Keynotes - Flash Memory Summit 2019

3D NAND Flash

Jeongdong Choe

Sr Technical Fellow, TechInsights

Jeongdong Choe is a trusted consulting engineer professional as a senior technical fellow at TechInsights. He has 26+ year professional on cutting-edge manufacturing technologies for semiconductor products including DRAM, 3D NAND FLASH, SRAM/Logic and emerging memory such as STT-MRAM/PCRAM/ReRAM/FeRAM and 3D XPoint Memory. He is an author of over 100 US filed patents, manufacturing expertise in high technologies including direct experience on semiconductor process flow, unit process and equipment for photo-mask, photo-lithography, plasma/wet etching, CMP, CVD/PVD/ALD deposition, IIP/diffusion and annealing.

Qiang Tang

VP of YMTC Product Development Center, Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.

Dr. Qiang Tang is the Co-CTO of YMTC, leading 3D NAND design and product development. Qiang holds B.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Technology from Tsinghua University; M.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University; Doctor's Degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Qiang Tang has more than 20 years' experience in memory technology in semiconductor industry.

3D Xpoint™ Technology

Mark Webb

Analyst/Consultant MKW Ventures Consulting

Mark Webb is Principal/Consultant at MKW Ventures Consulting LLC. He is currently working in the areas of SSD and semiconductor technology and competitive analysis as well as SSD business and market development. Mark works with SSD OEM and ODM companies, storage providers, controller companies, and semiconductor manufacturers.

All Flash Arrays

George Crump

Storage Analyst, Storage Switzerland

George Crump is President and Founder of Storage Switzerland. With 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one the nation’s largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.

Clay Rider

Senior Manager of Product Marketing, Western Digital

Clay Ryder has more than twenty-five years of experience in the enterprise storage industry, building business momentum through strategic marketing, product positioning, and analyst relations. Clay received a bachelor’s of science in computer sciences from California State University, Chico.

Automotive Applications

Alan Messer

CTO, Mojiio

Bio to come...

Syed Hussain

Director, Winbond Electronics

Syed S Hussain is Director at Winbond Technology and has been in the semiconductor and systems industry for last 20 years with emphasis in business development and Marketing. Worked at companies like Silicon Storage Technology Inc, Paxcelnet Inc, Infineon Technologies, LSI Logic, NEC Electronics, Integrated Device Technology and National Semiconductor.

Big Data

Denise Shiffman

CPO, DriveScale

Denise Shiffman has been leading business and product portfolio transformation for over 20 years as an operating executive at top global organizations including Juniper Networks and Sun Microsystems. Denise is an award-winning author credited with initiating, launching and turning around billion-dollar businesses. Denise is Chief Product Officer at DriveScale where she leads product, marketing and technical alliance partnerships.

Linda Zhou

Senior Technologist of Partner Alliances Data Center Systems, Western Digital

Linda Zhou is the Director of Research and Machine Learning Solutions for the Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit within Western Digital. She has in-depth knowledge of life sciences, machine learning, big data analytics, IT service management (ITSM) and compliance archiving. Prior to joining Western Digital, Ms. Zhou held business and technical positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc., EMC, Hewlett Packard and BMC Software, and ran a development services company in the data management space. She earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jinan University.

Blockchain Apps/Multi-Cloud Storage

David McIntyre

Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting

David McIntyre drives strategic marketing and business development for compute, storage and networking solutions in data center and cloud infrastructures. Clients include Silicon Valley startups and Investment firms (e.g. Fidelity, UBS, Goldman Sachs)
Specialties: Strategic market planning, competitive analysis, go-to-market launches, product marketing leadership, customer development, expert negotiations and raising working capital for startups

Kanish Sharma

Sr Mgr Product Marketing, Kaminario

Kanish Sharma is an experienced Product Marketing professional with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Sales, Channel Strategy, IT Strategy, Innovation Development, and Management. Strong marketing professional with a Global MBA focused in International Finance from Suffolk University - Sawyer Business School.

