Rittman Mead in the OTN TOUR Latin America 2014
Another OTN Tour Latin America has come and gone. This is the most important technical event in the region visiting 12 countries and with more than 2500 attendees in two weeks.
This year Rittman Mead was part of the OTN Tour in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) presenting about ODI and OGG.
We have started in Buenos Aires on August 11 for the first day of the OTN Tour in Argentina. I’ve talked about the integration of ODI and OGG 12c, explaining all the technical details to configure and how to implement it. Most of the attendees didn’t work with these tools (but were curious about them) so I personalised a little the presentation giving them first an introduction of ODI and OGG.
As the vice-president of the UYOUG (Uruguayan Oracle User Group) I’m part of the organisation of the OTN Tour in my country, so we needed to come back in the same Monday to adjust some last details to have everything ready for the event in Uruguay.
Most of the speakers came on Wednesday, and we have spent a great day with Michelle Malcher, Kamran Agayev, Hans Forbrich and Mike Dietrich. First, we went to lunch at the Mercado del Puerto, an emblematic place that has lot of “parrillas” (kind of barbecues) and then we gave them a little city tour which included a visit to El Cerro de Montevideo. Finally we visited one of the most important wineries in Uruguay, Bodega Bouza where we have a wine tour followed by an amazing wine tasting of a variety of wines including Tannat which is our insignia grape. You know...it is important to be relaxed before a conference :-)
The first day of the event in Uruguay was dedicated exclusively to technical sessions and in the second one we had the hands-on labs. The conference covered a wide range of topics from BI Mobile, e-Business Suite to how to upgrade to Oracle Database12c, Oracle Virtualization and Oracle RAC. All the sessions were packed with attendees.
The next day, we had labs with PCs with software already installed but attendees could came with their own laptops to install all the software needed for the hands-on. We had the famous RAC Attack! lead by Kamran and with the help of the ninjas Michelle, Hans and Nelson Calero, and an Oracle Virtualization lab by Hernan Petitti for 7 hours!
It was a great event. You can see more pictures here and download the presentations here. The attendees as well as all the speakers were really happy with the result. And so did we.
This is only the beginning for Rittman Mead in Latin America. There are a lot of things to come, so stay tuned!