PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR C: Persistent Memory Persistent Memory - Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero Persistent Memory and NVDIMMs - Arthur Sainio, Director, SMART Modular Technologies

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR F: Flash Storage Networking Persistent Memory - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR G: Designing Flash Controllers Flash Storage Networking - Oliver Hambrey, Research Engineer, Siglead Graph Based Error Correcting Codes for Flash Memories - Ahmed Hareedy, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University ASIC/Merchant Chip-Based Flash Controllers - Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion Enabling 3D QLC NAND flash - Radu Stoica, Researcher, IBM NAND Flash Media Management Algorithms - Roman Pletka, Research Staff Member, IBM Zurich Research Lab

EMBD-101A-1: EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS TRACK pSLC Cache Design for Enhanced Performance and Lifetime - Thomas W. McCormick Chief Engineer/Technologist Impact of the Usage models on the Storage devices definition - Ivan Ivanov Distinguished Engineer HARMAN Becker Automotive Systems BGA SSDs Lead the Way in Embedded Applications - Chris Lien, ATP Electronics Inc., The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten - Axel Mehnert VP Marketing & Strategy, Hyperstone

INVT-101A-1 ENTERPRISE STORAGE TRACK Gen-Z The Best Interface for Emerging Memory Technologies - Valerie Padilla, Technology Strategist in the Server CTO, Dell EMC

ENST-101A-1: ENTERPRISE STORAGE TRACK

FTEC-101A-1: Annual Update on Flash Technology (Flash Technology Track) Where Are We in the Current Flash Cycle? - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

NVME-101A-1:Annual Update 2019-NVMe State of the Union/NVMe1.4 Features Overview NVMe™ Annual Update - Peter Onufryk, Nick Adams, Intel

ARCH-101-1: Open-Channel SSDs for Host-Based Optimization (Architectures Track) The Denali Open-Channel Standard: Impact and Future - Javier González Principal Software Engineer SSDR R&D Center Leader, Samsung Open-Channel SSDs for Host-Based Optimization - Yu Du, Feng Zhu, Sheng Qiu, Shu Li Alibaba Group A Global FTL Architecture to Drive Multiple SSDs - Roy Shterman, Lightbits Labs Use of Open-Channel SSDs in Chinese Datacenters - W i Xu, Shannon Systems An Advanced Error Recovery Scheme for Open-Channel SSDs - Jeff Yang, Storage research team, Silicon Motion

AUTO-101-1: Tomorrow's Auto Safety/Security Requirements (Automotive Applications Track) Requirements for Fail-Safe Automotive Solutions with NOR Flash Memory - Sandeep Krishnegowda, Marketing Director, Flash Business Unit, Cypress Semiconductor The Role of Secure Flash Memory in Automotive Applications - Anthony Le, Vice President Marketing, Macronix America Tomorrow's Data Storage Integrity and Safety for Autonomous Cars - Bernd Niedermeier, Tuxera Inc, Autonomous Vehicles: Direction, Growth, and Challenges - Andrew Wygle, Data I/O Corporation

CHNA-101-1: Flash Growth & Opportunity in China (China Track) Tencent Cloud Storage – Optimized and Powered by Flash - Allen Liu, Tencent Cloud NVM Technology & Opportunity in China 2019 - Michael Wang, GigaDevice Semiconductor Flash Evolution Demands Controller Innovations - Roddy, Marketing Director, YEESTOR Microelectronics Co., ltd The future of RRAM : From Embedded Application to In Memory Computing and Beyond - Jianguo Yang, Title, Key Laboratory of Microelectronics

ENAP-101-1: Enterprise Applications, Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track) Data-as-a-Service - David Flynn, CEO, HammerSpace Faster, Smarter & More Affordable Storage for Hybrid, Multicloud World - Eric Herzog, IBM Storage CMO & Channels VP Accelerating NVMe Capacity Adoption with Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service - Marc Leavitt, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Zadara A Tipping Point: The Next Revolution for Compute, Storage, & Networking - Stephen J. Sicola, Founder & CEO StorTrek Consulting

PMEM-101-1: PERSISTENT MEMORY PART 1: ADVANCES IN PERSISTENT MEMORY (PERSISTENT MEMORY TRACK) Accelerate Everything - Stephen Bates, CTO, Company Overview of Persistent Memory:Media, Attachment & Usage - Dave Eggleston, Intuitive Cognition Consulting Persistent Memory -Industry Standards - Jonathan Hinkle, Distinguished Researcher, Lenovo Research FPGA Attached Persistent Memory - Sean In, Intel Corporation Why Persistent Memory Matters - Jim Pappas, Vice-Chair, SNIA Board of Directors, Intel

BMKT-101B-1: Annual Update on Flash Arrays (Business/Marketing Track) Annual Update on Flash Arrays - Ken Clipperton, Lead Analyst, Storage, DCIG

DPRO-101B-1: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Protection Track) Erasure Verification on Flash Memory - FWill DeLisi and Josey Santana The Use Of Encryption For - Robin England, Research & Development Team Lead, Ontrack Data Recovery The Past and Current State of Mobile Device Recovery - Steve Hruska, Title, Ontrack Data Recovery

EMBD-101B-1: Embedded Applications, Part 2 - Examples (Embedded Applications Track) Smart Storage Design for Edge Computing in Industrial IoT - Chanson Lin, EmBestor Technology Inc.

