EVENTS

UKOUG Discover 2025 Conference

Nov 30 - December 2, 2025

The UKOUG Conference Discover 2025 is the annual gathering for Oracle users across the UK and Ireland — a hub where innovation meets collaboration. This year’s event features a redesigned open-plan experience that maximizes engagement between delegates, exhibitors, and speakers.

Attendees can look forward to:

Super Sunday (30 November): A long-standing UKOUG tradition, offering an afternoon of deep-dive technical content for Oracle professionals.

Full Conference (1–2 December): Keynotes, live demos, interactive breakout sessions, and exhibition networking — all in a dynamic, collaborative space.

KNEX is proud to participate alongside Oracle experts, thought leaders, and solution providers driving digital transformation across industries. Join us to explore the latest advancements in Oracle Cloud Applications, Database 23ai, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise modernization.

Whether you’re a delegate, sponsor, or exhibitor, Discover 2025 is your opportunity to connect with the wider Oracle user community, gain actionable insights, and shape the future of enterprise innovation.

Agenda

Oracle AI Agent Studio: The AI Agent Revolution in the Enterprise

Artificial intelligence is transforming how businesses operate, and Oracle is leading this revolution with AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. This innovative platform enables organizations to design, deploy, and manage an AI agent workforce that automates complex business processes in finance, human resources, supply chain, and customer experience. In this session, we will explore how AI Agent Studio provides native integration with Oracle Fusion Applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), offering optimized language models, customization tools, and a secure environment for deploying AI agents. Through real-world use cases, a live demonstration, and best practices, attendees will discover how this technology enhances productivity, reduces repetitive tasks, and enables new ways of collaborative work between humans and machines.

AI and Machine Learning: How they will transform Finance in Industry 4.0

Machine Learning & AI are more than just buzzwords. The role and expectations of finance professionals will change more in the next 5 years than the previous 20 years. The value finance teams can deliver to a business in Industry 4.0, will transform the role of finance. In this keynote we will explore the fundamental economics of how value creation is shifting and how it will be reshaped and accelerated with the assistance of AI and the use of machine learning and advanced analytics.

GenAI in Action: The Next Wave of Enterprise Innovation

GenAI is reshaping the enterprise landscape, moving beyond hype to deliver real innovation. This session showcases how organizations can harness GenAI to build adaptive, intelligent applications that automate logic, enhance user interactions, and enable real-time decision-making. We’ll explore how GenAI, integrated within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, empowers enterprises to streamline processes, orchestrate services, and unlock new business value—all without increasing complexity. Attendees will leave with practical patterns, proven approaches, and insights into how GenAI is driving the next wave of enterprise innovation.

How Oracle AI is Powering Enterprise Transformation

Gustavo Gonzalez, Neil Sellers, and Basheer Khan

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Tuesday, December 02

• 4:00 pm

AI is no longer an experiment: it’s a boardroom imperative. In this exclusive C-Suite roundtable and fireside conversation, we will share how Oracle AI is driving enterprise-wide transformation, reshaping strategy, and unlocking new business models. From accelerating innovation to strengthening security and trust, we’ll discuss real-world use cases and leadership perspectives on how executives can harness AI to stay ahead of disruption. Attendees will gain an inside look at Oracle’s vision for AI, learn from peer experiences, and walk away with strategic insights to guide their own organizations into the AI-powered future.

Speakers

Basheer Khan

CEO

Basheer Khan, founder & CEO of KNEX Technology, is an industry-leading expert in Oracle applications and technology. A member of Oracle’s Fusion Inner Circle, he specializes in Fusion applications implementation, integration and extension. He is the only Oracle ACE Director in North America, recognized for his expertise in Fusion Applications. Oracle Magazine honored him as Oracle’s Integration Architect of the Year. A frequent speaker at major conferences, he has been published numerous times.

Gustavo Gonzalez

CTO

Gustavo is KNEX's CTO, leading the delivery and support organizations helping customers on their journey to the cloud. He is also an Oracle ACE Director since 2012. He has delivered presentations at more than 200 conferences worldwide in more than 25 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Neil Sellers

CSO

Neil Sellers is Chief Strategy Officer at KNEX and is based in London. Prior to that he was Group Director of Sales and Strategic Accounts whilst at Qubix, sitting as an executive on the group board. Neil has recently spent 2 years ensuring the smooth transition of Qubix into Version 1 ownership and is now helping customers to achieve their business goals and objectives through process optimisation and performance management at KNEX. He has worked within the Oracle EPM, Hyperion, and Analytics community for more than 26 years in all areas of programme delivery, training, and sales, ensuring customers strategic objectives and goals are achieved using the full depth of the Oracle technology stack.