Monday, December 1, 2025
4:00
BUILD YOUR PRODUCTION GENAI APP USING LANGCHAIN, PGVECTOR POWERED BY INSTACLUSTR AND FSX FOR ONTAP
Yuval Kalderon | NetApp
Karan Singh | Langchain
This session showcases how to build a production-grade GenAI application using LangChain, Pgvector powered by Instaclustr, and FSx for ONTAP (FSxN). The solution combines LangChain’s orchestration with Instaclustr’s managed vector database and FSxN’s high-performance storage to deliver scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. Attendees will learn how to connect LLMs to enterprise data, manage embeddings efficiently, and deploy secure, cloud-native GenAI agents using NetApp’s AI infrastructure.
4:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
5:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
5:30
ACCELERATING VMWARE WORKLOAD MODERNIZATION ON AWS
Javi Suarez | NetApp
Modernizing VMware workloads requires a balance between operational continuity, data performance, and cloud-native integration. A key component of this architecture is AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP, which delivers enterprise-grade storage with native VMware datastore integration, advanced data management, and consistent performance at scale. It also provides a consistent data layer for future transitions to Amazon EC2 or containerized workloads, ensuring seamless data mobility and operational continuity.
6:00
UNLOCKING HIGH-PERFORMANCE AI INFERENCING WITH INTEL XEON 6 AND NETAPP ONTAP ON AWS
Akanksha Balani | Intel
The Intel AWS team showcases NetApp AIPod Mini - a hybrid AI solution combining Intel Xeon 6 processors with AMX and NetApp's data management. This enables enterprises to run AI workloads on-premises while integrating with AWS services. Perfect for departmental/edge AI inferencing, it delivers high performance and cost-effectiveness at scale. The solution leverages NetApp ONTAP for security, scalability, and optimal performance, bridging the gap between cloud and on-premises AI deployments.
6:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
10:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
11:00
DR IN THE CLOUD WITH AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Thomas Heinen | Reply
We will present the DR architecture we created for a large FSI customer to comply with regulatory requirements. This includes replication and operation of business critical systems in case of datacenter failure.
11:30
VMWARE MODERNIZATION WITH FSX ONTAP
Jay Horne | AWS
Learn how Amazon Elastic VMware Service supports FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a fully certified external datastore to host your virtual machines in the cloud.
12:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
12:30
SCALING SMARTER: HOW PRIORITY SOFTWARE MODERNIZED ERP WITH FSX FOR ONTAP
Sergey Merkelov | Priority Software
Learn how Priority Software, a leading Israeli ERP provider, revolutionized its cloud infrastructure by migrating to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Overcoming scaling and performance challenges, they achieved a 50% reduction in storage costs, seamless scalability, enhanced SQL Server performance, and simplified backup and recovery. Supporting modern workflows like containerized microservices on Amazon EKS, Priority’s customers now benefit from resilient, secure, and compliant ERP services, enabling confident scaling and faster innovation.
1:00
CUSTOMER STORY - CREE8
Tigh Holmstrom | NetApp
Discover how Cree8, a cloud-based creative studio platform, addressed its scalability, speed, collaboration, and cost challenges with FSx for ONTAP. Learn about the key features used for their workflows and how Workload Factory optimized deployment with best practices. The session will highlight the impressive results, including high scalability and performance, enhanced team collaboration, increased automation, and maintained reliability, all while keeping costs in check.
1:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
2:00
POLYCRISIS PREPAREDNESS AND CYBER RESILIENCY
Naim Mucaj | NetApp
Organizations face simultaneous threats across digital, physical, and operational domains, from cyberattacks to climate disruptions. Join NetApp, AWS, and industry experts to learn how to prepare with modern disaster recovery and cyber-resilient architectures using FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN). Whether you're a cloud innovator, hybrid operator, or compliance-focused, gain actionable insights, proven strategies, and real-world examples to protect critical data and ensure business continuity.
