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Just saw this in my RSS feeds, check out the Oracle Workshop August 14, 2008 on Hawaii Science and Technology Council site.

Oracle Workshop
7:30am - 5:00PM August 14, 2008
Hawaii Convention Center

ORACLE WORKSHOP - SOA TECHNOLOGY & 10g/11g DATABASE OVERVIEW/NEW FEATURES (Thursday - August 14th)
Service Oriented Architecthure (SOA) Technology (morning session):
Do the departments in your organization need to work with each other?
Do they have business processes that involves using more than one computer system (HW & SW)?
Would you like to automate these workflows? Be able to work on these workflows with a web interface?
Well, that’s where SOA comes in. SOA is a proven technology that was created for such needs. A way to connect various independent applications that are running different platforms so that current business processes can be automated, new business processes can be created, and applications can be easily upgraded. So no more double-entry into different systems, no more hard-coding, no more expensive upgrade process.
Come learn more about SOA technology:

* How does it work?
* Who’s using it?
* How are they using it?

Instructor: David Simpson - Integration & SOA Solutions Specialist, Oracle Corporation.
David Simpson is an Oracle Solution Specialist in SOA technology. He has 8 years of application integration experience with ERP, CRM, and other enterprise systems. He comes from a consulting background where he implemented integration architectures for his clients. Before coming to Oracle he was a member of the Lockheed Martin SOA Center of Excellence where he was responsible for overseeing integration projects within the organization. He now focuses on working with customers to solve their integration challenges. He often works hands-on with customers implementing SOA Proof of Concepts and Pilots.

Oracle 10g/11g Database Review & New Features (afternoon session):

Are you getting ready to do an upgrade of your Oracle DB? Do you need to do some development work with an Oracle DB? For all Oracle DBAs and those who will be working with an Oracle database, here’s a great crash course on the 10g and 11g databases. Oracle will be doing a 10g overview and cover the new features of 11g. Those topics include: Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Cross Platform Transportable tablespaces, new SYSAUX tablespace, high-speed Data Pump utility, extended Flashback functions, Real Application Testing, Automatic Diagnostic Repository, Flashback Data Archive, new compression algorithms, automatic SQL and memory tuning, new partitioning methods and more. The topics covered in this seminar are primary for the database administrators. Below will be the contents covered:

* Introduction and Overview
* Installation and Upgrade
* New Storage Enhancements
* New Memory Management
* Back Up and Recovery New Features
* Security Enhancements
o Database Tuning and Performance Improvement
o Real Application Testing
o Flashback Data Archive
o New Partitioning Method
o High Availability Improvements
+ Log Minder
+ Real Application Clusters (RAC)
+ Data Guard
+ Oracle Streams
* Grid Control
* Other Enhancements

Instructor: Daniel Liu - Database Architecture, Oracle Corporation
Daniel Liu is a Principal Solution Architect at Oracle Corporation and author of Oracle Database 10g New Features - by Rampant TechPress. A recognized Oracle expert and a frequent speaker at various international Oracle conferences, Daniel has published articles with DBAzine, Oracle Internals, Oracle Technology Network, and SELECT Journal. Daniel has received SELECT Editorial Award for Best Article in 2001, and has been named Architect of the Week by the OTN in 2004. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, he worked as a Senior Technical Manager at First American managing one of the largest and most complex database environment in the world.

Location: Hawaii Convention Center - Parking entrance off of Kahakai St.
7:30am - Registration and Breakfast
8:00am - SOA Workshop
12:00pm - Luncheon Presentation: What’s Happening with Oracle and Who They’re Acquiring
1:00pm - 10g/11g Database workshop
5:00pm - Conclusion

Costs:

Workshop & Luncheon: Members $30, Non-members $50 (Late Registrations/Walk-ins, $60)
Luncheon Only: Members $20, Non-members $30 (Late Registrations/Walki-ins, $35)

RSVP to aitphawaii@aitp.org by end of Monday, August 11th.

Add event to my Outlook calendar

As promised, here’s your reminder for the Jelly Coworking Group next week. Check it out and RSVP at Jelly Coworking Group - August 6, 2008 at TechHui.

Time: August 6, 2008 from 8am to 12pm (Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics))
Location: Cafe Jupiter - 1601 Kapiolani Blvd Honolulu, HI 96814 (Map, see directions below)
Organized By: Truman Leung

It’s a bit hard to find Cafe Jupiter because there is no sign visible from the street. It’s just across the street from Shokudo on the Ewa side of the building fronting the side street. Easy to park in Ala Moana.

