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Irish people presenting at OOW
Here is a list of presentations at Oracle Open World and JavaOne in 2017, that will be given by people and partners based in Ireland.
(I’ll update this list if I find additional presentations)
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| Day | Time | Presentation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 13:45-14:30 | SQL: One Language to Rule All Your Data [OOW SUN1238]
Brendan Tierney, Oralytics SQL is a very powerful language that has been in use for almost 40 years. SQL comes with many powerful techniques for analyzing your data, and you can analyze data outside the database using SQL as well. Using the new Oracle Big Data SQL it is now possible to analyze data that is stored in a database, in Hadoop, and in NoSQL all at the same time. This session explores the capabilities in Oracle Database that allow you to work with all your data. Discover how SQL really is the unified language for processing all your data, allowing you to analyze, process, run machine learning, and protect all your data. Hopefully this presentation will be a bit of Fun! For those who have been working with the database for a long time, we can sometimes forget what we can really do. For those starting out in the career may not realise what the database can do. The presentation delivers an important message while having a laugh or two (probably at me). | Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate Level) – Golden Gate C1/C2 |
| Monday | 16:30-17:15 | ESB Networks Automates Core IT Infrastructure and Grid Operations [CON7878]
Simon Holt, DBA / Technical Architect, ESB Networks Andrew Walsh, OMS Application Support, ESB In this session learn how ESB Networks deployed Oracle Utilities Network Management System Release 1.12 on a complete Oracle SuperCluster. Hear about the collaboration between multiple Oracle business units and the in-house expertise that delivered an end-to-end solution. This upgrade is an important step toward expanding ESB Network’s future network operations vision. Her about the challenges, the process of choosing a COTS solution, cybersecurity, and implementation. The session also explores the benefits the new system delivered when managing the effects of large-scale weather events, as well as the technical challenges of deploying a combined hardware and software solution. |
Park Central (Floor 2) – Metropolitan I |
| Monday | 16:45-17:30 | Automation and Innovation for Application Management and Support [CON7862]
Raja Roy, Associate Partner, IBM Ireland Automation and innovation are transforming the way application support and development projects are being executed. Market trends show three fundamental shifts: innovation to improve quality of service delivery, the emergence of knowledge-based systems with capabilities for self-service and self-heal, and leveraging the power of the cloud to move capital expenditures to operating expenditures for enhanced functionality. In this session see how IBM introduced innovation in deployments globally to help customers achieve employee and business productivity and enhanced quality of services. |
Moscone West – Room 3022 |
| Tuesday | 12:15-13:00 | DMigrating Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle IaaS: A Customer Journey [CON1848]
Ken MacMahon, IT, Version 1 Ken Lynch, Head of IT, Irish Life Simon Joyce, Consultant / Contractor, Version 1 Software In this session hear about a leading global insurance provider’s experience of migrating Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Cloud. This session includes a discussion of the considerations for Oracle Iaas/PaaS vs. alternatives, the total cost of ownership for Oracle IaaS vs. on-premises solutions, the key project and support issues, the benefits of IaaS, and tips and tricks. Gain insights that can help others on their journey with Oracle IaaS generally and with Oracle E-Business Suite specifically. |
Moscone West – Room 2001 |
| Wednesday | 14:00-14:45 | Ireland’s An Post: Customer Analytics Using Oracle Analytics Cloud [CON7176]
Tony Cassidy, CEO, Vertice John Hagerty, Oracle An Post, the Republic of Ireland’s state-owned provider of postal services, is an organization in transformation. It has used data and analytics to create innovations that led to cost savings and better sustainability. The current focus—customer analytics for a new line of business called Parcels and Packets—utilizes Oracle Analytics Cloud to externalize pertinent data to clients through a portal in a secure, effective, and easy-to-manage environment. In this session hear from An Post and its partner, Vertice, as they discuss the architecture and solution, along with recommendations for ensuring success using Oracle Analytics Cloud. |
Moscone West – Room 3009 |
| Thursday | 13:45-14:30 | Is SQL the Best Language for Statistics and Machine Learning? [OOW and JavaOne CON7350]
Brendan Tierney, Oralytics Did you know that Oracle Database comes with more than 300 statistical functions? And most of these statistical functions are available in all versions of Oracle Database? Most people do not seem to know this. When we hear about people performing statistical analytics, we hear them talking about Excel and R, but what if we could do statistical analysis in the database without having to extract any data onto client machines? This presentation explores the various statistical areas available in Oracle Database and gives several demonstrations. We can also greatly expand our statistical capabilities by using Oracle R Enterprise with the embedded capabilities in SQL. This presentation is just one of the 14 presentations that are scheduled for the Thursday! I believe this session is already fully booked, but you can still add yourself to the wait list. |
Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate Level) – Golden Gate B |
OUG Ireland Meetup 11th May
The next OUG Ireland Meetup is happening on 11th May, in the Bank of Ireland Grand Canal Dock. This is a free event and is open to every one. You don’t have to be a member to attend.
