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Monday, August 8th - Preconference Seminars Note: Preconference seminars B, F and G will not be providing proceedings.
8:30am-Noon	PreConference Seminar C: Persistent Memory Introduction to Persistent System Memory Jonathan Hinkle, Sr Research Staff Member, Lenovo NVDIMMs: The Go-To Technology for Boosting Application Performance Arthur Sainio, Director Product Marketing, SMART Modular Technologies Software Defined Memory for Hybrid DRAM and Flash Solutions Maher Amer, CTO, Diablo Technologies Lightweight User-Mode File Systems for Storage Class Memory Yuangang Wang, Advanced Research Engineer, Huawei ThyNVM - Software-Transparent Crash Consistency for Persistent Memory Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
8:30am-Noon	PreConference Seminar D: Flash Storage Networking Networked Flash Storage Overview Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies How Networking Affects Flash Storage Systems Gunneswara Marripudi, Principal Software Architect, and Ilker Cebeli, Senior Director Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor Ethernet Networked Flash Storage J Metz, Office of the CTO, Cisco Data Center Group InfiniBand Networked Flash Storage Motti Beck, Sr Director Enterprise Market Development, Mellanox Technologies PCIe Networked NVM Storage Peter Onufryk, Fellow NVM Solutions, Microsemi Fibre Channel Networked Flash Storage Scott Kipp, Director Engineering, Brocade Communications Networks in the Time of Flash Jim O'Reilly, Independent Consultant
1:00-5:00pm	PreConference Seminar H: Designing SSD Controllers Introduction Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate NAND Flash Basics and Error Characteristics Thomas Parnell, Research Staff Member, IBM Laboratories - Zurich NAND Flash Media Management Algorithms Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate LDPC Codes: Principles and Implementation Aspects Osso Vahabzadeh, Staff Design Engineer, Texas LDPC ASIC/Merchant Chip-Based Flash Controllers Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications David McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting

Tuesday, August 9th - Sessions, Invited Talks and Forums
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 101-A: Mobile Applications (Applications Track) PCIe NVMe* SSD in Smaller Form Factors Becky Loop, Sr Principal Engineer, Intel, and Zhiping Yang, Storage Architect, Google
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 101-B: Flash Memory Meets Film's Rising Capture/Content Requirements (Media/Entertainment Track) Solving big data set problems Mike Schmit, Manager Digital Video Software, AMD Flash Memory Meets Film's Rising Capture/ Content Requirements Jim Douglas, Workstation Product Manager, HP Introduction to "CFX" - Next Generation High-Performance Media Based on PCIe and NVMe Shahar Noy, Sr Director Strategic Marketing/Business Development, Micron
8:30-9:35am	Session U-1: Annual Update on Flash Technology (Flash Technology Track) Flash Technology: Annual Update Jim Handy, Objective Analysis
8:30-9:35am	Session IT-1: Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA (Fabrics Track) Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA Rob Davis, VP, Mellanox Technologies
9:45-10:50am	OPEN Session 102-A: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Recovery Track) SSD Impact on Data Recovery for Enterprise Storage Steve Hruska, Hardware R&D Engineer, Kroll OnTrack The Market Opportunity of Solving Data Erasure on SSD Michael Waksman, CEO, Jetico Erasing an SSD is Easy and Fast! Then why is it so hard to eliminate one file? Jon Tanguy, Sr Technical Marketing Engineer, Micron
9:45-10:50am	OPEN Session 102-B: Flash Demand Grows with HDR/UHD 4K Films (Media/Entertainment Track) Video Storage Classifications - The Need for Standardization and Collaboration Chris Haeffner, Manager Product Development/Integration, Other World Computing
