BOOTH #4811
Booth Presentation Schedule
Please join us for presentations with NetApp experts and partners.
Click button beneath each session listing to Add to Calendar to secure your spot.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 16TH
7:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
8:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
8:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17TH
10:00 AM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
10:30 AM
Advancements in Lustre with TLC and NetApp
Peter Jones | The Lustre Collective
Cory Spitz | NetApp
Come learn about NetApp's newest portfolio offering - NetApp AFX - which provides a disaggregated approach to NetApp ONTAP for greater scale, performance, and capacity density. This new platform delivers all of the feature richness of ONTAP while bringing new possibilities for HPC and other high-performance workloads.
11:00 AM
Same sbatch, new system of record
Matt Bonyak | Domino
HPC runs the biggest jobs but often keeps the fewest records. A simulation runs for three days, its output lands in results-final-v2, and six months later nobody can trace the inputs, code, or environment behind the reported results. As AI workloads move onto the same clusters, that gap becomes more costly.
In this session, we'll show how Domino adds a system of record to Slurm without changing existing workflows. With real Slurm managed by Slinky, scripts still run through sbatch, squeue, and sacct. Domino Workspaces serve as login nodes, where coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor can write and submit jobs, with prompts routed through the LLM Gateway and logged alongside each job. Domino captures requested and actual resources, environment and code revisions, file versions, and NetApp data snapshots at execution time.
We'll demonstrate an unchanged Slurm script, workers autoscaling across x86 or ARM tiers and back to zero, and one-click reproduction of a months-old run—including its original environment and data.
11:30 AM
Empowering the AI Era with Scalable Infrastructure
Jesse Lin | Supermicro
As enterprises race to build dedicated AI factories, compute density and data pipelines must scale in balance to avoid bottlenecks. This session explores the strategic partnership between Supermicro and NetApp, highlighting co-engineered reference architectures and high-throughput data platforms designed to accelerate AI training, inference, and agentic workloads. Discover how pre-validated infrastructure helps organizations overcome power, cooling, and data challenges to bring AI solutions online faster.
12:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:30 PM
Query Everything, Move Nothing: AI-Ready Data with Starburst & NetApp
Kyle Payne | Starburst
Storage and infrastructure teams want their data AI-ready without building new pipelines or new copies. Starburst and NetApp already let you query structured data in databases, and structured and semi-structured data in data lakehouses, all in place on NetApp storage. NetApp's AI Data Engine (AIDE) extends that same approach to unstructured content, starting with metadata today and moving toward full semantic search. Join Starburst's Kyle Payne to see what an AI-ready data estate looks like, and how to get there without moving a single file.
1:00 PM
NVIDIA AI Reference Architectures: Designing AI factories for performance, predictability and scale
John Fragalla | NVIDIA
Sateesh Iyer | NVIDIA
David Arnette | NetApp
AI factories require a full stack infrastructure approach where compute, storage and networking are designed together to ensure predictability and performance for maximum GPU utilization. This session will explain how NetApp is working with NVIDIA and our compute and networking partners to simplify Enterprise AI deployments with validated AI Reference Architectures. Whether you are looking to do agentic AI, inferencing workloads or training and fine-tuning, an AI Reference Architecture can help you get the most out of your investment today and plan for growth in the future.
1:30 PM
NetApp Novus: Enterprise Scale-Out pNFS Metadata for Gigawatt scale AI
Steven Pruchniewski | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
2:00 PM
Lenovo AI Factory Solutions
Hapsara Sukasdadi | Lenovo
Explore why successful AI deployments depend as much on data architecture as compute architecture. Learn how organizations are modernizing storage, governance, and data movement strategies to support the next generation of AI workloads.
2:30 PM
The statistical computing environment meets the cluster
Matt Bonyak | Domino
Pharma R&D has HPC too, under other names. Trial simulations and sensitivity analyses with thousands of replicates run on a Slurm cluster next door to a GxP statistical computing environment, with scp as the integration between them. When a regulator asks which replicates produced the number in the submission, someone goes looking.
This session shows an R simulation study parallelized with future and mirai, fanned out to Slurm workers from the same place the statistician writes the analysis. The code is the same as what ran on a laptop; only the backend changes. Every replicate is tracked as a job, the results land in versioned shared storage with a NetApp snapshot taken at the point of analysis, and the software environment and code revision are captured with them. Compute spins up for the study and releases when it ends. When the regulator asks which replicates produced the number, you look it up.
