OTN Tour Latin America 2016: Brazil

Oracle Technology Network Tour Latam Sao Paulo

I attended the 2016 OTN Tour Latam. First stop was Brazil which was on my personal to-travel list for a long time. Still I hesitated for many years to finally go to Brazil because it was clear to me that I wouldn’t be able to communicate a lot. Earlier this year managed to learn about 16 words in ภาษาไทย – which by the way got me one of the best laughs of the last 5 years in one of the city’s swankiest rooftop bars. So guys, learn languages!

My Personal Challenge

Anyway, I sometimes like challenges and my plan for Brazil was to be able to speak some 100 words of Portuguese. After a bit of research, I quickly found a teacher in Munich (Bom dia, Chris!), studied and finally managed to achieve at least 50% of my goal (blame the usual boring excuses for missing the other 50%, but I was still better off than 95% of all other travellers).

GOUB Tech Day: OTN Tour

The conference including the auditories were very good. I met many old friends, made too many new friends to list them all here, listened to great presentations from colleagues, and we had a wonderful, meaty conference dinner with a good selection of drinks. Actually I enjoyed everything, maybe except the surprisingly unfriendly and unprofessional reception at Blue Tree Morumbi Hotel.

I did a presentation about Oracle WebLogic (12.2.1) 12c and one about Docker.

Have a look at the pictures gallery here to get some more impressions! Slides will be uploaded in a few days.