Currently Viewing Monday 3rd December - 03/12/2012

09:30 - 10:20

Opening Oracle Keynote

Dermot O'Kelly & Dr. Andrew Sutherland - Oracle

10:30 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: Oracle's Latest Generation of Database Technology

Tom Kyte, OakTable - Oracle

10:30 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: Deploy, Scale & Save with Oracle Linux, Oracle Virtualization and MySQL

Rich Mason - Oracle

10:30 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: The Future of Development for Oracle Fusion - from Desktop, to Mobile, to Cloud

Duncan Mills - Oracle
Co-presenter(s): David Wood - Accenture
Ian Staff - Accenture

10:30 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: Roadmap and Strategy for Java EE and WebLogic Server in the Cloud

Will Lyons - Oracle

10:30 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: Oracle E-Business Suite - Strategy, Update and Roadmap

Cliff Godwin - Oracle

10:30 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: The Next Generation of Oracle Business Analytics: Endeca, Big Data, and Beyond

Adam Ferrari - Oracle

10:30 - 11:15

Enhancing Value of PeopleSoft Investments and Maximizing ROI

Krishnakumar Pallasena Rajagopal -

10:30 - 11:15

PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2

Mike Everitt - Oracle

11:30 - 13:20

Oracle APEX 4.2 Unplugged

David Peake - Oracle

11:50 - 12:35

Consolidating Databases with the Latest Generation of Database Technology

Bryn Llewellyn - Oracle

11:50 - 12:35

Creating Test Cases

Jonathan Lewis, Oracle ACE Director, OakTable - JL Computer Consultancy

11:50 - 12:35

Oracle 10g & 11g Automatic SGA/Memory Management Cautionary Tales

Peter Homes - Interoute Application Management

11:50 - 12:35

Embracing Database Diversity: The New Oracle/MySQL DBA

Keith Hollman - Oracle

11:50 - 12:50

Speed Dating Oracle JDeveloper and ADF 12c New Features

Frank Nimphius - Oracle

11:50 - 12:50

Five Cool Use Cases for the Spring Component in Oracle SOA Suite

Guido Schmutz, Oracle ACE Director - Trivadis

11:50 - 12:35

Real Life WebLogic Performance Tuning: Tales and Techniques from the Field

Steve Millidge - C2B2 Consulting

11:50 - 12:35

Additional Benefits of Data Guard, Apart from DR: Active Data Guard

Uwe Hesse - Oracle

11:50 - 12:35

Living with Financials R12.1.3 and OBIEE

Jo Bates - Daiwa Capital Markets

11:50 - 12:35

Oracle E-Business Suite HCM: Vision, Release Overview and Product Roadmap

Stephen Hughes - Oracle

11:50 - 12:35

Making Your Next Upgrade Pay for Itself

Jason P Garforth - IBM

11:50 - 12:35

Oracle Business Analytics Roadmap

Mike Durran - Oracle
Co-presenter(s): Venkatraman Subramanian - Oracle

11:50 - 12:35

What Difference Does Business Intelligence Make to Your Business – The John Lewis Partnership Story

Amy Balmain - John Lewis Partnership

11:50 - 12:35

Client Study - The Upgrade Experience

Zoe Cottle - dsp
Co-presenter(s): Chris Duffy - Scotia Gas Networks (SGN)