NVME-101B-1: Zoned Namespaces Overview/Endurance Group Management (NVMe Track) Endurance Group Management: Host control of SSD Media Organization - Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Toshiba Memory Standardizing Zones Across the Storage Ecosystem - Dave Landsman, Director Industry Standards, Western Digital

NVT-101B-1: Achieving Lowest-Latency Storage with NVMe (NVMe Track) Achieving Lowest-Latency Storage with NVMe - Josh Goldenhar, VP Products,, Excelero, Inc.

TESTING TRACK SESSION TEST-101B-1 The Straight Truth: How Today’s Storage Performs on Real Workloads The Straight Truth: How Today's Storage Performs on Real Workloads - Dennis Martin, Principled Technologies

Annual Update on Flash Arrays (Business/Marketing Track) Key Technology Trends and Marketplace Drivers - Ken Clipperton, Lead Analyst, DCIG

KEYNOTE 2 Data-Centric Architecture for the Zettabyte Age - Siva Sivaram and Christopher Bergey, Western Digital

KEYNOTE 4 Computational Storage Helps Solve Huge Analytics and ML Problems - Vladimir Alves and Scott Shadley, NGD Systems

KEYNOTE 5 Leveraging Flash Memory for High Performance AI - Steven Eliuk, PhD, Vice President of Deep Learning, IBM Global Chief Data Office

AUT0-102A-1 The Storage Challenges of Edge Computing – (AUTOMOTIVE TRACK) Go Parallel or Go Home Parallel Storage Architecture for NVMeoF - Earle F. Philhower III, Pavillion Data

BMKT-102A-1: Know What the Flash Customer Wants and Needs (Business/Marketing Track) Know What the Flash Customer Wants and Needs - Dave Raffo, Executive News Director, Storage, TechTarget

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

ENST-102A-1: Enterprise Storage Design (Enterprise Storage Track) Go Parallel or Go Home Parallel Storage Architecture for NVMeoF - Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, Qumulo

NVME-102A-1: NVMe-MI Overview & New Developments/NVMe-oF What's New in 1.1 (NVMe Track) NVMe™ over Fabrics: What's new in 1.1 - Sagi Grimberg, Chief Software Architect, Lightbits

SECU-102A-1: Plugging Holes in Storage Security (Security Track) The Ending of Opal2.0 and SED SSD? - Robert Wann, President & CEO, Enova Technology Corp. Physical Chip ID based Encryption and Security in SSD Controller - Hiroshi Watanabe, Foremay

INVT-102A-1: Key-Value Store and NVMe Deliver Close to DRAM Performance (Enterprise Storage Track) uDepot: Key-Value Store for Fast NVM Storage - Kornilios Kourtis, IBM Zurich Research

ARCH-102-1 NVMe Zoned Namespaces for Improved Performance and Scalability (ARCHITECTURES TRACK) Zoned Namespaces in Practice - Matias Bjørling, Director, Emerging System Architectures, Western Digital Benefits of ZNS in Datacenter Storage Systems - Woosuk Chung, Director, Memory Systems R&D, SK hynix Fast Integration and Furious Performance with Zoned Flash drives - Robert Lercari, V.P. Engineering, Radian Memory Systems, Inc. Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) Flash Translation Layer Library for Zoned Namespace SSDs - Wojciech Malikowski, Intel Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG)

PMEM-102-1: Persistent Memory Part 2: Software and Applications (Persistent Memory Track) Using Memory as Storage Media - Pradeep Balakrishnan, Formulus Black Persistent Memory in Oracle Exadata - Gurmeet Goindi, Master Product Manager, Exadata Persistent Memory Software & Applications - Panel, Various Companies Impact on Application Development – NVM Programming Model in the Real World - Andy Rudoff, Intel Corporation Providing Native Support for Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory in Golang - Pratap Subrahmanyam, VMware, Inc. Persistent Memories: Markets and Applications 2019 - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

SSDS-102-1: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track) Overcoming Reductions in NAND Endurance Ratings - JB Baker, Sr Director Product Management, ScaleFlux How Modern File Systems Detect & Respond to SD, SSD and other Managed NAND Media Failures - Thom Denholm, Datalight Advanced Countermeasures: Integrating SSDs Into Cyber-Security Defense - Sebastien Jean, Phison Electronics Advanced Countermeasures: Integrating SSDs Into Cyber-Security Defense - FSebastien Jean, Phison Electronics Applying Blockchain to Electronics Supply Chain - (Presenter) Michelle Lam, Senior Technical Staff Member, Supply Chain Engineering, Enterprise Flash Storage Annual Update - Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinaryn and Plenipotentiary, VAST Using Universal Backplane Management (SFF TA 1005) to Enable Tri Mode Backplanes - Jeff Plank, Microchip Designing SSD Storage Systems for Low Latency Without Large Outliers - Sebastien Jean, Phison Electronics, Advanced Countermeasures: Integrating SSDs Into Cyber-Security Defense - Greg Scasny, Cigent Technology Using QLC SSDs to Improve Cost/Performance Tradeoffs for Warm Data - Kent Smith, Micron

