Erik Benner is the VP of Enterprise Transformation and an Oracle ACE director. He is an expert strategist for customers across the United States. His customer engagements range from enterprise cloud transformations to data center consolidation and modernization. He frequently presents at conferences such as Oracle CloudWorld, ASCEND, BLUEPRINT 4D, and FOSSY. Having worked with Oracle and Sun Systems since the mid-90s, Erik is well-versed in most of the core Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Database. When not flying to far points of the country from the Metro Atlanta area, he enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people. Hicham Assoudi is an AI researcher and senior Oracle technical practitioner with long-standing experience building Oracle-based solutions and implementing enterprise Oracle applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science specializing in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, bringing a blended academic and hands-on engineering profile. His work includes designing and implementing AI-enabled architectures on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including GenAI and agentic AI. He is a published author on implementing AI solutions on Oracle platforms, drawing directly from real-world system design and delivery experience. Tural Gulmammadov is the Founder and CEO of Mergen AI, where he builds large-scale AI systems that execute regulatory workflows for food and beverage manufacturers. Previously, he served as Head of Core Generative AI development team at Oracle, leading teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers responsible for production-grade generative and applied AI systems. He is a former Instructor of AI/ML Ops at the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Vector Institute, where he taught how to design and build reliable machine learning systems. His technical interests center on the application of graph theory, discrete mathematics, and probabilistic reasoning to ML systems operating in distributed computing environments.

• Table of ContentsOverview of Oracle's AI and ML EcosystemOracle AI Solution Lifecycle, Design Patterns, and Platform ChoicesData Preparation and In-Database Model TrainingModel Deployment and In-Database ManagementAdvanced Techniques for Optimizing Machine Learning and AI Workloads on Oracle DatabasePreparation and Installation of MySQL HeatWaveModel Deployment and Optimization on HeatWaveIntroduction to Generative AI ServicesLeveraging Oracle AI Services for Machine LearningLeveraging Oracle Data Science Service for Machine LearningBuilding Intelligent Applications with Oracle Digital AssistantMachine Learning and AI Security, Governance, and Best Practices

Erik Benner is the VP of Enterprise Transformation and an Oracle ACE director. He is an expert strategist for customers across the United States. His customer engagements range from enterprise cloud transformations to data center consolidation and modernization. He frequently presents at conferences such as Oracle CloudWorld, ASCEND, BLUEPRINT 4D, and FOSSY. Having worked with Oracle and Sun Systems since the mid-90s, Erik is well-versed in most of the core Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Database. When not flying to far points of the country from the Metro Atlanta area, he enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people. Hicham Assoudi is an AI researcher and senior Oracle technical practitioner with long-standing experience building Oracle-based solutions and implementing enterprise Oracle applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science specializing in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, bringing a blended academic and hands-on engineering profile. His work includes designing and implementing AI-enabled architectures on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including GenAI and agentic AI. He is a published author on implementing AI solutions on Oracle platforms, drawing directly from real-world system design and delivery experience. Tural Gulmammadov is the Founder and CEO of Mergen AI, where he builds large-scale AI systems that execute regulatory workflows for food and beverage manufacturers. Previously, he served as Head of Core Generative AI development team at Oracle, leading teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers responsible for production-grade generative and applied AI systems. He is a former Instructor of AI/ML Ops at the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Vector Institute, where he taught how to design and build reliable machine learning systems. His technical interests center on the application of graph theory, discrete mathematics, and probabilistic reasoning to ML systems operating in distributed computing environments.

• Table of ContentsOverview of Oracle's AI and ML EcosystemOracle AI Solution Lifecycle, Design Patterns, and Platform ChoicesData Preparation and In-Database Model TrainingModel Deployment and In-Database ManagementAdvanced Techniques for Optimizing Machine Learning and AI Workloads on Oracle DatabasePreparation and Installation of MySQL HeatWaveModel Deployment and Optimization on HeatWaveIntroduction to Generative AI ServicesLeveraging Oracle AI Services for Machine LearningLeveraging Oracle Data Science Service for Machine LearningBuilding Intelligent Applications with Oracle Digital AssistantMachine Learning and AI Security, Governance, and Best Practices

Erik Benner is the VP of Enterprise Transformation and an Oracle ACE director. He is an expert strategist for customers across the United States. His customer engagements range from enterprise cloud transformations to data center consolidation and modernization. He frequently presents at conferences such as Oracle CloudWorld, ASCEND, BLUEPRINT 4D, and FOSSY. Having worked with Oracle and Sun Systems since the mid-90s, Erik is well-versed in most of the core Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Database. When not flying to far points of the country from the Metro Atlanta area, he enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people. Hicham Assoudi is an AI researcher and senior Oracle technical practitioner with long-standing experience building Oracle-based solutions and implementing enterprise Oracle applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science specializing in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, bringing a blended academic and hands-on engineering profile. His work includes designing and implementing AI-enabled architectures on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including GenAI and agentic AI. He is a published author on implementing AI solutions on Oracle platforms, drawing directly from real-world system design and delivery experience. Tural Gulmammadov is the Founder and CEO of Mergen AI, where he builds large-scale AI systems that execute regulatory workflows for food and beverage manufacturers. Previously, he served as Head of Core Generative AI development team at Oracle, leading teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers responsible for production-grade generative and applied AI systems. He is a former Instructor of AI/ML Ops at the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Vector Institute, where he taught how to design and build reliable machine learning systems. His technical interests center on the application of graph theory, discrete mathematics, and probabilistic reasoning to ML systems operating in distributed computing environments.

• Table of ContentsOverview of Oracle's AI and ML EcosystemOracle AI Solution Lifecycle, Design Patterns, and Platform ChoicesData Preparation and In-Database Model TrainingModel Deployment and In-Database ManagementAdvanced Techniques for Optimizing Machine Learning and AI Workloads on Oracle DatabasePreparation and Installation of MySQL HeatWaveModel Deployment and Optimization on HeatWaveIntroduction to Generative AI ServicesLeveraging Oracle AI Services for Machine LearningLeveraging Oracle Data Science Service for Machine LearningBuilding Intelligent Applications with Oracle Digital AssistantMachine Learning and AI Security, Governance, and Best Practices