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Flash Memory Summit 2014 Proceedings

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Monday, August 4th
8:30am-Noon
Pre-Conference Seminar A: Making Error Correcting Codes Work for Flash Memory
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Lara Dolecek, Assistant Professor, UCLA
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Steve Hetzler, Fellow, IBM
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Andrew Jiang, Associate Professor, Texas A&M
1:00-5:00pm
Pre-Conference Seminar G: Deplloying Flash in the Data Center
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Howard Marks, Founder/Chief Scientist, DeepStorage
1:00-6:30pm
Pre-Conference Seminar F: Introduction to NVM Express (NVMe) for Implementers
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Kwok Kong, Sr Director Engineering, PMC
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Keith Busch, Software Engineer, Intel
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Peter Onufryk, Senior Director Product Development, PMC, and Austin Bolen, Storage Development Principal Enginer, Dell
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Uma Parepalli, Senior Staff Firmware Engineer, SK Hynix Memory Solutions
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David Woolf, Senior Engineer, UNH-IOL
5:30-7:00pm
OPEN Solid State Storage Reception - Sponsored by SNIA and The Solid State Storage Initiative
(for more information, contact asksssi@snia.org)
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Rob Callaghan, Enterprise Product Marketing, SanDisk
Tuesday, August 5th
8:30-10:50am
Forum A-11: NVMe and PCIe SSDs (Standards Track)
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Tom Lenny, Principal Program Manager - Future client I/O, Seagate
Amber Huffman, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel
David Landsman, Director - Interface Standards, SanDisk
Peter Onufryk, Senior Director Product Development, PMC-Sierra
Ken Okin, Consulting Architect, HGST
8:30-10:50am
Forum B-11: Flash-Memory Based Architectures:  A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track)
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Robert Sykes, Director Applications, OCZ Storage Solutions
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Michael Abraham, NAND Solutions Group Architect, Micron Technology
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Eran Sharon, Senior Principal Research Engineer, SanDisk
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Tim Canepa, Director Architecture, LSI
8:30-10:50am
Forum C-11: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track)
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Swapna Yasarapu, Director SSD Technical Marketing, HGST
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Raymond Pang, Director Product Marketing, Skyera
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Moriyoshi Nakashima, President, Genusion
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Rahul Advani, Director Flash Products, PMC
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Eyal Bek, Director Client Storage Product Marketing, SanDisk
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Xueshi Yang, Shannon Systems
8:30-10:50am
Forum D-11: Flash in Data Centers (Enterprise Track)
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Andy Mills, CEO, Enmotus
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Brian Bulkowski, CTO, Aerospike
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Designing for Different Deployment Models in Datacenters
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Matt Key, Tech Sales Lead, IBM
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Cameron Crandall, Senior Technology Manager, Kingston Technology and Bala Narasimhan, Director Product Management, PernixData
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Stephen Bates, Technical Director, PMC
8:30-10:50am
Forum G-11: Enterprise Applications, Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track)
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Priyadarshi Prasad, Senior Product Manager, HP
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Ritu Jyoti, VP Product Management, Kaminario
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Andy Fenseiau, Senior Director Product / Solutions marketing, EMC XtremIO
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Woody Hutsell, Manager Flash System Portfolio Strategy & Enablement, IBM
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Levi Norman, Worldwide Senior Flash Marketing Manager, IBM
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Brad Forcier, Global Technical Account Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
8:30-9:35am
Session 101-A: SSD Testing Challenges, Part 1 (Testing Track)
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Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems
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Vinod Eswaraprasad, Lead Architect, Wipro Technologies
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Don Schoenecker, PCIe Product Manager, Agilent Technologies
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Eric Kushnick, R&D Manager, Advantest
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 101-B: Mobile Applications (Applications Track)
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Balaji Sivakumar, Director Product Marketing, SanDisk
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Hezi Saar, Staff Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys
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Becky Loop, Principal Engineer, Intel
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You Sung Kim, Senior Manager, SK Hynix
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 101-C: System Development with Flash Architecture (System Integration Track)
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Tom McCormick, Senior System Engineer, Swissbit
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Anton Roug, VP Technology, Unigen
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Jud Bond, Product Manager, SerialTek
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Sudarshan Kumar, CEO, Proficient Design
8:30-9:35am
Session U-1: Update on Flash Technology (Hardware Track)
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Jim Handy, Principal Analyst, Objective Analysis
9:45-10:50am
Session 102-A: 3D Flash: The Next Deminsion (Hardware Track)
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Mark Webb, Independent Consultant, MKW Ventures
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Hanan Weingarten, CTO, DensBits
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Sundar Narayanan, VP Technology, Crossbar
9:45-10:50am
OPEN Session 102-B: Consumer Applications (Applications Track)
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Stanley Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion
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Larry O'Connor, CEO, Other World Computing
