ODTUG Kscope23 is unique in kicking off the conference with a full day of Sunday Symposiums included in your full conference registration. Choose from four tracks – Analytics, APEX/Database, EPM, and Essbase. Can’t attend the whole conference? Sunday-only passes are available and provide access to the Oracle, and Dodeca Symposiums as well as the Welcome Reception. Passes are $699.00. Register here! Start your week of education with this year’s Sunday Symposium for your track!
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Analytics | APEX/Database | EPM | Essbase
Analytics
Get ready to discover the amazing possibilities of Oracle Analytics! Join the product management team for an extensive session covering the entire product scope, including data modeling, data preparation, machine learning, AI, data visualization, and mobile capabilities. The session will provide an in-depth look at the recent innovation and enhancements of Oracle Analytics, along with a sneak peek into the product's future roadmap. Whether you're a seasoned analytics professional or just starting out, this session is a great opportunity to learn more about leveraging the power of Oracle Analytics to drive better business outcomes.
Room: Aurora Ballroom C
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Gabby Rubin, Oracle Corporation
APEX/Database
Join members of the APEX Product Development team and Database Advocates for a day full of APEX and Core content, demos, roadmap, and a whole lot more. You'll hear directly from team members that work on key APEX functionality, discover how APEX was instrumental in Oracle's pandemic response, learn about new features in the latest release, explore approaches using multiple single-purpose or single multi-purpose database, how you can leverage APEX on Oracle Cloud, and get a glimpse of what lies ahead on our product roadmap (both APEX and Database). Come join us on Sunday for this rare opportunity to engage directly, in-person, with our team, and take your APEX and Database apps to the next level!
Room: Aurora Ballroom D
8:30 - 9:15 a.m.
APEX State of the Union
Shakeeb Rahman, Oracle Corporation
Oracle APEX is the world's most popular low-code enterprise platform, used to develop millions of apps across the globe. But how did APEX achieve this success, and what does the future hold? Join us as we explore the key advancements, significant milestones, and inspiring success stories that have led to this moment. Learn about Oracle's vision for the future of APEX and get a glimpse what lies ahead. Whether you're a seasoned APEX developer or new to the platform, this session will arm you with valuable insights and inspiration for your APEX journey.
9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
Oracle APEX 23.1 New Features
Marc Sewtz, Oracle Corporation
Oracle APEX continues its momentum both within the global Low Code development community and inside Oracle. In this session, we'll take a retrospective of significant milestones over the past year and explore what lies ahead. We’ll show some of the new features introduced in APEX 23.1, including Template Components and Template Directives, easier invocation of REST APIs, advances to PWAs, a new option to run page processes in the background, a new Object Browser, and closer integration with SQL Developer Web.
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break
10:30 - 11:15 a.m.
Unlocking the Potential of Universal Theme
Tim Kimberl, Oracle Corporation
The Universal Theme aims to empower developers with the tools they need to build beautiful, responsive, accessible apps without becoming experts in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. This session will introduce you to some of the improvements and updates to Universal Theme in APEX 23.1, and how you can take full advantage of all that it has to offer. Easily achieve complex UI patterns using out-of-box components and learn how to unlock Universal Theme's true potential – here's how!
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Community-Powered APEX: An Ideation Exchange
Vincent Morneau and Jayson Hanes, Oracle Corporation
Welcome to "Community-Powered APEX", an interactive session where your ideas meet our commitment to innovation. We've selected some of your suggestions from the Oracle APEX Ideas App - apex.oracle.com/ideas - each demonstrating potential to enhance APEX in ways our community values most. In this session, we'll discuss these ideas and their integration into the APEX roadmap. You will have an opportunity to vote on these ideas in person and in real time. Your vote at Kscope could help influence our priorities, reinforcing the integral role of community input in APEX direction. Our team meets weekly to discuss your ideas, and now we bring the result to you. This is also your time to bring forward fresh ideas and contribute to the live discussion. Join us in this engaging ideation exchange where your voice shapes the future of APEX.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Oracle APEX 23.1: The Impact of PWA & Push Notifications
Vincent Morneau, Oracle Corporation
Join us for an inspiring symposium session that dives into the impact of Progressive Web Apps and Push Notifications in APEX 23.1. This session covers technical details with a focus on the strategic value that these innovations bring to APEX use cases and to your business. Discover how Push Notifications drive user engagement and transform the way APEX applications interact with end users in conjunction with a wide array of APEX features. Together, we’ll work towards a highly interactive PWA demo that everyone can join. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain exclusive knowledge about the future of APEX PWA with our revised roadmap.
