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ORACLE ACE PROGRAM NEWSLETTER
ORACLE ACE PROGRAM NEWSLETTER

FEBRUARY 2021
Marwa Diaf
Edited by Marwa Diaf
Groundbreaker Advocacy Program Specialist
Jennifer Nicholson
Edited by Jennifer Nicholson
Director, Developer Advocacy Programs, Oracle
In This Edition
  • ACE Spotlight
  • Congratulations New ACEs!
  • Let's grow the ACE community!
  • Upcoming Oracle ACE Product Briefings
  • ACEs in Action: Recent Headlines
  • Upcoming Events
  • Ask TOM Office Hours
  • Oracle News
  • Get Togethers
  • Get Hands on Experience Developing in the Oracle Cloud
ACE Spotlight
ACE Spotlight
Will return March 2021
We are excited to announce the return of the ACE Spotlight! Every month we will highlight a member of the Oracle ACE Program here and on the ACEs in Action blog. Members will be chosen based on the activities added in the Review App.
Congratulations New Oracle ACEs!
Dewen Meng
Dewen Meng
Oracle ACE Associate
Shanghai, China
Douglas A. Volz
Douglas A. Volz
Oracle ACE Associate
Washougal, Washington
Prashant Atman
Prashant Atman
Oracle ACE Associate
Copenhagen, Denmark
Przemyslaw Greg Kantyka
Przemyslaw Greg Kantyka
Oracle ACE Associate
Warszawa, Poland
Tomasz Strawski
Tomasz Strawski
Oracle ACE Associate
Lubelskie, Poland
Vishnu Vinnakota
Vishnu Vinnakota
Oracle ACE Associate
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Let's grow the ACE community
Let's grow the ACE community!
Do you know someone who regularly contributes to the Oracle community? Nominate them! Read our Oracle ACE FAQ for more information and submit a nomination below!
Upcoming Oracle ACE Product Briefings
Data Warehousing on February 17, 2021
When: Feb 17, 2021 07:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Busting the #fakenews Around Data Warehousing with Oracle (How Oracle Compares to Redshift, Snowflake, Synapse, & Firebolt)

Speaker: Keith Laker, Senior Principal Product Manager | Autonomous Database and SQL Analytics

Please note we are offering two live interactive sessions to accommodate those of you in different time zones. Please check your email for the links.

Session 1:
UTC 15:00 Wednesday, February 17
US/Pacific 07:00 Wednesday, February 17
US/Eastern 10:00 Wednesday, February 17
America/Sao Paulo 12:00 Wednesday, February 17
Europe/London 15:00 Wednesday, February 17
Europe/Paris 16:00 Wednesday, February 17
Asia/Bangalore 20:30 Wednesday, February 17
Asia/Hong Kong 23:00 Wednesday, February 17
Asia/Sydney 02:00 Wednesday, February 17

Session 2
UTC 22:30 Wednesday, February 17
US/Pacific 14:30 Wednesday, February 17
US/Eastern 17:30 Wednesday, February 17
America/Sao Paulo 19:30 Wednesday, February 17
Europe/London 22:30 Wednesday, February 17
Europe/Paris 23:30 Wednesday, February 17
Asia/Bangalore 04:00 Wednesday, February 17
Asia/Hong Kong 06:30 Wednesday, February 17
Asia/Sydney 09:30 Wednesday, February 17
ACEs in Action: Recent Headlines

Want to be featured?

We want to feature your contributions! We highly recommend that you add your contributions on a monthly basis so we can feature you in the ACEs in Action blog. If you have any questions, please email oracle-ace_ww@oracle.com.
Upcoming Events
Oracle Developer Live—Java Innovations
March 23 | Americas | 8:00 a.m. PT
March 25 | Europe, Middle East, and Africa | 10:00 a.m. CET
March 30 | Asia Pacific | 8:30 a.m. IST

Join us on for Oracle Developer Live—Java and hear how Oracle’s ongoing technology leadership and ecosystem stewardship is advancing Java to remain as the premier programming language and platform to address modern application development.

Advance your developer skills by joining the journey and learn more about Java from Oracle and industry technical experts. Increase your knowledge on how Java can help you create the next generation of rich, scalable, and secure modern applications for a variety of targeted deployment environments. Gain insight into the Java 16 release and additional Java innovations targeting performance, stability and security of application development.

Attend and learn more about:
  • Modern language features such as Records and Sealed Classes
  • The introduction of the new Vector API
  • Projects such as, GraalVM, Helidon, and Micronaut
Watch the Oracle Developer Live -- Cloud Native replays here.
RMOUG Virtual Training Days
RMOUG's Training Days will be held February 8 - 11, 2021. This event will be offering a variety of technical and functional sessions from world-renowned experts, including our very own Oracle ACEs!

ACE Directors:
Alex Nuijten
Biju Thomas
Charles Kim
Craig Shallahamer
David Kurtz
Erik Benner
Francis Mignault
Frits Hoogland
Gavin Soorma
Gustavo Gonzalez
Jim Czuprynski
Karen Cannell
Liron Amitzi
Lucas Jellema
Kai Yu
Martin Bach
Mia Urman
Oren Nakdimon
Osama Mustafa
Patrick Barel
Peter Koletzke
Rich Niemiec
Roel Hartman
Wayne Van Sluys

ACEs:
Ahmed Aboulnaga
Gleb Otochkin
Marcus Vinicius Miguel Pedro
Markus Flechtner
Michael Rosenblum
Michelle Hardwick
Rene Antunez
Roger Cornejo
Sean Scott

ACE Associates:
Gary Gordhamer
Winter TechCast Days
The Analytics and Data Oracle User Community will be holding Winter TechCast Days February 16-18, 2021. Tune in for informative and dynamic sessions all from the comfort of your desk!

Day 1 - Machine Learning Day
Day 2 - Spatial and Graph Day
Day 3 - Analytics+ Day
Ask TOM Office Hours
Ask TOM Office Hours
Office Hours offers free, live Q&A sessions with experts in various aspects of Oracle technologies. Here's what's kicking off the new year:

Oracle Analytics Live!
Benjamin Arnulf - Senior Director

Write Great SQL Office Hours
Chris Saxon - Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL

General Database Office Hours
Connor McDonald - Developer Advocate

Database In-Memory Office Hours

Andy Rivenes - Product Manager

Oracle Machine Learning Office Hours
Marcos Arancibia - Product Manager, Data Science and Big Data
Oracle News
Enhancing Oracle Linux 8 Management with Oracle Linux Manager 2.10
Oracle is pleased to introduce Oracle Linux Manager 2.10, a management tool based on the Spacewalk project providing IT managers with what they need to manage their Oracle Linux environment. This release includes all of the features you have come to appreciate in Spacewalk 2.10 with incremental enhancements for Oracle Linux 8 clients.
Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU28
We've just released the final SRU of 2020 for Oracle Solaris 11.4, SRU28. It is available via 'pkg update' from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2433412.1.
Automate Application Deployments with Oracle Database App in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle is pleased to announce the availability of the updated Oracle Database App in Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The new Oracle Database App provides you with the ability to automatically deploy a fully functional database environment in Oracle Cloud, with the flexibility to implement basic customization and configuration changes, pre- or post-deployment.
Get Togethers
Get Togethers
Gather, Discuss, Learn & Connect
Get-Togethers create ways to meet and share ideas, experiences and stories.
Developing in the Oracle Cloud
Get Hands on Experience Developing in the Oracle Cloud
Self-Guided Labs
Use Oracle technology with our step-by-step instructions that guide you through a number of use cases.
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