Pre-Conference Seminar C: Persistent Memory (Pre-Conference Seminars Track) Overview of Persistent Memory - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures Persistent Memory for Artificial Intelligence - Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero Persisent Memory and NVDIMMs - Raghu Kulkarni, Senior Director, Emerging Technologies, Viking Technology Leading the Future of Flash with NVMe and SCM - Kumar Prabhat, Product Manager, NetApp

Pre-Conference Seminar D: Flash Storage Networking (Pre-Conference Seminars Track) Flash Storage Networking - Rob Davis, Ilker Cebeli, J Metz, Motti Beck, Curt Beckmann, Peter Onufryk, and Alan Weckel

Pre-Conference Seminar G: Bring Your SSD Testing Up-to-Date (Pre-Conference Seminars Track) Bring Your SSD Testing Up to Date - Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems

SNIA Tutorial #1 A Case for Flash Storage - How To Choose Flash Storage For Your Applications - Dejan Kocic, NetApp

SNIA Tutorial #2 Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage, But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Vermillion - What if Programming and Networking Had a Storage Baby? - J Metz, Cisco, and John Kim, Mellanox

SNIA Tutorial #3 Everything You Wanted to Know about Storage: Part Teal - Ques, Caches and Buffers - John Kim, Mellanox, and J Metz, Cisco

SNIA Tutorial #4 Birds-of-a-Feather Persistent Memory Futures - Jeff Chang, SNIA Persistent Memory and NVDIMM SIG Co-Chair

CMOB-101A-1: Consumer/Mobile Applications (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) New Technologies and New Standards Enable New Mobile Applications - Robert Hsieh, Product Marketing Director, Silicon Motion A Survey of Storage Products for Mobile - Hung Voung, Director of Standards, Memory, Qualcomm M.2 Evolves to Storage's Benefit - Anthony Constantine, Platform Architect, Intel

EMBD-101A-1: Embedded Applications - System Design (Embedded Applications Track) Intelligent Secure Storage for Industrial IoT - Scott Phillips, VP of Marketing, Virtium Flash and File System Co-Design to Increase System Lifetime - Tom McCormick, Chief Engineer/Technologist, Swissbit Security for Code and Data Protection in Embedded Systems - Grady Lambert, Engineering Director, Swissbit Getting the Most Out of Performance Specs: Top Ten Points for Embedded Designers - Damien Col, Technical Marketing Manager, Hyperstone

FTEC-101A-1: Annual Update on Flash Technology (Flash Technology Track) Flash Market Update - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

INVT-101A-1: An All-NVMe Performance Deep Dive into Ceph (Software Track) An All-NVMe Performance Deep Dive into Ceph - Ryan Meredith, Principal Storage Solutions Engineer, Micron

ARCH-101-1: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track) A Machine Learning Framework for NAND Flash Lifetime Extension - Lorenzo Zuolo, Flash Engineer, Microsemi Introduction to Open-Channel Solid State Drives - Matias Bjoerling, Director Solid State System Software, Western Digital How Open-Channel SSDs Benefit Data Center and Enterprise Applications - Rick Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion SSD Architecture Requirements for IO Determinism - Tim Canepa, Chief Architect and Director of Architecture, Independent Consultant

AUTO-101-1: Flash in Autonomous Vehicles, Part 1 (Automotive Applications Track) Memory security of Automotive Systems - Crystal Chang, Senior Manager, ATP Electronics Infotainment in the Age of the Autonomous Vehicle - Greg Basich, Associate Dir., Strategy Analytics, global Automotive Practice SLC NAND gains momentum in Autonomous Driving camera applications - Anil Gupta, Technical Executive, Winbond Electronics

BMKT-101-1: Flash Growth & Opportunity in China, Part 1 (Business/Marketing Track) NAND Structure Aware Controller Framework - Hongjun Xue, R&D Chief Architect, UNIC NOR Flash from Greater China: From Follower to Leader - Michael Wang, VP of Strategic Marketing, GigaDevice Semiconductor RRAM for Future Memory and Computing Applications - Ming Liu, Academician, Academy of Science of China Flash Memory Technology accelerate China's digital economy - Awu Zheng, CEO & Founder, DOIT Media Group Trends for Storage in Edge Computing - Banghong Chen, Senior Manager, Keyway Technology Co. LTD Build a Key Value Flash Disk Based Storage System - Wei Zha, Chief Technology Planner of Storage Product, Huawei

