Ten Years Later, I’m Back at AIOUG Yatra: See You in Bengaluru and Hyderabad

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Ten years ago, I was part of the AIOUG OTN Yatra tour. This July, I’m back — Sangam AI Yatra 2026, Bengaluru on the 18th and Hyderabad on the 19th. It’s been too long, and I’m genuinely excited to be back in front of this community.

What I really want to share, though, is what’s waiting for you in the room this year — two sessions I’m genuinely excited to bring.

Session 1: Chat with Your Data — Bridging Oracle and LLMs via SQLcl & MCP

Here’s my honest opening line for this one: every DBA and Developer in that room is already becoming an AI engineer, whether they’ve noticed yet or not.

This is a live demonstration — not slides describing what’s theoretically possible. Claude Desktop, connected directly to a real Oracle database, through SQLcl’s Model Context Protocol server. I’ll ask questions in plain English against a live dataset and show exactly what comes back: real SQL, real schema reasoning, real DBA-level troubleshooting, real answers, all generated in front of you, not pre-recorded.

If that’s all this session offered, it’d still be worth attending. But the part I actually want you to walk away with is the answer to the question every DBA in that room is quietly asking: what stops this from going wrong? I’ll walk through the five control points that actually govern this: not soft guidance, but the real difference between a suggestion and an enforced restriction.

And for the shops that can’t send anything to a hosted model at all (banking, telecom, anyone with strict data residency requirements) I’ll cover the local-LLM path too: same capability, zero data leaving the building.

If you’ve been putting off figuring out where MCP fits in your Oracle environment, this session will get you from zero to a working setup by Monday morning.

Session 2: The Multicloud Power Play — Strategic Architectures for Oracle Enterprise Workloads

All-in OCI, or multicloud? The honest answer isn’t the one either side’s sales team wants to give you, and that’s exactly the debate this session settles with numbers rather than opinions.

Instead of another generic OCI-vs-Azure-vs-AWS comparison, I’m reframing the whole question around your actual workload. Packaged ERP, rapid app development, cloud-native microservices, and analytics each require a genuinely different architecture — and most organizations end up picking one without realizing they’re making four separate decisions at once. I’ll walk through the decision framework for getting each one right the first time, backed by real five-year TCO numbers, including a $2.1M swing between the cheapest and most expensive path for the same workload. I’ll also cover the option most people forget even exists: staying all-in on OCI, but when.

For this room specifically, I’ll cover what’s actually available in-region right now: OCI’s Mumbai and Hyderabad regions, Azure India, and Oracle Database@Google Cloud’s new Mumbai presence, because for a lot of you, data sovereignty isn’t a compliance slide.

Come Find Me

Both sessions run 45 minutes: MCP at 2:20 PM, Multicloud at 4:20 PM, same schedule in both cities.

If you’re going to be in Bengaluru or Hyderabad, come say hello — in the room, in the hallway afterward, or find me on LinkedIn beforehand. Ten years is long enough. Let’s talk shop.