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8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

11:45 a.m.

12:15 p.m.

  • Lunch

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    • Hospitality & Networking
    • Open Session

2:00 p.m.

2:45 p.m.

3:20 p.m.

3:40 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

4:20 p.m.

4:40 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

  • Next-Gen Under 30s Happy Hour

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    • Hospitality & Networking
    • Invite-only Session

    Speakers

    Pranesha Soor

    Marketing Manager, DCD>Academy

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    Pranesha Soor

    Marketing Manager, DCD>Academy

    With a background in digital marketing and keen interest for data center technologies, Pranesha oversees the development and execution of marketing strategies to promote the educational programs and services of DCD>Academy.

    She is dedicated to expanding the reach and impact of DCD Academy's offerings, ensuring that professionals in the field have access to cutting-edge training and resources.

    Pranesha is also excited to empower the next generation of data center enthusiasts to explore this rapidly growing industry.

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  • Welcome Panel: AI unleashed - Data, compute and the future of everything

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    • Compute
    • Storage
    • Networking
    • Open Session

    Speakers

    Tarif Abboushi

    Chief Technology Officer, Flexnode

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    Tarif Abboushi

    Chief Technology Officer, Flexnode

    Tarif is a veteran of over two decades in the data center space, with extensive experience in the design, development, construction, commissioning, deployment, maintenance and operation of data centers.

    Prior to joining Flexnode, he was VP of Data Center Infrastructure at NTT Ltd. (Americas), where he deployed ground-breaking technologies in data centers to improve efficiencies and reduce carbon footprints, including the first use of solid oxide fuel cells running on biogas from cow manure to produce electricity at a data center, and the implementation of virtualized cooling, a project that won the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT award. Having built a solid core, he now gets his kicks living on the edge.

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    Tom Garvens

    Vice President - Advanced Technology Innovation, Google

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    Tom Garvens

    Vice President - Advanced Technology Innovation, Google

    Hands on technology executive with over 30 years of leadership in architectural definition, team building, engineering execution, and launch success. Results oriented with a strong track record of execution, incorporating many first to market IP elements. Track record of talent acquisition, development, and retention. Core Competencies: Cultivating innovation, execution planning/steering, tech partner relationships, and customer collaboration.

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    Wellington Lordelo

    Global Director of AI & Innovation, Digital Realty

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    Wellington Lordelo

    Global Director of AI & Innovation, Digital Realty

    Wellington Lordelo is the Global Director of AI and Innovation at Digital Realty, where he drives cutting-edge solutions that help enterprises and service providers harness the power of AI and data-driven strategies for digital transformation. With over 20 years of experience in IT and telecom, Wellington has a proven track record of collaborating globally with Fortune 500 companies on multi-cloud solutions, data center optimization, and enterprise strategy.
    He holds the main certifications in Generative AI, Network and has spoken at numerous industry events across the Americas.

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    Major Panel: Next-level networks - Networking for AI workloads at scale

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    • Networking
    • Open Session
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    Varun Sivaram

    Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, Council on Foreign Relations

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    Varun Sivaram

    Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, Council on Foreign Relations

    Dr. Varun Sivaram is senior fellow for energy and climate at the Council on Foreign Relations and brings experience as a C-suite executive at two publicly listed companies, as a senior U.S. diplomat, and as a physicist with expertise in clean energy technologies. Dr. Sivaram served as chief strategy and innovation officer at Ørsted, a $25 billion Fortune Global 500 company that is the world’s largest producer of offshore wind energy. His teams executed several billion dollars in clean energy asset acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures, and structured financing products; developed the company’s strategic approach to build renewable energy across three continents; and launched Ørsted Ventures to invest in next-generation technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as chief technology Officer at ReNew Power, a publicly listed multibillion-dollar company that is India’s largest producer of renewable energy, and as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.

    Dr. Sivaram served for the first two years of President Joe Biden’s administration in the White House and State Department as the managing director for clean energy and senior advisor to Secretary John Kerry, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. He created and led the First Movers Coalition, which President Biden called the flagship U.S. public-private partnership on climate. Dr. Sivaram has also served in state and local government as senior advisor to the mayor of Los Angeles and to the governor of New York.

