The Oracle Emerging Partner Community Forum is a one week conference for cutting-edge software consultants, engineers and enterprise-level professionals. The #PaaSForum brings together partners who innovate SaaS and the world’s leading Oracle PaaS experts in the fields of integration, API management, process management, microservices & serverless, machine learning, digital assistant, content management and blockchain.
Conference tracks
Enterprise Integration & Process
Application Development with Microservices, Containers and Serverless
Innovate, extend and integrate SaaS
Development tools, digital assistant & DevOps
Innovation with blockchain, machine learning, IoT & content
Best practices from partners & ACE team
The best conference for PaaS the experts, product managers, and community are welcoming and willing to share.
Meliá Calviá Beach
Carrer Violeta, 1, 07181 Andratx, Illes Balears, Spain
April 8th to April 12th 2019
Conference Program
Day 1: Innovate SaaS and Community Day best practice
Day 2: Keynote and General Sessions with live demos
Day 3: Breakout tracks deep dive with live demos
Day 4 & 5: Hands-on training & coding & hackathon
Take this opportunity and register now for the Oracle Partner Community Forum that will be held in the Meliá Calviá Beach hotel April 8th to April 12th 2019. Registration is free of charge, except in case of cancellation fee € 150 or no-show fee € 600!
The conference will update you on the Oracle PaaS cloud services especially for:
Architects & Practice Managers: product overview
Consultants & Developers: product details including live demos and hands-on training
Marketing Executives: campaign kits including event material and ppts and demos
The event is a wonderful opportunity to:
Code hands-on to implement successful PaaS services
Meet with Oracle OIC, PCS, API, BOTs, JCS, ACC, OMC, IoT, UX, Container, Serverless, Helidon, ProjectFN, Blockchain and PaaS for SaaS Product Management
Exchange best practices, knowledge and have access to product roadmaps
Learn how to sell the value of Oracle PaaS services and to Innovate SaaS
Network within PaaS Partner Community and Developer Partner Community
Hands-on Training
Additionally to the Emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum, you can participate in technical hands on workshops on April 11th & 12th 2019 (for those attending the workshops, it is also required to attend the Community Forum on April 9th & 10th 2019. You can choose either the two days Innovate SaaS (brand new content) workshop a two days Hackathon or choose between several half day PaaS hands-on labs. The goal of these labs and the workshop is to prepare you for customer implementations and to become a certified implementation specialist. Partner Communities
If you are not yet a member, we would like to invite you to join the Oracle EMEA Partner Communities:
Oracle employees are welcome to attend the conference. We will confirm your seat a month before the conference. In case you don’t have an active part we might charge Oracle attendees a daily conference fee of € 120, which will be charges to your company credit card at the registration.
For further information please read the questions and answers
Program Monday April 8th 2019
Time
Technical best practice
Business
Innovate with SaaS (feat. ERP, HCM and CX Cloud)
14:00 - 14:15
Welcome & Introduction
Jürgen Kress & Lucas Jellema
Welcome, introduction and agenda
Richard Lefebvre
14:15 - 14:45
Oracle Developer Meetups Phil Wilkins
Oracle Cloud license models & programs Tim Dwyer
How Technology innovation is driving new market dynamics
Richard Lefebvre
14.45 – 15:15
Oracle Visual Builder as a Primary Tool for Declarative JavaScript Development Florin Marcus
Value of the Oracle PaaS platform for Oracle SaaS Martijn Vlek & Roberto Espinosa
Oracle SaaS Strategy to meet current and future market
Richard Lefebvre
15:15 – 15:45
Transforming the company for the future Rutger Hierck
Navigating Sales and Solutions Engineer Training Ian Reed
CX Cloud solutions to meet consumer expectations
Richard Lefebvre
15:45 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00
Digital Assistant best practices Filip Huysmans
Integrated Marketing Christian Peter
ERPM Cloud solutions to increase companies agility
Catherine Ventris
17:00 – 17:30
Blockchain customer case Robert van Mölken
WEDO team Carlos Casares, Ivan Sampedro, Victor Mendo Alonso
Making HR Smarter, Simpler and More Powerful with Oracle Cloud – Why Oracle is leading the competition in innovation Natalie Hermes
