Oussama El-Hilali, Co-Founder and Board Member provides his view on the Backup and Recovery industry, where it’s headed, emerging technologies on the horizon, and how blockchain enhances data protection.

Steven Umbehocker, Founder and CEO of OSNEXUS Corp.discusses his software defined storage predictions for 2021, which storage technologies are on their way out, and the new ones that are on the horizon.

Keith Townsend, Principal and Founder of The CTO Advisor discusses his experience across the Backup and Recovery industry, some data protection predictions, and the relevancy of backup in today’s modern data center.

Gou Rao - CTO, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage formerly Portworx discusses how the digital transformation is accelerating and why data center workflows are evolving into 1st class application citizens and what’s the best way to protect Kubernetes containers.

Subbiah Sundaram - VP of Product and Marketing @ HYCU discusses multi-cloud data protection, cloud-native, hyperconverged infrastructure, ransomware and provides insight into what's happening in the cloud.

Eran Farajun - Executive VP @ Asigra elegantly discusses eradicating our false sense of security around ransomware attacks, what immutability really means, and the latest innovation around Deep MFA.

Jayden Bartram - CEO @ Couchdrop provides details around the complexities of data migrations, data sovereignty, GDPR, and the rise of S3 and object storage competitors.

Jamal Raees, Director of Business Development @ BitPay, Inc. discusses the inner workings of the Blockchain industry, the storage technology behind the scenes, and tons of interesting details about what’s going on in the cryptocurrency and bitcoin industry.

Pawel Maczka, CTO, VP @ Storware, CEO @ SocialCube provides his philosophy on the importance of protecting data in the midst of the pandemic, protecting your Office 365 data, ransomware, and some nuggets on backing up Open-Source Hypervisors.

Mike Wilson, Principal Architect @ NetApp provides details around hyperconverged infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure, and data protection.