ITOUG Tech Day 2026

ROMA 16 SETTEMBRE 2026 | ROME 16TH SEPTEMBER 2026

L’Italian Oracle User Group è lieto di annunciare un nuovo evento che si terrà il 16 settembre a Roma! Anche questa volta il focus sarà prettamente tecnico, e la partecipazione sarà completamente gratuita. Gli stream previsti includono 26ai, Exadata, Database, PL/SQL, disaster recovery, APEX e GITLAB.

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The Italian Oracle User Group is pleased to announce a new event taking place on September 16th in Rome! Once again, the focus will be purely technical, and participation will be completely free of charge. The streams will include 26ai, Exadata, Database, PL/SQL, disaster recovery, APEX and GITLAB

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ITOUG Partners

Oracle ACEs

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Data:

Mercoledì16 Settembre 2026 | Wednesday 16th September 2026

Luogo:

Oracle Italia, Via Amsterdam 147, Roma

Prezzo:

Gratis! (previa disponibilità posti)

Registrazione Obbligatoria

Numero di posti limitato

track	posti
Giulio Cesare: PL/SQL, DB, Exadata, AI, DR, Gitlab	90-
Ottaviano: DB, Apex, Oracle Graph, PL/SQL	30-

Agenda

Ora	room "Giulio Cesare"	room "Ottaviano"
09:00 – 10:00	Registration & Networking
10:00 – 10:15	Welcome message \| The Oracle ACE Program
10:15 – 11:00	Oren Nakdimon - Moovit \| Oracle ACE Director Write Less (Code) with More (Features)	Aleksei Veremeev - A2 Rešitve d.o.o. The DNA of Data Changes: A Deep Dive into Redo Logs changes and CDC Mechanics
11:15 – 12:00	Luca Bindi - Oracle Bring Agentic AI to Your Data with Oracle AI Database	Karin Patenge - Oracle Global Services Germany GmbH High-Performance Web GIS using Vector Tiles in Oracle APEX 26.1
12:15 – 13:00	Erik van Roon - EvROCS\| Oracle ACE Pro Developers are like cats - they don't give a ****. PL/SQL antipatterns	Tomislav Žarković - Koios Temporal Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle Database: Evolution to Oracle Graph Architecture with Time-Travel Capabilities
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45	Oronzo Antonelli - Technology Reply Building a Production-Grade OCI Landing Zone for a Real Disaster Recovery Project	Oren Nakdimon - Moovit \| Oracle ACE Director Design Patterns in PL/SQL and SQL
15:00 – 15:45	Tomasz Ziss - Accenture \| Oracle ACE Pro Oracle with Gitlab - How we built handsome pipelines	Daniel Overby Hansen - Oracle Best Practices for Upgrading to Oracle AI Database 26ai
16:00 – 16:45	Mario Guarino - Eurobet Exadata: adding new oracle home using OEDACLI
16:45 – 17:00	Goodbye message

Abstracts

Speaker	Abstract
Aleksei Veremeev - A2 Rešitve d.o.o. The DNA of Data Changes: A Deep Dive into Redo Logs changes and CDC Mechanics	"Abstract Most DBAs treat the Redo Log simply as a recovery mechanism. But in the era of Cloud and Big Data, the Redo Log has become the de-facto integration hub for the enterprise. To architect a high-performance, low-latency data pipeline, we must go beyond the basics and understand the byte-level ""DNA"" of data changes. This session provides a forensic examination of Oracle Redo Log internals and their impact on Change Data Capture (CDC) throughput. We will move past standard configuration guides to dissect how specific data settings influence overall performance. We will present details of not only the well known Layer 11/KCOCODRW change vectors 5.1(11.1), 11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 11.6, 11.11, 11.12, but also discuss the lesser known but important OP:11.8, OP:11.16, OP:11.17, OP:19.1, OP:24.8 and other change vectors required for CDC. And finally will present how modernizing your approach to Change Data Capture (CDC) does more than just move data - it creates a real-time stream of business analytics while significantly lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Key Topics Redo Record and Change Vectors Internals: Per aspera ad astra: how to effectively read and parse undocumented structures Data types and data structures inside of Oracle Redo log decrypting Oracle transactions Practical Use Cases: Lessons learned from applying Oracle internals in production environments, improving debug capabilities, and enabling effective replication."
Daniel Overby Hansen - Oracle Best Practices for Upgrading to Oracle AI Database 26ai	"Planning an upgrade to Oracle AI Database 26ai? Learn directly from Oracle upgrade experts and a customers who successfully completed the journey. This deep-dive session explores the tools, methods, and operational practices that help organizations deliver faster, safer, and more predictable database upgrades. AutoUpgrade automation, multitenant conversion strategies, fallback planning, performance regression prevention with RAT, and post-upgrade optimization. Beyond the documented best practices, the presenters share field-tested tips, troubleshooting approaches, hidden upgrade insights, and lessons learned from complex real-world customer projects. The session also highlights common mistakes, critical planning decisions, and practical recommendations for enterprise-scale environments. If you are responsible for Oracle Database lifecycle management, modernization, or platform strategy, this session will help you upgrade with greater confidence and lower risk."
Erik van Roon - EvROCS \| Oracle ACE Pro Developers are like cats - they don't give a ****. PL/SQL antipatterns	"Developers are like cats. They really don’t give a ****… until they suddenly do. And when they do, it’s usually because someone else has to clean up the mess they left behind. In this highly opinionated and entertaining session, Erik van Roon dives deep into the most common (and most damaging) PL/SQL anti-patterns he has encountered during 30+ years of cleaning up other people’s code — and occasionally his own. What You Will Learn - The Psychology of the Code-Cat: Why developers ignore native SQL and default to imperative programming habits. - Identify the Hairballs: How to spot the most dangerous PL/SQL anti-patterns before they reach PROD. - Refactoring Destructive Code: Practical, high-performance replacements for common bad practices."
Karin Patenge - Oracle Global Services Germany GmbH High-Performance Web GIS using Vector Tiles in Oracle APEX 26.1	"Artificial Intelligence is changing the way developers build software—but how can Oracle professionals use AI to create applications that take full advantage of Oracle Database? This session provides a practical, beginner-friendly introduction to AI-assisted application development using modern coding assistants, Oracle Skills, and AI agents. Starting with the fundamentals, we'll explore how Oracle Skills enable AI assistants to understand Oracle-specific technologies, generate better SQL and PL/SQL, and produce applications that leverage Oracle Database far beyond traditional relational tables. The session culminates in a live demonstration that builds a modern application using Oracle Database's converged architecture, with a particular focus on the Oracle Spatial and Oracle Graph features. We'll see how AI can help developers model location-aware and connected data, generate application code, create database objects, and orchestrate workflows through AI agents—all while significantly reducing the learning curve for advanced Oracle features. Rather than replacing developers or DBAs, AI becomes a knowledgeable development partner that helps uncover capabilities many teams already own but rarely use. No previous experience with AI tools is required. The session starts with the basics before introducing Oracle Skills and AI agents, making it accessible to developers and database administrators who are curious about applying AI in their daily work. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how AI tools, Oracle Skills, and AI agents can improve developer productivity while making advanced Oracle Database capabilities—particularly Spatial and Graph—more approachable. They'll gain ideas they can immediately apply to modernize their own applications, regardless of their prior experience with AI."
Luca Bindi - Oracle Bring Agentic AI to Your Data with Oracle AI Database	"Oracle AI Database is not only the place where data is stored; it can become the core of a new generation of secure, intelligent, and agentic applications, built while maintaining full governance over data. In this session, we will explore how to bring artificial intelligence closer to the data by combining structured and unstructured information, also in distributed architectures. Agentic applications must be able to access information across different and decentralized data models, while always operating securely and ensuring data visibility only where the end user is authorized. We will also see how Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory can help quickly build agentic applications, even in complex scenarios."
Mario Guarino - Eurobet Exadata: adding new oracle home using OEDACLI	Adding a new Oracle Home through Oracle Universal Installer is not the best way on Exadata Appliance, instead OEDACLI offers a faster, more efficient alternative that can save both disk space and deployment time. This talk walks through the process of adding a new Oracle Home on an Exadata running in a KVM environment, covering the full journey from environment preparation to final validation: downloading and installing the latest OEDA version, retrieving the required patch image via My Oracle Support, updating OEDACLI itself, and setting up SSH keys and root password synchronization across the VMs involved. Particular attention is given to aligning the cluster version with the new Oracle Home before deployment, a step that is essential to avoid failures later on. The deployment itself is carried out through OEDACLI's batch mode, given the length of the process, and the talk highlights a common pitfall: excessive trace files in the diagnostic directories can trigger Java heap space errors, so cleaning them up beforehand is recommended. Once the new Oracle Home is deployed, the presentation shows how to verify it in the Oracle Inventory, optionally rename the associated volume group for clarity, and closes with a few final considerations, such as the need to patch OJVM manually and carry over configuration files from the old home.
Oronzo Antonelli - Technology Reply Building a Production-Grade OCI Landing Zone for a Real Disaster Recovery Project	What happens the moment your primary data center goes down, and how fast can your business come back? In the cloud, good Disaster Recovery starts well before the failover. It starts with the landing zone. This session is a real-world walkthrough of building an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure landing zone to host the DR of an on-premises data center with hundreds of VMware VMs, physical servers and business-critical workloads. How do you structure a cloud DR region that stays stable, consistent and governed on its own? We answer with the actual architecture, a hierarchy deployed in Terraform, a hub-and-spoke VCN where a central appliance inspects both north-south and east-west traffic, identity federated with Microsoft Entra ID, and centralized logging and monitoring on OCI. On top of it we layered OCVS with HCX to migrate the VMware workloads and Rubrik for data protection. What you take away is the real design and the real constraints we hit, from IP addressing to connectivity and identity.
Oren Nakdimon - Moovit \| Oracle ACE Director Write Less (Code) with More (Features)	"This session covers many features that were added to the Oracle database in the recent releases, and allow us developers to become more efficient and productive. Some features enhance the SQL language, so SQL statements can become much shorter and more readable than before. Other features offer built-in functionality that previously had to be implemented by the application. Attend this session to learn about the new features, and see many useful examples. "
Oren Nakdimon - Moovit \| Oracle ACE Director Design Patterns in PL/SQL and SQL	"A software design pattern is defined in Wikipedia as ""a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context"". Design patterns have been popular for many years in languages like C++ and Java, but the concept of general reusable solutions can (and should) be applied to common challenges in SQL and PL/SQL as well. This session explores design patterns for various common problems in SQL and PL/SQL, like how to implement some data model requirements, how to write SQL queries for specific types of questions, and how to use PL/SQL for solving some challenging tasks."
Tomislav Žarković - Koios Temporal Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle Database: Evolution to Oracle Graph Architecture with Time-Travel Capabilities	"Most data lineage tools can tell you where your data comes from today. But what if you need to know where it came from six months ago? In this session, we'll demonstrate how to add the missing time dimension to data lineage using Oracle Property Graph and Oracle APEX. You'll see how temporal graphs enable analysts to reconstruct historical data dependencies, transformations, and impact chains exactly as they existed at any point in time. We'll show how organizations can answer critical questions related to audits, regulatory compliance, data quality investigations, and change impact analysis: Why did this report return that value on that date? When did this calculation logic change? What systems would have been affected by a change last quarter? What did the complete data lineage look like during an audit period? The session covers the architecture of a temporal impact and lineage platform, the design of temporal property graphs, and the implementation of a graph-based inference engine capable of resolving complex dependencies across thousands of database objects. Whether you're a data architect, BI professional, developer, or governance specialist, you'll leave with practical ideas for building historically aware lineage solutions and delivering greater transparency, compliance, and confidence in your organization's data."
Tomasz Ziss - Accenture \| Oracle ACE Pro Oracle with Gitlab - How we built handsome pipelines	"Too many professionals believe that Oracle Database is not a good candidate to work with DevOps culture. Nothing could be further from the truth. If we have the right tools for the job can do a lot. We implemented DevOps for one of our clients pipelines, integrated with existing components in the environment using GitLab. During the presentation we will look at the solution, how much the practice differed from the theory, and why parents who have invested their whole lives in education shouldn't cry now that we're taking classes with plumbing."