2:30
SIMPLE MIGRATION TO THE CLOUD WITH AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Jim White | AWS
TBD
3:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
3:30
AGENTICAI OPTIMIZED EDA DESIGN WORKFLOWS
Paul Mantey | NetApp
System-on-chip (SoC) designs are becoming increasingly complex, leading to a first-silicon success rate of only ~14% and ~75% of projects falling behind schedule, resulting in significant revenue loss, competitive risk, and increased engineering efforts. Engineering leaders seek better predictability, improved first-silicon success, and continued innovation. Migrating design and verification processes, along with tooling, workspaces, dashboards, and analytics to the cloud can provide the needed scale, innovation, and security.
4:00
ANSYS & NETAPP - ACCELERATING ENGINEERING IN AUTO & MANUFACTURING
Tilman Schroeder | NetApp
Accelerate HPC workloads on AWS with NetApp & Ansys. Learn how deploy HPC workloads aligned to the well architecture pillars
4:30
PRIVATE GEN AI WITH PROTOPIA ON NETAPP FSX FOR ONTAP AND AWS: UNLOCKING HIGH-CONCURRENCY INFERENCE AND ROI FOR ENTERPRISE AI
Balaji Chandrasekaran | Protopia
AI Factories integrate data, compute, and model pipelines to transform enterprise data into intelligence at scale. While GenAI with RAG promises accurate insights, privacy and compliance barriers limit access to valuable data. Protopia AI's Stained Glass Transform with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP enables secure hybrid AI pipelines that keep data private without plain text exposure or model changes. This architecture supports private RAG pipelines, multi-tenant inference, and maximizes GPU utilization for production scale.
5:00
LEVERAGING IN NETAPP FSX FOR ONTAP ON AWS FOR SAP
Eric MacDonald | Protera
Tidewater, the world's largest offshore support vessel operator, modernized its SAP ECC system by transitioning to SAP on AWS with Protera, AWS, and NetApp. They migrated from ECC on Microsoft SQL Server to SAP HANA and then to SAP on AWS without disrupting operations. Using NetApp FSx for ONTAP provided enterprise-grade storage, enhanced data protection, and simplified management. The collaboration delivered stability, financial, cybersecurity, and performance gains, positioning Tidewater for continuous innovation.
5:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
10:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
11:00
ACCELERATING PARTNER GROWTH: MONETIZING EVS OPPORTUNITIES WITH AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Ron Wedel | AWS
Attending this session will enable partners to deliver differentiated value through Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Learn how to move VMware workloads to AWS quickly, scale storage independently, and maintain operational consistency, unlocking new revenue streams. Discover joint partner incentives, programs, and technical pathways, leveraging AWS Partner Network, NetApp Partner Sphere, and co-sell incentives. Gain insights on workload migration, DR-as-a-Service, hybrid VMware modernization, and real-world success stories to drive profitability.
11:30
UNIFYING STORAGE INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION, AND AI-DRIVEN INSIGHTS - RIGHT INSIDE YOUR IDE.
Tigh Holmstrom | NetApp
Discover how the new Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP VScode extension redefines cloud operations by unifying data from FSx for ONTAP, AWS services, and advanced ONTAP capabilities into one intelligent workspace. This innovation empowers teams to analyze, automate, and optimize environments at scale using familiar Infrastructure-as-Code languages - all directly within their IDE.
12:00
TRANSFORMING THE AGENT PLATFORM WITH FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Othmane Lhousni | Reply
In this large-scale transformation, we modernized the Agent Platform — the core system used by over 8,500 users across 1,600 agencies — by migrating 1,700 servers and 6,800 databases to AWS. A key success factor was adopting Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN) as our storage foundation. FSxN enabled us to improve application responsiveness, reduce latency.
