View 2008 agenda grid

Please find below some of the agenda highlights that will be featured at UKOUG 2008:

What days do I attend?
    1.  By day
    2.  By stream
Keynote Presentations
    1.  Opening Keynotes
    2.  Community Keynotes
Things to look out for...
    1.  Install-fest
    2.  Masterclasses
    3   Roundtables 
    4.  Partner Solutions
    5.  Fusion and Fusion Technology
    6.  Meet Oracle Support
    

What days do I attend?

By Day:
Monday 1st December: Oracle Technology, Apps for DBA, Business Intelligence, Hyperion, Oracle E-Business Suite, Business and Strategy, Fusion and Stellent/Enterprise 2.0 
Tuesday 2nd December: Oracle Technology, App Server and Middleware, Business Intelligence, Oracle E-Business Suite, Business and Strategy, Fusion and Siebel
Wednesday 3rd December: Oracle Technology, App Server and Middleware, Business Intelligence, Oracle E-Business Suite, Spatial and Install Fest
Thursday 4th December: Oracle Technology, App Server and Middleware, Business Intelligence and Oracle E-Business Suite
Friday 5th December: Masterclasses in Oracle Technology, Business Intelligence and App Server and Middleware with a few sessions in Oracle E-Business Suite

By Stream:
Oracle Technology: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Oracle E-Business Suite: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Business Intelligence: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
App Server & Middleware: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Business & Strategy and Fusion: Monday and Tuesday
Hyperion: Monday
Stellent/Enterprise 2.0: Monday
Siebel: Tuesday
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Opening Keynote Presentations 

Monday 1st December at 10.05 - 10.50
   Oracle Corporate and Product Strategy Update
          by David Callaghan, Senior Vice President, UK, Ireland and Israel
          
Monday 1st December at 17.05 - 18.05
  The Best Way
          by Thomas Kyte, Database Product Evangelist, Oracle

Tuesday 2nd December at 09.35 - 10.35
  Oracle Exadata - Extreme Performance
          by Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Database Development

Tuesday 2nd December at 16.20 - 17.20
  Oracle Applications: Driving business transformation & agility today & tomorrow
         by Jose Lazares, VP of Oracle's Application Development and Strategy
         
Wednesday 3rd December at 17.10 - 18.10
  The New Face of Customer Service in the Knowledge-Based Economy
         by Juergen Rottler, Executive Vice President Oracle Customer Services


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Community Keynotes

BI & Hyperion - Monday 1st December at 11.00 - 12.00
  Oracle's EPM System: Driving Management Execellence
         by John Kopcke, Oracle

Siebel Community - Tuesday 2nd December at 10.00 - 10.45 
  Complete CRM: Transactional, Analystical and Social
         by Anthony Lye, Oracle


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Things to look out for...

Oracle Linuxfest: 'Migrating to Oracle 11g on Linux 
OTN focussed on how easy it is to migrate to Oracle 11g on Linux... more

Masterclasses
Masterclasses are two hour presentations allowing more time to gain an in-depth view into a specific topic area and more opportunity to ask questions to the presenter.

Oracle Technology:

Oracle Performance Managment... by Gaja Vaidyanatha, DBPerfMan LLC 

Execution Plans by Christian Antognini, Trivadis AG

Demystifying RAC Workload... by Alex Gorbachev, Pythian East Asia Pacific

Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting: No magic... by Tanel Poder, Integrid.info

Oracle Security Master Class by Pete Finnigan, PeteFinnigan.com Limited
Design and Development:
Become a Fusion Developer with no... by Grant Ronald and Duncan Mills, Oracle

Advanced SQL Features by Daniel Fink, OptimalDBA
App Server and Middleware:

Data Integration Advanced Use Cases by Craig Stewart, Oracle EMEA

Oracle Beehive - The only complete and Open ... by Andrew Kershaw, Oracle

Business Intelligence:
Oracle 11g Data Warehousing by Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead Consulting

Oracle BIEE Plus - An in-depth at how to... by Veronica Jerling, SolStonePlus
Oracle E - Business Suite:

Using Oracle SOA Suite/BPEL to Integrate ... by Nishit Rao, Oracle

Jump start your upgrade with UPK R12 content by Beth Renstrom, Oracle


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Roundtables
What is a Roundtable session? - UKOUG have set up an open area where up to 50 people can partake in this interactive discussion group, facilitated by a presenter who has knowledge in the topic area. Beginners to advanced attendees are welcome.

Oracle Technology:
Backup and Recovery by Carl Dudley, University of Wolverhampton

Oracle Security by Pete Finnigan, PeteFinnigan.com Limted

RAC Roundtable by Julian Dyke, JulianDyke.com Limted

HA Roundtable by Carel-Jan Engel, DBA!ert

Cost Based Optimisation by Jonathan Lewis, JL Computer Consultancy

Roundtable with Andy Mendelsohn, Andrew Mendelsohn, Oracle

Design and Development:
Tools: APEX, JDEV, Forms, SQL DEV - the choice is yours

Fusion for Developers: ADF/JDeveloper; SOA; BPEL

Modelling, UML, ERD, BPEL

Business and Strategy:
Enterprise Architecture - do I really need one? by Adam Boczkowski, Oracle

App Server and Middleware:

BEA Users' Roundtable 

Roundtable with Jose Lazares


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Partner Solutions

These are 45 minute sessions from Oracle partners giving an indepth product or service briefing. This is your opportunity to discover new applications and services that are currently available for your market.

If you want more in-depth product and service knowledge and your chance to ask your burning questions, then don't miss out.

Best Practices for your Oracle Spreadsheet Environment

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Fusion and Fusion Technology

The Fusion stream is looking at Fusion Applications, these are all built on Fusion Technology which has been available for a while and can be found throughout the agenda. If you are looking for Fusion Technology specifically we have added FTMS (Fusion Technology Must See) or FTGTS (Fusion Technology Good to See) and the end of the session titles. You can search on these strings for the full list

Meet Oracle Support

Look out for the area dedicated to Oracle Support users, Executive Room 9 the ICC, where Oracle will be running training sessions throughout the week. To view the full schedule of training sessions pleaseclick here.