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 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.

As VP, Product Management at NetApp, Gunna Marripudi leads product teams that define and deliver cloud-native data platforms that power mission-critical workloads across public and hybrid cloud environments. His focus is on translating market signals into roadmap clarity and customer value—delivering scalable cloud storage services for enterprise and cloud-native applications, and AI-driven capabilities that improve performance, resilience, and cost.