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Oracle AI World 2025 Day 2

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If you missed my day 1, you can view it here.

Day 2 was about registering for Oracle AI World, then attending Empower Your Clients: Oracle Database Security Partner & ACE SIG session, the Oracle Partner Success Summit, and finally the Database Premier Customer Appreciation Event in the evening.

Registering for Oracle AI World

I spent the morning blogging about day 1 followed by having breakfast, the same healthy sourdough bread, lightly boiled eggs with avocado.

Like last year, Oracle AI World is only in The Venetian, with no other Oracle-related conferences going on in parallel like JavaOne or SuiteWorld. I headed over at midday to register, and it was starting to get busy.

I headed over to registration, and luckily it wasn’t busy. I saw on social media in the morning, the queues were huge as everyone tried to register early.

The slogan at the registration desk said, “AI Changes Everything”, setting the tone for the conference. Within a couple of minutes, I was registered 😎

Empower Your Clients: Oracle Database Security Partner & ACE SIG

There were no official sessions today, with the exception of the Oracle Partner Success Summit, unless by invitation. Being an Oracle ACE, I got invited to the Empower Your Clients: Oracle Database Security Partner & ACE SIG for Oracle partners and Oracle ACEs. So I attended this session before attending the Oracle Partner Success Summit.

Vipin Samar, Senior Vice President of Development for Database Security, Oracle, talked about risks to your database that can come from many directions, hence “RISK360”.

How, if any gaps remain open, these will be exploited, hence it’s imperative we protect against all attack vectors.

How, the challenge is we don’t have just one database but many! So how do we address the challenge of an entire database fleet with different requirements and an evolving landscape that we need to constantly keep updating?

He talked about a three-pronged approach of:

  • Security 360: securing the database attack surface
  • Security at source: where possible, secure at source, so not relying on other external measures you may not have control over i.e. row, column, and cell-level control
  • Security at scale: so not just apply to one database but the entire fleet

Next, he spoke about how to address those risks with various Oracle products, features, or processes.

Then he spoke about how to address security at scale with Oracle Data Safe, an Oracle Cloud product, which can be used to manage databases in OCI, multi-cloud, or even on-premises. Securing thousands of databases anywhere.

Next, Vikram Pesati talked about how to secure agentic AI from providing more information than the requester is privileged to see. Ensuring no unauthorised access by bypassing typical permissions. Ensuring row and column-level control.

As the Oracle Partner Success Summit was starting shortly, I had to leave this session early to ensure I got a good seat.

Oracle Partner Success Summit

I headed over to the Partner Success Summit, where the doors had already opened. I headed over to the front, as close as I could get. The room was starting to get pretty full.

Same as last year, Leah Yomtovian, Senior Vice President, Partner, Sales, and Operations Strategy was the host and welcomed us all. However, it was evident she was pregnant, congratulations to her! 😊

She:

  • Thanked us all for helping deliver exceptional customer outcomes
  • Mentioned how we’re already off to a great start this year with increases in cloud and OCI revenue, with even more cloud regions
  • Stated how lower costs in OCI mean customers are doing more whilst spending less
  • Also stated higher AI performance on OCI compared to other hyperscalers
  • Mentioned how reliable and trusted security is built into the Oracle DB
  • Mentioned cloud applications that are integrated, scalable, performant, and capable of running mission-critical applications
  • Explained how we all can help customers leverage AI to solve complex challenges through Oracle Cloud Apps, Oracle AI Database, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

She then welcomed Clay Magouyrk, CEO, Oracle (newly appointed from President of OCI business), to the stage.

I’ve always admired Clay, as he’s a true techie at heart, not the most eloquent person, but he owns it and has that appeal with the techies because he can speak at a low level.

