OUG Ireland
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.
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: 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
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