2016 Pre-Conference Primer Agenda

Note: Pre-conference agenda speaker assignments and session times are subject to change.

Optional Pre-Conference Primer: Sunday, September 18, 2016
11:00 - 2:00	Pre-Conference Registration Opens
	Breakout Sessions
	Pre-Conference Seminar Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Pre-Conference Seminar Cloud (Winchester)	Pre-Conference Seminar Storage Networking (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Pre-Conference Seminar Professional Development (Stevens Creek)
1:00 - 1:50	Persistent Memory Quick Start Programming Tutorial Andy Rudoff Architect Datacenter Software, Intel	What You Need to Know on Cloud Storage David Slik Technical Director, NetApp Mark Carlson Principal Engineer, Toshiba	SAS: Today’s Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric Cameron Brett Director SSD Product Marketing, Toshiba America Electronic Components’ SSD Business Unit	How Agile is Game Changer in Storage Development and Best Practices to Transform from Traditional Model to Agile Model Saurabh Bhatia Storage Test Specialist, IBM
2:00 - 2:50	Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA Idan Burstein Architect, Mellanox Rob Davis VP Storage Technology, Mellanox		Pre-Conference Seminar Storage Architecture (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Pre-Conference Seminar Performance (Stevens Creek)
2:00 - 2:50			Pending speaker confirmation	Data Center Workload Analysis Peter Murray Principal System Engineer, Virtual Instruments
2:50 - 3:05	Break
	Pre-Conference Seminar Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Pre-Conference Seminar Solid State Storage (Winchester)	Pre-Conference Seminar Storage Architecture (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Pre-Conference Seminar Security (Stevens Creek)
3:05 - 3:55	The SNIA NVM Programming Model Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise	NVMe virtualization ideas for Virtual Machines on Cloud Sangeeth Keeriyadath Senior Staff Software Engineer, IBM	Beyond the Cloud: Space-based Data Storage Scott Sobhani Co-founder & CEO, Cloud Constellation Corporation – SpaceBeltTM, the Information Ultra-HighwayTM	Implementing Stored-Data Encryption Michael Willett VP Marketing, Drive Trust Alliance
4:05 - 4:55	Object Drives: Simplifying the Storage Stack Mark Carlson Principal Engineer, Toshiba	Pre-Conference Seminar SMB (Winchester)	Pre-Conference Seminar Storage Management (San Tomas/Lawrence)
4:05 - 4:55		Cephalopods and Samba? Ira Cooper Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	Introduction and Overview of Redfish Patrick Boyd Principal Systems Management Engineer, Dell Richelle Ahlvers Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom