Agenda

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Conference Keynote: Introducing Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai
Watch as Wim Coekaerts, Executive Vice President of Software Development, and Mughees Minhas, Senior Vice President of Product Management, discuss the latest innovations in Oracle Enterprise Manager—the new modern architecture, resilient platform, and smart insights that can help you drive efficiency, agility, and security.

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Zero Downtime Monitoring
Learn how the new Zero Downtime Monitoring service in Enterprise Manager ensures uninterrupted monitoring even during planned maintenance. See a demo showcasing how alerts, notifications, and incident tickets continue to function even when Enterprise Manager is being patched. Discover how this service provides continuous, uninterrupted monitoring for seamless 24/7 operations.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Enhanced Availability, Scalability and Security
The latest innovations in Enterprise Manager provide increased availability, enhanced scalability, and performance. In this session, find out how the transition to a microservices architecture enables zero downtime monitoring, job system services, and streamlined lifecycle management. Learn how these advancements, alongside new security optimizations, work together to elevate operational efficiency.

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - SQL Tuning Enhancements in Oracle Database 23ai
Join Connor McDonald for a deep dive session on database performance management. Often, the new features in a new database version pertain to the “big ticket” functionality areas of availability, performance, management, technology shifts and so forth. But for many, it is often the tiny little enhancements or tweaks to existing functionality that make all the difference. This session covers the improvements to the database that will boost productivity, manageability, and make SQL tuning easier than ever before.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Upgrading to Enterprise Manager 24ai: Benefits, Features, and Best Practices
Discover how Enterprise Manager 24ai simplifies upgrades with streamlined lifecycle management, standardized procedures, and enhanced testing. Learn best practices for minimizing downtime, reducing operational complexities, and ensuring a smooth transition to new versions. This session provides practical strategies for planning and executing upgrades with minimal disruption and maximum efficiency, helping you enhance reliability throughout the process.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Build Custom Dashboards in Enterprise Manager with SQL Widget Builder
Learn how to create custom dashboards in Enterprise Manager using the SQL Widget Builder. This session provides an overview of building widgets with custom SQL, highlighting intuitive user interface features that simplify parameter selection and visualization options. Discover how to enhance your monitoring with out-of-the-box widgets and dashboards while gaining the flexibility to design tailored views for your specific needs.

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Monitoring Enterprise Manager Like a Mission-Critical Application
Gain visibility into Enterprise Manager using Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform. Learn how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Application Performance Monitoring provides insights into the Enterprise Manager platform, including application stack performance and user experiences traced to back-end calls. Explore topology-driven troubleshooting with OCI Logging Analytics, anomaly detection, and unified dashboards that offer a comprehensive view of Enterprise Manager’s health and performance.

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Choosing the Right Management Solution for Oracle Databases: Comparing Enterprise Manager and OCI Database Management
Oracle offers robust database management solutions tailored to diverse environments. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Management is a cloud native service providing centralized management for Oracle Databases across on-premises, cloud, and multicloud environments. Enterprise Manager is the trusted on-premises solution for managing databases and engineered systems that thousands of customers worldwide rely on. Join us to explore the key features, use cases, and benefits of both solutions, helping you determine which aligns best with your specific needs and operational requirements.

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9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Streamline Monitoring Using Remote Agents
Efficiently monitor your database fleet with remote agent monitoring, eliminating the need to deploy and maintain individual agents on each server. Learn how a centralized set of agents can monitor a large number of databases remotely, simplifying large-scale monitoring. This session covers the two-step process for setting up remote agents and discovering databases, making database monitoring easier and more scalable than ever.

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Federating Multiple Enterprise Manager Environments: Build Custom Views
This session explores how to configure and manage federation between multiple Enterprise Managers and demonstrates how to create custom federation dashboards. Learn to centralize and streamline your monitoring across different environments, building cohesive views to optimize oversight and management.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Enhancements in Oracle Database Monitoring
Enterprise Manager is a critical tool for DBAs, streamlining Oracle Database monitoring and administration. In this session, explore new features such as database monitoring using Service Names, seamless Pluggable Database (PDB) monitoring across PDB relocations, automated monitoring password rotation for Oracle and ASM databases, remote agent monitoring, and more. Learn how these enhancements improve efficiency and simplify tasks across your entire database fleet.

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Tackle Alert Fatigue with Event Compression and Dynamic Runbooks
Tackle alert fatigue and manage incidents more efficiently with Event Compression and Dynamic Runbooks. Learn how to reduce event volume by compressing events into fewer incidents using Event Compression Policies. Discover how Dynamic Runbooks help Ops teams consistently follow best practices to resolve incidents and prevent impending issues from turning into incidents. If you're looking for more efficient incident management, this session is for you.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Extend Enterprise Manager Monitoring Using Plugins, Connectors, and Notification Methods
Many enterprises rely on Enterprise Manager to monitor their Oracle estate. With plugins, you can extend its monitoring reach to include non-Oracle technologies, such as SQL Server and Apache Tomcat. With event and ticketing connectors, open ServiceNow or PagerDuty tickets and share events with Microsoft SCOM. With notification methods, you can send notifications via SNMP Traps and Slack. Join this session to learn how Enterprise Manager's extensible monitoring framework can expand your monitoring scope.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Enterprise Manager Security Essentials: Recent Enhancements
Security is critical in today’s IT landscape. In this session, explore best practices for securing and hardening hybrid cloud environments. Learn how Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools integrate to create named credentials. Explore how to use REST APIs for credential and role management and implement proactive security hardening. Join us to discover strategies that enhance defense-in-depth strategies and align with corporate security standards.

