Overview

We started EdgeX Foundry evangelism from the mid of 2018. Overall, the activities could be categorized to online webinars and offline events.

Offline events

EdgeX Foundry meetups started from June 2018. In 2018 we held two events, once half a year. In 2019, the frequency was increased to quarterly. In addition to that, we co-held some special meetup focused on certain specific industry case.

2018

• Jun 26: IoT Meetup at Beijing (Registration, English), (Summary by Jim White), hosted by VMware
• Sep 8: Edge Computing Meetup at Shanghai (Registration, English), (Summary, English), hosted by VMware

2019

• Apr 11: Edge Computing Meetup at Hangzhou (Registration, English), (Summary, English), hosted by EMQ & VMware
• Jun 25: LF Edge Meetup at Shanghai (Registration, English), hosted by VMware
• Aug 20: ORI/EdgeX Summit at Beijing (Registration, English), (News #1, English; News #2, English) hosted by Intel, VMware & JD
• Nov 7-9: ORI/EdgeX Smart Retail Summit at Qingdao (Summary, English), hosted by Intel
• Dec 17: EdgeX Foundry China Day at Beijing, full day event with meetup, workshop (Registration, English), (Summary, English), and China project preparation meeting (Summary, English) hosted by VMware, Dell & Intel

2020

1. Jan/Feb: EdgeX Meetup at Beijing/Shanghai, hosted by VMware & Intel (Canceled because of coronavirus )
2. Mar/Apr: EdgeX Hackathon at Shanghai, hosted by VMware & Intel (Postponed because of coronavirus)
   • Online training sessions for potential participants
     • Feb 28th : 14:00-15:00, Create EdgeX new Device Services,by VMware  (Registration, English), (Playback) 
     • Mar 6th: 14:00-15:00, Writing EdgeX export service, and scheduling plan,by VMware (Registration, English), (Playback)
     • Mar 13th: 14:00-15:00, Add devices and service monitoring in EdgeX, by ThunderSoft (Registration, English), (Playback)
     • Mar 20th: 14:00-15:00, Use EdgeX device service, Nodered,by IOTech (Registration, English), (Playback)
     • Mar 27th: 14:00-15:00, Use OpenVINO with EdgeX for Edge Inference,by Intel(Registration, English), (Playback)
     • Apr 2nd: 14:00-15:00, EdgeX Hackathon station setup(HW,SW, Tools, etc.), by Intel (Registration, English), (Playback)

Online webinars

Online webinars started from the beginning of 2019. We mostly kept bimonthly cadence in 2019, and delivered six sessions in the full year. The last session is planned on Nov 29, 2019.

2019

• #1 Jan 16: Open and Neutral IoT Ecosystem with EdgeX Foundry, (Registration, English), (Record)
• #2 Mar 15: Linux Foundation Edge Program, (Registration, English), (Record)
• #3 May 31: App Marketplace and Common ML Inference Service for EdgeX Foundry, (Registration, English), (Record)
• #4 Jul 30: Project Flowgate and Integration with EdgeX Foundry, (Registration, English), (Record)
• #5 Sep 27: Demo of App Marketplace on AWS for EdgeX Foundry, (Registration, English), (No record due to Zoom service issue in China)
• #6 Nov 29: Edge Native Applications on EdgeX Foundry Integrated with Clouds, (Registration, English)