Upcoming Speaking, Training and Conference Engagements

I'm traveling over to Philadelphia later this week to speak at the Philadelphia Oracle Users Group evening on October 16th, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. My presentation is entitled "A Future Oracle BI&DW Architecture" and it takes a look at what's now possible with Oracle Database 11g, OBIEE 10.1.3.4, EPM 11.1.1 and the new Exadata / Oracle Database Machine technologies.

The week after I'm running, in conjunction with the rest of the Rittman Mead team, our first Oracle BI Training Days, a three-day event aimed at developers using Oracle's BI and data warehousing tools. So far we've had a number of customers sign up who are looking to develop in-house skills in OBIEE and Essbase; some consultants looking to broaden their knowledge away from OBIEE and OWB towards some of the new tools; a Discoverer contractor looking to add OBIEE skills to his Discoverer knowledge, and some people keen to learn about customizing the Oracle BI Applications . It's a fairly technical three days and you'll learn lots of things that you don't hear on the courses or read in the documentation; I promise this is the last we'll mention of it, but if you're thinking about coming then sign up now as we'll not be repeating the event until late in 2009.

After the Training Days event, I've got a bit of time off from presentation writing and going to user group events, the next main event up being the UK Oracle User Group Exhibition and Conference in Birmingham, December 1st - 5th 2008. This year the event is the biggest ever, with five days of business intelligence, data warehousing and EPM content, separate Executive Summit, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft events, lots of excellent speakers such as Jonathan Lewis, Tom Kyte, Andy Mendelsohn, Julian Dyke, Doug Burns, Pete Finnigan and James Morle, and your company can send different people on separate days to make the most of their membership. We'll be exhibiting at the conference as well as presenting, so no doubt we'll have our work cut out getting things sorted out, but it certainly looks like an excellent conference as usual and I'm certainly looking forward to it.

At the same time that most of us will be going to the UKOUG conference, Peter Scott will be representing us at the BIWA Summit 2008, where he'll be presenting an updated paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views. More from Pete on this nearer to the date.

Finally, ODTUG (for whom I'm Co-Chair of the BI&DW SIG, along with Kent Graziano) and IOUG are currently running "call for papers" that you can access from here (ODTUG) and here (IOUG) for their Kaleidoscope 2009 and Collaborate'09 events respectively.