Open Source live at TechEd 2020

Get ready for the new format of SAP’s 25th TechEd conference on December 8-10: fully virtual, entirely free and with over 500 sessions held by experts and technical thought leaders in their field. No badges, no bags, no queues, but plenty of open source lectures or workshops. And you can listen to the talks from your sofa (if you wish) and don’t have to worry about where to find the room for the next talk. Just make sure, you have enough coffee (or tea) at home to enjoy the 48-hour marathon of tech talk. 

500 Sessions… How can I pick, what is most relevant to me?  

As part of the SAP Open Source Program Office, I would like to give you guidance on which sessions touch open source and might be relevant, if you are an eager contributor to open source already or want to become one. 

On our live-Channel1, there will be a talk about the German Corona-Warn-App as a recent example of a major open source project developed by SAP together with German Telekom. Tune-in on Dec 10th at 10 am CET.

There are several sessions about our open source projects Kyma and Gardener. Some workshops are overbooked already, but might be offered again as online workshop in Q1 of 2021. 

Kyma 

• Q&A: Expert Q&A on Open-Source Projects from SAP: Projects “Gardener” and “Kyma” [DEV932] with Vasu Chandrasekhara, SAP SE and Valentin Vieriu, Hybris GmbH on Thursday, Dec 10 from 4:30 AM – 4:50 AM CET  

• Workshop: Build Cloud-Native Extensions for SAP Solutions Based on Kubernetes [DEV261] with Marco Dorn, Product Manager, Hybris GmbH and Stanimir Ivanov, Product Manager, Hybris GmbH). Both 2–hour workshops are already booked, but we will arrange some similar offerings in Q1 of 2021.  

Gardener 

• Lecture: Universal Kubernetes with Project “Gardener” on VCF for Private Cloud [PAR105] with Dirk Marwinski, Development Architect, SAP SE and Dominic Uliano, Director, Global SAP Alliance, VMware Inc. on 
  Tuesday, Dec 8 from 8:00 PM – 8:40 PM CET 

• Lecture: Universal Kubernetes Clusters at Scale with Project “Gardener” [DEV205] with Dirk Marwinski, Development Architect, SAP SE on Thursday, Dec 10 from 1:20 AM – 2:00 AM CET and from 12:20 PM – 1:00 PM CET 

• Lecture: How to Extend and Customize SAP Intelligent Trade Claims Management [DT121] with Peter Colligan, Product Manager, Newport Beach. This lecture will be available on demand.  

• Workshop: Universal Kubernetes Management for Private or Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures [DEV269] with Rafael Franzke, Senior Software Developer, SAP SE. This workshop will be available through GitHub on demand and running for 2 weeks. (There are two different levels beginner and advanced) 

• Q&A: Expert Q&A on Open-Source Projects from SAP: Projects “Gardener” and “Kyma” [DEV932] with Vasu Chandrasekhara, SAP SE and Valentin Vieriu, Hybris GmbH on Thursday, Dec 10 from 4:30 AM – 4:50 AM CET 

OpenUI5 is part of different workshops and lectures.  

• Lecture: SAPUI5 – All you need to know [DEV108] with Stefan Beck, Chief Product Expert, SAP SE on Tuesday, Dec 8 from 10:10 PM – 10:50 PM CET and on Wednesday, Dec 9 from 10:10 AM – 10:50 AM CET.
  Check out the improved SAPUI5 performance and new tools for the best user experience for SAP Fiori apps and beyond. 

• Workshop: Automated SAP Fiori Testing with Continuous Delivery [DEV267]  
  with Maxim Naidenov, Product Owner, SAP Labs Bulgaria and Sagari Arora, SAP SE. Both workshops are fully booked, but with the UA-made hands-on guide (available in the Tutorials Navigator just before the session) and a fully self-contained demo app in the GitHub repository you can easily follow along without the testing intro. (The workshop is a hands-on exercise in writing E2E tests for UI5 applications. The sample app is based on OpenUI5 and the test uses UIVeri5, both of which are open-source projects) 

• Workshop: Developing Apps with SAPUI5 [DEV164] with Martin Haeuser, Developer, SAP SE and Florian Vogt, UI5 Core Developer, SAP SE on Wednesday, Dec 9 from 2:30 AM – 4:30 AM CET 

• Breakout: UI5 Tooling – The Build and Development Tooling for UI5 [DEV301] with Peter Muessig, Chief Architect, SAP SE and Merlin Beutlberger, Development Architect, SAP SE on Thursday, Dec 10 from 3:20 AM – 3:40 AM CET and from 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM CET 

• Breakout: Beyond SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori Elements [IIS114] with Marius Obert, Developer Advocate, SAP SE. This 20 minutes presentation will be available around the clock; there is no interaction in this recorded session. 

Still some white spots on your agenda? Check out the following sessions with open source related content, featuring SAP initiated projects or open source libraries. 

• Workshop: Project “Spartacus,” a Storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud: Status and Plans [CX835] with Tobias Ouwejan, SAP Nederland BV on Tuesday, Dec 8 from 9:50 PM – 11:50 PM CET and on Wednesday, Dec 9 from 9:50 AM – 11:50 AM CET.
  Gain a deep dive into the JavaScript of this open-source online storefront project. 

• Workshop: Secure Cloud Applications by Default – Assisted Migration [DEV263] with Nena Raab, Developer Expert, SAP SE. This 2-hour workshop is auto-didactical. 
  Learn how the XSUAA service has evolved, understand how it can help you secure your business applications by default and find out how to upgrade to the (new) open-source client libraries (GitHub repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2020-DEV263). 

• Workshop: Data Classification with Python SDK and SAP AI Business Services [INT260 ] with Michael Haas, Senior Software Developer, SAP SE and Samuel Seah, Product Owner, SAP ASIA Pte Ltd on Wednesday, Dec 97:30 PM – 9:30 PM CET and Thursday, Dec 106:30 AM – 8:30 AM CET.  Learn to use Python SDK in master data management scenarios with low-touch coding.

• Lecture: Embedded Location Analytics and the Power of Geospatial Data with Partners [DAT201] with Mathias Kemeter, Head of SAP HANA Spatial, SAP SE and  Thomas Hammer, Product Manager – SAP HANA Cloud, SAP SE on Thursday, Dec 10 from 1:10 AM – 1:50 AM CET and from 11:50 AM – 12:30 PM CET. 

Let me know, if you come across any other content interesting for the open source community and I can add it to this list above. 

In any case, the Open Source Program Office is planning further podcasts and webinars, as well as hands-on sessions next year – please stay tuned. 

Last but not least, there are two podcast episodes going live in December related to Kyma and Gardener project: Dec 9th is about Gardener and on Dec 23rd we will feature a Kyma interview. 

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For more information, please refer to the following public content:  

• Public landing page: Run better together with open source 
• Blogs about Open Source on SAP Community 
• Podcasts series: The Open Source Way
• Twitter: SAP Open Source  

Contact: ospo@sap.com   

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The author, Ulrike Fempel, is part of the SAP Open Source Program Office since 2019.