Gearing Up for COLLABORATE 07

COLLABORATE 07, the application and technology convention for the Oracle user community, is right around the corner. The convention will be held April 15^th through 19^th at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this particular case, what happens in Vegas should not stay in Vegas – this is a good opportunity to learn from the experiences of other users and to take that learning home with you.

A preliminary schedule is already available from OAUG and can be accessed here. I’ve already picked out some interesting sessions, and thought I’d share them with you.

My Presentations

Of course, I’m deeply interested in my own presentation on implementing iterative project management methodologies. As a member of the OAUG Customer Support Council, I’ll also be attending that council meeting – you should come too if you’d like to get involved with support-related issues. I’ll also be part of the Fusion Panel discussion, which is your opportunity to hear where we think Oracle is going with Fusion Applications and to vent when we don’t give you enough information. You may consider this to be a not-so-discrete plug to attend these sessions…

• JUMP into OpenUP: Implementing Agile Development at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Floyd Teter, Thursday, April 19, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Breakers L

• OAUG Customer Support Council: PANEL, Raymond Payne, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory, Wednesday, April 18, 200711:00 AM-12:00 PM, Breakers F

• OAUG Fusion Council: PANEL, John Stouffer, Solution Beacon LLC, Monday, April 16, 1:00-2:00 PM, Breakers F

Fusion Applications

• A Technical Roadmap for Fusion, Release 12 and Oracle Fusion Applications, John Stouffer, Solution Beacon, LLC, Tuesday, April 17, 1:45 PM-2:45 PM, Lagoon B

• Oracle Fusion in Retail, David Dorf, Monday, April 16, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Breakers K

• PeopleSoft Enterprise Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare for Fusion, Greg Kelly, Oracle, Tuesday, April 17, 1:45 PM-2:45 PM, Lagoon I

• Building Tomorrow Today: Oracle's Experience Adopting Fusion Architecture, Cliff Godwin, Oracle, Thursday, April 19, 9:45 AM-10:45 AM, Breakers L

• Preparing for the Future: Best Practice Strategies for Successful Oracle Upgrades, Ennapadam Padmanabhan, IBM, Monday, April 16, 3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Breakers I

• Oracle Executive Session: Jesper Andersen, Senior Vice President, Application Strategy, Oracle, Tuesday, April 17, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, South Seas G

• Siebel Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare For Fusion, Dipock Das, Oracle, Thursday, April 19, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Breakers H

• E-Business Suite Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare For Fusion, Nadia Bendjedou, Oracle, Monday, April 16, 200710:30 AM-11:30 AM, Lagoon C

• The Frontier of Innovation: Oracle's Next Generation User Experiences, Jeremy Ashley, Oracle, Wednesday, April 18, 3:15-4:15 PM, Breakers B

Fusion Middleware

• Integrate Oracle Application Express with the Oracle E-Business Suite, Joshua Bryant, Mellon Financial Corporation, Tuesday, April 17, 9:45 AM-10:45 AM, Lagoon C

• XML Publisher (in EBS) for Dummies: A Step-by-Step Guide, Srini Chavali, Cummins Inc., Thursday, April 19, 8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Lagoon C

• XML Publisher: The Do-It-Yourself Guide!, Glenn Kretkowski, Hologic Inc., Tuesday, April 17, 3:30-4:30 PM, Breakers L

• BPEL Process Manager: Tips and Techniques, Hilal Khan, Innowave Technology, Tuesday, April 17, 20079:45 AM-10:45 AM, Breakers L

• Middleware: Why It Matters to Business and Functional Managers, Markus Zirn, Oracle, Tuesday, April 17, 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, South Seas A

• Using Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite, Steven Chan, Oracle, Monday, April 16, 3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Lagoon C

Miscellaneous Other Sessions

• Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack Updates, Nadia Bendjedou, Oracle, Monday, April 16, 2:15 PM-3:15 PM, Lagoon B

• Oracle Executive Session: Jeanne Lowell, VP, E-Business Suite Strategy, Tuesday, April 17, 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, Mandalay Bay E/F/G/H

• Tuning Oracle E-Business Suite, Ahmed Alomari, Oracle, Monday, April 16, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Breakers L

It's pretty obvious that I'll need to clone myself in order to attend all the sessions that interest me. It's a good sign for a conference like this when there are so many good sessions that I have to make difficult decisions on which sessions to attend. So from my perspective, COLLABORATE 07 is shaping up to be a very exciting conference!

If you're already registered to attend COLLABORATE 07, I think you're in for a great conference. If you have not registered yet, get the lead out and register here.