Since I’ve joined Oracle in late 2009, the amount of presentations delivered on marketing, customer, partner or internal events have been outstanding. But there’s one thing that has always puzzled me: most of the attendees simply don’t take any handwritten notes these days. The answer is far less mysterious: in the end all of them are expecting me to send the presentation, or have a place in the internet to download the slide deck.
I confess that I’m a bit old school and whenever I attend presentations I take loads of notes and I carry my paper books like they were gold. Maybe it’s because I don’t attend a tenth of the ones I lecture 
So if you attended one of my public presentations here are the slide decks I’ve used in each and everyone of them, in PDF format, and with the usual Oracle disclaimer:
“The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle”
Presos of 2009
“Grid Economics Forum” – Lisbon 25th of November 2009 – Hotel Sana Park – Oracle Event
“Virtualise with Confidence” – Lisbon 10th of December 2009 – Centro Cultural de Belém – Sun and AMD Event
Presos of 2010
“Cloud Computing Forum: Virtualization and Cloud Computing” – Lisbon 4th of February 2010 – Hotel VIP – Oracle Event
“Migration Workshop” – Lisbon 10th of February 2010 – Hotel Sana Park – Oracle Event
“Storage Optimization: ASM to Manage all your data“
“Storage Optimization: Exadata V2 Sun Oracle Database Machine” – both sessions from the Oracle Event “Storage Optimization” Lisbon 25th February 2010 – Hotel Sana Park
“ExadataCustomer Case StudyTIMw.e. and the Portuguese Market” – Berlin 12th April 2010 – Hotel Radisson Blu – Oracle Internal Event “Exadata Topguns”. This presentation was done in public later on in Lisbon on the 27th April 2010
“Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database and Oracle In-Memory Database Cache 11g” – Lisbon 27th April 2010 – Hotel Sana Park – Oracle Event
“Enterprise Manager 11g Launch: Integrated Application-to-Disk Management“
“Enterprise Manager 11g Launch: Integrated Cloud Management” – both sessions from the Oracle Event “Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Launch” Lisbon 27th May 2010 – Hotel Sana Park
“DB Tech Day: Best kept secrets of Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g Release 2“
“DB Tech Day: Next Generation Database Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g” – both sessions from the Oracle Event “Oracle Database Technical Day” Lisbon 1st of July, Museu do Oriente
“OBIEE 11g Launch: Extreme Performance Data Warehousing with Exadata” – Lisbon 15th September 2010, Hotel Sana Park – Oracle Event. A version of this presentation was again used on the 24th of November 2010 in the same event but in Oporto.
“Open-World 2010 New Features and Products: Oracle Elastic Cloud” – Lisbon 21st October 2010, Oracle Office
“Next Generation Data Center: Exterme Performance with Exadata” – Lisbon 28th October 2010, Hotel VIP – Oracle Event
Tom Kyte’s presentation “What Oracle 11g means to me” – Open Our Windows Oracle Event, Lisbon 16th of December 2010, Hardrock Cafe with Tom Kyte and Paul Done. This was the first event where I’ve stayed behind the scenes and I must say that it is much harder that I’ve thought.
Presos of 2011
“Cloud Computing Summit: Mixed Workload Management in Exadata” – Lisbon 10th of February 2011, Hotel Real Palácio – Oracle Event
“60 minutes of Oracle Core Technology” – Getting back to the basics: Comprehensive presentation about DB, ASM, RAC, Security, IMDB, Golden Gate, Active Data Guard, etc. This presentation was made public for the first time on the 14th of February 2011.
“Information Management Masterclass” – Datawarehouse and BI driven, a two speaker session about information management with the DW/BI Reference Architecture as the blueprint. No slides, no product preaching. Porto Salvo, Oracle Offices 1st March 2011. Speakers: me and Johan Hendrickx.
“Oracle Infrastructure Day: Maximum Availability Architecture” – Lisbon 15th of March 2011, Hotel Altis Belém – Oracle Event
“All About Solutions: Why Oracle11g?” and “All About Solutions: Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together” – I spoke on two sessions in this Oracle event dedicated to the northern Portuguese market, Oporto, 31st March 2011.
These were my presentations done in my period as a PreSales Consultant for Oracle Portugal from the fall of 2009 until spring 2011.
I’ve changed roles and since the summer of 2011 I’m now an Engineered Systems Enterprise Architect in the Engineered Systems Architecture Team (ESAT) of EMEA. Our team is also responsible for Sales Enablement activities in EMEA regarding Engineered Systems.
