Keynote Speaker

Lawrence Ying

Uber Tech Lead at Google Inc

Thursday, August 9th, 7:15PM-9PM

Crowne Plaza Ballroom

Importance of magnetic recording innovation in an era of explosive Cloud and AI data growth [ DOWNLOAD]

The advent of Cloud and AI have increased the "value of data" by orders of magnitude than ever before. More data are being generated and retained at a faster rate, and we really need everyone's help to accelerate magnetic recording technology improvement rate. Magnetic storage technology will, for the next decade and beyond, continue to play a critical role in forming the fundamental storage building blocks in helping Cloud and AI scale economically as the uncontrollably-explosive exponential growth rate and market demand continues.

In this talk, Lawrence will explain what "value of data" means, provide particular examples of explosive data growth in Cloud or AI, and finally paint a picture on the critical role that magnetic recording technologies play in the various Cloud storage tiers, both today and in the future

Biography

Lawrence Ying is an Uber Tech Lead at Google, currently focusing on Google Platforms System Architecture innovations. He was previously the Tech Lead of the overall Platforms Storage Team, the Platforms Storage Analytics Team, and the Storage TCO Team at Google. He is fluent in distributed storage system architecture, design, and optimization for Cloud, and is one of the co-authors of the "Disks for Data Centers" whitepaper.

 

 

 

Conference chair
Kumar Srinivasan
Western Digital
kumar.srinivasan@wdc.com

 

Program co-chairs
Ganping Ju
Seagate Technology
ganping.a.ju@seagate.com

 

Christian Kaiser
Western Digital
christian.kaiser@wdc.com

 

Goran Mihajlovic
Western Digital
goran.mihajlovic@wdc.com

 

Yuchen Zhou
yuchen_zhou@hotmail.com

 

Poster co-chairs
Michael Alex
Western Digital
michael.alex@wdc.com

 

Fatih Erden
Seagate Technology
fatih.erden@seagate.com

 

Local co-chairs
Vitaliy Lomakin
UC San Diego
vlomakin@eng.ucsd.edu

 

Daniel Lottis
Western Digital
daniel.lottis@wdc.com

 

Publication co-chairs
Simon Greaves
Tohoku University
simon@riec.tohoku.ac.jp


Yuepeng Zhang
Argonne National Laboratory
yuepeng@anl.gov

 

Publicity chair
Tiffany Santos
Western Digital
tiffany.santos@wdc.com

 

Treasurer
Chris Rea
Seagate Technology
chris.j.rea@seagate.com