Sangam19 Conference Report


Last week I was in Hyderabad, India for the 2019 Sangam Conference.  The Hindu word Sangam means confluence or coming together.  The All India Oracle User Group have several Chapters across India and once a year they all come together for the most amazing 2 day conference.

This year the event was at the Hyderabad International Conference Centre and all 800+ delegates enjoyed multiple streams of over 200 Oracle tech & apps sessions across 2 days.

I'd been invited to present at the conference in the PeopleSoft stream where I talked about PeopleSoft Cloud Manager and about some of the latest customisation tools like Drop  Zones.   https://sangam19.sched.com/speaker/graham.smith2

It's hard to describe in words the enthusiastic atmosphere, colour, sounds, food, selfie-taking craziness of this event.   Try this short video for a glimpse !


What did I learn at this event?  Here's 10 things.
  1. You can switch from RedHat Linux to Oracle Linux without having to re-install everything. https://linux.oracle.com/switch.html .  Why would you want to switch?  Oracle Linux can be patched without a reboot!  https://ksplice.oracle.com/  Nice!!!!
  2. One PeopleSoft customer (HAYS recruitment specialists) are doing some interesting things with RPA (Robotic Process Automation) against PeopleSoft to save time and money on labour intensive transactions in their PeopleSoft system.
  3. Oracle PeopleSoft customers are migrating their PeopleSoft instances to OCI.
  4. I learned how to survive in a VUCA world from motivational speaker Simerjeet Singh.  (please note... I did not dance!! ) 
  5. I learned what Oracle's Mission is.  
  6. I learned that Indian weddings are lavish beyond anything I've seen at a wedding before! (there were 2 weddings taking place at the same venue as Sangam conference).
  7. PeopleSoft customers are experimenting with ChatBot and Digital Assistant technology.
  8. Wilderness Wood is not a Fortnite game location. But Slurpy Swamp is.
  9. Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c has some nice tools for migrating databases to Oracle Cloud.
  10. I can use ADDM to help monitor and tune SQL in my Oracle Database
And so much more !!!

But it's not just about the Oracle tech stuff that I learned but also about the community of people that I connected with.  Just a few photos to try and convey the Sangam19 experience.

The AMAZING Mr Sai Janikiram - Sangam and AIOUG President

Jenny Tsai-Smith - VP Product Management, Database Development, Oracle

With work colleague Shweta Jain from our Cedar office in Pune

Simerjeet Singh sharing ideas on how to thrive in a VUCA world

Srilakshmi Ramachandra  - Senior Director of PeopleSoft Product Development

Friends from Oracle and Cedar Consulting

This is what we're doing !

In between sessions.

Comments

That looks like an awesome experience. Just out of curiosity, was the conference in English or do you know the language?
Graham said…
@DigitalEagle. Namaste ! I wish I knew some Indian language but the conference is in English.
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