Anthony Gonzales
Jonathan Davis
Zaid Kahn
Zaid is currently a VP in Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering organization where he leads systems engineering and hardware development for Azure including AI systems and infrastructure. Zaid is part of the technical leadership team across Microsoft that sets AI hardware strategy for training and inference. Zaid's teams are also responsible for software and hardware engineering efforts developing specialized compute systems, FPGA network products and ASIC hardware accelerators.
Prior to Microsoft Zaid was head of infrastructure at LinkedIn where he was responsible for all aspects of architecture and engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage and Hardware. Zaid also led several software development teams focusing on building and managing infrastructure as code. This included zero touch provisioning, software-defined networking, network operating systems (SONiC, OpenSwitch), self-healing networks, backbone controller, software defined storage and distributed host-based firewalls. The network teams Zaid led built the global network for LinkedIn, including POP's, peering for edge services, IPv6 implementation, DWDM infrastructure and datacenter network fabric. The hardware and datacenter engineering teams Zaid led were responsible for water cooling to the racks, optical fiber infrastructure and open hardware development which was contributed to the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP).
Zaid holds several patents in networking and is a sought-after keynote speaker at top tier conferences and events. Zaid is currently the chairperson for the OCP Foundation Board. He is also currently on the EECS External Advisory Board (EAB) at UC Berkeley and a board member of Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), a global internet think tank promoting internet diversity. Zaid has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.
Sumti Jairath
Sumti Jairath is Chief Architect at SambaNova Systems, with expertise in hardware-software co-design. Sumti worked on PA-RISC-based Superdome servers back at HP, followed by several generations of SPARC CMT processors at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. At Oracle, Sumti worked on SQL, Data-analytics and Machine Learning acceleration in SPARC processors. Sumti holds 27 patents in computer architecture and hardware-software co-design.
Colette Johnston
Dr. Sehat Sutardja
Dr. Sehat Sutardja is Founder & CEO at FLC Technology Group. Prior to this, he was a co-founder and CEO of Marvell Technology Group and took the company public in 2000 after achieving record-breaking profitability and scale in a short period of time. Dr. Sutardja and his wife, Weili Dai, also a co-founder of Marvell, led Marvell for over 20 years and built it into one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. They are now active investors and Board members in numerous public and private companies. They are also active philanthropists focused on education, green technologies and mentoring young tech entrepreneurs globally.
Partha Ranganathan
Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan is currently part of the team at Google designing their next-generation systems and datacenters. Before this, he was a HP Fellow and Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs where he led their research on systems and datacenters. Dr. Ranganathan' has made key contributions around energy-aware user interfaces, heterogeneous multi-core processors, power capping, federated power management, energy modeling/benchmarking, microblades and disaggregated architectures, and new systems for non-volatile memory. He was one of the primary developers of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM). Dr. Ranganathan's work has led to broad impact in both academia and industry including several commercial products such as HP Moonshot servers. He holds more than 50 patents (with another 45 pending) and has published extensively, including several award-winning papers. He also teaches regularly (including, most recently, at Stanford) and has contributed to several popular computer architecture textbooks. Dr. Ranganathan's work has been featured extensively in the press including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, San Francisco Chronicle, Times of India, Slashdot, Youtube, and Tom's hardware guide. Dr. Ranganathan has been named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT Technology Review, as one of the top 15 enterprise technology rock stars by Business Insider, and has been recognized with the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award and Rice University's Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni award. Dr. Ranganathan received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University, Houston. He is also an IEEE Fellow. More information can be found at www.parthasarathys.org/partha-cv.html
Specialties: systems architecture and management, power management, energy efficiency, servers and datacenters, blade servers, modeling and simulation
Nick Wright
Nick Wright is the advanced technologies group lead and the NERSC chief architect. He focuses upon evaluating future technologies for potential application in scientific computing. He led the effort to optimize the architecture of the Perlmutter machine, the first NERSC platform designed to meet needs of both large scale simulation and data analysis from experimental facilities. Before moving to NERSC, he was a member of the Performance Modeling and Characterization (PMaC) group at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. He earned both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in chemistry at the University of Durham in England.
Jim Handy
Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has over 35 years in the electronics industry including 20 years as a leading semiconductor and SSD industry analyst. Early in his career he held marketing and design positions at leading semiconductor suppliers including Intel, National Semiconductor, and Infineon. A frequent presenter at trade shows, Mr. Handy is highly respected for his technical depth, accurate forecasts, widespread industry presence and volume of publication. He has written hundreds of market reports, articles for trade journals, and white papers, and is frequently interviewed and quoted in the electronics trade press and other media.