Tag: meetup

Session Title: Fireside Chat with Security Gurus

Session Abstract: Join our interactive session where Manish, Angeline, Russ Lowenthal will answer your questions live. In this session, get the unique opportunity to engage with your peers on relevant issues on Oracle Security. You can pre-submit these questions by tweeting @AIOUG #aiougFC or ask live in the chat.

Speaker Bio: Manish Choudhary
Product Manager – Oracle Data Safe, Sensitive Data Discovery, Data Masking, and Subsetting, Oracle

Manish Choudhary is a product manager for Oracle Database Security, focusing on sensitive data discovery and masking technologies. He has experience in database firewall, activity monitoring, and security analytics areas also. Manish has nine years of experience in the security domain. Prior to joining the Oracle Database Security team, he worked with the Oracle Solaris group as the security and compliance product manager. During his time at McAfee Labs, he worked on Host Intrusion Prevention System and Database Activity Monitoring.
Manish has an MS in Security from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. His interest areas are data security and privacy, cryptography, cloud security, cyber-physical systems (IoT), and machine learning in security.

Speaker Bio: Angeline Janet Dhanarani
Principal Product Manager – Core Database Auditing, Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF), Oracle

Angeline Janet Dhanarani is the Principal Product Manager for Oracle Database Security, focusing on core Oracle Database Auditing and database activity monitoring (DAM) solution with Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF). With 17+ years of experience, Angeline is involved in many customer engagement activities for over a decade at Oracle. Angeline is engaged in inbound and outbound product management activities and is responsible for ensuring the successful adoption of DAM solutions in many large financial establishments. Angeline closely works with the engineering team to define the product roadmap.

Speaker Bio: Russ Lowenthal
Senior Director of Product Management for Database Security, Oracle

Russ Lowenthal is the Senior Director of Product Management for Database Security, focused on database encryption, access control, audit, and monitoring. Russ is based in Orlando, Florida, USA, and has been with Oracle for over twenty years. Leveraging more than thirty years of experience in IT including database, UNIX systems, and network administration, he now advises Oracle’s customers on secure implementations of information systems technology. Russ’ certifications include Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM), Oracle Certified Master (OCM), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and Certified Technical Trainer (CTT).

Oracle Cloud-Native Journey Session 6: Digital Assistants and Chatbots

Session Abstract: In this session, you will learn.

– Basics of Oracle Digital Assistant
– How to create a small conversational bot
– Basics of a chatbot: intents, entities, utterances
– Testing your own bot

Speaker BIO : ROLANDO CARRASCO
CTO, Services and Processes Solutions S.A de C.V

Rolando Carrasco is both an Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador focused on modern technologies and architectures. Rolando has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years, always involved in the integration space and areas that derive from it, such as Services Orientation, Event-Driven Architectures, Cloud Native, Microservices, API Management. Rolando has been the author of technology books as well as a technical reviewer, the last book where he was involved as a technical reviewer is: Enterprise API Management (https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Luis-Weir/dp/1787284433). He is been focused on modern architectures and trying to move customers from their old fashion architectures to modern ones. Currently, he is involved in projects related to API Management, Cloud Native Development, Integration, CI/CD, as well as involved within his company to develop packaged solutions for their customers. Rolando started as a technical consultant in Hewlett Packard (back in the year 2000), moved to Oracle in 2002, and in 2010 he started his own consulting firm name SPS. His current interests, and where he is currently investing his time are around Kubernetes, Cloud Native Patterns, Automation, and API Management. Those are his areas of interest, and where is trying to get more experience. He is a constant speaker for local and international conferences, such as Oracle Open World, Oracle CODE ONE, etc. He is the current President of the Latin American Oracle Users Groups (LAOUC), and he is also the leader of the Mexico Oracle User Group. He is in charge of coordinating the Oracle Groundbreakers Tour in Latin America, among other several activities related to the user’s groups.

Speaker BIO: SURESH GANDHI
Senior Manager, Qualcomm India Pvt Limited

Suresh Gandhi is Senior Manager in Qualcomm India Pvt Limited leading database teams. He has 20 years of experience in Databases, Middleware & Management. He is volunteering as Independent Director for the Independent Australia Oracle User Group (AUSOUG). For more than 7 years, he shares his learnings & knowledge in his blog (http://db.geeksinsight.com) and presented various topics in AIOUG, IAOUG, AUSOUG, APACOUC, and Oracle Code One events in APAC regions. Alongside Oracle knowledge, he added proficiency in Big Data and NoSQL Databases. Suresh also experienced in designing new generation data lakes for Enterprise Datawarehouse using Cloud platforms like AWS & Oracle Cloud. He has adept knowledge in DevOps & Automations. He is certified in Oracle, AWS & ITIL Certified and holds a bachelor’s degree. He is also a trainer and delivered many sessions & Webinars in Performance Troubleshooting, Building Data lakes, NoSQL Technologies. He strives to adapt to the latest trends in database technology in his work and shares his experiences with the community. He is reachable at [masked] or @geeksinsights on Twitter or leaves a comment on his blog.

