Jason Hardy is vice president of storage technology at NVIDIA, where he drives storage architecture and ecosystem alignment for accelerated computing and enterprise AI. With more than 20 years of experience spanning enterprise data infrastructure and AI platforms, he has led the development and scaling of high-performance storage systems as well as AI solutions supporting analytics, enterprise, and industrial workloads. Jason works across engineering, product, and industry partners to advance storage architectures designed for scale, performance, and reliability in modern AI environments. Previously, he served as vice president and CTO at Hitachi Vantara, where he led global technology strategy, platform innovation, and AI initiatives across the portfolio. 

Arindam è il primo Technical Fellow di NetApp. È anche Chief Architect, VP of NetApp Platforms e guida la visione tecnologica, la strategia e l'architettura di NetApp. Attualmente è a capo dell'architettura e della progettazione della prossima generazione di infrastrutture AI e piattaforme dati AI. Arindam ha oltre 25 anni di esperienza nelle infrastrutture di storage distribuito e nelle piattaforme dati. Lavora in NetApp da 19 anni e ha promosso numerose innovazioni nei settori dei file system, dello storage distribuito e dell'AI. Arindam è autore/coautore di oltre 50 brevetti e pubblicazioni di brevetti che hanno ricevuto oltre 500 citazioni come riferimento nel campo dei sistemi e delle tecnologie dei dati informatici.

Gunna Marripudi is a product builder for Cloud Storage at NetApp. In his role as a Vice President for Product Management at NetApp, he leads product teams defining and delivering cloud-native data platforms that power mission-critical workloads across public and hybrid cloud environments. He strives to deliver scalable cloud storage services for enterprise and cloud-native applications, and AI-driven capabilities that improve performance, resilience, and cost. Prior to NetApp, he ran product management for scale-out object storage and all-flash arrays at Western Digital. Earlier in his career, he was a principal storage software architect at Samsung and Hewlett Packard.