3:00 PM
Feed the GPUs
Minith Patel | NetApp
When storage can’t keep up, expensive accelerators sit idle, and AI and HPC jobs now share the same clusters and the same bottlenecks. This session explains why metadata and data contention limits GPU utilization, and walks through a sample architecture that splits the two planes using standard NFS/pNFS clients. We’ll compare NetApp EF-Series, AFX and the new Novus architecture so you can match the right engine to your tier, from parallel file system scratch to AI-factory scale. Bring your GPU count and target feed rate for a live sizing conversation.
3:30 PM
NetApp AutoEdge Intelligence: AI on the Edge
Garrett Raymond | NetApp
Jan Beyen | NetApp
NetApp AutoEdge brings localized computing to where you need it. By putting Localized AI determination in close to proximity to your source you can reduce bandwidth constraints, increase accuracy, and allow autonomous decisioning. Leveraging NetApp ONTAP you are able to bring security and fleet wide management enmass remotely. Learn how NetApp's data fabric, and reference design can bring intelligence where you need it most.
4:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
4:30 PM
Data, Context, Intelligence: Fueling Agentic AI with NVIDIA and NetApp
Emily Chen | NVIDIA
As agentic AI reasons across more data and longer context, every token depends on efficient access to both enterprise knowledge and working memory. Explore how NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NetApp provide the compute and data foundation for these workloads. See how NVIDIA STX extends this story by addressing growing demands on accelerated storage and context memory. Discover how compute, data, and context work together to improve token throughput and AI factory efficiency.
5:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
5:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18TH
10:30 AM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
11:00 AM
From file index to qualified alloy: Domino & Los Alamos National Lab
Paul Jojy | Domino
Gary Grider | Domino
Labs, agencies, and programs often hold decades of sensitive experiment and test records on HPC file systems and tape that nobody can search, with a rule that none of it leaves the enclave. Leveraging that trove of data into an AI workflow is complicated due to access and data movement restrictions, and every query takes a sysadmin and an afternoon.
This session walks through a materials discovery workflow in Domino that keeps every step inside the security boundary. GUFI (Grand Unified File Index), from Los Alamos National Lab, returns matching records on prior materials experiments in under a second across petabytes and respects permissions on the underlying files. Domino connects to the existing GUFI system and lets an agent search it. Matching records pull into a governed NetApp Volume, where a surrogate ML ensemble trained on that data generates and ranks new candidate alloys. A Slurm array job then runs hot isostatic pressing (HIP) simulations to qualify the candidates, and a qualification agent issues a verdict with a report.
The data access, HPC orchestration, model training and versioning, and the process verdict happen in a one governed, auditable environment. Domino deploys into your accredited environment, on-prem, air-gapped, or in cloud, and inherits its boundary. And the pattern fits any large archive of records you can’t move.
11:30 AM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:30 PM
AI Factories Need Data Factories
Cecile Kellam | NetApp
Explore why successful AI deployments depend as much on data architecture as compute architecture. Learn how organizations are modernizing storage, governance, and data movement strategies to support the next generation of AI workloads.
1:00 PM
From Billions of Files to AI-Ready Data: Unlocking Intelligence Across the HPC Data Estate
Jenn Feck | Diskover Data
Ben Mcdonald | Diskover Data
Enterprises running HPC and AI workloads are sitting on billions of files spread across heterogeneous storage, yet most have little insight into what that data is, where it lives, or whether it is fit for AI. In this session, we will discuss how Diskover is creating a heterogeneous metadata catalog that gives customers visibility into their most critical datasets across the entire data estate. We will show how enterprises can use that catalog to identify quality datasets and feed them into NetApp AIDE to maximize AI outputs efficiently and automatically. Attendees will leave with a practical approach for turning sprawling unstructured data into curated, AI ready data.
1:30 PM
NetApp Novus: Enterprise Scale-Out pNFS Metadata for Gigawatt scale AI
Steven Pruchniewski | NetApp
Parallel NFS solved the data path; the metadata path is still the bottleneck. NetApp Novus builds on the pNFS flex file layout (RFC 8435) with a metadata tier — the Novus Data Director — of stateless daemons over a distributed in-memory key-value store, using flat constant-time lookups rather than directory sharding.
