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Andy Hock is SVP of Product and Strategy at Cerebras Systems. Andy was the Senior Director of Advanced Technologies at Skybox Imaging, makers of high-resolution satellites, when the company was purchased by Google in 2014 for $500M. After the acquisition, he continued on as Product Manager at Google before joining the team at Cerebras. Prior to Skybox, Andy was the Senior Program Manager, business development lead and a Senior Scientist for Arete Associates. He holds a PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA.

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Data center journalist, Editor-in-Chief, and Publisher at the world's largest digital infrastructure publication, DCD.

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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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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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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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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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Robert Novo has in-depth experience in service delivery, network operations, executive consulting, leading-edge technology and carrier-grade, resilient telecommunications. Robert is experienced with leading large team consulting projects, managing shifting priorities and delivering on-time with quality to CxOs of Fortune 500, multi-national customers.

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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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Paul Gilbert has spent over 30 years in technology.  He worked at Cisco Systems for over 25 years reaching the title of Distinguished Systems Engineer, the first one in North America.  In 2022 he left Cisco and joined an AI startup, he was there 1 year then moved onto Arista Networks.  He is a tech lead at Arista and focuses on AI and Data Center.

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Dustin Demetriou is a Senior Technical Staff Member and leads sustainability and data center innovation for IBM Infrastructure. He is an Accredited Sustainability Advisor by the Uptime Institute and an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University with a focus on thermal management and energy conversion systems. He is a globally recognized expert in the field of thermal management and data center energy efficiency and is the current Chair of the ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 (TC 9.9) IT Subcommittee and the past Chair of ASHRAE TC 9.9.

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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 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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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 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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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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Dylan J. Boday, Ph.D., is the VP of Product Management for IBM Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS), leading the brand strategy and product management portfolio. Dylan has held a number of business and technical executive roles spanning hardware/software, cloud, and AI. Dylan is an IBM Master Inventor with over 260 patents.

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Data center journalist, Editor-in-Chief, and Publisher at the world's largest digital infrastructure publication, DCD.

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Andy Hock is SVP of Product and Strategy at Cerebras Systems. Andy was the Senior Director of Advanced Technologies at Skybox Imaging, makers of high-resolution satellites, when the company was purchased by Google in 2014 for $500M. After the acquisition, he continued on as Product Manager at Google before joining the team at Cerebras. Prior to Skybox, Andy was the Senior Program Manager, business development lead and a Senior Scientist for Arete Associates. He holds a PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA.

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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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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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Anil is Founder & CTO of rapt.ai, building a Agentic-AI infrastructure optimization platform. Prior to this, Anil was Technical Director at Data Domain which was acquired by EMC. Anil career spans over 20 years in areas of Compute, Storage, System architecture, File systems, Schedulers & Virtualization. Anil has authored over 15 years in areas of Data pipeline, storage, flash, scheduler algorithms.

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Alain Wilmouth , from a two-year university degree in Economic Sciences. Self-taught and an entrepreneur, he has been building for more than 25 years his technical expertise and his reputation in the IT world. His numerous experience in management positions in the IT sector have allowed him to acquire a solid managerial experience in management and business administration while sharpening his technical background. After several company creations, he founded 2CRSi in 2005.

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