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TSC Meeting

May 30, 2018

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LF Antitrust Policy Notice

EdgeX Foundry meetings involve participation by industry competitors, and it is the intention of the Linux Foundation to conduct all of its activities in accordance with applicable antitrust and competition laws. It is therefore extremely important that attendees adhere to meeting agendas, and be aware of, and not participate in, any activities that are prohibited under applicable US state, federal or foreign antitrust and competition laws.

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Examples of types of actions that are prohibited at EdgeX Foundry meetings and in connection with Linux Foundation activities are described in the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy available at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy. If you have questions about these matters, please contact your company counsel, or if you are a member of the Linux Foundation, feel free to contact Andrew Updegrove of the firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the Linux Foundation.

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Meeting Logistics

Time: May 30, 2018 7am PDT – 8am PDT

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** TSC calls are recorded and added to Wiki post-call

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TSC – Members Present Today

Company Name Email

IOTech Andy Foster andy@iotechsys.com

Analog Devices Doug Gardner doug.gardner@analog.com

Mainflux Janko Isidorovic janko@mainflux.com

Dell Jason Shepherd Jason.A.Shepherd@dell.com

The Linux Foundation Jeremy Phelps jphelps@linuxfoundation.org

Dell Jim White james.white2@dell.com

IOTech Keith Steele (TSC Chair) keith@iotechsys.com

Samsung Moonki Hong moonki1.hong@samsung.com

Samsung MyeongGi Jeong myeong.jeong@samsung.com

VMware Salim AbiEzzi salim@vmware.com

Canonical Tony Espy espy@canonical.com

Note: TSC meetings shall require a quorum of two-thirds of the TSC total members to take a vote or make a decision. If a TSC meeting fails to meet the quorum requirement, discussions may proceed, however there shall be no voting or decisions.

Current quorum = 8 members

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Today’s Agenda

  • Working Group Updates
  • Next TSC F2F Meetings
  • TSC Elections Updates
  • IIC Liaison Updates & Opportunities
  • EdgeX Developer Advocate & Project Evangelist
  • EdgeX Test Beds
  • Upcoming Events
  • AOB

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Working Group Updates

Jim White

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Working Group Updates

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Other Working Group Chair Updates

  • Around the horn
    • Applications - Janko
    • Device Services - Tony
    • Test/QA - Andy
    • DevOps - Jeremy
    • Security - Doug
    • System Management - Salim
    • Vertical Solutions - Moonki
    • Core - Jim
  • Others

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Application WG Update

  • New Application Services design being presented (see Core Working Group for deck) - more @ F2F
  • Looks like we will have more export connectors than planned for California Release:
    • Azure IoT export connector - Dejan Mainflux working
    • XMPP export connector - WIP - Contribution is merged
    • ThingsBoard IoT export connector - WIP - Contribution is merged
    • Brightics IoT export connector - development to start in June 2018.
    • Google IoT export connector - Dejan Mainflux working

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DS/SDK WG Update

  • Requirements doc nearing completion
  • Design meeting June 4

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QA/Test Working Group Updates

Blackbox Testing

  • Currently running blackbox tests against both Java and Go services – tests are finding bugs and differences between implementations that we are in the process of fixing
  • Need to decide whether we change RAML and update Java code to be consistent for California
  • Have created new blackbox tests for Logging and Rules Engine
  • Still need to add tests for Notifications, Scheduling, Export Client and Device Service

Security Functionality Testing

  • Still need to create test plan/strategy and identify resources to implement tests for California Security functionality

Documentation

  • Additional updates/improvements made to new documentation and merged changes into repo

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DevOps Working Group Updates

  1. License and Copyright built into images now for distribution.
  2. Full publishing of go bins and images from edgex-go.
  3. Made contribution to blackbox-testing (fetch images from nexus).
  4. Email notifications from blackbox-testing failures (subscribe).

TO DO:

  1. Copy attribution files from edgex-go into image and bin tar.
  2. California branch cutting and final release (are we releasing Java services?)

