesson mixes SSDs with HDDS for Optimnal Performance and ROI - Mark Adams, Director Product Marketing/Business Strategy, Hitachi Data Systems and Dan King, Director ITS, Wellmark - How to Fund Flash Storage - Mark Adams, Director Product Marketing/Business Strategy, Hitachi Data Systems and Dan King, Director ITS, Wellmark All-Flash Storage and OpenStack Drive Innovation FICO's Next Generation Data Center - Derek Leslie, NetApp Extreme Performance and the Cloud - Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors, AND Mark Camillo, SVP/CTO, NWEA

OPEN Forum N-11: Flash Growth and Opportunity in China (Business Track) All Flash Micro NAS Project at HDU - Chris Tsu, Professor, Hangzhou Dianzi University NVMe SSD Applications in China Datacenter - Taile Zhang, VP, Memblaze Flash, Any Time, Everywhere - Cui Hao, Chief Editor, WatchStor Exploiting the Minipage-level Mapping to Solve the Size Discrepancy of I/O Requests and Flash Pages - Wu Fei, Teacher, Huazhong University (China) Logic Based ReRAM Assisted by Self-Adaptive Circuit for Embedded Applications - Yinyin Lin, Professor, Fudan University (China) How to reduct flash storage system write amplification - Mingchang Wei, Research Engineer, Huawei

OPEN Session 102-A: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Recovery Track) SSD Impact on Data Recovery for Enterprise Storage - Steve Hruska, Hardware R&D Engineer, Kroll OnTrack The Market Opportunity of Solving Data Erasure on SSD - Michael Waksman, CEO, Jetico Erasing an SSD is Easy and Fast! Then why is it so hard to eliminate one file? - Jon Tanguy, Sr Technical Marketing Engineer, Micron

OPEN Session 102-B: Flash Demand Grows with HDR/UHD 4K Films (Media/Entertainment Track) Video Storage Classifications - The Need for Standardization and Collaboration - Chris Haeffner, Manager Product Development/Integration, Other World Computing

OPEN Session 102-C: How Flash-Based Storage Performs on Real Applications (Testing Track) How Flash-Based Storage Performs on Real Applications - Dennis Martin, President, Demartek

Session IT-2: Flash Memory: Key to Efficient Real-Time Analysis of Big Data (Enterprise Applications Track) Flash Memory: Key to Efficient Real-Time Analysis of Big Data - Andy Walls, IBM Fellow/Distinguished Engineer, IBM

OPEN - Keynote 2 Turning Big Data into Critical Business Advantage with Flash Memory - Darren Thomas, VP/GM Storage Business Unit, Micron

OPEN - Keynote 4 Creating Storage Class Memory: Learning from 3D NAND - Siva Sivaram, Executive VP Memory Technology, Western Digital

OPEN - Keynote 5 Storage Class Memory in Scalable Cognitive Systems - Balint Fleischer, Chief Research Officer Storage, Huawei Technologies

OPEN - Keynote 6 Managing Multi-Tiered Non-Volatile Memory Systems for Cost and Performance - Dr. Zining Wu, Chief Technology Officer, Marvell

OPEN Session 103-A: Security in a Flash! (Security Track) Introduction - Michael Willett, VP Marketing, Drive Trust Alliance; Mike McKean, VP Product Solutions, Fhoosh Security Beyond The SED - Robert Wann, CEO, Enova Technology Every Product is a Security Product - Monty Forehand, Security Technologist/Product Security Officer, Seagate Technology Self-Encrypting Storage: Simplest Security for Stored Data - Michael Willett and Bob Thibadeau, VP Marketing and CEO, Drive Trust Alliance Industrial Copy Protection by Secure Storage-Devices - Hubertus Grobbel, Head Security Business Unit, Swissbit

OPEN Session 103-B: Flash Storage and Film Production in the Cloud (Media/Entertainment Track) Introduction - Moderator: Pallab Chatterjee, Editor in Chief, M&E Technologies Focusing on Workflow Performance, Not Storage - Andy Warman, Director Product Line Management Servers/Storage, Harmonic Right Data, Right Place, Right Price - Dave Frederick, Sr Director Product Marketing, Quantum SSD Trends for Film Production in the Cloud - Chris Marsh, Product Marketing Manager, Western Digital

Session U-3: Annual Update on Flash Controllers (Controllers Track) Flash Controller Technology - Andy Tomlin, CTO, DevicePros