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Peter Schade, President, IMI
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Chris Geiser, Senior Product Marketing Manager - Memory and Storage, Samsung Semiconductor
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Maciek Brzeski, VP Branded Storage - Toshiba America Information Systems
9:45-10:50am
OPEN Session 102-C: FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications (Controllers Track)
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David McIntyre, Senior Business Unit Manager, Altera
9:45-10:50am
Session U-2 (Enterprise Storage Track)
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Howard Marks, Consultant, Deep Storage
11:30am-Noon
OPEN - Keynote 1
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Ty McConney, VP All-Flash Products, NetApp and Steve Knipple, CTO and VP of Engineering, Easy Street
Noon-12:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 2
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Bob Brennan, Senior VP, Samsung Semiconductor and Jim Elliott, Corporate VP - Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor
1:30-2:00pm
OPEN - Keynote 3
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Derek Dicker, VP Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, PMC
2:00-2:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 4
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Forrest Norrod, Vice President/General Manager - Enterprise Storage, Dell
2:30-3:00pm
OPEN - Keynote 5
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John Scaramuzzo, Senior Vice President / General Manager - Enterprise Storage, SanDisk
3:15-4:25pm
Forum A-12: NVMe and PCIe SSDs (continuation of Forum A-11) (Standards Track)
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KeunSoo Jo, Senior Engineer Memory Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor
David Allen, Director Product Marketing, PMC
3:15-4:25pm
Forum B-12: Flash-Memory Based Achitectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (Architectures Track)
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Derrill Sturgeon, CEO, devicepros
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An Autonomic System for Extending Flash Reliability
Dan Mahoney, CEO, Fastor Systems
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Conor Ryan, CTO of Software, NVMdurance
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Nisha Talagala, Lead Architect, Fusion-io
3:15-5:45pm
Forum C-12: SSD Technology (SSDs Track)
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Ben Woo, Founder / Managing Director, Neuralytix
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Maher Amer, Chief Technology Officer, Diablo Technologies
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Ryan Smith, Senior Manager SSD Product Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor
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Dan Boggs, Director Product Management, Panzura
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Paul Wassenberg, Chair Solid State Storage Interface, Marvell Semiconductor
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Gary Tressler, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
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William Radke, Director Architecture, Skyera
3:15-5:45pm
Forum D-12: Enterprise Storage Design, Part 1 (Enterprise Storage Track)
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Adam Carter, VP Product Management, SolidFire
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David Floyer, CTO / Co-Founder, Wikibon
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Bob Fine, Director Product Marketing, Dell
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Dani Golan, CEO / Founder, Kaminario
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Siyihg Dong, Engineer, Facebook
3:15-5:45pm
OPEN Forum G-12: Enterprise Applications, Part 2 (Enterprise Applications Track)
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Steve Fingerhut, VP  Enterprise Solution Marketing, SanDisk
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Rex Walters, VP Technology, Tintri
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Scott Read, Network Systems Analyst, Montana Department of Transportation
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Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist, Pure Storage and David Abbott, IT Systems Engineer, TripPak Servivces
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John Shirley, Advanced Planning Manager, Dell
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Mark Welke, Senior Director Product Marketing, NetApp and Steve Knipple, CTO, Easy Street
3:15-4:25pm
Session 103-B: Flash in Wearable Applications (Applications Track)
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Karin Werder, Mobile Product Marketing Director, SanDisk
3:15-4:25pm
OPEN Session 103-C: (Marketing Track)
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Frank Berry, President, IT Brand Pulse
3:15-4:25pm
Session U-3: Annual Update on Interfaces (Hardware Track)
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Jim Pappas, Director Initiative Marketing, Intel
4:25-5:45pm
Session 104-A: Security in a Flash! (Security Track)
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Matt Pujol, Senior Hardware Product Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
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Wei-Ti Liu, President, LucidPort
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Walt Hubis, Storage Standards Architect, Hubis Technical Associates
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Michael Willett, Storage Security Strategist
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Xinmiao Zhang, Principal Research Engineer, SanDisk
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Hiroshi Watanabe, Professor, National Chiao Tung University
4:25-5:45pm
OPEN Session 104-B: Flash in 4K Broadcast Content Development (Enterprise Applications Track)
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Cirina Catania, President, Catania Products
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Neil Smith, CEO, Luma Forge
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Tony Cacciarelli, Product Marketing Manager, AJA Video Systems
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Matthew Rehrer, Product Manager, Harmonic
4:25-5:45pm
OPEN Session 104-C: (Marketing Track)
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Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
4:25-5:45pm
Session 104-D: Standards (Standards Track)
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Konosuke Watanabe, Visiting Scholar, Toshiba / MIT
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Brian Kibler, Senior Design Engineer, OakGate Technology
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Walter E. Baker, CEO and co-founder, Gradient Systems
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Terry Grunzke, Principal Applications Engineer, Micron
6:00-7:00pm
OPEN Plenary Plenary: Is 3D NAND a Disruptive Technology for Flash Storage?
