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TCOUG - SPRING EVENT JULY 24, 2025

08:30AM CDT Registration and Breakfast

09:30AM CDT Opening note by TCOUG Vice President, Rebecca Van Lith

09:40AM CDT Message from our Sponsor – VASKE Computer Inc.

09:50AM CDT Oracle 23ai Security features by Richard Evans

The Maximum Security Architecture (MSA) is a set of best practices for using Oracle’s database security technologies to minimize security risk and assist with regulatory compliance requirements. Join us to review the MSA and how your organization can apply the right security controls to meet your own security goals. Richard Evans, Senior Principal Product Manager of Database Security at Oracle, will take you through the MSA and cover what’s new in Oracle Database 23ai.

10:40AM CDT Protecting Data and Databases From Real-World Threats by Dan Morgan

Much of what we teach in security is non-technical governance, standards and compliance: Not this workshop. 

Much of what we teach is repetition of what you already know, Principle of Least Privilege and Separation of Duties: Not this workshop.

Only for TCOUG, and only for those that attend this meeting ... Oracle's Technical Director for Database and Cloud Security is going to use an Oracle Database, and SQL*Plus to teach the real-world technical skills required to analyzing logs, identifying vulnerabilities and gaps, and report on findings to management.

Source code will be available for those that bring a USB flash drive (thumb drive).

11:30AM CDT Rethinking the JSON Data Tier to naturally enable AI (and other mundane stuff) by JP Dijcks

Many applications are developed on flexible schemas – JSON – to deliver business value in an agile manner. While this pattern delivers the value we seek, the way the data tier is implemented creates issues for larger, often more strategic initiatives. This session explores:

• The JSON application silo and how it almost naturally occurs

• The impact of this pattern on AI and other mundane stuff like data integration

• A series of solutions that simplify and, in some cases, revolutionize the data tier setting your business up for bigger things

After our time together you will understand capabilities in Oracle Database that enable you to keep all the benefits of agile application development with JSON, but optimize the data architecture, drive down cost, and improve data integrity and governance, setting your data up for successful AI patterns.

12:20 PM CDT Lunch

1:30 PM CDT Introducing our MCP Server for Oracle Database by Jeff Smith

2:20 PM CST Afternoon Tea Break

2:50 PM CDT Oracle Vector Search by Sean Stacy

About the Speakers

JP's short for Jean-Pierre) Dijcks is a distinguished product manager for Oracle JSON Database.

After a successful product management career at Oracle driving products in the data space (ETL, Data Quality and Governance, Data Warehousing, Big Data, and cloud), JP spent 6 years at Visa. At Visa he led an international product management team for Visa's Data and AI Platform. The team managed critical data services and platforms powering Visa's journey to provide value added services through data and AI.

Now, in his second tour at Oracle, JP can be found in California, focusing on the Oracle Autonomous JSON Database business and product. In this capability JP aims to help customers with simplifying the data tier to improve governance and AI and retain all the benefits of the JSON document development patterns.

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Jeff is a product manager at Oracle for SQL Developer, ORDS, SQLcl, and LiveSQL.

Jeff also blogs at thatjeffsmith.com

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Introduction to Presenters

TCOUG President