April 17-18, 2012 – Moscow, Russia

Oracle Develop Conference

The Oracle database developer conference, Oracle Develop, will visit Moscow, Russia and Hyderabad, India this spring. Oracle Develop includes a database development track, which contains .NET sessions and hands-on lab led by an Oracle .NET product manager. Register today before the event fills up.

http://www.oracle.com/javaone/ru-en/index.html

April 24, 26 – San Diego, CA & San Jose, CA

ISC2 Leadership Regional Event Series

Oracle at (ISC)2 Security Leadership Series: Herding Clouds -- Managing Cloud Security Concerns and Expectations

Join us for his interactive day-long session where industry leaders, including Oracle solution experts, will talk about how to:

• dispel the top Cloud security myths
• minimize "rogue Cloud" implementations
• identify potential compliance pitfalls and how to avoid them
• develop contract language for your cloud providers
• manage users across your fractured datacenter
• leverage existing technologies to protect data as it moves from the enterprise to the cloud

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=146972&src=7239493&src=7239493&Act=228

April 22-26, 2012 – Las Vegas, NV

IOUG Collaborate 12

From April 22-26, 2012, Oracle takes Las Vegas. Thousands of Oracle professionals will descend upon the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for a weeks worth of education sessions, networking opportunities and more, at the only user-driven and user-run Oracle conference - COLLABORATE 12. 

Your COLLABORATE 12 - IOUG Forum registration comes complete with a bonus- a full day Deep Dive education program on Sunday! Choose from numerous hot topics, including Real World Performance, High Availability and more, presented by legendary and seasoned Oracle pros, including Tom Kyte and Craig Shallahamer.

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=143637&src=7360364&src=7360364&Act=5

Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) Regional Events:

April 16, 2012 – Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Oracle Users Group

Higher Performance PL/PQL and Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL New Features – Featuring Steven Feuerstein

http://www.ooug.org/

April 26, 2012- Irving, TX

Dallas Oracle Users Group

Oracle Database Forum: 5-7PM

Oracle Corporation, 6031 Connection Drive
Irving, TX

http://memberservices.membee.com/538/irmevents.aspx?id=64

Apr 30, 2012- Los Angeles, CA

Real World Performance Tour

A full day of real world database performance with:

• Tom Kyte, author of the ever popular AskTom Blog,
• Andrew Holdsworth, head of Oracle's Real World Performance Team, and
• Graham Wood, renowned Oracle Database performance architect.

Through discussion, debate and demos, they’ll show you how to master performance engineering topics like:

• Best practices for designing hardware architectures and how to spot and fix bad design.
• How to develop applications that deliver the fastest possible performance without sacrificing accuracy.
•  New for 2012! Updates on Enterprise Manager, Exadata, and what these technologies mean to your current systems.

http://www.ioug.org/Events/ADayofRealWorldPerformance/tabid/194/Default.aspx