Monday, March 16, 2026
1:15pm
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
1:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
2:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
2:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
3:15
SUPERCHARGING AI PIPELINES WITH NETAPP + CIRRASCALE
Al Lucarelli | Cirrascale
Al Lucarelli, Cirrascale VP of Sales, joins us for a look at how NetApp’s high‑performance storage, combined with CirraScale’s intelligent data orchestration, keep GPUs fully fed. Learn how to eliminate data bottlenecks, speed up training and experimentation with zero‑copy datasets, and scale hybrid AI workloads without re‑architecting your pipelines. This session is ideal for teams looking to maximize GPU utilization and accelerate AI outcomes.
3:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
4:15
WHY NETAPP FOR AI AGENTS: OPERATIONALIZING
AGENTIC WORKFLOWS WITH MCP AND
INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Minith Patel | NetApp
AI agents and pipelines need fast, secure access to data and actions. This session shows how NetApp accelerates agentic workflows using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and an intelligent data infrastructure. Learn how ONTAP APIs with OAuth/RBAC, AIDE governance, and StorageGRID tiering keep agents safe while sustaining GPU throughput. We’ll cover build options (DGX + EF/AFF) and turnkey solutions (AIPod, FlexPod AI) for hybrid environments, plus practical MCP patterns for dataset discovery and automated storage operations. Leave with a blueprint to scale AI agents and pipelines confidently.
4:45
ACCELERATING AGENTIC AI SYSTEMS WITH NETAPP + UNION.AI: FROM PILOT TO PRODUCTION IN HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS
Chris Matteson | Union
Organizations building agentic AI systems face critical challenges: pilot purgatory, fragmented infrastructure, and data sovereignty requirements. Union.ai's enterprise-grade orchestration platform seamlessly integrates with NetApp ONTAP to enable secure, scalable AI development—from multi-agent systems to complex ML pipelines. Learn how this joint solution helps organizations achieve 90% reduction in iteration cycles and 2x faster time-to-market while maintaining complete data sovereignty.
5:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
5:45
DESIGN, DEPLOY AND OPERATE WITH FLEXPOD AI
Bobby Oommen | NetApp
FlexPod combines Cisco compute, networking, and security with NetApp data management to support a broad range of AI use cases, offering a tightly integrated infrastructure and broad range of validated designs. The session highlights Cisco’s AI POD architectures and the Cisco Secure AI Factory, demonstrating how customers can accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security, scalability, and operational simplicity-- from model training and inference to data pipelines and hybrid cloud deployments. Geared towards technical decision‑makers and architects, this session showcases how FlexPod delivers a trusted, flexible foundation for building and operating AI solutions at scale, reducing complexity and speeding time to value.
6:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
6:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
Tuesday, March 17, 2025
12:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
12:45
EF80 + LUSTRE: A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR SCALABLE AI STORAGE
Brad Katz | NetApp
This lightning talk introduces EF80 and its role in delivering predictable, scalable performance for Lustre‑based parallel file systems. We will review a concise Lustre reference architecture and highlight measured performance benefits for AI and HPC workloads.
1:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
1:45
FROM PODS TO PLATFORMS: HOW NETAPP AND NVIDIA POWER ENTERPRISE AI FACTORIES
Mackinnon Giddings | NetApp
Scaling AI from experiment to production demands a new model: the AI Factory. Explore how years of NetApp and NVIDIA co-engineering have produced validated, full-stack AI infrastructure and new modular reference architectures that help enterprises achieve repeatable AI at scale.
2:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
2:45
SOLVE YOUR AI DATA CHALLENGES WITH NETAPP'S ENTERPRISE DATA PLATFORM
Ingo Fuchs | NetApp
AI projects don't stall because of compute. They stall because data isn't ready. Learn how the NetApp Data Platform, including AIDE, intelligent metadata services, and disaggregated storage, makes enterprise data AI-ready on-prem, in the cloud, and everywhere in between.
3:15
AI IS EASY TO START, HARD TO SCALE: MEET THE NETAPP DATA ENGINE FOR PRODUCTION
Ruchika Kharwar | NVIDIA
AI pilots are easy to launch—but moving to production requires something far more foundational: a data architecture built for scale, governance, and performance. In this session, we explore how the NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) provides the enterprise-grade data foundation needed to operationalize AI. From ensuring high-performance access to AI ready data, enforcing consistent data governance, security, lineage, and compliance, AIDE bridges the gap between experimentation and production. Attendees will learn how a unified data platform eliminates silos, supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and enables AI workloads to scale confidently—without compromising control or trust.
