## Next-Generation Storage for the Modern Data Lakehouse and AI
📅 Date: November 20, 2025
🕟 Time: 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST
📍 Venue: Cloudera Office, Santa Clara
### Event Overview
As data continues to grow across hybrid and cloud environments, modern data lakehouse architectures demand storage systems that are scalable, reliable, and optimized for AI-driven analytics.
Join us for an insightful evening hosted by Cloudera in collaboration with Shopee and Cirata, featuring experts from the Apache Ozone community. Together, we’ll explore cutting-edge innovations in storage design, data tiering, and performance optimization that power next-generation data and AI workloads.
This in-person meetup is ideal for data engineers, architects, and open-source enthusiasts passionate about shaping the future of scalable, intelligent data platforms.
### Agenda
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Check-in, Welcome & Networking
5:00 PM – 5:10 PM | Apache Ozone Adoption Growth — Shiv Moorthy
Insights into Ozone’s growing adoption and impact.
5:10 PM – 5:40 PM | Apache Ozone Best Practices at Shopee — Yiyang Zhou
Learn how Shopee manages billions of objects in Ozone production environments with lifecycle and storage class optimization.
5:40 PM – 6:00 PM | Event Notifications for Distributed Storage (Ozone) — Paul Scott-Murphy
Exploring design choices, optimizations, and downstream use cases for event-driven storage systems.
6:00 PM – 6:20 PM | AWS STS Design for Ozone S3 — Fabian Morgan & Madhan Neethiraj
Learn how Ozone’s STS design enables scalable and secure data sharing.
Exploring design choices, optimizations, and downstream use cases for event-driven storage systems.
6:20 PM – 6:40 PM | GenAI: S3Vector Buckets API Support in Ozone — Swaminathan Balachandran & Saketa Chandra Chalamchala
Discover how Ozone delivers fast vector-store backend capabilities with S3Vector compatibility.
6:40 PM – 7:00 PM | Apache Ozone State of the Union — Rishabh Patel & Sammi Chen
Highlights of new features, releases, and roadmap updates.
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Networking, Q&A, and Refreshments
### Who Should Attend
- Data Engineers, Architects & Platform Engineers
- Open Source Contributors & Community Members
- AI/ML Practitioners optimizing data infrastructure
- Anyone passionate about large-scale data storage & lakehouse technologies
### Speaker Lineup
Shiv Moorthy
Fabian Morgan (Staff Software Engineer, Cloudera) – Working on distributed object store architecture for Ozone.
Madhan Neethiraj (PMC Member, Apache Ranger & Atlas) – Specialist in enterprise security and governance.
Paul Scott-Murphy (CTO, Cirata) – Expert in large-scale distributed data systems with 30+ years of experience.
Rishabh Patel, Swaminathan Balachandran, Saketa Chalamchala (Apache Ozone Contributors, Cloudera) – Core engineers driving innovation in distributed storage.
Sammi Chen (Principal Storage Engineer, Cloudera) – Chair of Apache Ozone PMC, leading kernel development.
Yiyang Zhou (Senior Expert Engineer, Shopee) – Production-scale Ozone operator focusing on lifecycle management and performance optimization.
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Seats are limited — don’t miss this opportunity to connect with industry experts and explore the storage foundation powering tomorrow’s AI-ready data platforms.