Session IT-3: Making New Storage-Class Memory Technologies Easier to Adopt (Persistent Memory Track) Making New Storage-Class Memory Technologies Easier to Adopt - Lance Smith, CEO, Primary Data

Forum B-12: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (sponsored by CNEX Laboratories) (Architectures Track) Storage Controller Technologies for Next Generation Non-Volatile Memories - Hanan Weingarten, Sr Director, Broadcom Employing ECCs via Overprovisioning to Improve Flash Reliability – A New, Cost Efficient Approach - Stella Achtenberg, Sr Engineer, Western Digital Open-Channel SSDs and Host-Based FTLs - Ronnie Huang, VP Engineering, CNEX Labs How NVMe and 3D XPoint Will Create a New Data Center Architecture - Emilio Billi, CEO, A3Cube

Forum C-12: SSD Technology (SSDs Track) Securing the SSDs - NVMe Controller Encryption - Radjendirane Codandaramane, Manager Applications, Microsemi Validating Analytic Write Amplification Models - Tom McCormick, Chief Engineer/Technologist, Swissbit Multi-Stream Wriet SSD: Increasing SSD Performance and Lifetime with Multi-Stream Technology - Changho Choi, Principal Engineer, Samsung Testing Controller Memory Buffer Performance in an NVM Express SSD - Ramyakanth Edupuganti, Sr Product Research Engineer, Microsemi Standards for Improving SSD Performance and Endurance - Bill Martin, SSD IO Standards, Samsung Semiconductor

Forum D-12: Enterprise Storage Design Part 1 (Enterprise StorageTrack) Intro - Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO Digital Transformation: The Shift To Cloud First - Derek Leslie, Principal Product Manager, NetApp SolidFire All-Flash Data Center Emerging Use Cases - Mark Adams, Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems Making All Flash Data Centers a Reality - Nick Triantos, Storage Architect, Nimble Storage Using SSDs Efficiently within a Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage Framework - Sudhakar Mungamoori, VP Customer Success/Sales Engineering, Formation Data Systems

Forum S-12: Flash and Software-Defined Storage (Software-Defined Storage Track) DRBD SDS - Open Source Software defined Storage for Block IO - Appliances and Cloud - Philipp Reisner, CTO, Linbit The Impact of SSDs on Software Defined Storage - Barbara Murphy, VP Marketing, weka.io Flash in a Software Defined Storage World - Priyadarshi Prasad, Sr Director Product Management, Atlantis Computing Implementing Storage Abstraction in Existing Legacy Infrastructure - Farid Yavari, VP, FalconStor Software Optimizing Software-Defined Storage for Flash Memory - Avraham ("Posa") Meir, Chief Scientist, Elastifile

Forum A-12: NVMe and PCIe SSDs Part 2 (PCIe Storage Track) Part 3 - NVMe Drivers – Current Status and Future Expectations - Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix Memory Solutions Part 4 – Lessons Learned Deploying NVMe in Real Systems - Tom Heil, Sr Systems Architect, Broadcom Hoff, Director Product Management, Broadcom

OPEN Forum G-12: Enterprise Applications Part 2 (Enterprise Applications Track) New Era of Enterprise Storage: How OpEx is Replacing CapEx - Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara Storage Flash Storage Drives a Better Bottom Line - Ivan Iannaccone, Product Line Manager, HPE Keep Pace in the Cognitive Era - Mike Kuhn, VP Flash Systems, IBM Increase Tier 1 Application Performance, Availability, and Flexibility While Reducing Cost - Ibby Rahmani, Director Product Marketing, Datacore Software

OPEN Session 104-A: Privacy Versus (In)security: Who Should Win and Why Between Apple and the FBI? (Security Track) Panel - Bob Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance - Derrick Donnelly, CTO, BlackBag Technologies - Clifford Neuman, Director, Center for Computer Systems Security, University of Southern California - Vijay Ahuja, President, Cipher Solutions

OPEN Session 104-B: Film Storage When the Film Budget Is Yours (Media/Entertainment Track) Keeping Content out of Harm's Way - Chris Bross, CTO, DriveSavers Data Recovery

Session U-4: Annual Update on Emerging Memory Technologies (New TechnologiesTrack) Emerging Memories - Seshuhabu Desu, CTO, 4DS

OPEN Session 201-A: Applying New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track) Novel Recognition System using XP-ReRAM - Haruhiko Terada, Designer, Sony ALL MRAM NVMe SSD - It is Fast! - Terry Hulett, VP/GM System Solutions

