Pre-Conference Seminar G: Using Machine Learning to Optimize Storage Systems (Pre-Conference Seminar Track 3 Track) Using Machine Learning to Optimize Storage Systems - Kiran Gunnam, Technical Director of Algorithms and DSP, Velodyne LiDAR

Pre-Conference Seminar H: Flash Controller Design (Pre-Conference Seminar Track 4 Track) Introduction - Erich Haratsch, Director, Engineering Flash Channel Architecture, Seagate NAND Flash Basics and Error Characteristics - Roman Pletka, Research Staff Member, IBM Zurich Research Lab NAND Flash Media Management Algorithms - Erich Haratsch, Director, Engineering Flash Channel Architecture, Seagate ECC for NAND Flash - Osso Vahabzadeh, Staff Design Engineer, Texas LDPC ASIC/Merchant Silicon Chip-Based Flash Controllers - Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion FPGA-Based Flash Controller Applications - David McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting

SNIA Tutorial #1-Understanding Real World Storage Workloads Understanding Real World Storage Workloads - Eden Kim, Calypso Systems, Inc.

SNIA Tutorial #2-SAS-Today's Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric SAS: Today's Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric - Jeremiah Tussey, Secretary, SCSI Trade Association, Alliances Marketing Manager, Scalable Storage BU - Microsemi Corporation

SNIA Tutorial #3-A New Standard for IP Based Drive Management A New Standard for IP Based Drive Management - Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair

SNIA Tutorial #4- Innovations, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in HPC Storage Storage Lessons from HPC Extreme Scale Computing Driving High Performance Data Storage - Gary Grider, HPC Division Leader, LANL/US DOE

Invited Talk 1: NVMe Over Fabrics-High Performance Flash Moves to Ethernet (NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) NVMe Over Fabrics-High Performance Flash Moves to Ethernet - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox

Session 101-A: Consumer Applications (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) Improving Test Procedures for Consumer SSDs - Andrew Mierau, Sr Technical Marketing Engineer, Micron Improving the Design of RAM-less Consumer SSDs - Sean Yang, Account Manager, Phison Electronics

Session 101-B: Embedded Applications, Part 1 (Embedded Applications Track) Unique SSD Configuration to Optimize for a Variety of Embedded Application - Peter Huang, Senior Manager, Product Management, ATP Electronics Improving Lifetime Estimates for Embedded Flash Memory Systems - Thomas McCormick, Chief Engineer/Technologist, Swissbit 3D Flash Leads to More Powerful Embedded Applications - Thomas Hsiao, Sr Field Applications Engineering Manager, Phison Electronics Using MLC Flash to Reduce Systems Costs in Industrial Applications - Chris Budd, Director Engineering, SMART High Reliability Solutions

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

Forum A-11: NVMe and PCIe SSDs, Part 1 (NVMe/PCIe Storage Track) NVM Express Workgroup Update - Dave Landsman, Director Industry Standards - Western Digital NVMe BoD Member Features needed for SSD deployments at the client - Gwendal rignou, Software Engineer, Google

Forum B-11: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track) Open-Channel SSDs Offer the Flexibility Required by Hyperscale Infrastructure - Matias Bjorling, Member Technical Staff, CNEX Labs Enhancing SSD Control of NVMe Devices for Hyperscale Applications - Luca Bert, Director, SSD Architecture and Advanced Development, Seagate Avoiding Deadly Read Latencies with I/O Determinism - Steven Wells, Fellow – SSD Data Center Architecture, Toshiba America Electronic Components I/O Determinism and Its Impact on Data Centers and Hyperscale Applications - Bill Martin, Principal Engineer SSD I/O Standards, Samsung Electronics

Forum G-11: Enterprise Applications, Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track) CPFL Energy Group Applications Accelerated by Flash Technology - Marcio Felix, CPFL Group; Ivo Susa, Hitachi Flash Storage Drives a Better Bottom Line - Aravindan Gopalakrishnan, Product Manager, HP Powering Cloud Scale Applications with All-flash - Sundip Arora, Director Product Marketing, Kaminario How End to end NVMe Will Impact Applications - Ivan Iannaccone, Director of Product Management Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Migration Overview - Amanda Strassle, Senior Director IT, Seagate

