Awards Archives




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Overall Top Speaker Award
Essbase  Everything You Ever Wanted  to Know about MDX … (but were Afraid to Ask)
Tim Faitsch, Applied OLAP

Best First-Time Speaker Award
Strategic EPM  Want to Become the Indiana Jones of EPM Training? Join My Oracle EPM Training Expedition in the Quest for the Holy Grail!
Caroline Stenpeck, Alithya

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)

Oracle APEX – APEX & ORDS for DBAs and System Admins
Richard Soule, Insum

Analytics & Machine Learning – Machine Learning in the Cloud, Without Any Panic
aceicon_0002_Layer-1.png Heli Helskyaho, Miracle Finland Oy

Database Engineering & Development – Tutorial: Intro to Data Modelling
aceicon_0001_Oracle_ACE-Program_Spade_Pro_rgb.png Michael Rosenblum, Dulcian, Inc.

Emerging Technologies – The Future of AI 
aceicon_0002_Layer-1.png Rich Niemiec, Viscosity North America

Enterprise Planning  How to Extend the Financials Framework to Support Your Planning Processes
Tracy McMullen, Go EPM

EPM Foundations & Reporting   Hop on the Groovy Train – First Stop, Handling Kickouts 
Dan Gagnon and Luke Nailor, Huron Consulting Group

Essbase  Everything You Ever Wanted  to Know about MDX … (but were Afraid to Ask)
Tim Faitsch, Applied OLAP

Extending Oracle Cloud Applications  – Using Oracle Cloud Development Tools to Build New User Experiences for Oracle Applications 
aceicon_0002_Layer-1.png Mia Urman, AuraPlayer, Ltd. 

Financial Close  Automate This! Maximize EDM to Simplify Your FCC Dimensional Maintenance
aceicon_0001_Oracle_ACE-Program_Spade_Pro_rgb.png Geordan Drummond and aceicon_0001_Oracle_ACE-Program_Spade_Pro_rgb.png Kevin Black, Alithya

Profitability  Advanced Modelling Capabilities to Boost Profitability and Cost Driver Decisions with EPCM
Alvaro Duque-Estrada, The Hackett Group

Strategic EPM  Want to Become the Indiana Jones of EPM Training? Join My Oracle EPM Training Expedition in the Quest for the Holy Grail!
Caroline Stenpeck, Alithya

ODTUG Volunteer Award
Kim Berg Hansen, Cegal Denmark

Joel Kallman Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
Mike Durran, Oracle Corporation 

We'd also like to recognize our complimentary ODTUG Kscope24 pass winners.

Ambassador Winner: Jeff Baumert, CDM Smith

Exhibitor Bingo Winner: Balaji Kandala, General Electric

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Overall Top Speaker Award
Essbase: Hybrid Essbase…Solving All the World’s Problems…and Creating Brand New Ones
Brian Marshall, Olympus Consulting

Best First-Time Speaker Award
Core & Database: Oracle SQL Pattern Matching Made Easy
ACE D.png Oren Nakdimon, Moovit

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)

Oracle APEX – APEX: For Your Eyes Only
ACE D.png Alex Nuijten, allAPEX

Analytics – NLP: Simple Letters, Powerful Analytics
ACE D.png Abigail Giles-Haigh, Vertice

Core & Database – Oracle SQL Pattern Matching Made Easy
ACE D.png Oren Nakdimon, Moovit

Emerging Technologies  – Packing Your Bags for a Journey to the Metaverse
ACE.png Adrian Png, Insum

Enterprise Planning  Groovy 101 – EPBCS  Groovy for the Functional Admin
Dan Gagnon, Huron Consulting

EPM Foundations & Reporting   Immerse Yourself in Report Packages
ACE D.png Opal Alapat, Woman in EPM

Essbase  Hybrid Essbase…Solving All the World’s Problems…and Creating Brand New Ones
Brian Marshall, Olympus Consulting

Financial Close  How to Create Custom ARCS Reports that Deliver True Insights
Matthias Heilos, FinTech Innovations

Modern App Development (PaaS) Winner   After 15+ Years Running on EBS, Ten Development Learnings from the First Year Running on Fusion Apps
ACE D.png Gustavo Gonzalez, IT Convergence