ENAP-101-1: Enterprise Applications, Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track) Persistent Memory The Next Turbo for Databases - Edward Duarte, Sr Product Manager, HPE Compose Your Future - Derek Swanson, CTO, North America, Kaminario Oracle Exadata: Achieving Memory-Level Performance with NVME Flash - Gurmeet Goindi, Master Product Manager, Oracle Accelerating Image Processing for Object Storage - Sean Gardner, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Xilinx Reducing Business Risk and Increasing Productivity with Flash - Summer Matheson, Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems Software-defined Storage and the Customer Path to NVMe-oF, Parts 1 & 2 - Benjamin Treiber, Sr. Director, Engineering Product Management, DataCore Software

PMEM-101-1: Advances in Persistent Memory (Persistent Memory Track) Advances in Persistent Memories: Markets and Applications - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures Why Persistent Memory Matters - How Did We Get Here, and What Lies Ahead? - Jim Pappas, Director, Initative Marketing, Intel Server Platforms Group Current Status and Overview of Standards Related to Persistent Memory - Rob Peglar, Independent Consultant, Advanced Computing and Storage Persistent Memory Security Threat Model - Mark Carlson, Technical Council Co-Chair, SNIA

DPRO-101B-1: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Protection Track) Introduction - Troy Hegr, Sr. Mgr., OEM Storage Strategic Alliances, DriveSavers Data Recovery Data needed from Drones? Yes, and the data is rich. Recovery of a drone. - Will DeLisi, NAND Flash Recovery Specialist, DriveSavers Data Recovery 3D NAND - Data Recovery and Erasure Verification - Robin England, Hardware Research & Development Team Lead, Ontrack

EMBD-101B-1: Embedded Applications - Drive Design (Embedded Applications Track) Improving the Performance of M.2 NVMe SSDs at Industrial Temperatures - Peter Huang, Senior Manager, Product Management, ATP Electronics One-Chip Flash Solution for Industrial Applications - Chanson Lin, Founder/CEO, EmBestor Technology Is NVMe Right for Mil/Industrial Applications? - Chris Budd, Director Engineering, SMART High Reliability Solutions

ENST-101B-1: Annual Update on Enterprise Flash Storage (Enterprise Storage Track) Flash, It's not just for tier 0 anymore OR Flash is the new black - Howard Marks, Chief Scientist, DeepStorage.net

INVT-101B-1: Hardware Acceleration of Storage for Composable Infrastructure (NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) Hardware Acceleration Techniques for NVMe-oF - Bryan Cowger, VP Sales/Mktg, Kazan Networks

TEST-101B-1: The Performance Story: An Independent Evaluation of Flash Storage (Testing Track) The Real Story on Flash Storage Performance - Dennis Martin, President, Demartek

Keynote 1 Driving Business & Technology Transformations of the Future - Mrinalini (Lani) Ingram, VP Smart Communities, Verizon, and Hugh Martin, VP Smart Communities, Strategy & Emerging Technologies, Verizon

Keynote 3 The Future of Data Infrastructure - Phil Bullinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Systems

Keynote 4 QLC Flash: Meeting the Challenges of the New Data Economy - Derek D. Dicker, Corporate Vice President, Storage Business Unit, Micron

Special Presentation 2 SNIA - Global Leader in Storage Standards & Education - Michael Oros, Executive Director, SNIA

BMKT-102A-1: Flash Growth and Opportunity in China, Part 2 (CEO Panel) (Business/Marketing Track) Flash Growth and Opportunity in China, Part 2 - All Panelists

BMKT-102A-2: Know What the Enterprise Flash Customer Wants and Needs (Business/Marketing Track) Know What the enterprise Flash Customer Wants and Needs - All Panelists

CTRL-102A-1: Annual Update on Flash Controllers (Controllers Track) Annual Flash Controller Update - David McIntyre, DSMcIntyre Consulting

INVT-102A-1: Enabling I/O Determinism in Hyperscale Data Centers (Enterprise Storage Track) Enabling NVME® I/O Determinism @ Scale - Chris Petersen, Hardware Systems Technologist, Facebook

SECU-102A-1: New Directions in Security (Security Track) Hardware-Accelerated Security Offloads for Networked Storage - Bob Doud, Senior Director of Marketing, Mellanox A Certification Program for Sanitizing SSDs - Paul Suhler, Storage Architect, Micron Technology

ARCH-102-1: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (Architectures Track) Project Denali Open-Channel SSDs - Javier Gonzalez, Software Engineer / Team Lead, CNEX Labs QLC and Mixed Mode SSDs Require Deep FTL-Tuning - Karl Schuh, Senior Firmware Architecture Manager, Micron A Case for IO Determinism for Hyperscale Applications Utilizing QLC Flash Memory - Steven Wells, Fellow – SSD Data Center Architecture, Toshiba Transforming an SSD into a Cost-Effective Edge Server - Neil Werdmuller, Director, Storage Solutions, Arm Holdings

