Aug 19: AUSOUG/OAUG 2006 Conference Announcement

The AUSOUG and OAUG committees are very excited to announce the Australian 2006 conference series is less than three months away. While our American neighbours are focusing on Oracle OpenWorld in October, and our UKOUG friends on their (extended!) November conference, Australians will not miss out with the largest Oracle user group conference in Australia to date. This year we're condensing our content into two key conferences, in Melbourne 2/3rd November and Perth 8/9th November, a East Coast to West Coast series of the best presentations by Australian and overseas Oracle talent.

The Melbourne and Perth schedules are now available at: http://www.ausoug.org.au/2020

We've attracted some great speakers this year. Following is a small extract of this year's speakers:

• Connor McDonald member of the Oaktable, co-author of "Oracle Insight: Tales of the OakTable" and "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions"

• Chris Schalk, JDeveloper Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation co-author of "JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference" and Java evangelist for Oracle's Application Server and JDeveloper in Perth

• Lynn Munsinger, Principal Product Manager in the JDeveloper development team at Oracle, specializing author of Oracle University courses, including, "Oracle10g: Build J2EE Applications" in Melbourne.

• Oracle Magazine Educator of the Year 2004 Penny Cookson, winner of best paper awards at 4 APAC OpenWorld .

• Oracle Magazine PL/SQL Developer of Year 2004 award winner Marcel Kratochvil, also joint winner of the 1999 best paper at Oracle OpenWorld.

• Anjo Kolk, well known for Oracle performance tuning, great supporter of the UKOUG, IOUG and Oracle OpenWorld, and a member of the Oaktable

• Oracle Magazine DBA of the Year 2004 winner John MacAskill.

• Mark Townsend, Senior Director of Database Product Management at Oracle.

• Murali Vallath, author of "Oracle Real Application Clusters" and "Oracle 10g RAC Grid, Services and Clustering", President of the international RAC Special Interest Group.

• Jeannie Dobney a regular supporter of the applications arena, will be leading the charge with a Fusion expert session panel in Melbourne.

• Craig Metters from Santos, who has won best paper awards at both previous Victorian and South Australian AUSOUG conferences.

• Martin Dillon the Manager of the Project Management Office at Alcoa Australia.

• Paul Hardwick the an invited presenter at previous Oracle OpenWorlds in San Francisco

• and finally AUSOUG is very happy to announce the return of Oracle's very popular speaker Tim Blake to both Perth and Melbourne.

There are plenty of other speakers too, so checkout out website for the latest info: http://www.ausoug.org.au/2020

We hope you will support the user group like it supports you, and we will see you at our conference in November!

Regards,

Chris Muir

President of the Victorian Branch
Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG)
www.ausoug.org.au/2020

Email: president.vic@ausoug.org.au

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#1 - Dave Edwards said:
2006-08-25 19:02 - (Reply)

This sounds like an impressive event, Doug. Two cities, separated by a continent -- that requires a lot of planning and coordination. I've done a little of that, so I know that it must be a huge job for the conveners in this case.

Thanks for the post.

#2 - Chris Muir 2006-08-26 05:28 - (Reply)

As separate to Doug's post of our event, I'd like to thank Doug publicly for his assistance and support this year. Thanks Doug!

In answer to Dave Edwards post, certainly yes this takes a lot of effort. AUSOUG is run by volunteers too so we're very much appreciative of their commitment. Given Dave's comments about having a done a little of organising this sort of thing, and my own now direct experience, I very much hold previous committee members and organisers in the greatest respect for the amount of effort they have given in the past to run similar events. It's great that IT professionals can put something back into the community, be it open source efforts, or efforts similar to user groups.

Regards,

Chris Muir
President of the Victorian Branch
Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG)


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