For 11 years, SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Initiative (CMSI) has presented a Summit featuring industry leaders speaking on the key topics of the day. In the early years, it was persistent memory-focused, educating audiences on the benefits and uses of persistent memory. In 2020 it expanded to a Persistent Memory+Computational Storage Summit, examining that new technology, its architecture, and use cases.
Now in 2023, the Summit is expanding again to focus on compute, memory, and storage. In fact, we’re calling 2023 the Year of the Summit – a year to get back to meeting in person and offering a variety of ways to listen to leaders, learn about technology, and network to discuss innovations, challenges, solutions, and futures.
We’re delighted that our first event of the Year of the Summit is a networking event at MemCon, taking place March 28-29 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA.
At MemCon, SNIA CMSI member and IEEE President elect Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates will moderate a panel discussion on Compute, Memory, and Storage Technology Trends for the Application Developer. Panel members Debendra Das Sharma of Intel and the CXL™ Consortium, David McIntyre of Samsung and the SNIA Board of Directors, Arthur Sainio of SMART Modular and the SNIA Persistent Memory Special Interest Group, and Arvind Jaganath of VMware and SNIA CMSI will examine how applications and solutions available today offer ways to address enterprise and cloud provider challenges – and they’ll provide a look to the future.
SNIA leaders will be on hand to discuss work in computational storage, smart data acceleration interface (SDXI), SSD form factor advances, and persistent memory trends. Share a libation or two at the SNIA hosted networking reception on Tuesday evening, March 28.
This inaugural MemCon event is perfect to start the conversation, as it focuses on the intersection between systems design, memory innovation (emerging memories, storage & CXL) and other enabling technologies. SNIA colleagues and friends can register for MemCon with a 15% discount using code SNIA15.
April 2023 Networking!
We will continue the Year with a newly expanded SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit coming up April 11-12 as a virtual event. Complimentary registration is now open for a stellar lineup of speakers, including Stephen Bates of Huawei, Debendra Das Sharma of Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™, Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, Shyam Iyer of Dell, Bill Martin of Samsung, Jake Oshins of Microsoft, Andy Rudoff of Intel, Andy Walls of IBM, and Steven Yuan of StorageX.
Summit topics include Memory’s Headed for Change, High Performance Data Analytics, CXL 3.0, Detecting Ransomware, Meeting Scaling Challenges, Open Standards for Innovation at the Package Level, and Standardizing Memory to Memory Data Movement. Great panel discussions are on tap as well. Kurt Lender of the CXL Consortium will lead a discussion on Exploring the CXL Device Ecosystem and Usage Models, Dave Eggleston of Microchip will lead a panel with Samsung and SMART Modular on Persistent Memory Trends, and Cameron Brett of KIOXIA will lead a SSD Form Factors Update. More details at www.snia.org/cms-summit.
Later in 2023…
Opportunities for networking will continue throughout 2023. We look forward to seeing you at the SmartNIC Summit (June 13-15), Flash Memory Summit (August 8-10), SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 18-21), OCP Global Summit (October 17-19), and SC23 (November 12-17). Details on SNIA participation coming soon!