Rhode Island Nexus

We have all heard about the power of design thinking; its ability to revive, revolutionize and rebirth companies. But what exactly is design thinking? When is it most powerful? How is it best done? And what’s next?

Join Dan Buchner, Vice President of Innovation and Design and designers from Continuum for this one-day workshop — an interactive journey into the world of design thinking. Through short lectures and fast moving and interactive work sessions, Continuum’s designers will take you through the design thinking process from concept to realization.

Tech Collective has partnered with NetApp, EchoStor Technologies and Illumiti for an open conversation about getting more value from your SAP environment!

Come join us for lunch at  Save the Bay, Providence 11:30am and ending at 1:30pm to see how we offer an unprecedented storage and data management solution that simplifies SAP data management, Increases availability, promotes data sharing, enhances performance, and delivers a reduced TCO by more than 30%.

Please arrive at 3:30 to sign in & network. Tom will begin speaking promptly at 4:00 PM.

Dinner will be served after the Presentaton.

Tom Kyte, author of the best Oracle books we've ever read, will be presenting "The top 10 - no 11 - new features of Oracle Database 11g". This session will focus on eleven new, high impact features of Oracle Database 11g and what they mean to you the developer or DBA. Continuing the format of the last four Oracle Open Worlds - Oracle's AskTom will present these as
a "top eleven" list - the eleven new features he believes will be the reason to look at Oracle Database 11g in the near future.

Admission is free for RIOUG members. $50 for non- members. Contact Gary Belke to RSVP. Again, we do need you to RSVP so please contact Gary[at]RIOUG[dot]org or call Gary at 401.783.6172.

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