Oracle CloudWorld is taking place during September 19-21 in Las Vegas! Don’t miss this chance to attend and discover the insights you need to solve your most complex business challenges. Here are the Oracle ACE sessions you can attend on September 20, 2023. The Oracle ACEs speakers will cover topics such as from Database 23c, APEX, OCI, Oracle Machine Learning, JSON, Multicloud, Fusion Apps and more.

Adrian Png, Oracle ACE Director

  • Store Your APEX Treasures In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage (01:00 pm – 02:30 pm PDT)

When deciding how to store files alongside data in the database, web application developers have many options. This workshop includes a short discussion on the approaches available today. We then do an in-depth walkthrough of how to leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage to implement an external file storage solution for Oracle APEX applications. Developers new to OCI will learn all the necessary steps to get started.

Alex Nuijten, Oracle ACE Director and Roel Hartman, Oracle ACE Director

  • Application Development Lifecycle Management With Oracle APEX (05:15 pm – 06:00 pm PDT)

Unlike traditional file-based dev frameworks, Oracle APEX is a model-driven low-code platform that follows a different paradigm for app dev and deployment. We discuss the implications of these concepts on your app dev lifecycle management and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) integration. Take a closer look at the capabilities available in APEX, including automated backups, page and component locking, remote deployment of applications to cloud and on-premises APEX instances, and JSON and YAML-based app export, which simplifies the process of comparing different versions. We also share best practices used by the APEX dev team, such as feature-branch-based development, build automation, unit testing, and static code analysis.

Alex Zaballa, Oracle ACE Director , Sai Penumuru, Oracle ACE Director and Stefan Seck, Oracle ACE Associate

  • Partner Roundtable: Best Practices To Architect A Multicloud Environment (05:15 pm – 06:00 pm PDT)

Partner Roundtable and Panel: Topic tailored for systems integrator partners to innovate, grow and succeed with their customers. Join the discussion to exchange openly with our distinguished panel who have experience architecting customer solutions in a multicloud environment. Interact with Oracle ACE Directors who share their best practices in planning, implementing, managing, and integrating data on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and other platforms. Understand which skills and expertise are most important to deliver successful customer engagements.

Basheer Khan, Oracle ACE Director

  • Partners: Future Of Work: Revolutionising Efficiency With KNEX Gig Worker (01:00 pm – 01:20 pm PDT)

Help your customers transform their external workforce management with the KNEX Gig Worker Solution. Efficiently manage and track workers and work orders, streamline onboarding, uncover significant cost savings, and seamlessly integrate with Oracle Cloud Applications, paving the way for a seamless transition as the labor force evolves from in-house to outsourced to artificial intelligence.

Debra Lilley, Oracle ACE Director

  • Applications Unlimited Customers – Put An End To Cloud Confusion (03:20 pm – 03:40 pm PDT)

As an Oracle Applications Unlimited customer, are you confused about your next step? Should you move to Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications or run your current application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)? Or is doing nothing the right option? Eliminate the confusion and understand the factors you should consider and the logic behind the available options. Evaluate the roadmaps and explore routes other organizations have taken through actual case studies and the reasoning behind their decision.

Erik Benner, Oracle ACE Director

  • Automate Your IT Operations And Boost Productivity For Multicolour Environments (09:45 am – 10:30 am PDT)

Organizations are under tremendous pressure to deliver new services, applications, and features at an accelerated pace while ensuring their IT infrastructure is secure, reliable, and efficient. Learn how open source AWX and Ansible-based Oracle Linux Automation Manager enable you to gain greater administrative control and efficiency and help increase the security and availability of your operating systems and software infrastructure across distributed environments—from on-premises and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to other clouds. Oracle Linux Automation Manager offers the latest tools and technologies to automate processes and manage infrastructure as code.

Gustavo Gonzalez, Oracle ACE Director

  • From EBS To Fusion: Supercharge Global Procurement With Oracle’s Streamlined SCM (03:55 pm – 04:15 pm PDT)

Discover how a global leader revolutionized efficiency by transitioning from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM. Learn strategic insights, triumphs over challenges, and the power of seamless integration across geographies, departments, and suppliers. Uncover how Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM’s advanced analytics, automation, and user-friendly interfaces optimize decision-making and resource allocation—empowering organizations for unparalleled global growth.

Heli Helskyaho, Oracle ACE Director

  • Getting Started With Oracle Machine Learning – Build And Deploy Your First Model (04:00 pm – 04:45 pm PDT)

New to data-driven AI-based solutions? Did you know you can easily use Oracle Autonomous Database (and Oracle Database) to build machine learning models on your enterprise data to address key business problems? And you can do it without incurring the cost and complexity of deploying additional analytical tools. With Oracle’s converged database, machine learning is at your fingertips—whether through popular data science languages like Python, R, and SQL, or no-code user interfaces. This quick-paced introduction to in-database machine learning is illustrated with specific customer use cases for those new to learning and data-driven AI-based solutions.

