Co-sponsored by: ActionSpot

Flash Memory Summit is at your doorstep and we are giving you an opportunity to speak and ask questions to Engineering Fellows from Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Cisco, Eidetcom and more. Engineers who write and define where storage technology will be in 2025 and beyond.

How exciting! and you have an opportunity to meet in person and mingle!

Please meet our distinguished panelists:

PETER ONUFRYK, FELLOW ENGINEER – @INTEL

Peter’s contributions to the field of persistent memory are enduring. He was involved early in the technology and was part of the original NVM specification development team. He is currently a fellow in performance storage at Microchip. Peter also runs NVMe MI ( Management Interface) specification group under NVMExpress.org

J METZ, R&D Engineer, Advanced Storage Cisco Systems –

R&D Engineer for the Office of the CTO for Cisco, working in Advanced Storage and Storage Networking, but have a broad and eclectic background of both academic, corporate, and industry experience. Active speaker at Memory focused events, blog posts, Storage Newsletter and many more activities. J influences trends in storage technologies and promotes innovation.

MARK CARLOSON  Principal Engineer, Industry Standards Toshiba SPEAKER

Mark A. Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards at Toshiba, has more than 35 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than 20 years experience with Java technology. Mark was one of the authors of the CDMI Cloud Storage standard. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is the co-chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage and Object Drive technical working groups and serves as co-chair of the SNIA Technical Council.

TOM FRIEND, Director of Industry Standards @ ILLUMINOSITY

Tom has been in a variety of engineering positions in the storage industry. His professional history began when IBM PCs were “Plug Compatibles”. He has done VLSI design and written operating system internals for Unix, Linux, Android, and Windows. Having such a diverse experience mix makes him ideal in industry standards and so he manages the Industry Standards Team at Toshiba, SKHynix, ILLUMINOSITY, and many others

STEPHEN BATES, CTO of Eldeticom 

Stephen Bates is the CTO of Eideticom is a renown expert on topics like NVMe, RDMA, TCP/IP and NVM. He has worked on a range of complex storage and communication systems include the NVMe controllers and PCIe switches developed by his former employer Microsemi (formerly PMC-Sierra). He enjoys working at the interface between hardware and software and is a active contributor to the Linux kernel.

BILL MARTIN SSD IO Standards Samsung (https://sniasdc17.pathable.com/organizations/576900) SPEAKER

Bill Martin has been a leading figure in the development of storage standards for many years, providing prolific innovative contributions to the NVMe, SCSI, Serial ATA, and Fibre Channel standards. He is currently in charge of SSD I/O standards at Samsung, where he represents the company in the NVMe, SCSI, SNIA, and ATA standards efforts as well as working with customers to overcome performance hurdles.

IHAB HAMADI – Sr. Director Platform Engineering at Western Digital

Ihab Hamadi is a Fellow at Western Digital, where he focuses on the innovation and growth of the company’s platforms business, delivering data and application-centric solutions for the enterprise and cloud. He has a solid 21-year track record of building leading edge cloud computing, data storage, networking, and virtualization technology and solutions. Before joining Western Digital, Ihab was Distinguished Technologist at HPE Aruba, leading development teams that contributed to OpenSwitch project and created ArubaOS-CX network operating systems, a modern OS for the mobile and IoT era, built from the ground-up to support Intent Based Networking.

Agenda:

6:30 – 7:00 p.m. – arrival, networking
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. – panel discussion
8:00 – 8:30 p.m. – Q&A and networking

Location:
ActionSpot
437-453 W San Carlos St
San Jose, California
95110