AUTO-102-1: Flash in Autonomous Vehicles, Part 2 (Automotive Applications Track) Data is the New Horse Power - Russell Ruben, Director of Marketing for Automotive Solutions, Western Digital Solving functional safety challenges in automotive with NOR Flash Memory - Sandeep Krishnegowda, Marketing Director, Flash Business Unit, Cypress Semiconductor Why Self-Encrypting Storage is Essential in Automotive Privacy - Robert Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance

PMEM-102-1: Persistent Memory Hardware (Persistent Memory Track) Non-Volatile Memory Modules (NVDIMMs) - Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero Addressing Performance Challenges with Persistent Memory - Frank Ross, Sr. Memory Systems Architect, Micron Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory SNIA PM update - Mark Henderson, Memory and Storage Product Marketing Manager, Intel Capabilities and System Benefits Enabled by NVDIMM-N - Bob Frey, Director Memory and Systems Engineering, SMART Modular Technologies Emerging NVM Features - Thomas Choi, Senior Engineer, DRAM Product Planning, SK hynix Design of PRAM-based Persistent NVDIMM Controllers to Prepare the Data Age - Myoungsoo Jung, Professor, School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University

ENST-102-1: Enterprise Storage Design (Enterprise Storage Track) Raising QLC Reliability in All-Flash Arrays - Jeff Yang, principal engineer, Silicon Motion Flash Storage Complementing a Data Lake for Real-Time Insight - Sanhita Sarkar, Director Analytics, Western Digital Using Non-Volatile Memory for Computation-in-Memory - WeiTi Liu, President, LucidPort Technology Off Module Power Loss Protection: Cost Efficiencies for Enterprise Systems - Rob Sykes, Sr Distinguished Engineer, Toshiba Gen-Z: High-Performance Interconnect for the Data-Centric Future - Kurtis Bowman, President, Gen Z Consortium

SSDS-102-1: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track) Low-Power Design of SSDs - Daniel Sun, Starblaze, Alibaba Open Channel SSD for Next-Generation Data Centers - Ping Zhou, Staff Engineer, Alibaba Big Data, Fast Data - Making The Right Choice - Walter Hinton, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions, Western Digital Intelligent Hybrid Flash Management - Jerome Gaysse, Managing Director, Silinnov Consulting Optimizing SSDs for Multiple Tenancy Use - Liam Parker, Senior Technologist, SSD Systems Engineering, Western Digital Introducing DPU:  Data-storage Processing Unit - Placing Intelligence in Storage - Ken Qing Yang, Professor and CSO, University of Rhode Island and Dapu Microelectronics Ltd CO

INVT-102B-1: IP-Based Development Platform for NVMe-Based Products (NVMe Track) IP-Based Development Platform for NVMe-Based Products - Mickael Guyard, Sales/Marketing Manager, IP-Maker

NEWM-102B-1: Annual Update on Emerging Memory Technologies (New Memory Technologies Track) Annual Update on Emerging Memories - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

SECU-102B-1: Encryption for Data Protection (Security Track) The New TCG "Ruby" Standard - Drew Tipton, Technical Product Manager, Toshiba America What Industry Standard Self-Encrypting Storage is, and why it is Essential - Bob Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance

BMKT-201A-1: Annual Update on Flash Arrays (Business/Marketing Track) Key Technology Trends, Marketplace Drivers, & AFA Rankings - Jerome M. Wendt, President & Founder, DCIG and Ken Clipperton, Lead Analyst, Storage, DCIG

INVT-201A-1: Innovation, Determination and the First Days of Flash (History Track) The Story of An Innovative Flash Memory Startup that Changed the World - Aryeh Mergi, Pliops

MRES-201A-1: Market Research Panel (Market Research Track) Market Research Panel - Panelists: - Camberley Bates, Managing Director, Evaluator Group - Jean S. Bozman, Vice President, Hurwitz & Associates - Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates - Chris DePuy, Co-Founder, The 650 Group - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis - Jeff Janukowicz, Research VP SSDs, IDC

NEWM-201A-1: 3D XPoint: Current Implementations and Future Trends (New Memory Technologies Track) Markets for 3D Xpoint: Applications, Performance, and Revenue - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures Process Challenges For 1S-1R Crossbar Type Memory - Mahendra Pakala, Sr Director, Applied Materials

CTRL-201-1: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 1 - Hardware and Algorithms (Controllers Track) Novel Error Recovery Architecture based on Machine Learning - Cloud Zeng, Sr Engineer, Lite-On Storage Designing Enterprise Controllers with QLC 3D NAND - Roman Pletka, Research Staff Member, IBM Zurich Research Lab Error Detection & Vertical LDPC ECC for Reliable 3D-TLC NAND Flash - Shun Suzuki, Student, Chuo University