Oracle Cloud-Native Journey Session 5: Keep an eye on your OIC services

Session Abstract: In this session, you will learn.

– The different mechanisms for monitoring, alerting and notifying your applications and infrastructure in OCI
– The concepts of infrastructure as a Code with the usage of the Terraform OCI provider
– How to automate the provisioning of services using the terraform provider
– How to enable alerts

Speaker BIO : ROLANDO CARRASCO
CTO, Services and Processes Solutions S.A de C.V

Rolando Carrasco is both an Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador focused on modern technologies and architectures. Rolando has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years, always involved in the integration space and areas that derive from it, such as Services Orientation, Event-Driven Architectures, Cloud Native, Microservices, API Management. Rolando has been the author of technology books as well as a technical reviewer, the last book where he was involved as a technical reviewer is: Enterprise API Management (https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Luis-Weir/dp/1787284433). He is been focused on modern architectures and trying to move customers from their old fashion architectures to modern ones. Currently, he is involved in projects related to API Management, Cloud Native Development, Integration, CI/CD, as well as involved within his company to develop packaged solutions for their customers. Rolando started as a technical consultant in Hewlett Packard (back in the year 2000), moved to Oracle in 2002, and in 2010 he started his own consulting firm name SPS. His current interests, and where he is currently investing his time are around Kubernetes, Cloud Native Patterns, Automation, and API Management. Those are his areas of interest, and where is trying to get more experience. He is a constant speaker for local and international conferences, such as Oracle Open World, Oracle CODE ONE, etc. He is the current President of the Latin American Oracle Users Groups (LAOUC), and he is also the leader of the Mexico Oracle User Group. He is in charge of coordinating the Oracle Groundbreakers Tour in Latin America, among other several activities related to the user’s groups.

Speaker BIO: AISHWARYA KALA
Lead Database Consultant, Pythian

Aishwarya is an Oracle aficionado working with Pythian and has spent a significant part of the last decade working with, exploring and having fun with Oracle Databases and related technologies
She is a regular speaker in the AIOUG events and is a regular contributor to the Oracle Community via her blogs and posts.
Always keen to learn, discuss and explore new technologies – she is a certified professional and an uncertified database sleuth.

Session Title: Fireside Chat Session With MAA, RAC, HA Gurus

Session Abstract: Join our interactive session where Markus, Sandesh, and Anil will answer your questions live. You can pre-submit these questions by tweeting @AIOUG #aiougFC or ask live in the chat. We will cover diverse topics covering Converged Database in areas of HA, MAA, Oracle RAC, Connection Load balancing, and Application Continuity.

Speaker Bio:

Sandesh Rao
VP, AIOps and Machine Learning, Autonomous Database, Oracle

Sandesh Rao is a VP running the AIOps Automation for the Autonomous Database Group at Oracle Corporation specializing in using AI/ML for different use cases from predicting faults before they happen to Anomaly Detection within log data, metrics data. His previous positions have focused on performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and architecting cloud-based solutions using the Oracle Stack. With more than 18 years of experience working in the HA space and having worked on several versions of Oracle with different application stacks, he is a recognized expert in RAC, Database Internals, PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS solutions and solving Big Data related problems. Most of his work involves working with customers in the implementation of public and hybrid cloud projects in the financial, retailing, scientific, insurance, biotech, and tech space. He is also responsible for developing assessments for best practices for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c including products like RAC (Real Application Clusters), Storage (ASM, ACFS) More details at http://bit.ly/1UCL46K Twitter @sandeshr

Anil Nair
Sr Principal Product Manager (RAC), Oracle USA

Anil Nair is the Product Manager for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Oracle RAC is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications.
Anil has been involved with Oracle RAC since its inception. He has helped various customers with Oracle solutions specifically around Performance, availability, Scalability aspects for about 20 years

Markus Michalewicz
Vice President of Product Management, Oracle

Markus Michalewicz has been with Oracle for 20 years in various positions. He is currently a Vice President with Oracle America and manages the Oracle Database High Availability (HA), Scalability, Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), and Cloud Migration product management (PM) team, which is part of Oracle Database development. Using database technologies such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Application Continuity (AC), and Oracle Data Guard, including the Active Data Guard option, his team has helped to ensure 24*7 availability of critical, high-throughput OLTP and DWH database systems around the world and revolutionized the way Oracle’s customers get to experience the Oracle Database on-premises as well as when moving into the cloud using Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM). Applying real-world experience and customer feedback, his team has been instrumental in designing Oracle’s Database Cloud offerings, including Oracle Autonomous Database, following and defining Oracle’s industry-leading Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices.