Organizers
Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary, research-intensive, world-class university. Located in the heart of Paris, with a regional presence, it is committed to the success of its students and to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century. Through the strength of its 55,000 students, 7,300 academic researchers and partner researchers, and 3,900 administrative and technical staff, Sorbonne University promotes diversity, creativity, innovation and openness to the world.
Founded in 2021, Biomemory is a deep tech company specialized in enterprise data storage. By leveraging molecular engineering, the company’s goal is to build cost-effective and energy-efficient exabyte rackable appliances for data centers. Utilizing proprietary technologies based on synthetic biology, Biomemory produces long, bio-sourced, biocompatible, and bio-secure DNA fragments that can be stored as inert polymers for thousands of years without any energy input.
The DNA Data Storage Alliance is a group of over forty member organizations from industry and academia. Founded in 2020, and a SNIA Technology Affiliate group since 2022, the Alliance’s mission is to create and promote an interoperable storage ecosystem based on manufactured DNA as a data storage medium by: 1) educating the storage ecosystem and the public on this emerging technology; 2) identifying key technical challenges in the underlying technologies to help drive funding and research; and 3) developing standards and specifications (e.g., encoding, physical interfaces, data retention) that enable interoperable solutions.
SNIA is a not-for-profit global organization made up of corporations, universities, startups, and individuals. The members collaborate to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and education for management, movement, and security for technologies related to handling and optimizing data. SNIA focuses on the transport, storage, acceleration, format, protection, and optimization of infrastructure for data.
Sponsors
Avaneidi is the first European provider of CyberStorage, delivering a scalable hardware infrastructure for high-performance data storage. By merging a secure-by-design hardware with innovative defense strategies, Avaneidi’s CyberStorage goes beyond conventional storage, enabling organizations to scale, innovate, and thrive in a safe AI-ready environment. With innovations like DNA Storage, which combines electronic and biological components such as DNA synthesis and sequencing, Avaneidi is laying the foundation to tackle both present and future cyber threats.
Western Digital empowers the systems and people who rely on data. Consistently delivering high capacity, high quality and low TCO, Western Digital is trusted by hyperscale cloud providers, enterprise data centers, content professionals and consumers around the world as a data storage device provider.
Atlas is developing automated systems to store and retrieve digital data using DNA molecules. Our core technology combines novel semiconductor chips and enzyme engineering, ushering in a new era of high-throughput and massively parallel chemistry performed on a chip. Atlas addresses the exponential growth of data, while dramatically reducing the power usage, e-waste, and carbon generation of data storage.