Karthik Sukumar Technology Advocate talks about organizations, wanting their future workforce to be innovative, creative and collaborative. Universities are enabling these soft skills and value to students to be job ready. Karthik highlights hackathons provide an opportunity where people come together to solve problems, as teams with creativity, innovation and collaboration, and are able to do this over a short period of time, where these skills are further developed and exercised.

Stuart Coggins Technology Advocate and Innovation Practitioner talks about the role and importance of Hackathons, and the benefits they provide for individuals, teams and organisations. Hackathons provide a great vehicle for learning, teaming and validating ideas with high energy and fast outcomes. Stuart talks about Innovation as a skill, that can be developed, helping turn ideas into something you can see and touch, that can then be iterated with creativity and imagination. Stuart highlights, hackathons being a great and safe place for exercising innovation skills and ideas.

Connor McDonald, Database Advocate aware of the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon, helps developers start fast whether it is taking a JSON Document or a Relational Approach, providing some tips on how to validate your idea very quickly. For the experienced SQL Developer, Connor also walks through the subtlety of SQL Constructs such as "WITH" and "Match Recognize", to both help simplify and turbo-charge what is possible with your data. Connor McDonald also discusses his many channels, to help people with their SQL Skills, such as devgym, podcasts all available from https://connor-mcdonald.com/

Bo English-Wiczling, Head of DevRel Operations talks about Oracle Application Express (APEX) as a low-code development platform that enables you to build scalable, secure enterprise apps, which would help both beginner and experienced developers especially for the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon.

Guillermo Ruiz, head of Oracle Developer Relations talks about the Importance of Developers as Change Agents, always looking for opportunities to improve with a Sharing, Value and Maker Mentality. Guillermo Ruiz talks about his vision for dev.o for the many different developer personas with different entry points. Guillermo highlights Hackathons, being the ideal place and time for developers to come together, sharing how to take and idea to an outcome, with lots of learning, teaming and fun, but also with responsibility, especially for the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon.

Kirsty Linehan talks to Gillian Triggs, a passionate defender of human rights and vocal advocate of social justice, who currently holds the position of assistant secretary general, assistant high commissioner for Protection – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We hear Gillian Triggs talks about hopes, and the role of data and technology plays, to achieve more immediate and lasting impact.

Surend Dayal - CEO of Magia Solutions - discusses the role of ERP and CX SaaS solutions and how Magia has helped enterprise government and higher education build digital platforms that support a smooth experience for customers, staff, and partners.

David Lucido - managing director at Sentient Hubs - talks about a new class of decision support: A platform that enables integrated impact-assessment across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. David talks through a customer case study using this platform which enables convergence across the diverse ecosystem.

Ryan Klose, general manager for National Pharmacies discusses the importance of APIs at National Pharmacies to support business change and innovation. An API-led approach helps create a low-cost, low-risk environment for the organization's Digital Experiences. APIs provide the loose coupling between back-end core applications to support the rapid change taking place in the pharmacy industry.

Ryan Klose, general manager for National Pharmacies talks about the history and role of data at National Pharmacies. Initially isolated inside applications for specific users, data is now blended, assembled, and improved, all while supporting fact-based decisions and recommendations across the organisation. This benefits both the consumer and employee experience.