ENAP-201-1: Enterprise Applications, Part 2 (Enterprise Applications Track) Integrating Scale-out Flash Cache into Production Workflows - Kurt Kuckein, Director or Marketing, DDN Storage Supporting Mars science with Dell EMC Unity flash storage - Bob Fine, Director Product Marketing, Dell SSD and Container Native Storage for High-Performance Database - Earle Philhower, Sr Technical Marketing Manager, Western Digital Driven by Data - Accelerate innovation and competitiveness in a data-driven, multi-cloud world - Eric Herzog, CMO VP Worldwide Storage Channels, IBM MacStadium Chooses Pure Storage to Improve Infrastructure - Chadd Kenney, VP/CTO, Pure Storage Global Response Enlists Pure Storage to Support Growth and Boost Efficiency - Chadd Kenney, VP/CTO, Pure Storage SSD Telco/MSO Case Studies - SSDs Enable IP CDN & iVOD - Mike Gluck, VP/CTO, Sanity Solutions Real world observations from a Midsize Enterprise company transitioning to a Virtualized Environment - Bob Fine, Director Product Marketing, Dell

NVME-201-1: NVMe-oF Enterprise Arrays/Appliances (NVMe Track) Part 1 - Michael Peppers, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp, and Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer/Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Part 2 - Nishant Lodha, Sr Technical Marketing Manager, Marvell, Lior Gal, CEO, Excelero, Manoj Wadekar, Sr Storage Architect, eBay, and Kamal Hyder, Director Product Management Cloud Software, Toshiba Japan

NVME-201-2: PCIe/NVMe Issues (NVMe Track) Non-Disruptive Firmware Upgrades for Enterprise SSDs - Radjendirane Codandaramane, Sr. Manager, Applications Engineering, Microsemi Implementing Hot Plug in NVMe Storage Systems - Wesley Yung, Principal Engineer, Applications, Microsemi Bullet-Proofing PCIe in Enterprise Storage SoCs with RAS features - Michael Fernandez, Field Applications Engineer, PLDA Ensuring Data Availability for NVMe-Based Storage - Jeff Plank, RAID Solution Architect, Microsemi

PMEM-201-1: Persistent Memory Software and Applications (Persistent Memory Track) The SNIA NVM Programming Model - Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, HPE NVDIMM: The savior of SSD endurance in CEPH - David Tseng, Supervisor Engineer, Bigtera Performance Benefits of NVDIMMs in Enterprise Data Storage Platforms - Sreekanth Garigala, Senior Technologist, Western Digital Accelerating Apps & HCI Storage Performance with Persistent Memory - Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Director, Product Management, VMware

SOFT-201-1: Increasing the Performance of Software-Defined Storage (Software Track) Build High Performance, Cost-Effective Ceph All-Flash Arrays - Brien Porter, Sr Program Manager, Big Data Technologies, Intel Using Software to Reduce High Tail Latencies on SSDs - Kapil Karkra, Software Architect, Intel Corporation Key-Value Store Friendly SSD Interface Design and Optimization - Teng Yang, senior firmware engineer, Starblaze Technology Flash Considerations for Software Composable Infrastructure - Brian Pawlowski, CTO, DriveScale Important New NVMe Features for Optimizing the Data Pipeline - Stephen Bates, CTO, Eideticom

SSDS-201-1: New Flexible Form Factors for Enterprise and Datacenter SSDs (SSDs Track) EDSFF Is Here - Cliff Smith, Sr Product Line Manager, Enterprise SSDs, Micron How Form Factors Will Help Shape Tomorrow's Data Center World - Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow, Intel EDSFF - The Future of Enterprise Storage and Beyond - Paul Kaler, Advanced Storage Technologist, HPE EDSFF: Mainstream NVMe for the (Datacenter) Masses - Jonathan Hinkle, Principal Researcher, Lenovo Datacenter Designs Using the EDSFF Form Factors - Mark A Shaw, Principal Hardware Engineering Manager, Microsoft

TEST-201-1: Testing/Performance Analysis (Testing Track) Improved Drive Qualification Methods for Enterprise SSDs - Jeffrey Fritzjunker, Manager, Supply Chain Engineering, Storage Device Qualification, IBM An Advanced Flash Emulator for Designing Today's High-Capacity Controllers - Theodore Antonakopoulos, Professor, University of Patras Design Register Accurate SSD Software Simulator - Haocheng Huang, IP Design Manager, Starblaze How Will Your Enterprise SSD Handle Real Workloads? - Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems Diagnosing SSD Failures During Testing - Linden Hsu, R&D Engineer Expert, Advantest