BMKT-102B-1: Data Growth and a Future with Zettabytes (Business/Marketing Track) Data Growth and a Future with Zettabytes - Mike Matchett, Research Advisor & Principal Industry Analyst, TechTarget

CMOB-102B-1: Break the Storage Bottleneck for 5G and IoT (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) 5G at the Edge in IoT - Dr. Yongbin Wei, Senior Director, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

CMOB-102B-2: New Form Factor Makes SSDs Shine in Client Applications (Consumer/Mobile Applications Track) XFMEXPRESS™, A New Replaceable SSD Form Factor - John Geldman, Director, SSD Industry Standards, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. XFMEXPRESS™ Hinge Connector for XFMEXPRESS™ (XFME) Memory Device - Kenta Minejima, Marketing Manager, Japan Aviation Electronic Industry Notebook PC Form Factor Trends affect Storage - Takashi Sugawara, Principal Storage Engineer, Lenovo Compatibility Testing Environment for NVMe™ SSDs - Miki Takahashi, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Granite River Labs

ENST-102B-1: Application Acceleration (Enterprise Storage Track) TOMA–a Cluster Manager for a Datapath-Blind Distributed Storage - Ronen Hod, ExceleroStorage

NEWM-102B-1: Annual Update on Emerging Memory Technologies (New Memory Technologies Track) Annual Update on Emerging Memories 2019 - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

NVME-102B-1: NVMe Software Drivers: What’s New and What’s Supported? (NVMe Track) NVMe™ Software Drivers: What's New and What's Supported? - Scott Lee, NVM Express™

SECU-102B-1: Building Security into Your System (Security Track) Combating Persistent Cyber Attacks: The Secure Flash-to-Cloud Approach - Naseem Aslam, Sr. Manager Product Marketing, Cypress Semiconductor Moving Target Defenses for Data Storage Devices - Donald E. Matthews, Founder and CEO, NexiTech, Inc. ECU_102B_1_ Building Security into Your System : Protecting the Platform through Measurement and Attestation - Jeff Plank, Microchip

HYPR-201A-1: FLASH AND PM IN HYPERSCALE (HYPERSCALE APPLICATIONS TRACK) Accelerating Hadoop at Twitter with NVMe SSDs: A Hybrid Approach
Matthew Singer, Sr. Staff Hardware Engineer, Twitter Hyperscale: Challenges and Solutions - Ross Stenfort, Hardware System Engineer, Facebook Minimizing Customer Interruptions Due to SSD Failures - Brennan Watt Using an In Memory Data Accelerator to Improve Cloud Analytics - Jian Zhang,, Intel

MRES-201A-1: MARKET RESEARCH PANEL (MARKET RESEARCH TRACK) Market Research Panel MRES 201A 1 - John Rotchford, Managing Director, SASI

NVME-201A-1: NVME IDC MARKET OVERVIEW/ENTERPRISE SERVERS AND STORAGE (NVME TRACK) Factors Driving Enterprise NVMeTMGrowth - Gary Kotzur, Dell EMC NVMe Proliferation in Enterprise Computing - Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, IDC

CTRL-201-1: CONTROLLERS AND FLASH TECHNOLOGY, PART 1 - HARDWARE AND ALGORITHMS (CONTROLLERS TRACK) Enabling Fairness and Enhancing Performance in Modern NVMe Solid State Drives - Saugata Ghose, Carnegie Mellon University SSD with Compression: Implementation, Interface and Use Case - Erich F. Haratsch, Seagate Technology Maximizing Performance/cost of SSD Composed of Memory type and Storage type SCMs - Reika Kinoshita,,Chuo University, Japan Towards data driven NAND flash controller development - Roman Pletka, Nikolas Ioannou, Nikolaos Papandreou,IBM Research Zurich Research Laboratory Flash Error Handling Technologies for QLC-Based Storage System - Wei Lin, Sr. System Architect, Phison Electronics Corp. Advanced data integrity assurance for QLC flash - Licheng Xue, PhD, STARBLAZE

ENAP-201-1: ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS, PART 2 (ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS TRACK) Leveraging NVMe, SDS and commodity hardware to double query performance for Oracle RAC systems - Brian Dougherty, CMA Chief Technology Officer, Mosaic SD NVMe Persistent Memory: Revolutionizing the Modern Database - Gurmeet Goindi, Master Product Manager, Oracle Analytics @ Rack-Scale with NVMe-oF - Walter Hinton, Pavilion Toyota and eMoney Advisor choose Pure Storage to optimize their enterprise applications - SUHAS NAYAK, DIRECTOR, PRODUCT AND SOLUTIONS MARKETING, PureStorage

NEWM-201-1: 3D XPOINT: CURRENT IMPLEMENTATIONS AND FUTURE TRENDS (NEW MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES TRACK) Memory Converged Infrastructure with Persistent Memory - Charles Fan, Co Founder & CEO, MemVerge 3D XPoint Market Update - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis Using a Persistent Memory Cache With a High Speed Client SSD - Stanley Huang, Director of Product Marketing, Silicon Motion Markets for 3D Xpoint 2019 - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC Approaches that CombinIntel® Optane ™ SSDs with Intel® QLC technology Offer Solutions Competitive with TLC - Kapil Karkra, Intel Smart Storage Engine For Intel® 3D XPoint ™ Technology and QLC 3D NAND SSD s - Jack Zhang, Cloud & Enterprise Architect, Volatile Solution Group, Intel Corp.