Strategic EPM  The State of Finance Transformation

ACE D.png Edward Roske, ArganoInterRel

ODTUG Volunteer Award
Jake Turrell, Turrell Consulting

Joel Kallman Oracle Contributor of the Year Award

Jennifer Nicholson, Oracle Corporation 

We'd also like to recognize our complimentary ODTUG Kscope23 pass winners  

Ambassador Winner: Gilliam Breems, Conspect Consulting & ICT

Exhibitor Bingo Winner: Tess Kingrey, Textron

General Session Winner: Frank Wiley, University of New Mexico


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Overall Top Speaker Award
Planning: ASO Development for PBCS Developers 
Peter John Nitschke, EssbaseDownUnder

Best First-Time Speaker Award
Essbase: Finally, an Easy Way to Monitor Essbase Security! 
Jared Brame, Anixter

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)

Application Express – Advanced CSS and JS Techniques to Tweak Your Application UI
associate Maxime Tremblay, Max Consulting IT

Database – Uses of Row Pattern Matching
ACE D.png Kim Berg Hansen, Trivadis 

Emerging Technologies  – The Basics of Machine Learning
ACE D.png Heli Helskyaho, Miracle Finland Oy

Essbase  Introduction to Essbase MDX for Reporting
Tim Tow, Applied OLAP
ACE D.pngGary Crisci, General Electric

EPM Data Integration  Integrating EPBCS with the Oracle Cloud: A Candid Account of One of the Largest Oracle Cloud Transformation Projects in the UK
Guillaume Patrick Slee, Brovanture
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture

EPM Infrastructure  Find Your Path to the Cloud
Joe Malewicki, Jr., iARCH Solutions

Financial Close  Go Big or Go Home: General Motor's Redesign of the General Ledger and the EPM Suite
Jill Marie Horstman, General Motors
Frank DeAngelo, Finit

Planning  ASO Development for PBCS Developers
Peter John Nitschke, EssbaseDownUnder

Real World EPM  Cloud Options for the Established On-Prem Oracle Customer: A Realistic and Candid Conversation and Decision Guide 
Eric Helmer, Rimini Street

EPM Reporting, BI Analytics, and Data Visualization – Smart View Fundamentals
ACE D.png Glenn Schwartzberg, interRel Consulting

Big Data and Data Warehousing  The Changing Face of ETL—Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers 
 groundbreaker.pngalumni.pngRobin Moffatt, Confluent

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
JB Brock and Geert Jan Wielinga, Oracle Corporation

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ACE.png Becky Wagner, US-Analytics

ODTUG Presidential Award
Natalie Delemar, ODTUG President

We'd also like to recognize ODTUG Kscope19 Ambassador, Giliam Breems from Conspect ICT, who won a free pass to ODTUG Kscope20. 


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Overall Top Speaker Award
Financial Close: Imagine That! Explore HFM Design Concepts
ACE.png Christopher Barbieri, Finit Solutions

Best First-Time Speaker Award
Real World EPM: Sherwin-Williams EPM On-Prem to the Cloud Journey
Beth Archacki, Sherwin -Williams
Ramprakash Sundararajan, Sherwin-Williams

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)

Application Express – Bringing Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) to APEX
ACE D.png Dimitri Gielis, APEX R&D

Database – Logger: Everyone's Using It, Why Aren't You?
ACE D.png Martin D'Souza, Insum

Essbase  Everything a PBCS or FCCS Developer Needs to Know about Essbase Calc Scripts
ACE D.png Edward Roske, interRel

EPM Data Integration  How to Use Your ODI On-Premise to Seamlessly Integrate PBCS
ACE.png Ricardo Giampaoli, TeraCorp

EPM Infrastructure  Building a World Class EPM Platform as a Service
Joseph Nasal, GE Digital

Financial Close  Imagine That! Explore HFM Design Concepts
ACE.png Christopher Barbieri, Finit Solutions

Planning  EPBCS/PBCS/Hyperion Planning 101: The Freshman-Level Intro Class
Cindy Eichner, Finit Solutions

Real World EPM  Sherwin-Williams EPM On-Prem to the Cloud Journey
Beth Archacki, Sherwin -Williams
Ramprakash Sundararajan, Sherwin-Williams

EPM Reporting, BI Analytics, and Data Visualization – Smart View Custom Ribbon—Ingersoll Rand's Magic Carpet
Alex Znyk, Ingersoll Rand

