Toledo Tech Events

The move to the Cloud is inevitable, so where are you at on your journey?

Join WTA Consulting & Oracle Corporation for a light breakfast with other C-Levels, learn about your options in moving to the Cloud, how to make your team and data ready, and what your timeline is.

If your schedule allows, we invite you to stay for 9 holes of golf, directly following the session at 10am on Brandywine's course amidst beautiful midwest fall colors.

Agenda:

• 8 - 8:15 Welcome & light breakfast
• 8:15 - 9:45 Your Journey to the Cloud presented by Matthew O'Keefe, Oracle Cloud Strategist
• 9:45 - 10 Q & A, directly followed by golf

This event has limited capacity and is reserved for high-level decision makers. Please indicate in your reservation whether you will be joining us after the seminar for golf, so we can reserve enough carts.

TMOUG Kickoff Meeting in Spirit of the Holidays!

2012 is right around the corner. Do you have strategic solutions to your most critical business initiatives?

Technology moves at the speed of light. In order to stay ahead of the game, the opportunity to network with other Oracle Users and see this year’s most impressive keynotes is invaluable to you and your business.

Oracle and WTA Consulting are proud to invite you back to join fellow Oracle Users from NW Ohio and SE Michigan to collaborate for the first time since 2009!

We understand you may not have had the chance to attend OpenWorld this year. That’s why WTA is thrilled about the opportunity to bring all of the exciting new concepts and emerging technologies presented in San Francisco this past October right to you!

Join us this Thursday, December 8th from 4-7pm at Claddagh’s inside the Franklin Park Mall. We will be gathering in the beautiful Gothic Room for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and networking, where Mark Rabne, of ORACLE Corporation, will be presenting the OpenWorld 2011 Update.

It’s not too late to register, we’d be happy to have you join us for an update and to gather some of your ideas for next year. If you or any of your colleagues would like to attend, please get in touch with me at 419-897-6999 or by email. I’m very excited to see previous TMOUG supporters for the first time in years and looking forward to meeting anyone new to the group!

I hope to see you there!

Brie Warnock VP, Communications & Events Toledo Metro Oracle Users Group 419-897-6999 briew@wtainc.com

Join more than 400 colleagues at the largest Oracle training conference in the Great Lakes Region.

Why Attend GLOC?

• Privilege of hearing Oracle experts speak
• Cost-effective, valuable training from Oracle on a variety of technical and application-related topics
• Learning first-hand about other companies' experiences with Oracle
• Exposure to Oracle partners and their offerings
• Excellent networking opportunity with other Oracle users

Please join us to discover the latest technological breakthroughs in Oracle Database 12c!

Oracle Database 12c is the world's first database designed for the cloud! Complete with more than 500 innovative new features, Database 12c continues to ease our customers' efforts to standardize, consolidate, and automate database services on the cloud. Join Oracle to see firsthand how Database 12c enables IT to tap fully into the benefits of the cloud, including resource sharing, management flexibility, security and cost savings. Oracle experts will be on hand to provide a comprehensive overview of this new release. Your peers will also be there to share perspectives on the impact of Oracle’s latest technological breakthrough. You don’t want to miss this event, where you’ll learn about new features that allow customers to:

• Plug into the Cloud with Oracle Multitenant
• Automate and Optimize the Information Lifecycle
• Maximize Application Availability
• Optimize Database Security

And Much More…

We’ll wrap up the morning with an overview of key Technology-related announcements from Oracle OpenWorld 2013! Breakfast will be provided and we encourage you to stay an join us for lunch and networking.

This event is brought to you by WTA Consulting and Oracle Corporation, in conjunction with the Toledo Metro Oracle Users Group (TMOUG).

Managing both Oracle and SQL? Come learn about tools and techniques on how to work in heterogeneous environments, and get involved in the panel discussion with area database guru, Mike Gangler!

About our presenter, Mike Gangler:

Past President and currently serving on the board of directors of the Southeast Michigan Oracle Professionals (SEMOP) and a charter member of the Board of Directors of the International Oracle Users Group, with worldwide recognition as an accomplished and Certified Oracle DBA and relational database expert. Mike brings multifaceted value through his robust database credentials with a Fortune 100 company in roles ranging from Database Specialist / Infrastructure Architect to Senior Database Administrator, and his ability to develop solutions, determine the impact of technologies on global business systems to deliver solutions and problem solving which satisfy or exceeded program initiatives.

General Agenda

• 8:00 - 8:30 Registration, breakfast & networking
• 8:30 - 9:15 Mike Gangler presents Tips, Tricks & Tools for Managing Oracle & SQL
• 9:15 - 9:30 Break to check in with your mother ship
• 9:30 - 10:30 DBA Panel Discussion
• 10:30 Depart for Highland Meadows to meet for lunch

Directely following the morning event, we will meet for lunch at Highland Meadows for the Marathon Classic and we encourage you to join us! WTA has been a proud sponsor of the local annual LPGA tournament for nearly two decades now, and is pleased to take part again this year. Every year we value the opportunity to take our business relationship out onto the course and look forward to catching up with you over lunch and some golf!