Migrating to SAP S/4HANA isn’t optional, it’s inevitable for ECC users. And if you haven’t started, you’re already behind given these projects can take well over a year. So it’s a must to plan sooner rather than later – not just due to inflated costs, but also because you’ll harness more strategic opportunities out of the gate.

This session addresses six unvarnished truths about migration, from the hidden costs of dirty data to missing out on the power of tax process automation and integration. We’ll also explore why leveraging SAP Document and Reporting Compliance with natively integrated U.S. return generation is essential for global statutory reporting and adapting to ever-changing regulations.

Don’t just migrate—transform.

What you’ll learn:

• The tip of the iceberg: 6 truths about migrations that are MUSTS to consider.
• How SAP DRC with natively integrated U.S. tax automation unlocks efficiency, audit readiness and the ability to adapt to ever-changing regulations around the globe.

As organizations move to SAP S/4HANA and adopt cloud-first strategies, achieving a Clean Core—across custom code, configuration, and business processes—has become essential to reducing complexity and minimizing technical debt. Yet finding the right balance between standardization and the flexibility your business needs can be challenging.

AI is changing the equation. By applying AI to analyze customizations, streamline processes, and guide modernization decisions, organizations can accelerate their path to a Clean Core and sustain it more effectively. This approach goes beyond ABAP code remediation, enabling a broader transformation of both technical and operational layers of the SAP environment.

In this session, you will:

• Understand how AI accelerates progress toward achieving and maintaining a Clean Core.
• Discover Practical ways to use AI to identify, manage, and minimize custom code.
• Learn how AI can streamline and standardize end to end business processes.
• Discover techniques to future proof your SAP landscape with AI while keeping technical debt low.

Rumpke Inc., an early adopter of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), leverages SAC Planning to enable full xP&A across the enterprise. In this session, see how Rumpke executes a rolling 24-month, continuous forecasting process using an exception-based planning experience. Learn how more than 40 integrated planning functions support everything from HR and Capex to industry-specific needs such as logistics hauling, waste disposal, and fleet maintenance within a uniquely complex operation that blends logistics, construction, landfill management, and recycling. 

You will learn: 

• How to enable continuous, rolling 24-month forecasting using an exception-based planning approach.
• How extensive xP&A planning connects every aspect of operations, from core business functions to industry-specific processes at a detailed level.
• Key lessons from implementing SAP Analytics Cloud Planning in a highly complex, multi-industry environment.

This session explores how intelligent agents can interact, negotiate, and execute decisions in real time, reducing manual intervention and enhancing agility. We’ll dive into the technical architecture for enabling agentic interoperability using SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP Joule, alongside non-SAP agents and platforms. You’ll learn how to design secure APIs, event-driven microservices, and shared data contracts that facilitate seamless cross-agent communication across organizational boundaries. Key topics include multi-agent orchestration, reinforcement learning for decision alignment, and governance frameworks that ensure trust, auditability, and human oversight. Real-world use cases span from autonomous planning agents to cross-system negotiation and dynamic resource allocation—demonstrating how agentic ecosystems can enable agility at scale across any enterprise domain.

You will: 

• Understand the architecture and principles of Agentic A2A across SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Learn how to leverage A2A to enable autonomous agent collaboration.
• Explore event-driven and API-based frameworks for scalable, interoperable for communication.
• Examine governance, security, and audit models for multi-agent decision-making and oversight.

Explore how Agentic AI is transforming SAP S/4HANA by autonomously executing, orchestrating, and optimizing business workflows. 
Step through real-world use cases and demos for insight into: 

• Practical use cases across the line of business that deliver measurable business value.
• How to design, build, and embed SAP AI agents seamlessly into SAP S/4HANA to accelerate intelligent enterprise outcomes.

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept in Accounts Payable - it’s already redefining what “efficient” looks like in SAP. In this session, learn how AI-powered invoice automation with xSuite is moving AP teams closer to truly touchless processing - without compromising control, compliance, or SAP Clean Core principles.
We’ll show how AI-driven invoice recognition and advanced capture lay the foundation for scalable, future-proof AP processes embedded directly in SAP. You’ll see how higher automation rates, better data quality, and fewer exceptions translate into faster cycle times and measurable operational gains.
A special highlight is the Copilot of the future: an intelligent assistant that doesn’t just react, but actively supports AP teams - guiding decisions, handling routine tasks, and helping users focus on what really matters.
Experience a live walkthrough of AI-enabled, end-to-end invoice processing with minimal manual touchpoints - and see how organizations are freeing up AP teams for higher-value, strategic work.

Key takeaways:

• How AI enables higher automation rates and more consistent, touchless AP processes.
• How intelligent capture improves data quality and reduces exceptions.
• How an AI Copilot can actively support AP users and eliminate routine work.
• What measurable efficiency gains look like in AI-driven AP operations.

See how PwC used LLMs in their SAP S/4 HANA implementation to automate enterprise role design, reduce manual mapping by weeks, improve accuracy, and drive compliance. Get AI-driven best practices, key insights, and strategies to speed up ERP role-based access and scale effectively.

In this session, you will:

• Reframe enterprise role design as a data-led governance problem. Learn how a large technology company and PwC turned raw process and requirement data into “decision-grade” role intelligence by structuring 70,000+ process items into a governed L1 to L5 BPML foundation. 
• Use LLMs to shift workshops from discovery to validation. See how evidence-linked, confidence-scored recommendations produced workshop-ready role proposals, moving stakeholder time from “what do we do?” to “is this right?” and compressing cycle time from weeks to days. 
• Scale role mapping across SAP and non-SAP with traceability. Understand a practical approach to map activities to entitlements across a heterogeneous landscape (SAP plus non-SAP) while keeping every recommendation traceable back to a source activity or requirement. 
• Strengthen governance, risk, and compliance in access management. Discover how AI-driven insights supported more consistent role definitions, improved segregation-of-duties considerations, and enhanced visibility across the access model.

As organizations pivot toward becoming "intelligent enterprises," Enterprise Architects are at the forefront of AI-driven transformation. This session addresses the challenge of integrating AI capabilities—not as isolated features, but as foundational elements—across the enterprise technology stack to create truly adaptive and responsive business environments. You’ll learn how to embed AI across architecture layers using SAP tools like Joule, Knowledge Graphs, and Business AI — enabling adaptive, intelligent enterprises ready for the next wave of innovation.

