Conferences / Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
Community Over Code North America 2025
Sep 11–14, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Conference
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) Database
- Dates
- Sep 11, 2025 – Sep 14, 2025
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
- Place
- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- communityovercode.org
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 97 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: keynotes + Big Data/data track talks only; the event covers all Apache projects. Data talks selected from the Sessionize schedule (no track labels) by Apache data-project/streaming keywords in title or abstract; affiliations parsed from Sessionize taglines (null when no company named). Sponsors per ASF keynote press release (Aug 18, 2025); the archived sponsors page shows HeroDevs as the only Platinum (Apple not shown).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early registration | $650 | Jun 28, 2025 | news.apache.org | |
| ASF committer | $250 | — | With apache.org email | news.apache.org |
| Regular registration | $750 | — | news.apache.org |
Sponsors 11
Speakers and talks 97
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael "Mr. B" Bratsch | — | Keynote | The Future is Taught | — |
| Omar Mohsine | United Nations Office of Digital and Emerging Technologies | Keynote | Building Digital Public Foundations: Open Source at the United Nations | — |
| Stephen Fluin | — | Keynote | Predict the Future of Open Source By Understanding Its Past | — |
| Aaron Ploetz | DataStax | Speaker | Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes | — |
| Abhishek Kumar | Cloudera | Speaker | Unifying Access Control with Governed Data Sharing in Apache Ranger | — |
| Aditi Verma | Apple | Speaker | From Notebooks to Pipelines: A Scalable Cloud-Native Platform with Spark, Airflow driven by Notebook | — |
| Aldrin Montana | Bauplan | Speaker | Materializing Python Outputs Forever with Apache Iceberg | — |
| Alex Merced | — | Speaker | Open Standards and Lakehouse AI Development - Arrow Flight, Apache Iceberg and MCP | — |
| Alex Merced | — | Speaker | The World of Apache Iceberg Table Optimization and Acceleration | — |
| Alex Merced | — | Speaker | The Pillars of the Iceberg Ecosystem: The Table Spec, The Catalog Spec, and Table Services | — |
| Alex Petrov | — | Speaker | Accord Transactions: Missing Guide for Developers and Operators | — |
| Alexander Dejanovski | DataStax | Speaker | Running Apache Cassandra in Kubernetes: hands on with K8ssandra | — |
| Alexandru Duca | — | Speaker | Accelerating Logistics: How Apache Camel Karavan Streamlined Industrial AOT Integration at Maersk | — |
| Andres Beck-Ruiz | Bloomberg | Speaker | Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5.0 | — |
| Andrew Schofield | — | Speaker | Queues for Kafka | — |
| Andy Tolbert | Apple | Speaker | Auto Repair in Apache Cassandra | — |
| Anish Shrigondekar | Databricks | Speaker | Building Next Generation Stateful Streaming Pipelines with Apache Spark Structured Streaming | — |
| Apoorv Mittal | Confluent | Speaker | Queues for Kafka | — |
| Bernardo Botella Corbi | Apple | Speaker | Apache Cassandra Constraints | — |
| Bernardo Botella Corbi | Apple | Speaker | Handling Large Blobs in Apache Cassandra CDC with Kafka and Object Storage Integration | — |
| Bernardo Botella Corbi | Apple | Speaker | Contributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC | — |
| Bonnie Varghese | — | Speaker | Flink changelog modes and why should you care about them? | — |
| Caleb Rackliffe | Apple | Speaker | Mastering Storage Attached Indexes: Transforming Cassandra Data Modeling | — |
| Chaoran Yu | Apple | Speaker | Cloud-native Spark in Production: Best Practices and Optimization Techniques | — |
| Cheng Wang | Netflix | Speaker | Contributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC | — |
| Cheng Wang | Netflix | Speaker | Ensuring Cassandra Operational Excellence at Netflix | — |
