Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions

SDC is pleased to offer a variety of Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. These sessions will be held in one-hour blocks from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT. A BoF is an informal gathering of persons interested in a particular technical topic. SDC BoFs generally will discuss topics presented that day as part of SDC.

Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference.

BoFs may be scheduled (SDC attendees only) in advance by completing this form.

Birds-of-a-Feather

Discuss topics related to manageability with SNIA and its alliance partners including DMTF, NVMe, OFA, SODA Foundation, CXL, UCIe.

Topics include:

TimeMon Sep 18 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
  • Salon II
  • Salon III
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Birds-of-a-Feather
  • Who: Archive & Cold Storage users interested in green, sustainable longterm storage such as Ceramic, Glass, DNA and Molecular Storage.
SW Worth
WorthIT
TimeTue Sep 19 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
  • Salon IV
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Birds-of-a-Feather

Come join an informal discussion where you can get some in-depth answers to your questions about Software-Enabled Flash Project and Technology.

Scott Stetzer
KIOXIA America
TimeTue Sep 19 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
  • Salon VI
  • Salon VII
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Birds-of-a-Feather

This Informal panel will help developers of storage monitoring and management applications to interact with Swordfish clients and ask questions, understand requirements, and provide opportunities  

TimeTue Sep 19 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
  • Salon II
  • Salon III
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Birds-of-a-Feather

Discuss updates to the Computational Storage Architecture, Computational Storage API, and SDXI with Computational Storage. Answer questions and discuss use cases.

Jason Molgaard
Solidigm
TimeTue Sep 19 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
  • Salon V
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Birds-of-a-Feather

Engage in a dynamic BoF session focused on understanding the landscape of S3 incompatibilities.

TimeTue Sep 19 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
  • Salon IV
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Birds-of-a-Feather

BoF to discuss Why STA is Now Part of SNIA, and to let conference attendees know about and discuss the upcoming SAS plugfests in 2024.

Rick Kutcipal
SCSI Trade Association
TimeTue Sep 19 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
  • Salon II
  • Salon III
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Birds-of-a-Feather

We will discuss the new flexible data placement: What are the benefits and what is required to take advantage of it.

Bill Martin
Samsung
TimeWed Sep 20 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
  • Salon IV
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Birds-of-a-Feather

In this BOF session, we will explore the need, opportunities, challenges and implications of emerging data compression techniques and accelerators associated with storage and memory technologies th

Scott Shadley
Solidigm Technology, SNIA
TimeWed Sep 20 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
  • Salon V
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Birds-of-a-Feather

Do you want to hear about different specs that are being worked on in SFF? Do you want to hear some thoughts towards future specifications in SFF?

John Geldman
Kioxia
TimeWed Sep 20 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
  • Salon II
  • Salon III
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