IOUG SELECT Expert Panels (sponsored by SELECT Journal)
IOUG Opening Session
Welcome General Session
IBM Keynote Presentation
Exclusive IOUG Special Session
Oracle Executive Sessions
Women in Technology Panel and Networking Lunch
IOUG SIG Great Tool Debate

IOUG SELECT Expert Panels (sponsored by SELECT Journal)

SELECT Journal is sponsoring a series of expert panels each evening during COLLABORATE 07 that will highlight the key focus areas of SELECT Journal throughout 2007.  These expert panels contain a Who's Who of international experts in Security, Grid Control and XML.  These three areas are of key focus for emerging Oracle features and technologies.  These panels contain Oracle Product Team members, IOUG knowledge experts and customers.  Focus areas for SELECT Journal for 2007 include: Oracle Fusion Middleware (2nd quarter), Oracle Security (3rd quarter), Oracle XML Best Practices, and Oracle Database 11g.

Oracle Security Best Practices (sponsored by SELECT Journal)
Moderator: Steve Lemme
Panelists: Arup Nanda, Jack Brinson, Tammy Bednar, Dan Norris, Toby Weiss
Sunday, April 15, 2007, 5:15pm – 6:30pm, Reef C
This panel of expert series will bring the Oracle product team on security and customers together to address best practices on Oracle security across all tiers of the Enterprise.

Topics will include:

• Enterprise Security across all tiers
• Different security models
• Tying all security components together (Database Vault, Audit Vault, and Identity Management)
• Access Control Lists
• Policy driven security
• Data protection using encryption and data masking
• Security monitoring and scanning
• Technical skills required for the new Security environment
• Transition steps
• Skill sets needed for the Security DBA
• Future direction in Oracle security

Oracle Grid Control Best Practices (sponsored by SELECT Journal)
Moderator: Ken Jacobs
Panelist: Alex Gorbachev, Gaja Krishna Vaidyantha, Rich Niemiec, Leng Tan, Martin Pena, Arup Nanda
Monday, April 16, 2007, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Reef C
This panel brings together Oracle Grid experts as well as customers to take a look at best practices for managing enterprise multi-tiered environments.

Topics will include:

• Enterprise Infrastructure Management (managing database, middle-tier infrastructures and applications)
• Thoughts to consider when moving to Grid
• Grid layout considerations
• Managing heterogeneous database environments
• Lessons learned
• Using Grid with plug-ins to manage additional app servers and SQL Server and DB2
• Best practice considerations for Grid

Oracle XML Best Practices (sponsored by SELECT Journal)
Moderator: George Trujillo
Panelists: Brad Brown, Geoffroy de Lamalle, Jinyu Wang and Ravi Murthy
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Reef C
Are you facing the increasing demands for building SOA infrastructure, adoption industry XML standards, publishing reports over the Internet or handling unstructured data? If so, the XML expert round table session will be your excellent starting point to learn about the existing XML technologies. This panel will discuss use cases where XML plays a key role in the business applications, the XML best practices, lessons learned and the future strategy. The session also provides a good venue for you to ask questions to our XML Experts from the Oracle Product team, IOUG XML experts and customers.

Topics will include:

• XML best practices for data storage
• XML best practices for data transformation
• XML query best practices
• XML validation best practices
• XML publishing
• Searching XML
• XML Database Management (replications, streams, administration)
• XML for integration (AQ, DB WS)
• Optimizing large scale XML operations

IOUG Opening Session

Ari Kaplan, IOUG President
David Teplow, IOUG Director of Education
Michael Abbey, IOUG Director of Events

Ken Jacobs Vice President, Product Strategy, Oracle Server Technologies Oracle Corporation Monday, April 16 8:00 a.m. -- 9:00 a.m.

The Next Database - 30 Years of Innovation and Counting
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY!
Join IOUG Board Director and 25-year Oracle veteran Ken (otherwise known as "Dr. DBA") Jacobs for an exclusive IOUG sneak preview of Oracle Database 11g with his special guest Andy Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President of Database Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. This is a unique opportunity to see the next major release of Oracle Database in action with the head of database development.  Whether you are a DBA, a developer or an end user of Oracle applications, this is one keynote not to miss.

Welcome General Session

Charles E. Phillips President Oracle Corporation Monday, April 16 4:45 p.m. -- 6:00 p.m.

Managing Change: Strategies for Today - And Tomorrow

This year Oracle celebrates its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Charles Phillips will provide a sneak preview of an exciting new product direction. It's been an amazing 30 years, both for Oracle and for technology and business in general. As the global economy continues to grow and change at an accelerated pace, our customers and partners have more choices than ever about how to run their organizations to succeed. But their greatest challenge lies in recognizing the need for change and successfully managing the change process. Charles Phillips will discuss some of the key challenges facing organizations today, and how Oracle continues to innovate value for customers.  

IBM Keynote Presentation
Mark Shearer
IBM General Manager, Systems
Technology Group, System i
Tuesday, April 17
8:30 a.m. -- 9:30 a.m.

IBM has been collaborating with companies like yours for years around building, running and managing their Oracle Applications. IBM's unparalleled expertise with Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and other newly acquired product families (including Retek, ProfitLogic, 360Commerce, G–Log, etc.) has resulted in innovative solutions for today's most pressing business challenges. Whether you represent a small/medium business or a member of the Fortune 1000, the IBM keynote will help you solve your specific challenges through real case–study examples of how IBM's innovative Oracle Applications solutions are delivering results at companies like yours.

Exclusive IOUG Special Session

Featured Speaker: John Zachman Enterprise Architect Guru Monday, April 16 9:15 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m.

Enterprise Architect Guru John Zachman has been studying Enterprise Architecture for 30 years. In his presentation, “Enterprise Architecture, Straight from the Shoulder,” he will include a brief overview of the Framework for Enterprise Architecture which establishes a context for defining what must be done to rectify the problems of the past and set a proper course for the future. Zachman will also make the case that architecture is the foundation for managing modern enterprises and will develop the engineering logic for integration, usability, reusability, flexibility, interoperability, seamlessness, alignment, reduced time to market, user-friendliness and quality.

Oracle Executive Sessions

Jesper Andersen Senior Vice President Application Technology Oracle Corporation Tuesday, April 17 11:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m.

At Oracle, we speak with customers every day and Fusion Applications are always a hot topic. In this session, we will deliver straight answers to the top questions and concerns on the mind of our customers. If you are wondering what is in Fusion Applications, how the development is progressing or simply how you should plan for the future, this session is for you.

Thomas Kurian Senior Vice President Development, Oracle Middleware Platform Products Oracle Corporation Wednesday, April 18 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Extend Your Oracle Applications and Satisfy Your Unique Business Needs with Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a market leader in application server, business process management, business intelligence, identity and access management, and user interaction. This super session describes how Fusion Middleware 10g can help customers extend current Oracle Application suites to maximize their investments, as well as support custom application development to satisfy their unique business needs. In addition, the session previews the major themes and capabilities of Fusion Middleware 11, Oracle's next generation middleware and the foundation of Fusion Applications.

Edward Screven Chief Corporate Architect Oracle Corporation Wednesday, April 18 9:45 a.m. -- 10:45 a.m.

Database Administrators -- Guardians of the Enterprise

Enterprises face ever increasing pressure to enhance the security of their information systems. Driven by legislation and regulation, as well as the growing public demand for protection against the risk of privacy loss, many large organizations struggle to satisfy new stringent security requirements and policies in complex preexisting application environments. Fortunately, Oracle database and middleware technology can both accelerate and reduce the cost of satisfying internal and external security demands. These technologies give database administrators additional opportunities to contribute to the enterprise and reaffirm their role as guardians of the enterprise’s critical information assets.

Preeti Somal Vice President Development, Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Corporation Tuesday, April 17 1:45 p.m. -- 2:45 p.m.

Top-Down Application Management - The New management Imperative to Bring Together Application Owners, IT Operations and Infrastructure Experts

Enterprise Applications automate key business processes and provide factual information for effective decision-making. The availability and performance of these applications is critical to achieving business productivity gains. Whether custom-built or pre-packaged, these applications are built on modern architectures including SOA and grid computing. Increasingly, application owners and infrastructure management teams need to work together to ensure application and/or service availability regardless of system availability.  In this session, Oracle experts will discuss how Enterprise Manager enables business owners and IT operations and how infrastructure experts can use top-down application management to deliver the best quality of service to their users at the lowest cost. This session will show you how Enterprise Manager's unique top-down application management approach can enable you to start from Service Level Management and be able to diagnose availability and performance issues, manage configuration changes, and remediate problems in an automated way in your IT environment.

Women in Technology Panel and Networking Lunch
Wednesday, April 18
11:00 a.m. -- 1:15 p.m.

Listen and learn from the experiences of several women who have achieved prominence in the technology field. This panel will include women from several different companies and in various technical positions, who will share lively stories and advice based on their experiences working in technology. Whether you are a woman who is interested in hearing about others' experiences or a man wanting to learn more about women's experiences working in a male-dominated field, this session is open to all. So, come ready with your questions or comments to discuss with the panelists over a networking lunch held after the session. This event is co-sponsored by IOUG and Quest.

IOUG SIG Great Tool Debate
Thursday, April 19
12:15 p.m. -- 1:15 p.m.

Calling all Application Express Development Professionals!

Do you have an interest in rapid application development?  If so, IOUG is interested in you!  Be the first to sign up to participate in the IOUG SIG Great Tool Debate at COLLABORATE 07 and have the opportunity to work in an Application Express environment with volunteer experts and Oracle leaders and participate in the IOUG Closing Session: SIG Great Tool Debate.  Click here for more information.