11:50 - 12:35

Global Search in Practice - How to Setup, Identify Issues and Extend

Steve Smith - University of Cambridge

11:50 - 12:35

Proactive Absence Management – Guarantee Your Success

Andrew Ferguson - Softworks

12:45 - 13:30

What a Server Administrator Needs to Know About ADF

Sten Vesterli, Oracle ACE Director - Scott/Tiger A/S

12:45 - 13:45

The Importance of Being Well Connected

Graham Wood - Oracle

12:45 - 13:45

SQL Tips, Techniques and Traps to Avoid

Carl Dudley, Oracle ACE Director - University of Wolverhampton

12:45 - 13:30

Oops, I Did It Again: MySQL Replication - What Has Changed

Mark Swarbrick - Oracle

12:45 - 13:45

Oracle WebLogic 12c Advanced Recipes: 10 Things You Should Know

Frank Munz - munz & more

12:45 - 13:45

Benchmarking Oracle I/O Performance with ORION

Alex Gorbachev, Oracle ACE Director, OakTable - Pythian

12:45 - 13:30

Exalytics and TimesTen: Ongoing Data Refresh and ETL

Borkur Steingrimsson - Rittman Mead

12:45 - 13:30

Strategy. So What?! The Long and the Short of It

Elaine Hickmott - EH Enterprises

12:45 - 13:30

Fusion Middleware Architecture Overview

Juergen Kress - Oracle

12:45 - 13:30

PeopleTools 8.53 New Features and Technology Roadmap

Neville Varnham - Oracle
Co-presenter(s): Corina Trif - Oracle

12:45 - 13:30

Employee Travel Expenses - Global Per Diem Requirements v9.2

Bow Gartland - Quintiles

13:00 - 13:45

Providing a Multi-Platform Mobile Solution with Oracle ADF Mobile

Luc Bors - AMIS Services

13:00 - 13:45

PL/SQL: Stop Making the Same Performance Mistakes

Tim Hall, Oracle ACE Director, OakTable - ORACLE-BASE.com

13:35 - 14:20

Predict to Plan to Consensus (P2P2C): A Complete Solution to Improve your Supply Chain Effectiveness

Pradip Das - KPIT Cummins

13:35 - 14:20

R12.1+ MoSCoW – An Overview of Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Wouldn’t Have Features in R12.1+ Financials

Rory McCamley - Mokum Change Management

13:35 - 14:20

How Oracle Customers Are Using Third-Party Support to Optimise Their Applications Strategy

Nigel Pullan - Rimini Street

13:35 - 15:25

What's the Best Way to Build Essbase?

John Baker - Oracle

14:25 - 15:25

Better Living Through Metadata: Harnessing the Power of the MySQL Information Schema

David Harper - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

14:25 - 15:10

Deploying OBIEE 11g in the Enterprise

Mark Rittman, Oracle ACE Director - Rittman Mead

14:25 - 15:10

How Green IT Really Can Improve Your Bottom Line

David Hunt - Interimco

14:25 - 15:10

The Dolphin in Red - MySQL Joins the Oracle Family

Luca Olivari - Oracle

14:25 - 15:10

Best Practices in PeopleSoft Mobile

Laurence Grey - GreyHeller

14:25 - 14:55

Enterprise Service Automation (ESA) in the Public Sector Roundtable

Janet Thomas - Metaformers

14:30 - 15:30

Intelligently Securing a Large, Globally Distributed, Database Estate

Paul Wright - www.oraclesecurity.com
Co-presenter(s): Philip Weeden - IDN

14:30 - 15:30

Auditing Techniques for Oracle Database 11g

Carl Dudley, Oracle ACE Director - University of Wolverhampton

14:30 - 15:30

Is RAT Worth Catching?

Julian Dyke, Oracle ACE, OakTable - JulianDyke.com

14:30 - 15:30

Securing Oracle Enterprise Linux for Data Centers

Hans Forbrich, Oracle ACE Director - Forbrich Computing

14:30 - 15:15

Implementation of Reverse Logistics for Returned Goods

Chandra Gudipati - Numatic International

14:30 - 15:15

Ten Ways to Build Better Loads with DataLoad

Jonathan Stuart - Claremont
Co-presenter(s): Peter Hollis - Claremont

14:30 - 15:15

Meeting the Fiscal Challenges of the Higher Education Sector with E-Business Suite Tax

Tony Mulley - Hitachi Consulting
Co-presenter(s): Alastair Baker - University of Oxford

14:40 - 15:25

Survival of the Fittest: How to Evolve Your Oracle Forms to the 21st Century

Luc Bors - AMIS Services

14:40 - 15:25

Moving to the APEX Listener

Dimitri Gielis, Oracle ACE Director - APEX Evangelists

14:40 - 15:25

Tips and Tricks for Hardening Oracle Fusion Middleware

Jacco Landlust, Oracle ACE - iDBA
Co-presenter(s): Simon Haslam, Oracle ACE Director - Veriton

15:20 - 16:05

Getting the Most Out of the BI Applications at Arriva

Robin Harris - Project (EU)
Co-presenter(s): Kristina Skurdelyte - Arriva
Marc McGurk - Project

15:20 - 16:05

Is Your System Ready for Go-Live? Are You Ready for Your System?

