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PkOUG Pakistan Oracle User Group

Pakistan · Oracle community · Non-profit

The home for Oracle professionals in Pakistan.

PkOUG connects DBAs, Apps DBAs, APEX developers, cloud engineers, students and employers across the Oracle ecosystem — through shared knowledge, mentorship, Oracle ACE guidance and a directory of verified professionals.

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Membership and sponsorship income is reinvested into seminars, learning sessions, meetups and community operations.

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For professionals

Join as a member

Create your profile, choose a plan, verify your email and become visible in the community directory.

For students

Learn and grow

Use the Student plan, follow community content and explore mentoring through the Oracle ACE journey.

For visitors

Read the latest

Browse the member directory, discover sponsors and read community articles and updates.

About

A stronger network through community, collaboration and professional development

PkOUG connects Oracle practitioners across Pakistan — from database and applications specialists to cloud engineers, students and the organisations that employ them.

Oracle Database professionals

DBAs working with RAC, Data Guard, performance, backup and recovery.

Apps DBAs & ERP teams

E-Business Suite, Fusion, middleware, identity and enterprise applications.

APEX & builders

Developers, integration engineers and low-code teams using Oracle technology.

OCI & cloud engineers

Infrastructure, security, cloud migration and platform operations.

Students & newcomers

Learners who want structured community access, mentoring and a visible start.

Sponsors & employers

Organisations funding community enablement in return for defined, time-bound recognition.

Learn more about PkOUG View board members

Why join

What membership gives you

PkOUG is open to everyone in the Oracle ecosystem — students taking their first certification, DBAs and developers with decades behind them, applications professionals, Oracle ACEs, and people working at Oracle customers and Oracle partner firms.

A verified profile

A published profile in the member directory, so employers and peers can find you by skill, role and city. Every profile is approved and payment-verified — you choose exactly which contact details appear.

Oracle ACE guidance

Practical help understanding the Oracle ACE Program and building towards it — what counts as contribution, and how to get there from where you are now.

Special Interest Groups

Focused tracks around the part of the stack you actually work in. You can propose and lead one — SIGs here are started by members, not handed down.

A platform for your writing

Publish technical write-ups and event recaps to a Pakistani Oracle audience, and build a public record of what you know.

A community being built now

PkOUG is early, and that is the opportunity. Joining now shapes how the group works — what it runs, who it serves and what it stands for.

Non-profit, reinvested

Membership and sponsorship income funds seminars, learning sessions, meetups and community operations. There are no shareholders.

Membership

Join as a member

Choose a plan and register your profile. You will receive an email verification link and, for paid plans, payment instructions. An administrator reviews every submission before it appears publicly.

Paid plans continue through email verification, payment proof submission and administrator validation. Membership runs for 365 days and can be renewed.

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Primary skills

Select up to six. These appear on your profile card and power directory filters.

By registering you agree to receive transactional emails from PkOUG for verification and membership updates.

How it works

From registration to a published profile

  1. Register

    Submit your details and a profile photo. Confirmation and verification emails arrive immediately.

  2. Verify your email

    Click the link we send you. This proves the address is yours before anything is published.

  3. Payment & review

    For paid plans, upload your bank transfer proof. An administrator validates the payment and reviews your profile.

  4. Published

    Once approved, verified and paid, your profile appears in the public member directory.

Member directory

People in the community

PkOUG has 2 verified members — DBAs, developers, cloud engineers and students across Pakistan. The directory is open to members, so you can search by skill, role and city once you join.

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Profiles are approved, email-verified and payment-validated before they appear, and each member chooses which contact details are shown.

Special Interest Groups

Go deep in the area you work in

SIGs are focused groups where practitioners share problems, patterns and experience within one part of the Oracle stack.

Oracle Database

RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, performance and platform engineering.

Oracle APEX

Low-code application development, PL/SQL and integration.

Explore all SIGs Propose a new SIG

Oracle ACE

Understand the ACE journey — and get guidance

Learn what the Oracle ACE Program recognises, what contributions count, and how practitioners in Pakistan can build towards it. Submit your profile and PKOUG volunteers will give you feedback on where to focus.

Learn about Oracle ACE Request guidance

Contribute

Speak, volunteer or lead a group

PKOUG runs on the people in it. Share what you have learned at a session, help organise community activities, or propose and lead a Special Interest Group in your area of the Oracle stack.

Propose a SIG Offer to speak

Sponsors

Sponsor Pakistan's Oracle community

Sponsorship funds community enablement — the platform, content, meetups and learning tracks — and gives sponsors visibility with practitioners across the Oracle ecosystem.

Current sponsors

Annual sponsorship packages

Silver, Gold and Platinum are annual packages. Event, programme, venue, refreshment, recording and in-kind sponsorships carry no tier and are agreed with the team — see all the options.

Silver

PKR 350,000/yr

Gold

PKR 750,000/yr

Platinum

PKR 1,000,000/yr

Custom

Custom

Become a sponsor See current sponsors Talk to the team

Partners & alliances

Collaborate with PkOUG

A partnership is a documented, mutually beneficial collaboration — not a package. Universities, other user groups, professional institutions, publications and organisations across the Oracle ecosystem work with us on education, knowledge exchange, professional development and community reach.

What a partnership is

A collaboration agreed in writing, with a purpose, agreed activities and a review date. Partners are listed by category — academic, community alliance, media and outreach and so on — never by tier.

Partners & Alliances

What it is not

It is not bought. There is no Silver, Gold or Platinum partnership, no invoice and no payment step. An organisation that funds our work is a sponsor, and an organisation may be both — recorded as two separate relationships.

Propose a collaboration

PkOUG has not yet approved and published a formal partnership. We would rather say so than list organisations we do not have a documented arrangement with.

Governance

How PkOUG is run

PkOUG is a non-profit, community-first user group. It is deliberately early: the board is being finalised as part of the revitalisation and will be announced with clear roles and responsibilities.

Until then, decisions are made openly by the organising team and the group is run on the same principle as everything else here — nothing claimed that is not true. Membership and sponsorship income is reinvested into community activity.

Board & governance Vision & mission

Stay connected

Follow the community as it grows

Most of what happens next — sessions, SIG activity, new write-ups — is announced in these groups first.

LinkedIn group

The main channel for announcements, and the easiest place to reach Oracle professionals across Pakistan.

Facebook group

Discussion and questions, with a lower barrier for students and people new to the ecosystem.

Prefer email? Write to info@pkoug.org — the contact details below reach the same team.

Contact

Questions about membership, sponsorship or speaking?

Email the team and we will get back to you. For payment queries, use the payments address so it reaches the right people directly.

info@pkoug.org payments@pkoug.org