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Midwest & Chicago Oracle Users Group Joint Conference

August 28, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Willis Tower (Downtown)
233 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL

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The Midwest Oracle Users Group strives to provide continued education in Oracle technologies, providing cost effective, time efficient, or innovative solutions to organizations using Oracle products.

MOUG Conference brings database and development experts, including Oracle Product Management, into Chicago for an annual conference or training day. 

  • MOUG & COUG Annual Joint Conference

  • Emerging Tech Track

  • DBA / Development Track

Registration and Breakfast

8:00 am
9:00 am

Willis Tower (Downtown)

AI - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Rich Niemiec W
Rich Niemiec Viscosity
10:00 am

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Keynote: The Agentic Era has a Data Problem

Kay Malcolm
Kay Malcolm Oracle
11:00 am

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Keynote: Building Agentic AI with Oracle AI Database

Tirthankar Lahiri
Tirthankar Lahiri Oracle
12:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Lunch Break
Speaker Panel Q&A

Tony Jedlinski
Tony Jedlinski Konoso

Check the tabs for the Emerging Tech Track and DBA / Development Track
each with focused sessions tailored to your interests.

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Closing Statements & Raffle Prize Drawings

4:00 pm
1:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Deep Data Security with Select AI
(Retrieval Augmented Generation)

Michelle Malcher
Michelle Malcher Michelle MalcherOracle
2:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Bring AI to Your Data with AI Vector Search

Andy Rivenes Oracle
3:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

MCP Servers
Securing AI on Oracle26ai

Fuad Arshad
Fuad Arshad Oracle
1:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Private Agent Factory
with Some SelectAI & APEX Front-End

Karen Cannell
Karen Cannell TH Technology
2:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

Oracle Adaptive SQL Optimization
Why do things go so Bad?

Gary Gordhamer W
Gary Gordhamer Viscosity
3:00 pm

Willis Tower (Downtown)

APEX AI-Driven Interactive Reports
with "What's your AI Budget" thoughts

Karen Cannell
Karen Cannell TH Technology

Meet the Speakers

Rich Niemiec W
Rich Niemiec

CIO Viscosity
Oracle ACE Director

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Gary Gordhamer W
Gary Gordhamer

Principal Consultant VNA
Oracle ACE Director 

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Tony Jedlinski
Tony Jedlinski

President of Konoso

Michelle Malcher
Michelle Malcher

Oracle Corporation Director
Database Product Management

Karen Cannell
Karen Cannell

TH Technology
Oracle ACE Director

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Andy Rivenes

Oracle Product Manager,

Oracle ACE Director

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Fuad Arshad

Oracle Director

Kay Malcolm
Kay Malcolm

 Oracle Vice President & Database 

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Tirthankar Lahiri
Tirthankar Lahiri

 Oracle Senior Vice President

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Location

 Willis Tower (Downtown)

 
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