NVME-201-1: PCIE/NVME ISSUES (NVME TRACK) NVMeGen-4 Thermal Management: Too Hot To Touch - FGrace Chen, Phison Electronics Using a PCIe Analyzer with NVMe-Based Products - Isaac Livny, Teledyne Corporation Standardization for a Key-Value Interface underway at NVM Express and SNIA - Bill Martin, Samsung Boosting QLC SSD performance and endurance for data Centers - Orit Wasserman, Principal Architect, Lightbits Labs

PMEM-201-1 PERSISTENT MEMORY PART 3: REMOTE PERSISTENT MEMORY-CASE FOR USE CASES (PERSISTENT MEMORY TRACK) Enabling Persistent Memory - Kurtis Bowman, Consortium President, Gen-Z Remote Persistent Memory - Paul Grun, Chair, Cray, Inc. OpenFabrics Alliance Remote Persistent Memory - Panel, SNIA, JEDEC, Open Fabrics

SOFT-201-1: COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE (SOFTWARE TRACK) Addressing the Latency Gap with Composable Architectures - Larrie Carr, Microchip DAOS – Scalable Software-Defined Storage for HPC/Big Data/AI Convergence - Jeff Olivier, INtel Corporation Challenges of Distributed Storage with Data Protection - Daniel Herman Shmulyan, Director of Algorithms, Excelero Software Composable SSD Architecture Design for Enterprise Applications - Leander Yu, Leander Yu, VP of SDS Division, Bigtera

TEST-201-1: TESTING/PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (TESTING TRACK) Using an Analytics Pipeline to Monitor NAND Health Data in the Field - Behzad Amiri, PURESTORAGE™ Enterprise SSD Failure Analysis and Debug - Andrei Konan QLC + NVMe™ Performance Deep Dive Into Ceph - John Mazzie, Senior Engineer, Storage Solutions Engineering, Micron https://www.flashmemorysummit.com/Proceedings2019/08-07-Wednesday/20190807_TEST-201-1_Schoeb.pdf - Accelerating the Qualification of Enterprise SSDs, Sr. Developer Relations, AMD Optimizing SSD Performance Efficientlywith Realistic Workloads - Bob Weisickle, CTO and Co-Founder, OakGate Technology Optimal Flash Storage Solutions for Applications Requiring Frequent Writes - Yuan, ADATA Technology Co., Ltd.

HYPR-201B-1: HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE (HYPERSCALE APPLICATIONS TRACK) Optimizing Hyperconverged Infrastructure for NVMe Based Flash Storage - Kais Belgaied Accelerating Converged System Performance with FPGA Based Switches - Quinn Jacobson, Strategic Architect, Achronix

MRES-201B-1: NVME MARKET RESEARCH PANEL (MARKET RESEARCH TRACK) NVMeProliferation in Enterprise Computing - Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, IDC Opportunity for QLC NVMeSSDs - Jonmichael Hands, Sr. Strategic Planner and Product Manager, Intel Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group G2M Research Presentation - G2M MRES-201B-1: NVMe Market Research Panel - NVMe EXPRESS NVMe™ -Customer Perception & Usage - Narayan Venkat, Vice President, Western Digital

SSDS-201B-1: NEW ENTERPRISE AND DATACENTER SSD FORM FACTORS (EDSFF) (SSDS TRACK) Accelerate Everything - Bates, EIDETICOM EDSFF 1 Year In: What Have We Learned? - Principal Engineer, Data Center Group Intel Corporation WHY M.2 IS UNSUSTAINABLE(AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT) - FLEE PREWITT, PRINCIPAL HARDWARE PROGRAM MANAGER, AZURE CSI - MICROSOFT Adventures in Form Factors - Ross Stenfort, Hardware System Engineer, Facebook

KEYNOTE 6 Breakthrough Data-Centric Computing with a New Memory Tier - Alper Ilkbahar, Intel

KEYNOTE 7 The Composable Platform: Enabling Innovation Through Flexible Infrastructure - Andrew Dieckmann, Microchip

KEYNOTE 8 Feeding Data Hungry GPUs with Networked Flash - Chris Lamb, Mellanox and Michael Kagan, Nvidia

KEYNOTE 9 Data-Driven Applications Gravitate to Computational Storage - Thad Omura, ScaleFlux

