Digital Impact Radio

Karthik Sukumar Technology Advocate talks about organizations, wanting their future workforce to be innovative, creative and collaborative. Universities are enabling these soft skills and value to students to be job ready. Karthik highlights hackathons provide an opportunity where people come together to solve problems, as teams with creativity, innovation and collaboration, and are able to do this over a short period of time, where these skills are further developed and exercised.

Stuart Coggins Technology Advocate and Innovation Practitioner talks about the role and importance of Hackathons, and the benefits they provide for individuals, teams and organisations. Hackathons provide a great vehicle for learning, teaming and validating ideas with high energy and fast outcomes. Stuart talks about Innovation as a skill, that can be developed, helping turn ideas into something you can see and touch, that can then be iterated with creativity and imagination. Stuart highlights, hackathons being a great and safe place for exercising innovation skills and ideas.

Connor McDonald, Database Advocate aware of the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon, helps developers start fast whether it is taking a JSON Document or a Relational Approach, providing some tips on how to validate your idea very quickly. For the experienced SQL Developer, Connor also walks through the subtlety of SQL Constructs such as "WITH" and "Match Recognize", to both help simplify and turbo-charge what is possible with your data. Connor McDonald also discusses his many channels, to help people with their SQL Skills, such as devgym, podcasts all available from https://connor-mcdonald.com/

Bo English-Wiczling, Head of DevRel Operations talks about Oracle Application Express (APEX) as a low-code development platform that enables you to build scalable, secure enterprise apps, which would help both beginner and experienced developers especially for the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon.

Guillermo Ruiz, head of Oracle Developer Relations talks about the Importance of Developers as Change Agents, always looking for opportunities to improve with a Sharing, Value and Maker Mentality. Guillermo Ruiz talks about his vision for dev.o for the many different developer personas with different entry points.
Guillermo highlights Hackathons, being the ideal place and time for developers to come together, sharing how to take and idea to an outcome, with lots of learning, teaming and fun, but also with responsibility, especially for the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon.

Kirsty Linehan talks to Gillian Triggs, a passionate defender of human rights and vocal advocate of social justice, who currently holds the position of assistant secretary general, assistant high commissioner for Protection – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We hear Gillian Triggs talks about hopes, and the role of data and technology plays, to achieve more immediate and lasting impact.

Surend Dayal - CEO of Magia Solutions - discusses the role of ERP and CX SaaS solutions and how Magia has helped enterprise government and higher education build digital platforms that support a smooth experience for customers, staff, and partners.

David Lucido - managing director at Sentient Hubs - talks about a new class of decision support: A platform that enables integrated impact-assessment across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. David talks through a customer case study using this platform which enables convergence across the diverse ecosystem.

Ryan Klose, general manager for National Pharmacies discusses the importance of APIs at National Pharmacies to support business change and innovation. An API-led approach helps create a low-cost, low-risk environment for the organization's Digital Experiences. APIs provide the loose coupling between back-end core applications to support the rapid change taking place in the pharmacy industry.

Ryan Klose, general manager for National Pharmacies talks about the history and role of data at National Pharmacies. Initially isolated inside applications for specific users, data is now blended, assembled, and improved, all while supporting fact-based decisions and recommendations across the organisation. This benefits both the consumer and employee experience.

Shridhar Rane, Sr. Vice President, 3i-Infotech talks about a range of products that enable banks to efficiently manage their retail operations, including internet and core banking, fraud detection, universal lending, and risk management, as well as specialized corporate banking products to manage risk, asset liability, payments and treasury. Shridhar highlights how the Cloud Economy is not only a term that is getting popular these days, but how significant it is for the Banking sector and how Cloud Adoption is helping deal with Security in the Banking Sector. 3i-Infotech is a leading organisation that is serving both On-Premise and Cloud Based Needs backed by the Oracle ISV Ecosystem.

Sandesh Bilagi, Senior Vice President for ANZ and Oceania at Ramco Systems, which offers enterprise software on cloud for Global Payroll, ERP and M&E MRO for Aviation. Sandesh Bilagi talks about how Ramco Payroll, operating in over 50 Countries, generates over 30 million payslips per year, and knows how to take care of one of the most critical parts of a business, "Thats Paying your Employees". Sandesh elaborates on the experience front, what the future of payroll looks like, with a variety of AI/ML based examples. Sandesh also shares the importance of the Oracle Cloud & ISV Team for the Ramco Payroll Journey.

Open Spatial's CEO, Colin Hobson and CTO, Johan Nel talk about their data management and spatial experience, which included the 1994 South African Elections through to what they are doing now many organisations around the globe, whether they be Utilities, Airports or Universities with proven converged data and spatial technologies for engineering, maintenance and facilities, allowing organisations to effectively manage spatial and non-spatial data, enabling improved data accuracy and record keeping, elegant data integration for better decision making and responsive maintenance planning, whether it be on-premise or cloud based.

Jason Grogan, Database Lead introduces Scott Evans, Oracle APEX Developer who talks about why he chose Oracle APEX for JobCloud.com.au, which is about how to use a Data Driven approach for Integrating Your Entire Workforce, before, during and after a Building Construction Process. Scott talks about how Oracle APEX has been the perfect Low Code Platform, that lets you move fast for proving, validating and testing your thinking whether you are the Developer, Business Owner or many persona users that play a role through the Construction Process.

Vas Kuhaluri, Director-Enterprise Data Platform-Asia Pacific talks about converged databases providing support for Spatial data for location awareness, JSON for document stores, IoT for device integration, in-memory technologies for real-time analytics, and of course, traditional relational data. Vas also highlights while providing support for all of these data types, a Converged Database can run all sorts of workloads from IoT to Blockchain to Analytics and Machine Learning. The Oracle Converged Database, is a great example of being able to handle any development paradigm, including Microservices, Events, REST, SaaS, and CI/CD.