Ian Gardner - IBM

15:20 - 16:05

Exalytics Roundtable: Lime or Lemon?

Mark Rittman, Oracle ACE Director - Rittman Mead
Co-presenter(s): Mike Durran - Oracle

15:20 - 16:05

PeopleSoft 9.2 Financials New Features

Tracey Lasan - Oracle

15:20 - 16:05

PeopleTools 8.53 New Features and Technology Roadmap

Neville Varnham - Oracle
Co-presenter(s): Corina Trif - Oracle

15:40 - 17:30

B-Tree Indexes

Jonathan Lewis, Oracle ACE Director, OakTable - JL Computer Consultancy

15:50 - 16:35

Oracle ASM New Features

Alex Gorbachev, Oracle ACE Director, OakTable - Pythian

15:50 - 16:35

How to Create in 5 Minutes a SQL Tuning Test Case Using SQLTXPLAIN

Carlos Sierra - Oracle

15:50 - 16:35

What is the Real Cost of User IO Wait?

Ashminder Ubhi - Violin Memory

15:50 - 16:35

Performance Schema: The Unknown Beauty

Mario Beck - Oracle

15:50 - 16:35

Implementing Fusion Applications User Experience Design Patterns with Oracle ADF

Grant Ronald - Oracle
Co-presenter(s): Ultan O'Broin - Oracle

15:50 - 16:35

RESTful Web Services in Oracle Application Express 4.2

Hilary Farrell - Oracle
Co-presenter(s): Anthony Rayner - Oracle

15:50 - 16:35

Oracle BPM Suite – A Modernisation Strategy for Oracle Forms Applications

Mark Waite - Griffiths Waite

15:50 - 16:35

The Art of Systems Selection

Damian Tambirasa - IBM

15:50 - 16:35

Service Simplification

Graham Oliver - Mokum Change Management
Co-presenter(s): Don Guttridge - Cochlear

15:50 - 16:35

SPONSOR: Reaching the Parts that Business Intelligence Fails to Reach

Mike Sycamore - Chromalloy
Co-presenter(s): Julie Bowen - InsightSoftware.com

16:30 - 17:15

Effective Dashboard Design

Tim Reeves - Hitachi Consulting
Co-presenter(s): James Kirk - Hitachi Consulting

16:35 - 17:20

Performance Tuning Oracle BI 11g - All the Options!

Antony Heljula - Peak Indicators

16:35 - 17:20

A Customer Success Story of Implementing PeopleSoft Global

Gary Lindsay - Cedar Consulting
Co-presenter(s): Graham Gregg - Scottish Water

16:45 - 17:30

The Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1->11.2.0.3 Upgrade – The Missing Documentation

Edgars Rudans - TSYS

16:45 - 17:30

Shareable Cursors

Christian Antognini, OakTable - Trivadis

16:45 - 17:30

You're Secure! Now What?

Grant Allen - Google

16:45 - 17:30

MySQL is Here to Stay: How to Achieve High Availability

Luca Olivari - Oracle

16:45 - 17:30

Ready, Set, Animate! Key Techniques for Animation in ADF Applications

Duncan Mills - Oracle

16:45 - 17:30

Pump Up the Volume! The APEX Data Loader Inside Out

Roel Hartman, Oracle ACE Director - APEX Evangelists

16:45 - 17:30

What’s Old is New Again: Oracle Forms 11gR2 New Features

John King, Oracle ACE, OakTable - King Training Resources

16:45 - 17:30

Oracle Solaris Serviceability Best Practices

Christopher Beal - Oracle

16:45 - 17:30

3000 E-Business Suite and P6 Users to be Trained – How Do You Manage It?

Susan Howard - Thales Training & Consultancy

16:45 - 17:30

Paperless Payables and the World of WebCentre Automated Invoice Processing

Paul Hiscock - Hitachi Consulting

16:45 - 17:30

Primavera - The Cool Brother of Oracle Project Management

Kiran Gorajala - dsp
Co-presenter(s): Simon Brooks - dsp