Chuck Sobey is the Conference Chair of Flash Memory Summit, held each August in Santa Clara, CA. He is also the founder and Chief Scientist of the technology and business strategy consulting firm, ChannelScience (Plano, TX). Chuck advises start-ups, large corporations, and government agencies worldwide on the direction of memory and storage technologies. He is also a trusted research partner for key industry advances from read channel signal processing, spin-transfer torque MRAM development, ECC architectures, and AI accelerators.

Chuck is a graduate of the ECE departments of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California at Santa Barbara.