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AI World 2026: Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions

Now it is your task. Mark your sessions for AI World 2026. Currently, the session schedule has been published. But the rooms aren’t finalised yet. Why? Because we are counting favorite markers to be able to move sessions with high demand to larger rooms. Below, you find our list of AI World 2026: Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions. And it’s time to mark your preferences. We clearly look forward to meet you soon in person. It’s the best time of the year when we all get together and see our customers in person!

AI World 2026: Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions

Oracle AI World 2026:

AI World 2026: Pre-Event Masterclass: Upgrade, Migration and Patching

Posted on September 23, 2026 by Mike.Dietrich OCW OOW Workshop 2

AI World this year in Las Vegas is going to happen in about 4.5 weeks from now on. In case you’ll be there on Sunday (which makes perfect sense this year), you may want to consider signing up at AI World 2026: Pre-Event Masterclass: Upgrade, Migration and Patching. Yes, we are doing it again. A full day of specially curated content – with very little overlap with out talks and labs. You are having a full day from 9-5 with the guys who breath upgrades, migrations and patching everyday.

AI World 2026: Pre-Event Masterclass: Upgrade, Migration and Patching

Why should you consider it?

First of all, it is …

Oracle AI World 25: Upgrade to Oracle AI Database 26ai – let’s do it again

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich OOW Oracle AI Database 26ai 0

We’ll do it another time. This is your chance in case you missed our session on Tuesday:

Marco Polo 806, Level 1
Upgrade to Oracle AI Database 26ai: Best Practices and Customer Experience [LRN4241]

We collided with the delayed keynote of Larry Ellison, and obviously attending the keynote was way more important than our talk. Therefore, if you couldn’t show up but still want to learn about the replacement of Oracle Database 23ai with Oracle AI Database 26ai, then THIS is your final chance.

Oracle AI World 25: Upgrade to Oracle AI Database 26ai - let's do it again

We will show you the new release numbering schema, clarify whether you need to …

Oracle AI World 2025: Your guide to Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

Oracle OpenWorld had been renamed to Oracle CloudWorld, and it got rebranded to Oracle AI World this year. And we PMs, Alex, Daniel, Rodrigo and myself look forward to see you there. It’s a perfect opportunity to touch base, discuss your migration challenges, your patching fun – and upgrades certainly, too. You not only can grab a sticker for your laptop lid but we’d love to hear about your experiences, wishes and pain points (if there are any) first hand.

Oracle AI World 2025: Your guide to Upgrade, Migration and Patching Sessions

And of course, we want you to come to our sessions. As usual, we’ll bring real stuff making …

OCW25 – Pre-Event Training: Mastering Oracle 23ai Upgrades

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Mike.Dietrich OCW OOW Workshop 0

Time flies so quickly. Soon we’ll get together again in Las Vegas for Oracle Cloud World 2025. This year, it will be in October where hopefully it’s a few degrees colder (or less hot) than in early September last year. And as in the past years, we’ll do at OCW25 – Pre-Event Training: Mastering Oracle 23ai Upgrades.

OCW25 - Pre-Event Training: Mastering Oracle 23ai Upgrades

Photo by Heather Gill on Unsplash

Will our pre-event training be different this year?

Of course, we won’t do the same training as we did in 2024. It will be a different training set with plenty of different exercises. …

OCW24: Upgrade, Migrations and Patching to Oracle Database 23ai

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich OCW OOW 0

Oracle Cloud World 2024 is near – in hot Las Vegas. Luckily, the hotel and conference areas are all air-conditioned. Good thing: You have another reason to enjoy the cold inside, and come to our talks and labs. Let me give you a quick overview, why we are so much looking forward to see you at OCW24: Upgrade, Migrations and Patching to Oracle Database 23ai sessions, labs and more.

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Pre-Event Training: Multitenant Upgrade 23ai

You can book yourself a full-day pre-conference training on Monday, September 9. We’ll host a small group of …

Oracle Cloud World 2024 in London

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Mike.Dietrich OCW OOW Workshop 0

Next week it’s Oracle Cloud World 2024 in London. And I hope to see you there. It is a perfect spot to get the latest tech updates but also to meet and synch and discuss.

Not registered yet?

Registration to Oracle Cloud World 2024 in London on March 14, 2024

In addition, there is a DevLive event the day before with about 40 separate sessions.

Upgrade to Oracle Database 23c talk?

Would love to see you there. But certainly there are so many other great sessions. Check out the session catalog, and choose the ones you are the …

Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Guide for OCW23

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 8

Thanks for using this blog post. It will be your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Guide for OCW23. You will find the slide decks to download, the coming talks, the HOL as well as the survey links and other important sources. We wil update it every day throughout the conference. If you have questions, please use the “Comment” option below the blog post. And we won’t post content BEFORE the session but instead AFTER the sessions.

Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Guide for OCW23

All you need, day by day

Please find – grouped day by day – each of our talks with the survey links and …

Your UPGRADE and MIGRATION program at OCW23

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 4

Are you coming to Oracle Cloud World 2023 and to Oracle DatabaseWorld at CloudWorld? Then you should read on since this may be your upgrade and migration program at OCW23. We are desperately looking forward to see and meet you in 2 weeks in Las Vegas. Don’t forget to add the talks you’d like to visit to your schedule as some of the rooms have limited capacity. And at least one of our labs is already sold out.

https://www.oracle.com/database/upgrades/#rc30p2

Who’s speaking and HOL’ing?

Speakers and your lab hosts will be:

Roy Swonger
Mike Dietrich
Daniel Overby Hansen
Rodrigo Jorge

Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Recap and Slides

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 4

This was a wonderful but very strenuous week, no doubt. Oracle Cloud World (OCW) 2022 happened in Las Vegas. New name, new city. And even though many agreed to prefer San Francisco with an Oracle Open World instead having such an event in Sin City, there were a lot of great things happening. So let me start my personal summary here, the Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Recap and Slides.

Oracle Cloud World 2022 - Recap and Slides

Our labs and talks

It was amazing to see you all in our 4 sessions, 4 labs and 2 lightning talks. Since the registration process was a bit …

OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich Conference OOW 2

Will you come to Oracle Cloud World (tcfkaOOW = the conference formerly known as Oracle Open World) 2022 in Las Vegas in the week from October 17-20, 2022? Then we hope to see you there. And we certainly hope to meet you. So in case you are looking for our technical talks and sessions at OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success.

OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success

Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track at OCW2022

As usual our promise stands.

Zero marketing. Just pure tech.

And we our proud to have lots of real …

Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Database Upgrade and Patching Labs

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 2

Oh … it’s just a few weeks left until Oracle Cloud World 2022 will start on Oct 17, 2022 in Las Vegas. If you have some final doubts whether you should go or not, let me tell you that it’s like Oracle Open World just under a different name. And in a different place. But with the same cool people and many great talks. Take the chance to meet the developers, their managers and the product managers behind the features you daily use – or miss. We’ll be there – and this is YOUR chance now to sign up for …

OOW London 2020 – Upgrade Talk and more

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 6

Since last year we organize regional Oracle Open World conferences. Not as big as the one in San Francisco (or in Las Vegas this and the following years), but still an exciting event. And for me, it will be the first time in a week to attend and speak at OOW London. Let me give you a very quick overview on our OOW London 2020 – Upgrade Talk and more.

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Upgrade Best Practices – Thursday, Feb 13 – 13:50-14:25h – Arena B – Zone 2

No idea who has cut down the tech …

Oracle Open World 2019 – Recap and Thank You!

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

OOW 2019 has ended over one week ago – and I just wrote the date for OOW 2020 into my calendar: Oct 4, /2020 – Oct 8, 2020 – at least according to the events calendar of Moscone Center. But lets not talk about OOW20 but instead about my summary for Oracle Open World 2019 – Recap and Thank You!

Oracle Open World 2019 - Recap and Thank You!

Oracle Open World 2019 - Recap and Thank You! As usual, this was not a week to relax or hang out in all the nice places in San Francisco. OOW for me means usually a lot of stress. There are so many things we need to prepare. From …

OOW 2019 – Database Upgrade Talks and Labs

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

Oh … time flies so fast. Just a few days until I will sit in a airplane to SFO. And on Monday at 7:00h the registration opens. As we have a lab at 8:30h already, just remembering the loooooong lines around the block last year, I will need to be there very early. It’s just a few days until OOW 2019 – Database Upgrade Talks and Labs information is here.

OOW – Oracle Open World 2019 in San Francisco

OOW 2019 - Database Upgrade Talks and Labs

Photo by Robert McLay on Unsplash

When? September 16-19, 2019

Where? San Francisco, USA

What? Find the session catalog here…

September is CONFERENCE month – back to reality

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Conference OOW 0

There was a bit of silence on the blog – well, I needed a deep breath and plenty of fresh air on the most beautiful German island. And now it’s time to dig in again. And I realized that I won’t have many “office” days this month. September is CONFERENCE month – back to reality.

September is CONFERENCE month - back to reality

POUG – Polish Oracle User Group 2019 in Wrozlaw

When? September 6-7, 2019

Where? Wrozlaw, Poland – Kino Home Horyzonty

Why? Because if you’ve never been there, you won’t understand why everybody wants to be there. Check out the agenda: https://poug.org/en/edycja/poug-2019/ – in two days …

Oracle Open World 2018 – Recap, Slides, Impressions – and a BIG THANK YOU!

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

Oracle Open World 2018 is over since two weeks now. And for me it was the by far busiest OOW ever. We had 4 presentations, 4 labs, 12 customer CVCs, several other customer appointments … and I wouldn’t want to miss a single one. It was a lot of work – but meeting with these customers, the discussions after the talks, at the hallways, at the lab, that is so important for us. With a distance of several thousand kilometers and 2 weeks, I’m writing Oracle Open World 2018 – Recap, Slides – and a BIG THANK YOU!

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OOW 2018: How to Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

OOW 2018: How to Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud

And last but not least our forth talk at OOW 2018: How to Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud on Tuesday, Oct 23 at a fairly late slot at 5:45 p.m. (or 17:45h) as well in Moscone West 3004.

What is this talk all about?

It’s about the Oracle Autonomous Database cloud. But not so much about the Cloud offering itself. There are other talks covering this topic. We are the upgrade and migration guys. Hence, in this talk my boss, Roy Swonger and my PM mate Bill Beauregard will demonstrate you in a live demo how to migrate …

OOW 2018: Cloud Migration from AIX to ExaCC – for DBAs and managers

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 2

OOW 2018: Cloud Migration from AIX to ExaCC - for DBAs and managers

Yes, OOW starts next week. And I’d like to introduce the third of our 4 talks. And let me say upfront about this talk at OOW 2018: Cloud Migration from AIX to ExaCC – for DBAs and managers. This is not the usual “cloud” talk 🙂 The official title is: Oracle Database Cloud Migration: Fast, Simple, Universal. Well, we should discuss the “simple“. But that’s why you want to see this talk. It will happen on Thursday, 9:00 a.m.. Hence, remember to leave the party the night before not too late. You need to be awake when …

OOW 2018: Upgrade to Oracle 18c – Live and Uncensored

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

OOW 2018: Upgrade to 18c - Live and Uncensored

Less than two weeks until the potentially busiest Oracle Open World conference I’ve ever attended. The schedule is filled up already and closed down. And I’m pretty sure I will need time off afterwards to relax and recover. But I’m looking forward to our annual big event in San Francisco. To make it as exciting as possible for you we are very happy to have high profile speakers with us in all our talks. And we promise: No marketing. Just tech facts. If you’d like to sneak into OOW 2018: Upgrade to 18c – Live and uncensored, then mark …

OOW2018: The new AutoUpgrade for the Oracle Database

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 4

As I wrote the other day, OOW 2018 is not too far away anymore. And if you’d like to see something really new, something which can really really ease your database upgrades in the near future, then you may visit our first talk right on Monday morning at OOW2018: The new AutoUpgrade for the Oracle Database.

OOW2018: The new AutoUpgrade for the Oracle Database

What is this talk all about?

First of all, let me emphasize that we don’t do marketing. We would like to introduce you to a brand new tool we’ll currently have in beta operation at selected customers. And which we’ll release in the …

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

OOW 2018 is coming - and we'll have 4 talks and 4 labs

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs. We are excited and look forward to a very busy OOW. And those who say, OOW is marketing only, please come by to our talks and visit our labs to find out that we don’t do marketing.

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

Oracle Open World 2018 will be a busy conference for us. And we are so happy to have customers talking with us in each of our 4 talks. In addition, we’ll have a Hands-On Lab every day …

Oracle Open World 2018 – Now from October 22-25, 2018

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Mike.Dietrich OOW 0

When I was reading tweets I’m subscribed to last week while being in Redwood Shores, I read this one from the official Oracle Open World twitter account and learned: Oracle Open World 2018 – Now from October 22-25, 2018.

See the tweet:

The dates for #oow18 have been confirmed! We hope you will join us October 22-25 for new experiences and opportunities to help move your business forward. https://t.co/Dt7DMKz2Vc pic.twitter.com/SWyNtnmowO

— oracleopenworld (@oracleopenworld) 22. Januar 2018

Please be aware that other external web pages such as this one or this one haven’t been updated yet with the new dates. …

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich OOW Transportable 0

I was shocked. Positively. We’ve had a packed room on Wednesday at Oracle Open World 2017 for our talk together with Jay Barnhart of Centric Consulting on How to Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day. And we’ve had so much fun. Thanks for coming by, thanks for being so active. This makes all the travel and the stress really worth it.

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day

I gave a quick overview about all Transportable Tablespaces techniques, about how to use the PERL scripts to deal with very …

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Cloud OOW 3

Thanks for coming to Roy’s and Julian Dontcheff‘s presentation about How to migrate to the Oracle Cloud – 13 different techniques and customer experiences on Tuesday at Oracle Open World 2017. The talk was very well attended, I saw many people taking pictures and notes.

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

Personally I liked the talk a lot as it gives a very good (and very rare) complete overview on techniques how to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, advantages, use cases, database versions, where to use it. This all garnished with the experience Accenture has …

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Oracle AI World 2026:

Why should you consider it?

Will our pre-event training be different this year?

Pre-Event Training: Multitenant Upgrade 23ai

Not registered yet?

Upgrade to Oracle Database 23c talk?

All you need, day by day

Who’s speaking and HOL’ing?

Our labs and talks

Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track at OCW2022

Upgrade Best Practices – Thursday, Feb 13 – 13:50-14:25h – Arena B – Zone 2

OOW – Oracle Open World 2019 in San Francisco

POUG – Polish Oracle User Group 2019 in Wrozlaw

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What is this talk all about?

What is this talk all about?

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

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