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Security WG Update

  • Kong work nearing completion
  • Vault work nearing completion
  • To Be Done
    • Merge with the rest of EdgeX (complete common docker-compose)
    • Firewall configuration
    • Documentation

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Core WG Update

  • Support Notifications micro service in Go completed (see edgexfoundry-holding)
  • Ongoing work
    • Naming & availability work on all services - including export - per earlier design doc
    • Config-seed-go - process TOML & update with Go configs from all services
  • Stretch
    • Scheduler contribution reviewed and integrated

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Next TSC F2F Meetings

Jim White

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EdgeX TSC F2F Meeting(s)

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F2F meeting

Final agenda and topic details @ https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/download/attachments/12124391/EdgeX-F2F-PaloAlto.pdf?version=4&modificationDate=1527534561000&api=v2

Current attendance #’s: 30 in attendance + 5 dial-ins

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Agenda

Day 1 - Delhi planning day

  • Welcome and intro by Mike McDonough (VMWare): 9-9:45am
  • Architecture day tee-up: 10-noon
    • Review and explanation of upcoming items
  • Delhi Planning – what’s in/out: 1-3:30pm
    • Scope definition
  • Testbeds and organization liaising: 3:30-4:30pm
  • TSC & WG chair upcoming voting: 4:30-5pm
    • LF review of rules and procedures for upcoming voting

Day 2 – Architecture issues day

  • Architecture discussion and decisions: 9am-2:30pm
  • Business Issues/Discussion: 2:30-3:30pm
  • Wrap up and action items: 3:30-4:30pm

Dinner 6pm Tue Night

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Focus of meeting: Scope Delhi

  • 4 main implementation targets
    • Initial System Management APIs and agent
    • DS SDKs (Go/C) & some replacement DSs
    • Next wave of security features
      • Suggest ACL, secure non-HTTP comms
    • Improve testing
      • Better/more unit, complete black box and performance

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High level Delhi Scope

What’s In

-System management API in all services�-Sys mgmt agent�-Base service (started with refactor)� Service naming� Availability� Common config/reg� Service tracing (OpenTracing API)�-Service outage & notifications� Resiliency in face of non-availability of services

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-ACL (for reverse proxy use)�-Secure non-Http comms� MQTT outbound/inbound� 0MQ outbound

-Complete the initial SDKs (Go & C)� Complete new virtual device service�-Refactor some existing DS� Modbus� BACNet� MQTT�

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High level Delhi Scope (cont.)

-Unit tests coverage of a majority of the code� Core/support service refactors as examples�-Blackbox testing for all services� Integrate in CI� Reporting on failed tests�-Performance Tests� Meeting RP3 targets�

-Replace any remaining Java services� Scheduler�-Configuration categorized/grouped�-Review and incorporate all the outstanding code contributions� UI� Scheduler� Samsung code� …�

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Architectural Discussions

  • Focus on Delhi release work
    • Address other architecture items if time permits
  • Divide the discussion into two sections
    • Technical Debt - what code in the existing system needs fixed or refactored in Delhi
    • Enhancements - what can we add to improve EdgeX for Delhi

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Architecture Issues Tee-up – Technical Debt

•Technical Debt (things that need fixed)

•Rearchitect Go Export Distro – Move to Application Services concept(s)

•Protecting micro service secrets with Vault (export distro, others?)

•Upgrade Consul & master/slave configuration

•Automate API documentation (move to alternate format?)

•Search for Mongo replacements/alternatives (offer for Edinburg)

•Steps toward truly distributed EdgeX (multiple machines, reverse proxy impact, commands across hosts, etc.)

•Device discovery, onboarding and removal

•Renew threat modeling

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Architecture Issues Tee-up - Enhancements

•ARM 32 support

•Device services that downsample (scale back readings sent when data is pumped to fast)

•Min/Max limit on accepting command

•Data transformation and/or filtering at DS level

•Additional DS connectivity (ex: CANBus, Profinet, …)

•Alternate deployment / orchestration (ex: adding Kubernetes support)

•User Interface (review/adopt for Delhi)

•How to deal with device security

•Load balancing of requests to multiple service instances

•Support for an alternate message bus (Point to point between services or at large)

•Introduce new category for microservices: “Sharing Services” for East/West data exchange with non-Edgex entities

•Protobuf or lighter weight messaging (Hitachi submission)

•Address data privacy concerns (GDPR, HIP-A, …)

•Additional export connectors (ex: Greengrass, …)

•Scheduling – service or library approach?