Learn how to:

• Embed AI across enterprise layers using SAP tools.
• Develop resilient, flexible architectural blueprints that accommodate continuous AI innovation and future technological shifts.
• See real-world use cases driving AI-first transformation.

Many organizations today have no shortage of AI ideas—but lack a clear strategy for where AI belongs across the enterprise and how it should transform the way the business operates. In this 90-minute interactive session, find out how CIOs, enterprise architects, and business leaders can frame an enterprise AI strategy that embeds intelligence directly into core business processes across SAP landscapes and cloud platforms. Rather than focusing on isolated use-cases, the session introduces a practical approach to identifying high-impact opportunities across value streams, aligning them with enterprise architecture, and building a roadmap toward intelligent operations. Through real examples, demonstrations, and discussion, attendees will gain a clear framework for moving from scattered AI experiments to AI embedded across the enterprise.

Hear how Merck, a global leader in healthcare, science, and technology, has developed a cyber resilience strategy for their SAP S/4HANA Cloud environment using Zero Trust principles in the S/4HANA Private Cloud. Lessons learned emphasize collaboration, proactive security, SAP and partner technologies, user engagement, and an understanding of shared responsibilities. By attending this session, attendees will leave with ideas to strengthen their security posture and address evolving cyber threats in the SAP S/4HANA environment.

Community is a three-legged stool made up of Events, Platform, and Omnipresence (meeting members where they are). AI reshapes how people interact, but not why they gather. 
Taking place in the Brew Park during Pub Night in the Exhibit Hall, this session discusses how the SAP Community was formed, where it is now, and what its future looks like in a human-human, member-focused world. 

• AI reshapes how people interact, but not why they gather.
• As AI scales content, trust becomes the differentiator.
• The future is not AI vs humans. It’s AI accelerating connection.

AI is flooding SAP access governance, but most implementations amount to little more than chatbots with big promises. This session draws from Pathlock research and highlights three AI use cases that are delivering real business value today. You’ll see how agentic AI can recommend access risk remediation in seconds and detect high-risk privileged activity up to 5 times faster than human review.

Key learning objectives:

• Accelerate Privileged Activity Reviews: Leverage agentic AI to detect high-risk activity during Firefighter sessions up to 5 times faster than human review.
• Automate Remediation with Intelligent Recommendations: Use AI-driven Access Risk Analysis to generate remediation suggestions in seconds. 
• Optimize User Access Reviews (UAR) with Predictive Insights: Transition from manual, spreadsheet-based reviews to risk-aware automation.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud has matured significantly, yet many organizations still approach “Public vs. Private” with outdated assumptions. This session cuts through the noise to clarify what truly differentiates SAP S/4HANA Public and Private Cloud today, with a focus across functionality, extensibility, integration, and operational effectiveness. We’ll examine how SAP’s clean core strategy, innovation cycle, and industry scope shape each deployment model in practice. Attendees will gain a pragmatic view of where Public Cloud has closed historical gaps and where Private Cloud continues to offer strategic flexibility. The discussion emphasizes real decision drivers including business agility, transformation appetite, regulatory needs, and IT operating model, rather than myths rooted in ECC-era thinking. The goal is not to declare a winner, but to enable informed, confident choices aligned to business outcomes.

In this session, you will:

• Differentiate Public vs. Private Cloud beyond marketing capabilities, constraints, and trade-offs that matter in real projects.
• Identify the business and IT drivers that signal when Public Cloud is viable versus when Private Cloud is the better strategic fit.
• Evaluate clean core, extensibility, and integration options and how they impact long-term cost, upgrades, and innovation.
• Understand operational and governance implications, including release cycles, customization approaches, and compliance considerations.
• Apply a practical decision framework to guide executive conversations and roadmap planning for SAP S/4HANA adoption.

This session provides a comprehensive overview of how new version of SAP GRC for SAP HANA 1.0 operates, equipping participants with the essential knowledge to plan, implement, and optimize GRC functionalities on this new release. We will highlight new capabilities,  improvements, and discuss prerequisites, deployment considerations, and common challenges. Attendees will gain clarity on how Access Control, Process Control, and Risk Management leverage HANA’s in-memory capabilities, as well as the implications for upgrades, integrations, and future scalability. By the end of the session, participants will understand the key benefits, technical impacts, and best practices for running SAP GRC for SAP HANA 1.0.

In this keynote, John Register shares a powerful perspective on resilience drawn from a life defined by unexpected challenges and remarkable perseverance. A former four-time All-American track and field athlete and two-time Olympic Trials qualifier, Register’s life changed following a training accident that resulted in the loss of his leg and the end of his Olympic and military careers. He later returned to elite competition, earning a silver medal in the long jump at the Sydney Paralympic Games. Drawing on these experiences and his work advising senior U.S. government leaders on resilience and transition, Register shares lessons for performing under pressure, navigating profound change, and moving forward with purpose.

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in SAP landscapes, it becomes essential to understand where different Joule capabilities apply across application development, extensibility, and automation, including how responsibilities shift across teams. 

Attend this session to: 

• Distinguish between Joule for Developers and Joule Studio, including differences in purpose, timing, and ownership across development and extensibility scenarios.
• Understand how Joule for Developers is embedded into tools such as SAP Build and ABAP Cloud to accelerate design-time development tasks without changing application architecture.
• Examine how Joule Studio enables SAP teams to create, structure, and govern AI-powered skills and agents that execute business actions across SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Identify which roles and use cases are best suited for development.

As enterprises accelerate their transformation journeys, the role of the SAP Enterprise Architect is rapidly evolving; from maintaining system integrity to enabling innovation at scale. This session explores how to unlock agility, extensibility, and intelligence across the enterprise without compromising the clean core. Through real-world design patterns, we’ll examine how to leverage SAP BTP, composable architecture principles, and AI-enablement including SAP Joule to architect resilient, future-ready systems. You’ll gain practical insights into balancing side-by-side extensibility with on-stack stability, embedding automation into business processes, and enforcing innovation guardrails that scale. Whether you're navigating RISE with SAP, enabling modular business capabilities, or shaping your enterprise AI strategy, this session offers a blueprint for advancing the enterprise while staying grounded in architectural discipline.

Key Takeaways:

• Frameworks for clean core extensibility and composable architecture.
• Use cases for embedding agentic AI, SAP Build, and automation in business workflows.
• Strategies for governing innovation without slowing it down.
• Integration design patterns for hybrid, event-driven, and cross-platform ecosystems.

