Vince Casarez, Vice President of Oracle Corporation, focuses on Web 2.0 technology development, Enterprise 2.0, and portal products. Over the past 14 years, Vince has held many key positions at Oracle. Currently, he is Vice President of Product Management for Enterprise 2.0 and portal products at Oracle. He has recently co-authored a book entitled Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 that remains on the Amazon Technology Best Seller list. He also manages the WebCenter development team handling Web 2.0 and social computing services. Prior to this, he focused on hosted portal development and operations that included Oracle Portal Online for external customers, Portal Center for building a portal community, and My Oracle for the employee intranet. Previously, he was Vice President of Tools Marketing, handling all tools products including development tools and business intelligence tools. Prior to running Tools Marketing, he was Director of Product Management for Oracle's JDeveloper. Before joining Oracle, Vince spent seven years at Borland International where he was group product manager of Paradox for Windows and dBASE for Windows. He holds a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with 345,000 customers, including 100 of the Fortune Global 100, and supports these customers in more than 145 countries.

Hector R. Madrid is the author of the Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities book. He is currently working as a freelance consultant; he collaborates with Oracle University as a certified instructor for the DBA, Java, and Application Server course tracks. He is a highly-respected Oracle professional with 20 years of experience as a full-time DBA. He works with a wide range of DBA requirements starting from the daily DBA duties to the tasks related to mission-critical and high-availability systems. He was the first Oracle Certified Master in Latin America. He obtained a Masters degree in Computer Sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), and he has presented different technical papers at several Oracle conferences.