OPEN Session 201-D: Why Flash Should Be Used for Every Workload (Enterpries Applications Track) Why Flash Should Be Used for Every Workload - Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Forum E-21: Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1 (Controllers Track) Introduction - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate Controller IC Evaluation of High Radix Parity Check Code - Oliver Hambrey, Research Engineer, SIGLEAD Europe High-Throughput LDPC Solution for Reliable and High Performance SSD - Jiangli Zhu, Principal Engineer, VIA Technologies Ultra High Throughput ECC for SSD - Yuluen Wang, Sr Engineer, Silicon Motion Compression: Making Flash (Even) Cheaper - Thomas Parnell, Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Zurich Advanced Controller Technology for 3D NAND Flash - Wei Lin, System Architect, Phison Electronic

OPEN Forum G-21: Enterprise Applications Part 3 (Enterprise Applications Track) Implementing a Follow-the-Sun DB - Scott Harvey, VP Engineering, Atmosera Memory Performance with Shared Flash - Gurmeet Goindi, Technical Product Strategist - Exadata, Oracle Taking Multiple PCIe SSDs and NVMe to Performance Extremes - Richard Leonarz, Sr Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America Customer Success - SF 49ers and Levi's Stadium - Raj Das, VP Business Development, Violin Memory Are You Ready for the Digital Transformation? - Chris Tsilipounidakis, Product Marketing Manager, Tegile Systems

Forum D-21: Enterprise Storage Design Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track) Extend the Life of Your SAN with Flash - Andrew Flint, VP Marketing, IOFabric All Flash Storage Sparing to Improve Endurance - Eduardo Duarte, Product Line Manager, HPE An FPGA Based Enterprise SSD REference Design - Amit Saxena, VP Engineering, Mobiveil Guaranteeing Enterprise Class Availability in a Flash Environment - Phill Gilbert, Product Line Manager, HPE

Forum K-21: Open-Source Software and Flash Memory (sponsored by CNEX Laboratories) (Software Track) Open Source Software: How the Flash Industry Can Use It Effectively - Nithya Ruff, Director Open Source Strategy Office, Western Digital Building High Performance, High Capacity, Cost-Efficient All-Flash Cloud Storage System with Ceph - Jian Zhang, Sr Software Engineer, Intel, Jack Zhang, Sr Solution Architect, Intel, AND Yuan Zhou, Sr Software Engineer, Intel Improving Ceph Performance while Reducing Costs - Rick Stehno, Sr Database Performance Architect, Seagate Ceph Meets NVMe - All-Flash Ceph! - Gunna Marripudi, Principal Architect, Samsung, and Brent Compton, Director Storage, Red Hat LightNVM Brings Open-Channel SSDs to the Linux Kernel - Matias Bjorling, Member Technical Staff, CNEX Labs Ceph-High Performance Without High Costs - Allen Samuels, Engineering Fellow, Western Digital

Forum Q-21: Flash in Big Data and Analytics (Data Management Track) Unified Memory for HPC and Big Data - Axel Kloth, CEO, SSRLabs Accelerating Business Analytics with Flash Storage and FPGAs - Satoru Watanabe, Research Engineer, Hitachi

Forum R-21: Persistent Memory - Beyond Flash (sponsored by SNIA SSSI) (Persistent Memory Track) Introduction - Jim Ryan, SNIA/SSSI Chair and Manager, Intel - Jim Pappas, SNIA Vice-Chair and Director Initiative Marketing, Intel Persistent Memory - Beyond Flash - Jim Pappas, SNIA Vice-Chair and Director Initiative Marketing, Intel Building Datacenter Infrastructure Using Persistent Memory - Rob Peglar, VP Advanced Storage, Micron Persistent Memory (PM) over Fabrics - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies New Software Architectures for Persistent Memory - Ken Gibson, Director NVM Software Architecture, Intel Enabling Persistent Memory: The NVM Programming Model - Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, HP Enterprise Windows Persistent Memory Support - Neal Christensen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Bringing Persistent Memory Technology to SAP Hana: Opportunities and Challenges - Zora Caklovic, Sr Director SAP HANA Product Management, SAP Labs, AND Oliver Rebholz, Development Manager, SAP HANA In-Memory Platform

OPEN Session 202-A: Flash on the Memory Bus (New Technologies Track) NVDIMM-X - Deliver DRAM performance at NAND Capacity - Mike Amidi, CEO, Xitore DDR4 DIMM Devices With Hybrid DRAM & NVM For Big Data Performances At Low Cost - Xiaobing Lee, Principal Engineer, Huawei