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Business Issues

  • Marketplace for value-add microservices and its implications
    • Will we need a new EdgeX microservice acting as license server?
  • Certification process
    • When do we start to outline?
    • Levels
    • What does it incorporate?
    • Security certification�

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TSC Elections Updates

Brett Preston

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Upcoming WG Chair/TSC Elections

  • WG Chair terms scheduled to end June 24, 2018
  • Steady State TSC composition includes:
    • Working Group Chairs
    • Three (3) TSC at-large representatives
    • Platinum member representatives (when not otherwise represented above)
  • Voting members of the TSC must be Contributors or Maintainers in the Project
  • Contributor definition: Anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation or other technical artifacts to the EdgeX Foundry Project codebase.
  • Target is to have WG Chairs identified prior to the F2F meeting in Palo Alto (June 5 - June 6)

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Upcoming WG Chair/TSC Elections - Timeline

  • Now - Monday, June 4: Establish list of Contributors, WG Chair Nominations and Voting
  • Friday, June 1 - Friday, June 8: TSC At-large Nominations
  • Monday, June 4: WG Chairs for new term named
  • Tuesday, June 5 - Wednesday, June 6: TSC F2F Meeting (Palo Alto)
  • Friday, June 8 - Friday, June 15: TSC At-large Elections
  • Monday, June 18 - Friday, June 22: TSC Chair Nominations
  • Sunday, June 24: End of current TSC term
  • Monday, June 25: 1st day of new TSC
  • Monday, June 25 - Friday, June 29: TSC Chair Voting

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Current WG Chair Nominees

  • Applications Working Group Chair: Janko Isidorovic (Mainflux)
  • Core WG Chair: Trevor Conn (Dell)
  • DevOps WG Chair: Jeremy Phelps (LF)
  • DS/SDK WG Chair: Steve Osselton (IOTech)
  • Security WG Chair: David Ferriera (ForgeRock), Doug Gardner (Analog Devices) Rodney Hess (Beechwoods)
  • System Management WG Chair: Jim White (Dell)
  • Test/QA WG Chair: Andy Foster (IOTech)
  • Vertical Solutions WG Chair: Moonki Hong (Samsung)

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IIC Updates & Opportunities

James Clardy

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IIC Latest News

Riaz attended last week’s IIC member meeting & can provide updates

Topics of interest to EdgeX (including the current state on the IIC/EdgeX workshop planning)

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IIC Liaison Updates and Opportunities

  • Chicago F2F - September 12, 2018
    • Hosted by IIC Security WG (Email sven.schrecker@intel.com, wael.william.diab@huawei.com)
    • EdgeX Liaison: James Clardy
    • If you’d like to contribute, please email info@edgexfoundry.org to be added to EdgeX-IIC liaison mail list
    • Need to propose Agenda Topics/Speakers
      • Example: http://www.iiconsortium.org/liaison-workshop.htm
      • Primary goal: Educate people about EdgeX, align to IIC Member goals / needs
      • Potential Agenda Items:
        • 1. Introductory presentation EdgeX (including architecture overview)
        • 2. IIC Reference Architecture
        • 3. System Management, Security - How does this align to IISF and IIC Endpoint Security Best Practices?
        • 4. Overview of Vertical Activities - alignment to IIC testbeds?
        • 5. Presentations from IIC - what’s desired by EdgeX Members?
        • 6. Representatives from member companies to present use cases; how they fit in, what they are contributing (examples: Samsung, RSA)
        • 7. Map EdgeX to IIC
      • Session length? TBD - (IIC/oneM2M workshop was 3.15 hours)
    • Indicated interest in participating (as of May 20): Keith Steele, Doug Gardner, Riaz Zolfonoon, Salim AbiEzzi
      • Email info@edgexfoundry.org to register interest

