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. 

아린담은 NetApp의 첫 번째 테크니컬 펠로우입니다. 그는 또한 NetApp 플랫폼 부문 수석 아키텍트 겸 부사장으로서 NetApp의 기술 비전, 전략 및 아키텍처를 이끌고 있습니다. 현재 차세대 AI 인프라 및 AI 데이터 플랫폼의 아키텍처 및 설계를 주도하고 있습니다. 아린담은 분산 스토리지 인프라 및 데이터 플랫폼 분야에서 25년 이상의 경력을 보유하고 있습니다. 그는 NetApp에서 19년간 근무하며 파일 시스템, 분산 스토리지 및 AI 분야에서 수많은 혁신을 이끌어 왔습니다. 아린담은 컴퓨터 데이터 시스템 및 기술 분야에서 500회 이상의 인용을 기록한 50건 이상의 특허 및 특허 논문을 저술하거나 공동 저술하였습니다.

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.