Fall 2018
Date: Thursday Nov. 8th
Time: 8:30-4:30pm
Location: Thomson Reuters, Eagan Campus, Building C, Town Hall Auditorium
Map Link and Directions: Map
Parking: Will be available onsite in a marked 'Event parking' area - see Map and Directions link
Security Check In: C Building Entrance, Bring Photo ID - see Map and Directions link
TCOUG Check In: C Building Entrance, Will be at the top of the Stairs once you have cleared building security downstairs
Wifi : Guest Wifi will available for use
Food: Lunch vouchers will be provided for the onsite cafeteria in the "D Building"
Theme
Workshop Sponsors
Agenda (Draft)
8:30-9:00 : Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15 : Welcome and Opening Remarks (Board), New Board Members
9:15-9:30 : Host company presentation (Thomson Reuters)
9:30-10:30 : Finding and Tuning the SQL buried in your PL/SQL, Mark Kurtz, Quest
Tuning is one of the most important steps you can perform to your sql statements but what happens when that sql is buried in your PL/SQL objects? How do you find the sql without opening each procedure/function/package in your system and searching for it in an editor? How do you determine the best way to rewrite the SQL once you find it? Join Mark Kurtz from Quest Software as he will take you through the process of scanning your database objects looking for sql statements, and how you can then optimize these statements for optimal performance.10:30-10:45 : Break
10:45-11:45 : Presentation by Todd Sheetz
Introduction to Oracle Cloud: IaaS PaaSOracle Enterprise Cloud Adoption Lifecycle
Architectural approach to cloud adoption
Customer use cases – would include architecture, migration methodology and benefits gained for each
EBS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Classic
EBS to Oracle Cloud InfrastructureLarge scale, hybrid disaster recovery on OCI with Exadata
DR for large, on-premises customer facing application
SOA in Oracle Cloud
Integrating on-premises applications with SaaS using Oracle SOA Cloud Service
11:45-1:00 : Lunch
(Note**will be located in the D Building cafeteria, walk across Skyway, up to floor 4, left down the hallway, seating is open)
1:00-2:00 : Exadata and Autonomous Database: The World's Best Platform for Machine Learning, Dr. Matthew O'Keefe, Oracle
Everyone is interested in Machine Learning, one of the hottest topics around. However, many IT executives (your bosses) believe that Machine Learning is a complex process running on specialized platforms in their own environment, and requiring an army of data scientists. Indeed, many vendors reinforce this view. Fortunately for you, the Oracle DBA, this view is false. The best platform for achievingenterprise machine learning goals is Exadata and the Oracle Autonomous Database.So, why is Machine learning Better on Exadata and the Oracle Database? It greatly accelerates the building, training and deployment of machine learning models:- Faster than flash performance- Faster data transformation and prep- Faster model scoring- Run the same Oracle Database for OLTP and Machine Learning at the same timeMore efficient and less expensive than do-it-yourself infrastructureProtects and secures critical applications and sensitive dataSo come to hear about how you, the Oracle DBA, can become a leader in machine learning in your company.2:00-2:15 : Break
2:15 - 3:15 : Cloud Automation in Support of DevOps Environments, Brian Bream, Collier IT
Cloud automation – Discuss methods to invoke cloud automation in support of DevOps environment.Will focus on Oracle Cloud Automation but will utilize opensource tools as well as Oracle Management Cloud. Topics:Oracle Management CloudDevOps on Oracle CloudTerraform3:10-3:45 : Wrap Up Giveaways and Prizes from our Sponsors
About the Speakers
Brian Bream – Chief Technology Officer, Collier IT
Brian is the Chief Technology Officer at Collier IT and an Oracle ACE Director for Systems Technologies He has over 37 years in the Information Technology field starting in the US Navy in 1981. Although proficient in many technologies his passion has been in the Operating Environment, Engineered Systems, Data Center grade servers, Big Data/Hadoop, and storage. He has been teaching for Sun Microsystems / Oracle since 2000. Brian actively writes a blog and provides formal presentations on various Oracle and related technology topics.
You can follow Brian on Twitter @Snatchbrain
Dr. Matt O'Keefe, Oracle, Vice President and Corporate Technologist in the Cloud Infrastructure
Dr. Matthew O’Keefe is a corporate technologist in the Cloud Infrastructure group at Oracle, specializing in helping customers leverage the Oracle cloud to build out next-generation enterprise IT, and especially to deploy new cloud applications quickly. He spent nearly five years at Hitachi Data Systems in product R&D and delivery for enterprise storage and big data. Prior to Hitachi, Matthew started and sold two infrastructure IT companies, one focused on Linux storage management software and the other on cloud backup. He began his computing career with a Ph.D. at Purdue University in parallel computing and before entering the enterprise IT world, spent 10 years as a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, developing parallel applications that leveraged very large scale computing systems, the precursors to today’s clouds.
Mark Kurtz, Software Engineer, Quest Software,
Mark Kurtz has been a Software Sales Engineer with Quest Software for 18 years. Specializing in database management and development tools, he has assisted organization large and small streamline their database management and development efforts. Prior to coming to Quest Mark worked as a DBA in various industries.
Todd Sheetz- , Oracle, Senior Manager – Enterprise Cloud Architects
Todd Sheetz is currently the Senior Manager of Enterprise Cloud Architects at Oracle. He has been with Oracle for over five years. After joining as a Solutions Engineer focusing on Enterprise Architecture, he became an Enterprise Cloud Architect and recently moved into a management role. Prior to joining Oracle, Todd was a customer for seventeen years with roles as Manager of Enterprise Architecture and Technology, Enterprise Architect, and Lead Database Administrator at several companies in the Milwaukee, WI area.
Todd was very active in the Oracle community prior to joining Oracle. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Independent Oracle Users Group for over four years holding the Executive Vice President, Director of Education, and Director of Communities positions along with being the liaison to the Select Journal Editorial Board. Along with being a member of the IOUG Board of Directors, Todd supported the user community through the Special Interest Groups and Regional User Groups. Todd wrote articles for Select, the IOUG technical journal and has presented papers at Collaborate and OpenWorld.