Just got this via email from Ryan, facebook and upcoming.org links below:

Update: Now also on Manoa Geeks Manoa Geeks Meetup - July 31, 2008 On TechHui

Aloha geeks!

Happy to say the next Manoa Geeks meetup is a go! I wanted to send you an early notice so you can mark your calendars and start collecting cool links and projects to share. I’ll send another reminder a week or so before the meetup as well!

Date: July 31
Time: 5:30pm
Location: HMSA Center, 818 Keeaumoku St. Map

General Overview:
Introductions: A quick zip around the room!
Presentations: Got something you’d like to show people? A product demo? Something to teach? Get in touch!
Eat Pizza & Talk Story
Guided Discussion: What’s going on in the web world?
More Talk Story (and maybe go out for drinks)!

A big mahalo to Fred Fortin, Burt Lum, and Tiffany Coke at HMSA for hosting and feeding us! You can find all of them on Twitter at @ajfortin, @bytemarks, and @fizzixprof. Learn more about HMSA at http://www.hmsa.com/ Feel free to invite a friend — we looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVPs:
- Email me at ryanozawa [ at google’s mail service ]. Got someone to add to the list? No problem!
- Facebook, Upcoming

Ryan

Found this via UH Business IP Forum on TechHui

Time: July 31, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Manoa Innovation Center (Website), 2nd Floor Large Conference Room
Street: 2800 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, HI (Map
Contact Info: +1 (808) 429-6600
Event Type: Forum
Organized By: Sam Joseph, Daniel Leuck & Yuka Nagashima

The UH Business IP Forum is intended as an opportunity for University of Hawaii researchers to present their latest ideas to the local business community. University of Hawaii researchers regularly generate intellectual property in the form of patents. The University of Hawaii can provide exclusive rights to these patents, licensing them to individual business or consortia for the purpose of generating revenue. In the first instance the forum will start with presentations from UH researchers from the Ubiquitous Wireless Computing research group from the department of Information and Computer Sciences. The presentations will generally be short in order to allow plenty of time for discussion. As well as getting feedback on the potential licensability of existing patents, UH researchers will be looking for input from the business community on what technologies and techniques could be developed for the mutual benefit of both academia and business.

The UH Business IP Forum is lead by Sam Joseph. Sam is the project lead for the Ubiquitous and Wireless Computing project in the Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies in the University of Hawaii Department of Information and Computer Sciences. He has brought in over $3,000,000 in industry grants over the last year and now runs a team of 10 researchers developing new IP in the fields of Ubiquitous and Wireless Computing.

Sam’s academic qualifications include a B.Sc. (Hons) in astrophysics from the University of Leicester, UK, a M.Sc. in cognitive science and natural language and a Ph.D. in neural networks from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was also recipient of the Raymond-Hide prize for Astrophysics and a Toshiba Fellowship.

Sam spent six years in Japan, first working on intelligent agents at the Toshiba Research & Development Center, then freelancing for startup companies, and finally on peer-to-peer systems at the University of Tokyo.

Note Regarding SocialSense
LILT has posted more information about SocialSense, the subject of last month’s meeting.

Just saw this posted to Jelly Coworking Group - July 30, 2008 at TechHui. For those planning ahead, you may also want to put on your calendars Jelly Coworking Group - August 6, 2008 at TechHui. Don’t worry, we’ll post the second one as a reminder sometime next week.

Jelly Coworking Group

Time: July 30, 2008 from 8am to 12pm (Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics))
Location: Tropical Smoothie Cafe (Map)
Organized By: Truman Leung

We’ll be back this time at the Tropical Smoothie Cafe which is across the street from Sears Ala Moana. Hope you can make it.

Just saw this posted to HMAUS-L (Hawaii Macintosh & Apple Users’ Society). Note that the original post listed July 28th as the date, which was subsequently corrected to July 30, 2008.

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I want to give you a heads up on this event.

It will be Wens. July 30th at 6:30 PM once again at the WIFI area in the front section of the Kapahulu Safeway Store. (888 Kapahulu Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816 Map)

There is plenty of parking, even a second floor. The company is good and food is available. We help Mac owners with problems at no charge. All kinds of problems show up with people bringing in their Macs. for help. Everytime I attend I learn something and several times I have been able to help others. It is a good experience and it is nice to meet new people and see old friends. Put it in your iCal now and we’ll see you there.

