I will be speaking about engineered systems in an event organized by Oracle in April and about backup and recovery in May in several cities in Finland.

I will also attend the EOUC presidents’ meeting in May. This year the meeting will be in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In June I will speak in three events:
OUGF
BGOUG
Kscope

And in October I will be one of the five Oracle ACE Directors speaking on
The Nordic ACED Tour (4 countries in 4 days).

no other plans for the Autumn yet….

All I want to say is: I love my job.
I am so grateful to the ACE program, user groups and Oracle that I can go and speak about things I know and love and that I can share my knowledge and help other people on it.

I love speaking and sharing knowledge. I love the Oracle community!
So thank you, thank you, thank you!

I just attended the OUGN (Oracle User Group Norway) event with a presentation about database design and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. My audience included That Jeff Smith, The Bryn Llewellyn and ACED Brendan Tierney  amoung others. I am sure you can imagine the pressure:) But I enjoyed every second of my presentation! The audience was amazing! They did ask (excellent!) questions… I guess I did not do too badly because Jeff bought me a wine afterwards and said that he can see that I have been teaching. He also corrected that he meant it as a compliment. As a Finn I sure recognize a compliment when I hear one! I was very happy with the presentation and I hope the audience was too.

I attended several excellent presentations at the conference including the keynotes by Andrew Sutherland from Oracle and the duetto by Kellyn Pot’Vin and Tim Gorman.

Connor McDonald was as excellent as always, and the same I can say about Kellyn Pot’Vin, Jeff Smith, Bryn Llewellyn and all those great guys (in Oracle world everybody is a guy, even girls) I always go and listen. But it was the first time I heard Brendan Tierney speaking. He is great! I suggest you register for OUG Harmony (June 5-6) and come to hear him speaking!

During the OUGN14 the OUGN members elected a new board. Congratulations Alice Rossmann, the new chairperson/president of OUGN!

Thank you OUGN board and volunteers! Especially thank you Oyvind Isene for the excellent conference! And just to make you all jealous: I have been invited to speak at the OUGN15! Until next March!

I was asked by Oracle to give a presentation about database security to C-level audience. I have come across to that topic many times during my career and I found the idea very tempting so I did agree on doing it. I was very nervous because of two things: this is not what I usually talk about and I was asked to present in Finnish. But I am glad I did it. Preparing the session itself was already an interesting and eye opening experience but the audience really liked the presentation and many people came to me afterwards to say that the event was much, much better than they expected. I encourage you all to take the opportunity to talk about something else every now and then. You will learn a lot!

We had the annual IOUC (International Oracle User Groups Community) meeting at the Oracle HQ in January. I was there representing EOUC (EMEA Oracle User Groups Community) and OUGF (Oracle User Group Finland). This meeting is so great because I have the change to meet my friends and colleagues around the globe.

The next meeting will be combined with the OOW2014, it will be held Thu-Fri on the previous week.

Thank you Oracle for organizing these meetings!

I just realized that I have been speaking in at least 8 events in 2013! No wonder I have been so busy! And what makes it even more impressive is that I was really sick in the beginning of the year and needed to cancel all my sessions. So actually I have been speaking in at least 8 events between April and December.

UKOUG Tech13 (3.12.2013)
DOAG 2013 (19.-21.11.2013)
OOW 2013 (22.-26.9.2013)
OakTable World 2013 (23.-24.9.2013)
Wildcard Conference 2013 (13.9.2013)
ilOUG Tech Days 2013 (10.-11.7.2013)
UKOUG Scotland 2013 (12.6.2013)
OUGF Harmony 2013 (25th anniversary) (15.-17.4.2013)

And these are the ones I remembered now. I should be more organized to keep a list of the events in the future…

Let’s see what 2014 brings…I have some new plans. Let’s see what happens…

I just got back from the amazing UKOUG Tech13 conference. This time the conference was held in Manchester which to me was a very nice experience: I have a direct flight to Manchester from Helsinki and the city is very nice (everything is just a walking distance away). At the same time with this conference there was also another amazing conference: Oaktable World UK 2013 organized by Margherita and James Morle. So we sure had a busy couple of days in Manchester…

I was attending the RAC Attack with some of my ACE and ACED colleagues. That was great fun! And the best was that I learned to jump the way Yury jumps. So not so sure about RAC but Attack is going well…

My session about Data Modeler was on Tuesday just before the big party at the Football Museum. I was very sure I will only talk to my friend Alex Nuijten (Alex is truly a loyal friend. He has heard my presentation several times and every time he remembers to tell me how good it was.), but to my surprice the room was almost full. Funny thing was that the new version of Data Modeler was releasted just about one hour before my presentation. Luckily I was talking about general things, nothing to do with a certain release. So no worries on that. Just a funny detail to mention.

The audience at the UKOUG Tech13 was just amazing! They did not even get upset on the fact that I spoke overtime and probably they were late from the party! So many good questions and such an amazing level of interaction! They really made me feel like talking again and very soon….

Too bad Christmas is coming and nobody organizes any conferences now…but then I should have time to write my blog….stay tuned…

Next stop: Manchester.

On Sunday the UKOUG Tech2013 starts. This year it will not be in Birmingham but in Manchester. For me this is very good news because I have a direct flight from Helsinki to Manchester. So excited to have the possibility to talk about data modeling and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler on Tuesday! My session is in Exchange 8 on Tuesday at 5.45 pm. Come and hear me!

See you in Manchester!