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Announcing ApacheCon 2021 keynotes
The ApacheCon Planners are delighted to announce our keynotes for ApacheCon @Home 2021.
September 21: 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.
Ashley Wolf is the head of GitHub’s open source program office (OSPO). GitHub’s OSPO focuses on empowering developers and organizations to manage open source at scale.
Passionate about connecting people to technology, Ashley has been active in the open source community for ten years and currently serves on the steering committee for the TODO Group. She is also an advisor for Built By Girls, which empowers the next generation of female and non-binary leaders.
Prior to joining GitHub, Ashley was the head of the open source program office at Yahoo/Verizon Media where she led open source strategy and governance. She created an online open source hackathon and served as representative for the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, and W3C. Ashley also held roles in product management at Cylance/Blackberry where she launched a global community-driven product portal.
September 22: 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.
Mark J Cox is VP Security, Apache and a Distinguished Software Engineer in the Red Hat Open Source Program Office. Mark has developed software and worked on the security teams of some of the most popular open source projects, was a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation and the OpenSSL project, and a current board member of the CVE and OpenSSF projects.
September 23: 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.
Alison Parker, PhD is a Senior Program Associate in the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Wilson Center.
Michael Weinberg is the Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law and the Board President of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA).
Posted at 04:00AM Aug 17, 2021
by rbowen in General |
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Check Out the Schedule for ApacheCon@Home 2021
The planners for ApacheCon@Home 2021 announce the availability of this year's session schedule![Read More]
Posted at 12:27PM Jun 14, 2021
by Brian Proffitt in General |
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The Apache® Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community Online at ApacheCon(TM) Asia 2021
Asia edition of the official Apache global conference series to be held virtually, with 140+ sessions, and keynote and plenary sessions by luminaries from AliCloud, API7, DiDi Chuxing, Huawei, Kyligence, PingCAP, Tencent Cloud, Tsinghua University, and more.
Wilmington, DE —9 June 2021— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced keynotes, sponsors, and program for ApacheConTM Asia, taking place online 6-8 August 2021. Registration is open and free for all attendees.
"We’re excited to hold ApacheCon Asia online following last year’s highly successful ApacheCon@Home," said Sheng Wu, ApacheCon Asia co-Chair and member of the ASF Board of Directors. "The pandemic mobilized the global Apache community to collectively produce a first-rate online event, supported by an outstanding group of sponsors. We are proud to build on ApacheCon’s new virtual format and bring the ApacheCon Asia program to participants joining us from any location."
ApacheCon is the ASF's official global conference series, first held in 1998. ApacheCon draws attendees from more than 130 countries to experience "Tomorrow's Technology Today" independent of business interests, corporate biases, or sales pitches.
ApacheCon showcases the latest breakthroughs from dozens of Apache projects, with content selected entirely by Apache projects and their communities. ApacheCon Asia joins ApacheCon@Home, taking place online 21-23 September, to meet the educational demands of the growing Apache community of developers, users, and enthusiasts worldwide.
"Tune in to ApacheCon Asia's 140+ sessions to learn the latest developments, best practices, and lessons learned with Apache projects, incubating podlings, and community-led development 'The Apache Way',” said Willem Jiang, ApacheCon Asia co-Chair and initiator of Apache Local Community Beijing. "Participants can also connect and network virtually with attendees, speakers, and sponsors in real-time, as well as revisit presentations and explore additional tracks after the event."
Participants at all levels will learn about Apache project innovations in categories that include: APIs and Microservices; Big Data; Community; Culture; Data Visualization; Incubator; Integration; IoT and IIoT; Messaging; Middleware; Observability; Streaming; Servers; Workflow and Data Governance.
Featured Apache projects include Airflow, APISIX, Arrow, Atlas, Bigtop, BookKeeper, brpc (incubating), Camel, CarbonData, Cassandra, Commons, DolphinScheduler, Doris (incubating), Druid, Dubbo, ECharts, Flink, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, HUDI, Ignite, Impala, InLong (incubating), IoTDB, Kafka, Kudu, Kylin, Liminal (incubating), MXNet (incubating), Nemo (incubating), Ozone, Pegasus (incubating), Pinot (incubating), PLC4X, Pulsar, RocketMQ, ServiceComb, ShardingSphere, SkyWalking, Sling, Spark, StreamPipes (incubating), Superset, Teaclave (incubating), Tomcat, YuniKorn (Incubating), and more.
