Gary Adams is Associate Vice President of Enterprise SSD Controller and Solutions Marketing at Silicon Motion. He is passionate at defining and promoting Enterprise controllers and development platforms that accelerate Enterprise SSD solutions for Data Center. Gary has over 20 years in providing innovative leadership storage products and business solutions addressing market application needs. He has held various marketing and sales management positions at Microchip, Microsemi, PMC-Sierra and IDT. He earned a BSEE and MSEE at CSU-Chico.

Wayne Adams has over 35 years of IT industry experience spanning business development, technical product/solution management, and partner ecosystems. Wayne has been involved in SNIA leadership roles since 2002. Wayne has served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 including roles as Chair, Chair Emeritus, Treasurer in addition to a number of leadership roles for forums and initiatives, conferences, and strategic alliances. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. Over his career, Wayne M. Adams was a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO at EMC, technical alliances partner manager, and a manager of product managers for its portfolio of SRM products. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development for several strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation. He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems. Wayne has been involved in many industry associations including serving on the DMTF Board of Directors, serving as Advisory Committee member of W3C, contributing to the Industrial Internet Consortium for IoT/big data test-beds, leadership of the Fibre Alliance, and participating with various committees within INCITS, OASIS, Cloud Security Alliance, and TheGreenGrid. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Niket Agarwal is a Distinguished Engineer working on DGX Cloud system architecture and full stack optimizations across Data and AI Infra. Before working on DGX Cloud, Niket worked on building Omniverse Cloud, a managed SaaS service running on Azure and being used by customers for digital twin simulations. Niket has spent one and half decades working on large scale AI and cloud distributed systems. Niket got his PhD in Compute Architecture from Princeton University and BTech in Computer Science with IIT Kharagpur.

Richelle Ahlvers is a Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel, where she promotes and drives enablement of new technologies and standards strategies. Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise Storage R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, enabling new technology ecosystems, leading the architecture, design and development of storage array software, storage management software user experience projects including mobility, developing new storage industry categories including SAN management, storage grid and cloud, and storage technology portfolio solutions. Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives with SNIA and DMTF for many years. She serves on the SNIA Board of Directors, the Chair of the Storage Management Initiative, and has led the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API from the group’s inception; she is the alliance liaison between SNIA and DMTF, as well as the alliance liaison for OFA, OCP, and the SODA Foundation. She has also served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair and been engaged across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, cloud, and green storage. Richelle has also initiated and led both site and corporate level women's diversity forums, and presents regularly at diversity conferences

Mike Allison is a Sr. Director in the Samsung DSA Product Planning and Business Enablement team focusing on standards for existing and future products. He has been a participating member of NVM Express since 2016, co-author of many technical proposals, chair of the NMVe Errata Task Group, Samsung alternate for the NVMe Board of Directors, and a represents the OCP Storage Project on the OCP Steering Committee. For over 38 years, Mike has been an embedded firmware engineer and architect working on systems and simulations for laser beam recorders, fighter aircraft, graphics cards, high end servers, and is now focusing on Solid State Drives. He holds 31 patents in graphics, servers, and storage. He has earned a BSEE/CS at University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ju Jin serves as a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM's Infrastructure Supply Chain Organization, drawing upon more than twenty years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Her expertise lies in silicon fabrication processes and process integration, areas critical to her leadership in advancing the main memory system for IBM's Power and z Systems. She holds an MS/Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, solidifying her academic foundation and enhancing her contributions to the field.

Analyst in NAND for over 5 years. Before I became an analyst, I was in sales across foundry, SSD controller and eletronic components for tier 1 OE/ODM factory in Asia

Douglas Arens is Technical Staff, Applications Engineering for FlashtecTM NVMe SSD Controllers in the Data Center Solutions Business Unit of Microchip Technology Inc. Doug has contributed to the product development activities for Enterprise Storage products for the last 15 years. Doug presented regarding Virtualization at FMS last year. He graduated with BSCS from Iowa State University and has two patents awarded.

