Posted by As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I whipped up a small Application Express application to let me plan out my Openworld activities. But there’s a small problem with being able to quickly and easily find thing based on the schedule…. There is too much to see!!!
I had a quick glance through the schedule just for Monday, and already I can see myself being very frustrated with all of the content that I am going to have miss out on, simply because it clashes with other content I’d like to see.
And just to compound things 
with any luck, I’ll be able to score some time in the theatre in the demo grounds to give some lightning talks in both the morning and afternoon. More details on that soon!
Addenda: Yes I did score some time! Come see my SQL Tuning in 20mins session. Details here.
But here is my wish list below – just smashed full of conflicts… sigh
Monday morning
The New Auto-Upgrade for Oracle Databases [TRN4031]
Daniel Overby Hansen, Database Administrator, SimCorp
Mike Dietrich, Master Product Manager – Database Upgrades and Migrations, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3004
which overlaps with
High Availability and Sharding Deep Dive with Next-Generation Oracle Database [TRN4032]
Wei Hu, Vice President of Product Development, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3007
which overlaps with
Oracle Linux and Oracle VM VirtualBox: The Enterprise Development Platform [PRO4724]
Simon Coter, Director of Product Management – Oracle VM & VirtualBox, Oracle
Sergio Leunissen, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone South – Room 152
which overlaps with
A Day in the Life of a DBA in an Autonomous World [PRO4376]
Akshay Sangaonkar, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Karl Dias, Vice President, Database Manageability, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate Level) – Golden Gate C3
which overlaps with
Make AppDev Fun Again, with the Oracle RAD Stack [PRO4087]
Kris Rice, Senior Director, Oracle
Michael Hichwa, Software Development VP, Oracle
Joel Kallman, Senior Director, Software Development, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3009
which overlaps with
Using Deep Learning and Neural Networks in Oracle Database 18c [BUS1891]
Brendan Tierney, ., Oralytics
Neil Chandler, Database Administrator, Chandler Systems Ltd
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3001
which overlaps with
Analytic Functions: A Developer’s Best Friend [DEV6244]
Timothy Hall, DBA, Developer, Author, Trainer, oracle-base.com
Code One Tracks: Database, Big Data, and Data Science
Session Type: Developer Session
Monday, Oct 22, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 2003
Monday mid-morning
Oracle Linux and Oracle VM: Get Trained for Cloud, Hybrid, and On-Premises [TRN5828]
Avi Miller, Product Management Director, Oracle
Antoinette O’SULLIVAN, Director of Training and Documentation for Linux and Virtualization, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Moscone South – Room 154
which overlaps with
Why Citizen Developers Should Be Your New Best Friend [TRN4091]
David Peake, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3009
which overlaps with
Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud [PKN3947]
Andrew Mendelsohn, Executive Vice President Database Server Technologies, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | The Exchange @ Moscone South – The Arena
which overlaps with
3D: Docker for Database Developers [TIP1247]
Roel Hartman, Director, APEX Consulting
Monday, Oct 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3020
which overlaps with
Oracle Linux: State of the Penguin [PRO4720]
Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Operating Systems and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 2000
which overlaps with
50 Shades of Data: How, When, Why—Big, Relational, NoSQL, Elastic, Graph, Event [DEV4976]
Lucas Jellema, CTO, AMIS Services BV
Code One Tracks: Database, Big Data, and Data Science, Java Server-Side Development and Microservices
Session Type: Developer Session
Monday, Oct 22, 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 2007
which overlaps with
Microservices: Get Rid of Your DBA and Send the DB into Burnout [DEV5504]
Franck Pachot, Computing Engineer, CERN
Code One Tracks: Database, Big Data, and Data Science
Session Type: Developer Session
Monday, Oct 22, 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 2003
which overlaps with
REST-Enabled Neural Networks in Oracle Database 18c [DEV5026]
Brendan Tierney, ., Oralytics
Neil Chandler, Database Architect, Chandler Systems
Code One Tracks: Database, Big Data, and Data Science
Session Type: Developer Session
Monday, Oct 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 2001
which overlaps with
Real-Life SQL Tuning: From Four Minutes to Eight Seconds in an Hour [DEV5668]
Liron Amitzi, Senior Database Consultant, Brillix LTD
Code One Tracks: Database, Big Data, and Data Science
Session Type: Developer Session
Monday, Oct 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 2003
Monday afternoon
Oracle Database in an Asynchronous World [TRN5515]
Dominic Giles, Master Product Manager, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3003
which overlaps with
A Day in the Life of a Real-World Performance Engineer [TRN4026]
Graham Wood, Software Architect, Oracle
Robert Carlin, Software Development Manager, Real World Performance, Oracle Database Development, Oracle
Mihajlo Tekic, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3004
which overlaps with
Build a Web App with Oracle REST Data Services and Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit [HOL6325]
Jeff Smith, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Ashley Chen, Senior Product Manager, Oracle
Colm Divilly, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Elizabeth Saunders, Principal Technical Staff, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) – Salon 3/4
Monday late afternoon
Oracle Optimizer and the Road to the Latest Generation of Oracle Database [PRO4009]
Nigel Bayliss, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3005
which overlaps with
Oracle Autonomous OLTP Database Cloud Overview and Roadmap [PRO3978]
Maria Colgan, master product manager at Oracle Corporation , Oracle
Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3003
which overlaps with
Data Warehouse Like a Tech Startup with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud [BUS3194]
Mark Rittman, Managing Director, MJR Analytics ltd
Monday, Oct 22, 4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3006
Monday evening
Data Management in a Microservices World [TIP4175]
Gerald Venzl, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3003
which overlaps with
18(ish) Things Developers Will Love About Oracle Database 18c [PRO4093]
Chris Saxon, Developer Advocate for SQL, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3009
which overlaps with
What’s New for Oracle SQL Developer [PRO4058]
Jeff Smith, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3006
which overlaps with
What Everyone Should Know About Oracle Partitioning [PRO4046]
Hermann Baer, Senior Director Product Management, Oracle
Monday, Oct 22, 5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3005
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