ApacheCon is the official global series of conferences of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ApacheCon is one of the most celebrated events in the open source world and one of the early days of the open source movement.

Back in 1998, before the ASF was founded, ApacheCon had attracted participants at all levels to explore the “technologies of tomorrow” in more than 300 Apache projects and their various communities. It was also during this session that the developers of HTTPD services got together and decided to form the Apache Software Foundation.



First event was held in San Francisco, CA, October 1998 (the ASF incorporated ~6 months later).

ApacheCon is held annually in Europe or North America and is a great opportunity for Apache developers to meet, discuss, and share ideas. Demonstrate the latest developments and innovations in the Apache project through hands-on presentations, keynote speeches, real-life case studies, training, hackathons, and more.

This year, in order to better serve the rapidly growing number of Apache users and contributors in Asia Pacific, the ApacheCon Organizing Committee and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce that ApacheCon Asia, the first online conference for Asia Pacific time zones, will be held on August 6, 2021.

Now please follow me and have a look at what will be presented in this year’s keynote speech.

Sharan Foga – Director of the Apache Foundation

Sharan Foga has been a member of The Apache Foundation since 2008, and has spoken at conferences on “The Apache Way” to spread The Apache philosophy and spirit. She enjoys being actively involved in open source community management projects. She is the VP of the Apache Kibble project and is a PMC member of several Apache projects, including Apache Community Development, In the incubator, Apache Ofbiz and Apache Training (incubator). The title of her talk was “Welcome Diversity.”

Diversity and inclusion have always been an important part of the Apache project community. Being able to work remotely and collaborate with a wide variety of people is a core strength in the development of all our communities.

How do we attract, embrace, and collaborate with a wide range of contributors?

What signals can communities send that they want and value different contributors?

And once you attract those contributors, how do we know or measure how well we’re doing?

In this talk, Sharan will discuss some of the challenges that the Apache Software Foundation faces in becoming a diverse community, as well as some strategies and tools that may help.

Jiang Ning, the founder of this conference, is the most famous mentor of Apache Foundation in China

He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, an incubator tutor of the Apache Software Foundation, the founder of ALC (Apache Local Community) Beijing, a technical expert of Huawei Open Source Capability Center, and the former chief software engineer of Red Hat Software. The topic of his speech was “Cultivating Open Source Communities”.

With the help of the Internet, Open Source Communities can bring users and developers together organically, allowing them to effectively collaborate across organizational boundaries for a common goal. In order to enable everyone to embrace the open source culture of transparency and win-win cooperation, and nurture the healthy development of open source ecology, we actively integrate into the successful process of open source community to learn from experience, but also to cultivate an organic development of open source community within the organization. In this sharing, Jiang Ning will combine his 15 years of experience in open source industry to show you the exploration process of cultivating open source community.

Ion Stoica-Spark is the founder of the project

Ion Stoica is a professor in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studies cloud computing and networked computer systems, Led the initiation of several projects including Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, Chord DHT and Dynamic Packet State (DPS). Ion Stoica is an ACM Fellow and has received a number of academic honors including the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2015), the SIGCOMM Ten Year Time Inspection Award (2011), and the ACM Doctoral Discourse Award (2001). In 2013, he co-founded Databricks. The title of his talk is “RAY: A Universal Framework for Distributed Computing”.

Distributed computing is becoming the norm, and this trend is largely driven by the computational requirements of machine learning. However, building distributed applications today requires a great deal of expertise. Ray’s goal is to make programming a cluster of machines as easy as programming a laptop.

Shan Zhihao – Chairman of Tencent Open Source Alliance

He is currently the chairman of Tencent Open Source Alliance. He has more than 10 years of practical experience in cloud native, micro service, edge computing, big data and open source ecology. He is actively involved in the open source community at home and abroad, serving as an observer of the Linux Foundation Board of Directors, chairman of the TARS Foundation, Akraino Edge Computing TSC of the Linux Foundation, TOC of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, TOC of the Mulan Open Source Community, technical expert of the China Cloud Native Industry Alliance, and an advisory board member of the Open Source Society. He has been awarded as SegmentFault China Open Source Pioneer, InfoQ Top Ten Outstanding Contributions to Open Source, China Telecommunications Institute Top Open Source Character, COPU China Outstanding Open Source Character, GOPS Micro Service Person of the Year, GO China Most Valuable Expert and so on. The title of his speech was “Technology for Good and the Path of Social Value Innovation”.

