Speakers and topics include:

• Dr. Beth Plale, Director of the Data to Insight Center of Pervasive Technologies Institute and Center for Data and Search Informatics, and Associate Professor of Computer Science, is the keynote speaker.
• Dr. Heikki Tuuri, VP of Development at Oracle, will discuss InnoDB, a "storage engine" that can be used by MySQL databases to create, retrieve, update and delete data, for example by providing referential integrity support and automatic data recovery.
• Charlie Berger, Senior Director of Product Management-Data Mining Technologies, will provide an overview on Oracle's in-database data mining, SQL statistical functions and text-mining capabilities. 
• Brian MacDonald, Oracle Master Principal BI/DW Consultant will cover on-line analytical processing (OLAP).
• Job Miller, Oracle Enterprise Architect, will provide insight on Oracle Locator, database security and encryption, and other Oracle features / products that IU’s Research Technologies has purchased for researchers.
• Dr. Jeanette McClintick , researcher for the Center for Medical Genomics (CMG), will discuss the CMG Oracle database application.
• Anna Radue, Database and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist at IU, will talk about the GIS and Indiana Spatial Data Service.
• Dr. Jake Chen, Director, Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine and Assistant Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, will share his some of his experience with research databases and the work being done by the Discover Informatics and Computing Laboratory
• Andy Arenson, manager of IU’s Biomedical Applications team, will discuss his experience in using databases to support national and international research.
• Stephanie Burks, Principal Database Administrator for High Performance System at IU, will discuss the current state of the Research Database Complex (RDC) and what database-related services are available to researchers.
• Nancy Long, Principal Database Consultant for High Performance Systems, will provide a basic overview and demonstration of Application Express, a tool provided by Oracle that allows you to develop web applications which can access your data stored in an Oracle database, by using only a web browser and limited programming experience.