Arvind Jagannath
Arvind Jagannath works in Product Management at VMware. With over 25 years of experience in the industry working on networking, storage, embedded, and kernel development, he currently leads infrastructure and core platform enablement for vSphere, working across the VMware ecosystem of server, IO, and storage partners. Arvind most recently drove platform product management at Cohesity and NetApp. Arvind holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth school of Business and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering.
Samir Rajadnya
Samir Rajadnya is currently a Principal Architect in Microsoft's Azure Hardware Architecture team, which is responsible for long-range technology pathfinding for future Azure Cloud systems. Within AHA, Samir is part of a team responsible for future memory systems. This team investigates future architecture directions for Azure and serves as the primary architecture contact point in technical relationships with compute, memory, and device partners.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Samir spent many years innovating in memory, storage, and networking. Samir was key architect to productize 3DXP technology at Micron, architect, and designer at disruptive storage startup DSSD. Samir was SOC architect and designer at Juniper Networks, Netronome and Intel.
Samir has served as part of multiple industry standards bodies throughout his career, including CXL and CCIX.
Samir received his Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Specialties: Computer architecture, memory technologies, storage technologies, SOC architecture
Sandra Shpilberg
Sandra Shpilberg (she/her, Hispanic) is the co-founder and CEO of Adnexi, a leading Key Opinion Leader discovery & mapping solution for biopharma companies developing the next generation of life-changing and life-saving treatments. Adnexi's mission is to transform massive data into actionable strategies to improve KOL relationships and diversity in clinical trials. Prior to this, Shpilberg started and built Seeker Health, a digital patient-finding platform to accelerate the development of treatments for patients who really need them. Seeker Health was acquired by EVERSANA. Prior to these entrepreneurial pursuits, Shpilberg held executive roles at biopharmaceutical companies. She served as Vice President of Commercial Development and Strategic Marketing for Nora Therapeutics, and as Executive Director at BioMarin Pharmaceutical where she led the commercial launches of NAGLAZYME and KUVAN, and advanced the product development of PALINZIQ from Phase 2 to Phase 3. She's the author of the award-winning book New Startup Mindset.
Beatrice Chemla
Shailja Dixit