| Cory Grinstead | Eventual | Speaker | Apache Arrow as the Foundation for Modern Data Engines | — |
| Danica Fine | — | Speaker | Iced Kaf-fee: Chilling Kafka Data into Iceberg Tables | — |
| Danica Fine | — | Speaker | Quiet on Set: Building an On-Air Sign with Open Source Technologies | — |
| David Arthur | Confluent | Speaker | Build Modernization and Flaky Tests in Apache Kafka | — |
| David Handermann | Snowflake | Speaker | Tech Debt Reduction and Renovation in Apache NiFi 2 | — |
| Devin Petersohn | Snowflake | Speaker | Build Your Own Apache Spark™ Connect Engine: An Engineering Deep Dive | — |
| Dewey Dunnington | — | Speaker | Introducing first-class Geometry and Geography Data Types in Apache Parquet | — |
| Dinesh Joshi | — | Speaker | Contributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC | — |
| Doug Rohrer | Apple | Speaker | Apache Cassandra Analytics 1.0: Unlocking Real-Time Insights at Scale | — |
| Ekaterina Dimitrova | — | Speaker | Contributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC | — |
| Eric Marnadi | Databricks | Speaker | Building Next Generation Stateful Streaming Pipelines with Apache Spark Structured Streaming | — |
| Evan Rusackas | — | Speaker | Apache Superset — Developing Self Service BI in Open Source | — |
| Fei Wang | — | Speaker | Revolutionizing Spark Shuffle at Scale with Apache Celeborn at eBay | — |
| Francisco Guerrero | Apple | Speaker | The Road Ahead: Next steps for Cassandra Sidecar post v0.1 | — |
| Gift Ojeabulu | CBB Analytics | Speaker | Modern Data Engineering with Apache: dbt, Airflow, Spark, and Beyond | — |
| Gokul Prabagaren | Capital One | Speaker | Life is better,Since we choose right keys for Cassandra Home | — |
| Greg Harris | — | Speaker | Always Bet On Open Source: KIP-1150 Diskless Topics in Apache Kafka | — |
| Hongyue Zhang | — | Speaker | Incremental Iceberg Table Replication At Scale | — |
| Jarek Potiuk | — | Speaker | Airflow 3, and the boring, production AI plumbing, that nobody talks about | — |
| Jarek Potiuk | — | Speaker | Data Engineering Summary of the 1st day | — |
| Jarek Potiuk | — | Speaker | Data Engineering Birds of a Feather | — |
| Jaydeepkumar Chovatia | Uber | Speaker | Auto Repair in Apache Cassandra | — |
| JeoungAhn Park | SK hynix | Speaker | VQOA: Rewriting Spark Queries for Storage-Native Execution | — |
| JeoungAhn Park | SK hynix | Speaker | Data-Aware Acceleration for Spark Analytics: Offloaded Execution via Substrait and Return Result | — |
| Jiale Tan | Apple | Speaker | Cloud-native Spark in Production: Best Practices and Optimization Techniques | — |
| Jim Hughes | Confluent | Speaker | Flink changelog modes and why should you care about them? | — |
| Joaquin Casares | AxonOps | Speaker | Cassandra Lightning Talks | — |
| Joaquin Casares | AxonOps | Speaker | Beyond the Command Line: AxonOps Workbench for Apache Cassandra | — |
| Johnny Miller | AxonOps | Speaker | Cassandra Lightning Talks | — |
| Johnny Miller | AxonOps | Speaker | Beyond the Command Line: AxonOps Workbench for Apache Cassandra | — |
| Jordan West | Netflix | Speaker | Contributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC | — |
| Josh McKenzie | — | Speaker | Cassandra as a Cloud-Native System of Record: Unlocking the Big Data Ecosystem with Modular APIs | — |
| Joshua Lopes | Netflix | Speaker | Ensuring Cassandra Operational Excellence at Netflix | — |
| Julien Le Dem | Datadog | Speaker | The Deconstructed Database and the Advent of the Open Data Lake | — |
| Justin Mclean | — | Speaker | Building bridges with Apache Gravitino - Apache Iceberg REST service | — |
| Luciano Resende | — | Speaker | From Notebooks to Pipelines: A Scalable Cloud-Native Platform with Spark, Airflow driven by Notebook | — |
| Manish Gurnani | — | Speaker | No More NiFi UI: Simplify and Automate NiFi Data Flow Deployments with Complete CI/CD Integration | — |
| Marat Gubaidullin | — | Speaker | Accelerating Logistics: How Apache Camel Karavan Streamlined Industrial AOT Integration at Maersk | — |