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Optimizing Middleware Monitoring with Enterprise Manager
Learn how to efficiently monitor both Oracle and non-Oracle middleware. This session covers the latest updates for monitoring Oracle WebLogic Server on Kubernetes, as well as new plugins for non-Oracle middleware, including IIS, Tomcat, JBoss, and WebSphere. Discover how to enhance your middleware management and ensure seamless performance across diverse environments.

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Supercharge Your DevOps: How Oracle Cloud DevOps Leveraged Enterprise Manager
How effective are you at triaging database and application logs, identifying capacity needs, tracking outlier applications, and detecting code regressions during updates? Join this session to discover how Oracle Cloud DevOps developed a winning strategy by combining Enterprise Manager with Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform. Learn how they architected solutions such as OCI Logging Analytics, Application Performance Monitoring, Database Management, and Ops Insights to streamline monitoring, enhance triage, and optimize performance across ecosystems.

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Enterprise Manager Cloud Extension: A Deep Dive
Join this session to learn how you can integrate the database-specific capabilities in OCI Ops Insight, such as SQL Insights and Capacity Planning, directly into the Enterprise Manager interface under the database homepage. With just a few configuration steps for OCI credentials and Enterprise Manager Cloud Bridge, customers can now seamlessly access SQL and Capacity Planning insights for managed databases with a single click. You will learn how to leverage machine learning to analyze SQL response times and execution plans, and allocate resources to adhere to SLAs, and enhance overall service quality.

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9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Introducing Exadata and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Management Packs: New Advanced Features
Master the new fleet monitoring and management features for Exadata and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance in Enterprise Manager. Learn how these capabilities help automate, secure, and enhance service quality. Discover how fleet dashboards provide full visibility into your environment, advisors aid in optimizing consolidation density, and advanced automation reduces patching errors. With these tools, you’ll improve SLA performance, reduce human error, and enhance management of traditional and hybrid Exadata fleets.

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Patch Your Exadata Infrastructure Using Enterprise Manager
Learn how Fleet Maintenance simplifies and streamlines the patching process for your entire Exadata infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and uptime. Discover how Fleet Maintenance automates patching tasks, reduces manual effort, and enhances visibility and control over your Exadata environment. With these capabilities, you can efficiently manage patches, mitigate risks, and maintain a robust security posture, all while minimizing downtime and maximizing operational efficiency.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - New Performance Diagnostics Features Every DBA Should Know
Explore the latest performance diagnostics features designed to simplify DBA tasks. In this session, learn about AWR Explorer, AWR and ADG support, SQL History, and ADDM Spotlight enhancements. AWR Explorer enables deep-dive exploration of AWR data through interactive visualization. SQL History tracks the last N SQL executions per user session. ADDM Spotlight uses "swim lanes" to visualize and prioritize findings for strategic tuning. Discover how these new tools can enhance your performance diagnostics and workload management with minimal effort.

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Performance Validation for a Successful Oracle Database 23ai Upgrade: Best Practices and United Airlines Case Study
Oracle Database 23ai introduces many new features, such as vector search for AI workloads. Learn the best practices that help ensure a smooth upgrade to Oracle Database 23ai and prevent any unexpected performance regression or impact to your service-level performance. Learn how to automate upgrade performance testing using the SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) and Database Replay to prevent any performance regression caused during a database update, upgrade, or environmental change. The session also covers best practices used by United Airlines as well as latest SPA UI enhancements.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Lifecycle Management and Security Innovations for Oracle Databases
Explore solutions to bolster the security of your PaaS infrastructure, particularly for databases and Exadata systems. Leverage AutoUpgrade in Enterprise Manager to efficiently upgrade to Oracle Database 23ai and transition to multitenant configurations. After the upgrade, utilize Fleet Maintenance to identify vulnerabilities and streamline remediation. Implement security controls based on the latest CIS Benchmark to assess risks and ensure compliance with your security policies.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Continuous Security Compliance Assessment for Oracle Databases
Ensure your databases remain secure with continuous compliance checks and proactive hardening strategies. This session explores how to prevent vulnerabilities caused by misconfigurations, leverage automated remediation, and generate audit-ready reports. Learn industry best practices for reducing risks and staying compliant across multicloud environments while minimizing operational costs.

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Optimize On-Premises Oracle Database Patching with Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP)
Are you using Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) for patching your on-premises Oracle Databases? Patching can be complex and resource-intensive. Learn how integrating FPP with Enterprise Manager can simplify your database patching processes. This approach automates tasks, reduces manual effort, minimizes risks, and ensures consistent security across all your on-premises Oracle Databases and enhances administrators' efficiency.

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Transforming Oracle Database Patching in Hybrid and Multicloud with Fleet Maintenance
Protect your Oracle Databases in hybrid and multicloud environments from breaches with effective vulnerability insights and timely patching. More than 50% of organizations that experienced breaches reported vulnerabilities for which patches were available but not applied. This highlights the need for timely patching to prevent security incidents.

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Monitor Oracle Databases on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform with Enterprise Manager
Managing databases across multiple cloud environments is critical for performance and security. Enterprise Manager provides a unified platform to manage databases across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises environments. In this session, learn how it consolidates database visibility, simplifies administration, ensures data consistency, and optimizes resource allocation in hybrid and multicloud architectures.