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Day 1 - July 16th, 2011

Time	Virtual Room # 100	Virtual Room # 200
10:00AM - 10:55AM	Oracle Data Guard 11g Release 2 with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Presenter(s): Guenadi N. Jilevski Time slot: 16 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	ASM Devices - Does size really matter? Presenter(s): Leighton Nelson Time slot: 16 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All
11:00AM - 11:55AM	Oracle Applications w/ Oracle SSO/OID & Microsoft Active Directory Presenter(s): Raj Mareddi Time slot: 16 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Oracle Identity Management Suite - Oracle Target Audience: All	RMAN 11g New Features Presenter(s): Kamran Agayev Time slot: 16 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:00PM - 12:30PM
12:30PM - 1:25PM	Introduction to Oracle Exadata Presenter(s): Fahd Mirza Time slot: 16 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Exadata - Oracle Target Audience: Beginner	Virtualizing Oracle on VMware vSphere: technical deep dive and best practices Presenter(s): Jay Weinshenker Time slot: 16 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Virtualization - Oracle Target Audience: Intermediate
1:30PM - 2:30PM
2:30PM - 3:25PM
3:30PM - 4:25PM
4:30PM - 5:25PM
5:30PM - 6:25PM

Day 2 - July 17th, 2011

Time	Virtual Room # 100	Virtual Room # 200
10:00AM - 10:55AM	Best of Both Worlds: Using SSd and Disks via ASM Presenter(s): Michael Ault Time slot: 17 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Infrastructure Technologies - Oracle Target Audience: All	Learning Oracle with Oracle VM Virtualbox Presenter(s): Leighton Nelson Time slot: 17 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Virtualization - Oracle Target Audience: Beginner
11:00AM - 11:55AM	Convert your single-instance databse to RAC database - tools, tips and techniques Presenter(s): Syed Jaffar Hussain Time slot: 17 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Database Stability Index - How to rank databases based on pre-defined parameters Presenter(s): Giridhar kodakalla Time slot: 17 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:00PM - 12:30PM
12:30PM - 1:25PM	Debugging in SQL Developer Presenter(s): Lewis Cunningham Time slot: 17 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: All	Maximizing Oracle Database availability with Oracle RAC One Node Presenter(s): Svetoslav Gyurov Time slot: 17 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All
1:30PM - 2:25PM	Optimizing Oracle Server Performance on LINUX Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo Time slot: 17 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All	Administration of Automatic Diagnostic Repository Presenter(s): Fahd Mirza Time slot: 17 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
2:30PM - 3:25PM	Introduction to Data Modeling Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo Time slot: 17 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Data Modeling - Oracle Target Audience: All	RMAN: Recovery Procedures Presenter(s): Asif Momen Time slot: 17 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
3:30PM - 4:25PM	Oracle Clusterware and Private Network Considerations- Practical Performance Management for Oracle RAC Presenter(s): Guenadi N. Jilevski Time slot: 17 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All	Oracle R12 EBS Performance Tuning 101 Presenter(s): Ben Prusinski Time slot: 17 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Oracle E-Business Suite - Oracle Target Audience: All
4:30PM - 5:25PM	Database Benchmarking: Miseries, Myths and Misconceptions Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo Time slot: 17 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
5:30PM - 6:25PM

Day 3 - July 18th, 2011

Time	Virtual Room # 100	Virtual Room # 200
10:00AM - 10:55AM	Mining the AWR Repository for Capacity Planning, Visualization, and Other Real World Stuff Presenter(s): Karl Arao Time slot: 18 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	Getting Started with Oracle Data Miner 11gR2 Presenter(s): Brendan Tierney Time slot: 18 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Oracle Data Mining - Oracle Target Audience: Beginner
11:00AM - 3:25PM	VirtaThon GoldStar Session!!! 4-Hour Deep-Dive: Got Performance? Statspack and AWR Analysis Presenter(s): Michael Ault Time slot: 18 July 11:00 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:00PM - 12:30PM
12:30PM - 1:25PM		Attack the Stack! Presenter(s): Chris Ostrowski Time slot: 18 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Service-Oriented Architecture - Oracle Target Audience: All
1:30PM - 2:25PM		Oracle in the Cloud Presenter(s): Lewis Cunningham Time slot: 18 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All
2:30PM - 3:25PM		Optimizing Oracle on VMware Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo Time slot: 18 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Virtualization - Oracle Target Audience: All
3:30PM - 4:25PM	Build a Private Oracle E-Business R12 Suite Cloud on Oracle VM Presenter(s): Tariq Farooq Time slot: 18 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Applications Tools and Technology - Oracle Target Audience: All	Scaling to Infinity: Partioning Data Warehouses on Oracle Presenter(s): Tim Gorman Time slot: 18 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Data Warehousing/EPM - Oracle Target Audience: All
4:30PM - 5:25PM	Premier League Peek: Wide Scale ASM Adoptions and Lessons Learned Presenter(s): Jeremy Schneider Time slot: 18 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	The well managed Application Presenter(s): Matt Warman Time slot: 18 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 General/All Others - Java Target Audience: All
5:30PM - 6:25PM	VirtaThon Keynote: Accelerating Oracle and MySQL Database performance with Solid State Disk Presenter(s): Guy Harrison Time slot: 18 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	RAC SE, EE, ON - How do I choose? Presenter(s): Leighton Nelson Time slot: 18 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Infrastructure Technologies - Oracle Target Audience: All

