Panel Discussion: Upcoming First Release of the ODPi!

NOTE: THIS MEETUP IS IN PALO ALTO at 5:45pm PST!

Agenda:

6:00-6:30pm: Food and networking

6:30-8:00pm: Panel discussion and Q&A

8:00-8:30pm: Wind down

The first release of the Open Data Platform Initiative (ODPi) is coming soon! Attend this meetup if your company develops, integrates with, or uses Hadoop technologies to learn about the specifications. Find out how you can test your distributions and integrated products to ensure compliance.

There’s still time before the first release to influence the specifications and contribute to the validation test suite!

Important thought leaders within the Hadoop community will be here to answer your questions, and hear your feedback! This is your opportunity to help steer a standard that will become the base for accelerating adoption and innovation of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

The first release of the ODPi includes:

• Specifications for runtime

• Specifications for management

• Reference of implementation

• Validation test suite for compliance with specifications

Panelists include:

• Richard Pelavin - Co-Founder and CTO, Reactor8, Inc.

• Sumit Mohanty - Senior Engineering Manager at Hortonworks and Ambari PMC Member

• Alan Gates - Co-Founder at Hortonworks

• Roman Shaposhnik - Director of Open Source at Pivotal and Founder of Apache Bigtop

• Satheesh Bandaram - Director, Hadoop, Spark and Cloud at IBM

• Raj Desai - Software Engineer at IBM and Member of the ODPi Technical Steering Committee

The moderator will be Gregory Chase, Director of Big Data Community Marketing at Pivotal.

Can't join us in person? No need to RSVP--you can participate via LiveStream:

https://livestream.com/pemo/odpi

Want to give a talk? Have a talk idea? Submit your idea here! (https://docs.google.com/a/pivotal.io/forms/d/1jMpet5vvi_8hOZbO4aSJcnyBXMd05JtFqNAT0Q-6VU8/viewform)