KEYNOTE 10 Innovative Chipset Solutions for Accelerating the Data Economy - Nigel Alvares, Marvell

KEYNOTE 11 FPGAs: The Key to Accelerating High-Speed Storage Systems - Salil Raje, Xilinx

AUTO-202A-1: AUTO INFOTAINMENT ADVANCES/OBSTACLES (AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS TRACK) Auto Infotainment and Connectivity in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles - Greg Basich, Associate Director, Strategy Analytics NVMe Integration On Automotive Platform - Matthias Beste, Hardware Design Engineer—M.Sc. EEAutomated, Intel Infotainment and Autonomous Vehicles The challenges of storage - Michael Huonker, Daimler AG Research & Development Harman Storage Memory Solutions - Ivan Ivanov, Harman Secure F-RAM for Event Data Recording in ADAS Systems - Douglas Mitchell, Cypress

CTRL-202A-1: CXL - A COHERENT INTERFACE FOR ULTRA-HIGH-SPEED TRANSFERS (CONTROLLERS TRACK) Compute Express Link® CXL): A Coherent Interface for Ultra High Speed Transfers - CXL® Marketing Work Group Ecosystem Enabling Manager, Intel Corporation INVT-202A-1: HANDLING THE NETWORK REQUIREMENTS OF HIGH-SPEED NVME SSDS (HYPERSCALE APPLICATIONS TRACK) INVT-202A-1: Handling the Network Requirements of High-Speed NVMe SSDs - Manoj Wadekar, Storage Engineer, Facebook

NEWM-202A-1: RRAM (NEW MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES TRACK) RRAM Comes of Age - Shane Hollmer, Co Founder & VP Engineering, Adesco TaO X based ReRAM for Variability Aware Approximate Computing - Chihiro Matsui, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Making SiOx ReRAM, a Cost effective Embedded Memory - Amir Regev, CTO, Weebitnano Update XP ReRAM Technology - Amigo Tsutsui, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp

NVME-202A-1: HOW FACEBOOK & MICROSOFT LEVERAGE NVME CLOUD STORAGE (NVME TRACK) How Facebook and Microsoft Successfully Leverage NVMeTMCloud Storage - Ross Stenfort, Facebook

TEST-202A-1: TESTING ISSUES (TESTING TRACK) Characterizing NAND Devices at High Speed - Tamas Kerekes, NplusT Read Disturb Management Improvement in SSDs - Qingru Meng, Intel Corp. Using Functional Verification in Testing NVMe SSD Controller Designs - Vikas Tomar, Product Engineer, Questa Verification IP Challenges of Testing PCIe Gen. 4 SSDs and Beyond - Justin Treon, Advantest

CTRL-202-1: CONTROLLERS AND FLASH TECHNOLOGY, PART 2 - ERROR CORRECTING CODES (CONTROLLERS TRACK) Using Machine Learning Techniques To Reduce SSD Costs - Cloud Zeng, Title, Company Improving Waterfall Performance of low cost FAID LDPC Decoders - D. Declercq, Codelucida Intelligent Read Threshold Tracking to Mitigate Read Retry Requests - Oliver Hambrey, Siglead Europe Limited Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 2: Error Correcting Codes - Erich F. Haratsch, Seagatey Ultra MMI : an LDPC decoder that doubles (6x) throughput at end-of-life. - Dr. Shiuan-Hao Kuo, ECC team, SiliconMotion Improving Quality of Service for 3D NAND SSDs Using LDPC Correction - RinoMicheloni, MicroChip A Low Cost LDPC Solution for Flash Memory - Osso Vahabzadeh, Symbyon Systems

FTEC-202-1: 3-D FLASH (FLASH TECHNOLOGY TRACK) Component-Level Characterization of 3D TLC, QLC, and Low-Latency NAND - Patrick Breen, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland Comparison of Current 3D NAND Chip & Cell Architecture - Jeongdong Choe, Senior Technical Fellow, TechInsights Modeling and Mitigating Early Retention Loss and Process Variation in 3D Flash - Saugata Ghose, Carnegie Mellon University Annual Update on Flash Memory for Non Technologists - George Crump, Storage Switzerland Characterization of 3D NAND Flash Memories beyond 1GT/s - R. Micheloni Measuring the Difficulty of Programming 3D NAND - Vic Ye Manager, NAND Flash Characterization, YEESTOR A Deep dive into 3D-NAND Silicon Linkage to Storage System Performance & Reliability - Jung Yoon, IBM Systems

NVME-202-1: PCIE/NVME STORAGE (NVME TRACK) Building intelligent, scalable, high performance NVMe based storage systems with smart PCIe 4.0 embedded switch IP - Sampath Banka Building Storage Systems for the Burstcoin Blockchain Platform - Olga Buchonina, Burstcoin Software Developer Applying NVMe in Embedded and Mobile Applications - Horace Chen, Phison Electronics FTL Flow Control For CFexpress ™ Camera Hosts Using Large NVMe ™ Reads - Vishwas Saxena, Technologist, Firmware Engineering Thunderbolt™ 3 Brings New Storage Performance Levels to Client Computers - Shailendra Sinha, Sr. Business Development Manager NVME 202 1: PCIe NVMe Storage - File missing or file name does not match this info - Andy Watson CTO, WekaIO