Day 4 - July 19th, 2011

Time	Virtual Room # 100	Virtual Room # 200
9:00AM - 9:55AM	'n' methods to improve Apex performance Presenter(s): Scott Wesley Time slot: 19 July 09:00 - 09:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Application Express - Oracle Target Audience: All	VirtaThon Keynote: Golden Rules for API Design Presenter(s): David Koelle Time slot: 19 July 09:00 - 09:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Architecture and SOA - Java Target Audience: All
10:00AM - 10:55AM	Performance Tuning in RAC Presenter(s): Arup Nanda Time slot: 19 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Making Music with Java: An Introduction to JFugue Presenter(s): David Koelle Time slot: 19 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Ultra-Cool Stuff - Java Target Audience: All
11:00AM - 11:55AM	All the Free Tools from Oracle Corp Presenter(s): Dan Hotka Time slot: 19 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	VirtaThon Keynote: Database Forensics using ASH Presenter(s): Tim Gorman Time slot: 19 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:00PM - 12:30PM
12:30PM - 1:25PM	Understanding Explain Plans Presenter(s): Dan Hotka Time slot: 19 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	A brief introduction to Cost Based Optimization Presenter(s): Riyaj Shamsudeen Time slot: 19 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
1:30PM - 2:25PM	Understanding Parallel Explain Plans Presenter(s): Dan Hotka Time slot: 19 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	The Need for Speed: Using SSDs with Oracle Presenter(s): Michael Ault Time slot: 19 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Infrastructure Technologies - Oracle Target Audience: All
2:30PM - 3:25PM	Oracle RAC Interview Q/A Competition - Part 1 Presenter(s): Tariq Farooq Bert Scalzo Syed Jaffar Hussain Arup Nanda Time slot: 19 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Competing on Appliances Presenter(s): Vinod Haval Time slot: 19 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Exadata - Oracle Target Audience: All
3:30PM - 4:25PM	Backup Recovery best strategies for RAC Presenter(s): Syed Jaffar Hussain Time slot: 19 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	Congratulations, you run an Open Source project - now what? Presenter(s): David Koelle Time slot: 19 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Open Source Technologies - Java Target Audience: All
4:30PM - 5:25PM	The Future is Now: A fully SSD Database System Presenter(s): Michael Ault Time slot: 19 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Infrastructure Technologies - Oracle Target Audience: All
5:30PM - 6:25PM	Optimizing Oracle SQL - the new frontiers Presenter(s): Guy Harrison Time slot: 19 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Development - Oracle Target Audience: All	The "Whys" of Oracle SOA Presenter(s): Chris Ostrowski Time slot: 19 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Oracle SOA Suite - Oracle Target Audience: All

