BOOTH #4811
Booth Presentation Schedule
Please join us for presentations with NetApp experts and partners.
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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 | Los Alamos National Laboratory
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!