12:30
BUILDING A ROBUST DATA FOUNDATION FOR GENERATIVE AI KNOWLEDGE AGENTS ON AWS
Yuval Kalderon | NetApp
Aswin Vasudevan | AWS
Explore how to establish a data foundation for generative AI knowledge agents on AWS. You'll learn how to deploy scalable inference workloads using Amazon EKS, utilize FSx for ONTAP (FSxN) for resilient storage, and create secure GenAI agents with Amazon Bedrock Agent Core.
1:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
1:30
SIMPLE MIGRATION TO THE CLOUD WITH AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Jim White | AWS
TBD
2:00
USING NETAPP DII FOR AN ENHANCED AWS OPTIMIZATION & LICENSING ASSESSMENT
Steve Lohr | Evolve Cloud Services
Evolve Cloud Services is a worldwide leader for AWS Optimization & Licensing assessments, having delivered over 3,500 AWS funded assessments over the last five years. Learn more about how Evolve leverages the NetApp DII tool to provide more refined compute, licensing & storage recommendations for customers considering a move to AWS.
2:30
SUPERCHARGING PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (PLM) HYBRID SYSTEMS WITH FSX ONTAP AND NETAPP ON-PREM
Niki Willoughby | NetApp
Don Choi | NetApp
PLM systems drive complex product development, demanding robust data management. This session explores integrating PLM with FSxN storage using AI/ML tools like Workload Factory, Bedrock, and RAG. Learn how intelligent search, predictive maintenance, and automated compliance enhance efficiency, agility, and governance—shaping the future of smart product development.
3:00
LIVE SENTIMENT TRACKING IN A CROWD WITH FSX-ONTAP (AI-ML, ANALYTICS, SERVERLESS, QUICKSIGHT)
Gadi Oren | NetApp
The session will present how to approach a simple AI/ML practical application and build a complete end to end implementation on top an S3-AccessPoint to FSx-ONTAP. The areas that are expected to be used are AI/ML with Recognition, Serverless process pipeline and analytics with Athena.
The stretch goal is to create a demo of an application that views the session audience and provide a near real-time feedback of the number of people in the audience and their sentiment, so that the audience would be able to live-interact with the demo, which should make this presentation into an event that would be fun and easy to remember.
3:30
BUILDING GOVERNED GENAI ON ENTERPRISE DATA
Thomas Been | Domino Data Lab
Financial services and life sciences enterprises are under pressure to deliver GenAI innovation, but face the reality of sensitive data, strict regulations, and heavy compliance reviews. The challenge: building GenAI applications that are both powerful and governed. Discover how Domino Data Lab and NetApp together provide the foundation for governed GenAI on enterprise data.
4:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
4:30
ORACLE ON AWS WITH FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Mihir Patel | Apps Associates
Discuss the advantages of running Oracle Databases and Oracle Applications on AWS using FSx for NetApp ONTAP. We'll discuss the savings and performance gains from the solution and how many customers have been taking advantage.
5:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
5:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
Thursday, December 4, 2025
10:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
11:00
AGENTICAI OPTIMIZED EDA DESIGN WORKFLOWS
Paul Mantey | Netapp
System-on-chip (SoC) designs are becoming increasingly complex, leading to a first-silicon success rate of only ~14% and ~75% of projects falling behind schedule, resulting in significant revenue loss, competitive risk, and increased engineering efforts. Engineering leaders seek better predictability, improved first-silicon success, and continued innovation. Migrating design and verification processes, along with tooling, workspaces, dashboards, and analytics to the cloud can provide the needed scale, innovation, and security.
11:30
OPTIMIZING SAP HANA DEPLOYMENTS WITH AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Kevin Morris | AWS
Jay Horne | AWS
Revolutionize SAP HANA deployments by providing ultra-low latency storage for real-time analytics and AI workloads on AWS. Discover strategies to leverage FSxN's ONTAP features, including high-performance SSD tiers, intelligent tiering, and FlexVol volumes. See live benchmarks showing 2x faster query response times and TCO reductions. Gain actionable blueprints, migration playbooks, best-practice configurations, and a Terraform template to optimize your AWS SAP journey.