Keynote presentations will be delivered by Dongxu Huang, CTO of PingCAP; Jianmin Wang, Dean, School of Software at Tsinghua University; Sharan Foga, ASF Board Member; and Sheng Wu, ASF Board Member. Plenary sessions will be presented by AliCloud, API7, DiDi Chuxing, Huawei, Kyligence, and Tencent Cloud.
The full program is available at https://apachecon.com/acasia2021/tracks.html
ApacheCon Asia sponsors include Strategic Sponsor Huawei; Platinum Sponsors AliCloud, API7, DiDi Chuxing, Kyligence, and Tencent Cloud; and Gold Sponsor Baidu. Huawei, Tencent, DiDi and Baidu are also Sponsors of ApacheCon@Home at the above levels.
To sponsor ApacheCon Asia and/or ApacheCon@Home, visit https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf
Register today at https://apachecon.com/acasia2021/register.html .
About ApacheCon
ApacheCon is the official global conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Since 1998 ApacheCon has been drawing participants at all levels to explore "Tomorrow's Technology Today" across 350+ Apache projects and their diverse communities. In 2020 and 2021 ApacheCon events showcase ubiquitous Apache projects and emerging innovations virtually through sessions, keynotes, real-world case studies, community events, and more, all online and free of charge. For more information, visit http://apachecon.com/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheCon .
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to 850+ individual Members and 200 Project Management Committees who successfully lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with 8,200+ Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way". Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cloudera, Comcast, Confluent, Didi Chuxing, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Namebase, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Reprise Software, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media, and Workday. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF .
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Posted at 04:01PM Jun 09, 2021
by Sally Khudairi in General |
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CFPs closed, schedules coming soon
The call for presentations for our two upcoming conferences - ApacheCon @Home 2021 and ApacheCon Asia 2021 - have closed, and we expect to announce our schedules very soon at https://apachecon.com/
Meanwhile, sponsorship opportunities are still available on the respective event websites!
We hope to see you all at ApacheCon in just a few months.
Posted at 04:22PM May 18, 2021
by rbowen in General |
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Call for Presentations for ApacheCon Asia 2021 now open
Call for Presentations for ApacheCon Asia 2021 now open
The ApacheCon Planners and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce that ApacheCon Asia will be held online, August 6th through 8th, 2021. Once again, we’ll be featuring content from dozens of our projects, as well as content about our community, how Apache works, business models around Apache software, the legal aspects of open source, and many other topics.
For the first time, we hold the ApacheCon online conference targeting the Asia pacific time zone to serve the fast growing Apache users and contributors in this emerging region. The Call for Presentations is now open to presenters from around the world until May 3rd. Talks can be focused on the topics above, as well as any of our amazing projects! Submit your talks today!
We look forward to reviewing your contribution to one of the most popular open source software events in the world!
2021年ApacheCon Asia 演讲征集活动正式启动
ApacheCon 组委会以及Apache 软件基金会很高兴地宣布，ApacheCon Asia 大会将于2021 年 8 月 6 日至 8 日在线举行。我们将再次展示来自基金会的几十个项目相关的内容，以及关于我们的社区、Apache 如何运作、围绕Apache 软件的商业模式、开源的法律问题以及其他许多主题的内容。
我们首次针对亚太地区时区举办 ApacheCon 在线会议, 用以服务于这个新兴地区快速增长的 Apache 用户和贡献者。演讲稿的征集已经开始，截止到 5 月 3 日，世界各地的演讲者都可以参加。演讲内容可以集中在上述主题上，也可以是我们的任何一个令人惊艳的 Apache 项目。今天就提交你的演讲吧!
我们期待着看到您对世界上最受欢迎的开源软件活动之一的贡献!
