Best Western Premier Hotel, Berlin, Germany

Do you want to scale your applications with MySQL with SQL or NoSQL access, locally or in the data cloud?
Then you are invited participate in this free Oracle seminar to learn more about best practices of MySQL superior performance and scalability.

You will hear how to get the most out of the MySQL database and the new MySQL Cluster 2.7 GA Release.
Take advantage of this opportunity to ask our local experts and exchange ideas with other MySQL users.

Seminar Program:

12:45 Registration and lunch
13:30 Introduction
13:45 MySQL database: improving performance and scalability
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Performance and scalability with MySQL Cluster 2.7
16:00 The MySQL Roadmap: Learn to get that local and cloud-based applications next
16:45 Questions and Answers
17:00 End of seminar for drinks and snacks

Register for the Oracle MySQL Free Seminar: Scale with MySQL

Hilton Chicago
Chicago IL, United States

Oracle is a proud Diamond Sponsor of the IHRIM 2012 Conference and Technology Exposition in Chicago, featuring 50+ educational sessions, terrific networking events, and an outstanding HR Technology Showcase.

Oracle experts are featured hosts for three educational sessions at this year’s conference:

People Strategies for the Innovation Economy: A Focus on Talent Analysis
Steve Boese, Director – Talent Management Strategy, Oracle
Tuesday, May 1 at 11:00 a.m.

Keeping Up With the Kids: Millennials and Workplace Technology
Steve Boese, Director – Talent Management Strategy, Oracle
Tuesday, May 1 at 1:30 p.m.

Mobile Applications for Human Resources
Brian Gaspar, Director of Product Strategy, Oracle
Wednesday, May 2 at 11:00 a.m.

Register for the IHRIM 2012 Conference & Technology Expo

Hotel Gran Meliá Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

Much of the success of your business is based on ensuring that its customers, partners and suppliers are connected to your IT infrastructure in an agile, simple, profitable and safe. Implementing the Oracle security solutions into your current infrastructure you can accomplish this goal. Learn how to gain competitive advantage with Oracle Security portfolio comprised of industry leading solutions, comprehensive and proven by our customers.

Our specialists will help to learn how to:

- Bringing your business to customers safely through cloud security, comprehensive management of access to data and effective analysis of information of identities.
- Implement security controls in the different layers of your infrastructure while minimizing the impact on applications.
- Adopt mechanisms to prevent external threats that impact on access to data and information exchange with business partners.
- Providing access to information while ensuring compliance with audit requirements.
- Take this opportunity to network with colleagues and experts from Oracle and learn how Oracle Security solutions can benefit your company.

Register for the Learn Security Solutions Oracle Seminar

Makati City, Philippines

Leading businesses are embracing social technologies to effectively communicate and engage with customers, partners, and employees. Has your business gone social?

Join us for this event and learn about the best practices for effective social business.

Hear case studies about how enterprises increased customer loyalty, enhanced partner satisfaction, and improved employee productivity—with Oracle WebCenter.

Learn how Oracle’s user engagement platform:
- Enhances user productivity with contextual conversations and composite applications
- Improves customer loyalty by helping marketing-driven organizations deliver personalized and targeted Web experiences across Web, mobile, and social channels
- Enables the social business by integrating social networking, collaboration, and a strategic content infrastructure with enterprise applications.

Register for the Oracle WebCenter Solution Forum

China, Hong Kong

Today, as companies are coming out of a recessionary business environment, they have a renewed focus on customer-centric growth while concurrently driving efficiency and continuous performance improvement. Organizations are looking at ways to transform their operations from a functional necessity to a value-driven competitive advantage based on operational and innovation excellence.

What transformative strategies and technology solutions, from product design through supply chain planning and execution, will help your company achieve that goal? Find out at this event.