This peer-led session tears up the conventional career ladder and offers an authentic look at the diverse and often unexpected routes professionals have taken to reach the architect and enterprise architect chairs and beyond. Join us for a collaborative forum where established architects open up about their personal career trajectories—the pivotal moments, the unexpected detours, key mentors, and the skills that truly made a difference. This is an interactive discussion where every attendee is invited to share their own experiences and insights. Whether you’re an aspiring architect planning your next move or a seasoned enterprise architect charting your future path, this session offers invaluable collective wisdom and networking opportunities to help define your professional journey.

You will:

• Learn from candid accounts of how peers navigated their way from developer, engineer, or analyst roles into senior architectural positions.
• Contribute your own experiences, challenges, and advice in a supportive, peer-to-peer environment.
• Discuss potential future career avenues, emerging roles for architects, and the evolving skill sets needed for long-term relevance.

This interactive workshop moves beyond traditional presentations to focus on practical, peer-driven problem solving for today’s most pressing architectural challenges. Bring your own real-world architectural challenges and questions – whether it's a nagging technical debt issue, a tricky integration problem, or a strategy for aligning a technical solution with broader business goals - or just join in on the discussions to help others. Come prepared to collaborate, challenge assumptions, and leave with concrete ideas and a fresh perspective on your toughest architectural hurdles.

You will:

• Exchange practical knowledge and experiences with peers in a trusted environment.
• Brainstorm and develop actionable strategies to solve complex architectural problems.
• Identify decision criteria for addressing technical debt while keeping transformation programs on track.
• Understand how enterprise architecture choices support business priorities, governance models, and long-term platform strategy.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered: SAP Analytics Roadmap & Strategy, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Architectures & Licensing, Modernizing Legacy Data Warehouses /SAP BW Modernization, Enterprise Data Architecture and AI-enabled Analytics, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, and Advance Analytics Architecture with AI/ML.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: SAP Access Control, SAP Cloud IAG, and SAP Security.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: SAP S/4HANA Migrations, SAP Cloud ERP, Joule, Finance Transformation

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: AI in finance; Deploying AI on SAP BTP; SAP S/4HANA Business Case Development.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: SAP Cloud ALM, RISE with SAP, Solution Architecture, and IT Project Coordination

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered:
Enterprise Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Self-Service and AI-Ready Analytics, ECC to S/4 HANA Data Migration, Datasphere, and Data Integration

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: SAP S/4HANA Brownfield Upgrade Security, Fiori Security Governance, SoD-Compliant Role Design, and RISE Licensing Optimization.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered:
SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud, Data & Analytics Strategy, and Business Intelligence.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: SAP GRC, SAP Security, Segregation of Duties (SoD), user provisioning, access control and governance, corporate compliance"

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: Treasury, Cash Management, and Electronic Banking.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: Modern SAP integration strategies; API-led and event-driven connectivity; Integration governance.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: SAP S/4HANA Value Realization, Production Planning in SAP S/4HANA, Supply Chain Management

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered:
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), S/4HANA & New G/L Migrations, SLO and SAP Data Re-organization, Complex Integration & Conversion Engagements.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: Material Ledger, Margin Analysis, Universal Journal, Universal Parallel Accounting

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered:
Enterprise Architecture and Transformation Strategy, SAP in the Cloud Modernization, AI Strategy, Embedding AI into Core Business Processes, Connecting Capability-based Planning, Transformation, and Customer Experience.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered: SAP BTP, Integration, User Experience, Implementation, and Process Automation.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities. 

Topics covered: SAP Financials, Order-to-CASH, SAP S/4HANA, FI/CO modules, Complex Data Conversions, Reporting, AR, ML, Currency Conversion

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: Zero Trust, Private Cloud ERP Security aligned to SAP Shared Responsibility

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: Cybersecurity, Authentication (SSO and MFA), Threat detection, Audit and Compliance, and Patch Management.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered: SAP Business AI, AI Consumption and Licensing, and SAP BTP.

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics Covered: Value Chain Reporting, Cross-Entity Margin Analysis, Cost Simulation & Scenario Planning, and Financial Data Harmonization

Attend this session for insight into why many SAP S/4HANA and AI initiatives fail to deliver the agility, visibility, and business value organizations expect, and how common execution breakdowns undermine outcomes despite significant investment.

Key learning objectives: 

• Identify the most frequent failure points that limit value realization in SAP S/4HANA and AI programs.
• Prevent issues such as incorrect configuration, inconsistent master data, and process behaviors misaligned with standard SAP S/4HANA functionality.
• Align processes, data, and planning practices to support stable execution and operational agility.
• Apply a practical blueprint to position SAP S/4HANA as a business asset that delivers measurable operational and financial results.

The future of work is evolving at unprecedented speed, and organizations that harness AI-powered transformation are pulling ahead. A new model is emerging—the Frontier Firm—where human ambition is amplified by AI agents to unlock entirely new levels of productivity, agility, and value creation. In this session, we explore how AI agents are moving beyond automation to become active contributors within the enterprise, augmenting human capabilities and enabling outcome-based work models that replace rigid hierarchies. Frontier Firms are organizing around results, not roles, empowering dynamic teams that adapt in real time as business needs change.

Attendees will learn why fragmented AI tools limit scale, and how integrated AI ecosystems accelerate adoption across functions while maintaining trust. We’ll also examine why governance, security, and responsible AI are no longer back-office concerns, but strategic enablers of sustainable transformation.

Key takeaways:

• AI agents are redefining productivity by augmenting human work and removing traditional capacity limits.
• Outcome-based work models enable faster, more adaptive teams aligned to business results.
• Integrated, secure AI foundations are essential to scale innovation responsibly and competitively.
• Frontier Firms aren’t waiting for the future of work - they’re building it now.

This session examines the day-to-day activities required to keep applications running in production on SAP BTP, including practical guidance to monitor application health, manage access and security, handle operational changes, and maintain stability.

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Run applications on SAP BTP in production using a clear operating model.
• Set up baseline monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility for live applications.
• Align responsibilities between SAP-managed platform services and customer-owned applications, including variations by runtime and connectivity model.
• Apply governance, security, and entitlement controls to support stable operations at scale.

