AT ORACLE: Events Technology Events Conferences and sessions to help you stay on the cutting edge January 29–30, London, England This free “how to” event is for businesses and public sector agencies seeking to deliver cloud strategies on time and on budget. Sessions cover technology and business issues related to public, private, and hybrid clouds, including security, governance, and virtualization. The expo also features seven seminar theaters and 100 vendors and service suppliers in the exhibit hall. January 9, London, England; January 23, Reading, England; February 6, Linlithgow, Scotland; February 20, Birmingham, England; February 21, Manchester, England The free seminars’ topics and demonstrations include how to develop a seamless applications-to-disk strategy, deploy server virtualization strategically, provide a managed and hosted desktop workspace, and allow secure access to Oracle and other applications from nearly any device. Preregistration is required. Oracle User Groups Dayton Oracle Users Group Meeting Featuring Tom Kyte January 8, Dayton, Ohio IOUG Business Intelligence, Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA) SIG Summit January 8, Redwood Shores, California KC Java User Group Meetups January 9 and February 13, Leawood, Kansas PackerLand Users Group Meeting January 10, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin St. Louis Hadoop Users Group Meetup January 15, St. Louis, Missouri Connecticut Java Users Group Meetings January 15 and February 19, Hartford, Connecticut Seattle Area Java Users Group Meetings January 15 and February 19, Seattle, Washington UKOUG Solaris SIG Meetings January 16 and February 20, London, England Toronto Java Users Group Meetings January 17 and February 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada New Zealand Oracle Users Group Meetings January 23 and February 13, Wellington, New Zealand OUG Scotland BI SIG February 5, Linlithgow, Scotland Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Technical Training Days February 11–13, Denver, Colorado Memphis Area Oracle User Group Meeting February 12, Memphis, Tennessee Southwest Regional Oracle Applications User Group Meeting February 22, Los Angeles, California
| January 10, Los Angeles, California Chief marketing officers (CMOs) and marketing leaders from many industries gather to discuss best practices and innovative marketing strategies. Areas of emphasis include renewing and strengthening consumer focus, key elements of exceptional brands, understanding and using social media and digital marketing, and the role of the CMO. January 13–16, New York, New York International attendees of the National Retail Federation BIG Show receive additional content and opportunities at the Oracle Retail Exchange. Network with senior business and IT executives, attend high-value business sessions tailored for global retailers, and learn how Oracle’s extended retail footprint supports innovative retailers. January 27–30, New Orleans, Louisiana Construction professionals meet to study and discuss the theory and practice of critical path method (CPM) in their industry. Sessions include introductory and advanced training on CPM software products, estimating cost and risk, the impacts of building information modeling, and lean and green practices. January 29–31, San Diego, California Cosponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International and the U.S. Naval Institute, this is the largest event on the West Coast for military communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more. January 29–31, Washington DC The National Association of Wholesaler-Dealers (NAW) meets to focus on the challenges and opportunities its members face in 2013–2014. Executives, consultants, and academics speak, and roundtables provide opportunities for networking. February 4–6, San Francisco, California This inaugural event for Oracle users, thought leaders, partners, and experts includes 200 sessions, demos, and more featuring content about product lifecycle management, enterprise asset management, logistics, value chain planning, and procurement. February 4–9, San Francisco, California Learn from industry experts, fellow Oracle users, partners, and Oracle representatives how to leverage Oracle enterprise asset management across an organization. February 13–14, New York, New York Talent management professionals share how they are innovating processes to meet business challenges, creating ways to tap employee passion and deliver business results, and leveraging technology to attract and retain talent. January 6–7, Las Vegas, Nevada CEOs, storage industry leaders, manufacturers, and end users gather to discuss how digital content is created, protected, and stored. This event explores the convergent needs of digital storage to support cloud content distribution and sharing, capture and use user-generated content, and run professional media and entertainment applications. January 17, London, England This event, covering social, mobile, and recruitment technology (SMART), attracts more than 300 delegates to discuss social recruiting platforms, mobile recruiting platforms, and big data recruiting tools. It also features opportunities to network with fellow professionals, HR bloggers, and technology vendors. January 28–February 1, Santa Clara, California Oracle hosts this meeting of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, which focuses on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and technologies, through calendaring and scheduling methodologies, tools, applications, and standards. February 7–8, Barcelona, Spain This conference examines data management tools and technologies that can improve the visibility, accuracy, and usefulness of critical data. Learn to create a master data management (MDM) strategy, understand how to launch and expand MDM initiatives, and explore methods and metrics for assessing MDM’s return on investment. February 12–15, San Jose, California Storage researchers and practitioners gather to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. The conference includes technical presentations, refereed papers, work-in-progress reports, poster sessions, and tutorials. February 17–22, Las Vegas, Nevada This conference provides business and technology professionals with in-depth, vendor-neutral education on business intelligence and data warehousing topics. It features basic and advanced courses, peer networking, one-on-one consulting, and certification. February 25–28, Barcelona, Spain This industry-leading event includes a thought-leadership conference with keynotes and panel discussions, a product and technology exhibition with 1,500 exhibitors, gatherings of mobile applications and mobile marketing communities, and an awards program. February 25–March 1, San Francisco, California Thousands of information security professionals meet to discuss the technologies that protect products, data, and infrastructure. More than 220 sessions are featured across 18 tracks. Send us your comments |