9:45-10:50am	OPEN Session 102-C: How Flash-Based Storage Performs on Real Applications (Testing Track) How Flash-Based Storage Performs on Real Applications Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
9:45-10:50am	Session IT-2: Flash Memory: Key to Efficient Real-Time Analysis of Big Data (Enterprise Applications Track) Flash Memory: Key to Efficient Real-Time Analysis of Big Data Andy Walls, IBM Fellow/Distinguished Engineer, IBM
8:30-10:50am	Forum A-11: NVMe and PCIe SSDs Part 1 (PCIe Storage Track) NVM Express* Past, Present, and Future Amber Huffman, Fellow/Director Storage Interfaces, Intel
8:30-10:50am	Forum B-11: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track) An NVMe SSD Architecture for Accelerating Big Data Analytics Bharadwaj Pudipeddi, CTO/Head Engineering, NVXL Technology SSD Architectures to Ensure Security and Performance Jon Haswell, Sr Director Firmware Development, Micron Machine Learning Techniques for Improving Flash Endurance Conor Ryan, CTO, NVMdurance New Approaches to Keeping Write Amplification from Reducing Flash Lifetime Tim Canepa, Director Architecture, Seagate
8:30-10:50am	Forum C-11: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track) How Accelerating SSD Capacities Will Revolutionize Enterprise Storage Anders Graham, Product Marketing, Samsung A Comprehensive Approach to Flash-SSD Quality Management for Enterprise Jung Yoon, Sr Technical Staff Member, IBM An Examination of User Workloads Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems I/O Pattern based Optimization in SSD Xiangfeng Lu, CTO, Memblaze Delivering on NoSQL Database Performance Requirements with NVMe SSDs Vijay Balakrishnan, Principal Engineer, Samsung Designing SSD Firmware Overlays to Reduce Performance Impact Tomislav Miladinovic, Firmware Design Engineer, Unigen
8:30-10:50am	Forum D-11: Flash in Data Centers (Data Centers Track) Storage Class Memory and Operational Databases: Real-World Results Brian Bulkowski, CTO/Founder, Aerospike, "NVMe Why NVMe Will Replace SATA SSDs in the Data Center Michael Smullen, SSD Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor The Winning Combination is: FC-NVMe Curt Beckmann, Principal Product Architect, Brocade Intent Defined Storage for Container Era Ashok Rajagopalan, Head Product Management, Datera Developing a Server OS Drive for Big Data and Cloud Storage CC Wu, Executive VP, Innodisk
8:30-10:50am	OPEN Forum G-11: Enterprise Applications Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track) Why Does a Major Broadcasting Network In The Middle East Choose Flash Memory for Their Workflow? Stephanie Brewer, Customer Advocate, AND Kurt Kuckein, Director of Product Management, Data Direct Networks McKesson mixes SSDs with HDDS for Optimnal Performance and ROI Mark Adams, Director Product Marketing/Business Strategy, Hitachi Data Systems and Dan King, Director ITS, Wellmark How to Fund Flash Storage Mark Adams, Director Product Marketing/Business Strategy, Hitachi Data Systems and Dan King, Director ITS, Wellmark All-Flash Storage and OpenStack Drive Innovation FICO's Next Generation Data Center Derek Leslie, NetApp Extreme Performance and the Cloud Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors, AND Mark Camillo, SVP/CTO, NWEA
8:30-10:50am	OPEN Forum N-11: Flash Growth and Opportunity in China (Business Track) All Flash Micro NAS Project at HDU Chris Tsu, Professor, Hangzhou Dianzi University NVMe SSD Applications in China Datacenter Taile Zhang, VP, Memblaze Flash, Any Time, Everywhere Cui Hao, Chief Editor, WatchStor Exploiting the Minipage-level Mapping to Solve the Size Discrepancy of I/O Requests and Flash Pages Wu Fei, Teacher, Huazhong University (China) Logic Based ReRAM Assisted by Self-Adaptive Circuit for Embedded Applications Yinyin Lin, Professor, Fudan University (China) How to reduct flash storage system write amplification Mingchang Wei, Research Engineer, Huawei
11:30am-Noon	OPEN - Keynote 2 Turning Big Data into Critical Business Advantage with Flash Memory Darren Thomas, VP/GM Storage Business Unit, Micron