Discover how companies are adopting and deriving value from SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) as an extension to their SAP application landscape. Learn how SAP’s BTP Adoption Framework can help enable you to be a future-ready enterprise and what leading companies around the globe are doing to drive process innovation.

The 2027 SAP ECC deadline is fast approaching, but it’s more than a compliance milestone. Successful migrations require clarity, shared ownership, and the foresight to treat transformation as a business strategy. In this session, we’ll share real-world case studies showing how organizations have avoided common pitfalls, strengthened operations, and built a future-ready digital core. You’ll leave with practical lessons to navigate your own journey with confidence and turn migration into a launchpad for growth.

In this session, you will:

• Understand how to approach migration as a catalyst for growth.
• Hear how to avoid common pitfalls that hold organizations back.
• Review customer examples for insight into migration best practices.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.

This session examines what it takes to move AI from early prototypes through pilots and into scalable, measurable business value across SAP environments. Attendees will learn how organizations assess which early ideas are worth advancing, sequence AI initiatives as maturity increases, and establish clear ownership as solutions move into live operations. Explore where organizations are seeing the strongest returns today, what differentiates high-impact initiatives from stalled efforts, and how adoption, trust, and governance shape AI outcomes at each stage. Gain practical insight into applying guardrails, managing risk as AI scales, and building the business case for continued investment using results that resonate with both technical and business stakeholders. Walk away with a clearer, end-to-end understanding of how to progress AI initiatives from experimentation to sustained enterprise value.

In this workshop, participants are guided through the process of building a clear and defensible business case for an SAP S/4HANA transformation, including the key financial, operational, and strategic decisions that shape program success.

Attendees will come away equipped with the knowledge to:

• Build a clear and defensible SAP S/4HANA business case that aligns scope, deployment model, costs, risks, and expected outcomes.
• Evaluate deployment options, cloud incentives, subscription models, and key contract terms using structured decision criteria.
• Assess readiness gaps, risk factors, and operational impacts associated with different transformation choices.
• Develop a concise, board-level readout that communicates value, justifies decisions, and frames the transformation in outcome-driven terms.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

This lab teaches participants how to use Joule Studio to turn application logic, services, and workflows into AI-powered capabilities that execute structured business actions. 

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Build a custom Joule skill in Joule Studio by packaging application logic, services, and workflows into a working business action.
• Configure and test a Joule agent and determine when agent-based execution is appropriate compared to a skill.
• Apply grounding, input controls, and execution constraints to produce consistent, predictable results.
• Connect skills and agents to SAP and non-SAP systems to execute an end-to-end business scenario.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

This lab teaches participants how to use Joule Studio to turn application logic, services, and workflows into AI-powered capabilities that execute structured business actions. 

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Build a custom Joule skill in Joule Studio by packaging application logic, services, and workflows into a working business action.
• Configure and test a Joule agent and determine when agent-based execution is appropriate compared to a skill.
• Apply grounding, input controls, and execution constraints to produce consistent, predictable results.
• Connect skills and agents to SAP and non-SAP systems to execute an end-to-end business scenario.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Creating a data model within SAP Analytics Cloud or any SaaS Analytics tool is the hardest part of building stories or dashboards. This technical session provides actionable techniques and tips for developing data sets for your Analytics platforms that won't be found in any manual.

You will learn:

• Why building a good model is the hardest part of any BI project.
• The concept of  ‘dimensionality of data’ and why it’s so important for building a good model.
• A little-known trick to reduce the size of large data sets.
• Some essential SQL functions you won't find anywhere else.
• When it’s better to use standard reporting tools like Business Objects or others.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

This hands-on lab guides attendees through building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scenario using SAP HANA Vector Engine to ground generative AI responses in trusted enterprise data. Participants will work through a guided, end-to-end exercise that demonstrates how semantic search and vector-based retrieval improve accuracy, relevance, and explainability for AI-driven applications.

By attending, you will learn how to:

• Prepare and store vector embeddings in SAP HANA Vector Engine.
• Perform semantic search to retrieve contextually relevant enterprise data.
• Connect retrieved results to a generative AI workflow using RAG patterns.
• Evaluate how grounding improves response quality, trust, and usability in business scenarios.

This lab emphasizes practical implementation and leaves participants with a working RAG prototype they can adapt to real-world use cases across analytics, operations, and application development.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

Get real world experience developing transactional SAP Fiori apps using ABAP capabilities in SAP Joule for Developers, including predictive code completion, unit test generation for ABAP CDS and ABAP code, and code explanation to speed up your development with ABAP Cloud.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

This session provides a practical guide to setting up and operating SAP Cloud ALM as the central platform for application lifecycle and operations management. Understand what's required to prepare your environment, connect managed systems, and configure users, roles, notifications, and alerts to support effective day-to-day administration. Explore how dashboards, health checks, and analytics enable centralized monitoring across systems, applications, and integrations, helping teams detect issues earlier and respond more effectively. Attendees will leave with proven best practices for proactive system health monitoring, performance management, and ongoing operational governance using SAP Cloud ALM.

SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA modernization initiatives are frequently constrained by years of accumulated custom code, undocumented logic, and intertwined system dependencies that increase remediation effort, extend timelines, and elevate risk. This session explores how Nova Intelligence’s Agentic AI platform can be applied within transformation programs to document legacy systems, map complex dependencies, and generate clean core–aligned code to modernize existing customizations or replace them with standard functionality. 

Key Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the custom code challenges that most impact SAP S/4HANA migration timelines and risk.
• Understand how Nova Intelligence performs large-scale custom code discovery and dependency mapping.
• Examine how AI-supported retain, retire, or replace classification improves modernization planning.
• Evaluate how Clean Core–aligned refactoring can reduce long-term technical debt.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

Designed for data engineers and architects, this hands-on session demonstrates how SAP Business Data Cloud enables the connection, integration, and transformation of SAP and non-SAP data, while preserving business context across analytics and AI workloads.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

Designed for data engineers and architects, this hands-on session demonstrates how SAP Business Data Cloud enables the connection, integration, and transformation of SAP and non-SAP data, while preserving business context across analytics and AI workloads.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Organizations are rapidly adopting LoB cloud solutions alongside core ERP platforms, pushing Segregation of Duties (SoD) risk beyond individual systems. Without transforming controls to work across applications and moving beyond point-in-time testing, managing risk and delivering the level of visibility auditors now expect becomes increasingly difficult. Join this session to see how Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) transforms SoD mitigation by analyzing 100% of posted transactions across systems and automatically generating actionable exceptions for risk owners — with full transparency and an end-to-end audit trail.

