UKOUG Tech17 is a wrap

Last week I have attended the UKOUG Tech Conference at the ICC in Birmingham. This conference is a combined conference with APPS-, TECH- and JDE-related content. Quistor was present with a stand at the JDE-conference. For me, these kinds of events are a way of exchanging knowledge and meeting old and new friends.

I have been given the privilege to speak. My first presentation was about ‘Becoming Insight Driven With Big Data’. This was basically an overview of Oracle’s answer to the changing needs in the Data and Analytics atmosphere. The second presentation tried to answer the question; ‘Is Data Warehousing Dead’. During this presentation, I discovered that preparing for two presentations at one conference (which I have never done before) is more work than I had expected. It took me too much effort to get the story across. This is a lesson for next time so I will be better prepared.

For those interested, I uploaded my slides to Speaker Deck.

Becoming Insight Driven with Big Data – https://speakerdeck.com/daanalytics/becoming-insight-driven-with-big-data …

Is Data Warehousing dead? – https://speakerdeck.com/daanalytics/is-data-warehousing-dead …

In the Christmas edition of Quistor’s QPulse there are two articles from my hand with some more insight of my visit to Birmingham. I have attended several presentations. If I may highlight a few, I would first like to mention Robin Moffat, because he is so passionate about his topic; Kafka. Rob Cowell showed excellent skills explaining Oracle Big Data SQL. Last but not least Mike Vickers managed to get his story about Oracle BI Publisher across in a very structured manner. If I compare their performance to mine, there is some room for improvement 😊.

Still for me personally, it was great to meet ‘old’ and new friends. There was also an offline presence of the #obihackers IRC channel. Finally, a chance to meet people in real-life instead of from behind the keyboard.

Thanks, UKOUG, for the organization and for giving me the opportunity to be part of your conference. I had a great time and I hope to be back next year in Liverpool.

Don’t forget to submit your paper for Tech Experience on the 7th & 8th of June 2018! Submit your paper on http://www.tech18.nl. More info here.