Big Data and Data Warehousing  What We Learned Building Analytics for Google
ACE D.png Stewart Bryson, Red Pill Analytics

ODTUG Innovation Award
ACE D.png Stewart Bryson, Red Pill Analytics
Innovation: Checkmate
Honorable Mention: ACE D.png Scott Spendolini with innovation APEX-SERT

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
Al Marciante, Oracle Corporation

ODTUG Volunteer Award
Neviana Zhgaba, GE Digital

ODTUG Lifetime Achievement Award
ACE Alumni Mike Riley, ODTUG Secretary

We'd also like to recognize ODTUG Kscope18 Ambassador, Richard Low from Emerson, who won a free pass to ODTUG Kscope19. 

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Overall Top Speaker Award
APEX: Explore the APEX APIs
ACE D.pngMartin D'Souza, Insum Solutions

Best First-Time Speaker Award
HFM to FCCS – A Customer Success Story
Doga Pamir, Perficient

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)

Application Express – Explore the APEX APIs
ACE D.png Martin D'SouzaInsum Solutions

BI and Reporting – Mastering MDX for Analytics and Reporting
Jennifer Hanks, Key Performance Ideas

Data Visualization and Advanced Analytics – Oracle Data Visualization for the Finance Analyst
ACE D.png Kevin McGinley, Red Pill Analytics, Co-Presenter: Tim German, Qubix

Big Data and Data Warehousing – SQL on Hadoop for the Oracle Professional
ACE D.png Michael Rainey, Gluent, Inc.

Database – Oracle 12c for Developers
ACE D.png Alex Nuijten, allAPEX

EPM Business Content – Unbiased Comparison: Evaluation All Deployment Options for Hyperion EPM – Saas vs. IaaS vs. On-Prem
ACE D.png Eric Helmer, Mercury Technology Group

EPM Data Integration – Black Belt Techniques for FDMEE Admins and Developers
ACE.png Francisco Amores, Infratects

EPM Infrastructure – The EPM Clouds are Rolling in Fast! Is It Really Worth Upgrading My On-Prem System Now?
Joe Malewicki, iArch Solutions

Essbase – Break the Shackles of Planning with Hybrid Essbase
Peter Nitschke, m-Power Solutions, Co-presenter: Cameron Lackpour, ARC EPM

Financial Close – HFM to FCCS – A Customer Success Story 
Doga Pamir, Perficient

Planning – Elevating your Workforce Planning Solution to the Cloud
Nicholas Blazosky, TopDown Consulting, Co-presenter: Juan Porter, TopDown Consulting

ODTUG Innovation Award
ACE.png Vincent MorneauInsum Solutions
Innovation: APEX Nitro
Honorable Mention: Dawna Roberts, Rogers Group Inc.

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
Matt Milella, Oracle Corporation

ODTUG Volunteer Award
Adrian PngInsum Solutions

We'd also like to recognize ODTUG Kscope17 Ambassador, Ralph Slater of BMPC, who won a free pass to Kscope18.

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Overall Top Speaker Award
APEX: High-Quality Printing and Exporting for FREE!
ACE D.pngJohn Scott, APEX Evangelists

Best First-Time Speaker Award
Back to Basics: EPMA's Return to Classic Planning
Shannon Burket, MindStream Analytics

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)
ADF and MAFThe Five Ways of Building Oracle Applications (Forms, ADF, APEX, JET, MAF): How to Choose
ACE D.pngSten Vesterli, More Than Code

Application ExpressAPEX: High-Quality Printing and Exporting for FREE!
ACE D.pngJohn Scott, APEX Evangelists

BI and Data WarehousingUsing APEX to Integrate Projections into an OBIEE Financials Dashboard
Teal Sexton, University of California, Berkeley

Big Data and Advanced AnalyticsIntroduction to Apache Kafka and Real-Time ETL
ACE D.pngGwen Shapira, Confluent

DatabaseThe Perils of Describing Performance Improvements
ACE D.pngCary Millsap, Accenture Enkitec Group

EPM ReportingPut Your Own Ribbon on Smart View
Gary Adashek, General Electric

Financial CloseLeave No Stone Unturned: Secrets to a Successful HFM Application Review
ACE.pngChristopher Barbieri, Finit Solutions

