UKOUG - Something to REALLY Look Forward To

Each year one of the last conference events of the year is UKOUG.

The event co-locates our Applications, Technology and JDE conferences, and is jam packed with content from customers, Oracle, local and overseas speakers. There are almost 100 speakers recognised by the ACE program.

Why should you attend? The opportunities to learn are amazing, this event is big enough that it covers most specialities and attracts so many Oracle product managers giving us the roadmap information and making sense of the recent Oracle Open World announcements.

In the tech conference expect to hear a lot about 12.2 database, the online information appears to have been released and the first cloud release is still just days old. But even more content is about getting the most out of what you have today. Share your story with other delegates and learn from them.

In the Apps event we have streams looking at life in the cloud for those who have started their journey and those who are new to the Oracle world. We also have content for those who are thinking about moving from their current on premise solutions to cloud. And then again lots of information about getting that extra value today. The E Business Suite and PeopleSoft teams are over from HQ to give you that 'from the top' information, and the very popular one to ones.

A lot of delegates are Apps Technical, and feel split between these two events so we have made their sessions run in the same time slots as the technical event.And anyone can move between events.

JD Edwards are again at Birmingham and their product teams will be over in force. I will miss John Schiff a personal friend who has retired but no way is their commitment to our members reduced.

Look through the agendas the content put together by the volunteers is amazing, and there truly is something from everyone. Outside traditional sessions we have the exhibition, the user experience teams, a Cloud Balcony hosted by OTN and much, much more.

Don't just listen to me, watch this video of why it will be such a great event.

Traditionally the first Monday of December it has the feel of Christmas, just yards away from the conference centre is the Frankfurt Christmas Market (I think they are lost). Just wandering around, bratwurst and gluhwein just make it magical, and plenty of opportunities to get a little shopping done.

And if you are from Europe or even further afield and have often thought you would like to come to UKOUG, why not? our pre Brexit exchange rate is so terrible you will get a great deal.