    A widely published scientist and innovation scholar, Sivaram has served on the faculty of Columbia University and Georgetown University and was also previously fellow and director of the energy and climate program at the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet, Energizing America: A Roadmap to Launch a National Energy Innovation Mission, and Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems.

    TIME Magazine named Sivaram to its TIME 100 Next list of the next hundred most influential people in the world, MIT Technology Review named him one of the top 35 innovators under 35, and the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. His TED Talk on India's clean energy transition has been viewed more than one million times. Sivaram serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council, the Breakthrough Institute, and Aventurine Partners. A Rhodes and Truman Scholar, he holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford University, and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.

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    Anuj Saharan

    Anuj Saharan

    Compute and Infrastructure, OpenAI

    George Rockett

    Co-Founder & Board Member, Yotta Events & Datacenter Dynamics

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    George Rockett

    Co-Founder & Board Member, Yotta Events & Datacenter Dynamics

    George started his first technology publication in 1998, focused on the 'plumbing' of the Internet and has been building and connecting digital infrastructure communities all over the world,

    George is fascinated by the sheer scale of the digital infrastructure that is yet to be built, one that will support AI and a new world of accelerated computing; it is 'mission critical' to the future of every industry and every person on the planet and must be done sustainably.

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6:00 p.m.

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7:00 a.m.

  • Wake-Up 5k Run + Walk & Talk

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    • Hospitality & Networking
    • Open Session

  • Sunrise Yoga

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    • Hospitality & Networking
    • Open Session

9:00 a.m.

9:20 a.m.

9:40 a.m.

  • Major Panel: Win the race to scale - How can data centers keep up with rising compute, storage, and networking needs in the AI boom?

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    • Compute Main Stage
    • Compute
    • Storage
    • Networking
    • Open Session

    Speakers

    Srivatssan Srinivasan

    Srivatssan Srinivasan

    Gen AI Technology Leader, Independent Thought Leader

    Darrick Horton

    Founder & CEO, Tensorwave

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    Darrick Horton

    Founder & CEO, Tensorwave

    Darrick Horton is the Founder and CEO of TensorWave, a leading AI compute and cloud solutions company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a serial entrepreneur, Darrick has successfully founded and led several technology startups, focusing on data center, cloud infrastructure, and semiconductor technology. His career also includes experience on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works team, where he worked on nuclear fusion. Prior to that, he contributed to several research projects including NASA-funded plasma physics research as well as astrophysics research with the LIGO project.

    Beyond his professional achievements, Darrick has served as the President of Engineers Without Borders, where he dedicated his efforts to supporting the development of disadvantaged communities worldwide.

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    Jay Dawani

    Founder & CEO, Lemurian Labs

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    Jay Dawani

    Founder & CEO, Lemurian Labs

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    Major Panel: Reading between the lines: Striking the XPU/GPU/CPU balance to adapt to AI inference workloads?

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    Imran Latif

    Chief Operations Officer- DC Infrastructure, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

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    Imran Latif

    Chief Operations Officer- DC Infrastructure, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

    Imran Latif is an engineering executive, presently, Chief Operations Officer at the US Dept of Energy Office of Science at Brookhaven National Lab where he leads the Infrastructure Operations of High Performance Computing Centers supporting the Global cutting-edge research collaborations on Physics, Life Sciences, Quantum, AI and HPC. Imran has over 20 years of leadership experience delivering large scale engineering, construction and sustainability projects.

    Imran leads worldwide sustainability research with leading academia and tech companies. The research work is focused on solving the real-life energy issues in the mission critical facilities and developing the AI and ML based technologies to automate the sustainability processes. He is a subject matter expert in direct to chip and immersion cooling in data centers.

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    Sean Varley

    Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

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    Sean Varley

    Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

    Sean Varley is the Chief Evangelist and leader of ecosystem development and partner programs at Ampere. His group is responsible for go to market, messaging, strategy and execution of developer and partner ecosystem growth programs. The team covers marketing strategy, strategic business relationships, business planning and developer recruitment for Cloud Native Computing in the rapidly evolving Cloud and Edge server markets. Our goal is to provide Products and Solutions that showcase the disruptive advantage our unique Cloud-Native server processors provide to the market.

