Oracle BIWA Summit, 2nd-3rd December 2008
November 1st, 2008 by Mark Rittman
One conference that I won’t be going to, but I really wish I was, is the second Oracle BIWA Summit on December 2nd and 3rd 2008 at Redwood Shores, California. The Oracle BIWA SIG (Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group) is a SIG within the IOUG that focuses on the database-driven part of BI and analytics, which contrasts with ODTUG which mainly focuses on the tools. I was one of the keynote speakers at last year’s event whilst Jon did one of the presentations, this year Pete is going along to represent Rittman Mead as the UK Oracle User Group conference is on at the same time.
Looking at the agenda, you’ve got sessions from Bob Stackowiak (who shared the stage with me at the recent PHLOUG event), Tim Gorman, Chris Claterbos, Ian Abramson (IOUG Chair), Bud Endress and Marty Gubar (Oracle OLAP), Joe Leva, Edward Roske (Essbase Oracle ACE Director, entering the lions den), Charlie Berger, Scott Rappoport and many other US-based and international speakers. The BIWA event is about as close as you can get to a worldwide Oracle BI&DW conference, and I’m pleased to see that ODTUG are taking part as one of the official sponsors. If you’re interested, I’d definately recommend the event and it’s a shame I can’t be there. Good luck to Shyam, Mark, Charlie and the other organizers and I hope it’ll be a great event.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
However what Mark fails to mention is that although he is sad to be missing BIWA he will be speaking at UKOUG The Best User Group in the World