Forum N-11: Flash Growth & Opportunity in China (China Track)/td> A New Era Under Construction: Memory Business in China - Hao Cui, Sr Chief Editor, WatchStor.com Opportunities and Challenges in China's SSD Market - Geoffrey Xu, Technical support manager, Shannon Systems Data Security Inside SSD - Chris Tsu, General Manager, Sage Microelectronics FlashTarget: A 10M IOPS Level of Open Source Solutions for Soft RAID and Target - Feng You, General Manager, FusionStack Storage Design Issues for SCM-friendly Data Structure - Wei Zha, Chief Technology Planner of Storage Product, Huawei NVMe SSD Adoption Consideration in China Data Center - Taile Zhang, VP, Memblaze Small Form Factor for PCIe and SATA Devices - Jordan Zhong, Product Marketing Director, Longsys Electronics A New Era Under Construction: Memory Business in China - Mark Cao, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, GigaDevice Semiconductor

Forum T-11: Flash in Autonomous Vehicles, Part 1 (Automotive Track) Flash Automotive Flash - Robert Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance DICE: The Foundation of Trust Auto, IoT Security - Dennis Mattoon, Software Engineer, Microsoft Securing Sensitive Data When It Leaves the Car - Jeff Rubin, VP Strategy and Business Development and Co-Founder, Beachhead

Invited Talk 2: New Computational Approach Brings Big Data to Its Knees/td> New Computational Approach Brings Big Data to Its Knees - Rob Peglar, Sr Vice President/CTO, Symbolic IO

Session 102-A: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Recovery/Erasure Track) Improving Chip-Off Forensic Analysis for NAND Flash - Aya Fukami, Visiting Researcher, Carnegie-Mellon University How the Emergence of 3D NAND Affects Data Recovery and Erasure Verification - Robin England, Senior Research and Development Engineer, Kroll OnTrack SMS Recovery from Raw NAND of Erased eMMC Chip - Alexander Sheremetov, CTO, Rusolut Managing the FTL for reliability, security...& recovery? - Jon Tanguy, Technical Marketing Engineer, Micron

Session 102-B: Embedded Applications, Part 2 (Embedded Applications Track) Efficiency & Fitness of Embedded Flash Storage - Chanson Lin, President, EmBestor Technology PCIe/NVMe Brings Higher Performance to Embedded Applications - Nathan Huang, FAE, Phison Electronics Choosing the Right Flash Technology for Embedded & Industrial Applications - NC.C. Wu, VP Embedded Flash, Innodiskame Flash Memory for Extreme Environments - Matt Kay, Chief Engineer, NSWC Crane DoN

Session U-2: Annual Update on Enterprise Flash Storage Enterprise Flash Storage Annual Update - Howard Marks, Chief Scientist, Storage.net

Keynote 1 How Flash Memory Will Affect Tomorrow's Automobiles - Henry Breih, Managing Director, Connected & Mobility Division, Kia Motors America

Keynote 4 New Silicon Breakthroughs Help Next Generation Datacenters Meet Key Challenges - Currie Munce, VP SSD Engineering, Micron

Keynote 5 Toward a Memory-centric Architecture - Martin Fink, Executive Vice-President & CTO, Western Digital

SNIA Special Presentation 20 Years of Storage Innovation and Predictions for the next 20 Years - Michael Oros, Executive Director, SNIA

Keynote 6 Fabric Traffic Engineering - Ahmet Houssein, VP Marketing/Strategic Development,, Solarflare

Invited Talk 3: Managing NVMe over Fabric with Intel Rack Scale Design (NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) Intel® RSD and VNMe-over-Fabric - Sujoy Sen, Principal Engineer, Server SW Architect, Intel

Session 103-A: How Do We Know We Have a Secure Flash System? (Security Track) TCG Update on SEDs: TCG SWG update & DTA OSS - Michael Romeo, Representative, TCG Storage Workgroup Blockchain Technology in SSD Controllers - Hiroshi Watanabe, Professor, National Chiao Tung University Security for Networked Flash Storage - Bob Doud, Senior Director of Marketing, Mellanox Security in NVMe Enterprise SSDs - Radjendirane Codandaramane, Manager Applications, Microsemi

Session 103-B: Know What the Enterprise Flash Customer Wants and Needs (Business/Marketing Track) Know What the Flash Customer Wants and Needs - Panel Members: Andrew Fenselau, VP Marketing, Elastifile; Matt Kixmoeller, Vice President Products, Pure Storage; Matt Burr, VP, American Sales, Pure Storage and Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Session U-3: Annual Update on Flash Controllers (Controllers Track) Is 2017 the Year of Emerging Memories - Dr. Seshubabu Desu, Chief Technology Officer, 4DS Memory Limited

