Oracle AI Live

Alper Celik

Senior Director, Automotive & Manufacturing Strategy, EMEA Strategic Client Group, Oracle

Speaker day: 10 June

With over 25 years of strategic leadership in the technology and automotive sectors, including roles at Oracle, Toyota and Kia Europe, contributions span connected cars, mobility innovation, electrification, and future business development. With holistic industry and tech prowess, align advanced digital strategies with evolving industry trends, focussing on enabling sustainable growth and delivering impactful business outcomes

Zoë Cannings

Senior Director, Business Value and Transformation, Oracle Applications UK & Ireland

Speaker day: 8 June

Zoë is an HR professional with over 15 years’ experience at senior level across all sectors. Working with public sector organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa, she has helped government leaders to conceptualise, plan and execute on their future vision and strategies through the adoption and exploitation of modern enterprise technology.

Prior to her career in the IT sector, Zoë held roles in the UK Cabinet Office working on cross-Government HR transformation and as an HR practitioner in the Department of Work and Pensions and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Zoë’s areas of interest include the AI workforce enablement; the impact of AI on work and society; taking a user experience and design thinking approach to transformation; organisation development and design; and creating skills-based organisations.

Hammad Hussain

Senior Director, AI Business Value, Oracle

Speaker days: 8 June, 10 June, 11 June, 12 June

Hammad Hussain helps CXOs cut through the hype and turn AI into measurable impact. At Oracle, he leads AI-driven transformation, connecting ERP, data, and cloud to deliver real business outcomes. Hammad brings hard-earned lessons on scaling agentic AI and driving adoption - showing how to move from AI ambition to AI results. Hammad’s career spans strategy, consulting, and technology leadership across Oracle, McKinsey, and Deloitte, giving him a unique vantage point on how enterprises can truly capture value from AI. He blends strategic insight with hands-on delivery, making him a trusted advisor to some of the world’s most ambitious organizations.

Tamas Kramer

Senior Director, Government, EMEA Strategic Client Group, Oracle

Speaker day: 8 June

Tamas Kramer, M.Sc. is a Senior Director of Government Industries at Oracle, supporting the digitalisation and transformation of government operations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With over 25 years of experience at IBM, Microsoft, Huddle, and Oracle, he brings deep cross-regional expertise and a strong commitment to driving digital change in the public sector.

Alexandra Lecompte

Senior Director, Financial Services, EMEA Strategic Client Group, Oracle

Speaker day: 12 June

Alexandra is a Financial Services Industry Senior Director in Oracle’s EMEA Strategic Client Program. She supports financial institution leaders in their transformation initiatives, helping them create tangible and measurable business value. With 25 years of international experience in corporate and investment banking, she brings deep expertise in treasury, Cash Management and Trade Finance solutions. After holding senior roles at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank across Europe, North Africa and Asia, Alexandra advised global corporations and fintechs on large-scale treasury transformation programs. Today, she leverages her industry expertise, the One Oracle vision, digital innovation and AI-driven strategies to help banks and insurance companies strengthen competitiveness and drive growth in a constantly evolving environment.

Marc Moubarak

Senior Director, Financial Services, EMEA Strategic Client Group, Oracle

Speaker day: 11 June

Marc Moubarak advises senior leaders at global banks on turning AI ambition into operational reality, with a focus on measurable business outcomes. He helps institutions identify where AI and data can create real value, then supports them from strategy through execution. Marc has held senior strategy and transformation roles at UBS and Société Générale, where he led $100M+ programmes. His experience is grounded in AI advisory and fintech, including building AI solutions alongside top-tier data scientists. He brings a rare dual perspective across business and technology: he understands what banks need because he has lived the challenges from the inside. Marc holds an MBA from INSEAD and has completed executive education at Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, and Kellogg School of Management.

Matt Parry

Co-Founder and CEO, The Future Collective

Speaker days: 8 June, 9 June, 10 June, 11 June, 12 June

As Co-Founder of The Future Collective, Matt works at the intersection of AI, leadership, customer experience and business transformation. He has led and advised on programmes spanning retail, consumer industries, hospitality, technology and corporate innovation, helping organisations rethink not only how they operate, but how they make decisions in an age increasingly shaped by intelligent systems.

Known for combining strategic clarity with future-focused thinking, Matt brings a distinctive perspective on the rise of AI and Agentic AI within enterprise environments. His work explores how organisations can move beyond traditional digital transformation towards more adaptive, human-centred models of intelligence, where people and AI work in partnership to improve decision-making, productivity and customer experience.