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Evangelist Hiring

Brett Preston

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EdgeX Developer Advocate & Project Evangelist

  • The EdgeX Foundry Project (EdgeX) is seeking a project evangelist and developer advocate to help grow and support the global EdgeX community
  • Technical skills include: You are hands-on with EdgeX and Embedded technologies
  • If you know of anyone, send them our way (link below)
  • Full information available at https://www.edgexfoundry.org/jobs/

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EdgeX Test Beds

Keith Steele

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EdgeX Test Beds

  • Discussion on EdgeX Test Beds
  • Test Bed Collaboration
  • Wanxiang submitted a testbed in IIC, using EdgeX as edge computing platform - OMPAI

http://www.iiconsortium.org/optimizing-manufacturing-processes.htm

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Upcoming Events

Brett Preston

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Upcoming Events - Confirmed

  • LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China, June 25 - 27, 2018, Beijing
    • Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code LC318COM15
    • Meetup being planned. RSVP at: https://www.bagevent.com/event/1491965
  • Open Source Summit North America, August 29 - 31, 2018, Vancouver, Canada
    • Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code OSSNA18COM15
  • EdgeX / IIC Workshop, September 12, 2018, Chicago, IL
    • Hosted jointly by:
      • IIC Security (Chair: Sven Schrecker, Intel)
      • Liaison Working Group (Chair: Wael William Diab, Huawei)
    • EdgeX Liaisons: James Clardy, NetFoundry, Riaz, Salim AbiEzzi VMware
  • Open Networking Summit Europe, September 25 - 27, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code ONSEU18COM15
    • CFP open through June 24 / Submit your EdgeX talk here

Full list of LF events available at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/

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Upcoming Events - Confirmed (continued)

  • Open Source Summit Europe, October 22 - 24, 2018, Edinburgh, UK
    • Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code OSSEU18COM15
    • CFP open through July 1 / Submit your EdgeX talk here
  • ELC / OpenIoT Summit Europe, October 22 - 24, 2018, Edinburgh, UK
    • CFP open through July 1 / Submit your EdgeX talk here

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Event Participation Opportunities

IOT Solutions World Congress

  • http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/
  • October 16-18, 2018
  • Barcelona
  • Call For Papers (CFP closed April 30)
    • EdgeX Submitted:
      • Security issues and practices in the IoT Edge Computing Era
      • How to build open source IoT ecosystems
      • Jim White submitted a response
  • Call For Testbeds (Call for Testbeds closes June 11)
    • Submitted: ---
  • Email info@edgexfoundry.org if you submit for CFP or Testbeds so that we can track

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AOB / Reminders

Brett Preston

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AOB/Cadence

  • Meeting Cadence Reminder
    • Currently held weekly at 7am PDT on Wednesday’s
    • Calls without TSC quorum will still be used to review issues

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  • Next Meeting: June 5-6, 2018 (face to face in Palo Alto, CA)

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EdgeX Project Organization

EdgeX Foundry

Technical Steering Committee

Chair

Keith Steele

IOTech

Core

Working Group

Chair

Jim White

Dell

Device SDK

Working Group

Chair

Tony Espy

Canonical

Applications

Working Group

Chair

Janko

Isisdorovic

Mainflux

Export Services SDK MVP

Device SDK

MVP

Core

MVP

System Management

Working Group

Chair

Sallim

AbiEzzi

VMware

System

Management

Services MVP

Security

Working Group

Chair

Doug Gardner

ADI

Security

Services

MVP

Working Groups

Projects

Vertical Solutions Working Group

Additional use-case specific projects

Chair

Moonki Hong

Samsung

DevOps

Continuous Integration

MVP

Chair

Jeremy Phelps

Linux F

QA and Test

Testing

MVP

Chair

Andrew

Foster

IOTech

Smart Factory

Oil and Gas

Maintainer: MJ

Samsung

Maintainer:

Alberto

NOV

Snappy

Go Lang

UI

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Marketing

  • CTA: If your company will be presenting EdgeX at an upcoming event/webinar/other, please email pr@edgexfoundry.org so that we can help promote

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EdgeX Use Case Campaign

1. Draft site is available for review:

2. Seeking volunteers to help work in EdgeX connection

  • EdgeX specific use cases
  • examples of how EdgeX helps with a use case; which can include how a third party applies their commercial value add
  • email usecases@edgexfoundry.org to sign up

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EdgeX in Market

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Project Contributions Welcome!

