🚀 Join Portworx at Pure//Accelerate 2025

Join us at Pure//Accelerate 2025 in Las Vegas from featured speakers, Jeff Bethke and Nate Mason, SiriusXM, alongside other infrastructure innovators, as they share real-world stories of modernizing platforms, simplifying operations, and scaling AI initiatives. Portworx is excited to bring a full slate of sessions to Pure Accelerate to help you build the future of data infrastructure—whether you’re virtualizing, containerizing, or deploying AI at scale.

Jeff Bethke, Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering, SiriusXM

Nate Mason, Associate Director, Unix Systems Group, SiriusXM

📅 Wednesday, June 18

🕛 12:00 – 12:30 (Theater-1)
🔧 Embrace the Next Wave of Infrastructure Virtualization
Speaker: Eric Shanks
Discover how modern virtualization, powered by Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, delivers a powerful VMware alternative for today’s enterprise.

🕝 2:30 – 3:15 (Jasmine D)
📡 The Modern Virtualization Journey at SiriusXM
Speaker: Adam Swidler, with insights from Jeff Bethke and Nate Mason
Learn how SiriusXM reimagined their infrastructure to simplify operations and scale applications—from VMs to containers.

🕓 4:00 – 4:20 (Theater-2)
🍴 Serving Up Velocity: A Tasty Look at the Portworx Platform
Speaker: Eric Shanks
A bite-sized walkthrough of how Portworx accelerates development, resilience, and automation across any environment.

🕟 4:30 – 5:15 (Jasmine A)
🤖 Panel: How to Make AI Succeed in Your Organization
Speakers: Nathan E. Wood, Tony Paikeday, Victor Alberto O.
Hear from data leaders on how infrastructure modernization unlocks AI/ML outcomes through a scalable and flexible platform.

📅 Thursday, June 19

🕥 10:30 – 11:15 (Jasmine E)
💸 GenAI in Finance: Simplified, Scalable & Ready for Real-Time
Speakers: Michael Russo, Philip Ninan, Jon Owings
Explore how AI/ML-ready infrastructure built on Portworx enables innovation at the speed of insight.

🕦 11:30 – 12:15 (Jasmine C)
🧱 Unifying VMs & Containers with Portworx + Red Hat OpenShift
Speaker: Eric Shanks
Bridge legacy and modern workloads with a single platform to support your journey off VMware.

🕦 11:30 – 12:15 (Jasmine A)
🧠 Architecting Data Infrastructure for AI at Scale
Speaker: Jon Owings
A deep dive into building a flexible data layer to support GenAI initiatives across hybrid and multicloud environments.

🕦 11:30 – 12:30 (Lotus B)
🧪 FlashDrive Demo Lab: Portworx with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Speaker: Chris Crow
Get hands-on with the Portworx platform powering both VMs and containers in real-time lab demos.

🕑 2:00 – 2:45 (Jasmine A)
🛠️ Platform Engineering Best Practices for AI, Containers, VMs & DBs
Speaker: Jon Owings
Learn how Portworx simplifies Day 0 to Day 2 for platform teams with automation, resilience, and scalability at the core.