CMOB-201B-1: New PCIe/NVMe Memory Cards Open up New High-Speed Applications (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) New PCIe/NVMe Memory Cards Open up New High-Speed Applications - Yosi Pinto, Chairman, SD Association

INVT-201B-1: Persistent Memory - The Answer to Today's Data Center Challenges (Persistent Memory Track) Persistent Memory: The Answer to Today's Data Center Challenges - Andy Walls, Fellow/CTO/Chief Architect, IBM

MRES-201B-1: NVMe Market Research Panel (Market Research Track) NVMe Market Research Panel - Jean Bozman, VP/Principal Analyst, Hurwitz & Associates IBM and NVMe - Andy Walls, Fellow/CTO/Chief Architect, IBMand Brent Yardley, chief Hardware Engineer Flash Systems, IBM G2M Research Presentation - Mike Heumann, Managing Partner, G2M Communications NVMe in Enterprise Storage Systems - Eric Burgener, Research Director Storage, IDC Evolution of NVMe - J Metz, Office Of The CTO/Board Member, Cisco Systems NVMe™ in the Data Center - Narayan Venkat, VP, Data Center Systems, Western Digital

Keynote 8 Data Explosion Demands Ethernet Fast Flash Fabrics - Ahmet Houssein, VP of Marketing & Strategic Development, Solarflare

Keynote 9 Adaptable Storage Acceleration Platforms for Exabyte-scale Data Centers - Manish Muthal, Vice President Datacenter Marketing, Xilinx

Keynote 10 Optimizing Storage Solutions for Data Center Applications - Nigel Alvares, VP of SSD & Data Center Storage Solutions, Marvell

Keynote 11 Computational Storage: Acceleration Through Intelligence & Agility - Dr. Hao Zhong, CEO & Co-Founder, ScaleFlux

Keynote 12 Empowering the Gen-4 Storage Transition - Andrew Dieckmann, VP Marketing/Applications Engineering, Microsemi

AUTO-202A-1: The End-to-End Storage Challenge of Autonomous Transportation (Automotive Applications Track) How Could Infrastructure Operators better Support Autonomous Cars? - Kun Zhou, Program Manager, California PATH, UC Berkeley End-to-End Data/Storage in Autonomy - Alan Messer, CTO of Global Connected Consumer Experience/VP of Software and Innovation, General Motors Automotive Sensor Setup for AD - Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer/Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Harman - Storage Memory Solutions - Ivan Ivanov, Distinguished Engineer, CoC Systems, Harman

ENST-202A-1: Flash in Cloud Computing (Enterprise Storage Track) Re-Architecting Cloud Storage with 3D XPoint and 3D NAND SSDs - Jack Zhang, Software Engineering Manager, Intel Managing Flash in OpenSDS for Cloud-Native Frameworks - Steven Tan, VP & CTO Cloud Solution for Storage, Huawei Fusion Engine - Next generation storage engine for Flash-SSD and 3D XPoing sstorage system - Fei Liu, Storage Architect, Alibaba OX-App: A Framework for Application-specific FTLs on Tiered Storage - Ivan Picoli, PhD Fellow, IT University of Copenhagen

INVT-202A-1: A Satellite-Based Architecture for High-Throughput Storage (Architectures Track) A Satellite-Based Architecture for High-Throughput Storage - Michael Koets, Staff Engineer, Southwest Research Institute

NEWM-202A-1: RRAM (New Memory Technologies Track) 3D ReRAM Technology for high speed applications - Amigo Tsutsui, Senior Business Producer, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Forging the Way in AI Architecture with ReRAM Based Computational Memory - Hagop Nazarian, VP Engineering, Crossbar FeFET Memory: (e)NVM for Advanced technology Nodes - Dr. Stefan Muller, CEO, FMC

NVME-202-2: PCIe/NVMe Storage (NVMe Track) Thunderbolt 3: Bringing NVMe Storage to Consumer Computers - Shailendra Sinha, Sr. Business Development Manager, Intel Using Multi-Drive Fusion to Scale NVMe Performance - Jinling Chen, Field Engineering Manager, UNIC Reconfigurable Compression Engine for NVMe-Based Storage Systems - David Sloan, Software Engineer, Eidetic communications RAIN: Reinvention of RAID for the World of NVMe - Sergey Platonov, Chief Strategist, RAIDIX FPGA based PCI Express Gen4 NVMe SSD Platform - Amit Saxena, VP Engineering, Mobiveil RAIN: Reinvention of RAID for the World of NVMe - Dmitrii Smirnov, Principal Software Developer, RAIDIX Building Dense NVMe Storage - Mikhail Malygin, Principal Software Engineer, YADRO About the Gen-Z Consortium - Gen-Z Consortium