1:40-2:10pm	OPEN - Keynote 4 Creating Storage Class Memory: Learning from 3D NAND Siva Sivaram, Executive VP Memory Technology, Western Digital
2:10-2:40pm	OPEN - Keynote 5 Storage Class Memory in Scalable Cognitive Systems Balint Fleischer, Chief Research Officer Storage, Huawei Technologies
2:40-3:10pm	OPEN - Keynote 6 Managing Multi-Tiered Non-Volatile Memory Systems for Cost and Performance Dr. Zining Wu, Chief Technology Officer, Marvell
3:20-4:25pm	OPEN Session 103-A: Security in a Flash! (Security Track) Introduction Michael Willett, VP Marketing, Drive Trust Alliance; Mike McKean, VP Product Solutions, Fhoosh Security Beyond The SED Robert Wann, CEO, Enova Technology Every Product is a Security Product Monty Forehand, Security Technologist/Product Security Officer, Seagate Technology Self-Encrypting Storage: Simplest Security for Stored Data Michael Willett and Bob Thibadeau, VP Marketing and CEO, Drive Trust Alliance Industrial Copy Protection by Secure Storage-Devices Hubertus Grobbel, Head Security Business Unit, Swissbit
3:20-4:25pm	OPEN Session 103-B: Flash Storage and Film Production in the Cloud (Media/Entertainment Track) Introduction Moderator: Pallab Chatterjee, Editor in Chief, M&E Technologies Focusing on Workflow Performance, Not Storage Andy Warman, Director Product Line Management Servers/Storage, Harmonic Right Data, Right Place, Right Price Dave Frederick, Sr Director Product Marketing, Quantum SSD Trends for Film Production in the Cloud Chris Marsh, Product Marketing Manager, Western Digital
3:20-4:25pm	Session U-3: Annual Update on Flash Controllers (Controllers Track) Flash Controller Technology Andy Tomlin, CTO, DevicePros
3:20-4:25pm	Session IT-3: Making New Storage-Class Memory Technologies Easier to Adopt (Persistent Memory Track) Making New Storage-Class Memory Technologies Easier to Adopt Lance Smith, CEO, Primary Data
4:35-5:45pm	OPEN Session 104-A: Privacy Versus (In)security: Who Should Win and Why Between Apple and the FBI? (Security Track) Panel Bob Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance Derrick Donnelly, CTO, BlackBag Technologies Clifford Neuman, Director, Center for Computer Systems Security, University of Southern California Vijay Ahuja, President, Cipher Solutions
4:35-5:45pm	OPEN Session 104-B: Film Storage When the Film Budget Is Yours (Media/Entertainment Track) Keeping Content out of Harm's Way Chris Bross, CTO, DriveSavers Data Recovery
4:35-5:45pm	Session U-4: Annual Update on Emerging Memory Technologies (New TechnologiesTrack) Emerging Memories Seshuhabu Desu, CTO, 4DS
3:30-5:45pm	Forum A-12: NVMe and PCIe SSDs Part 2 (PCIe Storage Track) Part 3 - NVMe Drivers – Current Status and Future Expectations Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix Memory Solutions Part 4 – Lessons Learned Deploying NVMe in Real Systems Tom Heil, Sr Systems Architect, Broadcom Hoff, Director Product Management, Broadcom
3:20-5:45pm	Forum B-12: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (sponsored by CNEX Laboratories) (Architectures Track) Storage Controller Technologies for Next Generation Non-Volatile Memories Hanan Weingarten, Sr Director, Broadcom Employing ECCs via Overprovisioning to Improve Flash Reliability – A New, Cost Efficient Approach Stella Achtenberg, Sr Engineer, Western Digital Open-Channel SSDs and Host-Based FTLs Ronnie Huang, VP Engineering, CNEX Labs How NVMe and 3D XPoint Will Create a New Data Center Architecture Emilio Billi, CEO, A3Cube
3:20-5:45pm	Forum C-12: SSD Technology (SSDs Track) Securing the SSDs - NVMe Controller Encryption Radjendirane Codandaramane, Manager Applications, Microsemi Validating Analytic Write Amplification Models Tom McCormick, Chief Engineer/Technologist, Swissbit Multi-Stream Wriet SSD: Increasing SSD Performance and Lifetime with Multi-Stream Technology Changho Choi, Principal Engineer, Samsung Testing Controller Memory Buffer Performance in an NVM Express SSD Ramyakanth Edupuganti, Sr Product Research Engineer, Microsemi Standards for Improving SSD Performance and Endurance Bill Martin, SSD IO Standards, Samsung Semiconductor
