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When: Monday, November 17, 2025
Where: St. Louis, MO
Time: 2 - 4 PM CST
Reception to follow - Sponsored by
AI is Your Edge to Win–
Is Your Enterprise Ready?
Success with AI demands scalable infrastructure, expertise and a clear roadmap.
Yet, many enterprises face roadblocks that slow adoption and impact performance.
Outdated Architecture
Simplified tools to help you build a strong foundation.
Limited Resources
Advanced tips and templates for tracking progress.
Unclear AI Strategy
Resources to diversify and maximize returns.
Common Challenges Holding Enterprises Back:
Accelerate AI Innovation with the DDN Data Intelligence Platform
AI-Optimized Performance
Designed for high-speed, data-intensive AI workloads to maximize efficiency.
Unified Data Infrastructure
Break down silos and create a seamless AI foundation for enterprise success.
Efficiency at Scale
Deliver 10x faster performance while reducing power consumption by 10x.
15x Fast Modeling Training
Accelerate AI outcomes with optimized infrastructure for large-scale workloads.
Limitless Scalability
Scale AI without constraints—expand seamlessly with zero performance loss.
Power Your AI Strategy with DDN–Get Started Today
The DDN Data Intelligence Platform is purpose-built for AI, delivering unmatched speed, scalability, and efficiency to power data-driven innovation. Simplify complexity, unlock value, and drive real-world results—at any scale.
Why DDN for Enterprise AI
Proven AI Infrastructure
Deployed in 1,500+ global AI environments
Seamless Integration
Works with NVIDIA, HPE, Dell and your existing stack
Engineered for the AI Revolution
Performance at Scale
Train large models 20x fast
Space is Limited – Save Your Spot Now!
Train Large Language Models at Unmatched Speed
Accelerate model training and inference with high-throughput data movement and scalable performance. DDN supports even the most compute-intensive workloads across distributed nodes.
Drive AI Decisions in Real Time
Enable low-latency inference at the edge or in-stream — ideal for fraud detection, personalization engines, and trading models that can’t afford delay.
SVP of Product
DDN
Meet the Experts
Your Data is Everywhere
Data is scattered across silos, teams, and clouds, slowing pipelines and preventing scale.
AI Workflows Are Too Complex
Training, inference, and data prep all run on disconnected tools that don’t speak the same language.
Storage Wasn't Built for AI
Legacy systems can’t handle the speed, scale, and metadata richness that AI demands — especially in real-time.
The Hidden Challenges of Enterprise AI
Unify Your Data & Metadata
DDN turns fragmented sources into a single, actionable AI data layer across edge, core, and cloud.
How DDN Makes AI Real
From data prep to inference and RAG, DDN accelerates the entire pipeline with native integrations and orchestration.
Run AI Workflows Faster, Simpler
Deliver at Enterprise Scale
15x faster checkpointing, 75% lower infra costs, and extreme GPU efficiency, all backed by a software-defined platform.
Unify Your Data & Metadata
DDN turns fragmented sources into a single, actionable AI data layer across edge, core, and cloud.
How DDN Makes AI Real
From data prep to inference and RAG, DDN accelerates the entire pipeline with native integrations and orchestration.
Run AI Workflows Faster, Simpler
Deliver at Enterprise Scale
15x faster checkpointing, 75% lower infra costs, and extreme GPU efficiency, all backed by a software-defined platform.
Run fraud detection and risk models faster, using unified real-time analytics.
Financial Services
Life Sciences
Accelerate drug discovery with real-time metadata search and secure.
Autonomous Vehicles
Train models 15x faster and stream massive sensor datasets without bottlenecks.
Telecom
Deploy AI-powered anomaly detection and reduce infrastructure complexity across clouds.
Public Sector
Enable high-volume data ingestion and AI-powered surveillance
Turning AI Ambition Into Business Outcomes
Optimized for Your AI Workloads
DDN’s storage appliances make deployment, management, and scaling simple even for the largest AI application.
Real-Time Decision Engines
Multi-Model AI Pipelines
LLM Training & Inference
AI Model Versioning & Governance
Train massive language models with ultra-fast data throughput and scale effortlessly as your model sizes grow.
Enable high-speed, AI-driven decisions at the edge or in-stream – with zero compromise on performance or reliability.
Run diverse models in parallel with streamlined access to shared datasets and intelligent workload balancing.
Support reproducibility, compliance, and collaboration with high-performance storage and structured data management.
Beyond Artificial AI Data Summit
Join DDN, NVIDIA, Google, and leading enterprises for a live AI + HPC summit that showcases real-world innovation.