CTRL-202-1: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 2 - Error Correcting Codes (Controllers Track) Artificial Neural Network Coupled LDPC ECC for 3D-NAND Flash Memories - Toshiki Nakamura, Student, Japan/Chuo University A Low-Cost LDPC Decoder for Flash Memory - TOsso Vahabzadeh, Staff Design Engineer, Symbyon Systems Ultra-Low Resource FPGA implementation of Finite Alphabet Iterative Decoders - David Declercq, CTO, CodeLucida Fully Integrated LLR Calculation Flow - Lorenzo Zuolo, Flash Engineer, Microsemi Generalized Tree Architecture with High-Radix Processing for an SC Polar Decoder - Tae-Hwan Kim, Professor, Korea Aerospace University

PMEM-202-1: Remote Persistent Memory (Persistent Memory Track)) Introduction - Paul Grun, Open Fabrics Alliance, Cray Inc., and Rob Peglar, Advanced Computation and Storage Remote Persistent Memory-The Case for Use Cases - Paul Grun, OpenFabrics Alliance Chair; Storage I/O and Interconnect Architect, Cray Remote Persistent Memory in Feature Animation Production - Scott Miller, Technology Fellow, Engineering and Infrastructure, DreamWorks Animation HPC and Remote Persistent Memory - Jim Harrell, Director of Engineering, Cray RDMA Memory Placement Extensions for PMEM - Idan Burstein, Architect, Mellanox

FTEC-202-1: 3D Flash (Flash Technology Track) HeatWatch: Exploiting 3D NAND Self-Recovery and Temperature Effects - Yixin Luo, Doctoral Student, Carnegie-Mellon University 3D NAND Technology Scaling Helps Accelerate AI Growth - Jung Yoon, Sr Technical Staff Member - Silicon Technology & Quality, IBM Procurement Engineering Measuring 3D TLC Voltage Distributions and Optimized Read Threshold Calibration - Oliver Hambrey, Research Engineer, Siglead A Graphical Journey into 3D NAND Operations - Vic Ye, Flash Analysis Manager, YeeStor

SOFT-202-1: Improving Performance and Scalability for Advanced Systems (Software Track) Ceph Optimizations for NVMe - Chunmei Liu, Senior Engineer, Intel Storage Performance Challenges in Virtualization - Felipe Franciosi, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Nutanix NVMe over Fabrics: Scaling Up with the Storage Performance Development Kit - Benjamin Walker, Storage Solutions Architect, Intel LINSTOR: A Cluster-Wide Control Path for Storage Management - Philipp Reisner, CTO, Linbit Open Source Data Reduction for High Performance Flash Storage - Louis Imershein, Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

CTRL-202B-1: Flash Storage with 24G SAS Leads the Way in Crunching Big Data (Controllers Track) Flash Storage with 24G SAS Leads the Way in Crunching Big Data - Rick Kutcipal, President, SCSI Trade Association (STA)

FTEC-202B-1: Annual Update on Flash Memory for Non-Technologists (Flash Technology Track) Annual Update on Flash Memory for Non-Technologists - Jay Kramer, Network Storage Advisors, and George Crump, Storage Switzerland

INVT-202B-1: NVMe-oF - Enabling this Next Gen Infrastructure (NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) NVMe-oF: Enabling the Next Generation Infrastructure - David Black, Distinguished Engineer, Dell EMC

NEWM-202B-1: MRAM (New Memory Technologies Track) MRAM brings native persistence at speed to memory applications - James Singer, Director Applications Engineering, Everspin The Engine:  SRAM & DRAM Endurance and Speed with STT MRAM - Les Crudele / Andrew J. Walker PhD Flash Memory Summit 2018 MRAM Update - Barry Hoberman, , Independent Consultant STT-MRAM applications use in IBM FCMs - Brent Yardley, Senior Technical Staff Member/Master Inventor, IBM Systems

ENST-301A-1: Application Acceleration (Enterprise Storage Track) Benefits and Challenges of using SmartNICs for Distributed Shared Storage - Kirill Shoikhet, Chief Technical Architect, Excelero An NVMe-based FPGA Storage Workload Accelerator - Sean Gibb, VP Software, Eideticom

FNET-301A-1: Networking Flash with Ethernet and Fibre Channel (Flash Storage Networking Track) Networking Flash with Ethernet and Fibre Channel - Curt Beckmann, Product Architect Nvme Over Fibre Channel, Brocade and J Metz, Office Of The CTO/Board Member, Cisco Systems

