NoCOUG 2015 Winter Conference (Conference 113)

** 25 free passes are available for first-time NoCOUG conference attendees. Send your request for a free pass to contact_nocoug@nocoug.org.

The NoCOUG 2015 Winter Conference will be held on Tuesday, January 27 in conjunction with BIWA/Spatial Summit 2015. Conference attendees will have a choice of more sessions than at any time in NoCOUG’s 28-year history, with five parallel tracks on Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Spatial, and Graph topics as well as sessions created especially for NoCOUG attendees including:

• The Data Revolution by Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop (keynote address)
• SQL is the best development language for Big Data by Tom Kyte
• YesSQL! A celebration of SQL and PL/SQL by Steven Feuerstein with cameo appearance by Andy Mendelsohn
• 10 Tips for social media success by Yann Ropars

There will also be a networking reception at the end of the day. The complete agenda for the day is available at http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=845.

NoCOUG members are also being offered the unprecedented opportunity to attend Day 2 (January 28) and Day 3 (January 29) of BIWA/Spatial 2015 for the low, low price of $75 (regular price $175). Another example of your membership dollars working as hard as they possibly can for you. You can select the “Day 2 and 3” option when registering for the conference.

** Bring your camera! There will be a guided tour of the Oracle campus at lunch time. Take your picture in front of the amazing 130-foot high sailboat that won the Americas Cup, marvel at the pastries made by Chef Ian in the coffee shop in Building 300, chase the geese that make Oracle their home, walk around “Larry Lake” (the old Marine World lagoon), and buy a memento at the Oracle store in Building 500.

P.S. Online registration and payment is required. Membership renewals, conference registration, and payments are not handled at the conference venue; no way, no how :-)