To me 2016 looks very exciting. I will start my doctoral studies at Helsinki University. I will be studying and researching Big Data, semistructured data and schema discovery. That research is related to the work I have done more than 20 years but it is also something completely new. I am really excited!

Another interesting new thing is that I have been invited to speak in many conferences just like Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman predicted (@dbakevlar) 🙂 and I am so glad about that because as a typical Finn I am not very good in abstracts and convincing I should be selected… I am really sorry I have said NO to some of those invitations 😦 I hope I can say YES next time…

In 2016 I will have completely new topics and areas as well as my “old” topics and areas to talk about. Topics for 2016 include SQL Developer, WIT, cloud, APEX and I am sure that later this year I cannot stop myself from talking about Big Data, schema discovery and other things I learn and study during this year. Now I am studying Machine Learning…. Of course I will be talking about database designing and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler!

So far I am planning to talk in these events in 2016:

GaOUG Tech Day 2016, March 3 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

OUGN, March 10-12, Oslo, Norway

Ari Hovi Oy April 7.-8., Tietokannan suunnittelu Data Modelerilla, Helsinki, Finland

Collaborate, April 10-14, 2016, Las Vegas, USA

OUGF, EXA-SIG, April 21, Helsinki, Finland

APEX Connect 2016, 26.-28.4.2016 Berlin, Germany

AMIS 25 – Beyond the Horizon, June 2-3

ODTUG KScope16, June 26-30, Chicago, USA

 

And hopefully by OOW16 a book I have been coauthoring will be out, it is about SQL and PL/SQL.

 

Have a wonderful end of 2015 and a very happy and joyful 2016! Hope to see you in 2016!

Heli

I know, I know, 2015 is not over yet 😀

But I was thinking to wrap-up now so I can continue planning 2016 😉 2016 will be sooooo exciting….

2015 was definitely the busiest year ever but I might as well say that it was a great year. My first book came out, I have been writing my second book (it should be out by OOW16) and speaking in (at least) 24 events. Please tell me if your event is not on this list, I have totally lost the track:

Oracle Cloud Day (2.12.2015), Helsinki, Finland

BGOUG (20.-22.11.2015), Pravets, Bulgaria

DOAG (17.-19.11.2015), Nuremberg, Germany

Oracle OpenWorld (25.-29.10.2015), San Francisco, USA

HrOUG (13.-16.10.2015) , Rovinj, Croatia

SIOUG 2015 (12.-13.10.2015) , Portoroz, Slovenia

Oracle Innovation Day (7.10.2015), Tallinn, Estonia

OUGF, Nordic ACE Director Tour (15.9.2015) , Helsinki, Finland

OTN LAD Tour 2015

• 14.8. Mexico
• 17.8. Guatemala
• 19.8. El Salvador
• 21.8. Panama
• 24.-25.8. Ecuador

Kscope15 (21.-25.6.2015), Hollywood, Florida ,USA

BGOUG (12-14.6.2015), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

ilOUG Tech Days (9.-10.6.2015), Israel

OTN EMEA Tour 2015

• Portugal 21.5.2015
• Jordan 23.5.2015
• South Africa 26.5.2015

Wildcard Unconference (16.5.2015), Riga, Latvia

Oracle Expert Summit (21.-24.4.2015), Bucharest, Romania

RoOUG 22.4.2015, Bucharest, Romania

OUGN (12.-14.3.2015), Norway

Riga Dev Day (22.1.2015), Riga, Latvia

In 2015 I was re-elected as the Ambassador for EOUC (EMEA Oracle Users group Community) for the next two years. At the OOW I was jumping to the cloud in Larry’s Keynote, met Mark Hurd and was awarded with a Oracle Database Developer Choice Award in Database Design category. And in December I was listed as the 12th of 100 TOP influencers on IT in Finland (http://okimoclinic.com/2015/12/04/announcement-top-finnish-ict-influencers-in-social-media-of-the-year/, http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/12-2015/100-tivi-vaikuttajaa/242826#). Just to mention some of the highlights of 2015.

I want to thank everybody who has bought my book, attended my sessions, invited me to speak and especially those wonderful collegues of mine who have been travelling with me around this beautiful globe. And of course the biggest THANK YOU to Roland, Vikki, Jennifer and the whole ACE Program and OTN for supporting many of my trips. Without your support this would not have been possible.

 

Thank you and have a wonderful December!

Heli

This morning I woke up at 4 am to be able to finish “everything” before leaving for a super interesting training day:  The Logical Data Warehouse – Design, Architecture, and Technology by Rick van der Lans.

Last night I gave a webinar for the wonderful ODTUG people. It was about New Features of Data Modeler. I have always said NO when people have asked me to do a webinar. “No, I cannot talk to a camera, I need real people as an audience”, has always been my justification for saying no. But I must say that it was not actually bad at all. I definitely will never, ever listen to the recording (I would only find plenty of mistakes and my voice is terrible etc) but I must say it was not bad at all…I might be saying YES from now on…

I will be giving this same presentation at the DOAG conference in Germany next week and in Bulgaria at BGOUG in the end of next week. I just finished polishing my slides and updating my manuscripts for DOAG. On Monday I will fly to Germany. In Germany I will also talk about comparing functionalities in Data Modeler and in Bulgaria I will talk about how to manage changes in database structures.

Oh and I have found a new hobby: I answer questions on Oracle Community Platform. It’s actually very fun!

Now back to work so I will make it on time to the training…

Have a nice day!

Heli