Oracle OpenWorld kicks off a full week of education, insight and opportunities for customers from around the globe. The worldwide leading Oracle event is expected to attract more than 60,000 attendees and offer 2,500 educational sessions.

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is taking place September 22 – 26 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco with more than 60,000 attendees expected from over 145 countries. As the largest and most important educational and networking event for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners, Oracle OpenWorld features education and insight into Oracle’s strategy and roadmap, including insight into Oracle’s engineered systems, cloud computing, business analytics, big data and customer experience initiatives.

At this year’s event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (in picture) joined  the keynote stage with other leading Oracle executives and technologists including Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and more.Also taking place in San Francisco the week of Oracle OpenWorld are JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange @ OpenWorld.

Oracle OpenWorld is a five days convention with more than 2,500 Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect and Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange sessions; hands-on labs (HOLs), tutorials and birds-of-a-feather sessions (BOFs). More than 3,500 speakers, including over 1,800 customer and partner speakers, including ANZ Bank, AT&T, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, Emirates, Facebook, GM, LinkedIn, Lego and Walgreens, will share how they are using Oracle technology to engineer for innovation.

“Oracle OpenWorld 2013 offers a week of hands-on sessions and presentations to help our customers and partners understand how to take advantage of the latest Oracle technologies to enable transformation and innovation within their businesses,” said Tania Weidick, vice president, Oracle Events Marketing. “At this year’s event, attendees will have the opportunity to network with peers and learn about the latest in enterprise technology from industry leaders.”