Kansas City OUG Training Day 2008

I grew up in the Kansas City area and love the city (it is just about 600 miles too far away from the Rocky Mountains). Back in 2003, the KCOUG held a small 1/2 day conference with 4 speakers and about 50 attendees. Since then, they have grown to a great full day conference with top quality speakers and several hundred attendees. The next Training Day is November 5th and the Request for Abstracts is out. Please consider submitting a paper and/or attending. The facility and city are great (especially if you love steak or barbeque).

Request for Abstracts
Kansas City Oracle Users Group
Training Day 2008
November 5th, 2008
Overland Park Convention Center
Overland Park, Kansas

The conference planning committee invites all interested parties to submit abstract proposals for presentation at the KCOUG Training Day 2008. We are excited to announce that Charlie Garry will be our Keynote Speaker. Mr. Garry has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology. He is a former Vice President and Director for META Group’s Technology Research Services. Mr. Garry’s focus has been on relational database and infrastructure design, support staffing, licensing/pricing and data management best practices. Throughout his career, Mr. Garry has worked with hundreds of companies delivering support and education in areas such as database design, performance tuning, backup/recovery, licensing and negotiation strategies. He has been a frequently requested speaker at noted database conferences such as Oracle World, IOUG, IDUG, Teradata Partners and the MySQL User Conference and was the author of a regular column for eWEEK.com. Mr. Garry was a founding member of Divine Interventures and Vice President of Infrastructure Strategies for Platinum Technology as well as Director of Field Operations for Platinum’s data warehousing/BI division.

Abstracts of interest will be technically oriented toward topics of interest to Oracle DBAs,
Developers or APS. Presentations should focus on problem solving techniques limiting commercial endorsement to the absolute minimum.

Subject areas of interest include:

• Database Administration
• Database Development
• Fusion Middleware
• Data Warehousing
• Oracle Applications
• PL/SQL
• Java/ J2EE
• Web Services

Please help make this event a success by volunteering to present at the conference by submitting your abstract(s).
Please include:
Title: 20 words or less
Summary: 100 words or less – To be printed in the conference program
Abstract: 500 words or less
Authors Bio: 100 words or less – Briefly describe your professional background
Intended Audience – [Novice] [Intermediate] [Advanced]
Area of Interest of Presentation –
[Oracle Applications] [Database Administration] [Oracle Development] [Other (please define)]


All abstracts for oral presentations should be emailed as a Word or RTF attachment by August 20th 2008. Abstracts should be 500 words or less, typed in Times New Roman, 12 font. Please include authors name(s) and institution(s), title of presentation, a contact persons name, address, telephone number, and email address. Abstracts should reflect original, current work and should be sent to: speakers@kcoug.org Authors of selected papers will be notified by August 31st. The presenter will receive complementary registration to Training Day 2008 but will be responsible for their transportation, meals and lodging.