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Rich Niemiec
Full Name
ACE Director
Top Level Details
Job Role
CIO
Company
Viscosity North America
Country
United States
Top Expertise
AI Vector Search
Focus Area
Database
About Rich
Rich Niemiec is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Viscosity North America. Rich is an Oracle Ace Director, a world renowned IT Expert, and was a co-founder and the CEO of TUSC. He then served as President of Rolta TUSC and Rolta EICT. Rich is the past President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the current President of the Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG). Rich has architected and tuned many Fortune 500 systems over the past 25 years. His experience in data processing ranges from teaching to consulting, with emphasis in database administration, performance tuning, project management and technical education. Rich is one of six originally honored worldwide Oracle Certified Masters and advised Oracle development from time to time. In 2017, he authored the Oracle Best Seller “Oracle12c Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques,” an update of his previous 4 Oracle Best Sellers on Oracle8i, 9i, 10g, and 11i Performance Tuning. Rich was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 1998.
Expertises
AI Vector Search
AI/ML
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Autonomous Database
Autonomous JSON Database
Converged Database
Database 19c
Database 23ai
Database Administrator (DBA)
Home Page
https://www.viscosityna.com
Oracle Community
https://community.oracle.com/tech/developers/profile/Richard%20Niemiec
Links
Latest Contributions
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What you Missed at Oracle AI World at 10:15-11 am (Room 224)
Mar 27, 2026 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - UTOUG Training Days 2026
AI Vector Search
AI/ML
AI Infrastructure
Database 26ai
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Leveraging the Vector Database & AI Panel at 2:30-3:15 pm (Room 105)
Mar 27, 2026 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - UTOUG Training Days 2026
AI Infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI/ML
AI Vector Search
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Building an Agent on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
Mar 12, 2026 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - RMOUG Training Days 2026 (March 12, 2026)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
AI/ML
AI Vector Search
Database 26ai
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Business Applications of Oracle's AI & ML Tools
Mar 12, 2026 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - RMOUG Training Days 2026 (March 12, 2026)
E-Business Suite (EBS)
AI/ML
AI Vector Search
Autonomous Database
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Oracle GenAI, VectorDB & Agentic-AI
Dec 12, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - 2025 DBT Oracle Database December Meet-Up
AI Vector Search
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
AI/ML
Autonomous Database
AI Infrastructure
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Building an Agent inside OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
Nov 18, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - Quest Oracle Cloud Summit
AI Vector Search
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
AI/ML
AI Infrastructure
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Oracle GenAI, VectorDB & Agents
Nov 04, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - NYOUG (New York Oracle Users Group)
AI/ML
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Vector Search
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Oracle GenAI, VectorDB with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) & Agents
Oct 22, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - ODTUG Virtual Event
AI/ML
Database 23ai
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Vector Search
AI Infrastructure
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Rapid ChatBot Development with Oracle AI Optimizer and Toolkit [HOL2805]
Oct 15, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - Oracle AI World 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI/ML
AI Vector Search
Optimizer
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Database, Observability and AI—Stories You Haven't Heard [PAN3676]
Oct 14, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - Oracle AI World 2025
Observability and Management Platform
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Database 23ai
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Speaker Panel at Lunch
Sep 12, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - MOUG/COUG Conference
AI Vector Search
Database 23ai
AI/ML
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