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Educause Demo Day opened with Oracle AI Database 26i, highlighting new capabilities like vector search for unstructured data, SQL Firewall security, and Select AI for natural-language queries. A live ChatDB demo showed users asking questions in plain English, viewing results, generated visualizations, and the underlying SQL—while emphasizing built-in encryption and a converged database approach with no separate installs for different workloads.

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Session part of Oracle Higher Education Summit at University of Tennessee Knoxville, April 13-15, 2026.

Discover how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) empowers research institutions with purpose-built, high-performance AI infrastructure. OCI’s AI fabric seamlessly integrates RDMA-networked GPU clusters and ultralow-latency interconnects, enabling researchers to easily scale workloads for LLM training, genomics, climate modeling, and complex simulations. Leverage bare metal NVIDIA H100/A100 GPUs and optimized high-throughput storage for AI/ML pipelines. Beyond world-class hardware, OCI provides integrated AI and machine learning services that streamline every research phase—from data preparation to model deployment and inference at scale.

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Session part of Oracle Higher Education Summit at University of Tennessee Knoxville, April 13-15, 2026.

This session highlights how higher ed leaders can use Oracle AI Data Platform to transform institutional data into predictive insights that improve student persistence, completion, and success. Attendees will explore how AI-driven analytics identify students at risk and reveal opportunities for earlier intervention and how unified data supports cross-campus collaboration on student success. You’ll gain an understanding of governance considerations for using AI responsibly—all while maintaining data security, privacy, and trust.

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Session part of Oracle Higher Education Summit at University of Tennessee Knoxville, April 13-15, 2026.

Universities battle complex, manual integrations across SIS, LMS, and HR, causing data silos and bottlenecks. Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) provides a powerful low-code platform to rapidly build robust, automated connections. It empowers IT teams to eliminate inefficiencies, improve data accuracy, and deliver high-impact solutions with less coding, accelerating digital transformation.

This session, designed for both decision makers and function-technical attendees, offers a concise overview of OIC's benefits, followed by a live demonstration of a compelling, higher education-centric use case. We'll illustrate OIC's practical application and rapid deployment capabilities, addressing common university challenges.

Webinar Description

Session part of Oracle Higher Education Summit at University of Tennessee Knoxville, April 13-15, 2026.

Learn how higher education institutions are modernizing mission-critical applications, such as Ellucian Banner and PeopleSoft, by performing a straightforward lift-and-shift from on-premises VMware to VMware on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. This session will cover how colleges and universities can migrate existing application stacks with no refactoring, retain familiar VMware tools and operational models, and gain the scalability, performance, and security of OCI. We’ll also highlight examples that have successfully adopted this approach to support student systems, administrative workloads, and campus growth.