RMOUG 

June 26, 2025

Educational Workshop

SESSION DETAILS

Spring/Summer Educational Workshop 

Google Boulder Campus (BLDG 2930)
2930 Pearl Street - Boulder, Colorado  

Meeting Agenda

10:00 am –   10:45 am      Check-in and Light Bites

10:45 am – 11:45 am       Session 1  "How to Become an Expert"   

11:45 am – 12:45 pm         Networking Lunch

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm        Annual Membership Meeting

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm           Session 2       "Supercharging Oracle: How the Google Cloud Partnership Unlocks AI-Driven Application Innovation"

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm           Session 3        "Building GenAI Applications with Oracle Databases"

PLEASE NOTE: A Government Issued ID (e.g., Driver's License or Passport) will be required to enter the building.

Session 1 -  Presentation

       "How to Become an Expert"

 Synopsis: This 45-minute talk draws upon a lengthy career spent collaborating with top-tier database troubleshooters and performance analysts. It offers a practical guide for aspiring database experts. Key areas covered include:

• Getting Started: 

    Foundational steps and resources to begin your journey

• Rapid Progression: 

    Strategies for accelerating your learning and skill development

• Verification Techniques: 

    Methods to validate your solutions and ensure accuracy

• Problem-Solving Strategies: 

    A brief exploration of how expert analysts approach challenges, emphasizing efficient and effective solutions

Highlights: 

• Get started with foundational steps and resources to begin your journey
• Progress rapidly with strategies for accelerating your skill development
• Learn how expert analysts approach challenges to effectively solve issues  

Session 2 - Presentation

"Supercharging Oracle: How the Google Cloud Partnership Unlocks AI-Driven Application Innovation"

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 Synopsis: This session explores the strategic collaboration between Oracle and Google Cloud, designed to empower businesses to run Oracle databases and applications with greater efficiency and scale. We will delve into:

• The Oracle/Google Partnership: Understanding the driving forces behind this alliance, how the two companies synergize, and the resulting benefits for customers.
• Joint Value Proposition: How the integration of Google's infrastructure and capabilities with Oracle's enterprise solutions creates enhanced value for joint customers.
• Regional Availability and Roadmap: Discuss the existing global regions supporting Oracle on Google Cloud and explore the planned expansion and rollout of new regions in the next 12 months.
• Support: How the two companies work together to provide support to their joint customers. 

By attending this session, participants will gain insights into leveraging the combined strengths of Oracle and Google Cloud to create a multi-cloud environment for their enterprise workloads.

• Understand the motivation behind the Oracle / Google Cloud partnership.
• Get the latest info on data center locations and rollout plans.
• Learn why the multi-cloud combination of Oracle & GCP is the best of both worlds. 

Session 3 - Presentation

       "Building GenAI Applications with Oracle Databases" 

Synopsis: In today’s data-driven world, organizations need to extract valuable insights from their data quickly and efficiently.

Explore how businesses can start to use industry-leading capabilities across Vertex AI, Gemini foundation models, and Oracle Database Vector Search to bring enterprise truth to enterprise data.

Learn how streamlined integrations with analytics services such as BigQuery, Looker, and Oracle Database 23ai help accelerate insights for your organization.

Discover how to unlock the full potential of your data and drive innovation with the combined strengths of Oracle and Google Cloud.

Our Speakers

Kerry Osborne, Database Black Belt Team Lead, Google, USA

Kerry Osborne founder of Enkitec; an expert model Oracle-focused consulting company that was acquired by Accenture in 2014 (now the Accenture Enkitec Group). He is also a founder of Gluent, a software company which provided transparent connections between many analytic engines (Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Hadoop, Synapse, …) Gluent’s IP was acquired by Google in 2022 and the team joined Google to form a specialized group of databases experts (Database Black Belts) that focus on helping enterprise customers and improving Google’s database products by infusing

Gluent IP. Kerry has co-authored two performance focused books, Pro Oracle SQL and Expert Oracle Exadata.

Brant Scalan, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer

Brant Scalan, a Platform AI specialist at Google in Boulder, Colorado, brings a unique perspective shaped by his experience as a former VMware engineer. His deep understanding of cloud infrastructure was further honed as a Google Cloud VMware Engine specialist for Google North America, making him a valuable voice in the Platform AI space. Join us to hear Brant’s insights on navigating the complexities of modern data infrastructure and maximizing your and Oracle investments and AI-driven infrastructure on Google Cloud.

Cody Fincher, Staff Technical Solutions Consultant

Cody Fincher, a Staff Technical Solutions Consultant on Google's elite Database Blackbelt team, In his current role at Google , he is instrumental in guiding customers on optimizing their database workloads on Google Cloud. With a wealth of experience in Oracle technologies, Cody offers a deep understanding of the needs of developers and database professionals.

Throughout his career, including roles at Gluent and the Accenture Enkitec Group, Cody has focused on high-performance database solutions. He is a strong advocate for the developer community and an active contributor to open-source projects like the Litestar Python framework and Advanced Alchemy. Cody's expertise spans a wide range of technologies, including Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle RAC, and MySQL, making him a valuable resource for anyone working with Oracle and modern application development.

Maria Zuliani, Public Sector Specialist for Oracle Solutions, Google Cloud

Maria, with nearly five years of experience guiding State & Local Government, Academic institutions to innovate with the cloud. Drawing on 13 years as a Principal Cloud Architect at Oracle, and 17 years as a Sun/Solaris Architect, Maria helps customers migrate, modernize, and optimize their Oracle environments on Google Cloud. She brings deep expertise in Oracle database architecture, migration strategies, and Google Cloud AI solutions.

Bobby Curtis, President and Senior Consultant at RheoData

RheoData is a global systems integrator based out of Atlanta, Georgia.  As an Oracle ACE Director Alumni and published author, he has a wide range of knowledge from database technologies, to data movement, and cloud architectures.  Before running RheoData, Bobby worked for Oracle as the core product manager for ager for Oracle GoldenGate and various consulting firms specializing in creating, maintaining, tuning, and integrating enterprise database solutions to help solve business problems. Bobby hosts a blog, http://dbasolved.com, which is respected as a source of information for solving complex issues related to Oracle technologies, especially Oracle GoldenGate.  Along with his blog, Bobby is active on Twitter under the handle @DBASolved.  During his downtime, Bobby enjoys spending time with his family while traveling to watch his children compete in their respective sports.  Outside of work, he is a geek, either writing the next chapters of an upcoming book or looking for technical solutions.