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Kevin Kilbuck, Director of Marketing, Micron Technology
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Erich Haratsch, Director of Engineering, LSI
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Hanan Weingarten, CTO, DensBits
Wednesday, August 6th
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Forum J-21: Flash in Mobile Healthcare Applications (Applications Track)
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Alejandro Castillo, Solutions Marketing Strategist, Dell
Ken Jarvis, Practice Manager - Healthcare Industry, HP
Mark Blatt, Worldwide Medical Director - Sales / Marketing Group, Intel
Chris Gough, Lead Solutions Architect - Health and Life Sciences, Intel
Scott Glenn, Senior Business Development, SanDisk
8:30-10:50am
Forum E-21: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 1: Hardware and Algogithms (Controllers Track)
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Ilhong Min, Senior Engineer, SK Hynix
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Shuhei Tanakamaru, Visiting Researcher, Chuo University
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Jianjun Luo, President, Sage Microelectronics
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Qing Li, Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University
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Paul Sweere, VP Engineering, Viking Technology
8:30-10:50am
OPEN Forum G-21: Enterprise Applications, Part 3 (Enterprise Applications Track)
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Eric Herzog, CMO/SVP, Violin Memory
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Jean Bozman, Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager, SanDisk
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Jim Pinkerton, Partner Architect, Microsoft
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George Symons, CEO, GridStore
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Priyadarshi Prasad, Senior Product Manager, HP and Christian Teeft, CTO, Latisys
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Adam Carter, VP Product Management, SolidFire
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 201-A: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Management Track)
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 Krishna Chander, Principal Analyst, Chander Consulting
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Chris Bross, Senior Enterprise Data Recovery Engineer, DriveSavers
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Robin England, Senior R&D Engineer, Kroll Ontrack
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Don Verner, Senior Applications Engineer, Intel
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Scott Holowinski, President, GillWare
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Ronen Engler, Product Engineer, Cellebrite
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 201-B: Accelerating Enterprise Applications with Flash Memory (Enterprise Applications Track)
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Sean Stead, SSD Marketing, Viking Technology
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Don Wake, Technical Marketing Manager, QLogic
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Rob Larsen, Director Enterprise SSD, Micron Technology
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Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist, Pure Storage
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 201-C: Let's Hear It for the Latest in PCIe SSDs (PCIe Storage Track)
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Marty Czekalski, Interface and Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate Technology
Jon Tanguy, Senior System Marketing Engineer, Micron Technology
Jim Pappas, Director Initiative Marketing, Intel
Cameron Brett, Director SSD Product Marketing, Toshiba
Keun Soo Jo, Senior Engineer Memory Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor
Rob Callaghan, Enterprise Product Marketing, SanDisk
Swapna Yasarapu, Director SSD Technical Marketing, HGST
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Rob Callaghan, Enterprise Product Marketing, SanDisk
8:30-9:35am
Tutorial T-1: (Tutorials Track)
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Steve Hetzler, Fellow, IBM
9:45-10:50am
Forum D-21: Enterprise Storage Design, Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track)
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Xiangfeng Luo, CTO Memblaze
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Ivan Iannaccone, Lead Project Manager, HP
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Adam Zagorski, VP Marketing, Enmotus
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Fusing Flash/HDDs into Virtual Volumes
Somesh Jain, Principal Software Engineer, Druva Data Solutions
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John Kim, Director Product Marketing, Mellanox Technologies and Zia Rehman, Director Business Development, HGST
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Wayne Lam, CEO, Cirrus Data
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Louis Imershein, Senior Director Product Strategy, Permabit
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 201-D: UFS:  A Better Approach to Mobile Storate (Standards Track)
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Hank Lai, Senior Manager - Mobile Storage Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor
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Mike Chen, Senior Manager - SSD and Strategic Marketing, Marvell Semiconductor
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John Geldman, Director Industry Standards, Micron
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Hung Vuong, Director Architecture - Standards Lead, Qualcomm
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Perry Keller, Program Manager - Standards and Applications, Keysight Technologies
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Zachi Friedman, Director Product Marketing, Arasan Technologies
