MSST 2026
1
June 2026
Day 1 – Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50am Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00pm Session 1: Access Control in the AI Era
10:50 – 10:50am “LANL: Access Controlled AI Context” – Jason Lee & Gary Grider
10:50 – 11:10am Break
11:10 – 12:00pm “Hammerspace: World of Distributed Data”
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 02:15pm Session 2: Archive (Part 1)
01:00 – 01:25pm “Leil: Deep Distributed File System” – David Gerstein
01:25 – 01:50pm “Spectra: View from Robotics/Automation” – Matt Ninesling
01:50 – 02:15pm “Versity: Tiering Software” – Meghan McClelland
02:15 – 02:35pm Break
02:35 – 05:00pm Session 3: Archive (Part 2)
02:35 – 03:00pm “Cerabyte: Ceramic Storage” – Steffen Hellmold
03:00 – 03:25pm “Seagate: HAMR/SMR” – Riyan Mendonsa
03:25 – 03:45pm Break
03:45 – 04:10pm “IBM: Media Roadmaps” – Simeon Furrer
04:10 – 04:35pm “Bacula Systems” – Rick Stevens
04:35 – 05:00pm “West Oxford Advisors” – Matt Klusas
05:00 – 05:10pm Day 1 Wrap-up
2
June 2026
Day 2 – Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50am Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00pm Session 1: Session 1: Graph/corporate memory/XL & long-lasting context
10:50 – 10:25am “vauiltIQ: Context Memory” – Krishna Maheshwari
10:25 – 10:50am “Weka: Neural Mesh Augmented Memory Grid” – Valentin Bercovici
10:50 – 11:10am Break
11:10 – 11:35pm “Hammerspace: Context Memory”
11:35 – 12:00pm “SK Hynix: Inference Context Memory Storage for LLM serving using CXL Hybrid Memory (SSD backed)” – Hakbeom Jang
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 01:50pm Keynote “Next generation smart Storage – OFP & Slip Stream” David Flynn, Hammerspace
01:50 – 02:10pm Break
02:10 – 04:45pm Session 2: OFP
02:10 – 02:35pm “Meta: Use cases for next generation smart storage” – Madhavan Ravi
02:35 – 03:00pm “Xsight Labs: DPU managed Smart Storage” – Ted Weatherford
03:00 – 03:30pm Break
03:30 – 03:55pm “Samsung: DPU managed Smart Storage” – Dongjoo Seo
03:55 – 04:20pm Kioxia
04:20 – 04:45pm Solidigm – Jonathan Hinkle & Alan
Bumgarner
04:45 – 05:00pm Day 2 Wrap-up
3
June 2026
Day 3 – Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50am Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00pm Session 1: Shared, Computational, Tiered Memory (Part 1)
10:50 – 10:25am “Unifabfix: CXL/UAL Memory Systems” – Ronen Hyatt
10:25 – 10:50am “Micron: Fabric Attached Memory File System Update” – John Groves
10:50 – 11:10am Break
11:10 – 11:35pm “SK Hynix: Disaggregated Memory Pooling” – Jongryool Kim
11:35 – 12:00pm “Marvell: Scalable Fabric attached Memory” – Ravi Mahatme
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 01:20pm “PeakAIO, LANL: pNFS open-source project update” – John Harechmak, Gary Grider/Brian Atkinson
01:20 – 03:15pm Session 2: Shared, Computational, Tiered Memory (Part 2)
01:20 – 01:30pm “CMU/LANL: Distributed threads for multi-node shared memory” – Chuck Cranor / Gary Grider
01:30 – 01:55pm “Mext: Smart Memory Tiering” – Gary Smerdon
01:55 – 02:25pm Break
02:25 – 02:50pm “Elephance: MemOS/Smarter Memory Use” – Daniel Bittman
02:50 – 03:15pm “SK hynix: LLM Training using Computational CSL Hybrid Memory (SSD backed)” – Younghoon Min
03:15 – 03:30pm Day 3 Wrap-up
03:30 – 05:00pm RAMAC Birthday Celebration
4
June 2026
Day 4 – Research Track
TBA
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June 2026
Day 5 – Research Track
TBA
