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Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW17

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by dozens of sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – fair warning. You will be sold Oracle products and consulting, and like it, and start telling all your friends about it and be assimilated.

From 2016 – still being confirmed:

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events
There are 3 community events at OOW this year,

  1. A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, September 30th at 10 a.m.
  2. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 1st at 7:30 a.m.
  3. 6th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 2th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2016 List of OOW Events

The 2015 List of OOW Events

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

Oaktable 2017 will also be at OOW Again!

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Oracle OpenWorld 2016 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW16

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oow16_bannerWhere I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – fair warning. You will be sold Oracle products and consulting, and like it, and start telling all your friends about it and be assimilated.

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events
There are 3 community events at OOW this year,

  1. A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, September 17th at 10 a.m.
  2. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 a.m.
  3. 5th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 26th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2015 List of OOW Events

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back once again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://dbakevlar.com/2016/08/oak-table-world-2016-oracle-open-world-edition/

Agenda for Oaktable World 2016, located at Creativity Museum, is looking like:

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW15

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

Also here’s a guide to noshing at the nearby Ferry Building (end of Market St, at the waterfront):

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events
There are 3 community events at OOW this year,

  1. A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, October 24th at 10 a.m.
  2. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 a.m.
  3. 4th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 26th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back once again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://www.oaktable.net/oaktable%20world%202015

Agenda for Oaktable World 2015, located at Creativity Museum, is

 time Monday Oct 26 Tuesday Oct 27
8  8:30 – Welcome with Mogens  Toon Koppelaars – hash joins and Bloom filters
9 Mark W. Farnham – Minimizing the concurrency footprint of transactions with Logical Units of Work stored in PL/SQL Kyle Hailey – Virtual Data
10

Kerry Osborne – SQL Translation Framework

 Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, AWR Warehouse Trending and Analysis with OBIEE
11 Greg Rahn – Taming JSON with SQL: From Raw to Results

Marco Gralike – Improving XML performance with the 12c In-Memory Column Store
12 ted talks ted talks
1

Dan Norris – Exadata Database Machine Security

Cary Millsap – Performance
2  John Beresniwicz – AWR Ambiguity: What do do when the numbers don’t add up?

Gwen Shapira – Real-time data integration
3 Kevin Closson – Modern Platform Topics for Modern DBAs

Alex Gorbachev – Big Data 
4 Tanel Poder – Connecting Oracle with Hadoop  Chris Antognini – Adaptive Dynamic Sampling

Ted Talks between noon and 1pm

 Monday  Tuesday
 Eric Grancher – graphing outliers Jonah H. Harris – Manipulating the Oracle Call Interface

Greg Rahn- What Cloud Can Offer For A DBMS

 Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman – TBD

Jonathan Lewis – indexes, column groups and 12c

Jonathan Lewis Virtual columns
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#C15LV Collaborate 2015 Networking Opportunity Events

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at Collaborate (April 11-16, 2015 – Las Vegas, Nevada). To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an Collaborate Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at Collaborate in order to pick up whatever is required for entry.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular #C15LV reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

My sessions for this year:

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Collaborate 2014 Networking Opportunity Events

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at Collaborate (April 7-11, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada).

To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an Collaborate Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at Collaborate in order to pick up whatever is required for entry.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular #C14LV reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.
Feel free to post your own additions in the comments. 
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Collaborate 2013 Networking Opportunity Events

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at Collaborate (April 7-11, 2013 – Denver, Colorado):

  • IOUG Volunteers Event, Saturday 6:30p-8:30p, Wynkoop Brewery
  • IOUG 20th Anniversary Welcome, 5:00p-7:00p MHB Foyer
  • Keste Cust. Appr, Sunday 5:30-7:30p, Green Russell
  • Oracle ACE Dinner, Sunday 7p-9p, <tbd>
  • PiTTS/ECS/OraPlayer Forms Recp, Tuesday 5-8:00p, Exhibit Hall D
  • DSI/CSS Cust.Appr, Tuesday, 7:30-10:30p, Biscuits & Blues
  • Rimini Street Cust. Appr, Tuesday, 7:00-9:30p, Ocean Prime
  • Fishbowl Cust. Appr, Tuesday, 7:00-9:00p, Peaks Lounge
  • Noetix Cust. Appr, Tuesday, 7:00-9:00p, Marlowe’s
  • Collab13 Urban Revival Party, Wed 7:30-10:30p, Exh Hall D
Feel free to post your own additions in the comments. 
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2012-October Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Building a Trusted Reputation

