SDC 2021 Schedule

All times PDT. Schedule is subject to change.

Tuesday, September 28th
8:00 AM	PMEM Programming Workshop and Hackathon Sponsored by SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Initiative
8:00 AM	SNIA SMB3 Interoperability Lab Sponsored by Microsoft
8:30 AM	Introduction to Virtual SDC Michael Oros, Executive Director, SNIA
8:40 AM	Quantum Technology and Storage: Where Do They Meet? Doug Finke Managing Editor, Quantum Computing Report
9:20 AM	Innovations in Load-Store I/O Causing Profound Changes in Memory, Storage, and Compute Landscape Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation
10:00 AM	Maximizing Flash Value with the Software-Enabled Flash™ SDK Eric Ries, SVP Memory and Storage Strategy Division, KIOXIA Rory Bolt, Principal Architect, Sr. Fellow KIOXIA America, Inc.
10:40 AM	Amazon Aurora Storage – Purpose Built Storage for Databases Murali Brahmadesam, Director of Engineering, Aurora Databases, Amazon
11:20 AM	Day 1 Breakout Sessions Available On Demand Blockchain Container Storage DNA Data Storage Emerging Interfaces NVMe Security and Privacy Storage Architecture Storage Resource Management
3:00 - 4:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: NVMe Moderated by: Mark Carlson, KIOXIA
3:00 - 4:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: Security Landscape BoF Moderated by: Eric Hibbard, Chair, SNIA Security TWG
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: Future Innovations in Software Defined Flash Storage Moderated by: Earle Philhower, MSSD Technical Marketing, KIOXIA Sean Stead, MSSD Business Development, KIOXIA
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: CXL and Persistent Memory Moderated by: Arthur Sainio and Raghu Kulkarni, Co-Chairs, SNIA Persistent Memory Special Interest Group
5:00 - 6:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: Data Processing Units (DPUs) Moderated by Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair
5:00 - 6:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: Ethernet SSD/Ethernet BoF : A new storage architecture to push storage performance Moderated by: Hrishikesh Sathawane, Dir of Product Planning @ Samsung

Wednesday, September 29th
8:00 AM	PMEM Programming Workshop and Hackathon Sponsored by SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Initiative
8:00 AM	SNIA SMB3 Interoperability Lab Sponsored by Microsoft
8:30 AM	Introduction to SNIA J Metz, Chairman, SNIA
8:40 AM	Panel Discussion: From DNA Synthesis on Chips to DNA Data Storage Hosted by Dave Landsman, DNA Storage Alliance; Director Industry Standards, Western Digital Moderated by John Hoffman, Lead Scientist, QS-2
9:20 AM	Power-Efficient Data Processing with Software-Defined Computational Storage Yang Seok Ki, Sr. Director, Samsung Electronics
10:00 AM	The Perspective of Today’s Storage Architectures, Viewed Through a Long Lens Randy Kreiser, Storage Specialist/FAE, Supermicro Alan Johnson, Director of Emerging Technologies, Supermicro
10:40 AM	Unlocking the Potential of NVMe-oF and Software Defined Storage Thanks to Programmable DPUs Sebastien Le Duc, Software Engineering Director, Kalray
11:20 AM	Beyond Zoned Named Spaces – ZNSNLOG Bridging the Semantic Gap Chun Liu, Chief Architect at Futurewei Technologies
12:00 PM	Day 2 Breakout Sessions Available On Demand Cloud Storage Composable Infrastructure Computational Storage Data Protection Technologies Hard Drives/HDD NVMe-oF SMB Solid State Storage Solutions Storage Performance/Workloads
3:00 - 4:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: "No-compromise” NVMe/TCP deployment using server storage I/O offload Moderted by: Greg Schulz, Independent Industry Analyst & Author, StorageIO™
3:00 - 4:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface) discussion with SDXI TWG members Moderated by: Shyamkumar Iyer, SDXI TWG Chair, Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: What's New in SFF? Another Conversation with Very Opinionated Experts Moderated by: John Geldman; Director, SSD Industry Standards; KIOXIA
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: Computational Storage Advances Moderated by: Scott Shadley and Jason Molgaard, Co-Chairs, SNIA Computational Storage TWG; Eli Tiomkin, Chair, SNIA Computational Storage SIG
5:00 - 6:00 PM	Birds of a Feather Session: Storage Device-Level Power Efficiency Measurement Specification Moderated by: Wayne Adams, GSI Co-chair and SNIA Chairman Emeritus; Eden Kim S3TWG co-chair and Calypso Tester Founder, Don Goddard, SNIA GreenTWG co-chair, NetApp and Chuck Paridon, storage performance consultant, DXC
5:00 - 6:00 PM	Interoperability in Blockchain and why it is important to the Storage Industry Moderated by: Olga Buchonina, Co-Chair SNIA Blockchain TWG, CEO and Founder of ActionSpot, Co-founder of OfftheChainMiners