Oracle Community Tours

Oracle Community Tour EMEA 2026 will be on the road again this fall!

This year we will divided the tour into 2 parts: first one will take place in September and the second one will take place in November

Oracle experts, industry professionals, developers, engineers will be on stage in one of these countries to talk about the latest advancements, best practices, and innovations in Oracle technologies.

Many thanks to the team who volunteered in 2026!

Program

September, 14th: CASOUG – Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan

Nassyam Basha
Oracle Data Guard 26ai: The latest Enhancements Uncovered
Ilmar Kerm
Practical Transport Layer Security TLS/SSL
Francisco Alvarez
Break It Before It Breaks You: Proving Oracle MAA Resilience with CrashSimulator and ORRA
Rustam Khodjaev
TBD

September, 15th: CASOUG – Tashkent / Uzbekistan

September, 17th: CASOUG – Dushanbe / Tajikistan

November, 2nd: RoOUG – Bucharest / Romania
ConTech2026

Andreea Munteanu
From Prompt to Production: Building Modern Applications Faster with Oracle APEX 26.1
Georgiana Oancea
Oracle Estate Explorer – Database Estate Discovery and Analysis Tool
Oana Bonu
Building Your Personal Brand in the Tech World
Monika Lewandowska
Oracle The Most Mysterious Cases
Karin Patenge
From IoT Data to Intelligent Action with Agentic AI and Graph Analytics
Ambili Thottathil
From AI Assistants to AI Agents: Transforming Analytics with AI-driven Conversations
Richard Martens
APEX 26.1’s Hidden Gems — The Golden Nuggets You Might Have Missed
Observability for APEX Heroes: Why OpenTelemetry Will Change Your Life (and Your Apps)
Syed Usman Ahmad
Leveling up your MySQL Skills with Grafana for Technical and Business Operations
Neil Chandler
Fundamental Oracle Security – What Many Of You Are Not Doing
Troubleshooting Oracle Memory
Axel vom Stein, Hans Viehmann
Modeling Material Flow as a Graph in Oracle 26ai: Practical First Steps
Ludovico Caldara
Faster, Safer, Always Awesome: Active Data Guard for AI Workloads
Oren Nakdimon
Write Less (Code) with More (New 26ai Features)
Corrado De Bari
Agentic workflows meet transactional reality
Christian Gohmann
Block Corruptions and how to handle them
Giliam Breems
Lost in Time: Surviving the Time Zone Maze

November, 4th: AOUG – Vienna / Austria

Karin Patenge
From IoT Data to Intelligent Action with Agentic AI and Graph Analytics
Neil Chandler
Fundamental Oracle Security – What Many Of You Are Not Doing
Daniel Overby Hansen
26 Ways to Migrate to Oracle AI Database 26ai
Performance and Migrations: A Practical Guide
Ludovico Caldara
Faster, Safer, Always Awesome: Active Data Guard for AI Workloads
Subhajit Das Chaudhuri
Hands-On Security Automation and System Hardening with RHEL and Ansible

November, 7th: KSAOUG – Riyadh / Saudi Arabia

Francisco Alvarez
Engineering Resilience: The High Availability Mindset
Hans Viehmann
From SQL Patterns in Event Logs to Graph Insights: An introduction to Process Mining
Gianni Ceresa
Agentic Systems: empowering AI to achieve goals
Ludovico Caldara
Faster, Safer, Always Awesome: Active Data Guard for AI Workloads
Samuel Campos, Rubén Rodríguez
Success Story: OCI Vision AI Implementation in Large Retail Distribution

November, 10th: OUGN Oslo / Norway

Gianni Ceresa
Agentic Systems: empowering AI to achieve goals
Turn Your Data Sideways and See What You’ve Been Missing
Richard Martens
APEX 26.1’s Hidden Gems — The Golden Nuggets You Might Have Missed
Kim Berg Hansen
OK Oracle, Tell Me Approximately How Many Unique Visitors We Had Last Week
Oren Nakdimon
Constraint Optimization: The Difference a Comma Can Make
Write Less (Code) with More (New 26ai Features)
Nassyam Basha, Zaheer Syed
Proving the Data: Oracle GoldenGate Veridata in Action: Setup, Compare, Optimize
Vili Tajnić
OpenTelemetry observability for Oracle AI Database
Ludovico Caldara
Faster, Safer, Always Awesome: Active Data Guard for AI Workloads
Subhajit Das Chaudhuri
Securing Credentials and Connections: Using Oracle Wallets with Oracle Database
Daniel Overby Hansen
The DBA Survival Kit
Performance and Migrations: A Practical Guide