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2012-October Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Building a Trusted Reputation

The Importance of Establishing Trust
Consistency Builds a Foundation
Learning to Say, “Yes…”
Choosing the Difficult Path
2012-October Shinnyo-en Buddhism Monthly Focus Podcast – Building a Trusted Reputation


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During an interview recently, Keishu-sama was asked, “What would you most like to be remembered for in this world?” She replied without hesitation, “Not to be formally recognized or rewarded, but to be a person who can be relied upon and trusted – to be a dependable person.”

The timeliness of this idea is quite unmistakable. On TED.com Rachel Botsman spoke this month on how a person’s reputation will become the new perception of an individual’s value, especially out in the virtual internet universe, where we will meet virtual strangers every day and virtual identities are only as genuine as the ratings or comments of others.  In this discussion there is a clear line drawn between one’s Influence (as measured by Likes, Re-Tweets, Follows and Facebook Friends) and one’s Trustworthiness (measured by positive Comments, Recommendations by others, and References by others to your own comments and opinions.)  Botsman points out that the ability to have a positive outcome from a business activity has a direct correlation to your own rather difficult-to-measure Trust factor, and has almost no relation to one’s credit score (FICO), virtual Likes or Influence rating.

So how do you go about building a good reputation?  Trust by others starts with actions towards the benefit of others. It’s easy not to trust someone who is always thinking of themselves first, or doing things in a selfish manner. Even more interesting are those who firmly believe they are making efforts for others, and yet are not sources of inspiration and seem to be beset by troubles and conflicts. The person who always barters is a good negotiator, but seldom trusted. And yet, it’s even simpler to trust someone who always acts by thinking of others first, placing themselves in “the other person’s shoes” and doing things which have no direct correlation with a reward.

Those actions must also have a consistency to them, similar to a river or stream that never dries up.  We think fondly of returning to the cool waters of an ever-present water source to refresh ourselves and cleanse our bodies and minds, but we don’t have that same affinity towards a tributary that only runs randomly, sometimes in great gushes, and other times a mere trickle. We seek every day, to find our own reliable and trustworthy sources of our own sustenance, and that includes those who inspire us and motivate us in life.

If we reflect on the Four Virtues of a Bodhisattva: Permanence (eternity or timelessness), Bliss (happiness), Self (identity or confidence), and Purity (truth)  (Jpn. Jo Raku Ga Jo) each one is attainable only through consistent practice. Each one can be soiled each time someone strays from these invaluable measures. But someone who endeavors to hold true each one of these ideals in their daily life and interactions, becomes by their actions, a trustworthy person because of their consistency and diligence to pursue them.

In a customer service training held by the Telephone Doctor, they introduce verbal phone etiquette choices that enhance communication skills for people dealing with others. The principles are the same in their training – learn to act as you would wish to be treated by putting yourself into the other person’s place before deciding how to react.

Instead of… Try using…
I don’t know. That’s a good question. Let me find out.
I can’t do… Well, what I can do…
You have to… What you need to do…
Just a second… This may take a minute. Can you hold?
No. <…> I can do <something instead>
<silence> (as a response to anything) <say something…>

When you hear the latter responses and imagine a person you’re dealing with responding that way with a smile, can you imagine feeling a little better about the response to your question, even if it happens to be not exactly what you were expecting?

It is very easy it seems to do the opposite of the Four Virtues, much like taking an elevator to the top of a mountain, versus climbing a rocky and steep path along the rocks. You can exhibit impatience, anger or frustration, lack of commitment and lying with as much ease as entering that express lift. Just as taking the stairs once in awhile strengthens our heart and muscles, so does choosing discipline in Life over convenience. We learn more from our difficulties than we ever do from our easy achievements. The interesting change of perspective that transforms the world around you is when you start seeing those challenges in terms of their presented opportunities rather than their burdens. As Life’s hurdles transform into steps, you might find your spiritual strength increasing as you exercise your free will.