In this session, you will learn how to:
Quantify Material Risk with Transactional Analysis: Move beyond theoretical "who can" access risks by analyzing 100% of posted transactions in real time.
Unify Cross-Application Visibility: Bridge the visibility gap between core ERP platforms and decentralized LoB cloud solutions by centralizing SoD controls into a single, automated platform.
Automate Audit-Ready Evidence: Eliminate manual documentation by deploying automated workflows that generate line-item level exception reports and tamper-resistant audit trails."

In today’s data-driven world, organizations that lack a well-defined data and analytics strategy risk falling behind their competition. But what does a strong strategy look like, and how can companies develop one that drives business value?

This session will explore the critical components of a successful data and analytics strategy, why it is essential for modern enterprises, and how organizations can approach its development. We will break down key elements, including data governance, integration, analytics enablement, cloud strategy, and AI/ML adoption. Additionally, we’ll discuss common pitfalls, best practices, and actionable steps to align data initiatives with business goals. Whether you are starting from scratch or refining an existing strategy, this session will equip you with the tools to drive data-driven transformation in your organization.

In this session, you will:

• Gain insights into real-world implementation approaches. 
• Learn how to measure the success of their strategy.
• Leave with a roadmap to build a data and analytics foundation that delivers tangible business outcomes.

This session offers guided instruction on using AI to improve task efficiency and reduce user friction in SAP Fiori apps, focusing on everyday user interactions and workflows. By attending, you will explore how AI can simplify information access, guide users through core tasks, and support faster, more confident decision-making in scenarios such as My Home. 

Attendees will: 

• Understand how AI can be applied within SAP Fiori apps to reduce user friction and improve task efficiency.
• Explore practical ways AI supports information discovery, workflow guidance, and day-to-day decision-making.
• Learn design principles for using AI to improve usability and accelerate user onboarding.

Embarking on the path to SAP S/4HANA is a transformative decision, but what does the planning phase really look like in practice? In this dynamic panel discussion, leaders from Moog and Upstate Niagara Cooperative will share key lessons and takeaways from the early stages of SAP S/4HANA planning. Learn about the critical factors they evaluated, the “Aha!” moments that shifted their strategy, and the roadblocks they encountered along the way. Panelists will share the tools and resources that proved most helpful, how they built internal alignment and secured executive buy-in, and what they wish they had known before they started.

AI is everywhere, including your SAP solutions.  Line of Business leaders are under pressure to deliver business results and leverage AI.  Hear from customers who have implemented unique and innovative AI business use cases including Embedded AI in SAP Cloud solutions, and custom AI use cases leveraging BTP.  This session will be informative for organizations that are moving forward with SAP AI, deciding on their SAP AI strategy, or even live with a few SAP AI use cases and looking for what’s next for their innovation journey. 

Questions this session can help answer include:

• How did these customers work with their business to identify AI use cases?
• What were the immediate benefits from their innovative implementation?
• What best practices were considered as part of their program?
• What’s next on these customers’ innovation road maps?

Join this panel discussion to learn how customer organizations are alleviating pressure to deliver superior business outcomes by leveraging SAP BDC to solve challenges and drive business results to new highs. Hear from companies who have implemented unique and innovative business use cases leveraging BDC.  These customers will discuss their use cases and their journeys from business case to business value, including best practices and lessons learned.  This session delivers a wealth of information for organizations that are reviewing their SAP BDC strategy and want to leverage SAP’s innovative technologies.  

You’ll understand:

• What motivated the customer’s use of SAP BDC.
• How these organizations worked with their businesses to identify use cases.
• Best practices and lessons learned from their BDC experiences and the immediate benefits from their implementations.
• What’s next on their innovation roadmap.

What does it take to successfully adopt SAP Cloud ERP Private as part of an enterprise modernization journey? In this candid customer panel, business and IT leaders from Kyocera, Naturipe Farms, and Woodstream share insights on what worked, what didn’t, and what they’d do differently. Get practical guidance to strengthen program governance, manage RISE service tickets effectively, resolve issues before they escalate, and use SAP Cloud ALM insights to support performance and business continuity as your environment evolves. Come away with the clarity and confidence to make informed decisions, reduce risk, and drive lasting business impact from cloud ERP.

Companies of all sizes are already live on, or are in the process of moving to, SAP Cloud ERP. Join this customer panel to hear directly from SAP customers as they share lessons from their finance transformation journeys. Learn how organizations are laying a strong foundation for SAP Cloud ERP–enabled business process improvements by focusing on key finance and end-to-end processes such as Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, Forecast-to-Plan, and FP&A to drive consistency, control, and insight. Panelists will discuss how they translated business requirements into effective system designs, guided configuration and integration decisions, and evaluated solution enablers to support scalable finance operations. Attendees will walk away with practical lessons learned and a clearer path forward for building a modern finance function supported by an integrated SAP S/4HANA landscape. 

You will learn how to:

• Apply best practices and lessons learned across each phase of the SAP Cloud ERP transformation.
• Leverage data and analytics for improved decision-making.
• Collaborate across the business to maximize the value from SAP Cloud ERP for Finance.
• Maximize outcomes at go-live and what is possible after.

Threat intelligence indicates that threat actors have been evolving in recent years to target and exploit SAP applications to deploy ransomware, perform financial fraud, access SAP information, and use SAP application infrastructure. Join this session to review the threat actors that target SAP applications and understand their tactics, techniques, procedures, and motivations. This session will incorporate a deep dive into the latest zero-day exploitation of CVE-2025-31324, which led to the compromise of hundreds of SAP applications worldwide. Additionally, you will learn from practical examples of techniques used by real threat actors. Understand how to assess, detect and prevent these attacks through practical security measures that organizations must take to secure their SAP landscape, including SAP S/4HANA and applications exposed through SAP BTP.

This session will cover:

• Known exploited vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and indicators of compromise that can help organizations detect security incidents affecting SAP applications.
• Practical mitigations and controls to secure SAP applications against known attacks.
• Simple steps to improve the security of SAP applications across on-premise and cloud environments.

