Samir Rajadnya is a Principal Architect in Microsoft Azure Hardware Architecture team where he works on future memory systems. Prior to Microsoft, Samir spent many years innovating in memory, storage, and networking. Samir was key architect to productize 3DXP technology at Micron, architect, and designer at disruptive storage startup DSSD. He was an SOC architect and designer at Juniper Networks, Netronome and Intel. Samir has served as part of multiple industry standards bodies throughout his career, including CXL and CCIX. Samir received his master’s in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Manoj is the HW technologist and Mr. "Storage Guy" working at Meta. He is transforming hyper-scale infrastructure to drive performance and efficiency (proven for "ebay servers". He loves Technology Research and Innovation, Product and Technology Strategy, and defining Product Roadmaps/Business cases. He constantly drives Cross-industry initiatives and collaborations.

Siamak Tavallaei is Sr. Principal Engineer at Samsung. He joined the CXL effort as a founding member of the CXL Consortium and co-chair of the Technical Task Force (TTF) in 2019 to develop the CXL 2.0 specification. He has served on the CXL Board of Directors and as the CXL President. In 2016, he joined Open Compute Project (OCP) as a co-lead of Server Project. He later served as the Incubation Committee Representative for the Server Project and Steering Committee where he drives open-sourced modular design concepts for integrated hardware/software solutions. Previously, he has served as Distinguished Technologist at HP, Senior Principal Architect at Microsoft Azure, and Chief Systems Architect at Google.

Praveen Viraraghavan is the Technologist of the Product Line Management organization. In his role at Seagate, Praveen is given the opportunity to collaborate with other leaders to shape the portfolio across all parts of the Seagate product and research ecosystem. Praveen works closely with all customers to help align their storage strategy to Seagate’s product and technology roadmap. Praveen has a proven record owning hardware and software architecture strategy working with multiple levels of technical and corporate leadership. Praveen has a knowledge of the ecosystem related to data management, which allows advocacy for the customer’s requirements while still prioritizing the company’s business and technical options. Praveen holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and did some graduate work on VLSI design in 1997 from Purdue University at West Lafayette. During his storage career Praveen has worked from the lowest embedded layers, silicon development, product architecture and development up through to the software layer. Praveen led the architecture of many new first-pass success silicon developments and new HDD and SSD product lines at leading storage companies serving cloud and OEM customers. Praveen transitioned to a startup where is helped redefine the storage stack used in the cutting edge S3 on premise object storage software solution, the company was later acquired. Praveen has been a contributor to many industry standard bodies. In his career, Praveen worked at leading storage technology and cloud companies, including Western Digital, LSI Logic, Cleversafe (acquired by IBM) and now Seagate. Praveen has 25+ year history of enterprise and cloud storage architecture knowledge, experience, and innovation. Praveen holds 50+ issued and 25+ pending patents, covering: Silicon Control and Datapath, Command Handling, Distributed Object Storage, Filesystems, and Memory solutions. Praveen has won innovation awards from LSI and IBM and was an IBM Master Inventor. Praveen currently serves on 4 Seagate patent review boards in support of their continued innovation.

Siamak Tavallaei is Sr. Principal Engineer at Samsung. He joined the CXL effort as a founding member of the CXL Consortium and co-chair of the Technical Task Force (TTF) in 2019 to develop the CXL 2.0 specification. He has served on the CXL Board of Directors and as the CXL President. In 2016, he joined Open Compute Project (OCP) as a co-lead of Server Project. He later served as the Incubation Committee Representative for the Server Project and Steering Committee where he drives open-sourced modular design concepts for integrated hardware/software solutions. Previously, he has served as Distinguished Technologist at HP, Senior Principal Architect at Microsoft Azure, and Chief Systems Architect at Google.

Samir Rajadnya is Cloud Infrastructure, and Systems architect at Microsoft bridging the gap between computing and memory/storage. He is passionate about innovating in cloud infrastructure optimizations. Vertical integration between applications, software, systems, and silicon can bring tremendous benefits in large-scale cloud environments. He has led/worked on systems and chips (FPGAs and ASICs) from concept to silicon with several first pass silicon successes.

Manoj Wadekar is a Hardware Systems Technologist driving storage and memory technology and roadmaps at Meta. Manoj has been designing and building servers, storage, and network solutions for over 30 years. He is leading the Composable Memory Systems group in OCP. Manoj has evangelized Memory and Storage Disaggregation, NVMe over Fabric, Lossless Ethernet (DCB/CEE) in industry conferences. Before joining Meta, he held engineering positions at eBay, QLogic and Intel.

Praveen Viraraghavan is the Technologist of the Product Line Management organization. In his role at Seagate, Praveen is given the opportunity to collaborate with other leaders to shape the portfolio across all parts of the Seagate product and research ecosystem. Praveen works closely with all customers to help align their storage strategy to Seagate’s product and technology roadmap. Praveen has a proven record owning hardware and software architecture strategy working with multiple levels of technical and corporate leadership. Praveen has a knowledge of the ecosystem related to data management, which allows advocacy for the customer’s requirements while still prioritizing the company’s business and technical options. Praveen holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and did some graduate work on VLSI design in 1997 from Purdue University at West Lafayette. During his storage career Praveen has worked from the lowest embedded layers, silicon development, product architecture and development up through to the software layer. Praveen led the architecture of many new first-pass success silicon developments and new HDD and SSD product lines at leading storage companies serving cloud and OEM customers. Praveen transitioned to a startup where is helped redefine the storage stack used in the cutting edge S3 on premise object storage software solution, the company was later acquired. Praveen has been a contributor to many industry standard bodies. In his career, Praveen worked at leading storage technology and cloud companies, including Western Digital, LSI Logic, Cleversafe (acquired by IBM) and now Seagate. Praveen has 25+ year history of enterprise and cloud storage architecture knowledge, experience, and innovation. Praveen holds 50+ issued and 25+ pending patents, covering: Silicon Control and Datapath, Command Handling, Distributed Object Storage, Filesystems, and Memory solutions. Praveen has won innovation awards from LSI and IBM and was an IBM Master Inventor. Praveen currently serves on 4 Seagate patent review boards in support of their continued innovation.