HPCA-301A-1: Non-Volatile Memory Accelerates High-Performance Computing (High-Performance Computing Applications Track) Get Software Out of the Way of High Performance Flash Arrays - Tom Matson, Business Development Manager, One Stop Systems Next-Generation NVMe-Native Parallel Filesystem for Accelerating HPC Workloads - Liran Zvibel, CTO And Co-Founder, WekaIO Persistent Memory and HPC - Enabling New Programming Paradigms - Dave Emberson, Distinguished Technologist, HPC Advanced Technology, Exascale, and Federal Programs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

INVT-301A-1: Machine Learning and Storage Applications (Enterprise Applications Track) Machine Learning and Storage Applications - Nisha Talagala, CTO, ParallelM

NEWM-301A-1: Life Beyond Flash - New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Memory Technologies Track) Is There Life After Flash - Etienne Nowak, Head Advanced Memory Laboratory, CEA-LETI Memory Class Storage - Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero Achieving Higher-Density Code Storage with Flash Memory - K C Shakar, Sr Director Strategic Marketing, Winbond Electronics A System Architect's View - Brent Yardley, STSM, Chief Hardware Engineer, Master Inventor, IBM

TEST-301A-1: Testing Issues (Testing Track) Introduction - Kimball Brown, BlackRidge Technology Testing Dual-Port NVMe SSDs - Sneha Nadig, R&D Applications Engineer, Advantest Open Source Software for Managing Performance Analysis of Flash Storage - Shing Lee, R&D Senior Manager, ADATA Technology

COMP-301-1: Increasing Performance by Moving Compute Closer to Data (Computational Storage Track) Unleashing Data-Driven Applications with Computational Storage - Thad Omura, EVP Marketing, ScaleFlux Intelligent Storage Enables Image Similarity Search - Richard Mataya, Executive VP Products/Co-Founder, NGD Systems Bringing Intelligence to Enterprise Storage Drives - Neil Werdmuller, Director, Storage Solutions, Arm Holdings Adding FPGA-based Acceleration to Flash Memory for Real-Time Analytics - HK Verma, Principal Engineer, Xilinx Scalable Data Pipeline over Shared NVMe - Kais Belgaied, Storage & Servers Division CTO, Sanmina Corp SSDs that Think - Noam Mizrahi, VP Technology, CTO Office, Marvell Computational Storage - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

CTRL-301-1: Flash Controller Design Options (Controllers Track) Adapting Controllers for STT-MRAM - Joe OHare, Marketing Director, Everspin A New Erasure Pointer Generation Scheme for Storage Class Memory - Mai Ghaly, Sr. Technologist, WDC Layer-by-layer Adaptively Optimized ECC for NAND Flash SSD Storing CNN Weights - Keita Mizushina, Student, Chuo University Self-Adaptive NAND Flash DSP - Wei Xu, Vice President, Maxio Technology Adapting STAR Code for Non-Volatile Memory Systems - Rui Chen, PhD student, Wayne State University The programmable Flash emulation system - Lihua Sun, R&D Chief Architect, UNIC

NVME-301-1: PCIe/NVMe Technology Update (NVMe Track) PCI Express: What's Next for Flash Storage - Justin Wenck, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Datacenter SSD Technical Marketing Group, Intel Corporation, PCI-SIG NVMe SSDs with Persistent Memory Regions - Chander Chadha, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Toshiba Fast MRAM Write Buffers Make I/O Determinism Practical - Rizwan Ahmed, VP Corporate Marketing, Everspin NVMe-oF Aware Filesystem Accelerates Machine Learning Workloads - Liran Zvibel, CTO And Co-Founder, WekaIO NVMe Over Fabric and Direct Attached Host with NVMeSSD SR-IOV - Brian Pan, General Manager, H3 Platform

NVMF-301-1: Exploring NVMe-oF Designs, Architectures, and Acceleration Options (NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) NVMe/TCP Is the Best Way to Disaggregate Flash Storage - Muli Ben Yehuda, CTO and Co-Founder, Lightbits Labs Optimizing NVMe-over-Fabrics using NVMe CMBs and Accelerators - Andrew Maier, Software Engineer, Eideticom Open Composability - Barrett Edwards, Director of Product Management, Western Digital Enabling Scalable Ethernet JBOF with a Native NVMe-oF SSD - Shingo Tanaka, Chief Specialist, Toshiba Memory Corporation

BMKT-301B-1: VC Forum (Business/Marketing Track) FMS VC Forum - Panel

FNET-301B-1: Networking Flash with PCIe and InfiniBand (Flash Storage Networking Track) PCIe Networked Flash Storage - Peter Onufryk, NVM Solutions, Microsemi InfiniBand Networked Flash Storage - Motti Beck, Director Enterprise Market Develop, Mellanox