12:00
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
12:30
AI-POWERED SMART NOTES FOR MODERN LEARNING USING FSX FOR ONTAP
Giovanni Leo | Reply
NoteSphere transforms note management for students & professionals using AWS architecture with FSx NetApp storage & Vector Database for semantic search. It solves the lack of centralized learning tools by offering AI features like auto-classification, deduplication & conversational help. The platform boosts engagement, reduces overhead & improves retention through serverless computing, secure auth & semantic indexing for scalable educational solutions.
1:00
DEPLOYING ROBUST DISASTER RECOVERY FOR MISSION-CRITICAL WORKLOADS
Afaq Khan | AWS
Chris Fuller | NetApp
Join this session to learn how you can implement a robust disaster recovery solution for mission-critical workloads using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and on-premises ONTAP with AWS Outposts. We will demo how to perform real-time SnapMirror replication between AWS Regions and on-premises environments and monitor replication status and RPO metrics. Learn how the solution helps maintain data sovereignty while providing a consistent data management experience across cloud and on-premises environments through a single, unified experience. Talk to NetApp and AWS experts about disaster recovery strategy for your specific workloads.
1:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
2:00
PROVE YOU CAN RECOVER FROM RANSOMWARE
Eswar Nalamaru | Elastio
Ransomware is evolving, targeting recovery data and corrupting backups. Organizations face regulatory pressure to prove recovery readiness. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN) ensures data integrity for critical workloads. Integrating Elastio with NetApp SnapMirror and AWS Backup provides continuous validation of data, detecting ransomware and corruption, and maintaining clean recovery points. NetApp, AWS, and Elastio offer verifiable confidence in clean recovery, supporting the AWS Cyber Recovery Architecture and Zero Trust model.
2:30
SNAPSHOT TO SUCCESS: SLA REVOLUTION FOR DATABASES WITH AMAZON FSX FOR NETAPP ONTAP
Pedro Fernandes | NetApp
AWS offers a comprehensive, purpose-built portfolio of databases and storage services that together power modern, resilient, and cost‑efficient applications at any scale. For self-managed databases, the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP brings enterprise-grade data management to AWS databases, delivering instant, space‑efficient cloning and fast policy‑driven backups using Application Aware-Snapshots, which can reduce your SLAs from hours/days to minutes. More agility, simplifying complex database operations, while maintaining high performance and reliability, accelerates development cycles!
3:00
ADDING FSX FOR ONTAP TO AMAZON EVS: AN IT SERVICE CONSULTANT'S PERSPECTIVE
BJ Schwein | Pellera
Amazon EVS Overview, followed by FSxN VMware Use Cases followed by FSxN Architecture followed by configuring FSxN with EVS.
3:30
UNLOCK THE POWER OF AI WITH THE NETAPP DATA PLATFORM
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief overview highlights the NetApp data platform, and the benefits our close partnership-- and native integration-- with AWS can bring to your business. Find out how you can build, scale, and optimize your cloud workloads, while delivering AI results ,on AWS with NetApp. Plus— compete in our trivia quiz for a chance to win great prizes!
Speakers
Date Thursday, December 4th | Time 2:00pm | Convention Promenade | Latour 2
OPTIMIZING STORAGE COSTS FOR AMAZON EVS WITH FSX FOR ONTAP
VMware users navigating cloud migration face challenges such as high TCO, complex data migration, and inconsistent hybrid cloud operations. Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) offers a seamless path to migrate VMware workloads to AWS without replatforming or refactoring. When your Amazon EVS data is stored on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, you have opened a new range of possibilities for enterprise data management. Your data can seamlessly migrate from on-premises to cloud. You can
protect your data with Autonomous Ransomware Protection. And you can optimize your storage utilization with enterprise storage features normally found from on-premises solutions.
Richard Nicholl | Cloud Solutions Architect