3:20-5:45pm	Forum D-12: Enterprise Storage Design Part 1 (Enterprise StorageTrack) Intro Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO Digital Transformation: The Shift To Cloud First Derek Leslie, Principal Product Manager, NetApp SolidFire All-Flash Data Center Emerging Use Cases Mark Adams, Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems Making All Flash Data Centers a Reality Nick Triantos, Storage Architect, Nimble Storage Using SSDs Efficiently within a Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage Framework Sudhakar Mungamoori, VP Customer Success/Sales Engineering, Formation Data Systems
3:30-5:45pm	OPEN Forum G-12: Enterprise Applications Part 2 (Enterprise Applications Track) New Era of Enterprise Storage: How OpEx is Replacing CapEx Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara Storage Flash Storage Drives a Better Bottom Line Ivan Iannaccone, Product Line Manager, HPE Keep Pace in the Cognitive Era Mike Kuhn, VP Flash Systems, IBM Increase Tier 1 Application Performance, Availability, and Flexibility While Reducing Cost Ibby Rahmani, Director Product Marketing, Datacore Software
3:20-5:45pm	Forum S-12: Flash and Software-Defined Storage (Software-Defined Storage Track) DRBD SDS - Open Source Software defined Storage for Block IO - Appliances and Cloud Philipp Reisner, CTO, Linbit The Impact of SSDs on Software Defined Storage Barbara Murphy, VP Marketing, Weka.io Flash in a Software Defined Storage World Priyadarshi Prasad, Sr Director Product Management, Atlantis Computing Implementing Storage Abstraction in Existing Legacy Infrastructure Farid Yavari, VP, FalconStor Software Optimizing Software-Defined Storage for Flash Memory Avraham ("Posa") Meir, Chief Scientist, Elastifile

Wednesday, 10th - Sessions, Invited Talks and Forums
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 201-A: Applying New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track) Novel Recognition System using XP-ReRAM Haruhiko Terada, Designer, Sony ALL MRAM NVMe SSD - It is Fast! Terry Hulett, VP/GM System Solutions
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 201-D: Why Flash Should Be Used for Every Workload (Enterpries Applications Track) Why Flash Should Be Used for Every Workload Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting
9:45-10:50am	OPEN Session 202-A: Flash on the Memory Bus (New Technologies Track) NVDIMM-X - Deliver DRAM performance at NAND Capacity Mike Amidi, CEO, Xitore DDR4 DIMM Devices With Hybrid DRAM & NVM For Big Data Performances At Low Cost Xiaobing Lee, Principal Engineer, Huawei
9:45-10:50am	Session 202-C: Flash Arrays Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track) Improving All Flash Array Performance with Data Compression Accelerators Juan Deaton, Research Scientist/Engineer, Comtech AHA Defining Requirements for a Successful All-Flash Datacenter Aravindan Gopalakrishnan, Product Line Manager, HPE
8:30-10:50am	Forum E-21: Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1 (Controllers Track) Introduction Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate Controller IC Evaluation of High Radix Parity Check Code Oliver Hambrey, Research Engineer, SIGLEAD Europe High-Throughput LDPC Solution for Reliable and High Performance SSD Jiangli Zhu, Principal Engineer, VIA Technologies Ultra High Throughput ECC for SSD Yuluen Wang, Sr Engineer, Silicon Motion Compression: Making Flash (Even) Cheaper Thomas Parnell, Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Zurich Advanced Controller Technology for 3D NAND Flash Wei Lin, System Architect, Phison Electronic
8:30-10:50am	OPEN Forum G-21: Enterprise Applications Part 3 (Enterprise Applications Track) Implementing a Follow-the-Sun DB Scott Harvey, VP Engineering, Atmosera Memory Performance with Shared Flash Gurmeet Goindi, Technical Product Strategist - Exadata, Oracle Taking Multiple PCIe SSDs and NVMe to Performance Extremes Richard Leonarz, Sr Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America Customer Success - SF 49ers and Levi's Stadium Raj Das, VP Business Development, Violin Memory Are You Ready for the Digital Transformation? Chris Tsilipounidakis, Product Marketing Manager, Tegile Systems