Forum A-12: NVMe and PCIe SSDs, Part 2 (NVMe/PCIe Storage Track) Part A: NVMe-MI Enhancements - Austin Bolen, Dell EMC; Myron Loewen, Intel; Peter Onufryk, Microsemi Part B: NVMe over Fabrics - Brandon Hoff, Software Architect, Broadcom; Rob Davis, VP of Storage Technology, Mellanox; Praveen Midha, Director, Product Marketing, Cavium; Curt Beckmann, Principal Architect, Brocade; Fazil Osman, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom - Dave Minturn, Principal Engineer, Intel

Forum B-12: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (Architectures Track) Page and Block Alignments to Maximize SSD Performance - Peter Graumann, VP Performance Solutions Group, Microsemi Gen-Z Technology: Enabling Memory Centric Architecture - Kurtis Bowman, Director, Office of the CTO, Dell EMC Device Architectures to Best Enable PCIe Gen 4 - Rob Sykes, Sr Distinguished Engineer, Toshiba America Electronic Components Designing FTLs for High Capacity Drives - Tim Canepa, Chief Architect and Director of Architecture, Independent Consultant

Forum D-12: Enterprise Storage Design, Part 1 (Enterprise Storage Track) Designing Winning Enterprise Storage - Curt Beckmann, Principal Product Architect, Brocade Can Next-Generation 3D TLC NAND Extend Enterprise Applications? - Thomas Griffin, Engineer, IBM Many-Channel DMA for Enterprise Storage SoCs - Stephane Hauradou, CTO, PLDA The EDSFF Consortium's New Form Factor for SSDs - Jonathan Hinkle, Director, System Platform Technologist, Lenovo

Forum T-12: Flash in Autonomous Vehicles, Part 2 (Automotive Track) Flash Memories for Autonomous Cars - Dr. Rainer Hoehler, Vice President and General Manager, Flash Business Unit, Cypress Semiconductor Using F-RAM for Automotive Event Data Recording - Doug Mitchell, Product Marketing Engineer MPS, Cypress Semiconductor Automotive OTA Updates and Data Collection Increasing Memory Demand - Greg Basich, Associate Director, Automotive Infotainment and Telematics and Connected Mobility Services, Strategy Analytics Flash Memory in the emerging age of autonomy - Stephan Heinrich, Technical Lead Autonomous Driving Platform HW, Lucid Motors Flash in Vehicles:  end-user's perspective - Alison Chaiken, Sr Software Engineer, Peloton Technology Requirements for Non-Volatile Memory in Automotive Applications - Michael Huonker, Engineer Advanced Head Unit, Daimler AG

Forum C-12: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track) Tri-Hybrid SSD with SCM and MLC/TLC NAND Flash Memories - Chihiro Matsui, Graduate Student, Chuo University/University of Tokyo (Japan) How Suspending Benefits Enterprise Apps Performance - Debin Wu, Senior Staff Engineer for SSD IP Design, Starblaze Technology Agility at Hyperscale -- Making Elephants Dance - Joel Dedrick, Systems Architect, Toshiba Predicting SSD Performance for Today's Dynamic Workloads - Shirish Bahirat, NVE System Architect, Micron

Forum R-12: 3D XPoint: Current Implementations and Future Trends (Persistent Memory Track) Overview Part 1. 3D XPoint: Current Applications and Implementations - Milind Weling, Sr VP Programs and Operations, Intermolecular Part 2. 3D XPoint in 2022: Where We Are and How We Got There - Jeff Barber, Chief Revenue Officer, Apeiron Data Systems XPoint Memory Comparison: Process & Architecture - Jeongdong Choe, Senior Technical Fellow, TechInsights 3D Xpoint in 2022: Where are We and How We Get There - Doug Finke, Xitore, Inc. 3D XPoint: Speed At What Cost? - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis 3D-XPoint™ in 2022 - Bob Hansen, V.P. System Architecture, Aperon Data Systems Challenges in Vertically Stackable Selectors for 3D Cross-Point Non Volatile Memories - Karl Littau, Stephen Weeks, Vijay Narasiamhan, Greg Nowling, Ryan Clarke, Tony Chiang, Intermolecular Inc. 3D Xpoint Status and Forecast 2017 - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

Invited Talk 4: Persistent Memory is Not What You Think! (Persistent Memory Track) Persistent Memory is Not What You Think! - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis

Session 104-A: RansomWare: What It Is and What Role Flash Plays in It (Security Track) RansomWare: America's Biggest cyber threat - Panel

