IOUG Events

Keynotes and Oracle Roadmaps

COLLABORATE 12 - Special Keynote

Captain Mark Kelly
Commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Mission

Mark Kelly is an American astronaut, US Navy Captain and an experienced naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Gulf War. The winner of many awards, including the Defense Superior Service Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross, Kelly was selected as an astronaut in 1996. He flew his first of four missions in 2001 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, the same space shuttle that he commanded on its final flight in May 2011. He has also led Discovery and is one of only two individuals who have visited the International Space Station on four different occasions.

Mark Kelly is an American hero who inspires others to be their best while remaining true to their core values. He exemplifies leadership, the importance of teamwork, and courage under pressure.

Leadership, Teamwork And Courage
Monday, April 23 from 8:30am – 9:45am

On January 8, 2011, Captain Mark Kelly would face the toughest challenge of his life when an assassination attempt was made on his wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. His dedication to family and Giffords' road to recovery would captivate the nation. For Mark Kelly, focus equals success-even in the face of adversity. Personifying the best of the American spirit, Kelly is a homegrown hero who was a combat pilot in Iraq, an astronaut on four space shuttle missions, and commander of the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. He has combined teamwork, leadership, communication, and family in an unwavering commitment to succeed. Kelly shows audiences how to accomplish their mission while maintaining the love and devotion to family that is the foundation of true success.

Oracle Roadmap Sessions and Keynotes

Want to know where Oracle’s headed? Looking to see what Oracle products and releases are headed down the pipeline? Attend COLLABORATE’s keynote and Oracle Roadmap Sessions throughout the week to hear directly from Oracle executives.

Oracle Keynote: Mark Sunday
CIO & SVP, Oracle
Tuesday, April 24 from 9:15am – 10:15am

Mark Sunday is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle, responsible for the company's information technology used globally, as well as the operational infrastructure for Oracle's On-Demand product offerings. Prior to joining Oracle, Mark was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Siebel Systems. With more than 30 years in the high tech industry, he has also served in various IT leadership positions at Motorola, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments.

Mark holds a BSE degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. He served on the board of Altiris (which was acquired by Symantec), is on the board of Infopia, and is also a Trustee of the Utah Technology Council (UTC) and Economic Development Corporation of Utah (EDCUtah).

IT at Oracle: The Art of IT Transformation to Enable Business Growth
Information Technology organizations today are constantly being challenged to deliver more and more complex solutions to an increasingly technology-savvy user community, yet these organizations still face mounting business pressure for lower costs and improved operational efficiencies year over year.

In this session you will hear how Oracle, on its journey to become one of the leading enterprises in the world, has been able to achieve this balance between technology, cost, and efficiency through its ongoing innovation and commitment to simplify, standardize, centralize and automate their core business process. Mark will also share how the Oracle IT transformation has helped to enable the successful execution of Oracle’s business strategy, as well as the lessons learned over the last 10 years and how these are critical to creating business advantage for the next 10 years of the journey.

Oracle Database - Engineered for Innovation
Mark Townsend, Oracle, VP, Database Product Management
Monday, April 23 from 1:15pm - 2:15pm

By engineering hardware and software together, Oracle is helping customers deliver unbeatable performance, reliability and scalability for their database workloads. Engineered systems reduce risk in the data center, and are helping customers reduce IT costs by realizing the efficiencies of database consolidation onto private clouds. In this session we’ll discuss the technologies in Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata that enable private and public cloud computing architectures. In addition, we’ll discuss why more and more customers are deploying engineered systems for their databases, and also introduce some of the latest innovations for managing enterprise Big Data.

Oracle Analytics & Performance Management Strategy Roadmap
Balaji Yelamanchili, Senior VP of Development, Oracle Analytics & Performance Management
Monday, April 23 from 4:45pm - 5:45pm

Oracle has been rapidly advancing its business intelligence and performance management products over the past year. Hear directly from Balaji Yelamanchil, Oracle's Senior VP of Product Development, about Oracle's strategy and direction with regard to in-memory analytics, mobile intelligence, information discovery, performance management applications, and much more. If you are an Oracle Business Intelligence or Hyperion customer, or if you have a general interest in how Oracle can help your organization dive better business performance using analytics, you will not want to miss this session.

Oracle's Cloud Computing Strategy
Sunday, April 22 from 3:20pm - 4:20pm

As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud that best fits their business strategy. What should you put into public clouds? Should you create a private cloud? What about the ability to move back and forth between deployment models without lock-in? Should you use cloud applications, platform or infrastructure? How should organizations get started on the road to cloud computing? This session describes best practices and how organizations can leverage Oracle’s strategy of Complete Choice to move to cloud computing.

The Only Complete Cloud Management Solution - Oracle Enterprise Manager
Dan Koloski, Oracle, Director, Product Management and Business Development
Monday, April 23 from 4:45pm - 5:45pm

With Oracle Enterprise Manager, customers can have a complete, integrated and business-driven cloud management solution. In this roadmap session, you will learn about Oracle's Complete Cloud Lifecycle Solutions, so you can provide IT resources to end users in a self-service manner. You will learn about our approach to Integrated Cloud Stack Management, which enables the best way to monitor and effectively manage applications-to-disk from a single pain of glass from one solution so it runs at peak performance. And you will learn the value of Business-Driven Cloud Management, so you can run your applications with the visibility and deep insight necessary to provide value to the business. This overview will also be a good primer for several 'deeper-dive' Enterprise Manager sessions at COLLABORATE 12.

IBM Keynote

Smarter Analytics: Business transformation in the Era of Big Data & Analytics

Recent studies confirm that leaders who use analytics have 33% more revenue growth and 12X more profit growth than laggards – and that gap is widening. These outperforming organizations make analytics personal and pervasive, infusing intelligence into every decision and every business process to ensure they can anticipate and shape business outcomes faster than the competition. In the era of Big Data, there are limitless opportunities to harness existing and emerging information channels such as Social Media (twitter, facebook), sensors, video and audio and more into insight previously thought unimaginable or attainable. Additionally, IBM Watson Solutions are transforming expectations for how computers can help us live and work more productively. These new solutions leverage natural language, hypothesis generation, and evidence-based learning to fundamentally change the way businesses look at quickly solving problems.

More information coming soon!