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Attend Pure//Accelerate® techfest22 and experience the best kind of FOMO—a future-forward, one-of–a-kind, memorable opportunity to get inspired, entertained, and informed.
Americas Partner Forum
June 6 Welcome Reception 5:30pm - 8:00pm
June 7 Americas Partner Forum 8:00am - 5:00pm
Peak Training
June 7 Pure PEAK Training 9:00am - 4:00pm
Register for complimentary Pure PEAK training sessions to advance your skills and prepare for Pure certification exams.
June 8 Pure//Accelerate techfest22
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Opening Keynote
11:00 AM - 3:30 PM Breakout Sessions
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM techfest22 Beer Bash After Party
Event Maps
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Hear from the Best and Brightest
Experience breakthrough sessions designed to maximize your success. Accelerate your data storage know-how with innovative perspectives, strategies, and stories that will inspire you, your team, and your organization.
Basecamp
Learn how to get more from your data while reducing complexity and cost.
Analytics Solutions
Explore how powerful scale-out storage delivers real time insights.
Data Protection
See how Pure’s modern data protection prevents disruptions to business operations—planned and unplanned.
Cloud Agility
Discover how to accelerate cloud-native and traditional applications with a unified data platform.
Database Solutions
Find out how always-on, always-fast database solutions from Pure eliminate bottlenecks, complexity, and costly downtime.
Portworx/Container
Experience the Portworx Pavillion and learn why Portworx is the #1 Kubernetes data services platform for leading enterprises.
- All Tracks
- Americas Partner Forum
- PEAK Training
- Basecamp
- Analytics Solutions
- Cloud Agility
- Database Solutions
- Data Protection
- Portworx/Containers
Location: The Novo
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speaker: Wendy Stusrud
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speakers: Andy Martin & Mike Marinchak
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speaker: Rob Lee
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speaker: Matt Burr
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speaker: Prakash Darji
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speakers: Jason Rose and Samara Halterman
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speakers: Michael Sotnick, Vaughn Stewart, and Samara Halterman
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speaker: Dan FitzSimons
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speakers: Hosted by Michael Cornwell. Featuring Shawn Hansen, Murli Thirumale, and Paul Ferraro
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speaker: Kevan Krysler
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speakers: Charlie Giancarlo interviewed by Stephanie Felicetti
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: The Novo
Speakers: Andy Martin, Charlie Giancarlo, Dan FitzSimons, Michael Sotnick, Mike Marinchak and Wendy Stusrud
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: JW Marriott - Platinum C
Speakers: Angad Narang, Vipul Bhatnagar
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
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Location: JW Marriott - Platinum D
Speakers: Michael Sotnick, Josh Gluck, Shawn Klein, Jack Hogan, Scott Sinclair of ESG & Adam Shoemaker of Sirius, Larry Sitka of Vital Images, Zac Smith of Equinix...
Location: JW Marriott - Platinum AB
Speakers: Amy Fowler, Amrita Das, Justin Emerson
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: JW Marriott - Platinum C
Speakers: Amy Fowler, Amrita Das, Justin Emerson
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Location: JW Marriott - Platinum AB
Speakers: Angad Narang, Vipul Bhatnagar
Open to Authorized Pure Partners only
Build breakthrough strategies with powerful and insightful stories from industry and Pure Storage thought leaders.
- Surbhi Paul
- Charles Giancarlo
- John Colgrove
- Ajay Singh
- Rene Lopez
- Paul Davis
- Amy Fowler
- Jason Rose
- Prakash Darji
- Matt Burr
- Murli Thirumale
- Tony Paikeday
- Mike Dehaan
- Jeff Bethke
- Andrew Miller
- Venkat Ramakrishnan
- Sarvesh Jagannivas
- Murli Thirumale
Location: Data Protection
With any ransomware attack or security event, there’s going to be a before, a during, and an after. Knowing the challenges you’ll face first and the immediate steps...
- Andrew Stone
When moving workloads to the cloud, costs can get out of hand. One of the largest costs typically is storage. Learn how Pure Cloud Block Store can help lower your cloud costs with both infrastructure...
- David Stamen
Location: Database Solutions
The challenge of maintaining an always-available application environment is forever present in the IT professional’s mind. When there are new ways and solutions to support,...
- Melody Zacharias
- Mark Wilkinson
Location: Basecamp tent
Alan Kay once said, “The people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” This is true today more than ever for the most successful...
- Brian Gold
- Santiago Navonne
When it comes to MLOps, storage and data are related, but far from the same. The right solution gets the storage out of the way of the data science, and allows data scientists to focus on the DATA. Pure...
- Stashka Lepera
Organizations want to extend the agility and time-to-market benefits of the public to the hybrid cloud world. Having an effective cloud strategy and operating model on-premises is more important than...
- Fred Lherault
Location: Analytic solutions
An effective log analytics pipeline allows teams to debug and troubleshoot issues, track historical trends, and investigate security incidents. The only way to accomplish...
- Miroslav Klivansky
Location: Basecamp tent
FlashBlade is the industry leading Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO) storage platform, engineered from the ground up for flash to deliver simplicity and multi-dimensional...
- Justin Emerson
location: Database Solutions
Data reduction using deduplication and compression is a signature feature of Pure FlashArray. This session discusses how SQL Server stores data, as well as best practices for...
- Anthony Nocentino
Data Protection
Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Cyber criminals have invested in creating new, stealthier, and more virulent attacks that can be a nightmare for any organization. Every day we observe...