Following on from a very successful 2 day OUG Ireland Conference with over 250 attendees, we have organised our next meetup. This was mentioned during the opening session of the conference.
We typically have 2 presentations at each Meetup and on 11th May we have:
1. Oracle Analytics Cloud Service.
Oralce Analytics Cloud Service was only released a few weeks ago and we some local people who have been working with the beta and early adopter releases. They will be giving us some insights on this new product and how it compares with other analytics products like Oracle Data Visualization and OBIEE.
Running Oracle DataGuard on RAC on Oracle 12c
The second presentation will be on using Oracle DataGuard on RAC on Oracle 12c. We have a very experienced DBA talking about his experiences of using these products how to workaround some key bugs and situations to be aware of for administration purposes. Lots of valuable information to be gained.
There will be some food and refreshments available for you to enjoy.
The Meetup will be in Bank of Ireland, Grand Canal Dock. This venue is a very popular locations for Meetups in Dublin.
next OUG Ireland Meet-up on 12th Janiary
Our next OUG Ireland Meet-up with be on Thursday 12th January, 2017.
The theme for this meet up is DevOps and How to Migrate to the Cloud.
Come along on the night here about these topics and how companies in Ireland are doing these things.
Venue : Bank of Ireland, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
The agenda for the meet-up is:
18:00-18:20 Sign-in, meet and greet, networking, grab some refreshments, etc
18:20-18:30 : Introductions & Welcome, Agenda, what is OUG Ireland, etc.
18:30-19:00 : Dev Ops and Oracle PL/SQL development – Alan McClean
Abstract
In recent years the need to deliver changes to production as soon as possible has led to the rise of continuous delivery; continuous integration and continuous deployment. These issues have become standards in the application development, particularly for code developed in languages such as Java. However, database development has lagged behind in supporting this paradigm. There are a number of steps that can be taken to address this. This presentation examines how database changes can be delivered in a similar manner to other languages. The presentation will look at unit testing frameworks, code reviews and code quality as well as tools for managing database deployment.
19:00-1930 : Simplifying the journey to Oracle Cloud : Decision makers across Managers, DBA’s and Cloud Architects who need to progress an Oracle Cloud Engagement in the organization – Ken MacMahon, Head of Oracle Cloud Services at Version1
Abstract
The presentation will cover the 5 steps that Version 1 use to try and help customers with Oracle Cloud adoption in the organisation. By attending you will hear, how to deal with cloud adoption concerns, choose candidates for cloud migration, how to design the cloud architecture, how to use automation and agility in your Cloud adoption plans, and finally how to manage your Cloud environment.
This event is open to all, you don’t have to be a member of the user group and best of all it is a free event. So spread the word with all your Oracle developer, DBAs, architects, data warehousing, data vizualisations, etc people.
We hope you can make it! and don’t forget to register for the event.
Our first OUG Ireland Meet-up
Last Thursday evening (20th October) we had our first Meet-up event for OUG Ireland.
Up to recently we have had a one or two full day SIG events that covered both the Tech and BA/Big Data areas. But we have been finding it increasingly difficult to get speakers and attendees to take a full day out of work to attend the SIG events. This was particularly true for a SIG event we had scheduled to happen in early October. But by the end of August things were not coming together for us, so it was time to try something new.
Over the past couple of years Meet-ups have been growing in numbers and in popularity. We (the OUG Ireland SIG committee) have been keeping an eye on this in the UK and Ireland.
It was time to get this concept a try.
What did it entail and what venue did you use?
The first thing we needed to do was to arrange a venue. A very popular location for Meet-ups in Ireland is in one of Bank of Ireland branches. This is Bank of Ireland on Grand Canal Dock in Dublin. It is one of their enterprise centres and is open during the day for meetings, as a workspace and it also operates as a branch. In the evenings and on a Saturday morning it is available for groups to hold meetings for larger groups and Meet-ups. We have the venue from 6pm-8pm.
