OTN Tour Latin America 2016: Colombia

Oracle Technology Network Tour 2016 in Pereira

After 2015 in Cali, the OTN conference in 2016 for Colombia took place in Pereira. Pereira is a city located in an area that is famous for producing Colombia’s best coffee. And it is true, we saw coffee growing everywhere. Our hotel was located in spacious green area – a nice and welcome difference to the big cities I had seen so far on this trip.

The Conference

The conference was as well organized as last year by Giovanna Bohorquez Paez and her team from the Asociación de Usuarios Oracle de Colombia. It took place at the University of Pereira. We had live translation and live streaming to the world, so even my family could see me there presenting, fancy that! Due to the location we had a unique chance to speak to students and explain them about Oracle technology, e.g. why it is so much more than the database. Actually quite a few came straight to me and my colleagues to ask us questions! This is alone was worth the trip.

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Again, I was giving some of the Oracle books away that I authored, and you can tell attendees loved it.

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I spoke about Oracle Service Bus and the FUD about Microservices and I delivered a presentation about What You Should Know About WebLogic 12.2.1.

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The Non-Conference Part

After my first presentation in Pereira, i.e. after a total of 11 presentations and the same number of air conditioned plane rides and hotel stays, my voice totally was devastated. Tea with honey helped a lot, so I could deliver my second presentation the other day.

After the first day we had a great conference dinner! You can tell from the photo that everybody was really satisfied 🙂

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After the conference I spent a couple of days 0n my own expenses to see the Museo del Oro (gold museum) in Bogota and the Botero museum – both are excellent and I highly recommend seeing them.

Gold, gold, gold:

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Impressions from Botero:

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