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.
Paul Crumley
Paul G Crumley, a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research, enjoys creating systems to solve problems beyond the reach of current technology.
Paul’s current project integrates secure, compliant AI capabilities with enterprise Hybrid Cloud allowing clients to extract new business value from their data.
Paul’s previous work includes the design and construction of distributed, and high-performance computing systems at CMU, Transarc, and IBM Research. Projects include The Andrew Project at CMU, ASCI White, IBM Global Storage Architecture, Blue Gene Supercomputers, IBM Cloud, and IBM Cognitive Systems. Paul has managed data centers, and brings his first-hand knowledge of these environments, combined with experience of automation and robustness, to the design of AI for Hybrid Cloud infrastructure.