We have a large contingent of E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group staff rolling out to the OAUG/Collaborate 2010 conference in Las Vegas new week. 

Our Applications Technology Group staff will be appearing as guest speakers or full-speakers at the following E-Business Suite technology stack related sessions:

• Database Special Interest Group
  Sunday, April 18, 11:00 AM, Breakers F
  SIG Leaders:  Michael Brown, Colibri; Sandra Vucinic, Vlad Group
  Guest Speaker:  Steven Chan
  Covering database upcoming and past desupport dates, and database support policies as they apply to E-Business Suite environments, general Q&A
   
• E-Business Suite Technology Stack Special Interest Group
  Sunday, April 18, 3:00 PM, Breakers F
  SIG Leaders:  Elke Phelps, Paul Jackson, Humana
  Guest Speaker:  Steven Chan
  Covering the latest EBS technology stack certifications, roadmap, desupport noticesupgrade options for Discoverer, OID, SSO, Portal, general Q&A
   
• E-Business Suite Applications Technology Roadmap & Vision
  Monday, April 19, 8:00 AM, South Seas G
  Oracle Speaker:  Uma Prabhala
  Latest developments for SOA, AOL, OAF, Web ADI, SES, AMP, ACMP, security, and other technologies
   
• Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Strategy and General Manager Update
  Monday, April 19, 2:30 PM, Mandalay Bay Ballroom D
  Oracle Speaker:  Cliff Godwin
  Update on the entire Oracle E-Business Suite product line. The session covers the value delivered by the current release of Oracle E-Business Suite applications, the momentum, and how Oracle E-Business Suite applications integrate into Oracle's overall applications strategy
   
  
• 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for the Next Generation Applications
  Tuesday, April 20, 8:00 AM, South Seas F
  Oracle Speaker:  Nadia Bendjedou
  "Common sense" and "practical" steps that can be taken today to increase the value of your Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JDE) investments by using the latest Oracle solutions and technologies
  
  
• Reducing TCO using Oracle E-Business Suite Management Packs
  Tuesday, April 20, 10:30 AM, South Seas E
  Oracle Speaker:  Angelo Rosado
  Learn how you can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership by implementing Application Management Pack (AMP) and Application Change Management Pack (ACP) for E-Business Suite 11i, R12, R12.1. AMP is Oracle's next generation system manageability product offering that provides a centralized platform to manage and maintain EBS. ACP is Oracle's offering to monitor and manage E-Business Suite changes in the areas of E-Business Suite Customizations, Patches and Functional Setups.
   
• E-Business Suite Upgrade Special Interest Group
  Tuesday, April 20, 3:15 PM, South Seas E
  SIG Leaders:  John Stouffer; Sandra Vucinic, Vlad Group
  Guest Speaker:  Steven Chan
  Participating in general Q&A
   
• E-Business Suite Technology Essentials: Using the Latest Oracle Technologies with E-Business Suite
  Wednesday, April 21, 8:00 AM, South Seas H
  Oracle Speaker:  Lisa Parekh
  Oracle continues to build new functionality into the Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, and Enterprise Manager. Come see how you can enhance the value of E-Business Suite for your users and lower your costs of ownership by utilizing the latest features of these Oracle technologies with E-Business Suite. Learn about the latest advanced E-Business Suite topologies and features, including new options for security, performance, third-party integration, SOA, virtualization, clouds, systems management, and much more
   
• How to Leverage the New E-Business Suite R12.1 Solutions Without Upgrading your 11.5.10 Environment
  Wednesday, April 21, 10:30 AM
  Oracle Speaker:  Nadia Bendjedou, South Seas E
  Learn how you can use the latest E-Business Suite 12.1 standalone solutions without upgrading from your E-Business Suite 11.5.10 environment
   
  
• Web 2.0 User Experience and Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite
  Wednesday, April 21, 4:00 PM, South Seas F
  Oracle Speaker:  Padmaprabodh Ambale
  See the next generation Oracle E-Business Suite OA framework improvements that will provide new rich interactions in components such as LOV, Tables and Attachments.  See  new components like the Rich Container that allows any Web 2.0 content like Flash or OBIEE to be embedded in OA Framework pages.
   
• Advanced Technology Deployment Architectures for E-Business Suite
  Wednesday, April 21, 2:15 PM, South Seas E
  Oracle Speaker:  Steven Chan
  Learn how to take advantage of the latest version of Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle E-Business Suite. Learn how to utilize identity management systems and LDAP directories. In addition, come to this session for answers about advanced network deployments involving reverse proxy servers, load balancers, and DMZ's, and to see how you can take benefit from virtualization and new system management capabilities.
   
• Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 - Best Practices
  Thursday, April 22, 11:00 AM, South Seas E
  Oracle Speaker:  Lester Gutierrez, Udayan Parvate
  Fundamental of upgrading to Release 12.1, which includes the technology stack components and differences, the upgrade path from various releases of Oracle E-Business Suite, upgrade steps, monitoring the upgrade, hints and tips for minimizing downtime and upgrade best practices for making the upgrade to Release 12.1 a success. 
  

We look forward to seeing you there!