Posted at 12:25AM Mar 17, 2021
by Willem Jiang in General |
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Call for Presentations for ApacheCon 2021 now open
The ApacheCon Planners and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce that ApacheCon @Home will be held online, September 21st through 23rd, 2021. Once again, we’ll be featuring content from dozens of our projects, as well as content about our community, how Apache works, business models around Apache software, the legal aspects of open source, and many other topics.
Last year’s virtual ApacheCon @Home event was a big success, with 5,745 registrants from more than 150 countries, spanning every time zone, with the virtual format delivering content to attendees who would never have attended an in-person ApacheCon (83% of post-event poll responders in 2020 indicated this was their first ApacheCon ever)!
Given the great participation and excitement for last year’s event, we are announcing the Call for Presentations is now open to presenters from around the world until May 1st. Talks can be focused on the topics above, as well as any of our amazing projects! Submit your talks today!
We look forward to reviewing your contribution to one of the most popular open source software events in the world!
Posted at 01:32PM Mar 08, 2021
by rbowen in General |
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ApacheCon videos all available
ApacheCon is now several weeks behind us, and we have been hard at work editing and processing all of the video content from the event - 304 videos across 27 tracks!
You can watch straight through the main playlist if you want, but we've also divided it into per-track playlists for your convenience.
- Keynotes
- Ignite
- Jena
- cTAKES
- IoT
- Royale
- Geode
- Content Delivery
- httpd/Web
- Karaf
- Mahout
- OpenOffice
- Observability
- Incubator
- Fineract
- Search
- Camel/Integration
- Machine Learning
- Big Data 1
- Big Data 2
- Geospatial
- Groovy
- Mandarin
- Pulsar/Bookkeeper
- Community
- Tomcat
- Streaming
- Cassandra
Next, we're working on making all of the speakers' slides available to go along with them.
Posted at 05:19PM Oct 27, 2020
by rbowen in General |
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ApacheCon @Home 2020 was a huge success
Last week we held the first virtual Apache conference, ApacheCon @Home 2020. We're still digging through all of the analytics from the event, but we can already tell you that, by any metric, the event was an overwhelming success.
We had 5745 registrations for the event from more than 150 countries, spanning every time zone, with the virtual format making content available to attendees who would never have attended an in-person ApacheCon, with 83% of poll responders indicating this was their first ApacheCon ever.
We had presentations in Hindi, Mandarin, and Spanish, for the first time at an ApacheCon, with online presentation giving us access to many speakers who had never spoken at ApacheCon before.
Content was presented in 25 tracks, including Big Data, Groovy, Pulsar, httpd, Community, Incubator, cTAKES, Geospatial, and a first-ever dedicated Mandarin language track. And we had brilliant keynotes from Sheng Wu, Thomas Huang, Camille Fournier, and Edmon Begoli.
Another highlight of the event was the Bug Bash hosted by one of our sponsors, Muse.dev. Seven teams competed to fix bugs, across several Apache projects, identified by the Muse.dev code analysis tool. Congratulations to TeamThread who won with an impressive 610 points!
If you attended the event (or even if you didn't!), you can still purchase your ApacheCon @Home 2020 event tshirt.
ApacheCon was made possible by our sponsors. Platinum sponsors were Instaclustr, Red Hat, DataStax, VMWare, Apple, Amazon, IBM, and Imply. Gold sponsors were OpenLogic, Cerner, and RX-M. Bronze sponsors were Codethink, US Postgresql Association, and Muse.dev. A huge thank you to them!
If you missed the event, don't worry - we are even now processing the hundreds of hours of videos from the event, and they will appear on our YouTube channel over the coming days. Follow us on twitter to find out when the videos become available.
Posted at 01:44PM Oct 05, 2020
by rbowen in General |
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The Apache® Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community Online at ApacheCon@Home
Virtual edition of the Apache official global conference series features 170+ sessions, and keynotes by luminaries from DataStax, IBM, Imply, Instaclustr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Labs, Red Hat, Tetrate, Two Sigma, and VMWare.
Wakefield, MA —21 September 2020— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced keynotes, sponsors, and program for ApacheCon@Home, the new virtual conference taking place 29 September - 1 October 2020. Registration is free for all attendees.
