Join Infolob, Oracle, Microsoft, and our customers at Smith & Wollensky, Las Vegas
Where AI meets business outcomes
Oracle AI World brings the Oracle community together to explore how AI and other technology innovations are driving real business outcomes across industries.
Discover what’s new through:
- Mainstage keynotes to hear the latest directly from Oracle leadership
- Product demonstrations
- Customer case studies
- Technical learning and training sessions
- And much more
Meet us @
Smith & Wollenskys
The Grand Canal Shoppes, 3377 S Las Vegas Blvd.
26-27 October, 2026
Join us at roundtables
| Day and Time | Roundtable Topics | Business Value: Descriptions | Participants | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, October 26th, 12pm | Do More, Spend Less: Rethinking Your Stack with Oracle Linux & Virtualization | IT budgets keep shrinking while the stack keeps getting more complex. What if one platform could handle both problems? In this roundtable, Nick Kritikis, Vice President of Worldwide Open Source at Oracle, and Senthil Prabu, SVP Sales at Infolob, explain how Oracle Linux brings your operating system, virtualization, automation and containers together into one cost-effective platform. You’ll hear how organizations are cutting licensing and operating costs, improving performance, and closing security gaps with Ksplice zero-downtime patching, so systems stay up to date without maintenance windows or disruption. Bring your questions and leave with practical ideas for running a leaner, faster and more secure infrastructure. | Nick Kritikos, Vice President, Worldwide Open Source, Oracle Senthil Prabu, SVP Sales, Infolob Stephen Shultz, Senior Director of Sales Consulting, Oracle | Cross-Industry |
| Monday, October 26th, 12pm | Freedom to Choose, Power to Perform: Building a Multicloud Strategy That Actually Works | Multicloud promises flexibility, but many organizations end up with complexity, siloed data and stalled AI projects instead. The real question isn’t whether to go multicloud. It’s how to make it work. In this interactive roundtable, Manish Chopra, Director of Cloud Migrations and Modernization at Microsoft, and Tim Fox, Chief Information Officer at Infolob, share how organizations build multicloud strategies that deliver real results. Using real customer examples, they’ll show how Oracle Database@Azure lets you run mission-critical Oracle workloads natively in Azure with the same performance and reliability, then connect that data to Microsoft’s AI and analytics services to move faster. | Manish Chopra, Director, Cloud Migrations and Modernization, Microsoft Tim Fox, Chief Technology Officer, Infolob | Cross-Industry |
| Monday, October 26th, 2:30pm | Smarter Care Starts Here: Unlocking Healthcare Data with AI | Healthcare organizations are surrounded by data: clinical records, imaging, claims, research and operations. Yet much of it stays siloed and underused. AI can change that, but only with the right cloud and data foundation. In this interactive roundtable, Manish Chopra, Director of Cloud Migrations and Modernization at Microsoft, and Phanii Pydimarri, Chief Transformation Officer at Infolob, look at how providers, payers and life sciences organizations are using cloud and AI to turn healthcare data into better outcomes. They’ll share practical strategies for modernizing data platforms, adopting AI responsibly and speeding up enterprise transformation, all while keeping sensitive patient data secure and compliant. | Alex UY, Multicloud and AI Director, Microsoft Phanii Pydimarri, Chief Transformation Officer, Infolob | Healthcare / Life Sciences |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 12pm | Energy Meets Intelligence: Multicloud Wins in Oil & Gas | In this interactive roundtable, Alex Uy, Multicloud and AI Director at Microsoft, and Phanii Pydimarri, Chief Transformation Officer at Infolob, look at how energy companies are using AI on their Oracle data to solve real business problems. You’ll hear practical customer examples where Oracle Database@Azure and Microsoft AI services have turned operational data into faster decisions and measurable results, without disrupting mission-critical systems. | Phanii Pydimarri, Chief Transformation Officer, Infolob | Oil & Gas |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 12pm | From Shop Floor to Smart Floor: Real Lessons in Manufacturing Innovation | Smart Factory transformation is about more than new technology. It means rethinking how operations, quality, procurement and product development work together. So what does it actually take to get from vision to results on the factory floor? In this interactive roundtable, Deanna Rutland, Industry Executive