Make GenAI real by deploying an E2E AI data engine for ONTAP, featuring NVIDIA

Shiva Subramanyam is the Vice President of AI Engineering at NetApp. With more than 16 years of expertise in developing large-scale distributed backend systems, Shiva spearheads the engineering efforts behind NetApp's cutting-edge solutions in AI, governance, and Kubernetes. His team is dedicated to advancing NetApp's mission to create the next-generation AI data engine, focusing on guardrails, governance, cloud-native, and AI-driven insights across enterprise storage. This work aids organizations in accelerating their AI journey in a compliant and secure manner. Before joining NetApp, Shiva held senior engineering positions at Salesforce, where he led cloud-native transformations and scaled resilient infrastructure for thousands of customers worldwide.

Tore is a product leader with 20+ years building AI-powered, category-defining products at Microsoft, Google, and now NetApp. One standout achievement was leading the concept, pitch, build, and launch of Microsoft Office’s first machine-learning stack and AI features, reshaping how hundreds of millions work. Across roles, he has repeatedly spotted high-impact opportunities, set vision and roadmaps, developed world-class teams, and forged product and partner ecosystems that have delivered breakthrough innovation. His work spans product strategy, design, UX, data platforms, and GTM, consistently turning new technology into durable customer value at global scale. At NetApp, he’s helping shape and lead the company’s AI vision and product portfolio—uniting data discovery, security and privacy, transformation, and semantic search/retrieval to bring governed, cutting-edge, production-ready AI to the enterprise - so organizations ship high-scale, high-perf, compliant AI products much faster.\n

Leela Tamma is an engineering executive with over two decades of leadership in AI/ML, cloud, and enterprise-scale data infrastructure. He leads the AI Data Engine at NetApp, advancing intelligent platforms that unify storage, compute, and AI to accelerate enterprise innovation. Previously, he held senior roles at Microsoft, Rubrik, and Workday, where he drove AI/ML platforms, data protection, enterprise collaboration, and large-scale infrastructure—scaling global teams and delivering mission-critical services used by hundreds of millions worldwide. Leela holds a Ph.D. focused on machine learning and image processing and is recognized for translating advanced AI into practical, cloud-agnostic solutions. He is passionate about building high-performing teams and making AI impactful, scalable, and transformative for enterprises.

Jacob Liberman is a director of product management in the NVIDIA Enterprise Product Group. He and his team build cloud-native generative AI solutions. Prior to NVIDIA, Jacob held product management and engineering roles at Red Hat, AMD, and Dell\n