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ic operating systems architecture group and is responsible for the technical strategy relating to brocade s mainframe infrastructure offerings his industry experience lead to a featured interview in enterprise executive 2019 issue 6 where he discussed the future of the mainframe ficon and fibre channel today howard is an active member of the brocade san networking bsn division of broadcom limited and continues his technical leadership in enterprise networking solutions with more than 40 years of professional experience in high end processing environments howard remains an active advocate of fibre channel trent johnson hardware architect ibm ibm technical council snia trent johnson is a hardware architect at ibm with a focus on the ibm flashcore module solid state drive he joined ibm as part of the cleversafe acquisition where he was the system hardware architect of exabyte scale object storage prior to cleversafe he developed system level manufacturing and test solutions for amd cpus and gpus where he was awarded the amd corporate technical achievement award he has 27 years of industry experience holds 7 us patents and has published at the future of memory and storage snia developer conference burn in and test socket workshop as well as the conference for consumer electronics he earned bsee and msee degrees from the university of texas at austin in electrical engineering with a focus on manufacturing system engineering dingyi kang phd student university of texas at dallas dingyi kang is a third year phd student at the cs department of university of texas at dallas his research focuses on the storage systems for approximate nearest neighbor search in ai ml kapil karkra senior principal engineer ai storage and software solutions solidigm kapil karkra is a sr principal engineer at solidigm responsible for software and solutions pathfinding for next generation storage solutions supporting ai infrastructure his work focuses on evolving cloud storage acceleration layer csal a host based ftl with raid and caching bringing technologies such as mixed media mm and flexible data placement fdp to market and defining turnkey reference architectures that integrate hardware and software to accelerate adoption of high density nand ssds qlc plc and hlc for ai workloads over his 25 year career he has advanced storage systems ranging from raid caching and ftls to distributed storage stacks at ibm intel and solidigm recently he helped build ai cloud storage services at intel integrating technologies such as vast data platform and minio aistor he has 35 patent filings and 20 issued patents has authored numerous industry publications and has contributed to industry standards including nvme e g multiple atomicity and pcie e g native pcie enclosure management npem kapil holds a bachelor s degree in electrical engineering from the national institute of technology nit india and an mba from arizona state university volker lendecke developer sernet developer samba team volker lendecke is co founder of sernet gmbh in göttingen germany and member of the samba team chuck lever linux kernel architect oracle i m a linux kernel maintainer specialising in network file systems and high performance storage protocols with deep expertise in nfs and rdma my work focuses on the low level infrastructure that enterprise and cloud storage depends on from kernel implementation to published standards as co maintainer of the linux in kernel nfs server i m responsible for code review patch integration and the ongoing health of one of the kernel s most widely used subsystems i ve also authored or co authored 11 ietf rfcs spanning nfs rpc over rdma rpc encryption and federated file systems including rfc 8166 rdma transport for rpc and rfc 9289 rpc encryption by default ivan lobachev technical marketing engineer solidigm ivan lobachev is a technical marketing engineer at solidigm where he focuses on driving awareness and adoption of advanced storage technologies with a particular emphasis on storage for ai and next generation i o technologies he holds a phd in computer science with an emphasis on distributed systems and machine learning bringing deep technical expertise to his work in communicating the value of emerging storage solutions ivan is an active participant in key industry standards bodies including nvm express and pci sig where he contributes to the development of the pcie specification over his 10 years in the industry primarily in storage ivan has built a strong foundation across the technology stack from silicon level innovation to cloud scale infrastructure his career includes experience at intel and aws giving him a broad perspective that spans semiconductor enterprise storage and hyperscale cloud environments simon lund principal engineer samsung simon a f lund is a principal engineer at samsung where he leads the systems advancement and integration sai group and the accelerator integrated storage i o aisio project his work focuses on system software architectures that bridge compute and storage informed by a background spanning storage systems engineering and research on high performance compilers runtime systems and hardware architectures for massively parallel compute in array oriented programming he is also the lead developer of the open source xnvme project and holds a ph d from the university of copenhagen bill lynn fellow systems design engineering amd bill lynn is an engineering fellow at amd bill has over 40 years experience architecting and developing storage subsystems bill started out as a disk drive designer with digital equipment corporation designing 9 5 25 3 5 and 2 5 disk drives later he moved to adaptec working in sales marketing and eventually the office of the cto as a raid architect during his tenure at adaptec bill helped form the snia ip storage forum and served as the forum chair for 2 years bill ran the early iscsi interoperability events before transitioning the iscsi interoperability effort to unh bill was also one of the authors of the infiniband specification in 2006 bill moved to dell where he was responsible for server storage architecture bill was the original author of the sff 8639 u 2 connector specification one of the current editors of the sff ta 1008 edsff e3 device specification and served as dell s representative to the nvme board of directors bill moved to amd in 2023 as part of amd s data center architecture and strategy group grant mackey distinguished engineer xcena grant is a distinguished engineer at xcena previously he was the cto at jackrabbit labs a cxl software and fabrics company western digital sandisk and los alamos national lab he is an industry veteran familiar with data center storage and memory fabric architectures and has advanced these areas in one way or another through simulation prototype and productization efforts across his career keith maclean system architect micron technology keith maclean is a member of technical staff and system architect at micron technology where he focuses on enterprise ssd architecture power efficiency and next generation storage platform design jim mcdonough senior software engineering manager suse suse platform foundations jim leads the compute identity and file services team at suse and has been a member of the samba team for 25 years he is also a board and founding member of the new samba foundation pankaj mehra professor of research the ohio state university founder and ceo