Session 202-C: Flash Arrays Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track) Improving All Flash Array Performance with Data Compression Accelerators - Juan Deaton, Research Scientist/Engineer, Comtech AHA Defining Requirements for a Successful All-Flash Datacenter - Aravindan Gopalakrishnan, Product Line Manager, HPE

OPEN - Keynote 9 The NVMe Inflection Point - Derek Dicker, VP/Business Unit Manager - Performance Storage, Microsemi

OPEN - Keynote 10 Designing Efficient Storage Systems - Phil Brace, President Cloud Systems and Silicon Group, Seagate

OPEN Session 203-A: RRAM (New Technologies Track) Crossbar RRAM - A New Era of Storage Innovation for a Content Rich World - Wei Lu, Chief Scientist/Co-Founder, Crossbar RRAM Status and Forecast - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures

OPEN Session 203-B: Embedded Applications Part 1 (Embedded Systems Track) Optimizing Embedded SSDs for Performance and Beyond Prevention-Report-Analysis - Crystal Chang, Sr Director Strategic Marketing Development, ATP Electronics Case for Industrial Embedded Flash Storage - Steve Larrivee, VP Sales/Marketing, Cactus Technologies Embedded Applications - How to Predict Failure Before They Happen for Embedded Applications - Thomas Hsiao, Sr Manager Embedded Business, Phison Electronic Lifetime Estimation and Health Monitoring - Axel Mehnert, VP Marketing, Hyperstone

Session 203-C: Flash in Cloud Computing (Enterprise Storage Track) Evolution of Rack Scale Architecture Storage - Murugusamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu, Principal Engineer, Intel Flash in a Hybrid Cloud World - Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors

OPEN Session 203-E: How Flash Is a Key to Augmented Reality on Wearables (Wearables Track) Panel - NameDaryl Sartain, Director Virtual Reality/Alliances, AMD - Chris Croteau, Director Strategic Business Development, Intel - Soulaiman Itani, CTO/Founder, Atheer - Rick Tewell, Sr VP System Solutions, VeriSilicon - Manuel Gutierrez-Novelo, CTO, ImmersiON-VRelia

Session IT-7: Opportunities from Our Compute, Network, and Storage Inflection Points (Enterprise Storage Track) Opportunities from Our Compute, Network, and Storage Inflection Points - Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO

Forum A-22: PCIe/NVMe Storage (PCIe StorageTrack) FPGA Implementation of Erasure Codes for NVMe based JBOFs - Manoj Roge, Director Wired and Data Center Solutions, Xilinx,

Forum C-22: SSD Concepts (SSDs Track) Write-hotness Aware Retention Management: Efficient Hot/Cold Data Partitioning for SSDs - Saugata Ghose, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie-Mellon University Management Schemes of Hybrid SSDs with SLC/MLC Flash Memory: A Survey - Ahmed Alsalibi, Graduate Student, University of Science - Malaysia (USM)

Forum E-22: Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Error Correcting Codes (Controllers Track) Online Flash Channel Modeling and Its Applications - Yixin Luo, Graduate Student, Carnegie-Mellon University Media Management for High Density NAND Flash Memories - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate LDPC Code Rate Adaptation Methods for NAND Flash - Peter Graumann, Director, Microsemi Optimized Graph-Based Codes For Modern Flash Memories - Homa Esfahanizadeh, Joing work with Ahmed Hareedy and Lara Dolecek, LORIS Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA

Forum F-22: SSD Testing (Testing Track) Large-Scale Study of In-The-Field Flash Failures - Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University NVMe Performance – Local vs. Remote - Gunna Marripudi, Principal Architect, Samsung Semiconductor, and Oscar Pinto, Sr Staff Storage Architect, Samsung Semiconductor Comparison of NAND Flash Functionality with Internal Probing and Waveform Analysis - Tarek Alhajj, Architect Engineering Solutions Group, TechInsights High Volume/High Mix SSD Production Test - Kevin Dumas, Product Manager, Teradyne Lifecycle Testing for SSD Production - Marilyn Kushnick, Engineer, Advantest

Forum M-22: 3-D Flash (New Technologies Track) TLC is the New MLC - Kevin Kilbuck, Marketing Director, Micron

OPEN Session 204-A: MRAM (New Technologies Track) Avalanche Technology - Leader in pMTJ Solutions - Hamid Haidari, VP WW Sales/Business Development, Avalanche Technology

