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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 de...

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.

Six Great Reasons   for Oracle   Big Data, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Spatial and Data Warehousing Professionals   to Attend the  Oracle BIWA Summit   Jan 27 - 29, 2015   at Oracle HQ Register Now - $299 This year, BIWA Summit is joining forces with   Oracle Spatial Summit 2015  and the  Northern California Oracle Users Group  (NoCOUG) Learn                              Come learn what others in your industry are doing.  Hear presentations from customers like you who have implemented Oracle technologies and learn from their success and the challenges they faced.  ·           5  Featured Talks  by Industry Leaders ·           8  two hour Hands on Labs...

Registration is open, and we have a ton of great sessions for the 2015 summit, the event is taking place, Jan 27-29, 2015, we already have a great crowd coming out to the event! See the Session list: http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=844 BIWA Summits have been organized and managed by the Oracle BI, DW and Analytics SIG user community of IOUG (Independent Oracle User Group) and attract the top Oracle BI, DW and Advanced Analytics and Big Data experts. The 2.5-day BIWA Summit'15 event involves Keynotes by Industry experts, Educational sessions, Hands-on Labs and networking events. We have a great line up so far w/ Tom Kyte Senior Technical Architect in Oracles Server Technology, Doug Cutting (Chief Architect, Cloudera), Oracle BI Senior Management, Neil Mendelson, VP of Product Management Big Data and Advanced Analytics, Matt Bradley, SVP, Oracle Product Development, EPM Applications, other features speakers, and many customers/tech experts  (see web site http://www...

Just came out of the keynote of day 2, the first speaker Dr. Didier Bonnet, SVP and Global Practice Leader at Capgemini  focused on Digital transformation of business. He used examples of Starbucks, Asian Paints, Vail and so on... ""Digital technology will remain the endless agitator of the business world."   It was good to hear GE's Industrial Internet as a transformative concept. Thomas Kurien spoke at the later half and had several invited folks to show the live demo of many new offerings on the Cloud, Big Data and Analytics front. It was interesting to see the demo using SQL Developer to show the speed-up due to use of in-memory computing. I posted a lot of images from the keynote from my Twitter account     It was interesting to see that Thomas covered mainly Technology topics topics today as against "Applications" topics. More to come...

This year the Oracle User Group Leaders are meeting just before Oracle Openworld world for two days - Sep 25-26, 2014. Selected Oracle User Group Leaders immerse themselves into activities and sessions that help to manage the User Groups, Special Interest Groups (SIG's) and Regional Groups throughout the year. This is a good meeting point of the Leaders from different parts of the world. Check out the pictures of the activities these such as the Customer Journey map: https://twitter.com/MeKolbe/status/515272230997983232/photo/1  OR here https://twitter.com/hashtag/IOUC?src=hash I am doing a pitch on Internet on Things (Embrace IoT) later today. More to come...