What presentations did you have?
After securing a venue the we then decided to have the theme of the Meet-up to be about ‘Updates from Oracle Open World’. Most of the SIG committee was at Oracle Open World, so that should be easy enough to put a few presentations together and we got the local Oracle office to joins us to.
What about catering?
The venue very kindly supplies some soft drinks, tea, coffee, a few beers, along with some sandwiches and pastries. All for free!
So far we have a free venue, free catering and the committee for presenters.
How did you advertise the event?
The only other thing we needed to do now was to advertise the event. For this we used a combination of EventBrite and Meet-up.com for this, along with our own contacts. Plus some of our friends helped to spread the word. This worked really well. We ended up getting roughly the same number of people registering for the event on each platform. We had 98 registrations on these websites.
Something we were warned about is that a lot of people will register, but if you get 40% of those turning up for the event then you are doing well. We got 48 attendees (=50%). We were delighted with this. For our full day SIG events we might have had 20-25 attendees.
How much this this event cost?
It cost us zero euro/dollars/sterling. As there was no admin, advertising costs, catering, room hire, nothing. Well that is not entirely true. There was a small cost and that was for our membership fee to be on Meet-up. That cost me about $30 for 6 months (unlimited plan). Yes I’ve paid that myself.
What was the feedback after the event?
The feedback was fantastic. People loved the new format, loved that it was in the evening after work, liked the short length presentations, liked that it was free, etc.
I also asked people if they might be interested in presenting at a future Meet-up. Personally I had 5 people talk to me about this. The over committee members also had people talk to them about it. It seems people are interested in trying the shorter format presentations, as it is not as daunting as presenting at a conference. A conference seems to be more formal and a step up in presenting levels.
What next?
Well we have the same venue booked for 12th January and 11th May. We have our 2 presenters for the 12th January already. We actually had those before our first meet-up. Plus for the 11th May we have some possible presenters and I just need to work with them to see who will get on the agenda.
The plan was to have 3-4 of these each year. Based on the feedback and the level of interest we might need to have a few more. But it is still early days and we need to see how things develop.
Our Meet-up was in Dublin. Ideally we want to bring this to over regions. For example we could do the same in Belfast and Cork, and possibly Limerick and Galway. This is something we are looking at and in 2017 we will definitely have a Meet-up in one (or two) of those locations. That would bring us up to 4-5 Meet-ups in 2017.
Thank you to everyone who attended and everyone how helped to make this happen.
OUG Ireland Meet-up 20th October
Come along to the first OUG Ireland meet-up on the 20th October, in Bank of Ireland, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, between 18:15 and 20:00.
Over the years the OUG Ireland SIG committee have organised one day SIG events once or twice a year. This is in addition to the annual OUG Ireland conference (typically held in March). Sometimes it has been a challenge to get people to attend, sometimes it has been a challenge to get enough speakers, sometimes it was a challenge to get a good venue, etc.
So we have decided to try something a little bit different. In keeping with the current trend of smaller scale events we have organised our first Meet-up. This will be a short 2 hour event to be held after work on the 20th October. So come along and joins us.
This is a free and open event. You do not need to be a member of the user group to come to this meet-up.
Here are the details:
Theme for Meet-up
Updates from Oracle Open World 2016
Agenda
18:00-18:20 : Sign-in, meet and greet, and setup of space with seats etc
18:20-18:30 : Introductions & Welcome, Agenda, what is OUG Ireland
18:30-18:45 : The Oracle 12.2 Database new features (Simon Holt)
18:45-19:00 : What’s new in the BI, BA, Big Data world from Oracle (Brendan Tierney)
19:00-19:15 : What’s happening with Cloud (Tony Cassidy)
19:15-19:30 : Other updates from Oracle (John Caulfield, Oracle)
19:30-19:45 : Q&A session and Open discussion
Location
Bank Of Ireland
1 Grand Canal Square
Dublin
Please sign up, so that we know who is coming
There are 2 places where you can sign up. It doesn’t matter which one you use but please use one of them to let us know you will be there.
Sign up on EventBrite.com
Sign up on Meetup.com
We will be looking to setup more Meet-up events, so let us know what you think of the new format and particularly if you would like to get involved with talking about a topic, project, new feature, whatever, etc. for 15-20 minutes (a short demo would be good)
OUG Ireland 2016: a roaring success
Last week we had out OUG Ireland annual conference. Traditionally it has been a 1 day conference and in the past few years we have had an extra day where we had the likes of Tom Kyte (we miss you), Maria Colgan, etc give a full day seminar.