  • Our objective is to make EdgeX use & deployment pervasive!
  • EdgeX success is 100% dependent on the vibrancy of a proactive community
  • Getting Involved
    • Project membership growing - want to join contact Brett Preston at LF (bpreston@linuxfoundation.org)
    • First Priority is the MVP - potential contributors please contact keith@iotechsys.com (people, equipment, technology)
    • If interested in adding new projects please contact the relevant working group chair

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Project Resources

Quick links to most commonly used Community Resources

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EdgeX - Where to learn more

•EdgeX Foundry Wiki

https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/EdgeX+Foundry+Project+Wiki

•EdgeX Foundry Rocket Chat

https://chat.edgexfoundry.org/home

•Weekly EXF Technical Spin up calls

30 minute deep-dive topics followed by 30 minute open Q&A

Call recordings are available on the Wiki

Next call scheduled:

Thursday, May 31 at 7am PDT (Creating and Updating Documentation)

Targeting additional talks in mid-June

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What is the Device Exchange?

  • A great way to put your products in the hands of other members so they can help build a better EdgeX!

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Special thanks to Dave Bohlman and KMC Controls for making this awesome kit and how-to guide available to members!!

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Meetups

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Meetups: Reimbursement Program

  • https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7602724
  • Wiki page built for the community to leverage
  • Encourage community to begin introducing EdgeX in your local Meetup groups
  • EdgeX Foundry will fund/sponsor the talk in which EdgeX is scheduled to be presented
    • Up to $250 for F&B, once per Meetup group, per quarter
  • Let us help drive traffic to your event! Email pr@edgexfoundry.org once Meetup has been scheduled
  • Post-event, please consider doing a blog about the event

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Hackathons: How can you help?

  • https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/Hackathons
  • Provide any local volunteers onsite to help with technical work, potentially help judge, etc. (see list below of known hackathons coming up and locations)
  • Sponsor breakfast/lunch/dinner for the participants (usually things like donuts/coffee, pizza lunch or cater sandwiches)
  • Sponsor $ rewards (incentives) for teams that successfully implement projects (these could even be projects that particular sponsors want to see accomplished - we just need them scoped appropriately so as to be something that can be accomplished in a 2 day period)
  • Help provide or resource hackathon winner prizes
  • Sponsor or provide any swag (t-shirts, mugs, etc.)
  • Provide marketing assistance

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China Presence / Beijing Meetup

WeChat:

  • Email info@edgexfoundry.org for invite to EdgeX WeChat group

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Beijing Meetup:

  • June 26, 6PM - 9PM
  • Hosted by VMware
  • In collaboration with Zephyr Project
  • RSVP/Registration: https://www.bagevent.com/event/1491965

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Agenda (tentative)

  • Opening Address (Alan Ren - VMware, Kate Stewart - Linux Foundation, Gavin Lu - VMware)
  • Keynote: Introducing Zephyr (Wei Ren - Synopsys, Jianghao Qiao - NXP)
  • Keynote: Introduction to EdgeX (Jim White - Dell, Tiejun Chen - VMware)
  • Keynote: BUPT Presentations and demos on both EdgeX and Zephyr (Professor Li - BUPT)
  • Keynote: VMware EdgeX Explorations (Tiejun Chen - VMware, Huaqiao Zhang - VMware)
  • Keynote: Using EdgeX in optimization of manufacturing processes (Jijun Ma - Wanxiang)
  • Keynote: A fast way to deploy IoT application based on EdgeX (Xiao Shen - Quarkdata)
  • Roundtable Discussion + Q&A

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Thank You

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