9:45-10:50am
OPEN Session 202-E: New Approaches to Flash Control (Controllers Track)
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Ajay Bhatia, Diector Marketing, LSI
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Vladimir Alves, Co-Founder, NxGn Data
9:45-10:50am
OPEN Session 202-A: Flash on the Memory Bus (New Technologies Track)
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Sean Stead, Product Marketing, Viking Technology
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Michael Takefman, Chief Architect, Diablo Technologies
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Frank Ross, Program Manager, Micron
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Rakesh Cheerla, Senior Director, SMART Modular
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Jeff Chang, VP, AgigAtech
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Adam Roberts, Chief Solutions Architect, SanDisk
9:45-10:50am
Session 202-B: Scale-Out Storage Solutions for Today and Tomorrow (sponsored by the SCSI Trade Assn - STA) (Standards Track)
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Marty Czelalski, Interface and Emerging Architecture Program Manager, STA/Seagate
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Jeremiah Tussey, PMC
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Cameron Brett, Director SSD Product Marketing, Toshiba
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Mike James, Director Engineering, SanDisk
9:45-10:50am
Session 202-C: High-Performance Flash Systems (Enterprise Storage Track)
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Charles Tsai, Senior Director, Innodisk
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Kevin Deierling, Vice President, Mellanox Technologies
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Madhukar Gunjan, Product Test Architect, Wipro
9:45-10:50am
Tutorial T-2 (Tutorial Track)
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Andy Walls, Fellow, IBM
2:00-2:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 8
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Iri Trashanski, VP SSD Business, Marvell Semiconductor
2:30-3:00pm
OPEN - Keynote 9
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Riccardo Badalone, CEO, Diablo
3:10-5:45pm
Forum: E-22 Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 2: Decoding the Future (Hardware Track)
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Erich Haratsch, Director Engineering Flash Channel Architecture, LSI
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Oliver Hambrey, Research Engineer, SigLead
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Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion
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Ravi Motwani, Principal Engineer - ECC Team Lead, Intel
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Rino Micheloni, Senior Principal Engineer, PMC
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Shu Lin, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis
3:10-5:45pm
OPEN Forum G-22: Flash and Application Performance (Enterprise Applications Track)
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Shay Hassidim, Deputy CTO, Gigaspaces
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Mughees Minhas, VP Product Management, Oracle
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Allon Cohen, VP Products / Business Development, Elastifile
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Saeed Raja, Director Product Management, SanDisk
3:10-5:45pm
Forum H-22: Flash and Cloud Computing (Cloud Computing Track)
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Kevin Deierling, VP Marketing, Mellanox Technologies
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Kevin Powell, Flash Systems Program Director, IBM
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Gary Lyng, Director Product Management / Marketing, SanDisk
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Todd Walls, Client Technical Specialist, IBM
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Kevin Deirling, VP Marketing, Mellanox Technologies
3:10-4:15pm
OPEN Session 203-A: RRAM (New Technologies Track)
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SuOck Chung, SK Hynix
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Kelichi Tsutsui, Senior Manager Advanced Memory Systems, Sony
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Zhiqiang Wei, Researcher, Panasonic
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Ishai Naveh, VP Marketing / Business Development, Adesto Technologies
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Hagop Nazarian, VP Engineering, Crossbar
3:10-4:15pm
OPEN Session 203-B: Embedded SSD Applications (Embedded Systems Track)
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Michael Wu, GM American Business Division, Phison Electronics
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Jack Winters, CTO, Foremay
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Jason Chien, Product Marketing Manger, Silicon Motion
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C.C. Wu, VP Embedded Flash, Innodisk
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Victor Tsai, Director IMS Product Marketing, SMART Modular Technologies
3:10-4:15pm
Session 203-C: SSD Testing Challenges, Part 2 (Testing Track)
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Wei Wang, Grad Student, San Diego State University
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Scott West, Product Marketing Manager, Advantest
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Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems
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Ross Stenfort, Director Systems and Solutions Architecture, Avago Technologies
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Peter Murray, Senior Product Specialist, LoadDynamix
3:10-4:15pm
Tutorial T-3 (Tutorial Track)
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Brian Cox, Senior Director of Marketing, SanDisk Enterprise Storage Solutions
3:10-4:15pm
OPEN Forum K-22: Software (Software Track)
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Doug Voight, Distinguished Technologist, HP
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Earl Philhower, Senior Manager - Solutions and Benchmarking, HGST
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Kevin Powell, Flash Systems program Director, IBM
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Sushant Rao, Senior Director Product Marketing, DataCore Software
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Doug Dumitru, CTO, EasyCo
4:30-5:45pm
OPEN Session 204-A: MRAM (New Technologies Track)
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Phill LoPresti, CEO, Everspin Technologies
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L.J. Ristic, VP Product Marketing, Crocus
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Barry Hoberman, CEO, Spin Transfer Technologies
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Hamid Haidari, Senior Director WW Sales, Avalanche Technology
4:30-5:45pm
OPEN Session 204-B: Embedded Flash Applications (Embedded Systems Track)
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Chris Budd, Director Engineering, SMART High-Reliability Solutions
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Chanson Lin, President, EmBestor
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Endric Schubert, CTO, Missing Link Electronics
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Scott Phillips, Director Marketing, Virtium Technology
4:30-5:45pm
Session 204-C: Flash and Big Data (Data Management Track)
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Erik Eyberg, WW Flash Strategy, IBM
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Axel Kloth, CEO, SSRLabs
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Levi Norman, WW Flash Senior Marketing Manager, IBM
4:30-5:45pm
Tutorial T-4: Selecting the Right Enterprise SSD: Featuring the M.2 Form Factor (Tutorials Track)
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Kent Smith, Senior Director of Marketing, LSI
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Richard Mataya, Co-Founder, NxGn Data
4:30-5:45pm
OPEN Session 204-D (Marketing Track)
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Nikolay Yamakawa, Analyst, TheInfoPro
Thursday, August 7th
8:30-10:50am
OPEN Forum L-31: Memory Card Applications (Memory Cards Track)
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Andy Higginbotham, President, Price G2
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John Geldman, Director Industry Standards, Micron
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Miki Takahashi, Director - Signal Integrity Engineering, Granite River Labs
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Jeff Cable, Director Worldwide Marketing, Micron
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Chris Chute, Research Director - Global Digital Imaging Practice, IDC
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Amitaabh Malhotra, DeviceFidelity COO representing SD Association
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Ron Javor, Director Buisness Development, SanDisk and Shinichi Matsukawa, Technical Specialist, Toshiba
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Shinichi Matsukawa, NSM Initiatives LLC
8:30-10:50am
Forum I-31: PCIe Storage (PCIe Storage Track)
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Ravi Thummarukudy, Mobiveil
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Jerome Gaysse, Business Development Manager, IP-Maker
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John Carroll, Storage Architect, Intel
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Bob Weisickle, CEO, OakGate Technology
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Fabian Trumper, Senior Product Marketing Manager, PMC
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Don Verner, Senior Applications Engineer, Intel
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Storage over PCIe Protocol analysis and traffic generation techniques
Isaac Livny, Field Application Engineer, Teledyne LeCroy
8:30-10:50am
Forum E-31: Flash Controller Design Options (Controllers Track)
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Veeresh Taranalli, Graduate Student, UCSD
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Lara Dolecek, Assistant Professor, UCLA
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Yue Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech
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Eitan Yaakobi, Assistant Professor Computer Science, Technion
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Haobo Wang, Graduate Student, UCLA
8:30-9:35am
Session 301-B: SSDs, Part 1 (SSDs Track)
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Yong Ho Song, Professor, Hanyang University
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Jianwen Zhu, Professor, University of Toronto
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Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 301-C: Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technolgies Track)
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Sam Nemazie, Chief System Architect, Avalanche Technology
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Steffen Hellmold, VP NVM Strategy, Western Digital
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 301-D: Vertical Applications (Applications Track)
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Ron Herrmann, Executive Technical Storage Specialist, IBM
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Woody Hutsell, Manager Portfolio Strategy, IBM
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Hiroko Midorikawa, Assistant Professor, Seikei University
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Matt Key, Technical Sales Lead, IBM
8:30-9:35am
OPEN Session 301-E: Flash is the Lightning in the Cloud (Cloud Computing Track)
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Jathin Ullal, Marketing Manager, HP
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Robert Jenkins, CEO, CloudSigma
9:45-10:50am
Session 302-B: SSDs, Part 2 (SSDs Track)
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Deepak Sharma, Principal Firmware Engineer, SanDisk
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Chris Tsu, CEO, Sage Microelectronics
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Federico Benelli, CTO, NandExt
9:45-10:50am
OPEN Session 302-D: Persistent Memory  Applications (Applications Track)
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Kaladhar Voruganti, Director Advanced Technology, NetApp
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Jonathan Hinkle, Director / System Platform Technologist, Lenovo
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Renu Raman, VP,  SAP
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Steve Graves, CEO, McObject
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Nisha Talagala, Fellow SanDisk
9:45-10:50am
OPEN Session 302-E: Pick the Right Flash Storage (Marketing Track)
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Pick the Right Flash Storage: Beyond the Feature Checklists
Josh Goldstein,VP Marketing / Product Management, EMC / XtremeIO
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Matt Kixmoeller, VP Products, Pure Storage
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Eric Herzog, CMO / SVP, Violin Memory
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Jay Prassi, VP Marketing, SolidFire
11:05-11:35am
OPEN - Keynote 10
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Kushagra Vaid, GM Server Hardware Engineering, Microsoft
11:35am-12:05pm
OPEN - Keynote 11
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Tom Isakovich, CEO, Nimbus Data Systems
Noon-12:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 12
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Chris Rowen, CTO, Cadence
2:40-3:55pm
OPEN Session 303-A (SSDS Track)
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Mike Jochimsen, Directo, Product Marketing and Alliances, Emulex
Anil Vasudeva, President / Chief Analyst, IMEX Research
Ajoy Aswadhati, CTO, Fastor Systems
Tom Heil, Senior Systems Architect, LSI
2:40-3:55pm
Session 303-B: Flash in the Memory Channel (New Technologies Track)
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Steve Graves, CEO, McObject and Jeff Chang, VP Marketing, AgigA
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Henry Huang, Chief Technologiest, Windawn Technology (China)
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Michael Slavitch, Senior Solutions Architect, Diablo Technologies
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Sushant Rao, Senior Director Product Markeing, DataCore Software
2:40-3:55pm
OPEN Session 303-D: Market Research (Marketing Track)
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Bob Scranton, Independent Consultant
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Marco Coulter, VP TheInfopro/451 Research
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Scott Jacobson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cadence
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Jim Handy, Director / Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis
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John Chen, VP, TrendFocus
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Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager - Solid State Drives, IDC
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Ed Grochowski, Consultant, Coughlin Associates
2:40-3:55pm
OPEN Session 303-E: Making Applications Run Faster (Consumer Track)
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John Szlendak, Flash Product Manager, Oracle
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Ron Herrmann, Executive Technical Storage Specialist, IBM
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John Kim, Director Product Marketing, Mellanox Technologies
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Don Wake, Technical Marketing Manager, QLogic
2:40-3:55pm
Session 303-F: Testing Challenges, Part 3 (Testing Track)
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Jeffray Hsieh, Senior Directoro of Business Development, ATP Electronics
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Laura Caulfield, Platform Firmware Engineer, Microsoft
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Andy Niemic, Software Engineer, Advantest
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Jung Yoon, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
2:40-3:55pm
Session 303-G: Error Correcting Codes in Flash Controllers (Controllers Track)
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Axel Mehnert, VP Marketing, Hyperstone
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Shiva Kumar Planjery, CEO, CodeLucida
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David Schwaderer, Consultant, Samsung Semiconductor
4:10-5:30pm
OPEN Session 304-A: Closing Panel on Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today (Overview Track)
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John Rotchford, Managing Director, SASI
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Jim Handy, Director / Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis
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Dan Cobb, Distinguished Engineer / CTO, EMC
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Matt Pujol, Senior Hardware Product Manager, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
4:10-5:30pm
OPEN Session 304-C: Flash and the Internet of Things (New Technologies Track)
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Paul Hill, Director Product Marketing, Adesto Technologies
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Jackson Huang, VP Marketing, Spansion
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Linh Hong, VP Marketing and Business Development, Kilopass
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Cliff Zitlaw, Product Architect, Crossbar
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Chetan Gadgil IoT Solutions and Technology Director, GE Software
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