2:00 PM
From Enterprise Data to Agent Intelligence
Daniel Glogowski | NVIDIA
AI agents are already tackling real work, and their effectiveness depends on the context they have. This session explains how agents reason, use tools, and actively find, evaluate, and curate the information they need. We’ll explore what it takes to make that context governed, secure, current, and accurate—and how NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) and NVIDIA bring the pieces together. Learn how NetApp AIDE’s data discovery and governance capabilities, NVIDIA Nemotron models, and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit help turn enterprise data into context agents can use to answer questions, make decisions, and take action.
2:30 PM
Outcome-based agentic AI, right where your data lives
Brian Sathianathan | Iterate.ai
Your enterprise data is already governed, protected and sitting in ONTAP. Most of it is never put to work. In this session I’ll show how Generate by Iterate.ai turns that data into agents that deliver results you can measure: denied claims recovered, cycle times cut from days to minutes, and service teams answering in seconds. It all runs privately on NetApp, with nothing leaving the perimeter. Bring your hardest use case. We’ll show you how to tie it to an outcome and get it to production.
3:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
3:30 PM
Accelerate cloud transformation with GCNV
Dean Hildebrand | Google Cloud
Cloud transformation succeeds when customers can modernize without disrupting critical applications and data. Learn how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) helps NetApp customers move mission-critical workloads to Google Cloud with enterprise performance, availability, protection, governance, and operational consistency. Discover support for file services, virtualization, databases, EDA/HPC, analytics, and AI, while simplifying migration and operations through ONTAP-mode, AIOps, clones, and automation.
4:00 PM
Scaling Agentic AI with NetApp & Intel
Nichole Paschal | NetApp
Andy Sayare | NetApp
Brian Sathianathan | Iterate
Learn how NetApp AIPod™ Mini with Intel® simplifies enterprise AI adoption with an inference-first, on-premises Agentic AI platform powered by Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® GPUs. By enabling customers to buy—not build—AI solutions, AIPod Mini accelerates deployment while keeping data secure.
4:30 PM
Introducing NetApp EF80L: Lustre on E-Series for HPC and AI
Nick Elvester | NetApp
As agentic AI reasons across more data and longer context, every token depends on efficient access to both enterprise knowledge and working memory. Explore how NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NetApp provide the compute and data foundation for these workloads. See how NVIDIA STX extends this story by addressing growing demands on accelerated storage and context memory. Discover how compute, data, and context work together to improve token throughput and AI factory efficiency.
5:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
5:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19TH
10:30 AM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
11:00 AM
Root Cause in One Question: Lustre Diagnostics with Harvest MCP
Nick Elvester | NetApp
When a user reports a slow job, the answer usually spans two layers: the Lustre servers and the storage underneath them. Tracing it today means moving between Lustre dashboards, lfs and lctl, storage dashboards and the array management UI, then mapping OSTs to array volumes by hand. This session shows how NetApp Harvest, an open-source telemetry collector, and the Lustre exporter write to a single Prometheus database, and how the Harvest MCP server lets an AI client such as Copilot or Claude query both layers in plain English. We walk through how NetApp Harvest and an LLM can dramatically simplify troubleshooting at scale.
11:30 AM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
1:00 PM
Feed Every Core: Enterprise File Storage for HPC on AWS
Mitch Becker | AWS
Madhu Vellakal | AWS
HPC teams in high tech, energy, automotive manufacturing, and financial services, among others, face the same storage tension: feed thousands of cores at full throughput, keep petabytes of project data accessible, and control cost. In this session, learn how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP meets that challenge as a single, multi-protocol file system for HPC on AWS. We will discuss how customers use FSx to burst workloads to AWS without creating full copies, create instant space-efficient copies for development / test environments, and tier data to reduce cost. You’ll leave with a framework for matching HPC workloads to FSx storage at scale.
1:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
2:00 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!
2:30 PM
Intelligent data. Unmatched results. Activate your AI Advantage with NetApp.
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Whether you’re running HPC or enterprise AI workloads, you need to keep your GPUs fed with secure, up-to-date data. You need to unify your entire data estate into one view, for any data type, and make it accessible for any workload—across on-prem and hybrid multicloud. And you need a solid, intelligent data infrastructure that lets you scale quickly and securely. NetApp delivers all of the above— and this fun 7-minute overview explains how... while testing your trivia knowledge as you compete for bragging rights and prizes!