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Join us at Oracle Systems Advantage Forum in Johannesburg on 22nd August 2019. We will share our vision for data driven Digital Transformation enabled by Oracle’s Cloud ready infrastructure and real-world case studies from our customers across the globe.
Data is your most important asset. But to get the most from it, and to effectively utilize new technologies, your platform needs to be quickly available, reliable and secure—both on premises and in the cloud.
Attend the Systems Advantage Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa to hear from top Oracle and customer specialists on how to:
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome & Introduction
09:30 - 09:55
New Technology Architecture: Data Driven Digital Transformation
09:55 - 10:25
Oracle Cloud-Ready Infrastructure: Update & Direction
10:25 - 10:45
Executive Panel: Customer Use Cases
10:45 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:40
Critical Oracle Database Workloads: Achieving Business & Operational Excellence
11:40 - 12:20
Restoring Your Data or Restoring Your Reputation
12:20 - 12:50
Achieving Public Cloud Benefits in Your Own Data Center
12:50 - 13:20
Machine Learning for Oracle Database
13:20 - 13:30
Closing Remarks
13:30 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
Reinier van Grieken Oracle VP, EMEA Systems.
Reinier has been with Oracle for over 8 years and leads the EMEA Systems organization.
Toby Shapshak
Toby Shapshak is editor-in-chief and publisher of Stuff, a Forbes contributor and a Financial Mail columnist. He has been writing about technology and the internet for 20 years and his TED Global talk on innovation in Africa has over 1,5-million views. He has written about Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian in London. He was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans. He has been featured in the New York Times.
Shane Fernandez Oracle MEA Systems Director
Shane Fernandes is the Systems Leader for Middle East & Africa and is responsible for driving the portfolio of Oracle’s Infrastructure solutions across the region.
Nathan Ragovan Oracle ZA & SADC Systems Director
Nathan leads the Server and Storage LOB in South Africa and SADC. Responsible for enhancing organizational culture and building out a wildly successful sales team for collaboration, mutual respect and authenticity
Martin de Jong Oracle Head of Server Business Development - Systems EMEA
Martin is the Head of Server Business Development (Director), responsible for the Server Product Lines and the Campaigns in EMEA Systems Business Development. In this role, Martin is responsible for driving the New Product Introduction go-to-market strategies and the pipeline associated. He has a deep knowledge of Oracle's Hardware technologies, and his role also includes speaker responsibility in 1-1, 1-to-many customer and partner events on product oriented topics like SPARC systems, SuperCluster, PCA, Engineered Systems, Solaris and IT related topics and solutions like Cloud Computing, Datacenter Efficiency, Consolidation & Virtualisation. Martin joined Oracle in 2010 through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for the Systems Product Marketing in Central & Northern Europe. Martin has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry.
Tansel Okay Oracle Systems Solution Engineering Director Tansel Okay is a Systems Solution Engineering Leader - Region CEA & SADC for Oracle
Phil Dunn Oracle Director of Infrastructure Business Development, EMEA
He is responsible for the evangelization of Oracle’s Hardware infrastructure portfolio aligned with Oracle's Cloud Strategy in the EMEA region covering customers, partners as well as internal sales. He's an entrepreneurial technology leader who is targeted in helping define new and innovative customer centric experiences to assist them with their data driven digital journey, creating product alignment with other Oracle groups including Oracle Cloud, and serve as an evangelist for the Systems group's vision and strategy to stakeholders across the company. He's also responsible for communicating Oracle's Systems Strategy and providing in depth market and competitive research to support the systems go-to-market. As one of the leading Oracle competitive experts for the last 8 years at Oracle, and 12+ years previously at Sun, providing competitive sales support against on premises vendors like IBM, HPE, Dell/EMC, Nutanix to public cloud vendors including AWS, Azure, GoogleComputeCloud, IBM, etc, Phil has the experience and knowledge to provide Oracle Sales & Partners as well as customers, a competitive advantage in understanding why choosing Oracle is best whether on-premises, in the cloud or somewhere in-between.
Mike Ramchand Oracle Distinguished Systems Sales Consultant
Michael is a member of the Elite Engineering Exchange (EEE). The EEE is a focused global group of Elite Sales Consultants connected with Systems Engineers (Engineering), with the purpose of direct and bi-directional communication, enabling a collaborative exchange of Information among and between SCs and Engineering. The EEE communicates via face to face summits, multiple conference calls per month, aliases, collaboration spaces and individual connections. The EEE brings real-world experiences to Engineering, Engineering technical information into sales situations and shares valuable experiences around the globe
Michael Van Dijk Oracle Master Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Marius Scholtz Oracle Cloud Technology Customer Advisor
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