Stephen Bates

Stephen is the VP and  Chief Architect of Emerging Storage Systems at Huawei's Toronto Emerging Storage Lab. He and his team research all aspects of next-generation storage systems from media to programming interfaces to filesystems to virtualized storage to applications.

Stephen is an expert in performance storage, persistent and non-volatile memory, computer networking, signal processing and error correction coding. He is also very active in both the SNIA and NVM Express standard bodies.

Prior to Huawei he was the CTO of Eideticom which is a pioneer company in NVMe-based computational storage. He was also formerly in the CTO office at PMC-Sierra, an Assistant Professor at The Univeristy of Alberta and a Principal Engineer at Massana Inc. Stephen has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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Grady Nye

Grady is a Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel on the Privacy & Data Protection team at Mastercard. Grady is the global privacy lead for Data Analytics, and Loyalty, managing a global team of experts that provide strategic data and privacy advice to Mastercard's fast-growing data analytics and loyalty business. He also plays an important role in the implementation of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), spearheading efforts to be on the cutting edge of product and technology design.

Prior to Mastercard, Grady was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP and a member of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity group.

Jeffrey Cottle

Jeffrey Cottle is a partner and co-practice group leader of Brown Rudnick’s White Collar Defense, Investigations & Compliance Practice Group. He divides his time between the Firm’s D.C. and London offices, serving a global client base. Jeff’s practice focuses on white-collar crime and compliance matters, with an emphasis on fraud, corruption, trade sanctions, and export controls. Jeff conducts internal investigations of breaches of company policies and law, as well as the defense of investigations by external regulators and enforcement agencies such as the U.S. DOJ and SEC, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, and other enforcement agencies in Europe and elsewhere. He also handles all aspects of compliance program design and implementation, including training, risk assessment, due diligence on third parties, and monitoring/audit protocols. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Jeff was an officer in U.S. Naval Intelligence, serving in operations around the globe, eventually retiring as a Commander.