Oracle OpenWorld 2017

Oracle OpenWorld is an annual Oracle convention for business decision-makers, IT management, and line-of-business end users. Attendees will have access to experts from around the world—customers, partners, and Oracle—to grow skills and increase productivity. In addition to 2,500 planned sessions, check out hundreds of Oracle partners, Oracle technology demos run by the experts who helped build the products, and get hands-on in labs where we can dig into the details.

Focus Areas

Whether you're just starting, growing, or an established organization, at Oracle OpenWorld you'll find the latest in industry and product thought leadership. We've curated content into targeted focus areas to help you get the most from your event experience.

• Application Development - In today's world, businesses need to create and deliver engaging user experiences and agile and intelligent business applications. Experience what the most innovative companies are doing to accelerate application development and deployment.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) can improve results across your organization; machine learning driven applications can help lower costs, raise productivity, detect fraud, make better recommendations, and improve business processes. Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps are uniquely powered by enormous amounts of digital consumer and business data from Oracle's Data Cloud, sophisticated decision science/machine learning, and a scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Customer Experience (CX) - Whether your focus is marketing, sales, service, or social, you need to deliver consistent, personalized experiences. At Oracle OpenWorld you'll discover how customers are increasing business agility and delivering ROI through engaging implementations.
• Big Data and Analytics - We live in a world increasingly driven by data. How your organization defines its data strategy and approach will make a critical difference in your ability to compete in the future. Learn to leverage the benefits of data management, big data, and analytics to help your company thrive.
• Database - Oracle's latest database innovations help more businesses than ever leverage industry-leading enterprise capabilities while simplifying access for IT and developers. Find out how cloud scalability and rapid analytics help deliver faster time to insights, greater agility, and real cost savings.
• Finance - Whether your focus is financial management, enterprise resource planning, or supply chain, you need a complete and integrated cloud solution to modernize your business. Find out from customers how forward-thinking CFOs and CIOs are adapting and creating modern digital business models to create more value and get ahead of the competition.
• Engineered Systems - Your business requires extreme performance at every layer of the technology stack. Find out how to simplify your IT integration allowing you to focus on improving services and cutting complexity and costs.
• Human Resources (HR) - An attractive user interface, along with social, mobile, and reporting capabilities are now required of every HR solution. Discover how to manage the full employee lifecycle, from recruiting the best talent to self service to measurement, all while keeping employees engaged and informed to help your business thrive in today's competitive landscape.
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Make the infrastructure choices that are right for your business. Create a strategic IT infrastructure that meets the needs of today while being flexible enough to grow with your business. Oracle customers and partners will share how they have used this strategy to simply their IT operations and accelerated innovation.
• Industries - Business is evolving every day. With new apps and technologies being deployed seemingly around the clock, how do you know what you'll be working with tomorrow? There's only one place to find out what's transforming your industry—and what it means for you—and that place is Oracle OpenWorld.
• Internet of Things (IoT) - The world is requiring that businesses connect every aspect of their infrastructure to create a seamless experience. Harness the power of the connected world by making your existing business applications more valuable with intelligent IoT data, predictive analytics, and out of the box integrations.
• IT Operations - Manage and automate your deployments—applications, database, middleware, hardware and engineered systems—whether in your data center or in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle customers will share how they are streamlining and gaining visibility into their IT applications
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Discover how using the Oracle Cloud, both public and on premise, allows for higher-level programming while drastically reducing complexity.
• Security - Your business can't afford to be hacked. Providing first-class security to your systems should be top of mind. Oracle's security solutions enable organizations to implement and manage consistent security policies across the hybrid data center.
• Supply Chain - Discover the top strategic advantages and motivators of deploying supply chain management processes in the cloud and gain valuable insights from global supply chain leaders. Learn to modernize your supply chain in order to deliver a seamless customer experience.