But over the past few years a few of the committee have been constantly asked about when we would have a second day of presentations (just like we have for the one day event).
After lots of discussions and looking at budgets and relooking at budgets, then looking at possible alternative venues we worked out a way to have a 2 day conference.
So last week we had our new 2 day conference in the Gresham hotel in the centre of Dublin. Check out the agenda here.
The day before the conference (on the Wednesday) I had arranged for a speakers drinks meet-up. There was lots of people travelling in from all across Europe to present, so this was a good way to get everyone together over a few beers. We met in a micro brewery in Dublin. It was a fun evening with people coming and going throughout the evening and some people stayed for the entire evening. (Oh my poor credit card!)
On Thursday we all got together with all the 275+ attendees at in the Gresham Hotel.
We had 4 tracks that covered DBA, Developer, Business Analytics and Apps. The rooms were just the right size for these tracks, with most of the rooms being full for each of the presentations. With some presentations there was people standing around the sides and down the back. All of this helped to add to the atmosphere. The exhibitors were only there for the first day. This is something we need to look at for next year to get them to attend the 2 days.
On the Wednesday evening we had an Oracle ACE Dinner that was sponsored by OTN (THANK YOU) and they also provided the ACEs with conference ribbons. Also thank you to the OTN ACE programme for providing some travel support to the various ACE Directors.
On the second day (Friday) we kind of got of a slow start for the first sessions of the day, but this must have been due to the snow we had in Dublin that morning. But from the second sessions onwards we were back to packed rooms. Because of this great turn out on the second day, helps us justify having a 2 day conference next years.
I got a chance to talk to lots and lots of people over the course of the 2 days and every single person was talking about the conference being 2 days and Please doing this next year and the year after and the year after, etc.
One of the highlights from the end of the second day was the Q&A panel discussion on the Oracle Optimiser. On this panel we had Jonathan Lewis, Joze Senegacnik and Martin Widlake. I managed to rope in a friend Alan Kelly to be the quiz master for the session. The Q&A Panel session was scheduled for 45minutes. But despite the best efforts to encourage the attendees to finished up, they kept on asking questions and the panel kept on answering. This session ran for an additional 45 minutes. Yes that was a 90 minute session.
All in all the 2 day OUG Conference was a roaring success and I would like to thank all the speakers, the attendees and the various sponsors for making this event happen.
Check out Debra’s blog post about the conference.
Check out Martin Widlake’s blog post about the conference.
Oh and there was a Yeast and Sourdough Bread Making symposium during OUG Ireland where a number of the peoples got to talk about and share their experiences on making bread.
OUG Ireland 2016: APPs Track highlights
Today I was joined by Debra Lilly who is the APPs track lead and conference chair for OUG Ireland. Debra lets us know what we can look forward to on the APPs track at this years conference.
Check out Debra’s video.
Click on the image below to get more details of the agenda and to register for this 2 day conference.
Follow the conference and OUG Ireland on twitter using #oug_ire
OUG Ireland 2016: DBA and Developer track highlights
This morning I records a short video (1:18m) view with Simon Holt giving a quick overview and some highlights of the DBA and Developer tracks for the upcoming OUG Ireland 2016 conference.
Click on the image below to get more details of the agenda and to register for this 2 day conference.
Follow the conference and OUG Ireland on twitter using #oug_ire
OUG Ireland 2015 : Call for Papers
We finally have confirmed dates for the OUG Ireland Annual Conference. It will be on the 3rd & 4th March, 2016.
In 2016 we are expanding the conference and marking it a 2 day conference. Over the past few years some of the feedback from delegates has been, can we have more sessions and add a second day. So we have listened and will now have a 2 day conference on 3rd & 4th March, 2016.
We also have a new venue too. The 2016 conference will be held in the Gresham Hotel, on O’Connell Street in central Dublin. It is so close to lots of the tourist attractions, lots of hotels and lots of entertainment.
The call for papers is now open and we are looking for presentations for the typical Business Analytics/Big Data, Hardcore DBA, Development, Cloud and Applications.
Do you have a story to share? Have you discovered something recently? Have you used a new product? Is there anything about some part of an Oracle Product you would like to share?
If so then click on the image below to go to the Submissions Website and get submitting. Closing date for submissions is 9am on 4th January.
Hopefully I’ll see you in Dublin in March.