Director at Oracle, and Phanii Pydimarri, Chief Transformation Officer at Infolob, are joined by a manufacturing leader who has been through it. Together they’ll share a practitioner’s view of modernizing manufacturing operations, from product development and industrialization to quality management and supply chain, and how data and AI are speeding up the journey to a smarter, more connected factory. | Deanna Rutland, Industry Executive Director, Oracle Alex Stairs, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft | Manufacturing / Transportation |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 2:30pm | Modernizing Financial Data Without Missing a Beat | Financial institutions can’t afford downtime, data loss, or compliance gaps, yet aging core platforms are holding back speed and innovation. In this session, Infolob shares how banks and financial services firms are modernizing to Oracle Exadata and Oracle Cloud with zero disruption to daily operations. Learn proven approaches for migrating mission-critical workloads, strengthening security and regulatory compliance, and enabling real-time analytics and AI for fraud detection, risk management, and customer insights. | Chris Harrison, Industry Executive Director, FSI, Oracle Phanii Pydimarri, Chief Transformation Officer, Infolob Bill Inacio, Managing Director, Cloud & AI, Capital Markets, Microsoft | Financial Services / Banking and Capital Markets |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 2:30pm | Exadata Everywhere! Data Governance, Security, and AI Acceleration | Your data lives in more places than ever: on-premises, in the cloud and across multiple providers. Keeping it governed, secure and AI-ready everywhere can feel impossible. It doesn’t have to be. In this interactive roundtable, Tim Fox, Chief Information Officer at Infolob, and Michael Mersch, Director of Product Management for Exadata at Oracle, explain how organizations run Oracle Exadata wherever their business needs it: on-premises, Exadata Cloud@Customer, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or multicloud environments. They’ll share how to apply consistent governance and security policies across every deployment, and how to speed up AI with built-in capabilities like Oracle AI Vector Search, right next to your mission-critical data. | Tim Fox, Chief Information Officer, Infolob Michael Mersch, Director, Product Management, Exadata, Oracle | Cross-Industry |
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Featured Speakers for Partner & Customer Roundtables
Phanii Pydimarri
Chief Transformation Officer, Infolob
Phanii Pydimarri is a seasoned executive and transformation leader with over two decades of experience driving enterprise-scale growth through data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. As Chief Transformation Officer at Infolob, he leads the company’s next chapter of growth, building on a 17-year foundation of deep Oracle expertise and 250+ enterprise client relationships to accelerate Infolob’s evolution into a cloud-agnostic AI & Data transformation leader.
His mandate spans the company’s full four-pillar delivery model across Infrastructure, Data & Analytics, Agentic AI, and the Application Layer, translating Infolob’s established enterprise trust into a platform-led, accelerator-driven AI practice.
Tim Fox
Chief Technology Officer, Infolob
Tim serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Infolob Global, where he leads the technical sales process and helps clients navigate complex service offerings. With over 37 years of experience in the Oracle ecosystem—including 15 years specializing in Oracle’s Engineered Systems—Tim is a globally recognized Exadata expert who has guided hundreds of enterprises through successful migrations.
Today, Tim drives Infolob’s modern innovation, leading his team in developing and deploying cutting-edge, AI-enabled solutions. He is a published author—notably of Apress’s Pro Oracle Application Express 4.0 (Second Edition)—and a sought-after speaker at key industry events like Oracle Tech Days, Oracle AI World, and Oracle’s Global Leaders conferences.
Manish Chopra
Director, Cloud & AI Global Black Belt, Microsoft
Alex Uy
Cloud & AI Director, Microsoft
Alex Uy has spent more than 33 years at Microsoft in roles spanning program management, pre-sales strategy, and sales, all with a common thread: helping clients realize value from the Microsoft Cloud. For nearly a decade as a Technology Strategist Director, he served as CTO for a strategic account, guiding both business and technical decision makers. He later worked with large strategic healthcare clients as an Azure Infrastructure Specialist, helping them digitally transform on Azure.
