ODTUG Kscope18 Award Winners

Overall Top Speaker Award
Financial Close: Imagine That! Explore HFM Design Concepts
 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
 Dimitri Gielis, APEX R&D

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

Essbase – Everything a PBCS or FCCS Developer Needs to Know about Essbase Calc Scripts
 Edward Roske, interRel

EPM Data Integration – How to Use Your ODI On-Premise to Seamlessly Integrate PBCS
 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
 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
Stewart Bryson, Red Pill Analytics

ODTUG Innovation Award
 Stewart Bryson, Red Pill Analytics
Innovation: Checkmate
Honorable Mention: 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
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.