Invited Talk 5: Persistent Memory’s Initial App Will Be Real-Time Analytics (Persistent Memory Track) Persistent Memory's Initial Major Application Will Be Real-Time Analytics - Andy Walls, IBM Fellow/CTO/Chief Architect, IBM Almaden Research Center

Session 201-A: Market Research Panel (Market Research Track) Introduction - John Rotchford, Managing Director, SASI

Session 201-B: Flash Arrays (Enterprise Storage Track) Testing All Flash Arrays with High-Speed Interconnects - Sarvesh S Patel, Test Architect/Senior Technical Lead, IBM India Challenges of High-IOPS Enterprise-level NVMeoF-based All Flash Array - Weafon Tsao, VP, AccelStor

Session 201-C: Testing Issues (Testing/Performance Track) Scalable Platform for Optimal SSD Test Costs Under Control - Ben Rogel Favila, R&D Director, Advantest Using Simulations to Generate Relevant PCB Constraints for Flash Systems - Alex Tain, Senior Staff IC Package and SI/PI Engineer, Seagate Challenges in Preparing SSDs for Qualification Testing - Vishal Devadiya, R&D Application Engineer, Advantest

Forum A-21: PCIe/NVMe Issues (NVMe/PCIe Storage Track) Developing Extremely Low-Latency NVMe SSDs - Young Paik, Director of Product Planning, Samsung Electronics Benefits of NVMe NVRAM vs NVDIMM, a Database Application Example - Jerome Gaysse, IP-Maker NVMe Performance Optimization and Stress Testing - Isaac Livny, Field Applications Engineer, Teledyne LeCroy Maximizing PCIe NVMe Bandwidth and IOPS - Manuel d'Abreu, Chief Scientist/Sr VP, Smart IOPS

Forum D-21: Enterprise Storage Design, Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track) 3D-NAND Scaling & 3D-SCM - How It's Changing Enterprise Storage - Jung Yoon, Sr Technical Staff Member - Silicon Technology & Quality, IBM Procurement Engineering Applying Swarm Intelligence to Optimize Flash Utilization - Rayan Zachariassen, CTO, ioFabric Storage Integration with Host-based Write-back Caching - Andy Banta, Storage Janitor/Virtualization Architect, NetApp Persistence at Memory Speed to Accelerate Enterprise Applications - Terry Hulett, VP/GM Systems Engineering, Everspin Technologies

Forum E-21: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 1 (Controllers Track) Introduction - Erich Haratsch, Seagate Reusability and Flexibility in SSD Controller Design - A Platform Approach - Andrei Vityaev, Chief Strategy Officer, Mobiveil Using Machine Learning to Enhance Flash Endurance & Latency - Cloud Zeng, Sr Engineer, Lite-On Storage Group ECC Approach for Correcting Errors Not Handled by RAID Recovery - Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion Spatially-Coupled (SC) Codes for Flash Memories - Homa Esfahanizadeh, Sr PhD Student, UCLA Electrical Engineering Dept SSD Lifetime Extension using Multi-Code-Rate LDPC with Multi-Dimensional LLR Tables - Rino Micheloni, VP Performance Solutions Group, Microsemi

Forum F-21: SSD Testing (Testing/Performance Track) Understanding Storage Performance for Video Production - Dave Frederick, Sr Director Media & Entertainment, Quantum Modeling QLC Flash Reliability - Nenad Miladinovic, Founding Engineer, Purestorage Inc. Getting it Right: Testing Storage Arrays The Way They'll be Used - Peter Murray, Principal Systems Engineer, Virtual Instruments Optimizing SSD Latency and Performance in Enterprise Applications - Taile Zhang, VP, Memblaze

Forum G-21: Enterprise Applications, Part 2 (Enterprise Applications Track) Leveraging the Latest Flash in the Data Center - Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors Carter IP Video Delivery - Mike Gluck, VP/CTO, Sanity Solutions United Center Case Study - Rob Commins, VP of Marketing, Tegile Systems Scaling Up as well as Scaling Out - Pete Jarvis, VP Business Development, TidalScale Consistently Reduced Latency is Everything in Advanced Analytics - Eric Stouffer, VP Distributed Storage BU, IBM Increase SQL Server Performance 20x - Sushant Rao, Sr Director Product Marketing, DataCore Software Extending IN-Memory Database Processing to Shared Flash - Gurmeet Goindi, Master Product Manager, Oracle

