Featured speakers at Oracle AI World Tour Sydney
Oracle AI World Tour brings together visionaries and business leaders from every industry and region. Discover how our customers and partners are using technologies, including AI and cloud, to solve today’s challenges and shape what’s next.
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Innovation starts with inspiration. At Oracle AI World Tour, you’ll be inspired by leaders who motivate their teams to think bigger, move faster, and turn ideas into results. Hear how they’re using cloud, AI, and other advanced technologies from Oracle to move forward.
Oracle AI: At the Speed of Business
Tuesday, 24 March, 9:30 a.m.
AI Changes Everything. New capabilities are taking shape fast. If you’re keeping up, you’re making better use of data, running smarter, more responsive operations, scaling AI into real workflows, unleashing AI agents for even more meaningful automation—and that’s just the start. Hear from customers who are leading the way while also preparing for what AI will enable next. Oracle leaders across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Applications, AI Database, and the new AI Data Platform will share the latest AI developments and the architecture behind them, offering a clear view of how Oracle is helping enterprises harness AI to transform the way business gets done.
Stephen Bovis
Regional Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Oracle
Stephen Bovis is responsible for Oracle’s overall business in Australia and New Zealand, ensuring it delivers on its values of trust, customer success, innovation, and equality for its customers, partners, and communities across the region. Stephen has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry across a wide range of roles, functions, and marketing segments. Most recently, he was at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he was vice president and managing director of the South Pacific region. Prior to that, he was based in Singapore leading HP’s Enterprise Group sales account management team for Asia Pacific, whose portfolio included hardware, services, and software.
Simon Walker
Executive Vice President, Industry Applications, Oracle
Simon de Montfort Walker, Oracle executive vice president, Industry Applications oversees shared services, support, development, consulting, and innovation initiatives for Oracle’s multi-billion-dollar vertical business. This includes supporting the delivery of AI and cloud solutions that are transforming consumer-focused industries like retail and hospitality, as well as vital sectors such as banking and utilities. Simon joined Oracle as senior vice president of Restaurants in 2019. In this role, he led a comprehensive digital transformation of Oracle’s point-of-sale business that revitalized the company’s position in market. Prior, he served as chief technology officer and president of eGate Solutions at gategroup. He has also held leadership roles at numerous technology companies, where he led operations and turnaround efforts in the travel, banking, insurance, and hospitality sectors. Simon holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Kings College and a master’s degree with honors from The University of Texas at Austin.
Chris Chelliah
Senior Vice President, Software Development, Oracle
Chris Chelliah is the SVP of technology and customer strategy for Oracle JAPAC. A "tinkerer" at heart with more than 30 years of industry experience, Chris bridges the gap between complex engineering and business strategy. From his early academic research in distributed databases to his current work architecting the "automated employees" of the enterprise agentic AI era, Chris focuses on helping organisations realise Enterprise adoption of technology. He believes that technology and culture are merely the colors on a palette. His mission is to help customers use them to paint a more innovative future. Chris is a Wiley-published author and a featured speaker and contributor on the global stage on areas of emerging technology.
Çetin Özbütün
Executive Vice President, Autonomous AI Database and Data Warehouse Technologies, Oracle
Çetin Özbütün is executive vice president of autonomous database technologies at Oracle. He is in charge of Oracle's Autonomous Database Service, as well as data warehousing and analytics-related capabilities for Oracle Database and Essbase. Çetin joined Oracle in February 1989 after finishing his MS degree in Computer Science from Brown University, and contributed to every Oracle Database release since Version 6.
Gabby Rubin
Group Vice President, Product Management, AI Platforms and Analytics, Oracle
Gabby Rubin is group vice president of product management at Oracle, where he leads the strategy, development, and execution for Oracle’s AI Data Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud, and packaged AI-driven analytic applications. With more than 25 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, and AI-driven data platforms, he has a proven track record of building and scaling innovative technologies that transform how organisations unlock value from data. Under his leadership, Oracle’s analytics and AI teams consistently deliver groundbreaking solutions that redefine what’s possible with data and intelligence. By pushing technological boundaries and driving next-generation innovation, the teams ensure Oracle not only advances its strategic vision but also empowers clients worldwide with cutting-edge capabilities that turn data into actionable insights and measurable business impact.
Maz Songerwala
Senior Vice President, Applications Service Excellence, Oracle
Maz Songerwala leads Application Service Excellence at Oracle, which includes the global cloud and on-premise support organizations. His team is responsible for ensuring that customers are successful across their entire journey with Oracle SaaS and on-premises applications, including implementation, go live, and ongoing value realization. His team’s goal is a seamless and friction-free experience for our customers.
Bret Grinslade
Vice President, Product Management, AI Platforms and Analytics, Oracle
Bret Grinslade is a vice president of product management at Oracle, where he leads the strategy, development, and execution for Oracle’s AI Data Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud, and packaged AI-driven analytic applications. With more than 25 years experience in analytics, business intelligence, and AI-powered data platforms, Bret has consistently driven innovation at the intersection of data and AI. He has a proven track record of building and scaling transformative technologies that enable organisations to unlock new value from their data. Under his leadership, Oracle’s analytics have delivered AI driven capabilities to enable data-driven intelligence. He's focused on enabling AI and agents to uses tools and secured corporate data to create differentiated innovation and experiences for business users.
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