Recently, I joined many colleagues at Oracle Cloud World in New York and delivered a session on Oracle Analytics. This event provides an out-of-the-ordinary environment for me to connect with prospects, customers, and partners to learn about their use of analytics and their plans for the future. At the event, I spent some time with one of our global client advisors for a large multinational customer and talked strategy about his clients' plans for an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform to support marketing analytics efforts. I also spoke with the analytics leader at a well-known higher-education institution; we discussed ways to segment its diverse population of analytics consumers as well as the prioritization of strategic needs for analytics--both important for updating the institution's analytics roadmap for the next five years. I also enjoyed getting feedback from attendees on our session's content.