| Marc Handalian | — | Speaker | Using Lucene as a database with DataFusion | — |
| Matt Topol | — | Speaker | Apache Arrow: The Great Library Unifier | — |
| Matt Topol | — | Speaker | ODBC takes an Arrow to the knee: ADBC | — |
| Michael Burman | DataStax | Speaker | Running Apache Cassandra in Kubernetes: hands on with K8ssandra | — |
| Michael Froh | — | Speaker | Using Lucene as a database with DataFusion | — |
| Michas Szacillo | — | Speaker | Keep Calm and Flink On: Disaster-Proofing Apache Flink | Video |
| Niharika Sakuru | Bloomberg | Speaker | Keep Calm and Flink On: Disaster-Proofing Apache Flink | Video |
| Patrick McFadin | DataStax | Speaker | Imagining the next 10 years of Cassandra | — |
| Paul Brebner | — | Speaker | Streaming More For Less with Apache Kafka Tiered Storage | — |
| Paul Brebner | — | Speaker | Towards an Open Apache Kafka Performance Model | — |
| Paul King | — | Speaker | Cross-platform machine & deep learning with Apache Wayang (Incubating) & Groovy | — |
| Prakhar Singh | — | Speaker | Queue, Process, Predict: Kafka’s New Era with Flink LLM and Datalake | — |
| Prashant Singh | Snowflake | Speaker | Disaster Recovery Strategies for Apache Iceberg | — |
| Qing Zheng | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Speaker | Data-Aware Acceleration for Spark Analytics: Offloaded Execution via Substrait and Return Result | — |
| Rahil Chertara | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Apache Polaris (Incubating) & Apache XTable: Unifying Iceberg, Hudi, and other Table Formats | — |
| Ramesh Mani | Cloudera | Speaker | Unifying Access Control with Governed Data Sharing in Apache Ranger | — |
| Rishabh Maurya | OpenSearch | Speaker | Breaking Performance Barriers: Distributed Search Engines Meet Apache Arrow and Flight | — |
| Saranya Krishnakumar | Apple | Speaker | The Road Ahead: Next steps for Cassandra Sidecar post v0.1 | — |
| Saurabh Singh | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Breaking Performance Barriers: Distributed Search Engines Meet Apache Arrow and Flight | — |
| Scott Andreas | Apple | Speaker | Witness Replicas: Reducing Storage Costs in Apache Cassandra | — |
| Serban Teodorescu | — | Speaker | Efficient export with Cassandra Analytics | — |
| Shekhar Prasad Rajak | Apple | Speaker | Queue, Process, Predict: Kafka’s New Era with Flink LLM and Datalake | — |
| Soon Hwang | — | Speaker | VQOA: Rewriting Spark Queries for Storage-Native Execution | — |
| Stefan Webb | Zilliz | Speaker | Vector Lakes: Unlocking Offline Analytics with Milvus 3.0 and Apache Iceberg | — |
| Swapna Marru | Apple | Speaker | From Stream to LakeHouse: Apache Kafka Ingestion with Apache Flink Dynamic Iceberg Sink | Video |
| Timothy Spann | — | Speaker | Enhancing Apache NiFi 2.x with Python Processors | — |
| Timothy Spann | — | Speaker | NiFI Man: “We're here – but should we have come?” | — |
| Tsz-Wo Nicholas Sze | — | Speaker | Building Exabyte Storage Together: Apache Ozone 2.0 & What’s Next | — |
| Wei-Chiu Chuang | Cloudera | Speaker | Building Exabyte Storage Together: Apache Ozone 2.0 & What’s Next | — |
| William Nguyen | Bloomberg | Speaker | Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5.0 | — |
| Yufei Gu | Apple | Speaker | Apache Polaris: Unified Governance & Security for Apache Iceberg Lakehouses | — |
| Yufei Gu | Apple | Speaker | Apache Polaris (Incubating) & Apache XTable: Unifying Iceberg, Hudi, and other Table Formats | — |
| Zhe-You Liu | — | Speaker | Becoming an Apache Airflow Committer from 0 | — |
Sources
- https://communityovercode.org/events/minneapolis-2025
- https://sessionize.com/api/v2/u1280atx/view/Sessions
- https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-announces-keynote-speakers-for-community-over-code-north-america-2
- https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-announces-schedule-for-community-over-code-north-america-2
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250918143229/https://communityovercode.org/sponsors/
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2OcwpQkYCyZMYQpTKkxT7QzWL4azmBd