# Attendee Email: T - 5

Dear ApacheCon attendees,

ApacheCon New Orleans is just a few days away, and we know some of you will be starting your travel soon, so we wanted to send a few reminders and updates.

**Hurricane Ian**
The good news for us is that the hurricane will not directly impact New Orleans. However, depending on your travel timing and route, it may affect your arrival. Should your travel be delayed such that you won't be arriving at the hotel on the day of your reservation, please call the hotel (whether it's the Sheraton or any other hotel) and let them know. If you don't, you risk your room being released because you didn't show up.

**COVID policy reminder**
ApacheCon requires up-to-date vaccinations and masks. Please remember to bring proof of vaccination as well as enough masks for the days you attend the event. See https://www.apachecon.com/acna2022/covid.html for details.

**Review the schedule**
You can start building your personal schedule now in the Expo Pass app. Check your inbox for the mobile link to get the app, install it, and use to set up your ApacheCon schedule.

**Message from Cloudera, a Platinum sponsor**
The wait for ApacheCon 2022 is almost over, and we look forward to seeing you there! Come by the Cloudera booth in the Rhythms III Ballroom. We'd love to meet you, answer any questions, demonstrate what our platform can do, and of course, give away some cool swag!

Be sure to catch the keynote address on Wednesday from Cloudera's Chief Product Officer, Sudhir Menon, on big data trends in open source, which promises to be insightful and entertaining. We're also [presenting](https://attend.cloudera.com/apachecon2022) a number of groundbreaking innovations on Cloudera's hybrid data platform made possible with our open source collaborations, including:

Data Lakehouses with Apache Iceberg,

Object storage, erasure coding, and dense storage nodes with Apache Ozone,

Improved query engine with Apache Impala,

Scheduling fit for a hybrid cloud with Apache YuniKorn, and

Better observability by capturing filesystem and streaming metrics.

We’re proud to be active contributors to the big data open source community and look forward to connecting with like minds.

Safe travels to ApacheCon, and we hope to see you at [one of our sessions](https://attend.cloudera.com/apachecon2022) or at the Cloudera booth.

**Thank you to all of our 2022 sponsors!**

PLATINUM
AWS
Cloudera
Google
Gradle

GOLD
DataStax
Instaclustr
Red Hat
Salesforce
Sonatype

SILVER
Apple
OpenSearch

BRONZE
Aiven
Bloomberg
datagrate
DBeaver