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Ultra Ethernet Consortium Member Summit 2026
April 27 - April 29
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium Member Summit 2026 brings the UEC community together for three days of in-person technical engagement, leadership alignment, and implementation-focused collaboration. This is the consortium’s primary face-to-face gathering for advancing active work, strengthening cross-working-group coordination, and helping translate technical progress into practical next steps.
Location
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center
7800 East Tufts Avenue
Denver, CO 80237
Venue details: https://shorturl.at/ASMxe
Why Attend
The UEC Member Summit is designed to bring the community together where in-person engagement has the greatest value: active technical work, cross-functional coordination, strategic alignment, and direct discussion among contributors, implementers, and consortium leadership.
Across three full days of programming, members will have the opportunity to participate in working group sessions, consortium discussions, leadership meetings, and focused conversations on implementation, deployment, compliance, and performance. The Summit is structured to support both deep technical work and broader alignment across the organization.
This is an in-person event only. There will be no remote participation option.
Featured Programming
- Three full days of in-person programming
- Working group sessions across core UEC technical areas
- Cross-working-group and leadership coordination
- UEC Summit Kickoff
- Productization and Deployment Panel Discussion
- Show + Tell Session
- Deployment and Implementation Planning Discussion
- UEC/SNIA/NVM Express Reception
- Complimentary access to SNIA’s Regional SDC: Storage.AI event on Wednesday
Who Should Attend
The Summit is intended for the full UEC member community, including:
- Technical contributors
- Working group participants
- Implementers
- Chairs and leadership participants
- Returning attendees
- First-time participants
- Whether you are helping shape UEC specifications, aligning implementation strategy, or preparing for deployment, this event provides direct access to the conversations and working sessions that move the consortium forward.
Registration
Register here:
https://register.linuxfoundation.org/uec-member-summit-2026
Access is available with the member-exclusive code on Causeway.
UEC Member Summit 2026
Event Agenda
Monday, April 27
| Start | End | Location | Session | Lead(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | 5:00 PM | Grande Mesa Foyer – L2 | Registration | SNIA UEC Marketing Team |
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Atrium – L2 | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | Welcome Address / Member Awards | J Metz |
| 9:15 AM | 10:00 AM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | Ultra Ethernet 101 | Venkat Pullela (Keysight) |
| 10:00 AM | 10:45 AM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | Rise of Ultra Ethernet | Mahesh Subramaniam (HPE) |
| 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | The Why of UEC | Tom Emmons (Arista) |
| 11:30 AM | 1:00 PM | Atrium – L2 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | UEC Transport Working Group | Keith Underwood |
| 1:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Grande Mesa B – L2 | UEC Compliance & Test Working Group | Dave Estes Cliff Tavares |
| 2:15 PM | 2:45 PM | Atrium – L2 | PM Refreshments | |
| 2:45 PM | 4:15 PM | Grande Mesa B – L2 | UEC Performance & Debug Working Group | Chris Sommers Yanfang Le |
| 2:45 PM | 4:15 PM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | UEC Transport WG continues | Keith Underwood |
| 4:15 PM | 6:00 PM | Grande Mesa D – L2 | UEC TAC WG | Tom Emmons Brad Matthews |
| 4:15 PM | 6:00 PM | Grande Mesa B – L2 | UEC Storage WG – joint NVMe FMDS Meeting | Phil Cayton Claudio De Santi |
Tuesday, April 28
| Start | End | Location | Session | Lead(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Atrium – L2 | Breakfast | |
| 8:10 AM | 9:50 AM | Grande Mesa B – L2 | UEC Compliance & Test WG | Dave Estes Cliff Tavares |
| 8:10 AM | 9:50 AM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | UEC Transport WG | Keith Underwood |
| 9:50 AM | 10:15 AM | Atrium – L2 | AM Refreshments | |
| 10:15 AM | 12:00 PM | Grande Mesa E – L2 |
Benchmarking Methodology Seminar
Part One: Collective Communications with real-world results using PD8001 Spec.
