One of Oracle’s APEX Team slides was:

What do APEX Developers do? We deliver.

Let’s see what delivering looks like now and how it will look in the future.

Here’s a recap of my KSCOPE25 conference, held from June 14 to 18, 2025, in Grapevine, Texas, USA.

Don’t expect sophisticated sentences generated by AI - just the key points written by me, along with some session slide screenshots.

Day 1 - Oracle APEX Team Announcements

At the beginning, it is worth saying that there are five key themes on the APEX roadmap:

• Generative Development and AI

• User Experience

• Developer Experience

• Enterprise Readiness

• Community Ideas

Freshly introduced Official APEX Newsletter

This is something new - a monthly digest featuring customer stories, blog posts, upcoming events, and more. Check this → link

Oracle APEX Courses and Certification

• Empowering Low-Code APEX Apps with AI

• Oracle APEX Developer Professional

And after that, get certified!

Updated Hands-On Labs

• Smart Project Management App with AI-Assisted Development in Oracle APEX

• Build your own Online Bookstore App with Oracle APEX

• All available labs

The Oracle APEX Application Development Lifecycle Technical Paper

The document has been updated and is now available here.

A preview of What’s Next

• Parallel Flow for APEX Workflows

• Workflow Console enhancements

• New Font APEX Icons 2.5

• Declarative Dynamic Action Support for Actions, Menus and Buttons

• Paste into the Interactive grid

• APEXLang support - a new human-readable format for APEX applications designed for version control and AI processing

• Quick Picks based on SQL query

• Natural Language Support for Interactive Reports

• Content Security Policy (CSP) - making APEX even safer.

Mobile Roadmap

• contact picker

• offline support

• passkeys authentication

• ..and many more coming soon

Pattern pages, new Application Types and Page Types.

This is something I really like. New app types and page types will enhance APEX.

Those features will provide reusable page templates that integrate with the Create Page Wizard, enabling consistent design patterns across applications. The Global Repository will be a place to keep centralised standards.

Coming soon in Universal Theme

• Expanded grouping support for Template Components

• New Font APEX Icons

Data Reporter

It will enable business users to create reports through natural language queries, eliminating the need to write SQL. This reduces reporting workload on development teams.

APEX Advisor

This is an excellent feature in current APEX releases, but we all know that it should work better.

And guess what. It will.

Coming soon, Advisor features:

• live checks - my favourite one, as we should validate our apps during development, not at the end of it ( then it’s usually too late)

• notifications

• automatic fixes

Days 2-5 - all great sessions of Kscope presenters

It is impossible to fully describe all the great sessions I’ve attended. I will provide a brief recap of those sessions, one day at a time. You're doing great work by sharing your knowledge!

Day 2 - Monday, June 16th

This day focused on JavaScript debugging techniques, with Giliam Breems demonstrating practical APEX debugging methods. Kevin Herrarte demonstrated pixel-perfect UI/UX customisation approaches. Moritz Klein demonstrated how Oracle Text provides powerful full-text search capabilities available in all database editions since Oracle 8.

That was also my day when I presented my session “Oracle’s SQLcl CI/Cd bombshell: It will forever change your APEX & Database deployments”. Thank you to all who attended!

Day 3 - Tuesday, June 17th

Heavy day with development standards from Rodolfo Rodriguez, security tools coverage by Lino Schildenfield, and containerization with Scott Spendolini. Adrian Png covered OCI Identity Domains integration. Louis Moreaux showed server-side JavaScript capabilities in APEX with Database 23ai. Solid technical content across multiple areas.

Day 4 - Wednesday, June 18th

Advanced technical sessions with Emanuel Cifuentes on AJAX callbacks, Jonathan Dixon on LOVs and background APEX processes. Karen Cannell explained APEX’s OPEN_QUERY_CONTEXT functionality. Martin D'Souza presented CI/CD approaches. High-level technical deep dives.

Day 5 - Thursday, June 19th

This day was wrapped up with Lightning Rounds and Closing Awards Brunch

The entertainment part of Kscope

As usual, KSCOPE is packed with many events organised by ODTUG or private companies.

Can’t write a lot about it - you need to see it next year :)

Summary

APEX is evolving every day, and everything is moving in one direction: making things easier, better, faster, and… enhanced with AI.

So getting back to one of the first sentences:

What do APEX Developers do? We deliver.

Question is: “Do we? Or AI is doing it for us?”

On one of the non-APEX presentations, I noticed an interesting quote:

AI will not replace your job. Someone using AI can.

Draw your conclusions :)

Cheers

PS Wondering about the cover image? Looks like a raven, but it’s not even related to it. It’s Quiscalus mexicanus - very popular in the Texas area.