At Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas next week, Oracle will be showcasing its unique approach to dazzling customers and disrupting competitors, and here are five innovations that attendees — as well as viewers on Oracle TV — should be looking for:
- future-shaping keynotes from Oracle leaders Larry Ellison and Safra Catz;
- 600+ sessions on cloud technology, AI breakthroughs, purpose-built databases for cloud and AI, industry-specific solutions, and more;
- how to gain the greatest business value from AI deployments;
- insights on why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the fastest-growing major cloud business in the world; and
- the opportunity for attendees to take in both CloudWorld and NetSuite’s SuiteWorld as the two events come together for the first time.
Here are some thoughts on each of those five topics and why I think they should be particularly exciting for business-technology leaders looking to drive superior business outcomes from AI and cloud technology in the fast-changing digital economy.
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1. Larry Ellison and Safra Catz Keynotes
For the past three CloudWorld events, CEO Safra Catz has showcased the industry-shaking business innovations of several great customers from across a wide range of industries. In an open fireside-chat format, Catz and her C-level guests offer compelling insights into the sweeping business transformations Oracle is helping these customers make with new products and services, new revenue streams, optimized processes, and real-time data insights. Catz’s world-class business acumen and gracious conversational approach bring out the best from her guests and allow attendees to gain high-value insights into where the business world is headed.
Ellison has a history of using his keynotes to map out not only Oracle’s technology vision but often the course of the entire tech industry. This year, I’ll be eager to see what Ellison has to say about what he’s called “AI data centers” — some of the largest such facilities in the world — and Oracle’s unmatched deployment options that are ultimately delivering into the hands of customers computing power and capabilities that were unimaginable just a couple of years ago.
2. 600+ Sessions on Essential Cloud and AI Technologies
Because Oracle has such a vast product portfolio and plays at every level of the cloud market as well as the AI market, its CloudWorld events always feature a wide array of educational sessions to help attendees understand how to drive great business outcomes from Oracle technology. And with the pace of change in the business world accelerating, these sessions become even more valuable as enterprise technology becomes indispensable for businesses in every industry.
3. Gaining Maximum Impact from AI Deployments
Oracle has been an AI pioneer for more than 20 years, and the GenAI Revolution has allowed the company to infuse all parts of its portfolio — infrastructure, databases, applications, security, and more — with powerful AI technologies that help customers boost productivity and innovation to drive growth. And since Oracle has one of the world’s broadest set of industry-specific solutions, its AI innovations that will be showcased at CloudWorld are spreading rapidly into vertical-market capabilities delivering unique competitive advantages for Oracle customers.
4. The World’s Fastest-Growing Cloud-Infrastructure Business
At CloudWorld, Oracle will showcase its hypergrowth OCI technologies and services that are giving customers unmatched performance at lower cost and with more security. Attendees can check out everything from Cloud@Customer to dedicated cloud regions to Autonomous Database to breakthrough multi-cloud solutions with Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Amazon, along with much more.
5. CloudWorld and SuiteWorld Join Up at One Mega-Event
While Oracle acquired NetSuite eight years ago, the NetSuite event — SuiteWorld — has until this year run independently from CloudWorld. Today, as more small and midsized business are jumping into the cloud, the opportunity for customers to check out all of the latest innovations from SuiteWorld as well as CloudWorld in a single mega-event will give those customers more insights and more options as they map out their strategies for growth and innovation.
