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Tuesday, September 21

13:00 UTC

Welcome to Apachecon, and the State of the Feather

VP Conferences Rich Bowen will deliver some quick opening remarks, and then Apache Software Foundation President David Nalley will deliver the State of the Feather - the annual report on what the Apache Software Foundation has been up to for the past year.

13:30 UTC

Ashley Wolf - The Inclusive Community Imperative (and where the next 50 million developers will come from)

The amount of software that the human race will rely on in the coming decades is going to grow dramatically, and much of it will be powered by Open Source. In order to support this growth — to maintain the software we already have and create the software of the future — the Open Source community will double in size in the next five years. Ashley Wolf, head of GitHub's open source program office at GitHub, will share insight into the exponential growth and global expansion occurring in Open Source, and the evolution that is necessary to attract the incredible talent and potential of the next 50 million developers.

13:45 UTC

Apurva Desai (Google) - Open Data Lakes: Latest stop in the big data journey

In this talk we will look at the evolution of Big Data, its impact on enterprise customers and evolution of Data Lakes products. We will look at the Open Data Lake with the lens of Dataplex - a new product offering from GCP

Apurva Desai is an industry veteran with 25+ years of experience with 15+ years of that spent with Big Data and Cloud technology. He is currently responsible for open source based data analytics products such as Dataproc, Dataplex, and DPMS in GCP. Before Google, he has worked at Yahoo, EMC/Pivotal Software, Motorola as well as small startups. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from University of Mumbai and a Masters of Applied Science degree from Simon Fraser University.

Wednesday, September 22

13:00 UTC

Opening Remarks

VP Conferences Rich Bowen will deliver some opening remarks and highlights of the day.

13:15 UTC

Mark Cox - Community-led Security at ASF

Apache projects are running inside nearly every organisation today. But can they trust all our code is secure? During this keynote, Mark will share his thoughts on current security processes at Apache, the balance between central policies and projects' own processes, and what external groups like the Open Source Security Foundation are working on to create a trusted software supply chain.

13:30 UTC

Anil Inamdar (Instaclustr) - Open Core vs Open Source

Join Instaclustr's Anil Inamdar for a discussion of "Open Core Vs Open Source."

13:45 UTC

Willem Jiang (Huawei) - Open Source Community--The Utopia for Programmers

Dear programmers, aren't you tired of working on others' commands? Have you ever encountered the thought that your job is undesirable but you must do it? Have you ever felt not receiving adequate credits for the works you've done? If you are suffering from real-life struggles, welcome to the Open Source Community, the Utopia for excellent programmers just like you! Programming should be creative and meaningful, and we all deserve to perform coding in a friendly and welcoming environment!

Thursday, September 23

13:00 UTC

Opening Remarks

VP Conferences Rich Bowen will deliver some opening remarks and highlights of the day.

13:15 UTC

Alison Parker, Michael Weinberg - Open Hardware vs. COVID-19 at Wilson Center/NYU research

In the face of widespread shortages of personal protective equipment and medical supplies in the earliest days of COVID, the open source hardware and maker communities came together to design, manufacture, and distribute equipment to fill the gaps. We will explore what worked in this response, what didn't, and how open hardware can be even more effective in future emergencies.

13:30 UTC

Mark Shan (Tencent) - Apache Way in Tencent

The speaker will share the practice of the Apache Way in Tencent, its achievements and outlook, including the progress of Apache InLong, a project currently in the ASF incubator, and explain the vision of how technology for good and open source can achieve social value innovation.

Mark Shan has a long career and practical experience in cloud-native, microservices, big data, edge computing, and open-source ecosystem. As the chairperson of Tencent Open Source Alliance, he works full of passion to build the ecosystem for Tencent Open Source and makes great efforts to accelerate innovation in technology and product with the open-source way.

At Tencent Cloud, Mark leads the open-source team and works with organizations and communities including Apache Software Foundation,Linux Foundation, Open Atom Foundation, CAICT, COPU and others to build open-source ecosystem. He is also the observer of Linux Foundation Board, chairperson of TARS Foundation, TOC member of Open Atom Foundation and Magnolia Open Source Community, TSC member of Akraino Edge Stack, fellow of China Cloud Native Industry Alliance, advisor of Open Source Community.