8:30-10:50am	Forum D-21: Enterprise Storage Design Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track) Extend the Life of Your SAN with Flash Andrew Flint, VP Marketing, IOFabric All Flash Storage Sparing to Improve Endurance Eduardo Duarte, Product Line Manager, HPE An FPGA Based Enterprise SSD REference Design Amit Saxena, VP Engineering, Mobiveil Guaranteeing Enterprise Class Availability in a Flash Environment Phill Gilbert, Product Line Manager, HPE
8:30-10:50am	Forum K-21: Open-Source Software and Flash Memory (sponsored by CNEX Laboratories) (Software Track) Open Source Software: How the Flash Industry Can Use It Effectively Nithya Ruff, Director Open Source Strategy Office, Western Digital Building High Performance, High Capacity, Cost-Efficient All-Flash Cloud Storage System with Ceph Jian Zhang, Sr Software Engineer, Intel, Jack Zhang, Sr Solution Architect, Intel, AND Yuan Zhou, Sr Software Engineer, Intel Improving Ceph Performance while Reducing Costs Rick Stehno, Sr Database Performance Architect, Seagate Ceph Meets NVMe - All-Flash Ceph! Gunna Marripudi, Principal Architect, Samsung, and Brent Compton, Director Storage, Red Hat LightNVM Brings Open-Channel SSDs to the Linux Kernel Matias Bjorling, Member Technical Staff, CNEX Labs Ceph-High Performance Without High Costs Allen Samuels, Engineering Fellow, Western Digital
8:30-10:50am	Forum Q-21: Flash in Big Data and Analytics (Data Management Track) Unified Memory for HPC and Big Data Axel Kloth, CEO, SSRLabs Accelerating Business Analytics with Flash Storage and FPGAs Satoru Watanabe, Research Engineer, Hitachi
8:30-10:50am	Forum R-21: Persistent Memory - Beyond Flash (sponsored by SNIA SSSI) (Persistent Memory Track) Introduction Jim Ryan, SNIA/SSSI Chair and Manager, Intel Jim Pappas, SNIA Vice-Chair and Director Initiative Marketing, Intel Persistent Memory - Beyond Flash Jim Pappas, SNIA Vice-Chair and Director Initiative Marketing, Intel Building Datacenter Infrastructure Using Persistent Memory Rob Peglar, VP Advanced Storage, Micron Persistent Memory (PM) over Fabrics Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies New Software Architectures for Persistent Memory Ken Gibson, Director NVM Software Architecture, Intel Enabling Persistent Memory: The NVM Programming Model Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, HP Enterprise Windows Persistent Memory Support Neal Christensen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Bringing Persistent Memory Technology to SAP Hana: Opportunities and Challenges Zora Caklovic, Sr Director SAP HANA Product Management, SAP Labs, AND Oliver Rebholz, Development Manager, SAP HANA In-Memory Platform
2:00-2:30pm	OPEN - Keynote 9 The NVMe Inflection Point Derek Dicker, VP/Business Unit Manager - Performance Storage, Microsemi
2:40-3:10pm	OPEN - Keynote 10 Designing Efficient Storage Systems Phil Brace, President Cloud Systems and Silicon Group, Seagate
3:50-4:55pm	OPEN Session 203-A: RRAM (New Technologies Track) Crossbar RRAM - A New Era of Storage Innovation for a Content Rich World Wei Lu, Chief Scientist/Co-Founder, Crossbar RRAM Status and Forecast Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures
3:50-4:55pm	OPEN Session 203-B: Embedded Applications Part 1 (Embedded Systems Track) Optimizing Embedded SSDs for Performance and Beyond Prevention-Report-Analysis Crystal Chang, Sr Director Strategic Marketing Development, ATP Electronics Case for Industrial Embedded Flash Storage Steve Larrivee, VP Sales/Marketing, Cactus Technologies Embedded Applications - How to Predict Failure Before They Happen for Embedded Applications Thomas Hsiao, Sr Manager Embedded Business, Phison Electronic Lifetime Estimation and Health Monitoring Axel Mehnert, VP Marketing, Hyperstone