Andy Watson

CTO, WekaIO

Andy Watson has focused on the customer experience of high-performance file storage since 1991. After joining NetApp in 1995 (serving as its second CTO there 1998–2007), Andy led cross-functional teams to integrate multiprotocol file server appliances into increasingly complex environments as diverse as Oracle dbms and Rocketmail (the precursor to all webmail), or spanning the spectrum from SAP production environments to seismic analysis applications for the energy sector. Most recently Andy served as CTO at Minio, a cloud-native open source object storage software company, where he confronted cloud-vs-on-premises decisions and the challenges of digital transformation. As CTO at WekaIO, Andy actively engages with customers and partners, monitoring emerging trends and bringing actionable feedback to Engineering and Product Management. Andy has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Bard College.

China

Jim Handy

Semiconductor Market Research Analyst, Objective Analysis

Jim Handy is an established industry analyst with a good balance of a strong technical leaning with a solid hands-on understanding of marketing and economics. His background allows me to see past the horizon to understand factors and issues that will impact the future of existing businesses in a way that can be addressed here and now. His company, Objective Analysis, uses a rigorous approach to provide forecasts that are more consistently accurate than those of any competitor. Jim is a patent holder, author of a respected technical book, Gerson Lerhman Group GLG Leader, frequent trade show presenter, and a respected blogger (http://TheMemoryGuy.com, http://TheSSDguy.com, and others)

Chris Tsu

Co-Founder/President US Operations, Sage Microelectronics

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Composable Storage

Scott Hamilton

Sr. Director Product Management, Western Digital

Brian Pawlowski

CTO, DriveScale

Computational Storage

Scott Shadley

VP Marketing, NGD Systems

Steve Telgener

Marketing Manager, Xilinx

Consumer and Mobile Apps

Troy Hegr

Sr. Manager, Global Business Development, Ontrack

CXL Consortium/RDMA Interconnects

Jim Pappas

Marketing Director, Intel

Scott Taylor

Director Software, GigaIO

Data Centers/Power/Energy Optimization

Francesco Carobolante

Principal, IoTissimo

Tom Lyon

Founder and Chief Scientist, DriveScale

Gunna Marripudi

Fellow, Product Management, Data Center Systems, Western Digital

Brian Zahnstecher

IEEE Senior Member, PowerRox

Data Recovery

Robin England

• Robin England

Earle Philhower

Technical Marketing Engineer, Pavilion Data Systems

Database Acceleration/Enterprise Applications & Performance

Uri Beitler

CEO, Pliops

Marc Staimer

President & CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Diversity and Inclusion Programs

Mary Ann Gallo

Founder, Affinitee

Uma Parepalli

Engineering Program Management, Marvell Semiconductor

Education

Jim Ballingall

Executive Director, Industry-Academia Partnership

Tedra Nikolai

FMS Education Coordinator, Flash Memory Summit

• Xinmiao Zhang

Vice-Chair Academia Data Storage Tech Committee IEEE, Ohio State University

Embedded Applications

Tom McCormick

Chief Engineer/Technologist, Swissbit

Qun Zhao

Co-Founder and VP, Innogrit

Endurance

Itai Ben Zion

Director of VLSI, Pliops

Naveen Kumar

Principal Engineer, Seagate

Enterprise Storage/KV Store/Cloud Database Apps

David Cohen

Director of Software Engineering

Steve Fingerhut

President and Chief Business Officer, Pliops

Yogesh Rami

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Data Center Systems, Western Digital

Error-Correcting Codes

David Declercq

Co-Founder/CTO, Codelucida

Bane Vasic

Professor, The University of Arizona

Form Factors

• Tom Friend

President, Illuminosi, Inc

John Geldman

Director, SSD Industry Standards, Toshiba Memory America

FPGAs/Hardware Design

Tod Earhart

CEO, BurlywoodTech

Deepak Shankar

Founder and VP, Mirabilis Design

Hyperconverged

Richard Elling

Principal Architect, Viking Enterprise Solutions

Stefaan Vervaet

Senior Global Director of Strategic Alliances Data Center Systems, Western Digital

