Full Name

Val Bercovici

Job Title

Chief AI Officer

Company

WEKA

Speaker Bio

Valentin (Val) Bercovici is WEKA's Chief AI Officer, with responsibility for AI and open source product strategy. He has extensive experience in the data infrastructure industry, having previously been the Chief Technology Officer at NetApp/SolidFire, where he drove innovation in cloud storage and data management solutions. Val co-authored the Windows Shadowcopy snapshots and has made significant contributions to the storage standards community. As Co-chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Solid State Storage Initiative, Val helped to establish the first NAND Flash SSD storage standards. Additionally, Val served as the Chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), where he led the development of the international S3 standard CDMI (ISO 17826). He was also a founding member of the Kubernetes Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Governing Board, helping to shape the global direction of container orchestration. Val holds patents in AI agent smart contracts, streaming data integrity, and augmented reality (AR) for data center maintenance. His work continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI, cloud, and emerging technologies.