Alongside his co-founder Kate Shepherd, Matt regularly hosts global innovation briefings, leadership sessions and future-focused conversations for audiences of more than 1,000 senior leaders, exploring the societal, organisational and commercial implications of emerging technologies. His work is grounded in a strong belief that the future of business will belong to organisations capable of combining technological advancement with human judgement, creativity and trust.

Matt is also the author of a recently published book - The Great Rewiring, a thought-provoking exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping human thought, leadership and the future of work. He is also a LinkedIn Top voice for AI.

Aniello Pepe

Senior Director, Manufacturing Aerospace & Defence, EMEA Strategic Client Group, Oracle

Speaker day: 10 June

Aniello (Nello) Pepe is Senior Director, Manufacturing and A&D in the Oracle Strategic Clients Group.He joined Oracle in 2012 bringing a wide knowledge on enterprise strategic business processes - sales & marketing, customer experience, demand & supply chain management and production operations - matured on more than 30 years of experience in leading companies as industry advisor, business consultant, director of product development and product marketing. Nello has contributed to successful business transformations for large companies in automotive, aerospace and defense, discrete & process manufacturing worldwide. He is author and speaker on industry trends and specific solution areas including Artificial Intelligence, Smart Manufacturing, Service Transformation. He brings in a forward-thinking attitude to spark innovation in digital transformation and business modernization, dating back to the beginning of his carrier as a researcher in application of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing and High Tech. Married with two sons, Nello lives in Turin, Italy. He has got a master degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering.

David Perelgritz

Senior Director, Financial Services, EMEA Strategic Client Group, Oracle

Speaker day: 11 June

More than 20 years in banking including front office and COO roles. Functional expertise in strategy, operations, risk and transformation. Deep knowledge of investment banking and markets, commercial banking and private banking

- More than a decade in investment banking and markets with deep product and front office expertise Global COO within investment banking responsible for business development, operation efficiency and improvement as well as leading large transformational projects (e.g. post Brexit target operating model)
- Advisor to Julius Baer Group CFO on improving sales effectiveness, implementing frameworks to foster collaboration and automation, balance sheet risk, funding and utilisation, syndication, and portfolio approach to balance sheet exposure
- Functional expertise across front office, operations, compliance and all risk related topics

Elliot Perkins

Senior Director, Government Affairs, Oracle

Speaker day: 8 June

Elliott Perkins is Senior Director of Government Affairs at Oracle, where he leads policy and advocacy across a broad portfolio of technology issues in Northern Europe. In this role, he advises senior leadership on regulatory strategy, geopolitical dynamics, and government engagement. He also serves as a Board Member of the UK–Ukraine TechBridge, a joint initiative between the UK Department for Business and Trade and the Government of Ukraine, focused on strengthening bilateral collaboration in the technology sector. Prior to joining Oracle, Elliott was a senior member of the Political and Regulatory team at a global advisory firm, where he advised multinational companies on reputation management, strategic communications, and complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he served as a Political Advisor and held a range of political and parliamentary roles.

Dominic Regan

Senior Director, Business Value Services, Oracle

Speaker day: 10 June

Dominic Regan has been with Oracle for 25 years and is Senior Director in the UK for Oracle’s Logistics Applications, encompassing transportation, warehousing and global trade. In this role, Dominic works directly with Oracle's Product Development and Strategy teams, as well as with customers, partners and prospects who use, or are interested in using, these products. Dominic has been involved in the supply chain software sector since the late 1980’s, and during that period has worked with a diverse array of customers across multiple industries and geographies.

Kate Shepherd

Co-founder and Executive Strategy Director, The Future Collective

Speaker days: 8 June, 9 June, 10 June, 11 June, 12 June

Kate Shepherd is a strategic design leader and co-founder of The Future Collective, a strategy and design consultancy that helps brands navigate change with clarity and pioneer real-world transformation.

With more than two decades of experience working across retail, consumer culture and business transformation, Kate specialises in helping organisations understand the forces shaping business today - from shifting consumer expectations to the impact of AI on leadership, operations and experience design.

Over the past three years, Kate has worked closely with Henley Business School developing a series of Leadership Futures reports exploring the changing nature of leadership in Industry 5.0. Most recently, she authored 'Redefining Leadership in the Age of AI' examining how business leaders must evolve as AI reshapes decision-making, organisational culture and the future of work.