He spoke about several key themes:

  • OCI underpins Enterprise Applications and also functions as a standalone product. Years of investment have driven its success
  • OCI can scale up or down, even to a minimal footprint of just three racks, making it highly flexible
  • In multi-cloud setups, Oracle embeds its full stack, infrastructure, software, network, so that new features are instantly available across environments, including Google Cloud, Azure and AWS
  • Oracle ensures the same services are available everywhere in OCI, maintaining consistency across regions and platforms
  • Introduced Zero Trust Packet Routing, a new feature that enforces zero trust principles at the network layer. It restricts access to OCI resources based on security attributes and intent-based policies, such as limiting access to Object Store
  • Emphasised that security is as critical as performance, with built-in guardrails and compliance with global standards
  • At both the platform and application layers, Oracle sees a huge opportunity to adopt AI
  • The AI and data platform enables enterprises to leverage the latest AI capabilities, with embedded AI that is secure, intuitive, and built into workflows
  • Oracle’s AI is natively built into OCI, not bolted on, and is automatically updated with no extra cost
  • “AI is changing everything”, we’re in a fundamental period of transformation. Clay urged partners to understand what’s new, what’s changed, and how AI can reshape businesses
  • The Oracle Database is the best place to take advantage of AI, available on-premises and across all clouds
  • Partners like you are key drivers of this change, helping customers unlock the full potential of Oracle’s AI and cloud offerings

Leah next welcomed Hasan Rizvi, EVP, Database Engineering, Oracle and Srikant Gokulnatha, SVP, Analytics Product Management, Oracle to the stage.

Hassan talked about:

  • How the Oracle Database was the first relational, first portable, first clustered, first engineered, first autonomous, and now the first AI-native database
  • The first converged database: a single engine with native support for all modern data types, analytics, and development paradigms built into one product
  • Portability and flexibility allow customers to decide where they want to run workloads, on-premises, Cloud@Customer, or multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Security close to the data is a third pillar of Oracle’s strategy, making a big difference to customers by enforcing zero trust principles and quantum-resistant encryption
  • Leveraging the power of AI and data together by bringing AI to your data, not the other way around. This is enabled by in-database AI agents, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities
  • Introduction of new vector data types for AI and agentic RAG, allowing SQL queries across both vectors and relational data
  • Functionality to explain data using annotations, helping machine learning models generate SQL and improve interpretability
  • Development transformation through low-code apps built on Oracle APEX, powered by ML-generated logic
  • Oracle Database is now available everywhere, on all three major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-prem, and OCI, giving customers the freedom to choose
  • Customers can bring their Oracle licences or use their hyperscaler contracts to consume Oracle services, offering commercial flexibility
  • Oracle continues to deliver the highest performance, especially on Exadata and the newly announced OCI Zettascale10 supercomputer, which supports 16 zettaflops of AI compute
  • The combination of multi-cloud, AI, ZDLRA (Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance), and Autonomous AI Lakehouse opens up massive opportunities for partners and customers alike

Srikant talked about:

  • Gartner’s 60% prediction: By 2026, 60% of enterprise data will be used to train AI models, highlighting the urgency to make data AI-ready
  • The importance of making data ready for AI by ensuring it is clean, structured, and accessible across platforms
  • How to bring data together from disparate sources into a unified model, this is where Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) plays a key role
  • Exposing data as one unified layer for AI consumption, enabling consistent access for training and inference across Oracle Cloud Applications
  • Use of low-code tools like Jupyter and Oracle AI Agent Studio to build agentic AI solutions. These tools allow developers and analysts to create AI workflows without deep ML expertise
  • Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) as a platform for agentic AI
  • FDI integrates with Oracle ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX to provide prebuilt KPIs, dashboards, and AI/ML models
  • It supports custom ETLs, third-party analytics tools, and self-service reporting
  • FDI enables 360-degree views of business entities, combining transactional and analytical data for deeper insights
  • Oracle’s broader data and analytics strategy creates rich opportunities for partners to deliver AI-driven solutions that are scalable, secure, and business-aligned

Next, Leah welcomed Mike Sicilia, CEO, Oracle (newly appointed from President of Oracle Industries) and Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President, Application Development, Oracle to the stage.

Mike Sicilia and Steve Miranda talked about:

  • Over 400 AI features embedded in Oracle Fusion Applications, and 650+ AI capabilities across industry-specific apps like Oracle Health, Hospitality, and Financial Services
  • The deployment of AI agents to solve real business problems, not just automate tasks. These agents are designed to triage, fetch data, generate responses, and trigger actions, acting like digital team members
  • Introduction of AI Studio for Fusion and industry apps, enabling partners and customers to customise or build new agents using low-code tools like Jupyter notebooks and Oracle Agent Studio
  • Emphasis on prompt engineering and private data residency within applications, ensuring AI operates in close proximity to enterprise data for better accuracy and security
  • Oracle’s unique position as the only vendor with deep integration across both applications and technology stack, allowing it to drive real business value rather than just data movement
  • A compelling healthcare example: Oracle AI saved 100 minutes per day in clinical settings by automating mundane tasks, such as documentation and scheduling
  • Focus on real applied AI, not hype, to deliver efficiency gains by removing labour-intensive processes and enabling automation at scale
  • A heartfelt appreciation for the partner community, recognising that partners working closely with customers are the key to driving success and adoption
  • Advice to partners: understand the full Oracle stack, from infrastructure to apps, to help customers solve complex, multi-layered problems that require deep integration

Next, Leah had her own segment.