3:50-4:55pm	Session 203-C: Flash in Cloud Computing (Enterprise Storage Track) Evolution of Rack Scale Architecture Storage Murugusamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu, Principal Engineer, Intel Flash in a Hybrid Cloud World Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors
3:50-4:55pm	OPEN Session 203-E: How Flash Is a Key to Augmented Reality on Wearables (Wearables Track) Panel NameDaryl Sartain, Director Virtual Reality/Alliances, AMD Chris Croteau, Director Strategic Business Development, Intel Soulaiman Itani, CTO/Founder, Atheer Rick Tewell, Sr VP System Solutions, VeriSilicon Manuel Gutierrez-Novelo, CTO, ImmersiON-VRelia
3:50-4:55pm	Session IT-7: Opportunities from Our Compute, Network, and Storage Inflection Points (Enterprise Storage Track) Opportunities from Our Compute, Network, and Storage Inflection Points Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO
5:10-6:15pm	OPEN Session 204-A: MRAM (New Technologies Track) Avalanche Technology - Leader in pMTJ Solutions Hamid Haidari, VP WW Sales/Business Development, Avalanche Technology
5:10-6:15pm	OPEN Session 204-B: Embedded Applications Part 2 (Embedded Systems Track) How to Ruggedize an SSD Chris Budd, Director Engineering, SMART High-Reliability Solutions Memory Needs for Industrial Applications Edward Chow, Product Line Director, Micron Can Embedded Applications Utilize the Latest Flash Storage Technologies? Grady Lambert, Sr Director Embedded, Swissbit
5:10-6:15pm	OPEN Session 204-D: Selecting the Right Flash Memory for Your Application (Enterprise Applications Track) Nimble Storage Dan Leary, VP Corporate Development, Nimble Storage Accelerate Possible - Indroducing Pure Storage Matt Kixmoeller, VP Products, Pure Storage NetApp Flash Leadership and Innovation Val Bercovici, CTO, NetApp SolidFire All-flash Powered Applications Josh Epstein, VP Global Marketing, Kaminario Think And not Or. Rob Commins, VP Marketing, Tegile
5:10-6:15pm	Session IT-8: Storage in Media and Entertainment: The Flash Advantage (Media/Entertainment Track) Storage in Media and Entertainment: The Flash Advantage Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates
3:50-6:15pm	Forum A-22: PCIe/NVMe Storage (PCIe StorageTrack) FPGA Implementation of Erasure Codes for NVMe based JBOFs Manoj Roge, Director Wired and Data Center Solutions, Xilinx,
3:50-6:15pm	Forum C-22: SSD Concepts (SSDs Track) Write-hotness Aware Retention Management: Efficient Hot/Cold Data Partitioning for SSDs Saugata Ghose, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie-Mellon University Management Schemes of Hybrid SSDs with SLC/MLC Flash Memory: A Survey Ahmed Alsalibi, Graduate Student, University of Science - Malaysia (USM)
3:50-6:15pm	Forum E-22: Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Error Correcting Codes (Controllers Track) Online Flash Channel Modeling and Its Applications Yixin Luo, Graduate Student, Carnegie-Mellon University Media Management for High Density NAND Flash Memories Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate LDPC Code Rate Adaptation Methods for NAND Flash Peter Graumann, Director, Microsemi Optimized Graph-Based Codes For Modern Flash Memories Homa Esfahanizadeh, Joing work with Ahmed Hareedy and Lara Dolecek, LORIS Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA
3:50-6:15pm	Forum F-22: SSD Testing (Testing Track) Large-Scale Study of In-The-Field Flash Failures Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University NVMe Performance – Local vs. Remote Gunna Marripudi, Principal Architect, Samsung Semiconductor, and Oscar Pinto, Sr Staff Storage Architect, Samsung Semiconductor Comparison of NAND Flash Functionality with Internal Probing and Waveform Analysis Tarek Alhajj, Architect Engineering Solutions Group, TechInsights High Volume/High Mix SSD Production Test Kevin Dumas, Product Manager, Teradyne Lifecycle Testing for SSD Production Marilyn Kushnick, Engineer, Advantest
3:50-6:15pm	Forum M-22: 3-D Flash (New Technologies Track) TLC is the New MLC Kevin Kilbuck, Marketing Director, Micron