The event includes a best practice presentation on Sun’s Value Chain Transformation. The presentation covers how Sun’s Value Chain transformation enabled:
- 16.7% reduction in product lead time
- 63.2% reduction in excess, obsolete inventory
- 24% reduction in freight and warehousing
- 9.7% reduction in inventory

Get an overview of Oracle Supply Chain and Oracle Product Lifecycle Management suites of applications with open and flexible architectures, best-in-class capabilities, complete functional coverage, and integrated and modular deployment options. During this event, you’ll learn about:
- Designing and building breakthrough products that are profitable and compliant
- Implementing demand-driven planning and real-time sales and operations planning to improve customer-service levels and enterprise profitability
- Profitably balancing supply with demand, incorporating real-time sales and operations planning
- Optimizing supply and cutting costs with performance-driven supply management, manufacturing, and best-in-class integrated logistics
- Reducing risk and minimizing exposure to unplanned supply-chain disruptions
- Improving business decisions with fact-based and real-time analytics

Agenda
2:15 p.m. Registration
2:30 p.m. Keynote: Transforming Your Value Chain for Operational and Innovation Excellence
Mr. Clarence Wong, Industry Solution Director, High Technology, Oracle Asia Pacific
3:05 p.m. Transforming Your Value Chain with Oracle Procurement
Mr. Spencer Ma, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Hong Kong
3:35 p.m. Coffee Break
3:50 p.m. Case Study: Sun Value Chain Transformation
Mr. Jonathan Lee, Master Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Hong Kong
4:20 p.m. Efficient Value Chain – Getting There Faster
Mr. Suresh Kalpathy, Managing Director, Rapid e-Suite Pte Ltd
4:50 p.m. Q&A & Wrap Up

Event Organizer: Oracle

Register for the Oracle Value Chain Transformation Seminar Hong Kong

Athina Pallas Village 5, Halkidiki, Greece

The 2012 organization of the 8th AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations) Confence is a major technical event in the fields of Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence. AIAI is supported and sponsored by the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).

It is the first time that this well established event will be hosted in the beautiful and exotic Greek peninsula of “Sithonia” in the area of Halkidiki with the crystal blue sea waters and the fantastic beaches. Less than an hour from the International airport of Thessaloniki it is a green paradise of pine tree forests and gorgeous beaches with 5 start luxurious Hotels. There will be three FREE buses waiting for the participants in the airport of Thessaloniki to transfer them to the venue, during the first day.

8th AIAI 2012 (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations) conference supported by the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 12

Special Hotel prices for the AIAI 2012:
• Price per person in double room with Full board: € 49.00
• Price per double room for one person with Full board € 73.00
• Price per person in superior room with Full board: € 52.00
• Price per superior room for one person with Full board € 81.00

General chair
Professor Tharam Dillon, Curtin University Australia

Organizing chairs
Professor Yannis Manolopoulos, Head of Computer Science Department,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr Elias Pimenidis, Senior Lecturer, University of East London

Program chairs
Associate Professor Lazaros Iliadis Democritus University of Thrace
Assistant Professor Ilias Magklogiannis, University of Central Greece
Assistant Professor Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University of Cyprus

Proceedings
Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Topics
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Machine Learning
• Adaptive Control
• Data Fusion
• Reasoning Methods
• Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
• Planning and Scheduling
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Expert Systems
• Fuzzy Logic and Systems
• Genetic Algorithms and Programming
• Particle Swarm Optimisation
• Bayesian Models
• Data Mining and Information Retrieval
• Decision Support Systems
• Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals
• Intelligent Information Systems
• Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems
• Ontologies
• Computer Vision
• Human-Machine Interaction / Presence
• Learning and Adaptive Systems
• Pattern Recognition
• Signal and Image Processing
• Speech and Natural Language Processing
APPLICATIONS IN:
• eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning
• Engineering and Industry
• Environmental Modelling
• Finance
• Telecommunications – Transportation
• Crisis and Risk Management
• Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering
• Political Decision Making
• Natural Language Processing
• Planning and Resource Management
• Project Management
• Emerging Applications
• Forensic Science
• Multimedia Computing
• Multimedia Ontologies
• Smart Graphics
• Colour/Image Analysis
• Speech Synthesis
• Accessibility and Computers
• Affective Computing
• Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
• Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing
• Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
• Grid-Based Computing
• Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation
• Robotics and Virtual Reality

Register for the Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations 2012 Conference

SpringPeople Learning Centre Level 3, MSR Building, 671, 9th Main, Sector 7, HSR Layout, Bangalore – 560 102

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) training class teaches participants the essential concepts of WCF and how to implement WCF services and clients. The course uses .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

Objectives

At the end of WCF 4 Training course, participants will:

* Learn what WCF is, and how it unites existing distribution mechanisms
* Gain an understanding of addressing and binding in WCF services
* Use service contracts and data contracts
* Implement WCF services and clients
* Perform configuration in both code and configuration files
* Understand faults and handle errors in WCF applications
* Implement security in WCF applications

Attendance cost: 9990

Event organizer: SpringPeople

Register for the WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) 4 Training Bangalore

ISIS Compentence Center, Vienna, Austria

Administration of business processes and document templates for correspondence and Portal applications.

Participants:

- Senior System Operators
- System Administrators

Prerequisites:

General understanding of
- IT principles
- Object-oriented modelling principles

Goals:

- Command of the Papyrus Objects administrative tasks
- Create applications from existing frameworks and run production

Attendance cost: €1,900.-

Event organizer: ISIS Papyrus

Register for the Papyrus Objects System Administrator Workshop

Perth Microsoft Office
Perth, Australia

Take quality assurance to the next level with Test Professional 2010. This breakthrough tester-developer collaboration experience supports complete plan-test-track workflows and full traceability of requirements and user stories.

Capture rich diagnostics like IntelliTrace® logs and indexed videos into your bugs; model real-world scenarios and loads for your applications; and further minimize regression testing using powerful UI automation and build integration features. Leverage cross-subject area reporting and Microsoft business intelligence tools for unparalleled visibility and insight into test progress and project health with leading indicators like Test Coverage and Bug Find/Fix Rate. Test Professional 2010 is the end-to-end solution you need to improve software quality and effectively manage the way your teams work.

During this 90-minute session we will:

1- Introduce you to Test Professional 2010, and show you how it helps your testers create “rich bugs” that help your developers tackle the challenge of “no repro”.
2- Show you how you can improve collaboration between developers and testers using Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 to create work items out of rich bugs, and assign and track them with the development team.
3- Show you how Lab Management can help you save even more time by capturing the full environment of the test machine when a bug is discovered.
4- Show you how Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010, together with Test Professional 2010, provides you with richer reporting that gives you visibility into test progress, and bug discovery and fix rate.

Chris Birmele, Product Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation, Chris Birmele is the Development Tools Product Specialist for Microsoft Australia. He has nearly twenty years’ experience in various roles including developer, technical sales and coach/trainer. He joined Microsoft in 2005 in time for the release of Team System 2005, after working for IBM, Rational Software and Compuware. He was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mark Pedersen, Microsoft Test Tools Lead, KJ Ross & Associates, Mark is the Microsoft test tools lead for K.J. Ross and has a PhD in Usability Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Development Environments. He has experience testing a wide variety of financial and mission critical software systems, as well as developing and delivering a range of professional training courses for the testing industry.

Event organizer: Microsoft

Register for the Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional Breakfast Series – Perth

Hotel Barceló Sants
Barcelona, Spain

The Windows Camp is a free practical event for all developers who want to know how to build applications for Windows 8.

We have planned the following activities:

Developers completed these sessions knowing the news of Windows 8 and how to build its first applications for this environment.
See how developers can create new experiences with Windows 8 platforms quickly and easily.

To take full advantage of the Windows 8 Camp, it is essential that you’ll bring your own computer in which we recommend installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview and development tools (Visual Studio 11 beta).

Event organizer: Microsoft

Register for the Windows 8 Camp – Barcelona