PlanningIntroduction to the Hyperion Planning REST API
aceassociate.jpgJake Turrell, Turrell Consulting

EPM Business ContentImplementing the World's Largest Exalytics Program
ACE.pngGary Crisci, General Electric

EPM Foundations and Data IntegrationFDMEE Can Do That?
ACE.pngAnthony Scalese, Edgewater Ranzal

EssbaseTorn Between Two Worlds: Is Essbase a Business or an IT Tool?
Joe Aultman, interRel Consulting

ODTUG Innovation Award
ACE D.pngMia Urman
Innovation: AuraPlayer

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
Steven Feuerstein, Oracle Corporation

ODTUG Volunteer Award
Jennifer Anderson, The Hearst Corporation

We'd also like to recognize Kscope16 Ambassador Jeffrey Baumert of iRobot, who won a free pass to Kscope17.

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Kscope15

Overall Top Speaker Awards
ODTUG Kscope15
Hands-On Training: Build Something! IOT= Internet + Oracle + Things
Anton Nielsen, C2 Consulting
Delivering an Enterprise-Wide Standard Chart of Accounts with Oracle DRM

Gary Crisci, General Electric

Top Speaker Awards (for each track)
ODTUG Kscope15
Lessons Learned Version 2015.06
Cary Millsap, Method R
Bringing Oracle Big Data SQL to OBIEE and ODI
Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead
Hand-On Training: Build Something! IOT= Internet + Oracle + Things
Anton Nielsen, C2 Consulting
Delivering an Enterprise-Wide Standard Chart of Accounts with Oracle DRM
Gary Crisci, General Electric
What’s in a Word: Mobile/Cloud Terminology For Dummies
Mia Urman, AuraPlayer
JavaScript Property Formulas Within DRM
Steven Davis, TopDown Consulting
Why Didn’t I Think of That? How Can I Do It in Essbase?
Glenn Schwartzberg, inteRel Consulting
Voiding Your Warranty: The Planning Repository Exposed
Brian Marshall, US-Analytics
Where Did That Come From?: Techniques for Debugging HFM Rules
Christopher Barbieri, Finit Solutions
Reporting with Public Sector Planning and Budgeting at UC Berkeley: What We’ve Done and Why It Is So Important to our Success
Tiffany Ma, University of California, Berkeley

Best New Speaker Award
ODTUG Kscope15
Reporting with Public Sector Planning and Budgeting at UC Berkeley: What We’ve Done and Why It Is So Important to our Success
Tiffany Ma, University of California, Berekley

Editor's Choice Award
ODTUG Kscope15
Going Mobile: Mobile Application Design Principles for ADF Development
Peter Koletzke

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kscope15
Joel Kallman

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kscope15
Opal Alapat

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Best Speaker Award
ODTUG Kscope14
Next Generation Essbase Outline Extractor Tips and Tricks

Tim Tow, Applied OLAP

Top Speaker Awards
ODTUG Kscope14
Essbase Studio: Why in the Name of Glenn Are You Not Using This Awesome Tool
Glenn Schwartzberg, interRel Consulting
APEX Security Primer
Scott Spendolini, Enkitec
Competing Essbase Optimization Tips from Glenn and Edward: Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves
Edward Roske, interRel
Testing APEX: Removing the Boring from Testing
John Scott, APEX Evangelists
Next Generation Essbase Outline Extractor Tips and Tricks
Tim Tow, Applied OLAP
Best New Speaker Award
ODTUG Kscope14
Verizon Wireless' Quest to Control Its Hierarchies: A Data Relationship Management (DRM) Journey
Nikki Verhoff, Verizon Wireless

Editor's Choice Award
ODTUG Kscope14
NoSQL and Big Data for the Oracle Professional
Iggy Fernandez

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kscope14
Shay Shmeltzer & Gabby Rubin

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kscope14
Mike Riley

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Best Speaker Award
ODTUG Kscope13
Everything You Need to Know About Essbase
Edward Roske, High Performance PL/SQL

Top Speaker Awards
ODTUG Kscope13

  • Martin D’Souza, ClariFitIntro to Responsive Design in APEX
  • Glenn Schwartzberg, interRel Consulting Thinking Outside the Box – Optimizing Performance in Essbase and Planning
  • Tim Tow, Applied OLAP, Introducing the Outline Extractor
  • Rich Schoustra, ADI Strategies, 11.1.2.3 Upgrade and Design Consideration for HFM


Editor's Choice Award
ODTUG Kscope13
David Schleis
What? You're Still Not Using Groovy?

