Storage Goes Main Street - Drive On!

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Monday, March 10, 2008 Conference Schedule

Venue: Marco Polo Hotel, Shenzhen, China Hawaii Auditorium, 7th Floor, Fuhua 1st Road, Futian CBD, Shenzhen 518048, PR China Phone: +86 (755) 8298-9888

0900 - 0920

Opening Remarks: Dr. Joel Weiss - President, IDEMA

Session I - HDD Market Analysis

Session Chair: Dr. Joel Weiss - President, IDEMA

0920 - 0940:

John Rydning - Research Director, Hard Disk Drives and Components, IDC: Aberrations from Historical HDD Trends: Essential Lessons of 2007

0940 - 1000:

Jeffrey Janukowicz - Research Manager, Solid State Drives and Hard Drive Components, IDC: SSDs - Finding Space in the Expanding Digital Universe

1000 - 1030:

Coffee Break - Networking

1030 - 1050:

Matt Bryson - Analyst, Avian Securities: Business Gets Better, But Valuations Get Worse - Why the Stock Market Does Not Believe in Hard Drives and a Prescription for Improving the Industry's Investment Profile

1050 - 1110:

Panel Discussion and Q&A: HDD Market Analysis

Session II - Alternative and Emerging Storage Concepts and Products

1110 - 1130:

Pat Wilkison - Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, STEC, Inc: SSDs, Disruptive in Ways Not Originally Considered

Session III - Advanced Processes

1130 - 1150:

Kirk Buecher - Director, Key Account Management, Electronics, Hach Ultra Analytics: Know Thy Enemy - Understand and Control Particle Contamination

1150 - 1300:

Lunch

1300 - 1320:

Ong Yam Chai - Director, Distribution, Hach Ultra Analytics:Cleanroom Quality Management: How to Understand and Demonstrate Compliance to International Standards(ISO)

1320 - 1340:

Morgan Polen - Vice President, Application Technology for Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions:Contamination Control & Monitoring at the Supplier Level in the HDD Industry

Session IV - Metrology & Test

1340 - 1400:

Tony Lavia - President & CEO, Flexstar Technology: Standardizing the Test Process for Hard Disk Drives

1400 - 1420:

Pei Zou - Global Technologist and Business Development Manager, FEI Company: High-Volume, Low-Cost ABS Metrology at Row Bar Level

Session V - Component Technology

1420 - 1440:

Dale F. Schudel - Managing Director, Intri-Plex (Thailand) Ltd.: Advanced Arm Damper Manufacturing

1440 - 1500:

Regan Foster - Product Design Engineer, Hutchinson Technology: Exploring Low Loss Interconnects for High Data Rates in Hard Disk Drives

1500 - 1520:

Coffee Break - Networking

1520 - 1540:

David E.Swenson - President, Affinity Static Control Consulting: ESD Protection for R&D and Manufacturing

1540 - 1600:

Hitoki Kanagawa - Chief Researcher, Nitto Japan:Additive Circuit Technology - Roadmap for HDD Suspension

Session VI - Enterprise Storage Reliability

1600 - 1620:

Dr. Jon Elerath - Senior Systems Realiability Engineer, Network Appliance, Inc.: Demystifying Reliability of Hard Disk and Solid State Drives

1620 - 1630:

Conference Wrap-Up