Holger Friedrich, Oracle ACE Director

  • Solve Real-World Use Cases With JSON Relational Duality Views (02:15 pm – 03:00 pm PDT)

With the new JSON Relational Duality Views (JRDVs), Oracle changes the game in application development. A view layer with JSON as interface format provides efficient object-oriented data access to relational models. The feature resides entirely within the database, so you no longer need to administer an extra object-relational mapping software layer between the database and the application. JRDVs combine easy declarative use, high performance, and optimistic locking with great flexibility. We discuss the underlying technology and how it can efficiently solve several business use cases. Plus, we give live demonstrations illustrating the database feature’s strengths and prove the points made.

James Czuprynski, Oracle ACE Director

  • Grabbing Live Wires: Plotting EV Changing Points With APEX Native Map Regions (10:15 am – 10:35 am PDT)

Take a look at the new realities our world will see through Smart Cities and the re-electrification movement coming as we transition to electric vehicles. See how Oracle technology—already built into every Oracle database—makes it simple to determine the optimal placement of charging stations based on publicly-available data and then display and calculate exactly where those stations will be deployed using the power of Oracle APEX Native Map Regions.

  • Schrödinger’s Document: JSON Relational Duality Views In Oracle Database 23c (02:10 pm – 02:30 pm PDT and 05:15 pm – 06:00 pm PDT)

NoSQL databases are popular because they often use JSON documents to store data. But JSON’s advantages—easy datatype mapping, schema-less development, simple hierarchies, and more—neglect advantages of relational database management systems like guaranteed data consistency, super-efficient queries, and high availability and recoverability when systems fail. See how Oracle Database 23c JSON Relational Duality Views (JRDVs) make it easy for DevOps teams to build robust applications fast without worrying about how data is stored. Modern DBAs can use JRDVs for high availability and consistent data modeling standards through a single-platform DevOps solution while building complex analytic, spatial, and graph solutions answering tough questions.

Joel Acha, Oracle ACE Pro

  • From Data To Insights With Oracle Analytics (10:15 am – 10:35 am PDT)

Oracle Analytics is an analytics platform that enables businesses to extract insights from their data. It provides data preparation, analysis, visualization, and collaboration tools, and supports a variety of data sources, including cloud-based and on-premises data. Hear how Oracle Analytics can help businesses gain a deeper understanding of their operations and customers and make informed decisions based on data-driven insights. Learn how the platform can be used across a range of industries and use cases—including sales and marketing, supply chain management, financial planning and analysis, and human resources—and how it provides a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to make informed decisions based on data.

Mia Urman, Oracle ACE Director

  • Developing Apps Unlimited Extensions With Oracle Fusion Apps Technology (10:50 am – 11:10 am PDT)

Learn how you can adopt the development platform and technology stack used for Oracle Fusion Cloud apps to extend your Apps Unlimited solutions. Learn how you can create a Redwood user experience with Oracle Visual Builder, accessing data in your Apps Unlimited and other systems to create innovative extensions, and get a head start adopting Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications technologies.

Ron Ekins, Oracle ACE Director

  • 5 Reasons To Use Database Snapshots (01:35 pm – 01:55 pm PDT)

Are you looking for ways to optimize Oracle databases, reduce data sprawl, and protect your data? Is your team responsible for developing scalable enterprise applications? Do you wish there was a quick way to speed up database replicas for production and dev/test scenarios? Find out how we use storage snapshots to get the most out of an Oracle environment—reducing the amount of data to manage and the effort to manage it.

Sai Penumuru, Oracle ACE Director

  • Beyond AWR And ASH: Performance Analytics For DevOps And DBAs (09:45 am – 10:30 am PDT)

Learn new, advanced analytics techniques—leveraging machine learning and real-time data processing—that complement the data provided by Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) and Active Session History (ASH). Discover the modern approach DevOps and DBA teams use to get more actionable insights on the performance of their databases across the enterprise. See how to get a more holistic view of performance and identify issues that may not be apparent when using traditional tools alone. Use actionable recommendations and visualization to identify and solve performance issues.

Shinichiro Otsuka, Oracle ACE Director

  • Securing Your Data Against Hackers: Cryptosecurity Using In-Database Blockchain (08:30 am – 09:15 am PDT)

It is a dangerous world out there for companies that handle data. While there are many security mechanisms to keep hackers at bay, they have unavoidable vulnerabilities—chiefly due to human weaknesses (e.g., phishing attacks). Learn how in-database blockchain can protect your critical data against illicit tampering. Find out how, unlike conventional blockchain technologies, in-database blockchain can be adopted by mainstream enterprise and government applications with minimal changes. We cover what is in Oracle Database 19c as well as Oracle Database 23c.

Simon Pane, Oracle ACE Pro

  • What’s New With Oracle Data Safe – the Database Security Superhero’s Secret Weapon (11:00 am – 11:45 am PDT)

Supervillains lurk behind every corner—overprivileged users, compromised accounts, well-meaning end users, and developers that ignore security policy in the interest of doing their jobs. And let’s not forget what may be the biggest “bad” of all: too much to do and too little time to do it. No need to fear—Oracle Data Safe is here. Data Safe is an incredibly versatile service that does it all: security and user assessment, audit policy management, user activity reporting and analysis, sensitive data discovery, and data masking. Learn how Data Safe helps today’s database security superhero secure their company’s applications and delight auditors.

Check out the entire agenda featuring the Oracle ACEs presenting on September 20 and add your favorite sessions to your calendar!
Stay tuned for the last part of ACE sessions happening during CloudWorld!