OPEN Session 204-B: Embedded Applications Part 2 (Embedded Systems Track) How to Ruggedize an SSD - Chris Budd, Director Engineering, SMART High-Reliability Solutions Memory Needs for Industrial Applications - Edward Chow, Product Line Director, Micron Can Embedded Applications Utilize the Latest Flash Storage Technologies? - Grady Lambert, Sr Director Embedded, Swissbit

OPEN Session 204-D: Selecting the Right Flash Memory for Your Application (Enterprise Applications Track) Nimble Storage - Dan Leary, VP Corporate Development, Nimble Storage Accelerate Possible - Indroducing Pure Storage - Matt Kixmoeller, VP Products, Pure Storage NetApp Flash Leadership and Innovation - Val Bercovici, CTO, NetApp SolidFire All-flash Powered Applications - Josh Epstein, VP Global Marketing, Kaminario Think And not Or. - Rob Commins, VP Marketing, Tegile

Session IT-8: Storage in Media and Entertainment: The Flash Advantage (Media/Entertainment Track) Storage in Media and Entertainment: The Flash Advantage - Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

OPEN Session 301-A: Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track) NRAM: High Performance, Highly Reliable Emerging Memory - Sheyang Ning, Graduate, Chuo University

Session 301-B: NVDIMMs: Powerful Persistent Memory Arrives in a Familiar Form (New Technologies Track) Introduction - Jeff Chang, VP Marketing/Business Development, AgigA Tech Persistent Memory Enablement Update - Alex Fuxa, Manager Persistent Memory Team, HPE Windows Peristent Memory Support - Neal Christiansen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft

OPEN Session 301-C: Intel-Micron 3D Xpoint(TM): The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory (New Technologies Track) Introduction - Dave McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting 3D XPoint Today: Any Change? - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis 3D Xpoint™ Status and Forecast - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures Challenges in Vertically Stackable Selectors for 3D Cross-Point Non Volatile Memories - NameMilind Weling, VP Electronic Applications, Intermolecular

Session 301-D: PCIe/NVMe Development Issues (PCIe Storage Track) Introduction - Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix Concurrent Support of NVMe Over RDMA Fabrics and Established Networked Block and File Storage - Asgeir Eriksson, CTO, Chelsio Communications NVMe Enclosure Management and Dual Port Drive - Parag Maharana, Architect, Seagate A Solution for Adding NVM_express storage to generic computers - Matthew Rackstein, Applications Engineer, Magm New Data Protection Systems for NVMe SSD - Alan Wu, Sr Director, Memblaze

OPEN Session 301-E: Flash and Software-Defined Storage (continued) (Software-Defined Storage Track) Flash + Software-Defined Storage = Path To The Hybrid Cloud - Jerome McFarland, Director Product Marketing, Elastifile Persistent Memory (PM) for Big Data & Analytic - Kumar Prabhat, Sr Director Product/Business Development, Plexistor

Session 301-F: Performance Testing (Testing Track) Storage Protocol Offload for Virtualized Workloads - Dennis Martin, President, Demartek NAND Flash Status Prediction - Cloud Zeng, Sr Engineer, LiteOn NVM Labs

OPEN Session 301-G: High-Performance Flash Systems (Hardware Track) State of the Art Performance in Flash Storage Arrays - Steve Cooper, CEO, One Stop Systems Software-Defined Memory for At-scale and High-Performance Computing - Kurt Kuckein, Director Product Management, DataDirect Networks Designing High-Performance AFAs for SMEs - Peter Maddocks, Director Product Management All-Flash Array Systems, Seagate Technology

Session 301-I: Consumer Applications (Applications Track) Flash & Phones: Advanced Lab Data Recovery from Secure Mobile Devices - Will Delisi, Flash Recovery Engineer, DriveSavers 3-D NAND and UFS - Optimized Mobile Storage - Carla Christensen, Sr Product Planning Engineer, Micron Consumer PCIe SSD - Higher Performance with Lower Cost - Larry Li, Project Manager, Phison Electronic

Session IT-9: TechTarget Reveals All…About the Enterprise All-Flash Array Market (Marketing Track) TechTarget Reveals All...About the Enterprise All-Flash Array Market - Ken Male, General Manager, TechTarget Research Division