Forum R-21: Persistent Memory - Convergence of Storage and Memory Part 1 (Persistent Memory Track) Introduction - Steffen Hellmold, VP Technology Strategy, Western Digital Persistent Memory, NVM Programming Model, and NVDIMMS - SNIA

Invited Talk 6: Solving Latency Challenges with NVMe SSDs at Scale (NVMe/PCIe Storage Track) Solving Latency Challenges with NVMe SSDs at Scale - Chris Petersen, Hardware Systems Engineer, Facebook

Session 202-A: NVMe Market Research (Market Research Track) What can fuel NVMe market Growth - Uma Parepalli, Director, Stealth Startup NVMe Market Research - Eric Burgener, Research Director - Storage, IDC Evolution of NVMe - J Metz, R&D Engineer, Cisco Systems NVME™: Change Agent for Next-Gen Data Centers - Rob Callaghan, Sr. Manager, Enterprise & Cloud Solutions, Western Digital Future of Cloud Storage Infrastructure - Eyal David, CTO, Kaminario NVM Express® Past and Present: What We Have Accomplished, and Where We Are Going - Mike Heumann, G2M Research

Session 202-B: The Performance Story: An Independent Evaluation of Flash Storage (Testing/Performance Track) The Performance Story: An Independent Evaluation of Flash Storage - Dennis Martin, President, Demartek

Session 202-C: Mobile Applications (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) Introduction - Andy Marken, President, Marken Communications The SD-PCIe card – New Innovations in SD Cards Lead the Way to Mobile Everything - Yosi Pinto, Chairman, SD Association Which PCIe BGA SSD Architecture is Right For Your Application - Mason Chen, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion

Session 202-D: Open-Source Software and Flash Memory (Software Track) Experimental Results of Implementing NVMe on Open Channel SSD - Yong Ho Song, Professor, Hanyang University Increasing Ceph Performance Cost-Effectively with New Non-Volatile Technologies - Brien Porter, Sr Program Manager, Big Data Technologies, Intel

Keynote 7 How to Network Flash Storage Efficiently at Hyperscale - Manoj Wadekar, Sr Storage Architect, eBay

Keynote 8 Transforming Storage with Innovations in Non-Volatile Memory - Bill Leszinske, VP Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, Intel

Keynote 9 Mission Impossible: Surviving Today's Flood of Critical Data - Matt Rutledge, Sr VP Business Marketing, Seagate

Keynote 10 Using Storage Class Memory in Next-Generation Designs - Siamak Nazari, Fellow/CTO, HPE

Keynote11 Deep Learning: Extracting Maximum Knowledge from Big Data Using Big Compute - Andy Steinbach, Head of AI in Financial Services, NVIDIA

Keynote 12 Using ARM® Processing for Efficient Hyperscale Storage - Scott Furey, Associate VP of Enterprise Storage Business Unit, Marvell

Invited Talk 7: ReFlex: A System for Accessing Remote Flash Like Local Flash (Architectures Track) ReFlex: A System for Accessing Remote Flash Like Local Flash - Ana Klimovic, Graduate Student, Stanford University

Session 203-A: RRAM (New Memory Technologies Track) ReRAM Technology, Versatility, and Readiness - Hagop Nazarian, VP Engineering, Crossbar 3D ReRAM Technology Perspective - Amigo Tsutsui, Senior Business Producer, Sony Semiconductor Solutions

Session 203-B: Flash Technology (New Memory Technologies Track) Vulnerabilities in MLC NAND Flash Programming - Saugata Ghose, Special Faculty Systems Scientist, Carnegie-Mellon University AI-NAND - NAND at the Speed of SCM - Peter Lee, President, Aplus Flash Technology Erasure Code Offload for Distributed Software Defined Storage - Dror Goldenberg, VP Architecture, Mellanox

Session 203-C: Flash in Cloud Computing (Enterprise Storage Track) Introduction Low-Cost Flash-Only Datacenters Going Mainstream - Rado Danilak, CEO, Tachyum Building Your Castle in the Cloud for Flash Memory - Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors Introducing DPU – Placing Intelligence in Storage - Qing Yang, Chief Scientist, Shenzhen Dapu Microelectronics Lo

Session 203-D: CMO Panel: Flash Will Be Everywhere but the Customer Still Rules (Business/Marketing Track) Marketing Flash for Success - Eric Herzog, VP Storage Marketing, IBM Overview - Josh Epstein, VP Global Marketing, Kaminario CMO Panel - Jason Nadeau, Storage Industry Disruptor, Pure Storage