"We're pleased to present ApacheCon@Home", said Rich Bowen, Vice President of ASF Conferences. "Our primary focus is the well-being of our community, so it was an easy decision to transition this year's ApacheCon and other Apache in-person events to a virtual format for everyone to enjoy from the comfort of their homes. We are pleased to present a diverse program featuring 10 keynotes, two dozen tracks, and 170-plus sessions, and look forward to thousands of participants from around the world tuning in."
ApacheCon is the ASF's official global conference series, first held in 1998. ApacheCon draws attendees from more than 130 countries to experience "Tomorrow's Technology Today" independent of business interests, corporate biases, or sales pitches.
The ApacheCon program showcases the latest breakthroughs from dozens of Apache projects, with content selected entirely by Apache projects and their communities. Participants at all levels will learn about Apache project innovations in categories that include:
- Big Data (Accumulo, Airflow, Beam, BookKeeper, DataSketches {incubating}, DLab {incubating}, Druid, Flink, Geode, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Hudi, Iceberg, Ignite, Kudu, NiFi, Ozone, Parquet, Pulsar, Ranger, Spark, YARN, Yunicorn {incubating}, Zeppelin);
- Content Delivery (Traffic Server/Traffic Control);
- Databases (Cassandra);
- Fintech (Fineract);
- Geospatial (GeoSpark {incubating}, SIS);
- Innovation (projects undergoing development in the Apache Incubator);
- Integration (ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, Kafka);
- IoT (Edgent {incubating}, IoTDB, PLC4X, StreamPipes {incubating});
- Machine Learning (Mahout, MXNet);
- Observability (SkyWalking);
- Productivity Suites (OpenOffice);
- Programming Languages (Groovy);
- Search (Lucene, Solr);
- Semantic Web (Jena);
- Servers (Apache HTTP Server, Sling, Traffic Control, Traffic Server, Tomcat);
- Software Development (Royale);
- Streaming (Kafka)
Keynote presentations will be delivered by Jonathan Ellis of DataStax, Sam Lightstone of IBM, Gian Merlino of Imply, Anil Inamdar of Instaclustr, Thomas Huang of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Edmon Begoli of Oak Ridge National Labs, Kim Huang of Red Hat, Sheng Wu of Tetrate, Camille Fournier of Two Sigma, and Catherine McGarvey of VMWare.
A dedicated track for sessions in Mandarin as well as for community-driven development "The Apache Way" will be held. Several sessions will also be presented in German, Hindi, and Spanish. The full program is available at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/
ApacheCon@Home sponsors include Apple, Amazon Web Services, DataStax, IBM, Imply, Instaclustr, OpenLogic, Red Hat, RX-M, and VMWare. To sponsor ApacheCon@Home, visit https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/sponsors.html
Register today at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/ . Select sessions will be recorded and available following the event.
About ApacheCon
ApacheCon is the official global conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Since 1998 ApacheCon has been drawing participants at all levels to explore "Tomorrow's Technology Today" across 350+ Apache projects and their diverse communities. ApacheCon showcases the latest developments in ubiquitous Apache projects and emerging innovations through hands-on sessions, keynotes, real-world case studies, trainings, hackathons, community events, and more. For more information, visit http://apachecon.com/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheCon
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to 813 individual Members and 206 Project Management Committees who successfully lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with 7,800+ Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way". Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media, and Workday. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF .
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "ActiveMQ", "Apache ActiveMQ", "Airflow", "Apache Airflow", "Beam", "Apache Beam", "BookKeeper", "Apache BookKeeper", "Camel", "Apache Camel", "Cassandra", "Apache Cassandra", "CXF", "Apache CXF", "DataSketches", "DLab", "Druid", "Apache Druid", "Edgent", "Fineract", "Apache Fineract", "Flink", "Apache Flink", "Geode", "Apache Geode", "GeoSpark", "Groovy", "Apache Groovy", "Hadoop", "Apache Hadoop", "HDFS", "Apache HDFS", "Hive", "Apache Hive", "Hudi", "Apache Hudi", "Apache HTTP Server", "Iceberg", "Apache Iceberg", "Ignite", "Apache Ignite", "IoTDB", "Apache IoTDB", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Kafka", "Apache Kafka", "Kudu", "Apache Kudu", "Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "MXNet", "NiFi", "Apache NiFi", "OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Ozone", "Apache Ozone", "Parquet", "Apache Parquet", "PLC4X", "Apache PLC4X", "Pulsar", "Apache Pulsar", "Ranger", "Apache Ranger", "Royale", "Apache Royale", "SIS", "Apache SIS", "SkyWalking", "Apache SkyWalking", "Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Spark", "Apache Spark", "StreamPipes", "Apache StreamPipes", "Tomcat", "Apache Tomcat", "Traffic Control", "Apache Traffic Control", "Traffic Server", "Apache Traffic Server", "YARN", "Apache YARN", "Yunicorn", "Zeppelin", "Apache Zeppelin", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Posted at 11:59AM Sep 21, 2020
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ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic Medical Records in dedicated track on Apache cTAKES
New track on Apache’s only project focused on biomedical informatics features sessions presented by Apache cTAKES community representatives from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dell EMC, Geisinger Health, Loyola University Chicago, and University of California San Francisco.
Wakefield, MA —21 September 2020— ApacheCon, the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the world’s largest Open Source foundation, announced today its first dedicated track on Apache cTAKES. The track will be held on all three days of the ApacheCon@Home virtual conference, taking place online 29 September - 1 October 2020. Registration is free of charge for all participants and is required in advance to participate.
Now in its 22nd year, ApacheCon is the primary gathering of the collective Apache community worldwide, drawing attendees from more than 130 countries. ApacheCon showcases the latest breakthroughs from dozens of Apache projects, upcoming innovations in the Apache Incubator, and sessions on developing community-led Open Source projects "The Apache Way".
Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis Knowledge Extraction System) is the Open Source natural language processing (NLP) system for information extraction from electronic medical records (EMR) and health-related free-text. cTAKES originated in 2006 by a team of physicians, computer scientists, and software engineers at Mayo Clinic, was submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2012, led by the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital, and graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project in April 2013. cTAKES is the only Apache project focused on biomedical informatics software, and, during the ASF’s 20th Anniversary celebrations in 2019, was named one of the 20 most influential Apache projects.
cTAKES was built using the Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) framework and Apache OpenNLP machine-learning based toolkit. cTAKES identifies signals important for the biomedical domain, including types of clinical named entities mapped to various biomedical terminologies/ontologies such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) —drugs, diseases/disorders, signs/symptoms, anatomical sites and procedures along with their associated attributes such as negation, uncertainty, and more. Apache cTAKES components create rich linguistic and semantic annotations that can be utilized by clinical decision support systems and clinical research.
The cTAKES track is organized and presented by members of the Apache cTAKES project and its community. The track introduces new users to its standard features for biomedical text processing software, including the ability to extract concepts such as symptoms, procedures, diagnoses, medications and anatomy with attributes and standard codes. Several advanced presentations will exemplify its modular engineering and its leading-edge machine learning methods. Components implementing these research-driven methods can, for instance, identify complex relations between entities (e.g. anatomical site of a disease) and relations between temporal elements – resulting in the placement of events in a patient timeline. Session presenters include:
- Peter Abramowitsch, University of California San Francisco
- Siamak Barzegar, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Dmitriy Dligach, Loyola University Chicago
- Sean Finan, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children's Hospital
- Chen Lin, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital
- Jeff Miller, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Debdipto Misra, Geisinger Health
- Gandhirajan N, Dell EMC
Apache cTAKES can impact patient health at many levels, and presentations at ApacheCon range from “Automated Adverse Drug Event Surveillance in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension” to “Extraction of Information on Diagnosis of Stroke” in Spanish to “High Throughput Orchestration” on notes involving COVID-19, amongst others. Track details can are available at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/ctakes.html
In addition to cTAKES, ApacheCon@Home features an array of presentations on Apache projects across categories that include Big Data, Community, Content Delivery, Databases, Fintech, Geospatial, Innovation/Incubator, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Search, Servers, Software Development, Streaming, and more. A special track in the Mandarin language, as well as select sessions in German, Hindi, and Spanish will be held as well.
