Tom Coughlin Program Chair, FMS 2022

Flash Memory Summit (FMS), the flash memory conference and exposition, has appointed Tom Coughlin as its new program chair.

“I am singularly pleased to announce Tom Coughlin accepted our invitation to assume the role of program chair for FMS 2022,” said Chuck Sobey, FMS conference chair. “Simply put, Tom is a Silicon Valley icon and a genuine pleasure to work with. Under Tom’s leadership, FMS 2022 can continue its legacy of excellence, enabling enterprises to showcase initiatives and technologies at the storage industry’s finest conference venue.”

Coughlin will oversee conference tract definition. He will guide track coordinators in selecting collectively-coherent presentations that enable conference attendees to recognize current non-volatile storage industry status and anticipate forthcoming developments.

“I want to thank Lance Leventhal for his vision in creating FMS and his program chair leadership in growing the conference to great success. He will be missed, and we wish him well as he pursues new event management opportunities,” said Chip Stockton, Conference ConCepts, Inc.‘s CEO.

About Tom Coughlin
He is an IEEE Fellow and luminary within IEEE’s Silicon Valley community. He has published over 500 storage technology and application articles and more than 40 peer reviewed conference, magazine and journal papers. He has authored Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics (2e, Springer) and 6 invited technical book chapters. He is presently Coughlin Associates president where he advises storage product enterprises, guiding them into today’s uncertain future. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano Japan.