Part II: HPC Benchmark – Performance evaluation for high-performance computing workloads. All are welcome. This is an educational session. |
Chris Sommers Yanfang Le |
| 10:15 AM | 12:00 PM | Grande Mesa B – L2 | UEC PHY WG | Adee Ran Jannik Hammel Nielsen |
| 10:15 AM | 12:00 PM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | UEC Transport WG (continues) | Keith Underwood |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Atrium – L2 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Grande Mesa B – L2 |
UEC Management WG Joint Session: Transport/Software WG
UEC management specification overview.
UE Fabric management. UET monitoring and control including telemetry and diagnostics. Software topics: INC management, key management, provisioning. |
John Leung Hemal Shah |
| 1:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | UEC Transport WG (continues) | Keith Underwood |
| 1:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Grande Mesa E – L2 |
UEC/SNIA/NVMe: Cross-Organization Technical Alignment Session
A cross-group, cross-organization meeting to share current workstreams, identify areas of overlap, and improve technical alignment across UEC, SNIA, and NVMe.
All members are invited; this is an opportunity to cross-pollinate and build bridges. |
Chris Sommers (UEC) Yanfang Le (UEC) |
| 2:15 PM | 2:45 PM | Atrium – L2 | PM Refreshments | |
| 2:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Grande Mesa F – L2 | UEC Software WG | Rip Sohan Eric Spada |
| 2:45 PM | 4:00 PM | Grande Mesa B – L2 |
UEC Management WG Joint Session: Swordfish team (SNIA)
Joint session topic: Discussion centered on the need to ensure alignment at the management layer as storage device integration work on UEC continues to develop.
In that context, Richelle Ahlvers from SNIA Redfish/Swordfish will attend. |
John Leung Hemal Shah |
| 2:45 PM | 4:00 PM | Grande Mesa A – L2 | UEC Link WG | Bob Alverson Yan Zhuang |
| 2:45 PM | 4:00 PM | Grande Mesa E – L2 |
UEC Performance & Debug WG
Roadmap and brainstorming session.
Bring your performance and debug wish list. Up until now, we have focused on application-level performance, but there is also interest in lower layers. All members are welcome. |
Chris Sommers Yanfang Le |
| 4:05 PM | 5:45 PM | Grande Mesa D – L2 | UEC Deployment and Implementation Planning Discussion (Remote Enabled) | TAC Steering Committee Chairs |
| 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM | Atrium – L2 | Partner Networking Reception – UEC, NVMe, SNIA |
Wednesday, April 29
| Start | End | Location | Session | Lead(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Atrium – L2 | Breakfast | |
| 7:30 AM | 8:30 AM | Grande Mesa D – L2 | TAC/Steering Committee Breakfast | Tom Emmons Brad Matthews J Metz |
| 8:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Grande Mesa D – L2 | UEC TAC Meeting | Tom Emmons Brad Matthews |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Atrium – L2 | AM Refreshments | |
| 10:45 AM | 12:00 PM | Chasm Creek – L2 | UEC Software WG | Eric Spada Rip Sohan |
| 10:45 AM | 12:00 PM | Grande Mesa C – L2 | UEC PHY WG | Jannik Hammel Nielsen Adee Ran |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Atrium – L2 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | 2:40 PM | Grande Mesa D – L2 | UEC Joint TAC/Steering Committee Meeting | Tom Emmons Brad Matthews J Metz |
| 1:30 PM | 2:40 PM | Chasm Creek – L2 | UEC Software WG (continues) | Eric Spada Rip Sohan |
| 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Atrium – L2 | PM Refreshments | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Grande Mesa D – L2 | Steering Committee Meeting | J Metz |
| 3:00 PM | 6:20 PM | Chasm Creek – L2 | UEC Software WG (continues) | Eric Spada Rip Sohan |
