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.)
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.)
The newest writing and video briefs, in one place. Filed from wherever Edward happens to be this week, which is officially not Kscope. (Though he was reportedly spotted around the Gaylord Rockies? Probably just rumors.)
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.)
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.
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.)
Fewer than five people in ODTUG's history have received this. Edward accepted it last June and announced, on stage, that Kscope25 would be his last as a regular. Winning the Lifetime Achievement Award is often seen as the final thing you do with an organization. Sort of a 'putting you out to pasture,' if you will.
ODTUG's four-minute animated Kscope25 promo. A crew of alien tech enthusiasts intercepts a signal from Earth and sets course for the legendary Kscope conference. Edward voices an animated version of himself. The fedora made the cut.
ODTUG board members Monty Latiolais and Mike Riley sit Edward down for the Kscope15 sponsor interview. Three men, three hats, one Titanium sponsor. (The hats were, for once, planned in advance.)
Edward's Survivor parody from the Kscope11 opening session in Long Beach. The ODTUG board got voted off one by one to reveal Kscope12's host city. (Edward, who wrote the screenplay as conference chair, was the first eliminated. By unanimous vote.) Hosted on Tim Tow's blog. Click through to watch.
Glenn Schwartzberg on twenty-plus years of Essbase contribution and the advice he gives newer practitioners. Recorded in 2023. (Glenn's hat game, for the record, is not very strong, but at least he shares Edward's birthday each year.)
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.)
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.)
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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 accessBook 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.