17:30 – 18:00
GraphQL as an alternative approach to REST using Oracle API Platform Luis Weir & James Neate
Woman in IT Amy Simpson-Grange
Mobile Intelligence
Natalie Hermes
Program Tuesday April 9th 2019
Time
Topic
9:00 – 10:30
Registration
10:30 – 10:45
Welcome & Introduction
Jürgen Kress
10:45 – 12:00
Oracle Cloud Platform Andrew Sutherland & Ed Zou
12:00 – 12:15
Coffee break
12:15 – 13:00
Smart Content Creation, Syndication and Personalization…finally
Chris Stone
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch Break & Networking
14:15 – 15:00
Serverless Functions & APIs Shaun Smith
15:00 – 15:45
Digital Assistant Frank Nimphius
15:45 – 16:30
Oracle Integration Cloud - Hot new innovations will be demonstrated, and discussed! Vikas Anand
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:45
Winning in the AI Arms Race with Oracle Cloud Ian Swanson
17:45 – 18:00
Community Awards
Jürgen Kress
18:30 – 22:30
Social Networking Event
Program Wednesday April 10th 2019
Time
Enterprise Process & Integration track Niall Commiskey
Development tools & DevOps track Andrea Morena
Application Development track Maciej Gruszka
Innovation track Chris Peytier
Innovate, Extend and Integrate SaaS Virtual track
8:30 – 08:45
Innovate SaaS Ed Zou
Welcome & Introduction Day II
8:45 – 10:00
SaaS Integration patterns - learnings from the field
Deepak Arora
Modernizing your Application Architecture with Client-Side JavaScript John Brock & Geertjan Wielenga
Microprofile Implementation with Helidon.io project
Peter Nagy
Content & Experience Cloud – Smart Content for all Personalized Experiences
Mark Foster
SaaS Integration patterns - learnings from the field
Deepak Arora
Visual Builder Cloud Service & SaaS Extension
John Ceccarelli
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch Break & Networking
14:30-15:45
Custom workflows for SaaS
Eduardo Chiocconi & Chris Peytier
DevOps and Agile Platform for Oracle IaaS and PaaS
Shay Shmeltzer
Go Serverless with Oracle Functions
Shaun Smith & Team
Oracle IoT Cloud Application
Jens Pätzold
Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Service
tbc.
15:45 – 17:05
Microservices & Functions at work [in Oracle Cloud] –Live Demo
Lucas Jellema & Team
17:05 – 17:15
PaaS Partner Strategy & Closing remarks
Jürgen Kress
17:15
Closing PaaS Forum next 2 Days hands-on workshops for registered attendees
17:15 – 18:00
Closing Reception
Hands-on Bootcamps April 11th & 12th 2019
Additionally to the Partner Community Forum, you can participate in technical hands on workshops on April 11th &12th 2019 (for those attending the workshops, it is also required to attend the Community Forum on the April 9th &10th 2019). You can choose either the two days hands-on Innovate SaaS with PaaS (all new!) workshop and hands-on Hackathon workshop or choose between several half day PaaS hands-on labs. The goal of these workshops is to prepare you for customer implementations and to become a certified implementation specialist.
You will receive a separate confirmation for the hands-on bootcamps on Thursday and Friday as soon you are confirmed. The Innovate SaaS with PaaS workshop and the Hackathon workshop are limited to two persons per company, additional registration will be added to the waiting list. Seats are granted by first come first serve. If you use a non-company e-mail and do not highlight your current PaaS projects we will add you to the training waiting list and confirm you last minute. You can choose only one from the following trainings:
Please do register with your company e-mail (we do not accept generic e-mails) and make sure that you do have Oracle Partner Network credentials. For support please contact the OPN Team at http://www.tinyurl.com/opncontact.
Community membership
Please ensure that you are a member in the PaaS Partner Community or the Developer Partner Community. If you are not yet a member, we would like to invite you to join the Oracle EMEA Partner Communities:
The Emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum takes place at the Meliá Calviá Beach. We highly recommend to book the conference hotel for networking purpose. To make use of the Special Oracle conference rate €110 (120 double room) per night including breakfast, please use the Melia booking link here. Please book the hotel before January 20th 2019!
To request a visa invitation letter please send an e-mail (from your company address) to Juergen.Kress@oracle.com including your personal details & company e-mail signature.
