Oracle AI World Tour 2026 - My notes and takeaways!

Carlos Villanua

12 Feb 2026 — 6 min read

I had the cool experience of attending the Oracle AI World Tour along with Marta Tolosa. Thanks a lot for the hosting! The event brought together Oracle's top leadership, industry partners, and customers to showcase how AI is transforming enterprise technology.

Opening Keynote: Mike Sicilia, CEO of Oracle

The event kicked off with a keynote from Mike Sicilia, CEO of Oracle. Having the opportunity to hear directly from Oracle's CEO about the company's vision for AI-powered enterprise solutions was very interesting. Having Mike in Madrid shows how much they care about their customers and partners. Mike shared how Oracle is positioning itself at the forefront of the AI revolution, emphasizing that to unlock AI, you need both technology and data. One of the most important things that was told over and over was how they want you to decide how and where to do it. They give you the tools, the plumbing, it is for you now to take action. By where I mean even in other hyperscalers.

Executive Leadership Panel

One of the highlights was an impressive panel featuring Oracle's senior leadership:

Mike Sicilia, CEO, Oracle
Binoy Sukumaran, SVP, Database Cloud, Oracle
Jason Rees, SVP, Technology and Cloud Infrastructure, EMEA, Oracle
Glenn Beeswanger, SVP, Applications Labs and SaaS Engineering, Oracle
Rich Clayton, VP, Product Strategy, AI and Analytics, Oracle

This level of executive presence demonstrated Oracle's commitment to the European market and the AI World Tour initiative.

They touched very interesting topics on how they are supporting their users and how agnostic they are becoming. They want their users to decide where to host and how to do it with full Oracle capabilities.

One of the messages that resonated most for me was from Binoy, how they are running agents at the DB, which makes it ultra fast and secured.

Customer Success Story: Mar Donate, Grupo Bimbo Espana

Mar Donate, General Manager of Grupo Bimbo Espana, joined Mike Sicilia on stage to share how one of the world's largest bakery companies is leveraging Oracle Cloud for their digital transformation journey.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Built for AI

The OCI presentations showcased Oracle's cloud infrastructure advantages:

Key Differentiators:

Highest performance
Lowest cost
Highly secure infrastructure
Bare metal with off-box virtualization and root of trust
RoCE v2 with RDMA for Exadata, Compute/HPC, and GPU workloads

Global Footprint:

200+ live and planned regions worldwide
Single pricing across all regions
Performance SLAs
Other clouds have >1000x more price points than OCI

Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud

Launched in 2023. First hyperscale sovereign public cloud dedicated to the European Union.

Independent from other Oracle Cloud regions
Regions in Germany and Spain
Managed by teams in 6 EU countries
Dedicated governance committee
Same value, pricing, and customer experience
Access to full suite of 200+ OCI services

Major Announcements

1. OCI Acceleron

Oracle announced Acceleron - featuring fabric accelerators, fabric architectures, and host accelerators to supercharge cloud workloads. Also mentioned Apache Iceberg support.

2. Dedicated Region 25

Announcing General Availability of Dedicated Region 25 - start with just 3 racks and bring the full power of OCI to your own data center.

3. OCI Zettascale10 SuperCluster

The largest AI supercomputer in the cloud:

800,000+ GPUs in one OCI Supercluster
Up to 16 ZFLOPS
1.5 GW power
Oracle Acceleron: 131 PF/s FE, 2.1 EF/s RDMA, <10μs latency

4. OCI Compute with A4 Standard (Ampere)

New A4 Standard instances featuring:

Bare Metal and Flex VMs
96 core AmpereOne M (48 OCPUs)
768 GB DDR5 memory
100 Gbps network

5. Oracle Dynamic Resource VM

A new memory wastage solution - OCI dynamically adjusts resource accessibility in real-time for CPU and Memory, delivering cost savings.

6. Confidential Computing

Securing data in use with confidential computing on NVIDIA B200 GPUs - enabling Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) for AI inference privacy and regulatory compliance.

AI Platform Capabilities

Access to World's Leading AI Models

Frontier models at your fingertips including:

xAI: Grok 4, Grok 4 Fast, Grok Code Fast 1, Grok 3, Grok 3 Mini
OpenAI: O Series, Embedding Models
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick, Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.2 11B, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.2 90B, Llama 3.1 405B
Cohere: Embed 3, Rerank 3.5, Command A, Command R, Command R+
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-lite

AI Database (26ai)

Featuring:

Autonomous Database Catalog
Real Application Security
AI Vector Search

GenAI Agent Platform

Managed, pre-built agents: RAG Agent, SQL Agent, Code Agent
Open source framework compatibility: LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AG, CrewAI

MySQL HeatWave

Transactions, Analytics, and GenAI on the world's most popular open-source database - now introducing MySQL AI with accelerating performance for Analytics, Lakehouse, and AutoML/GenAI.

Multicloud Strategy: Oracle is Everywhere

Oracle highlighted its multicloud approach - "Oracle is in the other clouds":

Oracle AI Database
Exadata Database Service
Autonomous AI Database
Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service
Autonomous AI Lakehouse
GoldenGate

Available on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS.

OCI Multicloud Global Footprint Growth:

2024: 17 locations
2025: 50 locations (+33)
Planned: 72 locations (+22)

Technical Deep Dive and Customer Case Study from Skydance Animation: Borja Gomez & Javier Negro Dieste

A fantastic technical session featuring including announcements mentioned previously, the coolest one the Zettascale10 SuperCluster!

Borja Gomez, Field CTO, Oracle EMEA
Javier Negro Dieste, Supervisor, IT Infrastructure, Skydance Animation

Customer Case Study: Skydance Animation

Skydance Animation shared their cloud journey, showcasing how they use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for their animation production pipeline:

Their History:

2010: Features
2013: Television
2016: Interactive
2017: Animation
2019: New Media
2020: Animation Madrid
2021: Animation East, Skydance Canada, Sports

Cloud Studio Architecture:

Networking with FastConnect to their Madrid data center
Renderfarm running thousands of cores for movie production
GPU Workstations for artists
Storage with high performance, low latency across multiple regions
Technologies: GitLab, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Oracle Cloud, Qumulo, HP Anywhere, Softdrive

Key Benefits:

Any artist, any movie, from anywhere
100% of farm, servers, and storage migrated to cloud in 2025
Geo-distributed storage testing in production
Greater flexibility for GPU workstations
Migration from traditional on-premise to Oracle Kubernetes Engine

Hands-On Experience: Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure

At the demo area, I got to see the Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure - a rugged, portable cloud solution that brings OCI capabilities to the edge. Dulce Nieto demoed this one to us. This hardware showcases Oracle's commitment to meeting customers wherever their data needs to be. I really liked the device, If I could have one for my homelab...

Key Takeaways

AI is Oracle's Priority: From infrastructure to database to applications, AI is woven into every Oracle offering

Multicloud is Reality: Oracle's strategy of being present in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud removes barriers for enterprises

Scale Matters: The Zettascale10 SuperCluster with 800,000+ GPUs shows Oracle is serious about AI infrastructure

Customer Success: Real stories from Grupo Bimbo and Skydance Animation demonstrate practical cloud adoption

Executive Commitment: Having Mike Sicilia and multiple SVPs present shows Oracle's dedication to the AI World Tour

Final Thoughts

Oracle AI World Tour 2026 was an energizing event that showcased the future of enterprise AI. The combination of major product announcements, executive insights, customer stories, and hands-on demos made for a pretty cool experience.

If you have the opportunity to attend an Oracle AI World Tour stop, I highly recommend it!