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kscope13
Jeff Smith

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kscope13
Mac McCasland

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Best Speaker Award
ODTUG Kscope12
Steven Feuerstein, High Performance PL/SQL

Track Speaker Awards
ODTUG Kscope12

  • Application Express – Steven Feuerstein, Clean Up Your APEX PL/SQL Code
  • Database – Jonathan Lewis, Optimizing a Two-table Join
  • Developer's Toolbox – Steven Feuerstein, High Performance PL/SQL
  • Business Intelligence – Jordan Meyer, Designing Eye-Catching and Effective Dashboards
  • Essbase – Edward Roske, Optimizing Essbase Calc Scripts and Formulas
  • Hyperion Applications – Keith Berry, HFM vs. Essbase BSO: A Comparative Anatomy
  • Fusion Middleware – John King, Oracle JDeveloper and ADF: Coming Together for Forms and 4GL Developers


Editor's Choice Award
ODTUG Kscope12
Peter Koletzke
WebLogic Server Application Security - Implementing the Superstition in JDeveloper

Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathleen McCasland, ODTUG Executive Director 

ODTUG President Appreciation Award
Mike Riley

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kscope12
Kris Rice

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kscope12
Karen Cannell

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Best Speaker
ODTUG Kscope11
Martin D’Souza
APEX 4 + HTML 5 = Awesome

Track Speaker Awards
ODTUG Kscope11

  • Fusion Middleware - Luc Bors, ADF Developers – Make the Database Work for You
  • Application Express - Martin D’Souza, APEX 4 + HTML 5 = Awesome
  • BI/EPM - Edward Roske, Configure It Out – The Sequel
  • Database Development - Alex Nuijten, Who’s Afraid of Analytic Functions?

Best First Time Speaker
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010
Jake Turrell
Introduction to Custom JavaScript within Hyperion Planning

Best Speaker – Content
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010
John Scott
Increasing Scalability with Oracle Application Express

Best Speaker – Presentation
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010
Cary Millsap
Thinking Clearly about Performance

Editor’s Choice Award
ODTUG Kscope11
Kevin McGinley
Mobility and OBIEE: iPhones, iPads, Android, Oh My!

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award

ODTUG Kscope11
David Peake

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kscope11
Mary Santry

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Best Speaker Presentation and Delivery
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Sten Vesterli
What’s Hot and What’s Not – An Overview of Oracle Development Tools

Best Speaker Content and Topic
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Michael Rosenblum
PL/SQL Collections: Processing Datasets Your Way

Best First Time Speaker
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Cameron Lackpour
Master Essbase with MaxL Automation

ODTUG Volunteer Awards
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010
ODTUG Hyperion SIG - Doug Bliss, Gary Crisci, Natalie Delemar, Quinlan Eddy, Cameron Lackpour, Jeff McAhren, Edward Roske, Tim Tow, and Angela Wilcox

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010
Lillian M. Buziak

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010
Victoria Lira

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Lifetime Achievement Award
Steven Feuerstein
Best Speaker Presentation and Delivery

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008
Peter Koletzke
A Guide to Fusion Web Development with JDeveloper 11g - Part 3: Developing the View Layer

Best Presentation Content and Topic
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008
Dimitri Gielis
Creating Advanced Charts in Oracle Application Express

Editor’s Choice Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Peter Koletzke
ADF On Ramp: What You Need to Know to Use the ADF Fusion Technology Stack

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Al Marciante

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Todd Trichler

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Monty Latiolais

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Best Speaker
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007
Steven Feuerstein
Everything You Need to Know about Collections, But Were Afraid to Ask

Best Presentation Content and Topic
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007
Paul Dorsey, PhD
Path to Fusion

Editor’s Choice Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008
John Flack
Google Maps, ADF Faces, and Oracle Locator: A Backstage Tour of the New Treatment Locator

Oracle Contributor of the Year Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008
Lynn Munsinger

ODTUG Volunteer Award
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008
Maggie Tompkins

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Verizon Wireless' Quest to Control Its Hierarchies: A Data Relationship Management (DRM) Journey

Nikki Verhoff, Verizon Wireless