She talked about:

  • Helping customers move Oracle applications to the cloud, particularly Fusion Cloud Applications, to unlock agility, scalability, and embedded AI capabilities
  • Encouraging partners to engage C-level stakeholders to help them understand the strategic value and opportunity of Oracle’s full-stack cloud and AI offerings
  • Leveraging OCI and AI agents to deliver joint solutions that solve real business problems. This includes deploying Oracle-validated AI agents built by partners and available directly within Fusion workflows
  • Driving organisational transformation through Oracle’s end-to-end tech stack, from infrastructure to applications, enabling seamless integration and automation
  • Highlighting the launch of the Oracle AI Agent Studio and its listing on the Oracle Marketplace, where partners can publish and monetise their AI agents with custom pricing models approved by Oracle
  • Promoting free AI training for partners, available through Oracle University until end of October, covering topics like Fusion ERP, HCM, and APEX low-code development with AI.

For the final segment, Leah welcomed Karen Chen, VP, Global Cloud Sales, nvidia to the stage.

She talked about:

  • DGX-1 (2016) marked NVIDIA’s pivotal shift into deep learning, integrating chip, software, and networking capabilities
  • This led to its first partnership with OpenAI, laying the groundwork for modern AI infrastructure
  • The GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), exemplifies NVIDIA’s commitment to high-performance computing for generative AI workloads
  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise provides a robust software layer for deploying AI across hybrid cloud environments, including OCI
  • The NVIDIA Inference Service in OCI supports scalable AI workloads, particularly in data science and model deployment
  • Karen emphasised that the partner ecosystem plays a vital role in accelerating AI adoption, with collaboration being critical to NVIDIA’s success
  • The session reinforced how strategic partnerships and cloud-native AI services are driving rapid innovation and enterprise transformation

After the summit concluded, a network reception was held for approximately 500–600 partner delegates, which I attended. During the event, I had the opportunity to connect with Manish Naik, another Oracle ACE, and catch up with my Version 1 colleagues, Tim German, Kate Mead, and Marc Southey.

Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event

The final event of the day was the Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event, which I’ve attended for the past three years. For the last two years, and again this year, the event was hosted at Madame Tussauds in The Venetian, offering a familiar and engaging setting for networking!

Met with my Oracle ACE friends, Vijayganesh Sivaprakasam, Osama Mustafa, Nelson Calero, and Sai Penumuru.

There was a fun and visually impressive ice cream-making experience this time, using liquid nitrogen, a popular technique for its dramatic fog effect and ultra-fast freezing, which always draws a crowd and tasty at the same time 😋

I got to met Annie, from Barclays a customer of Version 1.

A little bit of fun with angel wings, a light-hearted moment with my Oracle ACE friends!

I also got to meet Alex Blyth, Exadata Product Manager, who I know quite well 😊

As well as:

Also got to meet some old friends from last year when I attended the same event 🤣

Rather then repeating the same photos, you can see them here:

Tomorrow marks the first day of the actual conference, really looking forward to it! 😎👍🏽

You can view my day 3 part 1 here.

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Oracle AI World 2025 Day 1

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

As there was no Oracle EMEA Appreciation Event like the past couple of years, today was simply enjoying Las Vegas and adjusting to the new time zone, which wasn’t as hard because I came from New York this time, so was already used to GMT-5 hours.

Enjoying Las Vegas

First thing first was to get breakfast. So hit my usual restaurant Zeffer’s within my hotel. As I was eating healthy, tried to have my staple diet of sourdough bread and soft-boiled eggs. There was something similar on the menu which had some avocado, so I went for that. And it was delicious.

Next, I went back to my hotel room and spent a few hours getting my first blog post out, covering the trip over and my NYC visit. Once I got this out of the way, a customer of Version 1, James, was attending the conference and it was his first time over in Las Vegas, so I offered to meet up, show him around, and go for some lunch. We decided to go to The Cheesecake Factory, a place I am familiar with.