Thursday, 11th - Sessions, Invited Talks and Forums
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 301-A: Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track) NRAM: High Performance, Highly Reliable Emerging Memory Sheyang Ning, Graduate, Chuo University
8:30-9:35am	Session 301-B: NVDIMMs: Powerful Persistent Memory Arrives in a Familiar Form (New Technologies Track) Introduction Jeff Chang, VP Marketing/Business Development, AgigA Tech Persistent Memory Enablement Update Alex Fuxa, Manager Persistent Memory Team, HPE Windows Peristent Memory Support Neal Christiansen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 301-C: Intel-Micron 3D Xpoint(TM): The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory (New Technologies Track) Introduction Dave McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting 3D XPoint Today: Any Change? Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis 3D Xpoint™ Status and Forecast Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures Challenges in Vertically Stackable Selectors for 3D Cross-Point Non Volatile Memories NameMilind Weling, VP Electronic Applications, Intermolecular
8:30-9:35am	Session 301-D: PCIe/NVMe Development Issues (PCIe Storage Track) Introduction Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix Concurrent Support of NVMe Over RDMA Fabrics and Established Networked Block and File Storage Asgeir Eriksson, CTO, Chelsio Communications NVMe Enclosure Management and Dual Port Drive Parag Maharana, Architect, Seagate A Solution for Adding NVM_express storage to generic computers Matthew Rackstein, Applications Engineer, Magm New Data Protection Systems for NVMe SSD Alan Wu, Sr Director, Memblaze
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 301-E: Flash and Software-Defined Storage (continued) (Software-Defined Storage Track) Flash + Software-Defined Storage = Path To The Hybrid Cloud Jerome McFarland, Director Product Marketing, Elastifile Persistent Memory (PM) for Big Data & Analytic Kumar Prabhat, Sr Director Product/Business Development, Plexistor
8:30-9:35am	Session 301-F: Performance Testing (Testing Track) Storage Protocol Offload for Virtualized Workloads Dennis Martin, President, Demartek NAND Flash Status Prediction Cloud Zeng, Sr Engineer, LiteOn NVM Labs
8:30-9:35am	OPEN Session 301-G: High-Performance Flash Systems (Hardware Track) State of the Art Performance in Flash Storage Arrays Steve Cooper, CEO, One Stop Systems Software-Defined Memory for At-scale and High-Performance Computing Kurt Kuckein, Director Product Management, DataDirect Networks Designing High-Performance AFAs for SMEs Peter Maddocks, Director Product Management All-Flash Array Systems, Seagate Technology
8:30-9:35am	Session 301-I: Consumer Applications (Applications Track) Flash & Phones: Advanced Lab Data Recovery from Secure Mobile Devices Will Delisi, Flash Recovery Engineer, DriveSavers 3-D NAND and UFS - Optimized Mobile Storage Carla Christensen, Sr Product Planning Engineer, Micron Consumer PCIe SSD - Higher Performance with Lower Cost Larry Li, Project Manager, Phison Electronic
8:30-9:35am	Session IT-9: TechTarget Reveals All…About the Enterprise All-Flash Array Market (Marketing Track) TechTarget Reveals All...About the Enterprise All-Flash Array Market Ken Male, General Manager, TechTarget Research Division
9:45-10:50am	OPEN Session 302-B: History Session: The Origins of Silicon Valley (History Track) The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened Here Paul Wesling, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
9:45-10:50am	Session 302-D: PCIe/NVMe Extensions Part 1 (PCIe Storage Track) Introduction Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix NVMe: Redefining the Hardware/Software Architecture Jerome Gaysse, IP-Maker High Performance FTL Architecture for PCIe/NVMe SSDs Ying Tai, Sr Director, VIA Technologies Prioritization in the Linux NVMe Block Layer Jon Saunders, Applications Engineer, Microsemi
