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Dinner seminars are monthly and or bi-monthly events. CAISS invites talks by well-known professionals in the technology, management, legal and business areas.

Annual meeting is held towards the end of each year to elect new board and to recruit new members. Keynote speakers are heavy-weight executives from the digital data storage industry.

Dinner Seminars/Annual Conference 2009
  • CAISS 2009 Annual Conferece on January 17, 2010 at Embassy Suite Milpitas. Keynote Speaker: Senior Vice President Richard Rutledge

    data storage business and technology at Western Digital.

  • October 23, 2009, Tom Chang, President, CTI Consulting

    MEMS Technology and Market in Mobile Device Applications

  • July 23, 2009, Dr. Jianming Fu, CTO in Sierra Solar Power, Inc.

    Solar Cell Technologies Outlook and Business Landscape

  • April 17, 2009, Professor Lambertus Hesselink, Professor at Stanford on optics and optical storage, as well as founder/CEO for WD's recent purchase – MioNet

    Nano-apertures and surface plasmons for use in nano photonics, with applications in both optical and magnetic data storage

  • March 19th, 2009, Mr. Mark Geenen, President and CEO, TRENDFOCUS

    Implications of current economic downturn on data storage industry

  • January 22nd, 2009, Dr. Steven R. Hetzler, IBM Fellow, Manager Storage Architecture Research

    The Storage Chasm: Implications for the Future of HDD and Solid State Storage

  • Annual Conference 2008
    • Dec. 2008, Mr. Charles Pope, Executive Vice President, Seagate Technology

      Planning and Corporate Development at Seagate Technology

    • Dinner Seminars/Annual Conference 2008
      • October 16th, 2008, Dr. Debasis Baral, VP. of Samsung Information System America, SISA Storage Labs

        Synergistic Data Storage Solution with Flash and Hard Disk

      • September 10th, 2008, Professor Yi Zhang, School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz

        The Future of Search: Personalized Proactive Information Retrieval

      • May 14th, 2008, Dr.Steve Hwang, VP, Seagate Technology

        My management and leadership experience at Seagate Technology

      • April 17th, 2008, Professor Yi Cui, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

        Nano-technology Enabled Memory and Energy Applications

      Dinner Seminars/Annual Conference 2007
      • Dec. 2007, Mr. J Coyne, Chief Executive Officer, Western Digital Corp.

        Nanometers to Terabytes: Enabling the Digital Lifestyle

      • Oct. 2007, Dr. Thomas Coughlin, President, Caughlin Associates Inc.

        Putting Storage in Perspective, What Storage Where?

      • Aug 2007, Dr. Ga-Lane Chen, CTO & VP, Global R&D, Hon Hai Precision Industry Company

        From interdisciplinary Technology Platform to Global Business Opportunities

      • May 2007, Dr. Sining Mao, VP, Western Digital.

        TMR Recording Heads For Next Generation Hard Discs Drives

      • March 2007, Dr. Yiming Huai, CTO, Grandis Inc.

        Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM) Technology

      Dinner Seminars 2006
      • September 2006, Ms. Phuong N. Quach, Financial Advisor of Ameriprise Financial

        Helping You Plan for a New Retirement

      • June 2006, Dr. Zvonimir Z. Bandic

        Impact of Nanoscale Patterning on Hard Disk Drives

      • Apirl 2006, Mr. Michael Yang, Samsung

        NAND Flash as Mobile Storage Solution

      • February 2006, Dr. Dieter Weller, Seagate Technology

        Terabit / sq-in magnetic recording and beyond

      Dinner Seminars 2005
      • September 2005, Dr. Andy Lee, Berksford LLC

        Financial Staging - The Art of Numbers from Investors' Perspective

      • July 2005, Dr. Yiao-Tee Hsia, Riospring

        HDI Challenges in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)

      • May 2005, Thomas Su, Riospring

        The future of small form factor hard disk drives

      • February 2005, Dr. Stone Shi, Applied Spintronics

        Current Status of MRAM Technology

      Dinner Seminars 2004
      • July 2004, Dr. Stuart Parkin, IBM Almaden Research

        The Spin on Electronics!

      • May 2004, Dr. Han Jie, NASA Ames

        Nanotechnology

      • March 2004, Thomas Su, Rio Spring

        China: Destiny for International HDD Industry

      • January 2004, Dr. Davide Guarisco, Maxtor

        Perpendicular Integration Challenges

      Dinner Seminars 2003
      • September 2003, Dr. Cattien Nguyen, NASA Ames

        Carbon Nanotubes

      • July 2003, Prof. S. X. Wang, Stanford U.

        Magnetic Biosensors

      • May 2003, Mr. Lawrence Leung, Attorney at Law

        Business--How to set up your own company

      • March 2003, Dr. Manish Sharma, HP Labs

        Material and Device Issues for Magnetic Random Access Memory

      • January 2003, Dr. Hungwen Li, Agilent

        Storage Trend -- Storage is the last territory of the information technology.

      Dinner Seminars 2002
      • September 2002, Dr. Daniel Rugar, IBM Almaden

        Millipede - A massively parallel data storage concept using atomic force microscope tips

      • August 2002, Lawrence Leung, Attorney at Law

        Estate Planning and Asset Protection

      • July 2002, Dr. G. Ferris Lipscomb, Lightwave Microsystems

        Planar Lightwave Circuits: Semiconductor Manufacturing in Fiber Optic Components

      • May 2002, Dr. Nghia Chiem, Coventor Inc

        MEMS, Microfluidics and Their Applications

      • March 2002, Gerardo Bertero, Komag

        Magnetic Recording Media: Its Evolution and Revolution into >100 Gb/in2 Recording Systems

      • January 2002, Dr. Stone Shi, Read Rite

        Magnetic RAM / MRAM

      Dinner Seminars 2001
      • September 2001, Dr. Aki Tomita, Silicon Light Machine

        MEMs

      • July 2001, Dr. Bruce Lairson, Quantum

        Perpendicular Recording

      • May 2001,Paul Massiglia, Veritas

        Storage Virtualization

      • March 2001,Michael V.Kuptz, IBM

        A Microdrive in Every Pocket

      • January 2001, Dr. Venkatesan Murali, Scion Photonics

        Optical Telecommunication Technology, Market and Outlook

      Dinner Seminars 2000
      • August 2000, Dr. Jerry Lopatin, Network Appliance

        Network Storage -- Technology, Product and Market

      • June 2000, Dr. Roger Wood, IBM Almaden

        The feasibility of magnetic recording at one terabit per square inch

      • May 2000, Dr. Nelson Chan, Sandisk

        Flash memory -- New applications and market forecast

      • March 2000, Ming Ko, Chung-Yu Ting, Wenjie Chen, and Edward Teng

        Life beyond Storage Industry

      • Feburary 2000, Dr. Ed Williams, Read-Rit

        Confronting MR head design challenges -- a new look at an old problem

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