Honestly, this place is mental, cheesecakes are like 1,000 to 2,000 calories! I clearly passed on this and went for something healthy 😂

Just outside, there is a show every half hour or so called The Atlantis Show, which at the end has some cool balls of fire that you can feel the heat from.

After the very big lunch, as I had the dinner portion, when I really should have had the lunch one 🤦🏽‍♂️, we went for a walk down the strip.

We reached the LINQ promenade, which I showed James around. We even got to see people doing the zipline ride 😎

Next, we walked down the strip, saw Gordon Ramsay’s new burger joint and Hell’s Kitchen, a shrine, some green fairy garden, and the Paris hotel with its replica of the Eiffel Tower. We finally saw the water fountain show at the Bellagio. Annoyingly, the view was a little obstructed by the large Formula 1 grandstand, for the Grand Prix next month.

James wanted to go back to the hotel and get sorted for tomorrow and have an early night. So after walking him back to the hotel, I went to meet my good friend Sai in the Venetian shopping mall.

We had a walk around the mall, as we waited for our friend Osama to join us.

Osama wasn’t answering, so we decided to go for dinner at Yard House in the LINQ promenade, as I had been there before in the past and it was good. Chandan, a friend of Sai, also joined us. Keeping with healthy eating, I went for a shrimp salad and because of the big lunch, went for a half portion and even this was still huge 🤦🏽‍♂️

Osama eventually caught up with us and had dinner. Then we called it a night just before getting a group photo.

Tomorrow will be registration, attending the Oracle Partner Success Summit, Partner Networking Reception, Regional Partner Awards, and Database Premier Customer Appreciation Event.

You can view my day 2 here.

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Oracle AI World 2025 Day 0

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Introduction

Similarly to the past couple of years, as an Oracle ACE Pro, I’m very fortunate to be able to get a complimentary ticket to Oracle AI World (formerly Oracle CloudWorld). Again, with my employer Version 1 covering travel, accommodation and time, for which I am very grateful, I was all set to attend Oracle AI World 2025.

This year is slightly different in that, as we now have a New York City (NYC) office and I had some client engagements, I stopped off at our NYC office and met with customers. I had four days in NYC, which I have condensed into this blog for those who are interested.

The Flight to New York

Tuesday, 7th October (later than last year) and the journey begins! All packed and ready to leave Manchester for NYC and Las Vegas for OAW25 😎

Not so gruellingly long flights, as I get to stop over at NYC this time! Starting from Manchester Airport.

The first flight is a 7-hour flight to New York via Aer Lingus instead of my usual Virgin Atlantic.

Landed in New York, now for immigration, which I was a little bit worried about as I was stopping off in NYC for a few days instead of going straight to Las Vegas, but I had my ESTA and a letter from my employer, so it should be all fine. And it was, I was literally 30 seconds at the immigration booth, got my stamp, and was on my way. I guess having been so many times now to the US and left, I’m very low risk!

My stayover at New York

As NYC is 5 hours behind UK time, it wasn’t yet time for bed, so I thought I’d have a walk to Times Square and absorb the atmosphere. I’ve only been to NYC once before, back in 2011 with my wife, so I thought I’d make the most of it and go, not knowing I’d pass it so many times in the coming days!

First day at the office, but stopped off for breakfast as the hotel didn’t offer breakfast. I’m on a new healthy eating regime, so I had sourdough bread, a couple of lightly boiled eggs and tea, which I was able to get at a mall restaurant.

As my office is very close to Times Square, I will pass it every day to get to the office, going past the Nasdaq stock exchange!

Here is my office within WeWork. As we’re only a small team in the US compared to the UK and Ireland, we only have a small serviced office within WeWork, which works really well and puts us in the heart of NYC!

My desk for the next few days, can’t complain 😎

After a day’s work, I decided to go to a comedy show for the evening and managed to get tickets in Times Square.