Kate has also hosted AI-focused masterclasses and executive briefings for global audiences. This included a session shared with more than three million small business owners through Sage Accounting, focusing on how organisations can embrace AI to improve working practices and unlock new opportunities.

She has advised and collaborated with a wide range of global brands including Oracle, adidas, Levi Strauss & Co. and Audi AG, and regularly speaks on leadership, AI, retail and consumer culture.

Neil Sholay

VP, AI Business Value, EMEA Applications, Oracle

Speaker days: 9 June, 10 June, 11 June, 12 June

Neil Sholay is Vice President of AI for Oracle EMEA. Responsible for AI strategy, thought leadership and building the data and AI business across EMEA. He leads a team of data scientists, AI value consultants and AI experts committed to helping clients solve some of their most complex business problems using data, cloud and AI technology.

Neil has worked at Oracle since 2008 and in the tech industry for 28 years. He has held executive positions in strategy, corporate & business development, Innovation & business value consulting. Before Oracle, he worked with Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and ATG.

As GVP for Oracle’s Strategic Initiatives Group, Neil designed, validated and incubated new business ventures for the company - working across the full portfolio of Oracle products, teams, partners and customers to deliver new products, services & business models for our partners and customers.

Neil has over a decade of experience helping clients originate, shape and deliver sustainable transformation programmes, advising clients who have emerging challenges or are in a state of flux to help them identify their unrecognised needs and develop workable strategies & solutions together.

As Vice President Digital Innovation, Neil was responsible for Oracle’s go to market strategy and thought leadership for Innovation in the Digital marketplace. Leading a curious, multidisciplinary team of thinkers, Ideators, strategists, designers, developers, storytellers, rebels and proud geeks, who helped clients reshape their digital experiences and bring new ideas & business models to life, using co-innovation and rapid prototyping. Sholay holds a degree in business management from the London Institute. He is an internationally recognized speaker on technology and innovation, in particular AI, data innovation, and scaling enterprise innovation.

Vikram Singla

Senior Director, Business Value Services, Oracle

Speaker day: 10 June

Vikram Singla is Senior Director, Business Value Services at Oracle UKI, where he helps organisations leverage technology, data, and AI to deliver measurable business outcomes. He works with business leaders to build credible cases for change and compelling value narratives that support transformation initiatives from strategy through execution and value realisation. He specialises in Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud and AI-enabled supply chain transformation, helping organisations improve resilience, operational efficiency, and decision-making capabilities. With more than 30 years of experience in the technology sector, Vikram has led and supported large-scale transformation programmes for Fortune 500 organisations across multiple industries. His expertise spans business transformation, operational excellence, value realisation, and digital supply chain strategy.

Vikram also contributes to the advancement of the supply chain profession through advisory and leadership roles. He serves on the Advisory Board of Cranfield University’s Supply Chain Management Research Centre and previously served on the Board of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), UK. He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and a degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India.

Jan Thompson

Senior Director, National Security Telecoms, EMEA, Oracle

Speaker day: 8 June

Jan is Oracle's Senior Director for National Security Telecom in EMEA. He works with blue-light, justice, and MoD customers to work out how Oracle can help use Information and Communications Technology in mission critical organisations to get from data to decisions to actions faster. He believes the far-reaching implications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will transform Public Sector organistions.

Luis Weir

Chief Architect, PolyAPI

Speaker day: 12 June

Luis Weir is a technology executive specialising in AI, platforms, and large-scale integration architectures. He currently shapes the architecture vision for PolyAPI, driving its AI powered integration operating system to deliver scalable solutions, strong developer outcomes, and operational excellence. He works closely with customers, actively evangelises the platform across industry forums, and collaborates hands on with engineering teams to bring new capabilities to market. At Oracle Hospitality, Luis was head of Applied AI, and led their integration and data access strategies, driving innovation across the organisation while launching the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP). He was responsible for bringing OHIP to market and scaling it from zero to more than 4 billion transactions per month, now used by thousands of partners and customers globally, establishing it as one of the world’s most widely adopted hospitality integration platforms.Luis has deep expertise in platform development and architecture, with a career spanning engineering, technical leadership, and large-scale cloud solutions implementation. He is a former CTO at Capgemini UK and the author of Enterprise API Management.