Quotes from previous conferences
#Paas Forum: the quickest route to the Cloud! Martien van den Akker, Darwin-IT professionals
PaaS Forum is the place of Oracle Partners! Mohamed Abdel Moneim, Ejada Systems
What a nice, open minded community and event. Alex Hafner, Appsmode Ltd.
Never miss a PaaS Forum! Gary Buffington, AVIO Consulting, LLC
It was amazing to see the transition from traditional OFM themes into a full blown PaaS conference. I have no doubt that this become the "to-go" conference for PaaS if you are a Partner. Lusi Weir, HCL
#1 event for Partners, lots of information. Valuable networking – Harry van Oosten, Oriente IT
OFM forum is where partners learn direct from product management, competitors work together to learn hands on and new alliances are forged. Debra Lilley, Certus
The OFM Forum is the place to be to set /and discuss) the latest development around Oracle PaaS from the source and discuss experiences amongst peers. Leon Smiers, Capgemini
A unique and excellent opportunity to interact with Oracle and peers in a relaxed setting. Michel van Zoest, Whitehorses
Newest updates in compressed form and the best Oracle experts from all over the world at one place. Awesome conference! Sven Bernhardt, Opitz Consutling
Want to know about Cloud -> go to the community meeting. Andreas Chatziantoniou, Foxglove-IT
The FMW and PaaS Partner Forum is the best event of the year. It is the best moment for networking and get to know the experts around the world. Rolando Carrasco, S&P Solutions
EMEA conferences are a must attend! Vivek Chaudhari, Fusion Applied
The OFM Forum continues to be the best Partner Networking event in the calendar - it is very well supported by Oracle PM. Around 6 months after Openworld so provides very useful update, and is an ideal Format to meet with your peers. Simon Haslam, eProseed
Conference Feedback 2018
From the 234 attendees 82,7% percent plan to attend the next edition (17,3% maybe).
Please be aware that we will NOT answer questions via e-mail. You can find more details on this registration page. Please read the registration page very careful before you register – make the right choice for your training (you can not change later).
Community Discussion Forum (membership required)
Please post your questions in the community discussion forums:
Can I make a registration for my colleague? No, we ask for personal registrations to ensure that your personal accounts are in place.
Can I register with a generic e-mail address? No we only accept registrations from company e-mail addresses with OPN credentials.
Where can I get help with my OPN credentials? Please contact the OPN team at www.tinyurl.com/talktoOPN.
Can I reserve a seat for myself? No, we only accept registrations, the conference had been always booked out don’t wait too long!
When do you confirm registrations? We will confirm the first registrations in January 2019 on a weekly basis.
Do I need to book my hotel room? Yes please book your hotel room by yourself, for special rates please see the registration page.
Do I need to stay at the conference hotel? We highly recommend to book the conference hotel for networking purpose.
Can I change the hands-on training later? No, in case you want to attend a hands-on training please choose it with your initial registration.
Do you limit the registrations for the hands-on training? Yes only allow 2 persons per company in each hands-on workshop. Additional persons will be added to the waiting list and confirmed one month prior to the conference.
Where can I find a detailed agenda for the conference and the hands-on trainings? All information will be published here on the registration page as soon as it becomes available.
What technical requirements are necessary to attend the hands-on training? We will publish the details on the registration page and send them to you with the hands-on confirmation.
Do I receive a separate e-mail for the hands-on training confirmation? Yes including all training details.
Can I attend only the hands-on trainings? No, you also need to attend the conference on the first two days.
Where can I get help to get my demo.oracle.com credentials? Please contact the OPN team www.tinyurl.com/talktoOPN or post your questions in your discussion forums.
I am a special partner and want to register but the hands-on training and the conference are booked out! Register on time and read the monthly community newsletter for next year’s conference!
Can I bring my family & friends to the conference? Yes, Majorca is a great location, the hotel is located right at the beach. All conference attendees need to be registered if they want to attend any sessions. In case your family & friends want to attend only the social networking event on Tuesday evening please contact the registration desk during the conference. We will try to assign seats based on availability.
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Enterprise Integration & Process 
Application Development with Microservices, Containers and Serverless 
Innovate, extend and integrate SaaS
Development tools, digital assistant & DevOps 
Innovation with blockchain, machine learning, IoT & content
Best practices from partners & ACE team
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