# Attendee emails ## Before ApacheCon is just a few days away! We hope you're looking forward to it as much as we are. We've got a bunch of great keynotes lined up for you, including Ashley Wolfe, Mark Cox, Alison Parker, Michael Weinberg, and many more! https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/tracks/keynotes.html And we have more than 190 breakout sessions across 14 tracks, including Geospatial, Community, Microservices, Financial Tech, Search, and more! For the full schedule of talks see https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/tracks/ At the end of each day, we have BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) where there will be free-form discussion of the topics discussed during the day. These are a great place to meet people that are in your technology space, including the very people that invented the tech that your company relies on. And all day, every day, there will be a hallway track, where you can ask questions, talk shop, or just socialize. Please share the free registration information with your friends and colleagues, and help us include them in the conversation. https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/register.html And grab an event tshirt at https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/88276450?ref=studio-promote All of this is made possible by our sponsors: Strategic sponsor: Google Platinum sponsors: Huawei, Tencent, Instaclustr, and Apple Gold sponsors: AWS, Aiven, Gradle, Replicated, Red Hat, Baidu, Fiter, Cerner, Dremio, and Didi Silver sponsors: Bamboo, SpereEx, Microsoft, Imply, Securonix, DataStax, and Crafter Software Bronze sponsors: Technical Arts Please follow us on Twitter at @ApacheCon for last-minute updates and highlight announcements during the event itself. We'll see you at ApacheCon! ## Addendum/correction email: Hello again, ApacheCon attendees! We have a few additions and a correction to the sponsor list you received earlier today! We'd also like to thank Silver sponsors Crafter Software and DataStax. In addition, Bamboo Systems Group was inadvertently misspelled. A big thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible, and sorry for the errors. ## Day 1 Welcome to the first day of ApacheCon! We're so pleased that you're joining us for the 35th ApacheCon, and helping to make this the best ApacheCon ever. You can join the event at https://hopin.com/events/apachecon-2021-home Today will start at 13:00 UTC (9 AM Eastern US time) with keynotes by David Nalley, Ashley Wolf, and Apurva Desai. We then have 10 tracks of breakout sessions, including API & Microservice, Big Data, Big Data: Streaming, Cassandra, Community, Fineract & Fintech, Geospatial, Highlights, Observability, Search, and Tomcat. The full schedule for each can be seen at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/tracks/ and the sessions themselves will appear on the Hopin platform 5 minutes before each session is scheduled to start. We also have the "hallway track" running all day, where you can chat with other attendees, and with speakers. At the end of the day, we have Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, where we have unstructured discussions about what you heard during the day. Follow us on Twitter - @apachecon - for announcements, schedule changes, and other information throughout the day. Grab your ApacheCon t-shirt (or mug, hoodie, or notebook!) at https://s.apache.org/apachecon-tshirt If you have any questions or concerns during the event, please contact me (Rich Bowen) or Brian Proffitt via the event chat, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Finally, a reminder that this event is conducted under the ApacheCon code of conduct. Read it at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/conduct.html Note that violations of the Code of Conduct will result in you being ejected from the event, in order to maintain a friendly welcoming environment for all attendees. Thanks again for joining us today! --Rich Bowen, VP Conferences, The Apache Software Foundation, for the ApacheCon planners. ## Day 2 I hope the first day of ApacheCon was as valuable for you as it was for me. The keynotes and deep technical content were great. But even better than that, for me, was the time spent with friends and colleagues. I've been going to ApacheCon for more than 20 years, and while I must admit I miss the evenings with friends around a meal and drinks, this year's event is starting out to be pretty great, too, and I got to read a bed time story to my daughter last night as well. So, welcome to day two, and I hope that it will be as good as day one! Schedule update: Exclusive Producer: Using Apache Pulsar to build distributed applications Matteo Merli will now occur today (Wednesday) at 17:10 UTC Today features keynotes by Mark Cox, Anil Inamdar, and Willem Jiang, all of whom have been around Apache and open source for some time, and will have great insights about how and why we do what we do at Apache. This will be followed by 13 tracks of breakout sessions: API & Microservice, Big Data, Big Data: SQL/NoSQL, Big Data: Streaming, Cassandra, Community, Content Delivery, Fineract & Fintech, Highlights, Incubator, Integration, Internet of Things, and Search. As with