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Oracle AI World 2025 Follow Up with Maria Colgan in Frankfurt

Now that Oracle has renamed Cloud World to Oracle AI World, we are excited to see what new content it will bring!

On October 22, 2025, we are offering you the opportunity to hear the latest news from Oracle AI World firsthand. Maria Colgan, known for many years as the product manager for Oracle Optimizer, is coming to Frankfurt for a unique ora2know event! In her presentations, she will share her perspective on the news from OAIW. There will also be another first-hand OAIW report from Oracle ACE Director Johannes Michler!

Agenda

  • Maria Colgan (Oracle): Impressions from Oracle AI World 2026 in Las Vegas
  • Maria Colgan (Oracle): AI for Data (Vector Search, Agentic RAG, and Oracle MCP server)
  • Johannes Michler (Promatis, Oracle ACE Director): AI from AI World (Gemini on OCI, Project report with SelectAI / OCI GenAI Agents)
  • Martin Klier (Performing Databases, Oracle ACE Director): Oracle MAA Building Blocks – RAC and Data Guard
  • Johannes Ahrends (CarajanDB, Oracle ACE): Multitenant Database – everything clear?
  • Robert Marz (Databee, Oracle ACE): Oracle 23ai: JSON features beyond duality views

About Maria Colgan

Distinguished Product Manager

Maria Colgan is Vice President of Product Management for AI and business-critical data on the Oracle Database team, where she has been since 1996. She is what some would call a “database nerd” and has spent her entire career optimizing the performance of databases and applications.
In her current role, she is responsible for product management of the database AI engines, Advanced Compression, Database In-Memory, and business-critical data. Her personal mission is to help organizations achieve the flexibility and resilience they need, especially in today’s ever-changing world, by helping them better leverage this extraordinary technology.

Prior to this position, she was product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory and the Oracle Database Query Optimizer. Maria is also the primary author of the SQLMaria blog.

Further details

The event takes place at Dreger Information Technology, Hanauer Landstraße 182A, 60314 Frankfurt am Main statt.

The participation fee is €125.00 plus VAT. The number of participants is limited to 30, so register quickly at info@ora2know.de!

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