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Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 Coffee & registration

9.00 Welcome

9:00 – 10:00 Low-Code, AI, and the Future of App Creation
Speaker: Ashish Mohindroo
The landscape of application development is undergoing a revolution with the rise of low-code platforms and the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This keynote explores the latest innovations in these fields, including AI-powered application generation, Natural language to SQL conversion, Vector Search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). We’ll delve into the common use cases and how these advancements are breaking down traditional barriers, empowering anyone with a great idea to bring their vision to life, regardless of technical expertise.

10:00 – 10:45 Oracle APEX 24.1 New Features
Speaker: Marc Sewtz
Oracle APEX 24.1 introduces a native AI-powered APEX Assistant, enabling natural language-based development of cloud and mobile apps. In this session, we’ll demonstrate this new AI Assistant and show how developers can create entire apps simply by using natural language prompts to specify desired capabilities and components, iterating easily through an intuitive conversational interface. We’ll also cover the integration with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Document Generation service, which enables high-fidelity report printing, and delve into further enhancements to the built-in Workflow functionality. Additionally, we’ll showcase new capabilities for team development with improvements to Working Copies and enhancements for large-scale application projects through advanced Template Components, Page Patterns, and updated item widgets.

11:00 – 11:45 Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX: Success Stories from Customers + Demo
Speaker: Monica Godoy Millan
There are a number of advantages that makes Oracle APEX the clear platform of choice for easily transitioning Oracle Forms applications to modern web apps. In this session, you will learn the advantages, and similarities between Forms and APEX and why customers are selecting APEX as their primary platform to modernize legacy apps. You will also watch a live demo on how you can modernize a sample forms app and learn from customers success stories.

11:45 – 12:30 Application Development Lifecycle Management with Oracle APEX
Speaker: Marc Sewtz
In this session, we’ll discuss application development lifecycle management and CI/CD integration with Oracle APEX. We’ll explore key capabilities such as Working Copies, automated backups, page locking, remote deployment to cloud and on-premises APEX instances, component export/import, and exporting applications in readable formats for easy version comparison. Additionally, we’ll cover the use of popular source control systems like Git and share best practices from the APEX development team, including feature-branch-based development, build automation, unit testing, and static code analysis.

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15-14.00 APEX 24.1 Working with Application Working Copies
Speaker: Richard Martens
With the introduction of APEX 23.2, we can now create a copy of your application, make changes in the copy, and merge those changes back into our source app. APEX produces a visual diff of the changes between the working copy and main application.
We can now do feature development and testing in a working copy of our applications, and merge the changes back in when we are ready for them to be included in the main application.
How does this fit in our development process? Using real-world examples Richard will demonstrate the use of this ground-breaking feature.

14:00-14:30 Coffee

14:30-15.15 Are you a report-conductor? Conduct your reports using template directives
Speaker: Richard Martens
You do not need to be an HTML guru to be able to beautify your reports. You do not be an HTML master adjusting templates or even creating new ones.
We will start conducting our reports using tiny HTML snippets, add them to our reports and give that extra bit of user experience that will make your application stand out above others!
Template directives allow you to give that little extra pizzazz needed to grab the attention of your user. This session explains the use of template directives, when to use them and why.

15:15-16.00 Panel: AI and the future of a developer
Moderator: tbd

16:00 Wrap-up