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Due to popularity of the Oracle Data Science Certificate Program from the prior 2 years, we will offer the same this year. The BIWA Summit along with Spatial Summit and NoCOUG Winter Conference takes place at Oracle HQ, Jan 27-29, 2015. In order to earn the Oracle Data Science / IoT Certificate, the registered attendees of the event, can attend 4 of the 8 suggested sessions and then take the online test. The online test will be released in a few days after the Summit. The list of the suggested sessions are: Be on the lookout for more details at the event and by Twitter. Please remember the hashtag #BIWASummit. Thanks

See you soon! Thank to all those who regsitered for BIWA / Spatial / NoCOUG Summit 2015! We look forwarding to seeing you  next Tuesday  at the Oracle Conference Center at 350 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA.  This post contains some important information that will help you get the most out of the conference. Bring a Computer to Participate in Hands on Labs   If you are interested in participating in the Hands On Labs at BIWA Summit 2015,  you will need to bring a laptop.  The lab sessions will be run with Remote Desktop for most of the labs or VNC. Most Windows operating systems have a remote desktop client pre-installed that will work. The  VNC Viewer client  is free and open source and we will have it on thumb drives for those classes. If you are using a Macintosh, Linux, or an iPad or other tablet, there are many different clients available for both Remote Desktop and VNC. For those hardy souls that want to try this on a mobile device, depending on the lab, you may be

The countdown to BIWA Summit 2015 (Jan 27-29) has begun! Only 10 days left. This year BIWA SIG joins hands with Spatial SIG and NoCOUG. Together, we expect over 300 attendees to kick off the Day 1 on Jan 27.  Some of the companies represented by the attendees are as below: Linkedin Intel Deloitte Waters.com Comcast WellsFargo McGrath RentCorp Prologis ESRI Alberta Health Services Naval Post Graduate Bechtel Bloomberg Deloitte GE IBM Harvard Here.com Oracle Symantec Rittman Mead Red Pill Analytics Vlamis Rexer Analytics AGSI Cloudera Troype 1Spatial NITAI Partners Tek Systems Datagaps Dynasoft L&T Infotech Apart from these companies, several Oracle Product Managers and others will be in the mix, All this makes BIWA Summit a great place for professional networking.