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2012 (Last Year’s) Program At-A-Glance

Monday, August 20th
1:00-2:45pm	Pre-Conference Seminar on Introduction to SSDs Chuck Sobey, ChannelScience
2:45-3:00pm	Break
3:00-5:00pm	Pre-Conference Seminar on Introduction to SSDs (cont.)
5:30-7:00pm	PCIe SSD Committee - Roadmap 2012 Sponsored by SNIA and the Solid State Storage Initiative

Tuesday, August 21st
	Enterprise Storage	Architectures	SSDs	Hardware	Applications	SSDs
8:00-8:30am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:50am	Tutorial A-11 Flash in Data Centers	Tutorial B-11 Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A technical Discussion Part 1	Tutorial C-11 Enterprise SSDs	Session 101-A 3D Flash: The Next Dimension	Session 101-B Mobile Applications OPEN
9:50-10:05am	Break
10:05-11:20am	Tutorial A-11 Flash in Data Centers (cont.)	Tutorial B-11 Flash Memory-Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion Part 1 (cont.)	Tutorail C-11 Enterprise SSDs (cont.)	Session 102-A Flash Technology Trends	Session 102-B Consumer Applications OPEN	Session 102-C Standards OPEN
11:30am-Noon	OPEN - Keynote 1 SSDs: Enabling the Next Wave of Growth in the PC Industry Kevin Conley, Vice President and General Manager - Client Storage Solutions BUSanDisk
Noon-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00-1:30pm	OPEN - Keynote 2 Overcoming the Scaling Problem for NAND Flash Dr. Sungwook Park, Executive Vice President - Head of R&D Center, SK Hynix
1:30-2:00pm	OPEN - Keynote 3 Flash: Key to the Connected World Glen Hawk, Vice President - NAND Solutions, Micron Technology
	Enterprise Storage	Architectures	SSDs	Standards	Security	Hardware
2:10-3:20pm	Tutorial A-12 Enterprise Storage Design	Tutorial B-12 Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion Part 2	Tutorial C-12 SSD Technology	Tutorial D-12 NVMe	Session 103-A Security OPEN	Session 103-B FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications OPEN
3:20:-3:30pm	Break
3:30-4:45pm	Tutorial A-12 Enterprise Storage Design (cont.)	Tutorial B-12 Flash Memory-Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion - Part 2 (cont.)	Tutorial C-12 SSD Technology (cont.)	Tutorial D-12 NVMe (cont.)	Session 104-A What, Me Worry? Is Flash Security and Issue? OPEN	Session 104-B Green Flash OPEN
5:00-6:00pm	Plenary Session - IEEE Milestone for Data Storage in Flash Memory OPEN
6:00-7:30pm	OPEN - Beer, Pizza, and Chat with the Experts (Sponsored by Cadence)

