ORACLE WITH 20:20 FORESIGHT

Australian Oracle User Group eBulletin
Issue 12, October 2008


ATTEND THE BIGGEST AND BEST FORUM FOR ORACLE PROFESSIONALS IN AUSTRALIA

Join the many hundreds of your colleagues already registered to attend the Gold Coast Conference and REGISTER NOW.

The Gold Coast "Oracle with 20:20 Foresight" conference offers the same quality Oracle speakers for a fraction of Oracle OpenWorld’s price.  Just review the list of high quality speakers that will be providing you with education and information and you will understand why you must attend.

If you do intend coming to the Gold Coast then you still have until Friday (10 October) to register online or by downloading a registration form and emailing or faxing it back to us.  Alternatively you can register onsite at Conrad Jupiters from 8.00am Monday 13 October.

And book your flights and accommodation at the same time at http://www.ausoug.org.au/2020/travel.html



THE PRESENTERS AND THE PROGRAM

Can you afford to miss Rich Niemiec, Tom Kyte (Senior Technical Architect in Server Technology Division, Oracle), Dr Tim Hall (Oracle ACE Director), Alyssa Johnson, (Solution Architect, Solution Beacon), Mike Lehmann (Senior Director Product Management, Oracle) and many other leading Oracle speakers?

PLUS a special early morning treat presented by Rich Niemiec - A Mega 11g New Features Session for Developers & DBAs  being held at 7.30am on 14 October in Coolangatta 3 & 4 at Conrad Jupiters.

You can join Rich Neimiec for 1.5 hours covering the latest features and enhancements available in 11g, the newest incarnation of the Oracle RDBMS engine.  Using examples, gain valuable insight from Rich’s own experience and pose your “under-the-hood” questions to this renowned Oracle ACE.

No need to book for this one if you have already registered for the conference - just turn up.

You can check out the profiles and paper abstracts of these leading speakers by visiting http://www.ausoug.org.au/2020/program.html  

For paper details from ALL the other session speakers go to the Session Descriptions and Speakers on http://www.ausoug.org.au/2020/program.html and open the Gold Coast link. 

As there have been many changes to the program, it is worthwhile to keep checking for updates, and valuable to download a copy to take to the conference with you.  But do this the day before to ensure you have the most up-to-date version.  The also applies to the daily program from the Gold Coast that is also available from that page.



WORKSHOP UPDATE

Members attending the Gold Coast conference are being offered two excellent workshops which are filling up quickly:
1. JDeveloper - presented by Chris Muir from Sage Computing Services; and
2. Administering R12 and Focus on R12 Financials prsented by Alyssa Johnson from Solution Beacon

Full details are available from Workshop Gold Coast. But be quick for as limited spaces are available.

Oracle is also offering a Hands on Workshop at the Gold Coast
Oracle offers free tools and best practices on how to migrate 3rd-party databases and their related applications to the Oracle Technology Platform.  A half day Free workshop will be held on the day following each conference.  For more details of to register click onto
Register.



CUSTOMER MEETINGS WITH MIKE LEHMANN, ORACLE

Mike Lehmann, Senior Director of Product Management for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, is making some time available to schedule 1-1 meetings with customers. Oracle is currently arranging meetings to be held after the conference series.

Mike is an extremely talented speaker, and is great with customers, so customers are encouraged to take up this opportunity if they would like to hear first hand details around the acquisition/WebLogic Server and their relation to TopLink/Coherence/JRockit/Tuxedo, current product plans and roadmap for FMW Release 11 around the stack generally (Install/Upgrade/Enterprise Manager) and specifically the J2EE areas.

Mike Lehmann is responsible for the product management teams driving WebLogic Server, WebLogic Application Grid and Fusion Middleware Common Java Infrastructure.  He has over 15 years of industry experience leading product development, product marketing and product management teams.

His Availability:

Perth:

Monday 13 October from 2.30pm

Gold Coast:
Monday 20th October -- all day
Tuesday 21st October - from 12.30pm

For more details visit the Oracle booth at either conference.



VENDOR EXHIBITION - GOLD COAST

Check out the latest list of vendors who will be attending the Gold Coast conference at www.ausoug.org.au/2020/sponsors.html.

The page also contains a floorplan of the exhibition so you will know where each vendor is located.



CONTACT DETAILS

For information on Registration, program, exhibiting or partnerships please feel free to contact us.

AUSOUG Conference Secretariat
PO Box 16
Wilston QLD 4051
Phone +61 (0) 7 3352 3250

or email gm@ausoug.org.au



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