Shan Zhihao will share with the audience the ongoing investment, achievements and prospects of Tencent Cloud in open source, including the current progress of Apache Inlong in the ASF incubator, and explain the vision of how technology and open source can achieve social value innovation.

Professor Wang Jianmin – Dean of School of Software, Tsinghua University

Wang Jianmin, professor of Tsinghua University, dean of the School of Software, vice dean of the School of Information, executive director of the National Engineering Laboratory of Big Data System Software, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Award and the National Government Special Allowance, and selected for the National “Ten Thousand Talents Program”. He is the leader of the expert group in the field of advanced manufacturing of the National 863 Plan and a member of the National Industrial Internet Strategy Advisory Expert Committee. This time, he will give a keynote speech titled “Industrial Big Data Software and Open Source Innovation”.

Industry is big data is the core elements of the Internet, in wang’s speech, the teacher will report for you big data analysis industry background, analyze the industrial big data, enterprise informatization and the relationship between industrial Internet, describes the characteristics of data and application characteristics, discusses industrial big data software system architecture and large data software under the open source model of industry innovation, It also introduces the open source research and development and open source education exploration in the field of industrial big data software in the School of Software of Tsinghua University.

Dongwook Huang – PingCap CTO

He is an expert and architect of distributed systems, co-founder and chief technology officer of PingCap, an open source software, and co-founder of TIDB, a famous open source HTAP database. He used to work for Microsoft Research Asia, netease youdao, and Wandurab. In 2015, he founded PingCap, specializing in the design and implementation of distributed storage systems. And high concurrency backend architecture design. He has presented papers or presented at VLDB, HPTS and other academic database conferences. The title of his speech was “In Community We Trust”.

Open source has become a very hot topic recently. The core of open source is not the code, but the community, and what is the nature of the community? Why is community so important? How to run a good open source software community? Is there a conflict between open source and business? These are very important questions, and in this talk, Dong-Wook Huang will give you his thoughts.

Han Qing Luke-Apache Kylin Project VP

He is co-founder and CEO of Kyligence, co-founder of Apache Kylin and Member of PMC. The title of his speech is “From Open Source to Product, Thinking and Practice on the Transition of Open Source Projects”.

Apache Kylin has been the first top-level ASF project in China for nearly six years, and the founding team formed a startup company, Kyligence, to work on the productization side. Today, looking back at open source projects and technologies from a product perspective, there are a lot of similarities, but there are a lot of differences. In this post, Luke will share how Kylin productized from an open source technology from a “product manager” perspective, and how he runs the open source community and projects with a “product mindset.”

Junping Tuo – President of the Open Atom Foundation TOC

He is also an ASF Member, Apache Hadoop Committer & PMC Member, board Member of LF AI Foundation, and General Manager of Huawei Computing Open Source. The topic of his talk was “Community Over Code: Practices on Open Source Projects Across Different Foundations”.

As one of the key open source rules, “Community > Code” has been accepted by most open source projects. Building an active community around an open source project is considered an important indicator of a project’s maturity. As a result, many open source foundations have a specific entry on the Check List for projects that are graduating from the incubator. However, different foundations (Apache, Linux, and OpenAtom) may be slightly different, and at this conference, Mr. Tuo will share his experience gained from more than 10 years of open source contributions.

Ming Wen – Founder of Tributary Technology, Chairman of Apache Apisix PMC

He is the Chairman of Apache Apisix PMC, a member of the Apache Foundation, and a co-founder of Tributary Technologies. The title of his talk was “Apache Apisix’s Road from Open Source Project to Commercialization”.

Apache Apisix was donated by a startup to the Apache Software Foundation, and it is not a common practice to build a commercial product based on it. Why is Apache Apisix growing so fast? What are the possible paths to commercialization of an Apache project? In this sharing, Ming Wen, President of Apache Apisix PMC and co-founder of Tributary Technology, will give you the details.

Jono Bacon – Author of The Art of Running Communities

Jono Bacon has worked in the open source field for 22 years, and while his career has been generally successful, he has also experienced many failures. This time his speech titled “Epic Fail: the Key Open Source Career Mistakes and How to get | major failure: the Key of the Open Source Career error and How to Avoid”.