OPEN Session 302-B: History Session: The Origins of Silicon Valley (History Track) The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened Here - Paul Wesling, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Session 302-D: PCIe/NVMe Extensions Part 1 (PCIe Storage Track) Introduction - Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix NVMe: Redefining the Hardware/Software Architecture - Jerome Gaysse, IP-Maker High Performance FTL Architecture for PCIe/NVMe SSDs - Ying Tai, Sr Director, VIA Technologies Prioritization in the Linux NVMe Block Layer - Jon Saunders, Applications Engineer, Microsemi

Session 302-F: Testing Issues - Part 1 (Testing Track) Performance Assessment of an All-RRAM Solid State Drive Through a Cloud-Based Simulation Framework - Lorenzo Zuolo, Researcher, University of Ferrara (Italy) Infrastructure Performance Analysis - Peter Murray, Product Evangelist, Virtual Instruments Accelerating SSD and System Development with Test Automation - Andy Tomlin, Partner/CTO, DevicePros

Session 302-G: Which Interface Is King of the Hill? Should You Build Your All-Flash Array with SAS, SATA, or NVMe? (sponsored by STA, the SCSI Trade Association) (Standards Track) Panel - Mohamad El-Batal, Sr Director Architecture, Seagate - Thomas Friend, Technology Director Industry Standards, Toshiba - Frederick Knight, Principal Standards Technologist, NetApp

Forum E-31: Flash Controller Design Options (Controllers Track) Low-Error Floor Soft-Decision Finite Alphabet Iterative Decoders - Shiva Planjery, CEO, CodeLucida False Decoding Probability (Detection) of BCH and LDPC Codes - Alessia Marelli, Staff Product Design Engineer, Microsemi

OPEN - Keynote 12 Scaling Flash Storage Efficiently in the Exabyte Era - Tom Isakovich, CEO, Nimbus Data

OPEN - Keynote 13 A New Era of Storage Innovation - George Minassian, CEO, Crossbar

OPEN - Keynote 14 NVMe Express® over Fabrics - Storage Solutions for for Real-time Analytics - Paul Prince, CTO, Mangstor

Session 303-D: PCIe/NVMe Extensions Part 2 (PCIe Storage Track) High Availability for Centralized NVMe - Zivan Ori, CEO, E8 Storage Higher Performance - Lower Cost - Cameron Crandall, Sr Technology Manager, Kingston Digital, and Sumit Puri, VP Marketing, Liqid Client PCIe/NVMe SSD with 3D NAND - Rick Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion Unshackling PCIe SSDs using NVMe - Bhagirath Patel, Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America

OPEN Session 303-E: NVMe in Your Data Center: Who, What, Where, When, and Why? (sponsored by the Fibre Channel Industry Association - FCIA) (Data Centers Track) Panel - Craig Carlson, Technologist/Office of the CTO, QLogic - Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO - Dave Minturn, Principal Engineer/Network SSD Storage Architect, Intel - Rupin Mohan, Director R&D/Chief Technologist (SAN), HPE - Greg Schulz, Founder/Sr Advisory Analyst, StorageIO

Session 303-F: Testing Issues Part 2 (Testing Track) Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected - Bianca Schroeder, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Advanced Test Automation and Analytics - Derrill Sturgeon, CEO, Devicepros

OPEN Session 303-G: Market Research (Marketing Track) Panel - Chris DePuy, VP, Dell'Oro Group - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures - Brian Dargel, Component NAND BLM Engineer, Micron - Cui Hao, Chief Editor, WatchStor

OPEN Session 303-H: Automotive Applications (Applications Track) Driver Assistance Pushes New Flash Functionalities - Anil Gupta, Technical Executive, Winbond

OPEN Session 303-I: VC Forum (General Track) Panel - Wen Hsieh, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins - Matt Carbonara, Principal, Comcast Ventures - Angel Orrantia, Sr Director Business Development, SKTA Innopartners - Chris Rust, Founder/General Partner, Clear Ventures - Gaurav Tewari, Managing Director, Citigroup Ventures - Dong-Su Kim, VP, Samsung Ventures America

OPEN Session 304-A: Flash and the Internet of Things (New Technologies Track) Embedded Flash Storage for Industrial IoT - Chanson Lin, CEO, EmBestor Technology,

Session 304-D: PCIe/NVMe Fabrics (PCIe Storage Track) NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash Moves to Ethernet - John Kim, Director Storage Marketing, Mellanox High Speed I/O processor for NVMe over Fabric (NVMEoF) - Patrice Couvert, Product Marketing, KALRAY Reducing Latency and Improving Performance Consistency in NVMeOF - Parag Maharana, Architect, Seagate Technology, AND KR Kishore, System Architect, Pavilion Data Systems