2024 CAISS Pickleball Event
On September 7, 2024, Engineers from Seagate, Western Digital, TDK, and other leading tech companies participated in the pickleball event hosted by CAISS.
2022 CAISS Annual Conference
CAISS 27th Annual Conference 2022 has been held on December 10th, 2022. The theme of this conference is "The Future of Information Storage and Security". Western Digital VP Samuel Yuan, Seagate VP Jason Feist, Meta Ross Engineer Ross Stenfort, and Beachglass Labs Founder Ed Yu delivered wonderful keynote speeches. CAISS 28th BODs team was formed. Chris Tong was elected to be the President. Hennry Gai, Hongquan Jiang and Bincheng Wang were elected to be Executive VP, CFO and VP Secretary respectively. New team will be focused on emerging technology symposiums, BOD/BOV team building, soft skills seminars, and careers development for members.
CAISS 2022 Spring Hiking
CAISS members and their families had a wonderful time at Santa Teressa County Park. Professionals from Broadcom, Meta Platforms Inc, Seagate, Western Digital, IBM, TDG, Goldville Investment, etc joined the event, discussed a lot of topics such as storage technologies, semiconductor supply chain issues, block chain technologies, semiconductor stocks, etc, and exchanged ideas and opinions about information storage industry.
2021 CAISS Annual Conference
“Information Technology in the Post-Pandemic Future” Post-pandemic era is coming. Today, our CAISS 26th annual conference will be exploring information technology in the post-pandemic future. Metaverse may be the new chapter of human beings. How does Meta Platforms Inc tackle storage in the future cloud? Cryptocurrency will be used as an alternative to paper money and gold as a trend. A storage based cryptocurrency, Chia, is becoming more and more popular. How is storage used to implement the Chia cryptocurrency? In addition, what is the current state of Semiconductor? What about the future of storage in the zettabyte era? We’re so excited to know the answers. Date: Nov. 13th, 2021 (Saturday) Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Venue: Virtual Zoom meeting MC: Henry Gai Dr. Carl…
THE 25th ANNUAL CONFERENCE CAISS 2020 (Dec. 12th)
"Big Data for AI, Cloud, and Autonomous Driving" Data has evolved dramatically in recent years, in type, volume, and velocity – with its rapid evolution attributed to the widespread digitization of business processes globally. The rise of mobile devices, the proliferation of social platforms, the rapid growth of mobile internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving, all of which created a huge demand for data solutions and led to the emergence and new developments of cloud computing, storage, edge devices, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and Internet of things applications. In this year’s CAISS Annual Conference, industry and academia leaders will get together to discuss the Data Solutions for AI, Cloud, and Autonomous Driving. Ticket Infomation Date: Dec. 12th , 2020 (Saturday) Time: 1PM – 3:15 PM (PST) Venue: Virtual Zoom…
2020 Web Seminar: Update on Server and Enterprise Software
Speaker: Kash RanganKasthuri (Kash) Rangan is a managing director in US Equity Research, based in San Francisco, and head of the Enterprise Software team. The software team has maintained a high level of conviction and articulated about Cloud computing in the IT industry over the last 10 years, identifying long-term secular winners.
2020 CAISS Virtual Symposium on Cloud and Computing Architecture (July 26th)
Topic: "Cloud and Computing Architecture" About this Event Agenda 1:00 ~ 1:05: Ganping Ju (CAISS President) - “CAISS 2020 introduction” 1:05 ~ 1:45: Speaker 1 - Jason Adrian, “Optimizing Flash Form Factors and Magnetic Storage Performance for the Cloud” (30 mins presentation + 10 mins Q&A) 1:45 ~ 2:25: Speaker 2 - Andy He, “The Importance of High-speed Interconnect in the Computing Architecture” (30 mins presentation + 10 mins Q&A) 2:25 ~ 2:40: 2 speakers + 2 BOA members - “Panel discussion” Speaker 1: Jason AdrianPrincipal Hardware Architect - Azure Storage Hardware at Microsoft.Jason is a storage hardware architect at Microsoft Azure, defining the technologies and system designs that power one of the world's largest cloud storage fleets. Jason is passionate about hyper-scale and scale-out storage systems and storage architectures.…
THE 24th ANNUAL CONFERENCE CAISS 2019 (Nov. 16th)
"The Data Solutions for AI and Cloud" Data has evolved dramatically in recent years, in type, volume, and velocity --- with its rapid evolution attributed to the widespread digitization of business processes globally. The rise of mobile devices, proliferation of social platforms, rapid growth of mobile internet, big data, artificial intelligence, all of which has created huge demand for data solutions and led to the emergence and new developments of cloud computing, storage, edge devices, and artificial intelligence applications. In this year's CAISS Annual Conference, industry leaders will get together to discuss the Data Solutions for Cloud and AI. Ticket Infomation Date: Nov. 16th, 2019 (Saturday)Time: 2:30 PM --- 9:30 PMVenue: Embassy Suite, 901 E Calaveras Blvd, Milpitas, CA 95035 Agenda:2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Registration and Networking4:30 PM -…
2019 CAISS Summer Seminar (June 28th)
Topic: "Legal Basics for Startup & CFIUS Reform"Speaker: "Ruming Liu, the founding partner of MagStone Law, LLP"Date and Time:Friday, June 28, 2019Check-in: 6:30pm – 7:00pmSession time: 7:00pm - 9:00pmLocation:Seagate Fremont Research Center47488 Kato Rd, Fremont, CA 94538 Admission:Free for CAISS member, $10 for non-CAISS memberGet the ticket at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caiss-summer-seminar-legal-basics-for-startup-cfius-reform-tickets-63578284360 Other:Pizza and water will be provided. Details:Topic: "Legal Basics for Startup & CFIUS Reform"What a difference a year makes? After reaching enormous investment volumes in the last few years, Chinese-backed startups and venture capital based in the Silicon Valley entered 2019 with a whole host of challenges after the passage of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) and Export Control Reform Act of 2018. In this talk, we will not only discuss how these new laws impact the…
2019 CAISS Summer Symposium (May 11th)
Topic: "Artificial Intelligence" https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caiss-artificial-intelligence-symposium-tickets-60965507474 Speaker 1: Yiran Chen, Professor, Duke UniversitySpeaker 2: William Gao, Senior Technical program manager, Argo.aiSpeaker 3: Andy He, GPU Engineering Manager, NVIDIASpeaker 4: Chunsheng Liu, Research Scientist, Alibaba Agenda:1:30-2:00pm: Reception and Networking2:00-2:15pm: CAISS 2019 Introduction2:15-2:45pm: Speaker 1- Yiran Chen, "Challenges in AI Chip Design”2:45-3:15pm: Speaker 2- William Gao, “AI in self-driving”3:15-3:45pm: Speaker 3- Andy He, “The importance of ultra-high-speed memory interface in GPU architecture and the future of GPU computing in AI”3:45-4:15pm: Speaker 4- Chunsheng Liu, “Computing for AI after Moore’s Law: A Hardware Perspective”4:15-5:00pm: Panel Discussion -------------------------------------------------------------------Speaker 1: Yiran ChenProfessor, Duke University陈怡然 ，美国杜克大学教授Topic: ”Challenges in AI Chip Design”Execution of deep neural networks (DNNs) consumes huge computing power. Many ASIC chips have been designed to accelerate the computation of DNNs by leveraging specially designed circuitries and…