- Chad Monteith
- Brad Baughn
Location: Analytic solutions
Awe inspiring growth in data demands data storage that can scale while maintaining simplicity, efficiency, and performance. Ensuring that all this data is available for...
- Justin Emerson
- Nathan Antons
Location: Basecamp tent
The FlashArray family continues to grow, giving you more flexibility than ever while still staying true to the core value of simplicity. Come meet the family from the //C40...
- Zane Allyn
- JD Wallace
Location: Portworx
Learn about Portworx Data Services, an industry first DBaaS platform for Kubernetes, which allows you to offer data services to developers with ONE click, on ONE platform, without lock-in....
- Rajiv Thakkar
- Umair Mufti
Location: Cloud Agility
Join Alex and Nelson as they deliver the Pure Storage + VMware Integration Lightning Round, getting you up to speed on all of Pure's newest integrations with VMware and feature...
- Nelson Elam
- Alex Carver
Location: Database Solutions
Join Anthony Nocentino and Ron Ekins as they share their experience of how many organizations are embracing and simplifying database management with containerization and Kubernetes. ...
- Ron Ekins
- Anthony Nocentino
Location: Portworx
Pure Storage offers a full stack experience for modern, containerized apps. Learn how Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade work with Portworx Enterprise to deliver a complete multi-cloud ready...
- Surbhi Paul
- Prashant Rathi
Location: Database Solutions
Learn the top 5 things you need to know to run SQL Server on VMware in this session. We’ll discuss critical configurations, monitoring, performance optimizations, and...
- Anthony Nocentino
- Marsha Pierce
Location: Data Protection
In this lightning fast session, we'll explore the most recent developments in ransomware attacks via an in-depth walkthrough of the Anatomy of an Attack and Defense in Depth principles....
- Andrew Miller
Location: Analytic solutions
Object storage has gone from being used as an archival data store, to being used as a primary store for an increasing number of applications. The public cloud has popularized...
- Jan Aufdenkamp
- Karthik Srinivasan
Location: Basecamp tent
Today’s financial institutions require a digital infrastructure that can keep up with the needs of their digital savvy customers -- and competitors. Join us for a discussion...
- Eugene McGrath
- Scott Gottesman
Location: Cloud Agility
Join SHI to explore the benefits of Portworx for enabling secure enterprise grade cloud native containers at scale. We will be discussing how Portworx allows organizations...
- Cary Dahl
Location: Analytic solutions
When it comes to MLOps, storage and data are related, but far from the same. The right solution gets the storage out of the way of the data science, and allows data scientists...
- Miroslav Klivansky
While it is apparent that a trend exists in the industry where "-as-Code" is being attached to anything that can be created, modified, managed, and destroyed via code, this paradigm has also made its...
- Anthony Lai-Ferrario
Location: Basecamp tent
Cisco and Pure Storage continue to modernize the industry’s fastest-growing converged stack to maintain a solution built to deliver the modern application experience....
- Eric Blonda
Pure Storage is a major disruptor of the data protection ecosystem. Pure helps eliminate the complexities involved in keeping your data safe. Join our session to hear how the Pure portfolio positively...
- Jason Walker
Location: Portworx
Kubernetes data protection is about more than just backup and restore. Beyond having a solution that was built to understand Kubernetes volumes and infrastructure, you also need a solution...
- Janet Wi
- Tim Darnell
Location: Cloud Agility
How storage changes and evolves in the public cloud is a fundamental paradigm shift from traditional on-premises offerings. In this session, we will articulate how Pure Cloud...
- Kyle Grossmiller
Location: Data Protection
When disaster strikes, every second counts. In today's world of ransomware, natural disasters, and other unforeseen events, bringing systems back online quickly and at scale...
- Rajiev Rajavasireddy
Location: Database Solutions
Pure Storage has embraced Intel’s Optane technology to add value to FlashStack by supporting Optane for DRAM and Optane SSD for storage (aka DirectMemory Cache). This...
- Andrew Degnan
Location: Cloud Agility
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) can be an intimidating project for any organization. Learn how Pure and FlashStack can help you reduce the complexity of your upcoming VDI project...
- Nelson Elam
Location: Analytic solutions
Splunk’s data platform powers many business critical functions from SIEM, to Machine Learning, to Cloud Transformation. Pure Storage FlashBlade provides Splunk...
- Vaughn Stewart
Location: Portworx
Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes platform that allows you to offload the management of your Kubernetes clusters to AWS. But it doesn’t have all the features that are needed...
- Bhavin Shah
- Fred Schults
Location: Basecamp tent
Discover how Options Technology uses Pure as-a-Service (PaaS) to accelerate business outcomes and how the PaaS Operations team keeps things running smoothly.
- Rigo Rodriguez
- James Laming
Location: Data Protection
The Pure Storage plugin for Veeam Backup & Replication is the most downloaded plugin with thousands of Veeam & Pure customers taking advantage of it for things like backup...
- Mark Polin
Location: Basecamp tent
Evergreen subscriptions have revolutionized the ownership experience for storage. Buying your storage once and keeping it modern and performing, without re-buys or data migrations,...
- Kevin Rickson
- Justin Brasfield
Cloud Agility
Providing quality health care services requires always-on application protection and efficient data services. Pure has developed solutions for the healthcare industry that provide critical...
- Chris Bokis