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Intelligent data infrastructure for the AI era and beyond

Name: Intelligent data infrastructure for the AI era and beyond
Uploaded: 2026-10-05T16:00:00.000Z
Description: Join us to discover how NetApp's industry-leading innovations and platform-led strategy can help you lead in the AI era. Gain valuable insights and strategies to harness the full potential of your data with AI.

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Join us to discover how NetApp's industry-leading innovations and platform-led strategy can help you lead in the AI era. Gain valuable insights and strategies to harness the full potential of your data with AI.

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Gary Grider

Sr Director of Computing Technologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Gary Grider is the Senior Director for Computing Technologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gary helps shape the direction of technologies to be used at the laboratory for all HPC and AI endeavors. Until recently, Gary was the longtime Leader of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Los Alamos’ HPC Division operates one of the largest governmental supercomputing centers in the world focused on US National Security for the US/DOE National Nuclear Security Administration. Gary is responsible for managing the R&D portfolio for keeping the new technology pipeline full to provide solutions to problems in the Lab’s HPC/AI environment, through collaboration with university and industry partners.

Gary has 30 granted patents in the data high performance data management area and has been working in HPC and HPC related storage since, 1984.

George Kurian

CEO, NetApp

George Kurian is CEO at NetApp and a member of the Board of Directors. George joined the company in 2011, bringing his passion and relentless focus on execution. He was named CEO in June 2015. In his previous role as NetApp executive vice president of Product Operations, George was responsible for the strategy and development of NetApp’s product and solutions portfolio. Before that, George was senior vice president of the Data ONTAP Group, overseeing development of the Data ONTAP operating system. George joined NetApp as senior vice president of the Storage Solutions Group, where he was responsible for the solutions portfolio and joint partner technology integration. Prior to joining NetApp, George was vice president and general manager of the Application Networking and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems. George’s diverse background also includes the role of vice president at Akamai Technologies, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and leading software engineering and product management teams at Oracle Corporation. He is also an independent director on the Board of global health services company Cigna Corporation.

Syam Nair

Syam Nair ist Chief Product Officer bei NetApp, wo er die globale Produkt- und Engineering-Organisation des Unternehmens leitet. Mit einer Karriere, die Führungspositionen bei Microsoft, Salesforce und Zscaler umfasst, bringt Syam fundierte Expertise in Cloud-Infrastruktur, Datenplattformen und Unternehmenssoftware mit. Er hat einen Masterabschluss in Informatik von der Goa University und einen MBA in Strategie und Führung von der Kelley School of Business der Indiana University. Syam lebt mit seiner Familie in Seattle und genießt Wandern, Skifahren und das Erkunden der Weltgeschichte.

Arindam Banerjee

Vice President Engineering und Technical Fellow, NetApp

Arindam ist NetApps erster Technical Fellow. Er ist außerdem Chief Architect, VP of NetApp Platforms und verantwortet die Technologievision, Strategie und Architektur für NetApp. Derzeit leitet er die Architektur und das Design der nächsten Generation von KI-Infrastruktur und KI-Datenplattformen. Arindam verfügt über mehr als 25 Jahre Erfahrung mit verteilter Speicherinfrastruktur und Datenplattformen. Er ist seit 19 Jahren bei NetApp und hat zahlreiche Innovationen in den Bereichen Dateisysteme, verteilter Speicher und KI vorangetrieben. Arindam ist Autor bzw. Co-Autor von mehr als 50 Patenten und Patentveröffentlichungen, die im Bereich von Computerdatensystemen und -technologie über 500-mal zitiert wurden.