AURORA · COLORADO · GAYLORD ROCKIES · JUNE 14-18, 2026 TECH AT NEW HEIGHTS
OFFICIAL ATTENDEE NOTICE · ODTUG · 2026

Tech at new heights. Edward at sea level.

ODTUG Kscope26 runs June 14 through 18 at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado. For the first time since 2007, Edward is officially not on the speaker list. We checked twice. (Attendees have shown their support by all wearing his hat, which was deeply touching for the first half hour and is now mostly blocking everyone's views of the speakers.)

50+
COUNTRIES PRESENTED IN
80+
COUNTRIES VISITED
15
BOOKS IN PRINT
2
U.S. PATENTS
~20
PRIOR KSCOPES
PROGRAM COVER · ROOM SHOT · DAY ONE
A packed Kscope26 keynote hall at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado. Approximately 600 conference attendees, the presenter on stage, and the AV crew along the wings are all wearing identical royal-blue felt fedora hats. The stage backdrop reads KSCOPE26 TECH AT NEW HEIGHTS with the ODTUG logo. The mood is overwhelming support for the absent honoree.
KSCOPE26 · DAY ONE · KEYNOTE HALL PHOTO STAFF · ODTUG · 6.14.26
OFFICIAL STATEMENT · ODTUG COMMUNICATIONS
Attendees showed up wearing his hat. Which is, frankly, more support than he was expecting. It's also, frankly, more support than is strictly necessary. (Frankly, please stop.)
ODTUG BOARD REGISTRATION DESK · DAY ONE · MORNING

The search continues.

Four photos from the ODTUG photo desk this week. Edward Roske is, per his own statement, in Puerto Rico. The fedora, however, has a way of turning up in the frame. (We make no claims about how it got there. We also make no claims about a Wizard of Oz costume seen in the Donyati booth.)

Matt Bradley previews the Oracle EPM roadmap to a standing-room crowd. Edward, who has watched Matt present some version of that same slide deck every year since 2008, is sadly not anywhere to be seen.
BREAKOUT · CONTINENTAL BALLROOM C TUE · 10:45 AM · MT

Oracle EPM Roadmap 2026

Matt Bradley, Oracle

Matt Bradley previews the Oracle EPM roadmap to a standing-room crowd. Edward, who has watched Matt present some version of that same slide deck every year since 2008, is sadly not anywhere to be seen.

Day-two exhibit hall, fully open for business. Edward, who once worked a Kscope booth for sixteen straight hours without sitting down, is by his own statement in Puerto Rico.
EXHIBIT HALL · ROCKIES HALL A WED · 12:18 PM · MT

Vendor Hall · Day Two

Oracle, Datavail, Donyati, Applied OLAP

Day-two exhibit hall, fully open for business. Edward, who once worked a Kscope booth for sixteen straight hours without sitting down, is by his own statement in Puerto Rico.

The AI-in-EPM keynote draws the largest crowd of the week. Edward, who delivered this exact slot in 2023, is at home in San Juan working through a quarterly.
HALLWAY · OUTSIDE LONGS PEAK 1 THU · 02:30 PM · MT

AI in Enterprise EPM · Keynote

Featured Kscope26 Keynote

The AI-in-EPM keynote draws the largest crowd of the week. Edward, who delivered this exact slot in 2023, is at home in San Juan working through a quarterly.

Closing-day view from the balcony. The Rockies are doing what they do. Edward, who has spoken in fifty-plus countries on all seven continents, is for this one week choosing not to do the four-hour flight to Denver.
LOBBY BALCONY · LEVEL 2 FRI · 09:02 AM · MT

Closing Keynote · Press of the Mountains

ODTUG Board

Closing-day view from the balcony. The Rockies are doing what they do. Edward, who has spoken in fifty-plus countries on all seven continents, is for this one week choosing not to do the four-hour flight to Denver.

In memoriam. May he rest in peace at other conferences.

A program is just a list of things that already happened, eventually. Six clips from the archive: the Lifetime Achievement Award, the animated promo, the masterclass, the podcast booth, and a twenty-eight-second appearance from 2011 that, depending on your tolerance for tape hiss, holds up surprisingly well.

Edward Roske, Necessarily Censored
REAL TIME BI · KSCOPE14 · 2014

Edward Roske, Necessarily Censored

Sixty seconds from the Kscope14 livestream of Real Time BI with Kevin McGinley and Stewart Bryson. Edward has quite the potty mouth. We had to bleep him multiple times just to allow this video to be aired at all. (Featured this week only, in honor of the week he isn't there.)