Wednesday, August 22nd
	Hardware	Enterprise Storage	Testing	Interfaces	SSDs	Enterprise Applications
8:00-8:30am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:40am	Tutorial E-21 Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1: Extending Performance Below 20 nm	Tutorial A-21 Enterprise Caching	Tutorial F-21 Testing / Performance / Endurance	Session 201-A Future Storage Interfaces: Which Way Are We Headed?	Session 201-B Data Recovery of SSDs OPEN	Tutorial G-21 Enterprise Applications Part 1: Handling Big Data OPEN
9:40-9:50am	Break
9:50-10:50am	Tutorial E-21 Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1: Extending Performance Below 20 nm (cont.)	Tutorial A-21 Enterprise Caching (cont.)	Tutorial F-21 Testing / Performance / Endurance (cont.)	Session 202-A SCSI Express: Fast and Reliable Flash Storage for the Enterprise	Session 202-B Designing Storage Systems in the SSD Era OPEN	Tutorial G-21 Enterprise Applications Part 1: Handling Big Data (cont.) OPEN
11:00-11:30am	OPEN - Keynote 4 Flash Storage Meets the Content Challenge John Scaramuzzo, President, SMART Storage Systems
11:30am-Noon	OPEN - Keynote 5 Flash Memory Can Be Primary Storage…Now Rado Danilak, CEO, Skyera
Noon-1:00pm	Lunch
Noon-2:00pm	EXHIBITS OPEN
2:00-2:30pm	OPEN - Keynote 6 Revolution! The Impact of Emerging Memory Technologies David Eggleston, Senior Vice President - Non-Volatile Memory/Storage Division, Rambus
2:30-3:00pm	OPEN - Keynote 7 Four Walls Do Not a Make a Datacenter - It's the Ecosystem Brendan Collins, Vice President - Enterprise Storage, HGST
	Hardware	Virtualization	Testing	Embedded Systems	New Technologies	Enterprise Applications
3:10-4:15pm	Tutorial E-22 Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Decoding the Future	Tutorial H-22 Flash and Virtualization	Session 203-A Testing	Session 203-B Embedded Applications	Session 203-C RRAM OPEN	Tutorial G-22 Cloud Storage OPEN
4:15-4:30pm	Break
	Hardware	Virtualization		Embedded Systems	New Technologies	Enterprise Applications	Interfaces
4:30-5:30pm	Tutorial E-22 Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Decoding the Future (cont.)	Tutorial H-22 Flash and Virtualization (cont.)		Session 204-B Choosing the Right NVM for Your Embedded Needs	Session 204-C MRAM: Truly Non-Volatile RAM OPEN	Tutorial G-22 Cloud Storage Part 2 OPEN	Session 204-D Thunderbolt OPEN
5:30-6:30pm	All-Industry Reception FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT BEST OF SHOW AWARDS CEREMONY (6:15pm) OPEN
5:30-7:30pm	EXHIBITS OPEN
7:00-9:30pm	OPEN - Special IEEE Tutorial: LDPC Decoding, VLSI Architectures and Implementations

Thursday, August 23rd

Enterprise Storage

PCIe Storage

SSDs

Hardware

New Technologies

Enterprise Applications

8:00-8:30am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:40am

Tutorial A-31
Client Caching

Session 301-A
PCIe Storage-1

Session 301-B
SSD Technology

Session 301-C
Flash Controller Design Options

Session 301-D
Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies
OPEN

Tutorial G-31
Database / Data Management Acceleration
OPEN

9:40-9:50am

Break

Enterprise Storage

PCIE Storage

NOR Flash

Hardware

New Technologies

Enterprise Applications

9:50-10:50am

Tutorial A-31
Client Caching
(cont.)

Session 302-A
PCIe Roundtable (sponsored by SNIA SSSI)

Session 302-B
Computing in Memory: Speech Recognition (Panel)

Session 302-C
Non-Volatile Design Challenges and Methodologies

Session 302-D
Future of Phase Change Memory
OPEN

Tutorial G-31
Database / Data Management Acceleration (cont.)
OPEN

11:00-11:30am

OPEN - Keynote 8
Solid-State Endurance: Will Your Data Still Be There in the Morning

Scott Stetzer, VP Technical Marketing, STEC

11:30am-Noon

OPEN - Keynote 9
The Business Case for Solid State Storage

Jeff Burke, VP Strategic Marketing and Research, Seagate Technology

Noon-1:00pm

Lunch

Noon-2:00pm

EXHIBITS OPEN

2:00-2:30pm

OPEN - Keynote 10
Solid State Drives - From Disruptive to the New Normal

Robert Crooke, Corporate VP / GM, Intel

2:30-3:00pm

OPEN - Keynote 11
Accelerating Business Applications with Flash Memory

Scott Tracy, VP ZFS Storage Engineering, Oracle

Markets

PCIe Storage

SSDs

Enterprise Applications

NOR Flash

3:10-4:25pm

Session 303-A
SSD Challenges

Session 303-B
PCIe Storage Roundtable (sponsored by SNIA SSSI)

Session 303-C
Market Research
OPEN

Session 303-D
The Future of Flash-Enabled Apps

Session 303-E
NOR Flash Finds New Applications

4:25-4:40pm

Break

4:40-6:00pm

Session 304-A
Closing Panel on Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today
OPEN

Session 304-B
Software
OPEN