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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View other SNIA events held during the week Cloud Object Storage Plugfest and Swordfish Plugfest

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

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

Addison Snell

CEO

Intersect360 Research

10:45 am - 11:00 am

11:00 am - 11:30 am

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

Curtis Ballard

Distinguished Technologist

HPE

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

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

Jeff Terrace

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google

Frank Borich

Principal Engineer

Cloud Object Storage - IBM

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch Available

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

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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

Adam Gray

Principal Software Engineer

IBM

Michael Hoard

SNIA Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) Community

SNIA

1:35 pm - 2:05 pm

Optimizing Storage Devices for AI Data Centers

Erich Haratsch

Senior Director - Architecture

Marvell Semiconductor

1:35 pm - 2:05 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

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm

Migration of a Virtual NVM Subsystem

Michael Allison

Sr. Director NAND Product Planning - Standards

Samsung

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm

Session details to be announced

2:40 pm - 2:50 pm

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm

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

Dan Helmick

Sr Architect

Samsung

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm

UEC specification to Productization & value creation (From an AI-Data Center Vendor perspective)

Mahesh Subramaniam

Director of Product Management - AI Data Centers

Juniper

3:25 pm - 3:55 pm

CXL Ecosystem Innovation Leveraging QEMU Based Emulation

Adam Manzanares

Director

Samsung Electronics

Anisa Su

Associate Engineer

Samsung Electronics

3:25 pm - 3:55 pm

Post Quantum Crypto Update

Paul Suhler

Chair, IEEE Security in Storage Working Group

KIOXIA

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

400G for AI and Storage: Faster is Always Better

Tomas Palkert

System Engineer

Samtec Inc.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

GUFI (Grand Unified File Indexer) – What does it have to offer you?

Gary Grider

Leader, High Performance Computing (HPC) Division

Los Alamos National Laboratory

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Birds of a Feather: Object Storage in the AI Era

Ugur Kaynar

Technical Staff, Storage Technologist - Chief Technology Office

Dell

Kalyan Gunda

Chief Architect, Unstructured Storage Systems

Dell

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Birds of a Feather: Session details to be announced

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