3:45
HOW CDW AI FACTORY AND NETAPP ACCELERATE TIME TO VALUE ON AI WORKLOADS
Todd King | CDW
The CDW AI Factory Team assists customers looking to take AI projects from business use cases to ROI-driven solutions. Partnering with NetApp and NVIDIA, CDW provides AI tooling and enterprise solutions, while pioneering new solutions to maximize customer value.
4:15
BUILDING THE AI-READY ENTERPRISE. BUILDING SECURE AI INFRASTRUCTURE WITH NETAPP + VULTR
Kevin Cochrane | Vultr
AI workloads require secure, high performance infrastructure that unifies compute, data, and real time intelligence. In this session, NetApp and Vultr present a scalable reference architecture that combines global GPU infrastructure with intelligent data management to support low latency, AI driven applications. Practical examples, including gaming and hospitality, will be available for deeper exploration after the session.
4:45
UNSTRUCTURED DATA READINESS: ACCELERATING AI PIPELINES ACROSS PETABYTE-SCALE HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE
Olivier Rivard | Diskover
Enterprise AI initiatives often stall at the first hurdle: finding, qualifying, and preparing the right data, which is scattered across multi-vendor storage environments. Diskover's universal data cataloging platform, combined with NetApp's AI Data Engine, creates an end-to-end pipeline for AI data readiness. We'll show how organizations can catalog billions of files across any storage vendor, intelligently curate subsets for AI workflows, and continuously synchronize data changes—reducing data preparation from months to days. Featuring real examples from media production and life sciences, Diskover will outline a practical approach to solving the "AI data readiness" challenge at scale.
5:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
5:45
AGENTIC AI FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING: FROM WAFER DATA WORKFLOWS TO INTELLIGENT EDA SYSTEMS
Janhavi Giri | NetApp
As semiconductor design and manufacturing evolves, complexity of devices and variability in processes are driving significant computational demands. This talk introduces a new class of Agentic AI architectures tailored to tackle the challenges of scale, latency, and decision-making in contemporary EDA and fabrication workflows-- highlighting system design choices related to data models, storage, and compute pipelines, providing practical insights for innovation in circuits and systems. You’ll leave with actionable strategies for accelerating progress, by integrating agentic AI into the complete silicon lifecycle.
6:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
6:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
12:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
12:45
NVIDIA AI DATA PLATFORM EXECUTION THROUGH WWT WITH NETAPP AI DATA ENGINE
Derek Elbert | WWT
NVIDIA AI Data Platform creates a unified, GPU-accelerated foundation that enables enterprises to securely manage, process, and deliver AI-ready data at scale. By separating data infrastructure from compute infrastructure, organizations gain flexibility, security, and performance advantages that traditional storage architectures simply cannot deliver. This session explores how NetApp AI Data Engine, coupled with execution from World Wide Technology, makes this a reality for enterprises.
1:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
1:45
BUILDING GOVERNED GENAI ON ENTERPRISE DATA
Nick Jablonski | Domino Data Lab
Enterprises are under pressure to deliver GenAI innovation, but face the reality of sensitive data, strict regulations, and heavy compliance reviews. The challenge: building GenAI applications that are both powerful and governed. Discover how Domino Data Lab and NetApp together provide the foundation for governed GenAI on enterprise data.
2:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
2:45
AI ANYWHERE: CHOOSING THE RIGHT PLACE TO RUN YOUR AI WORKLOADS (AND MOVE DATA SEAMLESSLY)
Chris Kapusta| GDT
AI workloads are no longer confined to a single environment. Today’s organizations run AI across public cloud, GPU hyperscalers, edge locations, and on-prem data centers — each with different tradeoffs in cost, performance, security, and operational complexity. In this session, GDT will share a practical framework for deciding where AI workloads should run, and how NetApp enables seamless data mobility and a consistent data experience across environments. The result: faster AI outcomes without being locked into one platform.
3:15
VIEWS ON NEXT GENERATION AI DATA PLATFORMS
AND STORAGE FOR AI
Harish Arora | NVIDIA
Harish Arora joins us to share NVIDIA architecture recommendations on rack-level AI Data Platforms, and offer his views on optimizing storage for AI with NetApp.
3:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
4:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
4:45
FROM BLUEPRINT TO INSIGHT: YOUR SOLUTION TO AI FATIGUE
Dean Chyla | Insight
Many AI initiatives stall after the demo, creating real AI fatigue. This session shows a practical path from NVIDIA blueprints to deployed customer solutions in production. Learn how teams rapidly adapt blueprints to real-world problems, develop and validate GPU-accelerated AI in the cloud, and then deploy on‑premises using NetApp’s data mobility to move data and workloads seamlessly. See how Insight’s pre-bundled services and expert deployment turn reference architectures into turnkey solutions—reducing risk, accelerating time-to-value, and delivering AI that actually makes it to production.
5:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
5:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
6:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
6:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
Thursday, March 19, 2026
11:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
11:45
NETAPP FOR AI: BUILDING AN INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE THAT KEEPS GPUs FED—SECURELY, EFFICIENTCY, AT SCALE
Minith Patel | NetApp
AI pipelines stall when data can’t keep pace with GPUs. This session explores how NetApp accelerates every stage—ingest, curate, train, fine‑tune, infer—by combining high‑performance ONTAP storage with intelligent data services. Learn how disaggregated architectures sustain throughput for training, while hybrid options like Azure NetApp Files and StorageGRID tiering optimize cost without slowing inference. We’ll cover build paths with NVIDIA DGX and NetApp EF/AFF systems, plus turnkey AIPod and FlexPod AI solutions. Leave with a blueprint to streamline data movement, maximize GPU utilization, and scale AI pipelines securely and efficiently.
12:15
DESIGN, DEPLOY AND OPERATE WITH FLEXPOD AI
Bobby Oommen | NetApp
FlexPod combines Cisco compute, networking, and security with NetApp data management to support a broad range of AI use cases, offering a tightly integrated infrastructure and broad range of validated designs. The session highlights Cisco’s AI POD architectures and the Cisco Secure AI Factory, demonstrating how customers can accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security, scalability, and operational simplicity-- from model training and inference to data pipelines and hybrid cloud deployments. Geared towards technical decision‑makers and architects, this session showcases how FlexPod delivers a trusted, flexible foundation for building and operating AI solutions at scale, reducing complexity and speeding time to value.
12:45
EF80 + LUSTRE: A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR SCALEABLE AI STORAGE
Brad Katz | NetApp
This lightning talk introduces EF80 and its role in delivering predictable, scalable performance for Lustre‑based parallel file systems. We will review a concise Lustre reference architecture and highlight measured performance benefits for AI and HPC workloads.
1:15
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
1:45
GET AI-READY WITH NETAPP: THE TOP 3 CHALLENGE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
NetApp's AI data storage platform is designed for the Enterprise. Join us for this brief overview of the new NetApp AI Data Engine, built on NVIDIA AIDP, and take our Top 3 Challenge for your chance to win great prizes. NetApp turns your entire data estate into AI fuel-- and in a few short minutes we'll show you how!
GTC Session
Date Thursday, March 19th | Time 9:00am-9:40am
S82103- TURN YOUR DATA ESTATE INTO AI FUEL
VMware users navigating cloud migration face challenges such as high TCO, complex data migration, and inconsistent hybrid cloud operations. Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) offers a seamless path to migrate VMware workloads to AWS without replatforming or refactoring. When your Amazon EVS data is stored on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, you have opened a new range of possibilities for enterprise data management. Your data can seamlessly migrate from on-premises to cloud. You can
protect your data with Autonomous Ransomware Protection. And you can optimize your storage utilization with enterprise storage features normally found from on-premises solutions. Enterprises sit on massive data estates, often 100+ exabytes of unstructured information. Yet 95% of AI pilots fail to reach production. The problem isn't a lack of data. It's that the data isn't ready AI-ready. In this session, discover how NetApp and NVIDIA are transforming enterprise data infrastructure into an AI-ready data platform that fuels AI factories. Learn how NetApp AI Data Engine, designed on NVIDIA's AI Data Platform, refines raw enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence. See how NetApp AFX and validated AIPod configurations deliver the performance foundation you're AI factory demands. The result is agentic AI that can truly understand and unlock the value hidden across your business.
Tore Sundelin | NetApp
