Oracle Collaborate 2015 Schedule
It’s almost time for Collaborate 2015! This year has a plenty of great events planned and we wanted to take a moment to go over the basic schedule as well as some standouts. Check out our picks and don’t forget to visit us at booth #1140!
Sunday, April 12
IOUG Pre-Conference Workshops*
9 am – 4 pm
Collaborate starts for IOUG members Sunday morning! Check out some of the great pre-conference workshops that Collaborate has in store. Speakers from Oracle will lead hands-on workshops on Enterprise Manager, Oracle Database 12c, Accreditation for Advanced Users and more.
IOUG Welcome Reception*
6 pm – 8 pm
Mandalay Bay Ballroom K
Celebrate the return of the #IOUGenius to Collaborate! Enjoy h’oeuvres, enter the raffle, and do some networking with your fellow #IOUG technologists. Don’t forget to stop by the photobooth!
*IOUG badge required to attend these events
Monday, April 13
Registration and Caffeination
7 am
Mandalay Bay Foyer
Get registered and grab a coffee before a day of breakout sessions, exhibitions, and more.
Opening Keynote – Erik Wahl of UNthink™
8 am – 9 am
Graffiti artist, author, and entrepreneur Erik Wahl will be gracing us with his presence to talk about how creativity is within everyone’s reach–even if you’re not an artist. UNthink will inspire you to unlock your own creative potential.
Morning Educational Breakout Sessions
Detecting and Stopping Cyber Attacks against Oracle Databases
9:15 am – 11:30 am
Room North Convention, South Pacific J
Oracle Databases are a target of cyber attacks by hackers looking to obtain sensitive data such as credit card numbers and personally identifiable information used in identify theft. Even though databases are not externally accessible, they are still a target as most cyber attacks penetrate the network perimeter and look for high value targets within your internal network. Based on lessons learned from recent high-profile cyber attacks, a framework and techniques for detection and prevention of these cyber attacks against database will be presented.
Oracle E-Business Suite: Strategy, Update and Roadmap
9:15 – 10:15 am
South Seas F
In this session, hear from Oracle E-Business Suite General Manager Cliff Godwin as he delivers an update on the Oracle E-Business Suite product line. The session covers the value delivered by the current release of Oracle E-Business Suite applications, the momentum, and how Oracle E-Business Suite applications integrate into Oracle’s overall applications strategy. You will come away with an understanding of the value Oracle E-Business Suite applications deliver now and in the future.
Women in Technology Luncheon – Registration required
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mandalay Bay Ballroom A
Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman of Oracle will lead this tech-forward meet up for women in the field to discuss personal experiences and strategies for success. Men are also welcome to join! Sign up is during morning registration.
Afternoon Educational Breakout Sessions
Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Breakers G
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Procurements experts – the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Insightful EBS Purging Strategies
2 pm – 3 pm
Mandalay Bay D
Purging and Archiving are very complex subjects and there is so much information available that it is impossible to cover everything in one presentation. This presentation is meant to discuss purging features and functionality of the Oracle EBS Applications that is available in Release 12.
Another Security Patch – How Do I Keep Up?
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Room North Convention, South Pacific J
Every quarter Oracle provides security patches for Oracle E-Business Suite, the database and Exadata/Exalogic. We will discuss the need for applying these patches quarterly, how to plan for them, test them, and best practices on when to apply them.
Welcome Reception
5:30 pm – 8 pm
Room Shoreline AB
Drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and networking! Check out the opening of the Exhibitor Showcase and check out this year’s participating companies.
Tuesday, April 14
Oracle Keynote: Keeping Your Head in the Cloud – Leadership Edge in the Digital Transformation
8 am – 8:45 am
Mandalay Bay Ballroom
Mark Sunday is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle, responsible for the information technology infrastructure used across the company globally. Mark’s responsibilities have also included the operational infrastructure for Oracle’s on-demand product offerings. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, Mr. Sunday was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Siebel Systems. With more than 30 years in the high technology industry, he has also served in various IT leadership positions at Motorola, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments. Mr. Sunday supports the innovation, technology and science community serving as Vice Chair of Utah Technology Council and board member of the Leonardo – a museum dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology.