Forum A-22: PCIe/NVMe Storage (NVMe/PCIe Storage Track) Fast Tracking the Evolution of PCI Express™ Technology - Debendra Das Sharma, Board Member, PCI-SIG Dual Port NVMe Offers Enterprise-Class Availability Plus High Speed - Anders Graham, SSD Product Marketing, Samsung Electronics A New Standard for Remote Monitoring and Management of NVMe SSDs: NVMe-MI - David Woolf, Sr Engineer, UNH-IOL Implementing Virtual NVMe for Flash-Storage Class Memory - Jinpyo Kim, Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware New NVMe DAS Pool with Reliability and Sharing capability - Eric H Chang, Manager (Program Manager), SK Telecom / Network IT Convergence Choosing the Right NVMe Server Storage Platform for Your Application - Stuart Campbell, Platform Architect, E8 Storage

Forum C-22: SSD Technology (SSDs Track) Memory Expansion Technology Using Software-Controlled SSD - Satoshi Kazama, Researcher, Fujitsu Optimize Your Data with Temperature Awareness - Uma Gangumalla, Intel Big Data Technologies

Forum E-22: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 2 - Error Correcting Codes (Controllers Track) Two-Level Code Construction Using LDPC Codes - Osso Vahabzadeh, Staff Design Engineer, Texas LDPC A Flexible and Low-Complexity Local Erasure Recovery Scheme - Xinmiao Zhang, Senior Technologist, Western Digital Novel 4K Error Correcting Code for QLC NAND - Shiuan Hao Kuo, Supervisor engineer, Silicon Motion Overcoming Higher Bit Error Rates in New NAND Technologies - Song Wang, Chief Architect, Dera Storage Power-Efficient LDPC Technology for High Performance SSDs - Jiangli Zhu, Sr Director, Via Technologies Controller Technologies for Managing 3D NAND Flash Memories - Erich Haratsch, Director, Engineering Flash Channel Architecture, Seagate

Forum M-22: 3-D Flash (New Memory Technologies Track) The Solution to the Bit Error Non-uniformity of 3D NAND - Vic Ye, Manager of NAND Flash Analysis Team, SiliconGo Overcoming Challenges in 3D NAND Volume Manufacturing - Thorsten Lill, VP, Lam Research Improving Endurance in 3D-NAND Flash - Roman Pletka, Research Staff Member, IBM Zurich Research Lab Is 3D NAND the Right Technology for Removable Devices? - Crystal Chang, Senior Manager, ATP Electronics A Novel On-the-Fly NAND Flash Read Channel Parameter Estimation and Optimization - Tingjun Xie, Staff Engineer, Via Technologies 3D NAND Status and Roadmap 2017 - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

Forum R-22: Persistent Memory - Convergence of Storage and Memory Part 2 (Persistent Memory Track) Introduction The Promise of Persistent Memory over Fabrics - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox

Invited Talk 8: NOVA: A High-Performance, Hardened File System for N-V Memories (Persistent Memory Track) NOVA: A High-Performance, Hardened File System for Non-Volatile Main Memories - Steven Swanson, Professor, UC San Diego

Session 204-B: 24 Gb/s SAS Opens the Way to the Latest High-Performance Apps (Controllers Track) 24G SAS Opens the Way to the Latest High-Performance Applications - Rick Kutcipal, President, SCSI Trade Association Product Planning, Broadcom

Session 204-C: Flash in Big Data Applications (Data Management Track) Real Time Persistent Computing for Big Data - Bernard Wu, Chief Bus Dv Officer, Levyx

Session 204-D: Annual Update on Flash Memory for Non-Technologists (Business/Marketing Track) Annual Update on Flash Memory for Non-Technologists - Jay Kramer, Network Storage Advisors and George Crump, Storage Switzerland

Invited Talk 9: Ensuring Both Security and High Performance for Containers on Fl (Software Track) Ensuring Both Security and High Performance for Containers on Flash - Kevin Deierling, VP Marketing, Mellanox

Session 301-A: Life Beyond Flash - New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Memory Technologies Track) How new Non Volatile Memories Are Enabling Disruptive Computing Architectures? - Hugues Metras, VP Strategic Partnerships North America, CEA-LETI Life Beyond Flash - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

Session 301-B: Developing High-Performance Flash Systems (Enterprise Storage Track) High-Performance Dense Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)-based Flash Memory for Storage Appliances - Axel Kloth, President/CEO, SSR Labs

