Announcing the OCI Engineering Summit
June 22-24, 2026 | Nashville, TN
Luke Comb's Category 10, 120 2nd Ave N
Join us for a two-day, invitation-only event with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure practitioners and engineering leaders who will deliver a deeply technical learning experience.
What’s in store at OCI Engineering Summit
This new Summit is designed to bring together a select group of professionals for two days of networking and advanced learning. Over the course of the program, invited attendees will have access to OCI technical leaders, developers, and engineering teams at in-depth technical sessions and hands-on labs. Plus, it all happens in the exciting "Music City," Nashville, Tennessee.
Who should be there
This event is designed for OCI practitioners and leaders driving upcoming migrations, especially those from platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, SRE/DevOps, network/security, and application engineering roles.
What attendees can expect
To dive into deeply technical topics with leaders from OCI engineering and product teams.
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer, Oracle
Chief Executive Officer Clay Magouyrk heads Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and is a founding member of Oracle’s cloud engineering development center. Clay leads engineering, product strategy, technical operations, and customer success for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Clay’s team focuses on supporting customers’ needs—whether it’s making it easier for enterprise customers to move critical workloads to the cloud, helping cloud native customers achieve price-performance at scale, meeting the rising infrastructure demands presented by AI training and inferencing, or supporting the unique requirements of customers with location or sovereignty restrictions.
He’s focused on building a highly secure, reliable, performance-based cloud and providing engineering solutions that solve customers’ most complex challenges using scalable cloud technology that transforms their business for sustained growth and innovation.
Under Clay’s leadership, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has grown to more than 100 public regions globally. Prior to joining Oracle in 2014, Clay spent six years at Amazon and AWS. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Memphis.
Mahesh Thiagarajan
Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Mahesh Thiagarajan is the executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where he leads the development and operation of OCI’s core infrastructure services, including compute, networking, storage, hardware, data centers, and supply chain. He is dedicated to building and scaling a secure, high-performance, and resilient cloud infrastructure to meet the needs of enterprises worldwide. As an early member of the team that launched Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2016, Mahesh has played a pivotal role in shaping its growth and innovation. He has led multiple organizations within OCI, launching a range of products and platforms across security, developer experience, databases, and big data services. Under his leadership, OCI has consistently delivered on its promise of a distributed, enterprise-grade cloud platform that empowers customers to innovate and achieve greater efficiency. Prior to joining Oracle, Mahesh was a founding member of the Azure IaaS Platform at Microsoft, where he contributed to building the foundational layers of Microsoft’s cloud offering.
Karan Batta
Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Karan Batta is a senior vice president at Oracle, leading overall product management for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). More than six years ago, Karan joined Oracle to work on the early development of core OCI products such as compute, storage, and networking. Previously, Karan worked on Microsoft’s core engineering team as part of Microsoft Azure Compute, where he was responsible for AI infrastructure such as GPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) along with managed batch services. Prior to Microsoft, he was an early part of GreenButton—a New Zealand startup that provided visual effects services on multiple cloud providers and was later acquired by Microsoft.
Pradeep Vincent
Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Architect, Oracle
Pradeep Vincent is the Chief Technical Architect and Executive Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). A founding engineer of OCI, he brings over 25 years of experience in technology and software architecture, with a background spanning Oracle, AWS, and other leading tech companies. His expertise covers cloud infrastructure, compute, storage, networking, GPU systems, and datacenter innovation.
Featured breakouts
The ARM-First Cloud: Inside the Silicon Strategy Powering OCI Internals
Most developers know ARM as the high-efficiency alternative for their Virtual Machines, but the real "magic" of Oracle Cloud happens where you can't see it. In this session, we pull back the curtain on why and how OCI’s core infrastructure—from the control plane to the networking fabric—has transitioned to an ARM-native foundation.