Paul Armijo is the President & CEO at Armijo Innovations. He has senior leadership in roles including CTO in space and technology development industry at General Dynamics Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems, Frontgrade Technologies, GSI Technology, Secure Quantum Services, and Avalanche Technology. He has had the privilege of leading numerous flagship programs and technology development efforts over his career to further enable the space community. He has served various technical and session chairs as well as presented at various conferences in the space, memory, and AI community like SEE/MAPLD, ODSC, SPWG, HEART, NSREC, Space Computing, RHET, among many others. Paul received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

Vidhya Arvind is a Senior Software Engineer for Netflix building abstractions. She is a founding member of Netflix’s data abstraction platform, which supports common patterns including KeyValue, Tree, TimeSeries, Table Metadata, and more. She loves learning, debugging, scaling systems, and solving hard problems. Vidhya currently spends most of her time providing scalable abstractions for thousands of developers at Netflix.

Currently VP of Product Management and Marketing at ScaleFlux, focusing on innovative SSD technologies and computational storage. JB has led product management and marketing teams in the storage industry for 20+ years across Intel, LSI, and Seagate before joining ScaleFlux.

Karthik is a Associate Director at Samsung Electronics(SSIR), he has experience of 19 years in Embedded System Testing and last 12 years in Memory Solutions Tests for eMMC, NVMe, CXL, etc. He is currently works on architecting the test coverage and test solutions for NVMe Enterprise SSDs. Driving towards shift-left approach and open source enablement for NVMe SSD qualifications

27 + years Oracle hands on experience - Principal Oracle DBA / Architect, Oracle RAC/Data Guard Expert, Experienced in EMC SAN Technologies Principal Oracle DBA/Oracle Architect [1995 – 2011] Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Practice Lead [2012-] - VMware / VMware by Broadcom VMware VCA – Cloud ,VMware vBCA Specialist, VMware vExpert Member of the Office of the Chief Technical Ambassador VMware (Alumni) Oracle ACE Leading Author - “Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC” Recognized Speaker@ VMware Explore, Oracle Cloud World, Oracle User Groups, Quest IOUG, Dell EMC World, SNIA and Webinars Industry recognized expert in Oracle Virtualization technologies Blogs http://vracdba.com/ https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/author/sudhirbalasubramanian/ Twitter : @vracdba LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhirbalasubramanian/

Andy has over 30 years of experience in high-tech industry giants. He is currently a technology consultant for Magnition IO and regular delegate at Tech Field Day events. Previously, he worked on development teams at SCO, Sun Microsystems, VMware and NetApp-SolidFIre producing primarily storage and networking products. Andy is known for promoting simplicity and economy and has presented at numerous conferences, technology events and podcasts. Outside of high tech, Andy is involved in auto racing, auto restoration and hiking. His interests include travel, wines and food.

Mariusz is a Principal Engineer in Solidigm. His storage software and storage solutions experience is over 12 years. His work area is finding innovations for storage software. In particular caching solutions, software defined storage, virtualization, and storage analytics. This is confirmed by numerous patents and open source activity. His recent work is focused on leading the team of Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL) which delivers mixed media solutions combining Solidigm SLC with other storage components like Soldigim QLC SSD drives, to deliver efficient and durable storage.

Bill Basinas is Senior Director, Product Marketing at Infinidat and has been focused in the storage industry since 1994 when he joined Legato Systems as the first field systems engineer. He was also an early employee at Avamar and spent time at enterprise companies such as EMC and HPE Storage in Global Marketing and Engineering roles.