Day 5 - July 20th, 2011

Time	Virtual Room # 100	Virtual Room # 200
10:00AM - 10:55AM		A Methodology for Performance Diagnostics Presenter(s): Hemant K Chitale Time slot: 20 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
11:00AM - 11:55AM	VirtaThon Keynote: High Performance PL/SQL Presenter(s): Steven Feuerstein Time slot: 20 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Development - Oracle Target Audience: All	Oracle ACFS in Oracle 11.2 Presenter(s): Guenadi N. Jilevski Time slot: 20 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:00PM - 12:30PM
12:30PM - 1:25PM	VirtaThon Keynote: Tuning on the Cheap: Oracle tuning Utilities Everyone Has Presenter(s): Michael Ault Time slot: 20 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
1:30PM - 2:25PM	VirtaThon Keynote: Spin Up Oracle In The Cloud Presenter(s): Lewis Cunningham Time slot: 20 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All	Business Intelligence (OBIEE) : Critical Success Factors Presenter(s): Dan Vlamis Time slot: 20 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Business Intelligence - Oracle Target Audience: All
2:30PM - 3:25PM	Digging into you code with PL/Scope Presenter(s): Lewis Cunningham Time slot: 20 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: All	VirtaThon Keynote: Engineering Better PL/SQL Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo Time slot: 20 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: All
3:30PM - 4:25PM	SQL Performance Tuning with Oracle AWR & ASH (Part 1): What, When & How Presenter(s): Vlado Barun udaymoogala Time slot: 20 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: Intermediate	Embedding Java Virtual Machines in Devices Presenter(s): Dario Laverde Time slot: 20 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Java Embedded - Java Target Audience: All
4:30PM - 5:25PM		RAC be Nimble, RAC be Quick Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo Time slot: 20 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
5:30PM - 6:25PM	Optimizing Oracle and MySQL Databases on VMWare Presenter(s): Guy Harrison Time slot: 20 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All	Analysing Remote Database Behaviours Presenter(s): Scott Wesley Time slot: 20 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: All

Day 6 - July 21st, 2011

Time	Virtual Room # 100	Virtual Room # 200
10:00AM - 10:55AM	VirtaThon Keynote: Exadata - What Exactly is the Magic Presenter(s): Arup Nanda Time slot: 21 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Exadata - Oracle Target Audience: All	An Intro to the Java Play Framework Presenter(s): Dario Laverde Time slot: 21 July 10:00 - 10:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Java Development Tools - Java Target Audience: All
11:00AM - 11:55AM	VirtaThon Keynote: 360 Degrees - Migrate your Single-Instance Online Database to RAC using Streams & Data Pump Presenter(s): Tariq Farooq Time slot: 21 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Apex: Ground Zero to Intermediate Developer in One Hour! Presenter(s): Chris Ostrowski Time slot: 21 July 11:00 - 11:55 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Application Express - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:00PM - 12:30PM	Virtual Party: Wrapping up VirtaThon 2011: @The BrainSurface Online Lounge Presenter(s): Tariq Farooq Time slot: 21 July 12:00 - 12:30 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Cloud Computing - Oracle Target Audience: All
12:30PM - 1:25PM	VirtaThon Keynote: Five Features You Ought to Know About the Oracle Scheduler Presenter(s): Eddie Awad Time slot: 21 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: All	Optimize your backup and recovery operations - Best Practices Presenter(s): Syed Jaffar Hussain Time slot: 21 July 12:30 - 13:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
1:30PM - 2:25PM	Oracle 11gR2 Cluster upgrade success story- A complete cycle Presenter(s): Syed Jaffar Hussain Time slot: 21 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Replication Options You Have More than You Think Presenter(s): John Garmany Time slot: 21 July 13:30 - 14:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
2:30PM - 3:25PM	Oracle RAC Interview Q/A Competition - Part 2 Presenter(s): Tariq Farooq Bert Scalzo Syed Jaffar Hussain Arup Nanda Time slot: 21 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Understanding Oracle Table Partitioning Presenter(s): Lewis Cunningham Time slot: 21 July 14:30 - 15:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database - Oracle Target Audience: All
3:30PM - 4:25PM	SQL Performance Tuning with Oracle AWR & ASH (Part 2): Real World Use Cases Presenter(s): Vlado Barun udaymoogala Time slot: 21 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: Advanced	Codeless Composites Presenter(s): Chris Ostrowski Time slot: 21 July 15:30 - 16:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Oracle SOA Suite - Oracle Target Audience: All
4:30PM - 5:25PM	VirtaThon Keynote: Oracle Services On RAC: Five Things You Might Not Know Presenter(s): Jeremy Schneider Time slot: 21 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	TOAD Tips and Tricks Presenter(s): Bert Scalzo hillbillyToad Time slot: 21 July 16:30 - 17:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Database Development - Oracle Target Audience: All
5:30PM - 6:25PM	Managing & Troubleshooting Clusterware - Best Practices Presenter(s): Syed Jaffar Hussain Time slot: 21 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 100 Real Applications Clusters - Oracle Target Audience: All	Back to the Future with Java 7 Presenter(s): Martijn Verburg Time slot: 21 July 17:30 - 18:25 Room: Virtual Room # 200 Core Java - Java Target Audience: All

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