President & Co-Founder
DDN
Agenda
DDN Intro Video
2:00 PM
2:02 PM
Fueling the Future of HPC & AI
Alex Bouzari & Paul Bloch
Co-Founders
3:17 PM
Emerging Storage Patterns from HPC to AI
Jacob Liberman
Director, Enterprise Product
2:17 PM
NVIDIA Full Stack Innovation for Storage Fabrics
2:27 PM
Your HPC, Supercharging AI
James Coomer
SVP, Product
2:47 PM
Accelerate Your HPC Workloads with Google Cloud Managed Lustre
Kirill Tropin
Group Product Manager
2:57 PM
I/O Performance Benchmarking from University of Florida's Fourth Generation HiPerGator
3:07 PM
Break
3:29 PM
Beyond Artificial Blackstone Video
Jasvinder Khaira
Senior Managing Director
3:19 PM
Data Intelligence to Accelerate and Simplify the World’s New AI Factories
Sven Oehme
CTO
4:09 PM
DDN Roadmap & Vision
Omer Asad
CPO
4:19 PM
Networking Reception
Erik Deumans
Research Computing Sr. Director
Ken Hester
Director of HPC Supercomputing & Energy Industries
2:37 PM
AI Computing as the Foundation for Institutional Strategy
Preston Smith
Executive Director, Rosen Center for Advanced
3:39 PM
Integrating Open Science File-Based Workloads with DDN Infinia
J.D. Maloney
Lead HPC Storage Engineer
3:49 PM
Making AI Easy for Day One: The Supermicro & DDN Advantage
Olivier Suinat
SVP
3:59 PM
Oncology and the Boundless Potential of Single Namespaces for AI
William Baird
Associate Director, HPC
Kickstart Your AI Journey
DDN Beyond Artificial Data Summit at SC25
Join DDN, NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Cloud for a live AI + HPC summit that showcases real-world innovation.
Your HPC, Ready for AI
HPC has always pushed the limits of performance, scale, and efficiency—and now it’s the foundation for AI. Yet too often, that potential is trapped by stranded data, idle GPUs, and wasted power. DDN removes these barriers by unifying HPC, storage, and data intelligence.
Join DDN NVIDIA, Google Cloud and Supermicro at the Beyond Artificial Data Summit at SC25. Hear directly from our executives, partners, and customers on the latest enhancements, breakthrough partnerships, and real-world innovations that turn every watt, rack, and GPU into maximum business impact.
Kick off SC25 with the best and brightest minds, and enjoy our networking reception sponsored by Sandisk immediately following the presentations.
Spots are limited! Reserve your seat today.
Summit Agenda
DDN Intro video
2:00 PM
2:02 PM
Fueling the Future of HPC & AI
Alex Bouzari
CEO & Co-Founder
2:17 PM
2:27 PM
NVIDIA Full Stack Innovation for Storage Fabrics
2:37 PM
Your HPC, Supercharging AI
James Coomer
SVP, Product
2:47 PM
Accelerate Your HPC Workloads with Google Cloud Managed Lustre
Kirill Tropin
Group PM
2:57 PM
I/O Performance Benchmarking from University of Florida's Fourth Generation HiPerGator
3:07 PM
Break
Beyond Artificial Blackstone Video
Jasvinder Khaira
Senior Managing Director
3:17 PM
Data Intelligence to Accelerate and Simplify the World’s New AI Factories
Sven Oehme
CTO
3:19 PM
Olivier Suinat
SVP
DDN Roadmap & Vision
3:39 PM
Networking Reception
Erik Deumans
Research Computing Sr. Director
Ken Hester
Director of HPC, Supercomputing & Energy Industries
AI Computing as the Foundation for Institutional Strategy
Preston Smith
Executive Director, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Integrating Open Science File-Based Workloads with DDN Infinia
J.D. Maloney
Lead HPC Storage Engineer
3:49 PM
Making AI Easy for Day One: The Supermicro & DDN Advantage
4:09 PM
Omer Asad
CPO
3:59 PM
Oncology and the Boundless Potential of Single Namespaces for AI
William Baird
Associate Director, High Performance Computing
4:19 PM
Jacob Liberman
Director, Enterprise Product
Emerging Storage Patterns from HPC to AI
3:29 PM
Supported by
Accelerate AI on x86-based NVIDIA DGX™ systems, powered by NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs and Intel® Xeon® processors.
CEO & Co Founder
DDN
CPO
DDN
Senior Researcher
DDN
Supported by
Kickstart Your AI Journey
Lustre Principal Architect
DDN/Whamcloud
CTO
DDN
What You'll Experience at the Summit
DDN executives reveal game-changing product advances and strategies that crush bottlenecks and boost GPU efficiency.
NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Cloud share how they’re partnering with DDN to build tomorrow’s HPC and AI ecosystems.
Customers showcase how DDN helps them slash costs, speed discovery, and turn HPC into an AI powerhouse
See What’s Next in AI Data Infrastructure
Get the Inside Track from Industry Leaders
Hear Real-World Breakthroughs
Unifying HPC, Storage, and Data Intelligence
Sponsored by
Accelerate AI on x86-based NVIDIA DGX™ systems, powered by NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs and Intel® Xeon® processors.
Director, Research Computing
University of Florida
Lead Storage Engineer
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Director, Enterprise Product
NVIDIA
Group Product Manager
Google (GCP)
SVP
Supermicro
Associate Director, HPC Guardant Health
Executive Director, Research Computing
Purdue University
Director of HPC Supercomputing & Energy Industries
NVIDIA
