2023 was a great year for SNIA CMSI to meet with IT professionals and end users in “Summits” to discuss technologies, innovations, challenges, and solutions. Our outreach at six industry events reached over 16,000 and we thank all who engaged with our CMSI members.
We are excited to continue a second “Year of the Summit” with a variety of opportunities to network and converse with you. Our first networking event will take place March 26-27, 2024 at MemCon in Mountain View, CA.
MemCon 2024 focuses on systems design for the data centric era, working with data-intensive workloads, integrating emerging technologies, and overcoming data movement and management challenges. The agenda includes presentations and panels, featuring speakers from Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Samsung, and Warner Brothers. It’s the perfect event to discuss the integration of SNIA’s focus on developing global standards and delivering education on all technologies related to data. SNIA and MemCon have prepared a video highlighting several of the key topics to be discussed.
At MemCon, SNIA CMSI member and SDXI Technical Work Group Chair Shyam Iyer of Dell will moderate a panel discussion on How are Memory Innovations Impacting the Total Cost of Ownership in Scaling-Up and Power Consumption , discussing impacts on hyperscalers, AI/ML compute, and cost/power.
SNIA Board member David McIntyre will participate in a panel on How are Increased Adoption of CXL, HBM, and Memory Protocol Expected to Change the Way Memory and Storage is Used and Assembled? , with insights on the markets and emerging memory innovations. The full MemCon agenda is here.
In the exhibit area, SNIA leaders will be on hand to demonstrate updates to the SNIA Persistent Memory Programming Workshop featuring new CXL® memory modules (get an early look at our Programming exercises here) and to provide a first look at a Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) specification implementation. We’ll also provide updates on SNIA technical work on form factors like those used for CXL. We will feature a drawing for gift cards at the SNIA hosted coffee receptions and at the Tuesday evening networking reception.
SNIA colleagues and friends can register for MemCon with a 15% discount using code SNIA15.
And stay tuned for engaging with SNIA at upcoming events in 2024, including a return of the SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Summit in May 2024, August 2024 FMS-the Future of Memory and Storage; SNIA SDC in September, and SC24 in Atlanta in November 2024. We’ll discuss each of these in depth in our Year of the Summit blog series.