ODTUG Kscope is the premier educational conference for Oracle technology users, attracting Oracle experts from all over the globe. Featuring development-specific training and content – including lessons learned and money-saving from companies facing common challenges – ODTUG Kscope offers a dynamic experience and a unique learning environment for attendees.
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Kscope25 will take place on June 15-19, 2025 in at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, TX. Every year, ODTUG is proud to showcase top-notch speakers presenting the best technical material available in the community.
It’s time to show us what you know! We’re calling for your very best abstract(s) to continue the Kscope tradition of excellence.
Please read and follow all instructions carefully!
Dates and Deadlines
- Call for Abstracts will open October 1, 2024.
- Abstract submissions are due by December 4, 2024 at 09:59 pm cst.
- Late submissions will not be accepted.
Acceptance
We encourage you to submit multiple abstracts, up to a maximum of five. Any submissions after number 5 are ignored. Consider submitting abstracts with a range of topics and lengths; this will improve your chances of acceptance, as we need to fill many slots of varying lengths (30, 50 and 60 minutes).
Primary speakers accepted for minimum 50 minutes of presenting time receive a complimentary full conference pass. Co-speakers do not receive complimentary passes.
Tracks
ODTUG Kscope covers a multitude of topics, and we have multiple reviewers to ensure proper technical expertise when evaluating your submissions. Please take a moment to read the following descriptions and determine where your topic best fits. You’ll select your Track on the next page.
While we use Tracks to organize session selection, Kscope25 attendees will search and select content using Tags. You will see where and how to use Tags in the submission form.
Below are some topic areas to help you determine your Track & Tag(s). Click here for a more robust description of each section.
EPM - Planning, Profitability and Allocations
- Planning: custom applications; prebuilt module-enabled frameworks; creative solutions; tips, tricks, and innovative uses of both new and existing functionality relative to the planning and budgeting processes
- Profitability and Allocations: PCM / Enterprice PCM; support for financial close processes or planning and budgeting processes; complex versus simple allocations; creative solutions
EPM - Close and Consolidations
- Account reconciliation with transaction matching; financial consolidation; tax provisioning; the intricacies of last-mile reporting; the meticulous management of the close process
- Financial Management (HFM) and Financial Close & Consolidation (FCC), Account Reconciliation (ARM/ARCS) and Tax Provisioning (HTP/TRCS).
EPM - EPM Platform and Strategy
- Platform: web forms, approvals, Smart View, Calculation Manager, Pipeline, security, OCI, IAM, and how these platform features are harnessed to amplify the EPM experience.
- Synergy of multiple EPM products: the complexities of multi-product integrations, cross-product functionalities, and how these collaborations enhance EPM excellence.
- Platform and Strategy: management strategies, monthly updates, administration techniques, project team management, and enterprise projects from on-premises to the cloud. Share transformation stories, experiences, and the tactical maneuvers that chart the course of financial evolution.
- Other innovative ideas, unorthodox perspectives, and the extraordinary stories that may not fit in a specific EPM category.
EPM - Master Data and Integrations
- Data integration solutions & strategies, master data management, data governance, and process automation.
- Configurations, best practices, and innovations that streamline EPM data loads.
- Process automation, automation tools, REST API or EPM Automate scripting, EPM pipelines, or workflow optimization, successful implementations.
EPM – Reporting
- Various reporting solutions, data visualizations, self-service reporting, reporting governance, reporting performance, internal vs external reporting, dashboards, management vs legal vs operational reporting etc.
EPM - Essbase and Freeform
- Essbase: technical deep dives, its strategic role, how it can be harnessed to provide valuable insights to your organization, highlighting its current applications and future potential.
- Freeform: use-cases and the expanding adoption of Freeform modeling.
Netsuite EPM
- NetSuite EPM tips, tricks, lessons learned, functionality, unique use cases, success stories, not-exactly-success stories
APEX
- APEX Core Components: what "staying inside the box" has to offer; best practices
- Challenges: integration, extensions, lifecycle management, and security.
- ORDS, REST, and the various APEX Server Infrastructures
- Your view on the Future of APEX: new 23AI features, MLE, JavaScript in the database, or something only you can imagine!
Database Development
- Development tools and techniques; database engineering and data modeling; relational, NoSQL and specialty databases; Oracle Spatial solutions; Oracle Graph solutions, including both PGX and OPG property graphs; and tools and techniques for building and extending SaaS applications.
Cloud Engineering (NEW)
- OCI, Azure, and related tools and techniques
- Automation (e.g. Terraform) and change management tools
- Building and maintaining key components of on-premises data centers - storage, networking, servers, virtualization
Analytics
- Business Intelligence (report design, data modeling, dashboards)
- Data Exploration (data discovery, data distribution)
- Augmentative Analytics (advanced analytics, ML, AI)
- Data Visualization / Storytelling (layout, color, maps, spatial)
- Hot Topics in Analytics (API, mobile, prompting, NLP, NLU, NLG)
- Data Engineering (data lakes, warehouses, integration, ETL, cleansing, etc.)
Innovation
- Emerging technologies; What's new and exciting; What to know/learn to plan and build for tomorrow; How to innovate by combining existing technologies