ApacheCon keynotes will be delivered by high profile speakers from organizations such as DataStax, IBM, Imply, Instaclustr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Labs, Red Hat, Tetrate, Two Sigma, and VMWare.
Register today at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/ . Select sessions will be recorded and available following the event.
For more information on Apache cTAKES, visit http://ctakes.apache.org/
About ApacheCon
ApacheCon is the official global conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Since 1998 ApacheCon has been drawing participants at all levels to explore ”Tomorrow’s Technology Today” across 350+ Apache projects and their diverse communities. ApacheCon showcases the latest developments in ubiquitous Apache projects and emerging innovations through hands-on sessions, keynotes, real-world case studies, trainings, hackathons, community events, and more. ApacheCon events in 2020 have been consolidated to ApacheCon@Home, a new, virtual conference that takes place online 29 September - 1 October 2020. Registration is free to all, with advance registration required. For more information, visit http://apachecon.com/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheCon .
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Posted at 09:57AM Sep 21, 2020
by Sally Khudairi in General |
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ApacheCon @Home 2020 is just a month away!
We are 30 days out from the ApacheCon @Home event, and the ApacheCon Planners are busy pulling together a fantastic lineup of speakers, keynotes, and sponsor booths! [Read More]
Posted at 01:00AM Aug 31, 2020
by rbowen in General |
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ApacheCon @Home CFP closes soon!
The call for presentations (CFP) for ApacheCon @Home closes this weekend. Please don't leave it to the last minute. We're on a very compressed schedule for this event, and will not be extending the CFP past closing time.
Details about the event, and the CFP itself, may be found on the conference website at https://apachecon.com/acah2020
Posted at 03:43PM Jul 07, 2020
by rbowen in General |
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Announcing ApacheCon @Home 2020
The ApacheCon Planners and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce that ApacheCon @Home will be held online, September 29th through October 1st, 2020. We’ll be featuring content from dozens of our projects, as well as content about community, how Apache works, business models around Apache software, the legal aspects of open source, and many other topics.
Full details about the event, and registration, is available at https://apachecon.com/acah2020
Due to the confusion around how and where this event was going to be held, and in order to open up to presenters from around the world who may previously have been unable or unwilling to travel, we’ve reopened the Call For Presentations until July 13th. Submit your talks today at https://acna2020.jamhosted.net/
We hope to see you at the event!
Rich Bowen, VP Conferences, The Apache Software Foundation
Posted at 12:43PM Jun 29, 2020
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Cancellation of Apache events in the coming months
In light of the World Health Organization raising the threat level about the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, we have decided, after much consideration, to cancel the following events:
- Apache Roadshow/DC, previously scheduled for 25 March 2020
- Apache Roadshow/Chicago, previously scheduled for 18-19 May 2020
Note that the Apache Roadshow/Seattle, scheduled for 10-12 June 2020, has been postponed. We will update this statement once we have a new date and/or location defined.
The safety of our event attendees, speakers, sponsors, and staff is of the utmost importance. We are committed to minimizing our global community’s potential health risk, exposure to border health inspections, and increased travel restrictions.
Event organizers will be in contact with delegates regarding further updates.
At this time, ApacheCon North America, in New Orleans in September, is still scheduled to go ahead as planned, but we are watching the situation carefully, and will update if necessary.
See also the broader statement from the Apache Software Foundation about our response to the Coronavirus situation.
Posted at 05:41PM Mar 10, 2020
by rbowen in General |
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Call for presentations now open for ApacheCon North America 2020
The call for presentations for ApacheCon North America 2020 is now open at https://apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp ApacheCon will be held at the Sheraton, New Orleans, September 28th through October 2nd, 2020. As in past years, ApacheCon will feature tracks focusing the various technologies within the Apache ecosystem, and so the call for presentations will ask you to select one of those tracks, or “General” if the content falls outside of one of our already-organized tracks. These tracks are: The CFP will close Friday, May 1, 2020 8:00 AM (America/New_York time - UTC -5). Submit early, submit often, at https://apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp Rich, for the ApacheCon Planners
Posted at 02:49PM Jan 21, 2020
by rbowen in General |
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