The comedy show was at Broadway Comedy Club, which had an underground vibe and seemed to be for new comedians to start off at. There were 10 acts including the host; they were short acts lasting only 5 minutes or so. The host was pretty funny and probably one of the best. I kept getting picked on as I voluntarily chose to sit in the front row. I was the guy with the Oracle Red Bull Racing top on, and was told I was the “boring one, who just goes to the office and wears a work top to a comedy club” 😂. Overall, I don’t want to be harsh on the comedians as they are trying to make themselves, but I didn’t laugh too much, only when it was personal when picked on. One of the comedians was asking why I was taking photos; I said, “for my blog!” He said, “Oh right, are you saying all the comedians are crap?!? They are, but I can’t say that.” That did make me chuckle, and he kept coming back to me and said, “Put that in your blog” 😂. I’d give them 6 out of 10, taking into consideration the cost of the ticket and the 2-drink minimum requirement. Not bad, but there are better places, as I found out later on.

Walking back to the hotel, I noticed all the carts you see around NYC, serving up street food and mostly halal. It’s a shame I never got to try one of them.

Next day, I was visiting a client in New Jersey (NJ), the neighbouring state to New York. So I walked down to Penn Station in NYC, passing The New York Times.

Caught two trains, one in NYC and one in NJ.

Here is the client’s nice, plush office in NJ, where I met my colleague Sonia to meet the client.

On the way back to the hotel, I noticed the Microsoft NYC office.

After getting back to the hotel and getting changed, I decided to go to Broadway to see a show. I was recommended a few shows by colleagues, but they weren’t too appealing. So after having a look at what was on, I noticed Stranger Things, a Netflix series which I am into, so I decided to see this 😁

The show was overall brilliant, it was a prequel to the series. The special effects were amazing! There’s one thing seeing them on TV and knowing it’s special effects and CGI, but there’s another seeing them in real life. I still can’t understand how some of them were done, they were that good! And the main character, he was really good. My only issue was that the story was a bit light and dragged on a bit. But that could just be theatre shows. I’d give it a solid 9/10, most would probably give it 10/10, it’s that good.

Next day, back in the office, but at lunchtime I needed to go and do Friday prayers as a Muslim. There was a mosque less than 15 minutes away, so I walked over. It seemed like a warehouse where all the halal food carts are kept overnight, but it served a dual purpose, a mosque upstairs, and for Friday prayers, the warehouse floor was used as extra space. There were a good few hundred in attendance.

My son wanted a comic book from NYC. He cleverly looked up my location and found a comic store, then told me to go there. He’s only 11! These kids these days are well versed with technology, which is a good thing, I guess. I bought him 2 comic books, which will keep him happy.

After a day’s work in the office, my colleague Phil and I decided to go for a quick bite to eat at German Doner Kebab and then head over to a comedy show.

Prior to leaving the office, we were trying to find tickets. Phil had tried the places he knew were good, but they weren’t available. So after a quick Google search, I found Comedy Village, which was highly rated on Google Reviews. So we thought we’d try this one seeing as it still had tickets available.

It was well worth the gamble, as it was really good. The host, Paula Leon, was great, really engaged the audience and made us laugh. It was hard trying to get photos of all the comedians here compared to the other place, so unfortunately I managed to capture only a few. But there were 8 acts including the host. By and large, they were all good, with only one a little flat, but things picked up with the other acts. In particular, 2 or 3 had me in stitches. It was a much posher place, a high-quality establishment with good up-and-coming talent. I’d give it 9 out of 10. Well worth the money, so if you’re in NYC, give it a shot.

I even got to meet Paula and some of the comedians after the show outside and got a sneaky photo in.

Saturday was the final day in NYC, so before catching my flight to Las Vegas, I thought I’d go for a walk in Central Park. Because every other day, once back from the office, it was dark. So I got to go in the day; however, sod’s law, it was raining, but that didn’t deter me. I went to a few popular spots, including the fountain that is mistaken as the fountain in the series Friends, but actually isn’t, as the fountain in the opening credits is in California, on the back lot of the Warner Bros studio, as explained here.

The Flight to Las Vegas

Pretty eventful, as I got to the airport, checked my bag in, and went to my gate. Here is the Delta aircraft that will take me to Las Vegas.

Just before landing, I could see the Las Vegas Strip, from left to right, starting with MGM Grand in green, all the way to The Strat, the building with the tallest observation tower on the right.

Finally in Las Vegas, and as it was a connecting flight from Manchester, I was able to get an earlier flight than normal and arrive early evening rather than quite late in the evening.