1:45 - 2:45 p.m.
Oracle Database 23c − Built for Developers! Part 1
Connor McDonald, Oracle Corporation
Often the new features in a new database version pertain to the "big ticket" functionality areas of availability, performance, management, technology shifts, and so forth. But for developers, often it is the tiny little enhancements or tweaks to existing functionality that make all the difference. As far back as database versions go, it is the little things that have developers singing from the rooftops. Column rename in 8i, MERGE in 9i, virtual columns in 11g, FETCH FIRST in 12c − the list goes on.
And Oracle Database 23c is packed with these small but critical enhancements for developers. This session covers the developer-focused improvements to the database that will boost productivity and make the database easier to use than ever!
2:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Break
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
APEX + Oracle Cloud Update
Vladislav Uvarov, Oracle Corporation
Oracle APEX on Autonomous Database continues to evolve. In addition to bringing you the latest product features with every APEX release, we keep introducing improvements to the cloud development experience, many based on customer feedback. Did you know you can now upgrade APEX in your Autonomous Database at the same time a new release becomes available for download? This session will review this and other most notable improvements from the past 12 months. And we will also look at how Oracle is migrating its internal and public APEX apps to the Oracle Cloud.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Oracle Database 23c − Built for Developers! Part 2
Connor McDonald, Oracle Corporation
Often the new features in a new database version pertain to the "big ticket" functionality areas of availability, performance, management, technology shifts, and so forth. But for developers, often it is the tiny little enhancements or tweaks to existing functionality that make all the difference. As far back as database versions go, it is the little things that have developers singing from the rooftops. Column rename in 8i, MERGE in 9i, virtual columns in 11g, FETCH FIRST in 12c − the list goes on.
And Oracle Database 23c is packed with these small but critical enhancements for developers. This session covers the developer-focused improvements to the database that will boost productivity and make the database easier to use than ever!
EPM
The ODTUG Kscope conference happens to coincide with Oracle’s new fiscal year and is our first opportunity to share the latest insights and announcements with conference attendees. That makes ODTUG Kscope the “must attend” conference, and there is no better venue for us to do that than at our Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM Sunday Symposium. With both our 11.2 releases for our Hyperion EPM on-premises deployments and the rapid innovations coupled with the depth and breadth of functionality in Oracle Cloud EPM, we have a lot of valuable insight and information to share with our EPM-focused attendees at this year’s Sunday Symposium. Whether you have existing EPM deployments on-premises, cloud, or a little of both, this symposium is one you definitely don’t want to miss. We will cover the strategy and roadmap for all your deployment investments and continue our tradition of treating attendees to first looks at the latest innovations and works-in-progress. You will also learn how our customers are taking advantage of Cloud EPM to deliver best-in-class functionality and enterprise performance to the business.
Presented by Oracle EPM product management and development leaders, you will get unfiltered insight into our key R&D initiatives. Our goal at the EPM Sunday Symposium is to expose attendees to the latest and greatest from Oracle EPM development in these areas and offer you the opportunity to learn more in the detailed conference sessions. In keeping with our goal, the EPM Symposium's agenda is intended to be a free flowing and interactive session that will cover a State of the Business keynote, followed by an innovation R&D showcase and audience Q&A facilitated by your Oracle EPM Product Management team for both cloud and on-premises. We look forward to your attendance at this year's symposium.
Room: Aurora Ballroom C
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Al Marciante, Oracle Corporation
Essbase
Relevance and Reachability: Broadening the Insights to the Business with Essbase and Data Studio
The proliferation of single-purpose tools has created a generation of isolated specialists and greatly hindered collaboration between them. Best case: users were aware of each other’s respective specializations and might pass the odd project on to a colleague to add the next specialist touch. More typically, the hand-over is too complicated and the collective power of complementary skillsets is squandered. Next-generation “converged” data management platforms allow businesses to exploit the full range of skills and techniques. The convergence into a single, consistent platform both of multiple types of data and multiple types of tool enables “relevance and reachability”.
Room: Aurora Ballroom C
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Patrick Wheeler, Oracle Corporation