The Kansas City Oracle Users Group (KCOUG) Training Day 2005 is fast approaching. Join 300 Oracle and technology professionals for a great day of networking and technical sessions. Please forward to colleagues who may be interested. Thank you.

Respectfully,
Maggie Tompkins
Kansas City Oracle Users Group (KCOUG)

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Online registration for KCOUG TRAINING DAY 2005 (with secure payment by PayPal) is now available at http://www.kcoug.org (left-hand KCOUG TRAINING DAY 2005 block)

KCOUG Training Day 2005 Schedule
NOTE: Please check http://www.kcoug.org for last-minute schedule changes.

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Monday, October 24th, 2005
7:00 am – 8:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am – 8:45 am
Opening Session

8:45 am – 10:00 am
Keynote (One session – 1 hour and 15 minutes)
Rich Niemiec, TUSC – Exceptional Leadership; Be the Uncommon Leader!

10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Four Two-Hour In-Depth Technical Sessions
#1 – Rich Niemiec, TUSC – Tuning 9i & 10g – Tuning Oracle has Radically Changed
#2 – Paul Dorsey, Dulcian – Avoiding Landmines as you “Struts Your Stuff” through J2EE Development Using JDeveloper
#3 – Dan Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc. – OracleBI and Oracle OLAP–What’s All This About?
#4 – Shannon Mayfield, Noetix Corporation – Accelerated Reporting for Oracle Applications

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Box Lunch – Attendee Networking (1 hour and 15 minutes)

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Six One-Hour Regular Sessions
#1 – Rich Niemiec, TUSC – Oracle Internals at the Block Level; Beginners, Go Away!
#2 – Paul Dorsey, Dulcian – Repository-Based Application Development
#3 – Bill Inmon, Inmon Data Systems – Managing Unstructured Data and the Bridge to the Structured World
#4 – Dan Hotka, Independent Consultant – Tuning SQL When You Can’t Change the Code
#5 – Matt Larson, Confio Software – Blame the DBA: How Improper Wait Event Analysis Leads to the DBA Blame Game
#6 – David Fuston, IRUS Group – OSA, OFA, DBI, EPB, or Discoverer — Which Reporting Tool is Right For Me?

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Six One-Hour Regular Sessions
#1 – TBD, BraveSoft Technologies – Technical Presentation (BraveSoft Technologies)
#2 – TBD, Embarcadero Technologies – Technical Presentation (Embarcadero Technologies)
#3 – David Welch, House of Brick – Approachable RAC
#4 – Rizwan Jaka, Oracle Corporation – Update on new versions of Portal called Instant Portal and New Features of HTMLDB 1.6/2.0
#5 – Virgil Flack, RingMaster Software – Maintaining Your Oracle Applications in Less Time With the Simplified ACME Approach
#6 – Srinivas D. Talagadadeevi, Black & Veatch – Upgrades, Patches, Critical Issues and Changed Priorities: Providing Useful User Support!!

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Break – Cookies and Soft Drinks (30 minutes)

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Six One-Hour Regular Sessions
#1 – Nick Roppolo, Core Ops, Inc. – Implementing Oracle Discoverer 10g
#2 – Shaun O’Brien, TUSC – Web Application Development with Jdeveloper 10g, ADF and Struts
#3 – Greg Matus, Maverick Solutions – The Leap From PL/SQL to Java: More than Just Syntax
#4 – Prabhakar Gongloor, Oracle Corporation – Performance Diagnostics Demystified: Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g
#5 – Paul Murray, BraveSoft Technologies – Installing Oracle 10g on a Linux Fedora Platform – How to Acquire Valuable DBA Skills at Home
#6 – Swapan Golla, Gallup Organization – Scalable OLAP Web Applications

5:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Wrap-up and Door Prizes

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