Today, Alex is a client executive focused on maximizing business value for a Fortune 10 client through Microsoft’s Cloud and AI services on Azure. He draws on the broader Microsoft and partner ecosystem to help clients transform their businesses, with a talent for simplifying complexity.
Bill Inacio
Managing Director, Cloud & AI – Capital Markets, Microsoft
Bill Inacio has spent more than 14 years at Microsoft helping financial services organizations adopt the cloud. He joined in 2012 as an Azure Solution Strategist for Financial Services across the Southeast. For eight years in that role, he worked with institutions to connect on-premises data and applications to Azure and build secure, intelligent cloud solutions.
Today, Bill leads Microsoft’s Cloud & AI efforts for Capital Markets, working with firms to modernize their platforms on Azure. His focus is helping customers better engage their own clients, empower their employees, optimize operations, and create new products and business models with cloud and AI. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, he brings a practitioner’s view of what it takes to move regulated workloads to the cloud.
Stephen Shultz
Senior Director of Sales Consulting, Oracle
Stephen Shultz is a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, leading a global technical team focused on Oracle Linux and Virtualization solutions. With over 25 years of technical presales experience in the technology industry, Stephen helps organizations navigate complex infrastructure challenges, modernize their IT environments, and maximize the value of their technology investments.
Stephen is passionate about helping customers make informed technology decisions that deliver meaningful business results. He helps organizations leverage Oracle Linux and Virtualization to optimize existing infrastructure while preparing for emerging workloads, including AI. At Oracle AI World, Stephen shares his perspective on how open technologies can improve operational efficiency, provide greater flexibility and choice, and establish a resilient foundation for future innovation.
Deanna Rutland
Industry Executive Director, Manufacturing & Transportation, Oracle
Deanna Rutland is the Industry Executive Director for Manufacturing and Transportation at Oracle. In that role she brings a practitioner’s understanding of manufacturing operations, quality, procurement, and product development to conversations about the future of industry. Over more than three decades, she has led teams through complex operational change, advanced industrialization, Smart Factory deployment, and quality transformation.
Before joining Oracle, Deanna spent nearly nine years at Schneider Electric guiding multi-site transfer, localization, and launch programs. Earlier, she held leadership roles with Modine Manufacturing, WireCo WorldGroup, Peterson Manufacturing, and Polytainers. She holds a Master’s in Engineering Technology from Pittsburg State University.
Nick Kritikos
VP, Global Open Technology A&C, Oracle
Nick Kritikos is an Oracle partner and technology leader with extensive experience in partner enablement and enterprise technology. His focus spans Oracle Linux, Virtualization, Java, MySQL, and the opportunities these technologies create for partners and customers.
Nick champions a practical approach to modernization: helping organizations reduce infrastructure costs and redirect investment toward strategic priorities, including AI. Drawing on his experience in Oracle’s partner ecosystem, he connects technology capabilities with customer value and partner growth. At Oracle AI World, he brings a perspective on how partners can build expertise, expand their offerings, and help customers turn open-source infrastructure and data into a foundation for innovation.
Chris Harrison
Industry Executive Director, Financial Services, Oracle
At Oracle, Chris serves as an industry executive across North America. Today, he works with clients, prospects, and partners to develop strategic solutions that address business needs, particularly in data platforms, cloud and multicloud infrastructure, and agentic and generative AI.
Michael Mersch
Director, Product Management, OCI, Oracle
Today, Michael focuses on ExaDB-D across all of its deployment models as part of the Database Cloud Services Product Management team. He leads a team of product managers responsible for commercializing Exadata cloud services, covering everything from PRG and NPI processes to pricing strategy and business value enablement.
Alex Stairs
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft
Jeremy Bamsch
Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
Jeremy Bamsch is a Principal Product Management Manager at Microsoft, where he leads strategic initiatives spanning Oracle Database@Azure, AI innovation, partner ecosystems, customer acceleration, and technical enablement. Drawing on experience across cloud infrastructure, application modernization, support transformation, go-to-market strategy, and partner-led digital transformation, Jeremy helps some of the world’s largest organizations modernize mission-critical workloads and accelerate business outcomes through data, cloud, and AI.
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