OUG Ireland 2015 : Call for Papers
We finally have confirmed dates for the OUG Ireland Annual Conference. It will be on the 3rd & 4th March, 2016.
In 2016 we are expanding the conference and marking it a 2 day conference. Over the past few years some of the feedback from delegates has been, can we have more sessions and add a second day. So we have listened and will now have a 2 day conference on 3rd & 4th March, 2016.
We also have a new venue too. The 2016 conference will be held in the Gresham Hotel, on O’Connell Street in central Dublin. It is so close to lots of the tourist attractions, lots of hotels and lots of entertainment.
The call for papers is now open and we are looking for presentations for the typical Business Analytics/Big Data, Hardcore DBA, Development, Cloud and Applications.
Do you have a story to share? Have you discovered something recently? Have you used a new product? Is there anything about some part of an Oracle Product you would like to share?
If so then click on the image below to go to the Submissions Website and get submitting.
Hopefully I’ll see you in Dublin in March.
OUG Ireland 2015 is next week
The annual OUG Ireland conference is on next week on Thursday 19th March.
If you haven’t already signed up for the conference this is only a few days left to do so. Click here to go to the registrations pages.
Also don’t forget to sign Maria Colgan’s one day seminar on the Oracle 12c In-Memory Option.
As always there is a very full agenda with 7 streams, 47 presentations and several keynote presentations.
I’ll be a draw for a copy of my book and I’ll be giving away a few Oracle Press goodies too. Check out this blog post for the details and rules of the book draw.
The following are the presentations I’m planning on attending (so you know where to find me)
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| Time | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 09:10-09:30 | Debra Lilley | OUG Ireland Welcome, Introduction and Opening |
| 09:30-10:10 | Jon Paul (Oracle) | Opening Keynote by Jon Paul from Oracle |
| 10:15-11:00 | Oralce Presentation | Oracle Big Data Strategy |
| 11:00-11:25 | Exhibition Hall | |
| 11:25-12:10 | Antony Heljula | Real Business Value Using Predictive BI
(I’ve seen this before but I worked with Antony on some of what he will be talking about) |
| 12:15-13:00 | Roel Hartman &
Brendan Tierney |
What Are They Thinking? With Oracle Application Express & Oracle Data Mining.
(we gave this presentation at Oracle Open World back in September 2014) |
| 12:15-13:00 | Gurcan Orhan | How to handle Dev, Test & Prod with ODI |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch
(and then freaking out before I give my second presentation) |
|
| 14:00-14:45 | Brendan Tierney | Predictive Queries in Oracle 12c Database
(I suppose I have to turn up to my own presentation) |
| 14:50-15:35 | Roel Hartman | Hidden APEX 5 Gems Revealed
(APEX 5 is due out any day now) |
| 15:35-16:00 | Exhibition Hall & Coffee
(and then freaking out before I give my third presentation) |
|
| 16:00-16:45 | Brendan Tierney | Running R in your Oracle Database using Oracle R Enterprise
(This presentation generally runs for 50 minutes) |
| 16:50-17:35 | Maria Colgan | BI, Dev & Tech Closing Keynote: Oracle Database In-Memory-The next big thing |
| 17:35-18:35 | Event Social i.e. free drink 🙂 |
As you can see it is going to be a busy, busy day.
I would love to attend lots of others, but being able to be in multiple places at the same time is not one of them.
NOTE:The User Group has a rule that a presenter can have a max of 2 presentations. Unfortunately we had to break this rule a week out from the conference, due to some cancellations. And that is why I’ve ended with 2.5 presentations.
Book give away at OUG Ireland
The annual Oracle User Group in Ireland conference is on the 19th March in Croke Park.
I’ll be giving 2 presentations, with one each on the Development and Business Analytics tracks. Here are the details of these presentations.
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| Time | Room | Presentation Title / Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:45 | InterConnect 681 | Predictive Queries in Oracle 12c |
| 16:00-16:45 | Davin Suite | Running R in the Database using Oracle R Enterprise |
I will be giving away a copy of my book to one luck person 🙂
How will this book give away work?
During both of my presentations I will pass around a “hat” for you to put your name or business card into. Then at end of my last presentation we will draw one name out of the hat.
But you have to be in the room to collect the book. If you are not there then I will draw out another name (and so on) until the winner is in the room.
So by attending both of my presentations you are doubling your chances of winning my book.
(Maybe this is an attempt by me to have a good attendance at my last presentation)
Plus I might have a few other Oracle Press goodies to give away too.
Oralytics 
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