Oracle CloudWorld 2024 Session Stats
Here are a few interesting stats I collected from the CloudWorld approved sessions list.
- based on the initial dataset of accepted presentations that I collected of 459 approved Sessions.
Most Popular Session Types:
- Learning Session: 212
- Theater Session: 78
- Hands-on Lab: 53
- Panel Session: 47
- Product Showcase: 27
- Tutorial: 20
- Deep Dive Session: 7
- Birds of a Feather: 6
- OU Certification: Exam Information: 5
- OU Certification: Exam: 3
- OU Certification: Exam Preparation: 1
- Sessions with Only Oracle Presenters: 376
- Sessions with Customer Involvement: 83
Top Presenters
Here are the top presenters based on the number of sessions they are involved in:
- Ranjan Priyadarshi: 9 sessions
- Peter Fernandez: 8 sessions
- Rebecca Sly: 8 sessions
- Prasanna Borse: 8 sessions
- Doug Hood: 6 sessions
- Blaine Carter: 6 sessions
- Chris Havrilla: 5 sessions
- Shasank Chavan: 4 sessions
- Hakim Loumi: 4 sessions
- Nacho Martinez: 4 sessions
Session Analysis by Technology
Here is the breakdown of sessions by technology area:
- AI/Machine Learning: 185 sessions
- Oracle Database: 137 sessions
- Developer Technologies: 106 sessions
- Human Resources: 98 sessions
- Sales, Service & Marketing (CX): 92 sessions
- OCI Core Infrastructure: 86 sessions
- Cross Applications: 59 sessions
- Finance: 57 sessions
- Analytics: 54 sessions
- Supply Chain & Manufacturing: 50 sessions
- Security: 49 sessions
- Systems: 46 sessions
- Modern Data Platform: 43 sessions
- Cloud Migration: 42 sessions
- IT Estate Modernization: 39 sessions
- Industry Applications: 37 sessions
- Supply Chain & Manufacturing: 35 sessions
- Java: 31 sessions
- Distributed Cloud: 27 sessions
- Customer Experience: 22 sessions
- Applications Unlimited: 21 sessions
- HeatWave MySQL: 20 sessions
- Capital Programs & Construction: 3 sessions
- Environment & Social: 2 sessions
Session Analysis by Specified Tech Stack
Here is a breakdown of sessions related to the specified technologies that I focus my attention on. (Not including AI on this list)
- Digital Assistant: 30 sessions
This is a bit misleading as a lot of these sessions are GenAI virtual agents and not true ODA Presentations. - WebCenter: 3 sessions
- APEX (Application Express): 9 sessions
- VBCS/Visual Builder Cloud Service: 12 sessions
- OBP/Oracle Blockchain Platform: 2 session
- JET: 1 session
AI/Machine Learning Session Breakdown by AI Types
Here is the breakdown of AI/Machine Learning sessions by specific AI types at Oracle CloudWorld 2024:
- Unspecified General AI/ML: 166 sessions
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): 81 sessions
- Machine Learning: 66 sessions
- Virtual Agents: 11 sessions
- Deep Learning: 10 sessions
- Document Understanding: 3 sessions
- Predictive Analytics: 2 sessions
- Computer Vision: 1 session
- Natural Language Processing (NLP): 1 session
- AI Applications: 3 sessions
- AI Infrastructure: 1 session
Customer Experience Sessions Grouped by Technology
- Commerce: 9 sessions
- Service: 6 sessions
- Sales: 3 sessions
- Marketing: 3 sessions
- Analytics: 3 sessions
- Other CX: 1 session
I'll be creating an improved list closer to CloudWorld to see how things involve but overall AI and DB are at the top of the list - I was surprised to see that not many APEX sessions have been approved - hopefully this will change in the next month and we will see this grow within the next month..