November, 11th: DOUG – Copenhagen / Denmark
DOUG Day 2026

Gianni Ceresa
Agentic Systems: empowering AI to achieve goals
Turn Your Data Sideways and See What You’ve Been Missing
Richard Martens
APEX 26.1’s Hidden Gems — The Golden Nuggets You Might Have Missed
Kim Berg Hansen
OK Oracle, Tell Me Approximately How Many Unique Visitors We Had Last Week
Oren Nakdimon
Constraint Optimization: The Difference a Comma Can Make
Write Less (Code) with More (New 26ai Features)
Axel vom Stein, Martin Klier
TNS Connections – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Ludovico Caldara
Faster, Safer, Always Awesome: Active Data Guard for AI Workloads
Subhajit Das Chaudhuri
Securing Credentials and Connections: Using Oracle Wallets with Oracle Database
Daniel Overby Hansen
The DBA Survival Kit
Performance and Migrations: A Practical Guide

November, 13th: nlOUG – Utrecht / Netherlands
DB World 2026

Gianni Ceresa
Can the modern Frankenstein pass the Turing test?
Oracle Private Agent Factory: your no-code, privacy-friendly, secure agents platform
Gary Gordhamer
Oracle Adaptive SQL Optimization – Why do things go so bad?
Oracle RAC – Does failover really work?
Kim Berg Hansen
OK Oracle, Tell Me Approximately How Many Unique Visitors We Had Last Week
Gerben Jan Dijkman
Build your own AI Knowledge base using the Oracle Gen Ai and the Oracle 26ai Database
Daniel Overby Hansen
26 Ways to Migrate to Oracle AI Database 26ai
The New Age of Database Patching: Faster, Smarter, Safer
Mohana Priya Venkatachalam, Srinivas Nadella
Multilingual, AI-Powered Healthcare Journeys Built Entirely in Oracle APEX
Andrej Pashchenko
Exploring SELECT AI Agents with a Data Warehouse Operations Example
Ludovico Caldara
Faster, Safer, Always Awesome: Active Data Guard for AI Workloads
Mark Kempers
From On-Premises to OCI: A Practical Guide for Oracle Application Migrations
Hans Viehmann
From SQL Patterns in Event Logs to Graph Insights: An introduction to Process Mining
Renée Wikestad
Getting started with Property Graphs – A Jumpstart for Database Developers
Samuel Campos, Rubén Rodríguez
Success Story: OCI Vision AI Implementation in Large Retail Distribution
Axel vom Stein, Martin Klier
TNS Connections – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

November, 17th: DOAG – Nüremberg / Germany

Gary Gordhamer
Are you ready to PDB?
Oracle Database Editions – Change everything with no downtime
Corrado De Bari
Agentic workflows meet transactional reality
Richard Martens
Observability for APEX Heroes: Why OpenTelemetry Will Change Your Life (and Your Apps)
Igor Donchovski
Monitoring Your MySQL Server’s Health Trends
Christian Gohmann
Deep Dive into the DBMS Scheduler
Daniel Overby Hansen
The DBA Survival Kit

November, 20th: HrOUG – Zagreb / Croatia

Richard Martens
A Surprisingly Friendly Introduction to Semantic Search in APEX
Samuel Campos, Rubén Rodríguez
Agentic AI Applications with Java and OCI
Success Story: OCI Vision AI Implementation in Large Retail Distribution
Gianni Ceresa
Can the modern Frankenstein pass the Turing test?
Oracle Private Agent Factory: your no-code, privacy-friendly, secure agents platform
Corrado De Bari
Agentic workflows meet transactional reality
Next-Gen AI Assistants: Open, Interoperable, Extensible with WayFlow