SDC Denver 2025

Regional SDC Denver

Westin Westminster, Westminster, CO

April 30, 2025

By Developers, for Developers

SNIA is excited to bring a special edition of our developer conference to Denver. Created by developers for developers, SDC is a premier educational conference dedicated to providing vendor-neutral information on advancements in data technology. Whether you're a software engineer, product manager, or CTO, SDC caters to professionals across all disciplines.

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Agenda - Wednesday, April 30, 2025

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Registration Open – Breakfast Available

9:30 am - 9:45 am

Opening Remarks and Welcome

J Metz

Chair

SNIA Board

9:45 am - 10:15 am

Keynote: UEC Overview

Craig Carlson

Storage and Networking Architect

AMD

10:15 am - 10:45 am

State of the HPC-AI Market: Big Questions for 2025

Addison Snell

CEO

Intersect360 Research

10:45 am - 11:00 am

AM Break

11:00 am - 11:30 am

KEYNOTE: Speaker to be announced

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Keynote: Storage for AI 101 - An overview of AI Workloads from a Storage Perspective

Curtis Ballard

Distinguished Technologist

HPE

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch Available

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

From Standards to Practice: Implementing Effective QoS Control in NVMe SSDs

Dan Helmick

Sr Architect

Samsung

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Lions and Tigers and MOE’s, Oh my! (or AI Acceleration and Tools)

Craig Carlson

Storage and Networking Architect

AMD

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Migration of a Virtual NVM Subsystem

Michael Allison

Sr. Director NAND Product Planning - Standards

Samsung

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Session Details to be Announced

Erich Haratsch

Senior Director - Architecture

Marvell Semiconductor

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

CXL Ecosystem Innovation Leveraging QEMU Based Emulation

Adam Manzanares

Director

Samsung Electronics

Anisa Su

Associate Engineer

Samsung Electronics

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

MS Azure Fast Object Storage

Vamshidhar Kommineni

Group Product Manager - Azure Storage

Microsoft

Saurabh Sensharma

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

PM Break

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Post Quantum Crypto Update

Paul Suhler

Chair, IEEE Security in Storage Working Group

KIOXIA

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

SNIA Cloud Object Storage Plugfest Update (Community Driven S3 Compatibility Testing)

Jeff Terrace

Senior Software Engineer

Google

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Session Details to be Announced

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

SNIA Cloud Object Storage Test Tools (Open-Source Software Project)

Adam Gray

Principal Software Engineer

IBM

Michael Hoard

SNIA CST Chair

SNIA

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

400G for AI and Storage: Faster is Always Better

Tomas Palkert

System Engineer

Samtec Inc.

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

On-Prem Object Storage: S3 Ecosystem and Its Role in Various Workloads

Ugur Kaynar

Technical Staff, Storage Technologist - Chief Technology Office

Dell

Kalyan Gunda

Chief Architect, Unstructured Storage Systems

Dell

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