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General Session and Events
Monday, April 19
Opening General Session - 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Kimberly Floss, President, International Oracle Users Group
Start your IOUG Live! experience with a welcome from the IOUG President, Kimberly
Floss, who will inform you of the many new IOUG updates and future initiatives.
Michael Abbey, Director of Conferences, International Oracle
Users Group
Learn how to maximize your IOUG Live! 2004 experience with
suggestions from IOUG's Director of Conferences, Michael Abbey.
HP Keynote Address
"Becoming More Agile with HP Adaptive Enterprise and Oracle 10g Solutions"
Jim Milton, Managing Director, Americas and Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Group
Today’s competitive economic environment requires that business’s
become more flexible, cost-effective, and align their IT resources with their
company’s changing business requirements -- through simplification, standardization,
modularization, and integration of intelligent software, hardware, management
solutions, and processes. In this session, presented by Jim Milton, Managing Director, Americas and Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Group,
attendees will learn how the Oracle Grid computing strategy tightly aligns with
the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy, and how Oracle 10g on HP brings
new ways to better meet customer needs. Included will be highlights of how customers
can leverage our extensive joint engineering efforts and take advantage of “real-world”
solutions – today.
Afternoon Oracle Corporation Keynote Address - 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"The Promise of Grid Computing and the Reality of Oracle 10g"
Ken Jacobs, Vice President Product Strategy, Server Technology Division
Plan to attend the always popular Oracle Keynote Address, presented by Oracle's "Dr. DBA" Ken Jacobs, Vice President Product Strategy, Server Technology Division, Oracle Corporation.
At Oracle, he has been a prominent spokesperson for Oracle and an advocate inside the company for customers' interests. He has held a number of technical and management roles for Oracle, including consulting, support, product management and product marketing.
Ken Jacobs is also often a featured speaker at Oracle conferences and events.
Known as "Dr. DBA" to thousands of Oracle Database administrators, he discusses
technical and business issues relating to developing and deploying database
applications.
Oracle Exam Cram - 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., 1 p.m - 3 p.m., 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Are you planning on taking the Oracle Certified Professional exam? IOUG Live!
2004 and Oracle will be offering three “Exam Cram” sessions on Monday,
April 19 to help you prepare for your exam. Each session is literally cramed
with content. Review Oracle Exam Cram
Schedule and Session Content in this Word document. While the
exam will not be offered at IOUG Live! 2004, all Exam Cram attendees will receive
a coupon to take the exam at a discounted rate.
Tuesday, April 20
VERITAS Software Keynote - 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
"Utility Computing with Oracle"
Jeremy Burton, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
 Hear
keynote presentation by Jeremy Burton, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing
Officer, VERITAS Software.
At VERITAS Software, he is responsible for all corporate, product and field marketing.
Prior to joining VERITAS Software in April 2002, Jeremy Burton served as Senior
Vice President of Product & Services Marketing at Oracle Corporation. At Oracle,
Jeremy was responsible for marketing all of Oracle’s products, from the Oracle9i
Database to the Oracle E-Business Suite. Jeremy also founded the Oracle Technology
Network (OTN).
Wednesday, April 21
Closing General Session - 4:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Legato Keynote
Effective Data Protection Strategies for Oracle: Hear how the Canadian
Space Agency is Successfully Addressing Their Growing Data Backup Demands
Robert Dominique, Senior Unix System Administrator & Storage Manager, CSA
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) relies heavily on Oracle databases to address
the growing needs of both operational and scientific data. The continuing growth
and development of the space agency has placed additional demands on the Oracle
environment. And with the greater demands on the Oracle environment, CSA required
reliable data protection solutions to protect its critical data assets. CSA's
needs include all varieties of data protection, from cold backups to hot backups,
as well as from network-based to SAN-attached backups in the future. CSA willl
share their IT issues, and the solution that they implemented, leveraging the
LEGATO NetWorker data protection suite.
10g: Upgrade Sooner or Later…That is the Question!
Moderator: Ian Abramson, Director of Education, International Oracle Users
Group
This year’s Closing General Session will be a debate between the Sooner’s
and the Later’s, each taking a side on when to upgrade to 10g. The session
will be an interactive dialogue that will allow you to join in the debate, voice
your opinion and pose your own questions. This debate can help you to make an
informed decision upon your return to work. At the end of the session, you will
also have an opportunity to mingle with the debate’s participants in a
casual setting.
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