Laura Calin is Senior Vice President, Consumer Industries at Oracle, leading the strategic vision, go-to-market, and customer experience for Oracle’s Hospitality, Retail, and Restaurants portfolio. With 30+ years of experience across hospitality technology, product management, and global business development, she is recognized as a transformative leader in the industry. Laura began her career at MICROS/Oracle on the development team and played an instrumental role in bringing the OPERA Enterprise Suite to market, orchestrating its global expansion to more than 200 countries. Over her tenure, she has held leadership roles spanning development, product management, consulting, operations, and sales engineering. More recently, Laura helped redefine how hospitality technology ecosystems integrate and innovate by introducing the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP)—enabling partners and customers to build and scale integrations around OPERA Cloud with greater choice, faster innovation, and simpler connectivity. Laura serves on the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Board of Directors and is a member of the AHLA/HTNG Global Technology 100 (T100) community. In 2024, she received Hospitality Technology’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She holds a master’s degree in mathematics and IT from the West University of Timisoara, Romania.