Kurtis Bowman is the Director Architecture and Strategy at AMD. He focuses on identifying pertinent new technologies and integrating them into AMD solutions. His current areas of interest include converged and hyperconverged systems, accelerators for HPC, machine learning, and data analytics. He has built teams and managed firmware and hardware development through entire lifecycles in both startups and mature companies.

Kurtis has over 25 years’ experience in the architecture, development, and business justification of server, storage, commercial, and consumer computing products. Before joining AMD, he held technical leadership positions Dell, a leading server provider, Panasas, a high-performance storage company, and Compaq. He earned a BSEE from New Mexico State University. He holds multiple patents, has written articles in the technical and trade press, and is the President of the Gen-Z Consortium.