PMEM-202-1: PERSISTENT MEMORY PART 4: CURRENT RESEARCH IN PERSISTENT MEMORY (PERSISTENT MEMORY TRACK) Exploiting Managed Language Semantics to Mitigate Wear-out in Persistent Memory - Shoaib Akram, Ghent University, Belgium PMTEST – Testing Persistent Memory Applications - Samira Khan, University of Virginia Hyperdimensional Computing | Cognitive Memory of the Pattern KindandComputing with Vague and Ambiguous Information - Gil Russell, WebFeet Research Inc. Performance characterization of a DRAM-NVM hybrid memory architecture for HPC applications using Intel OptaneDC Persistent Memory Modules - Brad Settlemyer, North Carolina State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory

SOFT-202-1: KEY-VALUE STORE AND LINUX TECHNOLOGIES (SOFTWARE TRACK) Distributed Key-Value Stores: Performance and Scalability for Flash Media - Richard Elling, Viking Key/Value SSDDesign Overview and Use Cases - Stanley Miao, Chief Engineer, Shannon Systems Storage Engine Accelerator - Pliops Improved Flash Performance Using the New Linux Kernel I/O Interface - Vishal Verma, Performance Engineer, Intel Approaching Surpassing 10M I/Ops on a Single CPU Core - Ben Walker, Technical Lead, Intel Smart Storage Engine For Intel® 3D XPoint ™ Technology and QLC 3D NAND SSD s - Jack Zhang, Cloud & Enterprise Architect, Intel

CTRL-202B-1: GEN-Z INTERFACE (CONTROLLERS TRACK) Integrating the Gen Z Interface in Your SoCs - Bastien Heneffe, Gen-Z Gen Z®: Built In Security for the Data Centric World - Michael Krause, HPE VP / Fellow, Gen Z

ENST-202B-1: FLASH IN CLOUD COMPUTING (ENTERPRISE STORAGE TRACK) FLASH at the Speed of FLASHFLASH at the Cost of DISK - Rajan Goyal, CTO, Fungible Memory Expansion and Storage Acceleration with CCIX Technology - Ravi Kiran Gummaluri, Xilinx Flash: The IDEAL Cloud Solution - Eric Herzog, CMO & Vice President of Global Channel Sales, IBM Storage Open Composable Disaggregated Infrastructures for the Edge - Mark Miquelon, Partner Alliance Director, Western Digital 2019 Is the Year of NVMe™ - Narayan Venkat, Vice President, Western Digital

INVT-202B-1: FLASH SOLUTIONS FOR THE SKYROCKETING AI/ML APPLICATIONS MARKET (AI/MACHINE LEARNING TRACK) Flash Solutions for the Skyrocketing AI/ML Applications Market - Dr. Radoslav Danilak, CEO, Tachyum Inc.

NEWM-202B-1: MRAM (NEW MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES TRACK) STT– MRAM: High Density Persistent Memory Solution - Sanjeev Aggarwal, Everspin

NVME-202B-1: LEVERAGING NVME-OF FOR EXISTING AND NEW APPLICATIONS (NVME TRACK) Leveraging NVMe-oF™ for Existing and New ApplicationsX - Nishant Lodha, Marvell

COMP-301A-1: Computational Storage - Controllers & Technology (Computational Storage Track) Implementing Computational Storage with Existing SSD Controller Resources - Ramyakanth Edupuganti, Staff Applications Engineer, Microchip Technology Using Native NVMe oF SSDs to Advance Computational Storage - Shahar Noy, Product Marketing, Marvell Transforming Storage Controllers with Low-cost, Low-power Compute - Neil Werdmuller, Director of Storage Solutions, arm

INVT-301A-1: Memory-Centric Computing in the Big Data Era (Enterprise Applications Track) Memory-Centric Computing in the Big Data Era - Onur Mutlu, Panel

FSOL-301A-1: Flash Solutions for Oracle (Flash Solutions Track) Flash Solutions for Oracle - Dave Raffo, TechTarget

MEDE-301A-1: Volumetric: True 3D Capture Is Upon Us (Media & Entertainment Track) Our Data Hungry Future - Andrew Shulkind, Title, Company

AIML-301-1:Using AI/ML for Flash Performance Scaling, Part 1 (AI/Machine Learning Track) Search acceleration and Learning at the Edge with Crossbar ReRAM - Sylvain Dubois, Vice President Business Development & Marketing, CROSSBAR Accelerating NVMe to GPU Transfer Rates Using PCIe Fabrics and Logical Volumes - Vincent Haché, Technical Staff, Applications Engineering, Micropchip Managing Massive Input Data in Flash for AI and Deep Learning Applications - Dejan Kocic, Netapp ReRAM for Implementing Neural Network Synapses - Amir Regev, CTO, Weebitenano A Scalable AI Data Pipeline for Storing - and Processing Ingested Data - Sanhita Sarkar, Ph.D, Global Director, Western Digital Exploring the Impact of System Storage on AI & ML Workloads via MLPerfBenchmark Suite - Wes Vaske, Principal Storage Solutions Engineer, Micron

