Storage Days Tallinn
The Capacity Era
A technical, vendor-neutral peer forum on how storage evolves over the next decade. One room, senior voices, no product pitches.
DATES
31 August – 1 September 2026
VENUE
Nordic Forum Hotel
Tallinn, Estonia
SCALE
~30 delegates
EDITION
Inaugural 2026
The inaugural invitation-only EMEA data summit
Storage Days Tallinn is a vendor-neutral forum for open conversations about where data storage is heading over the next decade. With carefully selected delegates, the format is deliberately small – giving people the space to have real conversations, exchange ideas and make useful connections.
Vendor-neutral
The programme is independent of sponsors. No product pitches — just perspectives, experience and thought leadership from across the industry.
Looking ahead
We’ll explore what the next decade of capacity storage will look like — from the underlying physics to the economics and architectures shaping it.
~30 delegates
A small group of senior industry leaders, with enough room for everyone to contribute and connect.
Peer-to-peer
An opportunity to compare perspectives, share experience and continue the conversation beyond the event.
Who is in the room
Hardware & drive makers
Senior engineering and product voices from the major HDD and flash manufacturers.
HPC & national labs
Storage leaders from national research-computing centres and laboratories.
Academia & research
University genomics, coding-theory and research-storage groups.
Enterprise practitioners
Architects running storage and data infrastructure at scale.
AI & data-intensive operators
Teams behind large models, autonomous fleets and satellite/media archives.
Independent experts & investors
Specialists and deep-tech investors tracking the capacity era.
Keynote speakers
Alain Wilmouth
CEO & Co-Founder
2CRSi
Gary Grider
Sr Director Computing Technologies
Los Alamos National Lab
Uwe Kemmer
Director EMEAI Field Engineering
Western Digital
Rick Stevens
Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Bacula Systems
Christoph Hellwig
Linux Kernel Developer / Consultant
Igor Misko
Senior Product Marketing Engineer
Toshiba
Babar Khan, PhD
Independent Researcher, B.Sc. and M.Sc. Electrical Engineering & PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Ben Radford
Distribution Sales for North and South Europe
Western Digital
Martin Rungi
Head of Enterprise Segment
Greenergy Data Centers
Peer Heinlein
CEO
OpenCloud
Pavel Chikul
CTO & Scientific Researche/Lecturer
Trumo / TalTech
Marthijs van den Ham
Alliance Manager
MDCS.AI
Eight program tracks across 1.5 days
Keynotes, deep technical sessions and open panels — sequenced so the technical and the strategic keep meeting each other.
Keynote presentations
Framing talks on where capacity, cost and physics collide over the next decade.
Storage-market deep-dives
Supply, pricing and roadmap analysis from people who model the market for a living.
Deep technical sessions
HDD and flash internals, erasure coding, filesystems and archive-scale engineering.
Research & academic perspectives
Coding theory, genomics workloads and long-horizon work from university groups.
AI & emerging infrastructure
What model training, autonomous fleets and sensor archives demand from storage.
Industry case studies
Architects presenting what actually shipped, what broke and what it cost.
Open panel discussions
Unscripted, vendor-neutral debate with the room, not at the room.
Collaborative networking
Structured peer time built for relationships that hold up after the event.
AI & Sovereignty Panel Discussion
How data & infrastructure sovereignty holds up as AI moves into the physical world
Revisiting 3 topics for storage (HDD): Bathtub Curve, AI Traces, and Erasure Coding
News
News coming soon.
Stay tuned for updates.
The room, the city, the format
Participating organizations
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