Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli presented on Apache Hadoop YARN: Present and Future. He discussed how YARN improved on Hadoop 1 by separating resource management from processing, allowing multiple types of applications on the same platform. He summarized recent Hadoop releases including YARN enhancements like high availability and preemption. Future plans include improved isolation, multi-dimensional scheduling, and supporting long-running services. YARN aims to be a general resource management platform powering a growing ecosystem of applications beyond just MapReduce.