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| title: "Speakers Announced for April 28 Cassandra 4.0 World Party" | |
| date: 2021-04-19 | |
| author: the Apache Cassandra Community | |
| categories: blog | |
| excerpt: Join us April 28 for the virtual Cassandra World Party | |
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| The [Apache Cassandra World Party](https://cassandra.apache.org/worldparty/) will be a virtual event with three sessions on Wednesday, April 28, at 5:00-6:00 AM UTC, 1:00-2:00 PM UTC, and 9:00-10:00 PM UTC. We want as many people around the world to be able to attend in their time zone, learn a little something about Cassandra, meet others, and participate in interactive content as we celebrate the upcoming launch of the 4.0 release milestone! [Register now]( https://hopin.com/events/apache-cassandra-4-0-world-party ). | |
| Talks will be fast, five-minute Ignite-style presentations. Sessions will also feature interactive content, and there will be giveaways. | |
| Today we’re excited to share the confirmed speakers and schedule for the event: | |
| #### 5:00 - 6:00am UTC | Moderated by [Jeremey Hanna](https://github.com/jeromatron) | |
| * Introduction to Apache Cassandra™ 4.0 | |
| * Downside of Incremental Repairs by Payal Kumari | |
| * Apache Cassandra™ with Quarkus by Ravindra Kulkarni | |
| * Cassandra: Now and For The Future by Nirmal KPS Singh | |
| * Understanding Cassandra by Pradeep Gopal | |
| * Fun and Games | |
| #### 1:00 - 2:00pm UTC | Moderated by [Ekaterina Dimitrova](https://twitter.com/EkaterinaDimit9) + [Patrick McFadin](https://github.com/pmcfadin) | |
| * Introduction to Apache Cassandra™ 4.0 | |
| * Cassandra Robustness: Errors I Made and You Cannot Anymore! by Carlos Rolo | |
| * Raising the Bar on QA by Mick Semb Wever | |
| * Cassandra in Adobe Audience Manager by Serban Teodorescu | |
| * 11 Years of Cassandra by John Schulz | |
| * Fun and Games | |
| #### 9:00 - 10:00pm UTC | Moderated by [Melissa Logan](https://twitter.com/Melissa_B2B) + [Ben Bromhead ](https://twitter.com/BenBromhead) | |
| * Introduction to Apache Cassandra™ 4.0 | |
| * How Apache Cassandra™ Skills Help Women on a Path to Reentry in Tech by Autumn Capasso | |
| * Making Cassandra Easy by Rahul Xavier Singh | |
| * Optimizing Cassandra for Cloud Native Architecture by Subrata Ashe | |
| * Moving from Elastic to Cassandra by Charles Herring | |
| * Fun and Games | |
| There’s so much to celebrate about Apache Cassandra 4.0. The release includes highly anticipated enterprise features, such as five-times faster streaming of data during scaling operations, improved incremental repair, enterprise-grade auditing, and Java 11 support. | |
| We encourage you to join us as we celebrate the hard work that’s gone into making this possible and the beginning of a new, exciting phase for the project. |