Threat intelligence indicates that threat actors have been evolving in recent years to target and exploit SAP applications to deploy ransomware, perform financial fraud, access SAP information, and use SAP application infrastructure. Join this session to review the threat actors that target SAP applications and understand their tactics, techniques, procedures, and motivations. This session will incorporate a deep dive into the latest zero-day exploitation of CVE-2025-31324, which led to the compromise of hundreds of SAP applications worldwide. Additionally, you will learn from practical examples of techniques used by real threat actors. Understand how to assess, detect and prevent these attacks through practical security measures that organizations must take to secure their SAP landscape, including SAP S/4HANA and applications exposed through SAP BTP.

This session will cover:

• Known exploited vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and indicators of compromise that can help organizations detect security incidents affecting SAP applications.
• Practical mitigations and controls to secure SAP applications against known attacks.
• Simple steps to improve the security of SAP applications across on-premise and cloud environments.

Norfolk Southern knew from the start that clean, reliable data would be the cornerstone of a successful SAP S/4HANA transformation. This session shares how the organization made data cleansing a strategic priority, from implementing scalable data profiling, cleansing, and validation processes to establishing sustainable governance models to ensure lasting data integrity. Understand the business impact of clean data in SAP S/4HANA and get tips to resolve common data quality issues in the ECC environment pre-migration. Plus, discuss key metrics the company used to measure data quality improvements and support continuous monitoring.

Key takeaways:

• An understanding of how to make data cleansing a strategic priority.
• Real-world insight into our data cleansing project and processes.
• Key metrics that you can use to monitor and measure your data quality.

The difference between isolated pilots and sustainable AI at scale lies in the foundational architecture that supports data, governance, platforms, and operating models. In this deep-dive session, we explore how to architect an AI-enabled organization, with practical, hands-on architecture design. The session will begin with a concise overview of AI foundations, covering key AI building blocks such as model lifecycles, inference patterns, orchestration, observability, and responsible AI considerations. We then dive into key data concepts like modern data platforms, data products, metadata, data quality, lineage, and governance patterns required to reliably fuel AI workloads. Finally, the we’ll break into small groups to work through a real-world AI and Data architecture use case, using a provided case study and architecture toolkit. Each group will design a fit-for-purpose target architecture, making trade-offs across data platforms, AI services, integration patterns, governance, and scalability.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the core architectural foundations required to operationalize AI at scale.
• Understand how data architecture and AI architecture must evolve together.
• Gain hands-on experience designing an enterprise-grade AI + Data architecture.

Join this session to discover the highest-impact SAP S/4HANA Finance enhancements your organization can activate immediately after moving from ECC. You will learn how the Universal Journal simplifies financial and managerial reporting, and how the unified G/L eliminates FI-CO reconciliation. See how SAP S4/HANA Finance streamlines document splitting, enhances ledger capabilities, and delivers richer profitability insights with account-based CO-PA. The webinar will unpack key improvements in Asset Accounting, and multilevel COGS split. Attendees will leave with practical guidance on which features to prioritize, how to realize measurable business value, and what it takes for a smooth SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation.

You will:

• Gain deep understanding about the top ten major finance enhancements offered in SAP S/4HANA.
• Evaluate the key considerations to get the most out of these enhancements.
• Explore major process simplifications and leverage business-value opportunities as part of finance transformation.
• Learn how to plan for deploying these processes carefully in your organization for smooth transition.

As Broadcom’s new licensing models fundamentally shift the cost landscape for virtualization, SAP leaders are facing a critical inflection point: absorb unprecedented infrastructure price hikes or find a certified path to independence. 

This session provides a strategic roadmap for reclaiming your IT budget by migrating mission-critical SAP workloads—including SAP HANA—to SUSE’s KVM-based virtualization. We will move beyond the hype to examine the technical architecture and financial logic of an open-source, SAP-certified hypervisor. 

Learn how to eliminate "vTax" while maintaining the extreme high availability and performance required for enterprise-scale SAP landscapes.

Key takeaways:

• The Economics of Exit: Break down the TCO of moving from per-core VMware licensing to a SUSE-integrated KVM environment, often delivering 50% or more in infrastructure software savings.
• Beyond the Hypervisor: Understand why SUSE KVM is a Tier-1 choice for SAP HANA, featuring built-in, SAP-tailored High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) that meets rigorous enterprise SLAs.
• Strategic Consolidation: Discover the operational benefits of a "Single Vendor Stack." Reduce support silos and management friction by aligning your hypervisor with the Linux distribution preferred by over 70% of SAP customers.

CFOs of multinational enterprises often face a persistent challenge: maintaining a balance between the autonomy of local operations and the need for centralized oversight, compliance, and financial efficiency. This session will explore how technology, seamlessly integrated into SAP, can support finance leaders in addressing this tension by improving visibility into value creation and intercompany transactions across global operations. A common tension emerges between commercial teams, often incentivized by revenue and local profit targets, and the finance organization, which must ensure consolidated profit margins of value chains and simultaneously consistency in intercompany pricing, service cost allocations, and statutory compliance across jurisdictions. We will examine practical approaches for enhancing transfer pricing consistency, automating cross-border service allocations, and reducing audit exposure—while supporting statutory, tax, and management reporting requirements. Attendees will also learn how rules-based, scalable frameworks can replace manual processes, strengthen internal controls, and support audit readiness. Join us to discover how greater transparency across the value chain—from creation to reporting—can help finance teams gain a more integrated, strategic view of intercompany operations.

You will:

• Discover methods to achieve multilevel, end-to-end visibility into the value chain at the product level, enabling more informed decision-making and operational transparency. 
• Learn how to construct a unified, legally accurate, and consolidated view of intercompany transactions to support compliance, reporting, and strategic planning. 
• Explore how to enhance profitability through the optimization of operational transfer pricing strategies.

SAP’s cloud portfolio continues to evolve, introducing new deployment options, commercial models, and naming conventions that can be difficult to interpret across planning, execution, and post-go-live phases. This pre-conference session offers a comprehensive review of SAP’s cloud landscape and examines similarities and differences across delivery models, commercial frameworks, and operating responsibilities. 

Key learning objectives: 

• Clearly differentiate SAP Cloud ERP Public and SAP Cloud ERP Private, including architecture, extensibility boundaries, innovation cadence, and standardization expectations.
• Understand what RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP represent from a commercial and operating model standpoint, and how each aligns to specific deployment paths.
• Translate legacy and informal terminology into SAP’s current naming conventions used in contracts, delivery models, and product roadmaps.
• Identify the organizational, regulatory, customization, data, and integration factors that typically drive one cloud option over another.
• Understand how operational responsibilities shift across cloud models, including ownership of upgrades, maintenance, security, and system availability.