Six sessions. None of them at Kscope.

The current entries column, restyled from the program he would have submitted if he were going. Same six projects either way. (The room numbers are honest. The rooms aren't in Aurora.)

TRACK · EPM-101 WHAT HE IS BUILDING INSTEAD

AgentCube

The engine that lets AI agents talk to Oracle Essbase, EPM Planning, and Financial Close. Built by Caprus. Essbase and Planning shipped. Consolidations is in beta. (The session-room version of this talk would have been packed and standing in the back. The version where you click a link is also free.)

ESSBASE · PLANNING · CLOSE SHIPPED
TRACK · LDR-204 WHAT HE IS HOSTING INSTEAD

Caribbean AI Summit

Co-chairing the largest AI conference Puerto Rico has ever hosted. October 9 and 10 in San Juan. Speakers and sponsors are being recruited right now. If you build, fund, or run AI, the stage has a slot with your name on it.

9-10 OCT 2026 · SAN JUAN CALL FOR SPEAKERS OPEN
TRACK · AI-305 WHAT HE IS INVESTING IN INSTEAD

Caprus

Investor and contributor at Caprus, the AI software and services firm giving finance teams faster, smarter operations. The working crew behind the MCP servers. The team that, for the record, does most of the actual building while Edward writes the blog posts.

AI · FINANCE RUNNING
TRACK · GAME-411 WHAT HE IS PROTOTYPING INSTEAD

AI Dungeon Master's Screen

An AI-driven DM's screen for running better D&D 5e campaigns. Initiative, lore, and improv help for the person behind the screen. If there's going to be an AI at the table, it should at least earn its seat. (The party will not be told.)

D&D · 5E · EBERRON IN PROTOTYPE
Quiet build
TRACK · COMM-103 WHAT HE IS PRESIDING OVER INSTEAD

Puerto Rico AI Community

President of the Puerto Rico AI Community. Over 850 people across our events. We meet every other month to figure out, in public, what AI means for the island, which is also what AI means for everyone else watching the island.

850+ · BI-MONTHLY RUNNING
TRACK · TOOL-602 WHAT HE SHIPPED INSTEAD

Only Recipes

Edward's first Chrome extension. When it spots you on a recipe page, it strips out everything that isn't the recipe. No author memoir. No fourteen ads. No infinite scroll. It's ridiculously fast and remarkably useful, which are two phrases I don't usually get to put next to each other.

CHROME EXTENSION · FREE SHIPPED

One late addition, in beta.

IN BETA · NAME PENDING

The Home Library Project

BOOKS · GAMES · MEDIA · ALL SHELVES

A new app and site that digitizes a home library: books, board games, music, media, anything sitting on a shelf at the house. All categorized. There'll be a free tier. The full reveal comes after beta. If you want an early look, send an email and you're on the list.

Email for early access
THE BOX OFFICE IS OPEN · 13 MINUTES

Couldn't find him at Kscope?
Of course not.

Book a thirteen-minute call. Bring questions about Oracle EPM, AI in finance, MCP servers, Caribbean conferences, D&D, or what it feels like to skip your own conference for the first time in nineteen years. Answers included. Opinions arrive whether you ask for them or not, and at thirteen minutes a head, you can't really say they aren't a bargain.

PROGRAM COLOPHON · BACK COVER · 2026
EDITION KSCOPE26 · OFFICIAL PROGRAM · WEEK 25
CONFERENCE ODTUG KSCOPE26 · JUNE 14-18 · AURORA, COLORADO
VENUE GAYLORD ROCKIES RESORT AND CONVENTION CENTER
TAGLINE TECH AT NEW HEIGHTS
HONOREE IN ABSENTIA EDWARD ROSKE · LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT, 2025
HEADGEAR (REQUIRED) ONE (1) BLUE FELT FEDORA · BLACK BAND · NEVER NEGOTIATED
AT HOME (REPORTEDLY) SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
WITH THANKS TO EVERY ODTUG VOLUNTEER WHO HELD THE CONFERENCE TOGETHER FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Not affiliated with ODTUG, Oracle, the Gaylord Rockies Resort, or any registered fedora. ODTUG, Kscope, Tech at New Heights, and the conference program are the property of their respective owners. The fedora is, and always has been, Edward's. (We checked.)