Session 301-C: Get Compute Closer to Data with In-Storage/In-Memory Solution (Architectures Track) In-Situ Processing - Vladimir Alves, CTO, NGD Systems iVDIMM - World First Intelligent Memory Module - Mike Amidi, CEO, Xitore The Computational Storage Wave - Soumik Sinharoy, Orange Silicon Valley

Forum A-31: PCIe/NVMe Development Issues (NVMe/PCIe Storage Track) Introduction NVMe Direct 2.0: An Enhanced User-space I/O Framework for NVMe SSDs - Hyeongjun Kim, Ph.D candidate, Sungkyunkwan University Developing Low Latency NVMe Systems for Hyperscale Data Centers - Engling Yeo, Vice President Engineering, Goke US Research Lab Designing Next-Generation FS for NVMe and NVMe-oF - Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder & CTO, WekaIO Examining Latency of NVMe SSDs for Time-Critical Applications Using Exceedance Analysis - John Gatch, Senior Team Lead, Performance Engineering, Western Digital Making the Right Power/Performance Tradeoffs for NVMe SSDs - Rick Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion

Forum E-31: Flash Controller Design Options (Controllers Track) High-Throughput Low-Power Finite Alphabet Iterative Decoders - Shiva Planjery, CEO, CodeLucida Uniform & Concentrated Read Disturb Effects in TLC NAND Flash Memories - Cristian Zambelli, Assistant Professsor, University of Ferrara (Italy) Cloud Computing with FPGA-based NVMe SSDs - Bharad Pudipeddi, CTO, NVXL Technology Machine Learning based Digital Signal Processor for NAND Flash Storage System - Wei Lin, System Architect, Phison Electronics A Self-Learning Algorithm for NAND Flash Controllers - Hao Zhi Lee, Manager, Phison Electronics

Forum M-31: Persistent Memory Tools and Applications (Persistent Memory Track) IOPS and QoS Analysis of DRAM-Based and 1Gb All-MRAM Based NVRAM Cards - Lorenzo Zuolo, Doctoral Student, University of Ferrara (Italy) Emerging Opportunities for Non-Volatile Memories in Video Games - John Carlsen, Consultant, Syncopated Systems NVMe SSD with Persistent Memory Region - Chander Chadha, Sr Technical Product Engineer, Toshiba

Forum R-31: NVDIMMs: Powerful Persistent Memory Arrives in a Familiar Form (Persistent Memory Track) Part 1 - Jeff Chang, VP Marketing, AgigA Tech Part 2: NVDIMMS with a Twist - Jeff Chang, VP Marketing, AgigA Tech Benchmarking Persistent Memory in Computers - Adam McPadden, Memory Development, IBM The Impact of Persistent Memory and Intelligent Data Encoding - Rob Peglar, Sr Vice President/CTO, Symbolic IO Accelerating SQL Server Performance with Persistent Memory - Lee Prewitt, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft New NVDIMM Architecture Offers a Fast SSD on the Memory Bus - Doug Finke, Director, Product Marketing, Xitore

Forum V-31: Flash Storage Networking (Enterprise Storage Track) NVMe Storage Networking - Bob Hansen, VP System Architecture, Apeiron Data Systems Maintaing the balance between Flash & Fabric - Marcus Thordal, Director Solutions, Brocade Accelerate Access to Networked Flash with FC-NVMe - Nishant Lodha, Product Marketing Manager, Cavium The Best Ethernet Storage Fabric - Amit Katz, Sr Director Product Management, Mellanoxme Networking NVMe-based Flash with TCP/IP Using the Protocol Everyone Knows - Muli Ben Yehuda, CTO, LightBits Labs

Invited Talk 10: Flash-Based Edge Computing System for IoT (Architectures Track) Flash-based Edge Computing Systems for IoT - Atsuhiro Kinoshita, Flashmatrix Project Lead (Ph.D., Eng.), Toshiba America Electronic Components

Session 302-A: VC Forum (Business/Marketing Track) Introduction - Wayne Rickard, Advisor, Radian Memory Systems

Session 302-B: History Session (History Track) Hard Disk Drives: The Giants of the Storage Industry - Edward Grochowski, Computer Memory/Storage Consultant, Independent Consultant

Keynote 13 Accelerating NVMe Innovation for Emerging Applications - Derek Dicker VP/Business Unit Manager for the Performance Storage Business Unit Microsemi

Keynote 14 Creating the Fabric of a New Generation of Enterprise Applications - Name

Keynote 15 From Rack-Scale to Network-Scale: NVMe over Fabrics Enables Exabyte Applications - Zivan Ori Co-Founder and CEO E8 Storage