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    David McCall

    VP, Brand Evangelism, QTS Data Centers

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    David McCall

    VP, Brand Evangelism, QTS Data Centers

    David McCall is the VP of Brand Evangelism for QTS Data Centers. He is responsible for building teams, setting strategic goals, and serving as an evangelist for one of largest and fastest growing data center service providers in the United States. He has more than 14 years of solutions engineering experience in the data center, telecommunications, and internet technology industries.

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    Closing Major Panel: Between a rock and hard-ware place: How to stay ahead of obsolescence despite rising costs

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10:20 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

11:20 a.m.

  • Major Panel: Storage Wars - Optimizing storage for AI, from data ingestion to training and inference

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    • Compute Main Stage
    • Storage
    • Open Session

    Speakers

    Nilesh Shah

    Strategic Advisor

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    Nilesh Shah

    Strategic Advisor

    Nilesh drives Business Development at ZeroPoint Technologies. He advises several companies in the Semiconductor, Data Center AI and Memory space. He contributes regularly to standards bodies like SNIA, OCP, JEDEC, RISC-V, CXL Consortium. He is regularly invited to speak at Conferences, and has led multiple panels and featured in Analyst/ Press interviews.

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    Charlotte Trueman

    Compute, Storage, and Networking Editor at Datacenter Dynamics, DatacenterDynamics

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    Charlotte Trueman

    Compute, Storage, and Networking Editor at Datacenter Dynamics, DatacenterDynamics

    Charlotte is the Compute, Storage, and Networking Editor at DCD. Previously, she was a senior writer at IDG, writing for Computerworld, CIO, and NetworkWorld.

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    Case Study: Above the cloud: GEICO's on-prem data center journey

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    Presentation: Cutting-edge cooling: How microfluidics technology can transform cooling for the next generation of compute

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    Gary Grider

    Gary Grider

    HPC Division Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

    J Metz

    Technical Director - Systems Design, AMD

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    J Metz

    Technical Director - Systems Design, AMD

    J is a Technical Director for Systems Design for AMD and holds several roles of influence in the tech industry. He is currently serving his 4th term as Chair of the Board of Directors of SNIA, as well as the inaugural Chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium formed in 2023.

    Recognized as a leading storage networking expert, J is an evangelist for all related technologies and has a unique ability to dissect and explain complex concepts and strategies. He is passionate about the inner workings and application of emerging technologies. He does so by coordinating and leading strategic initiatives related to systems architecture, including storage and networking.

    J has previously held roles in both the startup ecosystem and Fortune 100 companies as a Field CTO, R&D Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Systems Engineer. His extensive leadership across several key industry standards groups, SNIA, and former board member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). He was crucial in the founding of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), one of the fastest-growing projects in the Linux Foundation.
    J is a sought-after entertaining presenter and a prolific writer. He has won multiple awards as a speaker and author, writing over 300 articles and giving presentations and webinars attended by over 10,000 people.

    A popular blogger and active on X, his areas of expertise include high-performance storage and networking solutions. He earned his PhD from the University of Georgia.

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    Alan Bumgarner

    Director of AI Technology, Solidigm

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    Alan Bumgarner

    Director of AI Technology, Solidigm

    Alan Bumgarner began his career at Intel Corporation in Folsom, CA more than 20 years ago. Since then, his roles included front line technical support, remote server management of multiple Intel datacenters, product/channel/technical marketing, field sales, and strategic product planning and management.  These roles took him from California, to New Jersey, Texas, and Oregon, and finally back to Folsom, CA. Alan currently holds a position as Director of AI Technology for Storage Products in Solidigm’s Datacenter Products Group.  He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Systems from the University of Phoenix.  In his free time he likes to ski/bike/hike, work on cars and enjoys cooking.

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12:00 p.m.

12:30 p.m.

  • Compute Invite-Only Lunch

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    • Compute
    • Storage
    • Networking
    • Hospitality & Networking
    • Invite-only Session

12:45 p.m.

  • Lunch

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    • Hospitality & Networking

1:45 p.m.

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2:20 p.m.

2:40 p.m.

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