Ed

@hawaii (a.k.a. Ryan Ozawa) just tweeted Seesmic meetup Aloha Marketplace Tuesday July 29. Reproduced below”

Tweet-Up! Seesmic’s @sukhjit is in town, wants to meet local geeks. Let’s talkstory at Aloha Tower food court at 5p.m. tomorrow. Pass it on!

I also just saw the Bytemarks mailing list Seesmic Meetup July 29th post. Seesmic Meetup excerpt reproduced below:

It’s a great week for social geeks!

Anyone here play with Seesmic? Shorthand described as a ‘video
Twitter,’ with shortform threaded video conversations, but also a
platform that’s being integrated into blogs and other websites to
allow people to leave video comments on posts. In any case, Ms.
Sukhjit, one of the Seesmic crew is in Honolulu and wants to meet up
with local geeks. She leaves on Wednesday so a pau-hana gathering
tomorrow is the plan.

Come down to Aloha Tower Marketplace food court at 5 p.m. Open,
casual, family/kid friendly. Talkstory with Sukhjit and other web
heads. Here’s more on Seesmic. Here’s Sukhjit’s Twitter stream

Just saw that Burt from Bytemarks posted this Bytemarks Lunch July 24, 2008 on Bytemarks Yahoo Groups

Hey there gang,
New location for the next Bytemarks Lunch: Don Quixote on Kaheka Street. It has tables to eat on, lots of places to get lunch from and parking. Don Quixote used to be Daiei and is right across the street from Hawaii Public Radio, my second home. HMSA being my first.

Here’s the details:

Place: Don Quixote - 801 Kaheka St Honolulu, HI 96814(Map)
Time: 11:30am
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008

Bring your web stories and cool gadgets. See you there.

Aloha,
Burt

Just realized I forgot to post this last week. Short notice, but a fun event if you can make it, found via July 23, 2008 Coworking/Jelly Group on TechHui

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ime: July 23, 2008 from 8am to 12pm
Location: Cafe Jupiter
Address: 1601 Kapiolani Blvd Ste 150 Honolulu, HI 96814 (Map)

Just to switch it up a bit, trying out a new place next week Wednesday: Jupiter Cafe.

It’s just across Kaheka street from Shokudo Restaurant. The cafe, under new ownership and now providing FREE WIFI, is beautifully decorated with padded seats, conveniently located power outlets, great A/C (not too cold, not stuffy, just right). They have sandwiches for lunch.

Parking is easiest on the basement level parking at Ala Moana.

David Lassner tipped us to this event, direct link here: Hawaii Broadband Task Force with Cisco’s Ken Wirt on Event Calendar. It sounds like it is open to the public and doesn’t appear that RSVP is necessary.

Friday, July 18, 2008
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Hawaii State Capitol Rm 309
The Exabyte Era and Why Broadband is Essential, with
Ken Wirt, Cisco Vice President for Consumer Marketing

The Hawaii Broadband Task Force will be meeting with Ken Wirt, Cisco’s Vice President for Consumer Marketing, to discuss the imperative for advanced broadband services. Cisco’s research indicates that the dam is about to burst for Internet-based video and high-bandwidth requirements will be embedded in many applications for business, entertainment, education, health and government. Cisco’s analysis indicates that continuous growth in Internet capacity will be essential for individuals, communities and regions that want to ensure their ability to participate full in the digital societies of the 21st century. Legislators, policymakers and interested members of the public are invited to attend.

About Ken Wirt:
Ken is responsible for partnering with Cisco, Scientific Atlantic, and Linksys marketing teams in the creation and implementation of Cisco’s consumer marketing strategy. his includes developing an overall corporate brand architecture and keeping a pulse on the consumer to develop the most effective marketing and messaging strategies for Cisco overall. Ken has over twenty years of marketing experience with a strong background in developing new consumer electronic categories. He led marketing for one of the first home computers at Atari, introduced the first CD-ROM-based video game system at NEC, headed marketing for the first PDA (Newton) at Apple, launched the first portable MP3 player (Rio) at Diamond Multimedia, and was CEO of the first indie music recommendation web site (Riffage). Most recently, Ken was SVP Worldwide Marketing at Palm where he developed the first consumer PDA (Zire), the first hard-drive based multimedia PDA (LifeDrive), and launched the second generation of Treo smartphones with many of the world’s leading service providers. Ken received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BA in The Psychology of Kinetic Media from the University of Michigan.