Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
- Organizer
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Category
- Database
- Website
- communityovercode.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · Mastodon · YouTube
- Typical place
- Beijing, China + 10 other cities
- Topics
- Data engineeringStreamingWarehouse & lakehouse
Official conference series of the Apache Software Foundation, held since 1998 as ApacheCon and renamed Community Over Code in 2023. It covers all Apache projects (web servers, Java, build tools, community/governance etc.), not just data, but has heavy data/big-data tracks (Spark, Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Druid, Iceberg, Hudi, Doris, Airflow, Arrow...), and absorbed the separate Apache BigData conference after 2017; categorised as database for that reason. Regional editions: North America (na), Europe (eu), Asia (asia; China-based, run with the local Apache community). 2020-21 were online (ApacheCon @Home; ApacheCon Asia 2021). 2026 editions moved to city names (Beijing, Glasgow, Sydney). Twitter and LinkedIn are the conference's own (@apachecon, LinkedIn showcase page); Bluesky, Mastodon and the extra Twitter/LinkedIn/YouTube links are the ASF's, as linked from communityovercode.org. Speaker lists in edition files cover keynotes plus Big Data/data-track talks only.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
8 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18–19, 2026 | Community Over Code Sydney 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Announced | — | — | — |
| Oct 11–14, 2026 | Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | — | 11 | 107 | |
| Aug 7–9, 2026 | Community Over Code Asia 2026 | Beijing, China | — | — | — | |
| Sep 11–14, 2025 | Community Over Code North America 2025 | Minneapolis, United States | — | 11 | 97 | |
| Jul 25–27, 2025 | Community Over Code Asia 2025 | Beijing, China | — | — | 118 | |
| Oct 7–10, 2024 | Community Over Code North America 2024 | Denver, United States | — | 8 | 95 | |
| Jul 26–28, 2024 | Community Over Code Asia 2024 | Hangzhou, China | — | 8 | 122 | |
| Jun 3–5, 2024 | Community Over Code EU 2024 | Bratislava, Slovakia | — | 10 | 45 | |
| Oct 7–10, 2023 | Community Over Code North America 2023 | Halifax, Canada | — | 7 | 58 | |
| Aug 18–20, 2023 | Community Over Code Asia 2023 | Beijing, China | — | 13 | 75 | |
| Oct 3–6, 2022 | ApacheCon North America 2022 | New Orleans, United States | 345 | 15 | 72 | |
| Jul 29–31, 2022 | ApacheCon Asia 2022 | — | Online | — | 7 | 61 |
| Sep 21–23, 2021 | ApacheCon @Home 2021 | — | Online | — | 17 | 85 |
| Aug 6–8, 2021 | ApacheCon Asia 2021 | — | Online | — | 11 | 91 |
| Sep 29, 2020 – Oct 1, 2020 | ApacheCon @Home 2020 | — | Online | 5,745 | 14 | 106 |
| Oct 22–24, 2019 | ApacheCon Europe 2019 | Berlin, Germany | — | 22 | 21 | |
| Sep 9–12, 2019 | ApacheCon North America 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | — | 25 | 100 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 2 of 17 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Iceberg Summit0.28
- Flink Forward0.26
- ACM SIGMOD/PODS0.23
- IEEE ICDE0.20
- Cassandra Summit0.18
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 95 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Community
- Media
- Other / unspecified