Camberley serves as the VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group bringing over 25 years of executive experience leading sales and marketing teams at VERITAS, GE Access, and EDS. Her unique 360-degree view of addressing challenges and delivering solutions was achieved from crossing the boundary of sales and channel engagement with large enterprise vendors and her own 100-person IT services firm. She joined The Futurum Group through their acquisition of Evaluator Group in 2023. As the Managing Director at Evaluator Group from 2009 until 2023 she built a highly respected team, known for its deep technical expertise delivering competitive and market knowledge backed by data based economic and hands-on experience with the technology and IT consulting services. Camberley began her career at IBM in sales and management. She holds a BS degree in International Business from California State University - Long Beach and executive certificates from Wellesley and Wharton School of Business.

As Quantum’s Chief Marketing Officer, Natasha Beckley is responsible for building and strengthening Quantum’s brand, leading the company’s multifaceted marketing strategy, and increasing worldwide demand for Quantum's solutions in both new and existing markets.

Clinton Aaron Beetham is a Senior Staff Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) with 14+ years of experience in storage domain. Specializing in "NVMe Compliance Test Suite Development" for all spec versions (NVMe\MI\OCP\MFND), Clinton uses that experience to drive test team with innovative and modern solutions for automated compliance testing. He currently works on architecting the test coverage and test solutions for NVMe SSDs. He holds a Master degree in Computer Application (MCA).

Through his Berg Software Design consultancy, Brian provides hardware and software design and development services for storage and interface technologies in consumer electronics, including flash memory, NVMe and USB. Brian has been a developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and technical writer. He has participated in over 80 conferences as a speaker, session chair and conference chair. He has also worked extensively with intellectual property and patents, particularly in the storage arena. He is active as an IEEE officer and volunteer, including as past Chair of the Santa Clara Valley Section, Director and past Chair of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley, Region 6 IEEE Milestone Coordinator, Chair of the SCV Technical History Committee, and past Liaison for the Women in Engineering Affinity Group. Brian is an IEEE awards recipient, including the 2017 Outstanding Leadership and Service to the IEEE within Region 6, the 2017 IEEE-USA Professional Leadership Award for Outstanding Service to the Consulting and Electrical Engineering profession, and the 2012 Outstanding Leadership and Professional Service Award for Region 6.

Simone Bertolazzi, PhD, is Principal Analyst (Memory) at Yole Group. As member of the Yole Group’s Memory team, he contributes on a day-to-day basis to the analysis of markets and technologies, their related materials, device architectures and fabrication processes. Previously, Simone carried out experimental research in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, focusing on emerging semiconducting materials and their opto-electronic device applications. He (co-) authored more than 20 papers in high-impact scientific journals and was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Simone obtained a PhD in physics in 2015 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), where he developed novel flash memory cells based on heterostructures of two-dimensional materials and high-κ dielectrics. Simone earned a double M. A. Sc. degree from Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy), graduating cum laude.”

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Mayank Bhatnagar is a product marketing director with Cadence Design Systems, where he focuses on die-to-die interface IP, including UCIe. His goal is to align Cadence's IP strategy to the overall market direction and enable IP solution tuned to customer needs. Prior to this, he has worked on fabrication technology, device design, foundational IP, SOC and block level digital implementation,and interface IPs such as DDR, LPDDR, HBM, AIB, HBI, and UCIe. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering, and a master's degree in business administration.

Neeloy Bhattacharyya is the Director of AI Solutions at VAST Data, where he revolutionizes AI Data Pipelines for customers. With over 20 years in the hardware and software industry, he excels in product strategy and driving enterprise transformation. Neeloy has led teams to achieve significant growth, including taking VCE from $0 to over $1B in annual sales within four years. He has provided leadership at VCE, EMC, and Dell, focusing on understanding customer needs and fostering team transformation.

LK joins Ayar Labs following twenty years with Marvell Semiconductor in a variety of design, technical marketing, and product roles, including a position as Vice President, Product Management / Marketing at high performance networking company Aquantia (acquired by Marvell), as well as driving CXL and Ethernet NIC product strategy and roadmap for Marvell’s next-generation cloud and enterprise datacenter applications. LK also served as the President and Marketing Chair for the NBASE-T alliance (since merged with the Ethernet Alliance). He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.