If you missed my day 0, you can view it here.

Due to bid work, the day was consumed with that, with the evening attending the Oracle EMEA Partner Reception Event at the Commonwealth.

Oracle EMEA Partner Reception Event

The Oracle EMEA Partner Reception Event was for all Oracle Partners across EMEA, which I believe approximately 150-200 people attended.

We were hosted by Stefan Diedericks from Oracle.

I attended this event last year, however this year was different as Stefan was hosting the “Oracle Europe Middle East and Africa Partner Award“. We were proud to be finalist in the “2023 Oracle Partner Award Apps/ SaaS” for “Innovation” against Fujitsu for UK & Ireland. Our submission was based on our Cloudbridge Suite, which is our comprehensive set of tools designed to accelerate Integration, Data Migration, and Automated Testing for Oracle Cloud SaaS services, thereby helping our customers meet their business objectives with ease.

My colleagues Colm Gillard, Tim German, and Joel Acha hadn’t arrived in time, so I had the pleasure of representing Version 1 with Graham Smith should we win any awards.

Version 1 won the UK & Ireland “2023 Oracle Partner Award Apps/ SaaS” for “Innovation” 😁, along with Innoapps for “Business Impact” and Infosys for “Customer Success”:

We were all finalist for the respective EMEA Award, and it with great pleasure that we won the EMEA “2023 Oracle Partner Award Apps/ SaaS” for “Innovation” 🏆👏🏽😎:

It was great to be recognised for our innovation at an EMEA level, it’s a great milestone and I’m proud to be a part of it. You can read more info here.

After the awards, I met various people including but not limited to:

Friends from Vertice, Tony Cassidy, David Heraty and Abigail Giles-Haigh (now at Oracle).

Leona Chauhan the CEO of Magia Consulting and Philippa Clifford-Davies Oracle Channel Strategy Leader for Applications MidMarket.

Philippa had introduced Leona to Tony, David and myself as part of Unity programme to get partners that can compliment each other, to work together.

They say it’s a small world, but in conversation with Leona, not only did I realise she went to the same university I attended, but at the same time and was on the same course! 🤯 To add to that, we were born only 6 days apart (I’ll let you work out who’s older 😂), and lived very close to each other at the time but we hadn’t really crossed paths properly till now! 🤷🏽‍♂️

Other people I met:

Philip Wilson

Chris Mason

Finally I swung by the entrance to Oracle CloudWorld, where they were still preparing for the next day for registration.

Tomorrow will be registration, attending the Oracle Partner Success Summit and the Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event.

You can view my day 2 here.

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Thanks

Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)