9:45-10:50am	Session 302-F: Testing Issues - Part 1 (Testing Track) Performance Assessment of an All-RRAM Solid State Drive Through a Cloud-Based Simulation Framework Lorenzo Zuolo, Researcher, University of Ferrara (Italy) Infrastructure Performance Analysis Peter Murray, Product Evangelist, Virtual Instruments Accelerating SSD and System Development with Test Automation Andy Tomlin, Partner/CTO, DevicePros
9:45-10:50am	Session 302-G: Which Interface Is King of the Hill? Should You Build Your All-Flash Array with SAS, SATA, or NVMe? (sponsored by STA, the SCSI Trade Association) (Standards Track) Panel Mohamad El-Batal, Sr Director Architecture, Seagate Thomas Friend, Technology Director Industry Standards, Toshiba Frederick Knight, Principal Standards Technologist, NetApp
9:45-10:50am	Forum E-31: Flash Controller Design Options (Controllers Track) Low-Error Floor Soft-Decision Finite Alphabet Iterative Decoders Shiva Planjery, CEO, CodeLucida False Decoding Probability (Detection) of BCH and LDPC Codes Alessia Marelli, Staff Product Design Engineer, Microsemi
11:00-11:30am	OPEN - Keynote 12 Scaling Flash Storage Efficiently in the Exabyte Era Tom Isakovich, CEO, Nimbus Data
11:30am-Noon	OPEN - Keynote 13 A New Era of Storage Innovation George Minassian, CEO, Crossbar
Noon-12:30pm	OPEN - Keynote 14 NVMe Express® over Fabrics - Storage Solutions for for Real-time Analytics Paul Prince, CTO, Mangstor
2:30-3:45pm	Session 303-D: PCIe/NVMe Extensions Part 2 (PCIe Storage Track) High Availability for Centralized NVMe Zivan Ori, CEO, E8 Storage Higher Performance - Lower Cost Cameron Crandall, Sr Technology Manager, Kingston Digital, and Sumit Puri, VP Marketing, Liqid Client PCIe/NVMe SSD with 3D NAND Rick Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion Unshackling PCIe SSDs using NVMe Bhagirath Patel, Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America
2:30-3:45pm	OPEN Session 303-E: NVMe in Your Data Center: Who, What, Where, When, and Why? (sponsored by the Fibre Channel Industry Association - FCIA) (Data Centers Track) Panel Craig Carlson, Technologist/Office of the CTO, QLogic Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO Dave Minturn, Principal Engineer/Network SSD Storage Architect, Intel Rupin Mohan, Director R&D/Chief Technologist (SAN), HPE Greg Schulz, Founder/Sr Advisory Analyst, StorageIO
2:30-3:45pm	Session 303-F: Testing Issues Part 2 (Testing Track) Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected Bianca Schroeder, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Advanced Test Automation and Analytics Derrill Sturgeon, CEO, Devicepros
2:30-3:45pm	OPEN Session 303-G: Market Research (Marketing Track) Panel Chris DePuy, VP, Dell'Oro Group Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures Brian Dargel, Component NAND BLM Engineer, Micron Cui Hao, Chief Editor, WatchStor
2:30-3:45pm	OPEN Session 303-H: Automotive Applications (Applications Track) Driver Assistance Pushes New Flash Functionalities Anil Gupta, Technical Executive, Winbond
2:30-3:45pm	OPEN Session 303-I: VC Forum (General Track) Panel Wen Hsieh, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Matt Carbonara, Principal, Comcast Ventures Angel Orrantia, Sr Director Business Development, SKTA Innopartners Chris Rust, Founder/General Partner, Clear Ventures Gaurav Tewari, Managing Director, Citigroup Ventures Dong-Su Kim, VP, Samsung Ventures America
4:00-5:15pm	OPEN Session 304-A: Flash and the Internet of Things (New Technologies Track) Embedded Flash Storage for Industrial IoT Chanson Lin, CEO, EmBestor Technology,
4:00-5:15pm	Session 304-D: PCIe/NVMe Fabrics (PCIe Storage Track) NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash Moves to Ethernet John Kim, Director Storage Marketing, Mellanox High Speed I/O processor for NVMe over Fabric (NVMEoF) Patrice Couvert, Product Marketing, KALRAY Reducing Latency and Improving Performance Consistency in NVMeOF Parag Maharana, Architect, Seagate Technology, AND KR Kishore, System Architect, Pavilion Data Systems

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