Sr VP, and Chief Scientist, Smart IOPS Dr. d’Abreu has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His experience and expertise spans the system-on-chip and system-in-package design, test and manufacturing disciplines, as well as flash storage technology and coding theory. [...]

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VP of SSD & Data Center Storage Solutions, Marvell Product line leader enabling market-leading data storage architecture innovations spanning cloud & enterprise data centers, edge & client computing, industrial & consumer IoT data aggregation, and self-autonomous cars. [...]

Co-founder/CTO, NGD Systems Vladimir Alves is co-founder/CTO at NGD Systems, where he focuses on developing SoCs that implement intelligent storage technology for data centers and fog computing. He has developed SoC-based solid state solutions for over 10 years, during which his teams have released many enterprise SSD controllers. Before co-founding NGD Systems, he was Sr Director of SSD SoC Development at Western Digital and STEC. [...]

CTO for the Verizon SCV, Verizon Geoff Arnold is the CTO for the Verizon Smart Communities organization. He was previously CTO at Sensity Systems, a developer of lighting control and computer vision systems. He has been a cloud computing architect for Cisco, Huawei, Yahoo, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems, working on both public and private clouds, and focusing on scale and federation. [...]

Sr. VP/GM, Intel Corporation, Intel Robert (Rob) B. Crooke is senior vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Solutions Group at Intel Corporation. He leads a worldwide organization responsible for NVM technology design and development, complete solid-state drive (SSD) system hardware and firmware development, and wafer and SSD manufacturing, as well as marketing for Intel’s component, module and SSD NVM businesses. [...]

Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Storage Business Unit, Micron He is responsible for building world-class storage products and value-added solutions based on Micron’s nonvolatile memory technology to address the growing opportunity in large market segments like cloud, enterprise and client computing. [...]

VP Marketing & Strategic Development, Solarflare Ahmet Houssein is responsible for establishing marketing strategies and implementing programs to drive revenue growth, enter new markets and expand brand awareness to support Solarflare’s continuous development and global expansion. He has over twenty-five years of experience [...]

VP of Verizon’s Smart Communities, Verizon Ms. Ingram leads the initiative the initiative on digital transformation of cities, universities, utilities, and sports and entertainment organizations with an emphasis on smart systems and the IoT. Before joining Verizon, she led Cisco's Smart + Connected Communities Strategy and Business Development team. [...]

VP of Datacenter Marketing, Xilinx Seasoned executive with business strategy, marketing, and technology experience in all three substrates - Compute, Networking, Storage - within Enterprise Data-Center and Carrier Infrastructure. Business Expertise: Market research/analysis, Strategic planning, Portfolio planning and P&L, Product marketing and management, Go-To-Market strategy, Closing design wins, Deal making and negotiations, [...]

Technology Executive, SSD Application Engineering, Toshiba Memor Jeff Ohshima is a member of the SSD executive team at Toshiba Memory Corporation, where he focuses on SSD development and applications engineering. He was previously VP Memory Technology Executive at Toshiba America Electronic Components focused on flash memory with an emphasis on SSDs. [...]

CEO/Founder, Yangtze Memory Technology Simon Yang is the CEO/Founder of the new Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) company. He plans to lead it into the large-scale memory field based on its 3-D NAND technology. [...]

CEO & Co-founder, Shannon Systems Dr. Yang co-founded Shannon Systems in 2011 and as CEO, led the development and commercialization of enterprise-grade PCIe SSDs that were the industry’s first in terms of storage capacity and scalability, ultra-low latency and low-power envelope. [...]

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CEO & Co-Founder, ScaleFlux Dr. Hao Zhong is a passionate technology innovator and entrepreneur that has been contributing numerous cutting edge technology and product in data storage and computing industry. [...]

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