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.

Arindam is NetApp’s first Technical Fellow. He is also the Chief Architect, VP of NetApp Platforms and leads the technology vision, strategy and architecture for NetApp. He is currently spearheading the architecture and design for next generation of AI infrastructure and AI data platforms. Arindam has more than 25 years of experience in distributed storage infrastructure and data platforms. He has been in NetApp for 19 years and has championed many innovations in the areas of filesystems, distributed storage, and AI. Arindam has authored/co-authored more than 50 patents and patent publications that have received over 500 citations for reference in the field of computer data systems and technology.