I’m puzzled by the absence of a detailed list of sessions on the official OpenWorld website.   The agenda is absolutely stuffed this year.  In addition to my own three sessions, here’s a sneak peek at some of the Applications Technology sessions that I think will be worth attending.

Oracle OpenWorld 2006 logo:

Extremely Noteworthy (I’ll be attending these myself)

  • Technology Directions for Oracle Applications:  Cliff Godwin (S281377)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Updates:  Lisa Parekh (S280814)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Now to

    Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications:  Nadia Bendjedou (S281651)
  • Deep Dive: Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 New Technology Stack:  Ivo Dujmovic (S281383)
Focus on Release 12
  • Oracle Application Framework (OAF): Architecture, Personalization,

    and Extensibility in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12:  Sara Woodhull

    (S281402)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Installation and Cloning Enhancements: Robert Farrington, Andrew Rist (S281403)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite System Management: Release 12 New Features:  Biju Mohan (S281397)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Process, Integration, and Eventing:  Mark Craig (S281412)
  • Oracle Workflow: Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Updates: Kevin Hudson (S281414)
Interesting Case Studies
  • Oracle Case Study: Global Operations with Oracle E-Business Suite:  Bret Fuller (S281391)
  • Oracle and Pella: A Case Study in Reducing Oracle E-Business Suite

    Maintenance Downtime:  Ric Ginsberg, Dhilip Ranganathan (S281398)
  • Customer

    Case Study: Build an Advanced Oracle E-Business Suite Architecture

    (with a Thousand Concurrent Users) and Massive Reporting by Leveraging

    Oracle RAC and IBM Servers:  Paul Bramy, Alain Roy (S281594)
  • Customer Case Study: Implementing Oracle Applications 11.5.10 on

    Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g and Automatic Storage Management: 

    Kai Yu (S281386)
Hardcore Sessions for Apps DBAs
  • Tuning Oracle E-Business Suite:  Ahmed Alomari (S281393)
  • Partitioning and Purging Best Practices for Oracle E-Business Suite:  Ahmed Alomari (S281654)
  • Leveraging Oracle Database 10g Features with Oracle E-Business Suite:  Ahmed Alomari (S281384)
  • MAA Best Practices: Building an Oracle E-Business Suite Maximum Availability Architecture:  Lyn Pratt (S283064)
  • Security Administration in Oracle E-Business Suite: Overview of

    Oracle User Management:  Sanjeev Topiwala, Roger Wigenstam (S281395)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Patch Management: A Dive into OAM/AD Features:  Kenneth Baxter (S281399)
  • E-Business Suite Lifecycle Management:  Michael Mast (S281396)
Interesting and Intriguing
  • Service-Enabling Oracle E-Business Suite:  Arun Manchanda, Veshaal Singh (S281415)
  • Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience: Jeremy Ashley, Killian Evers (S281652)
  • Oracle XML Publisher: Enterprise Reporting and Delivery Platform:  Osama Elkady (S281400)
  • Towards Fusion: Identity Management for Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel:  Ed King, Sid Choudhury (S281634)
  • How to Secure Your Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment:  Robert Armstrong (S281394)
  • Using Oracle SOA Suite with Oracle E-Business Suite:  Arun Manchanda, Sameer Phatarpekar (S281413)
  • How to Personalize Your Oracle E-Business Suite Without Writing Code: A Talk About Forms Personalization and the OA Framework:  Gregory Frost (S282865)
  • Oracle Forms Personalization Without Coding:  Bill Sawyer (S281409) 
My Own Sessions
  • “Meet the Experts” from the Applications Technology Group
  • Using Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite (S281709)
  • Customer Case Study: Leveraging the Enterprise Identity Management Capabilities of Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite:  Arun Chan, Mike Kron (S283122)
  • Customer Case Study (Rafael):  Oracle 10g Identity Management with Oracle E-Business Suite:  Gilad Bilia (S281389)
  • And… at unpredictable times, I’ll be at the Release 12 Technology Stack booth (Pod A75 in the Oracle Demogrounds)
OpenWorld X-Treme
This is a series of hands-on sessions and workshops on specialized topics.  There’s an E-Business Suite technology track that covers Oracle XML Publisher, Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) Customization and Extensibility, Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) for E-Business Suite Applications, and Business analysis and simulation.

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