elephance memory inc pankaj mehra is professor of research in computer science and engineering department at the ohio state university he founded elephance memory a company that builds software to optimize disaggregated data center memory for data infrastructure and applications pankaj has held executive positions in the memory industry since 2013 when he took over as svp and ww cto of fusion io later serving as vp and senior fellow at both acquirers sandisk and western digital pankaj mehra led smartssd as vp of product planning and other workload optimized flash storage products as vp of storage pathfinding at samsung for which he and his team of 10 received samsung s prestigious r d award in 2019 smartssd went on to win the ces r d innovation award in 2021 previously at hewlett packard pankaj was promoted to hp distinguished technologist in 2004 for his pioneering work on rdma attached persistent memory devices and filesystems later he founded hp labs russia and served as its chief scientist until 2010 he is also the founder of startups intellifabric whodini and awarenaas pankaj s international experience spans academia industry and government his publications include 3 books and over 100 papers and patents pankaj holds ph d in computer science from the university of illinois at urbana champaign rohan mehta member of technical staff and systems performance engineer micron technology rohan mehta is a member of technical staff and systems performance engineer at micron technology where he works on the data center workload engineering team since 2025 his work has focused on application level tracing performance characterization and data analysis to inform next generation ssd architecture and optimization for hyperscale and enterprise workloads he also serves as vice chair of snia s dsn forum where he helps conduct educational webinars and industry tech talks that provide leadership and practical guidance on end to end storage and data networking solutions previously rohan was a senior software engineer at microsoft contributing to azure storage there he developed high performance storage over rdma solutions for managed disks led dpu offload proof of concepts for front end and table layer of cloud storage stack and worked closely with platform architecture teams to evaluate system level performance scalability and cost efficiency of next gen storage for ai buildout he holds an m s in electrical engineering from columbia university and an m sc honors in physics from bits pilani stefan metzmacher developer sernet stefan metzmacher is working for sernet and is a member of the international samba team his focus is spread into all areas of samba including wins replication drs replication authentication smb dcerpc and a lot of architectural re designs of common code cj newburn distinguished engineer nvidia chris j newburn who goes by cj is a distinguished engineer who drives hpc strategy and the technical io roadmap in nvidia gpu cloud focused on pushing the envelope for storage and networking programming models at scale data center architecture and security and scaled systems he is a community builder with a passion for building an ecosystem that extends the core capabilities of hardware and software platforms from hpc into ai data science and visualization he co leads the storage next effort to optimize products for iops tco he tinkers with and leverages nvidia and vendor products in a lab packed with scaled compute storage and networking gear to apply and extend new tech he s delighted to have worked on volume products that his mom used and that help researchers do their life s work in science that previously wasn t possible aaron ogus partner microsoft azure aaron is a technical fellow working in the microsoft azure core team he works with many others on optimizing the co design of hardware and software for azure storage compute and networking aaron has been working on azure storage since its inception in 2008 and has helped microsoft optimize storage design and deployment and has worked with industry partners to optimize components servers and switch designs for the cloud aaron has helped influence the evolution of network switches ssds hdds and archival systems for cloud deployment aaron started at microsoft in 1991 and before azure worked on a few notable projects including windows 95 directx xbox and forza motorsport aaron has a regional scca racing championship in formula mazda which was instrumental in helping make forza the highest grossing racing franchise on xbox aaron also plays a little poker from time to time he finished second in a world poker tour tournament at a televised final table george pamboris senior director netapp george pamboris is a technology executive and product strategist with more than 25 years of experience across enterprise infrastructure cloud data and ai over the past two decades he has served in vice president and executive roles leading global product organizations and driving strategy innovation and transformation across companies including emc hitachi data systems amazon web services teradata weka io and netapp throughout his career george has led product strategy and portfolio direction spanning hybrid cloud analytics databases and high performance data platforms his experience includes building and advancing product roadmaps building strategic partnerships and helping enterprise and cloud customers innovate in areas such as ai life sciences financial services and high performance data analytics after leading product management for netapp s hybrid cloud portfolio george transitioned to the business transformation office where he drives business process re engineering and leads the bto ai circle of excellence accelerating the company s adoption of ai and shaping transformation initiatives that scale ai across the business sergei platonov vp of strategy xinnor sergei platonov is the vice president of strategy at xinnor a technology company specializing in storage solutions sergei s journey in the tech industry began in 2010 when he graduated from the university earning a degree in computer science with a strong passion for storage technologies he joined sds start up in 2009 throughout his career sergei has been instrumental in the development of storage area networks san and has focused on the research and implementation of cutting edge technologies such as flash nvme non volatile memory express cxl compute express link and storage performance improvement techniques his expertise in these areas has enabled xinnor to create highly efficient and reliable storage solutions that cater to the evolving needs of businesses sergei s contributions to the industry go beyond development work he is a recognized thought leader and has delivered more than 30 presentations at conferences sharing his insights and knowledge on storage technologies additionally he has authored numerous articles shedding light on the advancements in storage class memory and its impact on storage performance swarna prabhu senior system software engineer samsung semiconductors swarna is a system software engineer at samsung building expertise in storage systems across both kernel and application layers their work focuses on enabling samsung hardware by contributing to open source software focused on storage domain scsi nvme previously she was working at intel as system software engineer working on integration and enablement of chrome os stack on intel platforms she holds a masters degree...