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Suncoast Oracle Users Group Tech Day

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus: Students Services Building/YSSB
1320 E. Palm Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605

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About The Event
Join us for our annual tech day in Tampa, Florida! You'll get expert insider advice on Oracle performance, engineered systems, APEX and AI solutions. Featured speakers include the president of SOUG, Troy Ligon and Oracle ACE Directors from Viscosity, Charles Kim, Gary Gordhamer and Craig Shallahamer.

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Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 am
9:30 - 10:30 am

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Catching Slick Eddie: Fingerprinting Gift Card Fraud Across Disconnected Systems

Craig Shallahamer W
Craig Shallahamer
10:30 - 11:30 am

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Oracle Adaptive SQL Optimization - Why Do Things Go So Bad?

Gary Gordhamer W
Gary Gordhamer

Break and Lunch

11:30 - 11:45 am
11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Lunch Session: ODA Updates + Quick ODA Chatbot Demo

 

Discover how to build AI solutions that truly harness your private data with our on-premise ODA offering. This approach ensures your information remains entirely secure within your own infrastructure. You'll learn to construct a RAG chatbot, seamlessly integrating any open-source LLMs and embedding models you choose. We'll guide you through the setup steps, discuss various practical use cases, and demonstrate it all with a live demo. Understand how this empowers you to develop your own AI solutions with complete data privacy and control.

Shruti Sriram
Shruti Sriram Oracle
12:45 - 1:45 pm

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Post-Quantum Encryption and Why You Should Care

Troy Ligon
Troy Ligon SOUG
1:45 - 2:45 pm

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Exascale or Exadata@Cloud: Which Is Better for You

Charles Kim W
Charles Kim

Break

2:45 - 3:00 pm
3:00 - 4:00 pm

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Building APEX Without the Builder: An AI-Driven Development Experiment

Craig Shallahamer W
Craig Shallahamer
4:00 - 5:00 pm

Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus

Oracle Database Patching the Right Way (Out of Place)

Gary Gordhamer W
Gary Gordhamer

Meet the Speakers

Charles Kim W
Charles Kim

CEO and Co-Founder VNA
Oracle ACE Director

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Craig Shallahamer W
Craig Shallahamer

Applied AI Scientist VNA
Oracle ACE Director

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Gary Gordhamer W
Gary Gordhamer

Principal Consultant VNA
Oracle ACE Director

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Troy Ligon
Troy Ligon

SOUG President

Shruti Sriram
Shruti Sriram

Product Management
Oracle

Location
Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus: Student Services Building/YSSB
1320 E. Palm Avenue, Tampa FL 33605.


Parking

Ybor City Campus Parking lots are available as first come first serve and plenty of parking is available in the Noriega garage/2010 N. 13th Street and Palm Avenue. (North garage use Student Entrance)
Ybor Campus map: https://www.hccfl.edu/doc/hcc-ybor-city-campus-map
 
Campus Parking passes (PDF) will be emailed to attendees after registering for free parking on 3/24/26. Display your parking pass on your dashboard. This pass is required while parking on campus, or you can be subjected to a citation by the City of Tampa.
 
Note: the campus parking passes are NOT valid on street parking. Street parking is monitored by the City of Tampa.
 
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