My place for the week is my usual spot, the Sahara Hotel, which is at the end of the Monorail (southbound). I’ve always chosen it to keep the cost down, as the central Strip hotels are expensive. I went for my standard tier, but managed to get an upgrade to the more modern tower in the hotel than my usual room type.

Tomorrow will be exploring Las Vegas and preparing for AI World by getting my agenda finalised!

You can view my day 1 here.

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Oracle Exadata X11M Next Generation Hardware Available Everywhere

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Oracle today announced Oracle Exadata X11M, labelled as the Next Generation Intelligent Data Architecture which enable Exadata Exascale Intelligent Data Architure for the Cloud Era.

Hardware Changes

In the database server, the CPU moves from AMD EPYC 9J14 to 9J25, whilst still retaining 96 cores, they are up to 25% faster. Same memory sizes but up to 33% faster DRAM.

In the storage server, the flash is now up to 2.2x faster then 10M, with CPU up to 11% faster and DRAM 33% faster.

The amount of flash, memory, and disk remains unchanged from X10M.

Both storage server high capacity and and extreme flash remain unchanged, however the database server eighth rack and storage server eighth rack is now called database server-Z and storage server high capacity-Z.

AI search are now further accelerated on X11M with AI vector search on database severs up to 43% faster with in-memory vector index (HNSW) queries and AI vector search on storage servers up to 55% faster with persistent vector index (IVF) queries.

The I/O latency was already impressive on the X10M at 17us, but Oracle have managed to reduced this now to 14us to give 21% faster XRMEM read latency and up to 43% faster flash OLTP read latency.

Software Changes

Exadata X11M has a new intelligent power efficiency capability that can limit the power consumption of the database server CPUs dynamically to save power when workload demand is low. It can also intelligently turn off unneeded cores to further conserve energy. Couple with hardware changes, this allows for running more databases and workloads or run same workload using less hardware due to the extreme performance enabling efficiently consolidate.

Available Everywhere

Oracle now has Exadata in all leading cloud providers, making Exadata accessible to even more customers.

Couple this with Exascale, which is currently limited to OCI but will in future be on Exadata Cloud@Customer, OCI Dedicated Region, and multi-cloud environments, will make Exadata even more accessible with low entry cost point and pay per use.

For more Info

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Oracle CloudWorld 2024 Day 7 Return Journey

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If you missed my day 6, you can view it here.

All good things come to an end as with CloudWorld 2024, and it was time to return back home to the UK. I had a same flights back as I did coming to Las Vegas but in reverse, so to New York then Manchester. With the only difference when I came due to the timezone difference it was the same day, but going back due to losing so many hours due to timezone difference, I leave Saturday but arrive Sunday morning! 😫

Return Journey

I had an morning flight of 9:25am, so was up early to complete my packing and get to airport for 6:30am. After dropping my bag off, getting through security and grabbing a bagel for breakfast it was time to board my flight.

I really like the Delta flights as the plane are pretty modern with great entertainment system and free WiFi! 😎

Time to take off, 6 hours flight to JFK New York.

After pleasure flight, arrived in New York slightly earlier and had about 1 hour to catch next flight to Manchester.

It took quite some time to taxi to gate and to get off the plane, which only left 30 minutes to board next flight which left in an hour. The shuffle bus wasn’t at the stop next to the gate I came through off the plane, so I decided to walk even though it was about 20-25 minutes walk.

I managed to walk at good pace and even managed to stop at chocolate shop to get brittle peanut which my wife wanted. Arrived at gate and they were about to start boarding. Miss England was the plane I’d be traveling on this time.

It was 6pm in New York but 11pm in UK, and I always look ahead at the destination time to ensure I adjust my bodyclock accordingly and limit the jetlag. So it was case of having food and catching some sleep as when I arrive in UK, it was going to be nearly 7am.

As planned, I had my food and went to sleep as best as I could in a plane and rested. 7 hours later we landed in Manchester which was looking a bit grim!

Was glad to be back and was looking forward to getting home and seeing the wife and kids.

I collected my luggage, thankfully no delayed luggage like in the past and I was off home in a taxi.

As always, a really enjoyable and brilliant trip, many thanks to Oracle Ace Program for the complimentary CloudWorld ticket and to my employer Version 1 for covering travel, accomodation and time out the office.

Till hopefully CloudWorld 25, take care and I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post series and apologies for the delay in writing it all up (it surprisingly take some considerable time) 🙄

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