HIST-301B-1: Breaking Through Impenetrable Barriers (History Track) Breaking through Impenetrable Barriers - The Key to the Evolution of Solid State - Andy Walker, VP of Product, Spin Transfer Technologies

INVT-301B-1: Big Data Analysis Using Hardware-Accelerated Flash (Enterprise Applications Track) Big Data Analytics Using Hardware-Accelerated Flash Storage - SangWoo Jun, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine

Keynote 13 Using Open Channel SSDs to Improve QoS for Datacenter Applications - Queshi Yang, PhD, CEO, Shannon Systems

Keynote 14 Intelligent Storage Solutions - Producing Efficient Scalable Systems - Vladimir Alves, Co-founder / CTO, NGD Systems

Keynote 16 Applications Need More Than IOPS and Latency - Eric Zhao, SSD General Manager, Huawei Technologies

CTRL-302A-1: Flash Controller Design Methods (Controllers Track)sion Take Full Advantage of LDPC Soft Bit Decoding - Feng Tang, Starblaze Error Recovery Flows in NAND Flash SSDs - Viet Dzung Nguyen, Senior Staff Engineer, Marvell Semiconductor Take Full Advantage of LDPC Soft Bit Decoding - Licheng Xue, Sr. Staff Engineer, Starblaze Programmable Storage Controllers Permit Rapid Response to New Technologies - Chris Bergman, Sr Firmware Architect, Burlywood

ENST-302A-1: Top 10 Ways to Make Enterprise Storage Meet Performance Goals (Enterprise Storage Track) Ten Ways to Improve Flash Storage System Performance - Camberley Bates, Evaluator Group

FNET-302A-1: Networking Flash Technology Showdown (Flash Storage Networking Track) Networking Flash Technology "Showdown" - Panel PCIe Networked Flash Storage - Peter Onufryk, NVM Solutions, Microsemi

INDT-302A-1: New Flash Applications No One Ever Imagined (Industry Trends Track) Old, Out of the Way and All Over the Place - The Future of IoT and Industrial Devices - Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst OSIsoft

INVT-302A-1: Effective Use of QLC Flash in Hyperscale Datacenters (Enterprise Storage Track) Effective use of QLC flash in Hyperscale Datacenters - Rado Danilak, CEO, Tachyum

NVMF-302A-1: Ultra-fast NVMe Storage Networks for Next Generation Flash Arrays (NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) Ultra-Fast NVMe Storage Networks for Next Generation Flash Arrays - Mark Jones, Director Technical Marketing & Performance, Broadcom

CMOB-302-1: Mobile Applications Reach New Frontiers (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) Movile Applicaitons Reach New Frontiers - Panel

NVMF-302-1: NVMe-over-Fabrics Use Cases, Customers and Ecosystems (NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Track) Handling Common Challenges When Designing with NVMe-over-Fabrics - Nikhil Jain, Memeber Consulting Staff, Mentor Graphics Sharing NVMe Storage over Different Transports - Jeff Sosa, Head of Products, Pavilion Data NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) For Containers - Sudhakar Mungamoori, Director of Storage Solutions, Toshiba Memory America Achieving High Performance and Low Latency with NVMe over TCP/IP - Sagi Grimberg, Principal Architect, Lightbits Labs Developing Low-Latency Data Services on NVMe-oF Shared Storage - Chaan Beard, Chief Solution Architect, AccelStor

EMBD-302B-1: Flash and the Internet of Things (Embedded Applications Track) Computing Storage in the AI IoT Era - Tang Sun, Director, Design Verification, Beijing Starblaze Technology Co. Ltd. Developing IoT-Based Factory Automation Using F-RAM - Doug Mitchell, Product Marketing Engineer MPS, Cypress Semiconductor

FNET-302B-1: Flash Storage Networking (Flash Storage Networking Track) Multi-Host Sharing of NVMe Drives and GPUs Using PCIe Fabrics - Vincent Hache, Principal Applications Engineer, Microsemi Ethernet Offers the Speed and Affordability Required for Storage Networking - David Iles, Senior Director, Ethernet Switching, Mellanox

MRES-302B-1: Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today (Market Research Track) "Top 10 Things in Flash" - The Top Takeaways Panel - Jean Bozman, VP/Principal Analyst, Hurwitz & Associates Impact of Flash Trends On Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) - Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Director, Product Management, VMware Top Ten Things You Need to Know - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis Top Ten Things to Know About Flash - Adam Roberts, Chief Solutions Architect, Western Digital Top Ten Things You Need to Know - About Flash Memory, that is - Rob Peglar, Independent Consultant, Advanced Computing and Storage To 10 Things You Need to Know About Flash Memory Today - Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting