AT ORACLE: Events Technology Events Conferences and sessions to help you stay on the cutting edge August 16–17, Sydney, Australia This conference program, developed by Oracle customers for their peers, covers Oracle applications and technologies and features the largest number of Oracle users gathered in one place outside of Oracle OpenWorld. More than 140 speakers from Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere provide updates, presentations, and reports. Get all the details and sign up at bit.ly/hw8QgJ. July 8, Quito, Ecuador With information for DBAs, Oracle applications administrators, architects, developers, and other technology leaders, this daylong conference features a presentation by Oracle’s Tom Kyte as well as information from Oracle representatives and partners. Oracle User Groups Sacramento Java Users Group Meetings July 12 and August 9, Sacramento, California Java Metroplex Users Group Meetings July 13 and August 10, Addison, Texas UKOUG DBMS SIG Meeting July 14, London, England Oklahoma City Oracle User Group Meetings July 19 and August 16, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Houston Oracle Users Group Meetings July 20 and August 10, Houston, Texas LOSUG-UKOUG Solaris and Open Solaris SIG Meetings July 20 and August 17, London, England Ohio Oracle Users Group Meeting July 21, Dublin, Ohio Dallas Oracle Users Group Database Forums July 21 and August 18, Richardson, Texas Southwest Regional Oracle Applications User Group Meeting July 22, Irvine, California Central Florida Oracle Users Group Meetings July 25 and August 22, Orlando, Florida Austin Java Users Group Meetings July 26 and August 30, Austin, Texas Indiana Oracle Users Group Training Day July 28, Indianapolis area, Indiana New Zealand Oracle Users Group Committee Meeting August 5, online St. Louis Oracle Users Group Meeting August 11, St. Louis, Missouri Pittsburgh OAUG Golf Outing August 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| July 9–14, Orlando, Florida The 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction is a forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI. It opens with three days of tutorials and then shifts to three days of parallel sessions, poster sessions, and an exhibition. Presenters include Michele Snyder and Jeff Sauro, both usability engineers at Oracle. July 10–13, Atlanta, Georgia This education and networking event for government financial managers and accountability professionals, sponsored by the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), includes technical sessions, keynote presentations, an exhibit hall, and networking opportunities. July 12–13, Chicago, Illinois Presented by the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), the North Central Oracle Apps User Group (NCOAUG), and the OAUG Upgrade SIG, this conference helps attendees implement, upgrade to, or reimplement Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Case studies and panels cover application and database tuning, security, and optimizing the upgrade process. July 12–15, Denver, Colorado Dubbed “The Ü” by its organizers, this conference offers 150 technically focused Java-related sessions, including 25 hands-on workshops on topics including architecture, cloud, security, enterprise Java, languages on the Java virtual machine, build/test, mobility, and agility. July 18–21, Seville, Spain This event brings together six different conferences—on topics ranging from e-business to security to multimedia—and includes a worldwide roster of academic keynote speakers, specialized workshops, and dozens of topic-specific sessions. July 18–21, Las Vegas, Nevada This global congress includes 22 different academic conferences, all held at the same time and in the same location. Specific topics include grid computing and applications, internet computing, and software engineering research and practice. July 20–21, Seattle, Washington This in-depth regional forum covers Oracle’s enterprise performance management (EPM), business intelligence, and Hyperion solutions. Educational content includes customer success stories, partner tips and tricks, and information from Oracle executives across all Oracle EPM applications and tools. July 20–21, Uncasville, Connecticut Quest joins with five Northeast affiliate user groups and the Financial Services Industry User Group for two days of education geared toward Oracle’s PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers. July 25–28, Boston, Massachusetts More than 40 concurrent sessions in six tracks and 10 half-day workshops provide information for faculty, administrators, and IT professionals in higher education. Topics include education applications, social software, immersive platforms, the digital campus, instructional design, and leadership. July 25–29, Portland, Oregon More than a dozen tracks—plus colocated conferences for Java and data management—make O’Reilly’s annual OSCON the ideal place to see and evaluate new open source projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, and more. July 26–29, San Diego, California This gathering focuses on the technologist’s role in identity and privacy, cloud computing, data management, security and risk management, network and telecommunications, and content and collaboration. The conference includes opportunities to network with analysts, vendors, and peers. July 30–August 2, Las Vegas, Nevada This conference for the information security community delivers timely, actionable security information in a vendor-neutral environment. Training topics include auditing and assessment, cryptography, malware analysis, virtualization, vulnerability and exploit deployment, and more. Among the sessions is a two-day hands-on course that covers security problems related to Oracle Database, including unsecure PL/SQL code, patch management, and weak passwords, and how to secure and harden databases using built-in Oracle Database features. July 31–August 2, Jersey City, New Jersey This gathering showcases programs and technologies that help criminal justice practitioners and decision-makers in states, local communities, and tribal nations address important public safety issues in an era of tight budgets. August 14–16, Lake Tahoe, Nevada The National Retail Federation (NRF) CIO Council sponsors this educational program that provides actionable information on the latest trends in retail technology, business-IT alignment, and IT governance. August 16–17, San Diego, California Quest partners with six regional user groups for an educational event focusing on networking and idea-sharing between customers, third-party vendors, and Oracle employees. August 24–26, Pretoria, South Africa Participants in this event will examine the African experience and best practices in enterprise technology management. Topics include government support and leadership and organizational culture. Send us your comments |