Invited Talk 11: Solving 3D Flash’s Error Recovery Problem (Architectures Track) Solving 3D Flash's Error Recovery Problem - Conor Ryan, CTO, NVMdurance

Session 303-A: The Next Breakthroughs in NAND Flash (Flash Technology Track) Moving Flash "Out of the Box" Bridging NV Memory to the Fabric - Bob Doud, Senior Director of Marketing, Mellanox Performance Requires more than FASTER Devices - Manuel d'Abreu, Chief Scientist/Sr VP, Smart IOPS Manufacturing Equipment Innovations Enabling 3D Architecture - Harmeet Singh, Corporate VP, Lam Research The Next Big Breakthrough in Flash - Rob Peglar, Sr Vice President/CTO, Symbolic IO New Breakthroughs in NAND? - Engling Yeo, Vice President Engineering, Goke US Research Lab

Session 303-B: Ultra-fast NVMe Storage Networks for Next Generation Flash Arrays (NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) Low latency and high throughput storage access - Journey from SCSI to NVMe in FC fabrics - Raj Lalsangi

Session 303-C: Application Acceleration (Enterprise Applications Track) Overview Database Acceleration Solution Using FPGAs and Integrated Flash Storage - HK Verma, Principal Engineer, Xilinx NVMe Host Acceleration - Hiren Patel, Sr. Business Development / Co-Founder, Intelliprop

Forum C-32: SSD Concepts (SSDs Track) Creating SSD Designs That Can Readily Be Migrated Between Form Factors - Feng Tang, Senior Manager Firmware Design, Starblaze Technology Next Generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF) SSD Proposal - David Wang, Director of Memory Product Planning, Samsung Electronics Write Cliff Causes and Mitigation Techniques - Erich Hanke, Principal Engineer, Intelliprop Evaluation of error recovery flow of SSD media based on real NAND data simulation - Erich Haratsch, Director, Engineering Flash Channel Architecture, Seagate Datacenter Workload Analysis & Qualification of Storage Servers - Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems

Forum L-32: Super-High Data Rates Open up a New World of Mobile Applications (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) UFS Card Superiorities & Industry Readiness - VP Chanlk Park, NAND Product Planning Group, Memory Business, Samsung Electronics UFS Controllers Expand the Expandable Storage and the Ecosystem - Robert Hsieh, Silicon Motion, Inc. UFS 3.0 - Controller Design Considerations - Keith Tsai, Strategic Account Manager, Phison Electronics Corp. USB3.1 <=> UFS Bridge Controller - Tsao Chong, CEO, Dediprog Technology UFS and UFS Card on Windows - Lee Prewitt, Principal Program Manager, WDG, Microsoft Introducing FAT+ - Mikko Valimaki, CEO, Tuxera UFS Card Socket - Zhineng Fan, Amphenol UFS Host and Device IP Requirements - Hezi Saar, Synopsys What's in a Name? - UFS™

Forum W-32: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) (NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) Flashmatrix™ Technology - All-flash Super-Converged Platform - Ram Johri, Systems Architect, Flashmatrix, Toshiba America Electronic Components Low-Overhead Flash Disaggregation via NVMe-over-Fabrics - Vijay Balakrishnan, Principal Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor Accelerating Remote Virtual Machine Access with the Storage Performance Development Kit - Jim Harris, Storage Software Architect, Intel Enabling Next-Generation Storage Fabrics with NVMe-oF I/O Processors - Benoit Ganne, Research Engineer, KALRAY Using FPGAs to Accelerate NVMe-oF-Based Storage Networks - Deboleena Sakalley, Senior Staff Design Engineer, Xilinx

Session 304-A: Flash and the Internet of Things (Embedded Applications Track) Applying Flash in the Industrial IoT - Erik Jones, Business Development, More Reliable SSDs and eMMC for Automotive & IoT Applications - Lancelot Hu, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion Embedded 28-nm Charge-Trap NVM Technology - Igor Kouznetsov, Senior Director of Marketing, Intellectual Property, Cypress Semiconductor Securing Applications with Secure Boot NOR Flash - Suhail Zain, Cypress Semiconductor

Session 304B: Closing Panel on Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today Title Top Ten Things You Need to Know - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis Top Ten Things You Need to Know - About Flash Memory, that is - Rob Peglar, Vice President and CTO, Symbolic IO Top Ten Things You Need to Know - Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Flash - Adam Roberts, Chief Solutions Architect, Western Digital