Join this session to hear the story behind one of the largest financial transformations in John Deere’s history. This session will highlight challenges of scale, harmonizing master data as the foundation, handling complex business requirements, and innovative strategies used to drive adoption across over 1K users located at over 200 business units around the globe. Attendees will gain insight into how John Deere modernized its financial backbone using SAP S/4HANA & SAP Central Finance paired with AI and automation strategies to successfully implement changes with lasting impact.

This session examines how to use SAP AI Core and SAP BTP to enhance analytics and intelligence across an SAP S/4HANA landscape, with a practical walkthrough of building and operationalizing machine learning models on SAP data.

Key learning objectives: 

• Build and operationalize machine learning models using Python and R on SAP HANA data.
• Use SAP AI Core to manage, deploy, and run models within an SAP BTP environment.
• Integrate machine learning outputs into SAP S/4HANA workflows to support intelligent automation.
• Apply analytics-driven insights to improve decision-making and enable continuous improvement across business processes.

As organizations accelerate AI strategies, the Future of Professionals 2026 Report reveals high-skill functions like tax and trade are rapidly transforming into AI-augmented disciplines. Yet many SAP customers struggle with fragmented data, manual processes, and heavy IT reliance for system changes, configurations, and reporting.​ This session explores strategies and solutions to leverage automation to simplify complex compliance requirements, improve accuracy, and streamline workflows across global tax functions.

By attending, you will:

• Explore key insights from the Future of Professionals 2026 Report and what they mean for corporate tax, trade, and IT leaders.
• Get an overview of the capabilities of ONESOURCE, from automated content and configuration updates to global tax and trade intelligence, integration, and more.
• Take a focused look at how ONESOURCE and SAP, strengthened with agentic AI capabilities, delivers practical, tangible innovations that make tax and trade teams more self-sufficient—while significantly reducing the operational burden on IT.

This session examines how SAP Integration Suite fits into the broader SAP architecture as an enabler for AI-driven innovation, particularly in landscapes where data timeliness and connectivity directly influence business outcomes.

Attendees will:

• Understand how SAP Integration Suite enables reliable access to business data required for AI-driven use cases.
• Examine how data latency, connectivity models, and execution choices affect the quality and responsiveness of AI outcomes.
• Review practical scenarios that demonstrate how integration design decisions influence intelligent automation and real-time insights.
• Learn how to design SAP Integration Suite–based integration approaches that support scalable AI initiatives while maintaining control and simplicity across SAP environments.

As organizations look to expand SAP business value with AI, many struggle to balance innovation with clean-core integrity, governance, and operational risk. This session introduces a side-by-side architecture enabled by the Red Hat–SAP partnership that allows AI capabilities to run alongside SAP, delivering real-time, governed outcomes without modifying the ERP core.

Attendees will:

• Understand how a side-by-side architecture enables organizations to protect the SAP core while accelerating AI innovation.
• Examine how distributed, safe AI execution can be operationalized across environments while remaining connected to SAP business processes.
• Learn how event-driven integration, rather than custom code, allows AI insights to flow into SAP workflows without modifying the ERP core.
• Explore how centralized governance supports explainable, compliant AI outcomes while enabling scalable, mission-critical adoption.

This session draws on Vistaprint’s SAP S/4HANA production experience and examines how on-stack extensibility was applied using an upgrade-proof, clean core–aligned approach to reshape financial operations and reporting while accelerating access to critical insights. Hear how the company combined Fiori app variants and in-app data model extensions to adapt standard SAP applications for role-specific usage without modifying the core. Explore how they created custom analytical queries that delivered deeper visibility into financial performance and trends using a combination of standard and extended data. Take away proven patterns for evolving SAP S/4HANA using standard extensibility to improve usability, insight, and flexibility.

Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the order-to-bill-to-cash process for high-volume, subscription and usage-based business models. Hear from industry leaders as they share how they achieve end-to-end visibility using AI-powered capabilities, including intelligent order and billing agents, agentic dispute resolution, machine-learning-driven cash application, and customer behavior insights to improve payment collections.

In this panel discussion, you will learn how to:

• Streamline order, billing, and cash operations with AI-powered, intelligent agents.
• Enable flexible subscription and usage-based monetization to drive recurring revenue.
• Accelerate cash application and collections with intelligent, data-driven decision-making.
• Resolve billing disputes faster through agentic decision-making and automation.
• Improve visibility and customer satisfaction with a unified, 360° view of financial interactions.

SAP transformations—whether migrating to SAP S/4HANA, adopting SAP BTP, or expanding cloud capabilities—introduce significant cyber risk exposure. As organizations modernize their SAP landscapes, they must navigate complex threat vectors, evolving compliance requirements, and heightened data privacy concerns. Without a robust cyber risk strategy, transformation efforts can be delayed, disrupted, or compromised. This session explores how organizations can embed cyber risk management into the heart of their SAP transformation programs. You will learn how to identify and assess SAP-specific risks, implement controls aligned to transformation milestones, and build governance models that ensure security without slowing innovation. The session will also highlight common pitfalls and lessons learned from real-world SAP transformation projects. You'll leave with actionable strategies to strengthen their security posture across SAP environments, including cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployments.

You will learn how to:

• Identify security risks unique to SAP transformation initiatives (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP). 
• Integrate cybersecurity controls into SAP project governance and delivery. 
• Align cyber risk management with regulatory and data privacy requirements. 
• Apply lessons learned from real-world SAP transformation case studies.

Finance leaders from telecommunications, banking, and other industries are embedding AI into their SAP finance organizations and generating measurable value from these initiatives. This session will explore the business problems organizations are targeting, the decision criteria guiding their AI investments, and key outcomes emerging from deployed use cases across reconciliation, forecasting, controls, and operational accounting. The conversation will also discuss how AI is redefining roles, skills, and governance expectations within finance teams as intelligence becomes embedded in daily work. Attendees will walk away with real customer roadmaps, lessons learned, and practical guidance for accelerating AI adoption in SAP finance environments.