IT End Users

Ken Clipperton

Lead Analyst, DCIG

Howard Marks

Technologist Extraordinary, Vast Data

Marketing

Walt Hinton

Head of Corporate and Product Marketing, Pavilion Data

• Lee Stein

Marketing Consultant, Stein Writes

Memory & Storage Markets

Thomas Coughlin

President, Coughlin Associates

Don Jeanette

Vice President, TRENDFOCUS

New and Emerging Memory

Barry Hoberman

Technology Consultant, Barry Hoberman Enterprise

Next Generation Controllers

Dishi Lai

Co-Founder and VP, Innogrit

• Dr. Bernard Shung

CEO, Wolley

NVMe

Dave Ridgeway

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Data Center Systems, Western Digital

• Amit Saxena

VP of Engineering, Mobilveil

NVMe over Fabric

Alan Benjamin

CEO, GigaIO

Matt Bowman

Product Engineering Manager, Viking Enterprise Solutions

Dave Montgomery

Platforms Marketing Director , Western Digital

PCIe SSDs/SSD Performance

Erich Haratsch

Director of Engineering, Flash Channel Architecture, Seagate

Chanson Lin

CEO. EmBestor Technology

Niraj Mathur

VP Product Management, GigaIO

Esther Spanjer

Director, Business Development, Micron

Persistent Memory/NVDIMM

Jeff Chang

VP Sales, Marketing & Business Development, AgigA Tech

Neal Christiansen

Principal Development Lead, Microsoft

• Mike McKean

Director, Encore Semi

Arthur Sainio

Director Product Marketing, SMART Modular

Real World Workloads

Eden Kim

CEO, Calypso Systems

Reliability/Performance/SSDs

Igal Maly

Director of Software Development, Pliops

Kent Smith

SSD Product Marketing, Micron

Ken Steinhardt

Field CTO, INFINIDAT

Steve Wilkins

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Data Center Systems, Micron

Remote Persistent Memory/Cloud Storage

Rob Davis

VP Storage Technology, Mellanox

Charlie Dong

Senior Director of Software Engineering, Innogrit

Paul Grun

Storage I/O and Interconnect Architect, Cray

RRAM and MRAM

Jim Bucci

Application Engineer, Tektronix

Shuhei Tanakamaru

Principal Engineer, Seagate

Rugged Environments

Alex Chervet

VP Marketing and Business Development, Agylstor

Dennis Eodice

VP Strategic Sales, Foremay

SNIA Swordfish and DMTF Redfish

Richelle Ahlvers

Storage Management Software Architect, Broadcom

Software-Defined Storage

Derek Swanson

Field CTO & VP Worldwide Field Engineering, Kaminario

Standards and IEEE/Thunderbolt

Bill Martin

SSD I/O Standards, Samsung Electronics

Shailendra Sinha

Senior Business Development Manager, Intel

Richard Solomon

VP PCI SIG, Synopsis

Storage Benchmarks and Testing

• Dennis Martin

President, Principled Technologies

Rick Walsh

VP Sales and Marketing, SANBlaze

Storage Fabrics / Open Fabrics Alliance

John Kim

Director of Storage Marketing, Mellanox

Mark Miquelon

Director of Product Alliance Engineering, Data Center Systems, Western Digital

Storage Security

• Steve Hruska

Senior Hardware R&D Engineer, Ontrack

Axel Kloth

President and CEO, Scalable Systems Research Labs Inc.

Storage Software

• Pat Balakrishnan

VP of Engineering, Violin Systems

Jean Bozman

VP and Principal Analyst, Hurwitz and Associates