Oracle was proud to sponsor and participate in TEDAI San Francisco, a sold-out event that brought together over 1,200 attendees from across industries to explore, debate, and celebrate the transformative potential of artificial intelligence. Through a mix of key panels, a 48-hour hackathon, and thought leadership engagement, Oracle showcased its commitment to responsible AI innovation and the next wave of enterprise transformation.

Sparking the AI Conversation: Oracle on the TEDAI Stage

As part of its sponsorship, Oracle joined two high-impact panels focused on the evolution of AI infrastructure, sustainability, and agentic architectures, areas shaping the next generation of enterprise AI systems.

Panel 1: The AI Workforce — Skills for the Next Decade

This thought-provoking panel explored how artificial intelligence is reshaping the workforce, from the boardroom to the front line.  The discussion brought together leading voices across technology, business, and education to examine the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent systems. Elena Sunshine (Director of Product Management at Oracle) participated in the panel alongside leaders from PwC, Xero, Microsoft, and CrazyStupidTech.

The panelists shared insights on the skills, mindsets, and leadership approaches needed to thrive in an AI-driven era. Together, they unpacked how organizations can prepare for the next decade of transformation—balancing automation with human creativity, reskilling the workforce, and ensuring technology empowers rather than replaces people.


Panel 2: Agentic AI Architectures

The second Oracle-led panel delved into the emerging frontier of Agentic AI, systems that combine reasoning, planning, and memory to perform complex multi-step tasks autonomously. Jun Qian, VP of Generative AI at Oracle, participated in the panel along with participants from PwC, TinyFish, Dataiku, and Semafor.

From enterprise integration to governance and scalability, this conversation illuminated how agentic architectures are reshaping business processes, moving from single-shot LLMs to orchestrated AI systems that reason, plan, and act. Oracle’s perspective emphasized memory-driven orchestration, secure scaling, and interoperability within cloud-native ecosystems.

48 Hours of AI Innovation: The TEDAI Hackathon

The weekend before TedAI, Oracle also co-sponsored the TEDAI [HV1] [HV2] Hackathon, a 48-hour marathon of creativity and collaboration that brought together over 300 developers, builders, and dreamers. That’s double the participation from last year, signaling a surge of grassroots innovation in the AI community. The MySQL Community team provided a started pack; share details and links… Heather VanCura, Vice President …Oracle was one of the  final round judges, selecting winners based on technology, their pitch and the social impact.

Teams explored frontier use cases, from language understanding to multimodal reasoning, building prototypes that pushed the limits of current AI capabilities.

For 48 intense hours, teams pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in AI, tackling hard problems, building ambitious prototypes, and exploring truly groundbreaking ideas.

Oracle and fellow sponsors were instrumental in bringing together this vibrant ecosystem of innovators, reinforcing the company’s ongoing commitment to open collaboration, responsible AI, and scalable innovation.

The following were selected as the Hackathon winning teams:

  • 1st Place: Story Time – An interactive platform where users draw a character and provide a prompt to generate a custom narrated story with specific themes and art styles (Petros Hong).
  • 2nd Place: #SoulBits – An AI-powered music tutoring tool called “Upbeat,” designed to make music education accessible to everyone (Param Shah, Achin Gupta, and Divya Mahajan).
  • 3rd Place: MODO – An AI automation workflow solution that leverages both visual and audio inputs (Trung Tran).

Looking Ahead

Oracle’s participation at TEDAI San Francisco reflects a broader mission, to drive trusted, efficient, and scalable AI adoption across industries. From advancing sustainable compute and IP-safe AI governance to enabling next-generation agentic architectures, Oracle continues to bridge the gap between research and real-world enterprise outcomes. The MySQL Community Team will be engaging in more hackathons throughout the year. 

For more information, please see:

MySQL .com page community hub:  https://dev.mysql.com/

Oracle AI: https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/.

Future MySQL Community Team events: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/where-can-you-find-mysql-during-january-to-april-2026