The Fast Lane: Scaling Real-World Workloads with OCI Acceleron
In this session, we break down the three pillars of Acceleron: The Converged NIC (CNIC), Multiplanar Networking, and Zero-Trust Packet Routing (ZPR). We’ll move beyond the marketing jargon to show how these hardware-level innovations solve real-world problems like "tail latency" in distributed systems, the "noisy neighbor" effect on storage IOPS, and the complexity of securing microservices. Whether you are running a high-traffic web app or a 50,000-node GPU cluster, Acceleron provides a direct, disintermediated path for your data that bypasses traditional hypervisor overhead.
Battle-Tested: Lessons from the Frontlines of the Largest GPU Superclusters
When you’re training at the scale of 10,000+ GPUs, the "laws of large numbers" become your primary adversary. At this magnitude, a single failing optic, a "gray-failing" GPU, or a minor network jitter can stall a multimillion-dollar training job. In this session, we share the hard-won operational learnings from OCI and its largest AI customers (including OpenAI and Adept) on how to achieve high uptime and resilience in massive-scale distributed environments.
The Incredible Shrinking Cloud: How OCI Fits Hyperscale into Three Racks
How do you condense a hyperscale cloud—complete with 100+ services, a global identity system, and high-performance block storage—into a footprint smaller than a walk-in closet? This session explores the radical "Scale-Down" engineering that allows Oracle to deliver a Dedicated Region starting at just three racks, without compromising the API-parity or performance of the public cloud.
The Living Perimeter: Anchoring Zero Trust in Biometric Identity
In a "Second Generation" cloud, the network isn't the perimeter—the human is. This session explores how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has integrated advanced biometrics into its foundational security principles to eliminate the vulnerabilities of traditional credentials. We will move beyond simple MFA to discuss Continuous Workforce Verification (CWV), an OCI-native capability that uses facial biometrics and "liveliness detection" to verify identity not just at login, but periodically throughout a session.
The Architecture of Trust: OCI’s Security-First Design Principles
In the traditional cloud model, security is often a layer of configuration managed by the user. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) operates on a different set of assumptions. We assume the network is hostile, the hypervisor is a target, and human error is inevitable. This session dives into the fundamental design principles that define OCI’s security posture that is augmented by innovations like ZPR.
Oracle Runs on Oracle AI: Proof Points of Enterprise-Scale Impact
Oracle isn’t just delivering AI to customers; we’re running our business on the same AI capabilities. By applying AI across our own organization and measuring real outcomes, Oracle has proven what it means to operate with AI at true enterprise scale—in production, across functions, and with accountability and repeatable results. In this session, we’ll share practical examples and measurable AI impact. At Oracle, we’ve used AI to: - Accelerate developer productivity saving 10 hours a week across thousands of Oracle developers - Upgrade Java code internally through AI development processes with humans in the loop - Help managers move from role definition to qualified matches sooner through the creation of specialized agents, reducing time-to-fill by up to 8 days We’ll also highlight Oracle’s approach to AI-assisted workflows with humans in the loop, with developers increasingly managing agents while retaining responsibility and accountability for what ships. You’ll leave with a clear view of how Oracle is operationalizing AI at scale, and how those same patterns can drive value for our own customers.
Dogfooding at Hyperscale: How OCI Runs on Autonomous Database
What happens when your database of record needs to track every virtual machine, block volume, and security rule across 60+ global regions, and it must patch, tune, and scale itself? OCI runs on its own Autonomous Database, and this session pulls back the curtain on what that looks like at hyperscale: the architecture decisions, the failure scenarios, and what we've learned about our own product by being its most demanding customer.
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Explore our agenda, packed with ways to learn, connect, and recharge. Details are subject to change.
Early check-in and registration
Welcome reception
Breakfast and registration
Opening engineering leadership panel
OCI breakout sessions
Lunch and networking
Hands-on labs
Executive Dinners
Hosted by:
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Mahesh Thiagarajan
Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Greg Pavlik
Executive Vice President, AI and Data Management Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Breakfast and registration
Clay Magouyrk, CEO keynote
OCI breakout sessions
Customer panel
Lunch and networking
Hands-on labs
Closing reception
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