yesterday, you can join the event at https://hopin.com/events/apachecon-2021-home At the end of the day, we more BOF sessions. The BOFs were great yesterday, and provide a way to have the deeper conversations that you can't have during the breakout sessions. The videos from the sessions you missed yesterday will hit YouToube over the next few days. Follow us on Twitter - @apachecon - for announcements, schedule changes, and other information throughout the day. Grab your ApacheCon t-shirt (or mug, hoodie, or notebook!) at https://s.apache.org/apachecon-tshirt If you have any questions or concerns during the event, please contact me (Rich Bowen) or Brian Proffitt via the event chat, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Finally, a reminder that this event is conducted under the ApacheCon code of conduct. Read it at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/conduct.html Note that violations of the Code of Conduct will result in you being ejected from the event, in order to maintain a friendly welcoming environment for all attendees. Welcome to day two! Rich, VP Conferences, for the ApacheCon Planners ## Day 3 It seems we just got started, and it's already the last day. Thank you so much for joining us at our 35th ApacheCon, and hopefully you'll join us again next year. In the next day or two you'll get a survey about the event. Yeah, I know, surveys aren't your favorite thing. But spending 5 minutes to fill out the survey helps us do a better job next time, and helps our speakers and sponsors understand what you're looking for as an attendee. Today's keynotes are from Alison Parker, Michael Weinberg, and Mark Shan, and promise to be great. These will be followed by 13 tracks of breakout sessions: API & Microservice Big Data, Big Data: Ozone, Big Data: SQL/NoSQL, Community, Content Delivery, Content Management, Federated Data, Fineract & Fintech, Groovy, Incubator, Integration, and Internet of Things. We also have the "hallway track" running all day, where you can chat with other attendees, and with speakers. We have a number of schedule change announcements today: * Micro services using Apache sling, with Yash Mody will now be today at 15:00 UTC (Was scheduled on Tuesday previously) * Drilling Security Data, with Charles Givre, is canceled * Micro services using Apache sling, with Yash Mody, will now be today at 15:00 UTC (was scheduled on Tuesday) * Step by Step Production Ready Apache Druid, with Furkan Kamaci, is canceled. At the end of the day, we have Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, where we have unstructured discussions about what you heard during the day. Follow us on Twitter - @apachecon - for announcements, schedule changes, and other information throughout the day. Grab your ApacheCon t-shirt (or mug, hoodie, or notebook!) at https://s.apache.org/apachecon-tshirt If you have any questions or concerns during the event, please contact me (Rich Bowen) or Brian Proffitt via the event chat, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Finally, a reminder that this event is conducted under the ApacheCon code of conduct. Read it at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/conduct.html Note that violations of the Code of Conduct will result in you being ejected from the event, in order to maintain a friendly welcoming environment for all attendees. --Rich Bowen, VP Conferences, The Apache Software Foundation, for the ApacheCon planners. ## Post-event + Survey Thank you for attending ApacheCon! I hope your week at ApacheCon was as productive as mine - learning new things, meeting new and old friends, and being immersed in the Apache experience. We had over 3500 people registered for the event, from all over the world. We had 190 breakout sessions and 8 keynote presentations. And we had hours and hours of informal after-hours discussions in the BOFs and the hallway track. Over the coming days, we'll be publishing all of the video recordings to https://youtube.com/theApacheFoundation so you can catch the talks you missed. (I'll be traveling for the next few days, so it may be a week or so before this process starts.) Please take five minutes to fill out the attendee survey - https://forms.gle/8j6yCC5dsJZs4Pf29 This helps us make next year's event better, and helps our sponsors understand what they're investing in. And sign up for the ApacheCon Announce mailing list - announce@apachecon.com - to be informed as soon as we have firm plans for what we'll be doing in 2022. To subscribe, send email to announce-subscribe@apachecon.com and you'll receive a confirmation message back. And, a final thank you to our sponsors - Google, Huawei, Tencent, Instaclustr, Apple, AWS, Aiven, Gradle, Replicated, Red Hat, Baidu, Fiter, Cerner, Dremio, Didi, SphereEx, Microsoft Imply, Securonix, DataStax, Crafter Software, and Technical Arts. If you visited any of these sponsor booths, you may hear from them in the coming days. Please know that we do not, and never will, sell your contact information to anyone. Sponsors will only contact you once following the event, and only if you visited their booth during the event. We hope to see you in 2022. See other upcoming Apache events listed at https://events.apache.org/ Rich, for the ApacheCon Planners.