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Why Attend
MemCon 2024 asks the simple question of how are compute and memory functions changing? How does systems design need to evolve to cope with data-centric computing? What does system data management look like in the future?
Why Attend:
Enterprises can sometimes use as little as 1% of their total available compute due to the ‘Memory Wall’ bottleneck and other systems design inefficiencies. MemCon 2024 breaks down these ‘Memory Wall’ and system design issues by putting together internal teams at organizations working with data-intensive workloads, AI vendors, and technology vendors, who are creating next-generation systems and components. MemCon 2024 is a one-stop-shop for emerging technologies in the memory and storage domain, and a hub for efficient data movement and management.
For technology vendors and system designers, MemCon 2024 is a user-centric deep-dive and a recognized launchpad for emerging technologies such as CXL and emerging memories. MemCon 2024 gives technology vendors direct access to meet data practitioners, who are grappling with designing efficient AI/ML systems.
For technology end-users, such as enterprise teams working on large language models (LLMs), or AI vendors that are designing state-of-the-art models, MemCon 2024 provides a platform to meet peers trying to overcome system data movement and management challenges. The conference provides real-world feedback for technology vendors and allows AI vendors and technology end-users to be at the forefront of system design innovation.
What’s in it for you?
- Discover, discuss, and debate data management roadblocks such as data complexities and limitations of traditional system design.
- Make sense of ownership costs through understanding the intricacies of data management economics and reduce potential trade-offs by recognizing potential workload impacts on system design.
- Future-proof your data management operations through industry-leading insights from hardware and software architects alike. Be the first to see new products entering the market that will level up AI/ML deployments and unlock new systems innovation.
- Join a thriving network of systems and AI/ML experts - whether accessing new pools of customers, connecting with potential technology partners, or tackling data issues with peers – the team at MemCon 2024 have got your back
Previous Featured Speakers
Tom Garvens
Zaid Kahn
Zaid is currently GM in Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering where he leads a team focusing on advanced architecture and engineering efforts for AI. He is passionate about building balanced teams of artists and soldiers that solve incredibly difficult problems at scale.
Prior to Microsoft Zaid was head of infrastructure engineering at LinkedIn responsible for all aspects of engineering for Datacenters, Compute, Networking, Storage and Hardware. He also lead several software development teams spanning from BMC, network operating systems, server and network fleet automation to SDN efforts inside the datacenter and global backbone including edge. He introduced the concept of disaggregation inside LinkedIn and pioneered JDM with multiple vendors through key initiatives like OpenSwitch, Open19 essentially controlling destiny for hardware development at LinkedIn. During his 9 year tenure at LinkedIn his team scaled network and systems 150X, members from 50M to 675M, and hiring someone every 7 seconds on the LinkedIn Platform.
Prior to LinkedIn Zaid was Network Architect at WebEx responsible for building the MediaTone network and later I built a startup that built a pattern recognition security chip using NPU/FPGA. Zaid holds several patents in networking and SDN and is also a recognized industry leader. He previously served as a board member of the Open19 Foundation and San Francisco chapter of Internet Society. Currently he serves on DE-CIX and Pensando advisory boards.
Jinman Han
Jinman Han serves as President of Samsung Device Solutions Americas (DSA) and Corporate EVP of Samsung Electronics, responsible for Samsung's U.S. semiconductor business, which includes Memory, Foundry, System LSI, and LED.
Jinman is a respected leader who has held many leadership positions at Samsung throughout his career, most recently as head of the Memory Global Sales & Marketing team. He joined Samsung in 1989 and has worked in various departments, including DRAM design, Flash design, Flash solution product planning, Memory product planning and application engineering, and SSD development.
His expertise and insight in the industry have contributed significantly to the company's presence within the memory market and have helped maintain Samsung's market leadership for decades.
Jinman is based in San Jose, CA, and holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea.
Jin-Hyeok Choi
Jin-Hyeok Choi leads Device Solution’s R&D – Memory division, which develops new memory technologies and enables memory products.
Jin-Hyeok joined Samsung Electronics in 2003 as a SoC design engineer, working on the development of mobile storage. From 2012 to 2019, he was in charge of the development team for controllers, a core component of SoCs based on NAND Flash. He developed and commercialized the world's first eMMC and UFS products, as well as various controllers for SATA/SAS/NVMe SSDs. He also developed the first-ever enterprise premium SSD with high endurance VNAND and has contributed significantly to the expansion of the storage market.
Jin-Hyeok received his B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University in 1989, 1991, and 1996, respectively. He also studied low-power circuits at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science.
Dimitri Kusnezov
Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov [Kooz-NETS-off] was confirmed as the Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) on September 8, 2022. As the science advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary, Dr. Kusnezov heads the research, development, innovation and testing and evaluation activities in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) operational Components and first responders across the nation. S&T is responsible for identifying operational gaps, conceptualizing art-of-the-possible solutions, and delivering operational results that improve the security and resilience of the nation.
Prior to DHS, Dr. Kusnezov was a theoretical physicist working at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) focusing on emerging technologies. He served in numerous positions, including the Deputy Under Secretary for Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Technology where he led efforts to drive AI innovation and bring it into DOE missions, business and operations, including through the creation of a new AI Office.
Dr. Kusnezov has served in scientific and national security positions, including Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, Chief Scientist for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Director of Advanced Simulation and Computing and the Director of the multi-billion-dollar National Security Science, Technology and Engineering programs. He created numerous programs, including for Minority Serving Institutions, international partners, private sector and philanthropic entities. He has worked across agencies to deliver major milestones such as DOE’s 10-year grand challenge for a 100 Teraflop supercomputer, and first of their kind and world’s fastest supercomputers.
Prior to DOE and his pursuit of public service, Dr. Kusnezov had a long career in academia where he published more than 100 articles and edited two books. He joined Yale University faculty where he was a professor for more than a decade in Theoretical Physics and served as a visiting professor at numerous universities around the world. Before this post, Dr. Kusnezov did a brief postdoc and was an instructor at Michigan State University, following a year of research at the Institut fur Kernphysik, KFA-Julich, in Germany. He earned his MS in Physics and Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Princeton University and received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Physics and in Pure Mathematics with highest honors from UC Berkeley.
Steve Pawlowski
Steve Pawlowski is corporate vice president of advanced computing solutions at Micron Technology. He is responsible for defining and developing innovative memory solutions for the enterprise and high performance computing markets.
Prior to joining Micron in July 2014, Steve was a senior fellow and the chief technology officer for Intel’s Data Center and Connected Systems Group. His extensive industry experience includes 31 years at Intel, where he held several high-level positions and led teams in the design and development of next-generation system architectures and computing platforms.
Steve earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer systems engineering technology from the Oregon Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute. He also holds 58 patents.
