Normally before I travel to Oracle Open World, I would post what I intend to get up to there; and it would always start with how I wear so many hats ...
This year is no different, I am just as busy, in fact so much so, I’ve now arrived in San Francisco and only now posting my plans.
This year I’ve been employee of Accenture for just 20 days. I’m still learning all of their processes and systems, but OOW is a great opportunity to meet many of the global team here. That alone could keep me busy all week.
I have no specific user group duties this year, as I’ve finished my time on the UKOUG board, but I am still hosting the EMEA ACEs session. There is no user group Sunday this year and their sessions are spread amongst the week and our session will be on Tuesday, Oct 23, 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM | Moscone West - Room 3001. Normally this session is about the database but this year we are trying something slightly different and will be talking about mistakes and what you learn from them. I even have an example of my own!
I made a video with Bob Rhubart highlighting my actual sessions for OOW, worth checking it out.
Then on Thursday, yes Thursday there are general sessions this year right up until late. So Thursday Oct 25, 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM | Moscone South - Room 157, I have my other session with my colleague Tim Warner where we will show you how we took last years messages about chatbots and unpicked the marketing and put it back together again with the help of Product Management. A chatbot working with HCM.
I am also making a guest appearance had a session with the SOA Cloud Product Management team who are talking to our customers Skanska about the very the innovative way they approached their HCM implementation. The integration work was carried out by our partners eProseed and Simon Haslam from there will be explaining how it was done. Tuesday, Oct 23, 05:45 PM - 06:30 PM | Moscone West - Room 2002
As an ACE Director, this year we have our briefings on Saturday in the city, which is a deviation from our normal HQ briefings the week before OOW. I’m really looking forward to hearing all the messages before the main event. I did still arrive a few days early and I had a series of meetings at Redwood Shores today where I met the new leader for you UX Hillel Cooperman.
Tomorrow I am at a Partner advisory board for PaaS, looking at how this is working with SaaS as this is becoming more and more prevalent in my day job. Then move into the city for the main event.
Alongside all of the Accenture meetings that I’ll be attending, there are a lot of receptions and customer events so hope to meet many of the global operations teams. I’m particularly excited about the opportunity to attend some of the Enkitech events, they too are part of Accenture and my friends there have been very helpful as I try and understand all the corporate policies.
If I find time I want to go to #OTW always fun.
If I find time I want to go to #OTW always fun.
Because this years OOW is Monday to Thursday, the normal free time on Saturday is gone and the off piste events have in the main gone, but hopefully only this time. For the first time in several years I will have no OOW triathlon. I do hope that I will at least get one walk over the bridge, but we’re not swimming this year which is very sad and I would just don’t have time to do the cycle ride. It’s sad but let’s hope that next year those things are back.
Sunday is the Partner Day, and then Monday it is OOW proper. I fly home on Friday landing back in London just-in-time for my grandmother’s 99th birthday party.
It's going to be a long, long week but a good one!
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