CTRL-301-1: Flash Controller Design Innovations (Controllers Track) Tunable (and Flexible) Flash Translation Layer Improves Storage System Performance Behavior - Chris Bergman, Burlywood RaW Access to Flash Memory (Meets Special - Kenneth Derek PILLAY, PhD, CEO and Director, YALLIP, INC. Table-Less Controllers for Persistent Memory in Datacenter Applications - Bernard Shung, Ph.D., President and Co-Founder, Wolley Inc. A HW/FW Co-Designed SSD Controller Architecture to Boost up SSD Performance - Wei Xu, Title, Maxio Technology Improving the Locality of Generalized Integrated Interleaved Code - Xinmiao Zhang, The Ohio State University

NVME-301-1: PCIe/NVMe Technology Update (NVMe Track) The Interconnect Dilemma: Next-Gen Fabrics - Niraj Mathur, VP of Product, GigaIO™ The New Generation of Storage: From PCI Express® 4.0 to PCI Express 6.0 - Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Director of I/O Technology, Intel Corporation Multi-Namespace Management - Ron Yuan, Vice President ofFirmware, MEMBLAZE NVMeUse Case:Surveillance Video Processing - Tao Zhong, CTO and CEO, NETINT Technologies Video Transcoding Over NVMe - Daniel Zhou, Director of Firmware Development, NETINT Technologies NVMe Software Drivers: What's New and What's Supported? - Scott Lee, Microsoft

NVMF-301-1: Demystifying NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF Track) NVMe-oFSAN Telemetrywith Programmable Switches - Surendra Anubolu, Broadcom Inc. Fabric Accelerators for NVMe-oF - Pankaj Bishnoi, Everspin A Journey into NVMe-oF™:Options, Trade-offs and Challenges - Ihab Hamadi, Fellow, Western Digital Myth Busting NVMe-oF - Walter Hinton, Pavilion Scalable High IOPS on vSphere ESX and Linux with NVMe/FC - WenhuaLiu, VMware NVMe-oFThrough PCIe Gen4 - FBrian Pan, H3 Platform NVMeover Fabrics Storage's New Magic Wand - Arindam Sarkar, MSys Technologies LLC

SOFT-301-1: Kubernetes and Cloud Software (Software Track) Data orchestration for KubernetesStateful tier-1 primary workloads - Marc Fleischmann, DATERAy ALWAYS ON AVAILABLE EFFICIENT - Hay, LinBit Co-Design software and hardware for SSD storage in Alibaba Data Center - Fei Liu, Alibaba Running Stateful Workloads On Kubernetes: Challenges And Solutions - Jagadish Mukku, Senior Architect, Robin.io Autonomous Kubernetes Flash Management with Application Awareness - Ramakrishnan, portworx

BMKT-301B-1: VC Forum (Business/Marketing Track) FMS VC Forum - Wayne Rickard, Moderator

COMP-301B-1: Computational Storage - Deploying Solutions (Computational Storage Track) Acceleratre Everything - Andrew Maeir, Director of Solutions, EIDETICOM NGD Systems Computational Storage - Eli Tiomkin, VP Business Development, NGD Bring Intelligence to Your Database Storage - Tong Zhang, Chief Scientist, ScaleFlux Inc.

ENAP-301B-1: How Flash Will Transform Enterprise Applications (Enterprise Applications Track) Data-as-a-Service - David Flynn, CEO, HAMMERSPACE 2018 – This is What Happens in an Internet Minute - Gluck Enterprise Applications - Marc Leavitt, Sr Director Product Marketing, Zadara

FSOL-301B-1: Flash Solutions for SAP (Flash Solutions Track) Flash Solutions for SAP - Jillian Coffin, VP & Publisher TechTarget SAP HANA Solutions on Flash - Saroj Mohapatra, SAP SME, Cisco

INVT-301B-1: Hot Topics in Academic Flash and NVM Research (New Memory Technologies Track) Hot Topics in Academic Flash and NVM Research - Saugata Ghose Carnegie Mellon University

MEDE-301B-1 VR—Virtual Stories, Experiences You Con (MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT TRACK) Encoding at Scale for AR, VR, and Volumetric - NETINT Intel STUDIOS | CANNES XR 2019 Cannes Film Festival Immersive Technology meets story - Diego Prilusky, Head of Intel Studios, Intel

KEYNOTE 12 THE FUTURE OF ENTERPRISE SSD - Jihyo Lee, FADU CEO and Co-Founder, Fadu

KEYNOTE 13 Next Gen Data Storage – Faster, Smarter - Dr. Zining Wu, CEO, Innogrit Corporation

COMP-302A-1: Computational Storage: Implementation Methods (Computational Storage Track) Samsung SmartSSD: Accelerating Data-Rich Applications - Pankaj Mehra, VP (Product Planning), Samsung Electronics Use an Intelligent SSD to Accelerate Machine Learning - Hung Wei Tseng, University of California In-Storage Computing SSD specifications and applications - Feng Zhu, Alibaba Group Samsung SmartSSD: Accelerating Data-Rich Applications - Pankaj Mehra, VP (Product Planning), Samsung Electronics Use an Intelligent SSD to Accelerate Machine Learning - Hung Wei Tseng, University of California, Riverside

INVT-302A-1: Life After RAID: Big Data Requires a Better Approach (Enterprise Storage Track) In-Storage Computing SSD specifications and applications - Feng Zhu, Alibaba Group Life After RAID - Mike McWhorter, Senior Technologist, WEstern Digital

ESSION FSOL-302A-1 Flash Solutions for Analytics Flash Solutions for Analytics - Mike Matchett, Research Advisor & Principal Industry Analyst, Small World Big Data, Tech Target

FTEC-302A-1: The Next Great Breakthrough in Non-Volatile Memory (Flash Technology Track) Next Great Breakthrough in Flash - Rory Bolt, Principal Architect, Toshiba Memory America Life Beyond Flash New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies - Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero The Next Breakthrough in Non-Volatile Memory - Panel, FLash Memory Summit

NVMF-302A-1: Understanding NVMe over Fabrics on TCP (NVMe-oF Track) Understanding NVMe over Fabrics on TCP - David Woolf, UNH-IOL, UNH-IOL

PMEM-302A-1: What’s the Best Approach to Persistent Memory Today…and Tomorrow? (Persistent Memory Track) HybriDIMM™ Media Controller - Rahul Advani, Vice President Marketing, Netlist What's the best approach to persistent memory today and tomorrow? - Pankaj Bishnoi, Director of Business Development, Everspin Technologies What's the Best Approach to Persistent Memory Today? - Arthur Sainio, SMART Modular Technologies What is the Best Approach to Persistent Memory Today and Tomorrow - Mark Webb, MKW Ventures Consulting, LLC

NVMF-302-1: Benefits and Use Cases for NVMe-oF (NVMe-oF Track) ImplementingComputationalStorage in an NVMe-oF-BasedSystem - Patrice Couvert, Technical Product Manager, Kalray Benefits and Use Cases for NVMe-oF - Oren Duer, Mellanox Technologies Disaggregated Storage Architecture –Challenges and Quality of Service for NVMeoFbased storage systems - Vaidy Krishnamoorthy, Intel Corporation Developing NVMe-oFVirtual All-Flash Array - Alan Lin, Chief Solution Architect, AccelStor Ltd. Software Defined StoragemeetsNVMe Over Fabrics - Tom Lyon, DriveScale, Inc NVMF-302-1: Benefits and Use Cases for NVMe-oF - Steve McQuerry, Senior TME, PureStorage Benefits and Use Cases for NVMe-oF SmartNICs - Fazil Osman, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom

AIML-302-1: Using AI/ML for Flash Performance Scaling, Part 2 (AI/Machine Learning Track) NVM Usage in the AI Era - Dave Eggleston, Intuitive Cognition Consulting Flash-Based Analog Neural Networks: Possibilities and Tradeoffs - Jeremy Holleman, CTO, Syntiant Corp. Non-Volatile Neural Network Accelerator in Your SoC - Sang-Soo Lee, CEO and Co-Founder, ANAFLASH Inc. Analog In-Memory Computeusing SST SuperFlash - Mark Reiten, memBrain Flash, Storage and Data Challenges for Production Machine Learning - Nisha Talagala CEO, PyxedaAI PIPULS: Predicting I/O Patterns Using LSTM in Storage Systems - Dr. Qing Yang, Distinguished Engineering Professor, University of Rhode Island

COMP-302B-1: Computational Storage: Applications (Computational Storage Track) Creating a Framework for Computational Storage - Nick Adams, Platform Storage Architect, Intel Computational Storage Workloads Implications for Datacenter Architectures - Jamon Bowen, Storage Segment Marketing Director, Xilinx Design the Right Storage Systems to Accelerate Deep Learning - Jérôme Gaysse, Senior Technical & Market Analyst, Silinnov Consulting Storage Device Optimizations for Systems and Applications - Rohit Gupta, Senior Manager, Enterprise OEM Product Marketing and Strategy, Western Digital FSOL-302B-1: Flash Solutions for AI/ML (Flash Solutions Track) Flash Solutions for AI/ML - Jillian Coffin, VP & Publisher, Tech Target MRES-302B-1: Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today (Market Research Track) Impact of Flash Trends On Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) - Aysen Ilkbahar Director, Product Marketing, VMware Top 10 Things for 2019 - Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates Top 10 Things in Flash Memory - Jean S. Bozman, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Hurwitz & Associates Top Ten ThingsYou Need to Know - Jim Handy, OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Flash Memory, that is - Rob Peglar, President, Advanced Computation and Storage Top Ten Things to Know About Flash - Adam Roberts Engineering Fellow and Independent Consultant Top 10 Things About Flash - Marc Staimer CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting