2026 St. Louis Oracle Cloud User Conference

Topic: Building the Agentic Enterprise | Prioritizing High-Value AI Opportunities

Speaker: Brent Juelich, Senior Director, Cloud Strategy & Innovation, Oracle

 Summary: The shift from predictive to generative to agentic AI is already happening. Oracle’s integrated stack of 600+ agents built into Fusion Applications translates that shift into measurable business value, like a 20% reduction in loan origination cycle times generating $21M+ in annual incremental revenue, on infrastructure most Oracle customers already own. Identifying the right processes, the right technology, and what it’s worth to your business is where it gets practical.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Topic: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud AI and AI Agent Studio | From Delivered AI Capabilities to Custom Agent Deployment

Speaker: Charlie Stegeman, Partner, Aspire Consulting and Randy Stone, Manager, Aspire Consulting

 Summary: Oracle Cloud AI is making it easier for organizations to embed intelligent assistance directly into day-to-day processes. This session will walk through the delivered AI Assistants available in Oracle Cloud, the configuration steps needed to enable them, and a live view of how they operate in the application. It will also cover the role of AI Agent Studio, including how to define, configure, and deploy custom AI Agents that expand AI capabilities for business users.

Topic: Oracle for Project Delivery: The Full Lifecycle, Powered by AI

Speaker: Dave Bullard, Industry and Business Value, Oracle

 Summary: Doing the right projects and doing those projects right are two different challenges impacting multiple teams. Oracle’s ecosystem is built to address both across the full project and asset lifecycle, from portfolio decisions to execution and cross-enterprise alignment. Includes a look at where AI fits into project delivery and how you can experience this technology first-hand at Oracle’s Industry Lab outside Chicago, IL.

Topic: Choosing the Right Management Solution for Oracle Databases

Speaker: Derik Harlow, Senior Product Manager, Oracle

 Summary: Comparing Oracle Enterprise Manager and OCI Database Management isn’t always straightforward, but the right answer usually comes down to where your databases live and where you’re headed. OCI Database Management offers cloud-native, centralized management across on-premises, cloud, and multi-cloud deployments, while Enterprise Manager continues to be the go-to for organizations managing Oracle Databases and Engineered Systems on-premises. The session walks through key features, use cases, and tradeoffs of each to help you figure out which fits your environment.

Topic: Real-World OTBI Reporting: Insights, Business Challenges, and Practical Solutions

Speaker: Shane Riley, Consultant, Aspire Consulting

 Summary: This session explores common OTBI challenges encountered in BI Publisher and Analyses and the practical solutions used to address them. Drawing from real reporting experience, it provides key insights to help improve report design, data interpretation, and overall reporting effectiveness.

Topic: AWR.ai | New LLM-Powered Investigation into Database Performance

Speaker: Derik Harlow, Senior Product Manager, Oracle

 Summary: AWR (Automatic Workload Repository) is Oracle Database’s built-in telemetry and performance repository that automatically collects, processes, and stores performance statistics. Every performance investigation typically starts there, and for good reason. AWR.ai brings a GenAI-powered layer to that process, letting you interact with AWR data in natural language instead of digging through views and dense reports. Ask a question, get an AI-generated answer, and get to resolution faster on the kind of performance issues that tend to eat up hours. See firsthand how LLMs can take one of the more demanding parts of database administration and make it a lot more approachable.

Topic: The Economics of Multi-Cloud | Understanding Cost, Complexity, and Control

Speaker: Scott Moore, Director, Cloud Strategy & Innovation, Oracle

 Summary: Oracle Database@ gives enterprises a way to run the full Exadata stack inside their existing cloud environment, same code, same price, same features across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, without rebuilding anything. From multi-cloud strategy to cost efficiency, the savings tend to be significant and the path to get there more straightforward than most expect. Whether the conversation is about reducing infrastructure complexity, consolidating workloads, or laying the groundwork for future innovation, Oracle gets you there without the tradeoffs.

Topic: AI Advantage in the Oracle Data Platform

Speaker: Robin Hazel, Analytics & Integration Specialist, Oracle

 Summary: Oracle has been actively embedding AI into its databases and applications to improve efficiency and flexibility. The Oracle AI Data Platform and GoldenGate 26ai represent where that’s headed. Walk away with a clearer picture of what’s new and what it means for your data management strategy.