Monday 5th December Keynotes and Motivational Speakers

Mark Sunday is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle, responsible for the information technology infrastructure used across the company globally. Mark's responsibilities have also included the operational infrastructure for Oracle's on-demand product offerings. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, Mr. Sunday was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Siebel Systems. With more than 30 years in the high technology industry, he has also served in various IT leadership positions at Motorola, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments. Mr. Sunday holds a BSE from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. He served on the board of Altiris (which was acquired by Symantec), and is also a Trustee of the Utah Technology Council and Economic Development Corporation of Utah.

Rich Mason, Vice President, Sales and Consulting for MySQL, Linus and Virtualization, Oracle, is the keynote for the MySQL stream speaking on "The Winning Combination: Oracle VM, Oracle Linux & MySQL" at 10:00 in Hall 7B.

Richard joined MySQL AB in 2005 as Vice President EMEA. Prior to joining MySQL, he was Software Sales Director for EMEA at Sun Microsystems, after spending nearly a decade holding senior sales and business development positions for Sun's SunONE, iPlanet, and Forte products in the UK and Northern Europe (Nordics, BeNeLux, Switzerland, Middle East and CIS). Previously, Mason served in UK sales account management positions with Oracle, Ingres and DEC.

Will Lyons, Director of Weblogic Server Product Managment, Oracle will give the community keynote for Application Server and Middleware at 10:00 in Hall 9. Will will present "Announcing WebLogic Server 12c"

Will Lyons joined Oracle as part of the BEA acquisition in 2008 and has managed the WebLogic Server product management team since 2006.  Will has extensive knowledge of WebLogic Server current capabilities, customers, and future product directions.  Will also served in a number of product management roles at BEA, including product management for WebLogic Platform and Tuxedo.   Will has over 20 years of experience in the information technology and enterprise software, including experience in product management, product strategy, and consulting.

Mike Durran, Principal Product Manager, Oracle will give the community keynote for Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse at 10:00 in Hall 5.  Mike will present "The future of Business Intelligence and the Oracle roadmap"

Mike has been with Oracle for 15 years. After completing a PhD in theoretical chemistry, Mike spent 4 years in Oracle Consulting implementing business intelligence systems in banking, airline, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. Mike moved into product management for Oracle BI products 11 years ago and has been involved in all stages of the product development lifecycle.

Cliff Godwin, Senior Vice President of Applications Development, Oracle, will present "Oracle E-Business Suite - Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap" to our Oracle E-Business Suite Community at 11:05 in Hall 1.

Mr. Godwin is responsible for the Oracle E-Business Suite and Higher Education businesses. Mr. Godwin has been a member of the senior management team of Oracle's Applications business for most of his 20 years at Oracle.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Godwin led the Applications Technology Group which is responsible for ensuring that the Oracle E-Business Suite effectively leverages Oracle’s systems technologies, and for building the common objects and services used throughout the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Mr. Godwin holds M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Operations Research from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Cary Millsap, President of Method R Corporation will present is motivational presentation "Learning about Life through Business and Software" to the whole Conference audience at 18:45 in Hall 1.


You can also hear Cary speak on "Instrumentation: Why You Should Care" at 12:25 in Hall 10B and "My Case for Agile Methods" at 16:40 in Hall 5 on Tuesday December 6th.

Cary is well known in the global Oracle community as a speaker, educator, consultant, and writer. He is the founder and president of Method R Corporation, a small company devoted to optimizing software performance. Cary wrote Optimizing Oracle Performance (O’Reilly), for which he and Jeff Holt were named Oracle Magazine’s 2004 Authors of the Year. He received the Editor’s Choice award for best paper of the ODTUG 2010 international conference, and he is published in CACM and ACM Queue. He is an Oracle ACE Director and a founding member of the OakTable Network. You can read Cary's blog, and his tweets as @CaryMillsap.