Session Break Reception Expo open
TIME GENERAL SESSIONS EXPO
08:30 am - 09:30 am Registration open Expo open
09:30 am - 09:50 am QCT Opening Keynote- Pave the Way to 5G and AI
Speaker: Mike Yang, President of QCT
Speaker: Steve Cheng, President of Quanta Computer
 
09:50 am - 10:05 am Keynote- Enabling Intelligent Clouds
Speaker: James Jau, Vice President of Research & Development, QCT
 
10:05 am - 10:20 am Keynote- Cloud: Trends and Opportunities
Speaker: Kit Ho Chee, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group & General Manager, Global Cloud Sales Group, Intel
 
10:20 am - 10:35 am Keynote- Data Center Dynamics
Speaker: Charlie Kawwas, Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, Broadcom
 
10:35 am - 10:50 am Keynote- Samsung Memory Vision for Data-Driven Era
Speaker: Jin-Man Han, Senior Vice President, Head of Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering Team, Samsung
 
10:50 am - 11:05 am Keynote- Microsoft Azure Hardware Platform Strategy
Speaker: Mark Shaw, Director of Hardware Engineering, Microsoft
 
11:05 am - 11:20 am Keynote- Leveraging Hybrid Infrastructure at Dropbox
Speaker: Akhil Gupta, Vice President of Engineering, Dropbox
 
11:20 am - 11:35 am Keynote- Edge Computing, its breakthrough application and the view of its future from Cloudflare
Speaker: Nitin Rao, VP of Infrastructure, Cloudflare
 
11:35 am - 11:50 am Keynote- Alibaba’s AI Technology, Solution, and Platform
Speaker: Nishant Agarwal, Solutions Architect, Alibaba
 
11:50 am - 12:05 pm Keynote- QCT x IBM = Your Growth
Speaker: Sergio Saad, General Manager, WW TSS Multivendor Services and Offerings, Global Technology Services, IBM
 
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm Keynote- The AI Data Center
Speaker: Ian Buck, Vice President & General Manager, Tesla Data Center Business, NVIDIA
 
12:20 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Expo open
TIME TRACK 1 TRACK 2 EXPO
02:00 pm - 02:35 pm The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Accelerating resource-hungry AI applications call for a demand in performance beyond what could be delivered in the past. In this session, QCT, NVIDIA, and Intel discuss how they have coped with this gap using deep learning, inferencing, machine learning, and training models.
The Most Advanced JBOD from Project Olympus
Microsoft and QCT joined hands to develop a 4U, 88 HDD JBOD for next-generation Azure services under Project Olympus. Both companies will share insights into designing for highest performance and reliability in this presentation. Join this session for full details of the system, including its capacities and capabilities.
Expo open
02:35 pm - 03:10 pm SDS Panel: Data protection in the SDDC
Experts from Microsoft, Veeam, and Acuutech will discuss, in a panel format, about how they help customers balance data protection requirements and goals for the SDDC environment.
Expo open
03:10 pm - 03:45 pm 400G Switch and 100G Router Introduction
In this session QCT and Broadcom will introduce their 400G switch solution for data centers and 100G router solutions for telecom.
Big Data Analytics on Ceph-based Data Lake
QCT and Red Hat will discuss their joint SDS solutions and share a few use cases around Ceph and Big Data Lakes for Hadoop/Spark.
Expo open
03:45 pm - 04:20 pm Disaggregated Data Center at Scale
QCT has been a pioneer in Intel Rack Scale Design (RSD) In this session, Intel will disclose their RSD roadmap and use cases, while QCT showcases their latest developments on RSD version 2.3. This presentation will also feature Telco examples and a Pooled NVMe over Fabrics storage solution to complement the QCT Rackgo R rack-level product line.
SDS Panel: Object Storage in SDDC
Experts from IBM (Cleversafe), NetApp (StorageGRID), Cloudian (HyperStore), and Red Hat (Ceph) will discuss the following topics:
1. Object storage industry trends, adoption, and TCO
2. Popular use cases
3. Large deployments
4. Future directions
Expo open
04:20 pm - 04:40 pm Break   Expo open
04:40 pm - 05:30 pm AI Fireside Chat
05:45 pm - 08:30 pm Networking Reception at Club Auto Sport
* Speech topics are subject to change