IBM Keynote: Building for the Future: APIs, Cognitive Computing and Customizing Your Oracle Applications in Cloud
8:45 am – 9:45 am
Mandalay Bay Ballroom
IBM Cloud Platform APIs are a critical component to developing ecosystems around your technology as well as building modern, born on the cloud, web and mobile applications. Given the popularity of customizing social functionality into Oracle applications, it should come as little surprise that daily API calls to some of the more popular social networking platforms can number in the billions. While impressive as a stand alone statement about the increasing value and significance of building and using APIs, it also highlights a substantial new market opportunity.
Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Financials
9:45 am – 10:45 am
Room Breakers G
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Financials experts – the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Advanced Architectures for Oracle E-Business Suite
11 am – 12 pm
Room Islander D
Attend this session to build on the three-tier logical Oracle E-Business Suite architecture to meet your business requirements and to assist you with planning a disaster recovery project for your environment. If you want to learn more about how to deploy advanced configurations for Oracle WebLogic Server and parallel concurrent processing, this session is for you. It covers features that provide high availability, scalability, and performance, including load-balancing, clustering, virtualization and DMZ.
E-Business Suite 12 Payments: The Centralization of Payment Processing
2 pm – 3 pm
Room South Seas C
This presentation highlights the new E-Business Suite Release 12 Payments module. This new module supports both funds disbursement and funds capture. The discussion will focus not only on the benefits of centralization, but will illustrate the new payment factory model and the out-of-the-box support for funds capture. Several new user dashboards that facilitate more efficient processing will be shown and discussed, as will the new setup form. Critical similarities and differences between Release 12.1 and 12.2 will also be highlighted. Finally, key implementation milestones and timelines will be emphasized.
ERP Project Management for the Busy Professional
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room South Pacific H
While the PMBOK provides some great knowledge on the best practices for managing projects, it is sometimes difficult to apply these practices in real-life. Learn the everyday skills and methods needed to assess and deliver almost any type of ERP project. Starting from project intake and working through project execution and closure, we’ll share our thoughts on how to setup a structure to manage projects successfully.
Exhibitor Showcase Happy Hour
5:30 pm – 7 pm
Room Shoreline AB
Self explanatory. Have a drink and network!
Wednesday, April 15
Oracle E-Business Suite Patches: Fear no More!
8 am – 9 am
Room South Seas I
For many organizations, applying a patch to their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) system can be a tenuous experience, regardless of the patch size. The high costs and risks associated with deploying EBS patches deter many organizations from deploying them. However, “sitting on the fence” and not deploying necessary patches can also be a costly and risky business! Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, will share how they significantly reduced the risk, time and cost when implementing patches using Panaya’s SaaS impact analysis solution.
From E-Business Suite with Love: An Excel-Based Reporting Alternative to Oracle Discoverer
10:45 am – 11:45 am
Room South Pacific C
Are you on a mission to replace Oracle Discoverer? Meet Wand, Reports Wand. Our Excel-based ad hoc reporting tool for E-Business Suite is shaken, not stirred and is empowering users around the world. See why Reports Wand is a viable alternative and a much less complex option than migrating to OBIEE. Friendly to end users, our solution installs in minutes without consultants or heavy IT resources and allows for greater flexibility and customization with reporting. See how you can also use it with NoetixViews.
Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite In-Memory Applications
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room Breakers G
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Service Management experts – the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Young Professionals Forum Cocktail Meet-Up
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Room Islander C
Are you looking to connect with other young professionals in the Oracle Applications community? Start the Groovy 60s Party with your peers at happy hour. Build your network and your knowledge during our pre-party event. Pick up your pass at the OAUG Welcome Reception at LIGHT Nightclub on Sunday.
Thursday, April 16
Getting Optimal Performance from Oracle E-Business Suite
8:30 am – 9:30 am
Room South Seas H
This packed Oracle Development session summarizes practical tips and lessons learned from performance-tuning and benchmarking the world’s largest Oracle E-Business Suite environments. Apps sysadmins will get concrete tips and techniques for identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks on all layers of the technology stack. They will also learn how Oracle’s engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic can dramatically improve the performance of their system.
Oracle DBA Profession Life Skills – from a 25-Year Veteran
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Room Banayn E
Learn life lessons from a 25-year Oracle veteran who started with Oracle 5.1!
Search the full schedule and don’t forgot visit us at booth 1140!
