Tim Nelson
Stephen Bates
Stephen is the VP and Chief Architect of Emerging Storage Systems at Huawei's Toronto Emerging Storage Lab. He and his team research all aspects of next-generation storage systems from media to programming interfaces to filesystems to virtualized storage to applications.
Stephen is an expert in performance storage, persistent and non-volatile memory, computer networking, signal processing and error correction coding. He is also very active in both the SNIA and NVM Express standard bodies.
Prior to Huawei he was the CTO of Eideticom which is a pioneer company in NVMe-based computational storage. He was also formerly in the CTO office at PMC-Sierra, an Assistant Professor at The Univeristy of Alberta and a Principal Engineer at Massana Inc. Stephen has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Eun-Ju Sohn
Tracy DeTomasi
Grady Nye
Grady is a Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel on the Privacy & Data Protection team at Mastercard. Grady is the global privacy lead for Data Analytics, and Loyalty, managing a global team of experts that provide strategic data and privacy advice to Mastercard's fast-growing data analytics and loyalty business. He also plays an important role in the implementation of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), spearheading efforts to be on the cutting edge of product and technology design.
Prior to Mastercard, Grady was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP and a member of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity group.