In this keynote, Jono will share some of the most critical mistakes he has made and how you can not only learn from them, but use them as a way to achieve greater success. His guidance will be practical, giving you plenty of material to put into action. It will be an open, transparent and at the same time soft keynote with lots of questions to think about, such as what to do and what not to do.

In this session, Jono will share some of the most important mistakes he has made and how you can learn from them and turn them into methodologies that will help you achieve greater success. His guidance will be practical, giving you plenty of material to put into action.

Hong Phuc Dang-osi is Vice President and Founder of FossAsia

Hong Phuc Dang is a vice president at OSI and founder of FossAsia, an organization dedicated to improving people’s lives by sharing open technologies, promoting global connectivity and sustainable production. She hosts the annual FossAsia Summit and organizes open technology summits in countries such as Vietnam, India, China, Sri Lanka and Germany. She is vice chair of the IEEE Open Source Council, a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance, and vice president of open source initiatives. With more than a decade of open source expertise, she supports the technological transition of enterprises to open source and endogenous development models. Her most recent focus has been to bring open source hardware into production on a large scale. Hong Phuc believes that Free and Open Source is more than just a way to exchange code freely. It is a model of cooperation that sets an example for people around the world to work together peacefully to solve problems. Her lecture on the topic of “Solving the world the problems with the open technologies | using open technologies to solve the problem in the world”.

We need open source now more than ever. We urgently need to promote global connectivity, knowledge exchange and cross-border cooperation. Only through cooperation can we make more progress in solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. People from all over the world work together on open source projects. They demonstrate every day that despite different perspectives, personal and historical backgrounds and experiences, it is possible to collaborate productively and successfully on a global scale for the benefit of all. In this session, Hong Phuc Dang will talk about the state, challenges and opportunities of open source software and hardware. What we have learned from the pandemic crisis around the world and how individuals can contribute and help build global solutions in an open source way.

Kevin Xu-GitHub is Senior Director of International Development Strategy

He is GitHub’s senior director of international outreach strategy. He is the author of Interconnected NewNewetter Blog about the intersection of technology, business, investment and geopolitics. He was formerly General Manager of Global Strategy and Operations at PingCap. The title of his talk was “How to support the next 50 million open source developers.”

The next wave of open source developers is coming not only from mature economies, but increasingly from emerging markets and developing countries, many of them in the Asia-Pacific region. This growth on a global scale brings new opportunities and challenges. In this talk, Kevin Xu will discuss who these new developers will be, what they need to succeed, and how the global open source community can better support them.

Wang Feng – Alibaba researcher, head of open source big data platform

Wang Feng, Hua Ming Mo Wen, Alibaba researcher, head of open source big data platform. Currently, I am leading the team to build Ali Cloud open source big data product system based on open source big data technology, including real-time computing service based on Apache Flink, e-MapReduce platform based on Apache Hadoop/Spark, and a new generation of data lake analysis products. It not only provides internal services for all real-time data businesses of Alibaba Group, but also provides world-leading open source big data computing services for the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises through AliCloud. The title he shared was “Alibaba’s Road to Open Source Big Data”.

In the direction of big data technology, Alibaba always adheres to the double-track development model of self-research and open source. On the basis of self-research, Alibaba actively embraces the open source ecology. Especially in recent years, with the continuous and rapid development of Alibaba cloud business, the cloud product system based on the open source technology ecology has been more and more favored by the market. Alibaba began to build the first generation of big data platform based on Apache Hadoop 12 years ago, and began to vigorously promote the development of Apache Flink community from 2016, now Alibaba has become the world’s largest contributor and promoter of Apache Flink community. At present, Ali Open Source Big Data team has trained more than 30 Apache top project commiters/PMC members and many ASF members. In this speech, Wang Feng will introduce Alibaba’s open source big data technology development process and future plan in the past 10 years.

It can be seen that at this APACECON ASIA conference, the open source giants from home and abroad will bring us wonderful sharing. From the perspective of open source projects, researchers, open source foundations and so on, the audience is inspired. If you are interested in open source technology, open source community, technology operation, technology entrepreneurship and open source foundation, ApacheCon Asia will be the perfect choice for you.

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