Most AI-enabled SAP Supply Chain programs fail not because of technology—but because of unreliable master data. Before demand sensing, predictive planning, or automation can deliver value, organizations must fix foundational data gaps. Learn how leading enterprises are reducing risk, accelerating adoption, and building AI-ready supply chains by prioritizing master data readiness.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why SAP IBP, SCM, e-PPDS, EWM, SD and MFG and advanced planning programs fail due to hidden master data gaps.
• How preventive master data correction reduces cost and implementation risk.
• Why AI and demand sensing collapse without trusted data.
• How to shift from reactive data cleanup to preventive intelligence.
• A proven framework to build an AI-ready SAP Supply Chain foundation.

CIOs and CFOs are capital allocators – they have a finite budget and multiple demands for transformation, innovation, and keeping things running. Businesses are looking to start their Transformation journeys but are facing significant budget challenges in initiating critical large projects like S/4HANA, Cloud migration, re-defining supply chains, and improving customer experiences. Technology rationalization can help organizations free up budget by identifying and eliminating redundant, dated, or underutilized tech. components. In this session, you will understand how you can conduct a successful application rationalization program in a structured manner and maximize value from your IT investments. We will cover how to identify candidates for rationalization, how to unearth shadow IT, using LeanIX to do application rationalization, and a clear 4-week action plan for the attendees to take back.

Key Takeaways:

• Expert insight into the budget challenges facing leaders on critical large projects.
• Critical advice for maximizing value from your IT investments.
• A 4-week action plan for technology rationalization.

The reality of managing data across disparate systems often results in a fragmented, siloed data landscape that hinders agility and decision-making. This session presents a detailed case study of Dodge Industrial’s comprehensive data integration journey, offering practical insights into how we transitioned from significant data disconnection to a harmonized, integrated environment with Datasphere at the center. We’ll discuss our scenario before the integration project, detailing pain points, data quality issues, and inefficiencies we faced. Then we’ll walk through the project and share with you how we arrived at our current state and lessons learned along the way.

You’ll get:

• A transparent review of the critical choices we made along the way.
• Key takeaways from our experience connecting various non-SAP data sources (Snowflake, Salesforce, MS SQL Server, SharePoint, etc.).
• How we stitched it all together - the approach we used to create a unified data fabric.
• Actionable insight into enabling bi-directional data feeds.
• Insight into the specific integration platforms, ETL tools, and middleware that enabled our solution.

When your AR systems are disconnected, your processes manual, and your customer interactions slow, it becomes difficult to deliver the modern payment experience today’s buyers expect. In this Impact20, discover how an intelligent, self‑service Customer Portal elevates your entire order‑to‑cash journey to first‑class finance. Customers can view their invoices exactly as your AR team sees them, pay specific invoices or full statements, choose from multiple payment methods, set up auto pay, handle surcharges, and submit disputes that align to your internal processes. AR teams gain real‑time customer activity, stored payment information, backlog visibility, email tools, task creation, and payment plans while staying fully integrated with SAP and using your existing PCI compliant processor. The result is faster payments, reduced DSO, and stronger working capital performance.

In this session, you will:

• Give customers complete visibility and simple self‑service payment options to remove friction and speed up action.
• Offer multiple payment methods and automation features like auto pay and dispute creation to accelerate collections and reduce manual work.
• Strengthen cash flow by integrating directly with SAP and your current payment processor for faster payments and lower DSO.

Metrie—the largest manufacturer and supplier of solid wood and composite molding in North America—has been transforming homes since 1926. In this candid case study session, we’ll walk through how the team modernized sales and procurement reporting by migrating a legacy SAP HANA solution to SAP Business Data Cloud, using SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). You’ll see the end-to-end journey: why Metrie chose to modernize, the target data architecture, how semantic models and data products were designed in Datasphere, and how business-ready dashboards in SAC now drive faster decisions across sales and sourcing. 

Key takeaways:

• Lessons learned from our analytics modernization journey.
• Performance tips and the operating model that keeps IT and business aligned.
• A preview of what’s next: evaluating SAP Databricks to power forecasting and broader ML scenarios—all while preserving governance and trust.

SAP S/4HANA migrations are complex, costly, and slow — yet much early-phase effort still depends on spreadsheets and expensive consulting hours. In this session, Resulting IT's Head of Growth will live-demo S4SensAI, an AI assistant built on deep SAP expertise. See how it collapses discovery timelines from weeks to minutes, de-risks decision-making, cuts advisory costs, and accelerates value realisation — transforming how organisations plan and execute their SAP S/4HANA journey.

Despite years of investment in SAP-led digital supply chains, many organizations continue to operate in fragmented, reactionary modes, with planners constrained by disconnected data, manual intervention, and delayed responses to disruption. In this session, KPMG explores how it is helping clients shift from human-initiated, system-supported decision-making to AI-initiated, human-supervised orchestration using SAP-native capabilities.

Attendees will:

• Understand the architecture and governance model for deploying agentic AI across SAP environments, including the role of human oversight.
• Learn how to embed autonomous agents into SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform to support real-time supply chain orchestration.
• See how to shift from manual firefighting to AI-initiated, human-supervised decision-making within SAP supply chain processes.
• Step through a consumer goods case study to see how AI agents monitored inbound risk, forecast deviations, and production performance, cutting planning cycle time by 50% and improving fulfillment KPIs.

This session provides practical guidance for leveraging AI capabilities in SAP Business Suite to drive automation across finance, supply chain, HR, and customer operations. 

Attendees will: 

• Step through examples of how machine learning, natural language interfaces, and predictive analytics can be layered onto existing SAP landscapes, even before a full migration to SAP Cloud ERP.
• Understand how AI augments traditional SAP workflows by uncovering patterns hidden in transactional data and proactively recommending actions to improve business outcomes.
• Gain actionable guidance and next steps to start adopting AI within your existing SAP ecosystem—balancing innovation with stability while preparing for a future-ready intelligent enterprise.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

As SAP application development teams modernize their landscapes, productivity, quality, and extensibility must improve without compromising clean-core principles. 
In this hands-on lab, participants will work in ABAP Cloud and SAP Build using Joule for Developers and: 

• Review existing code logic using Joule for Developers.
• Generate extension logic using Joule for Developers while maintaining clean-core principles.
• Use Joule for Developers in SAP Build to assist with application and automation logic creation.
• Improve code quality with AI assistance.
• Identify where AI meaningfully boosts developer productivity and where engineering judgment remains essential.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

This session walks through how to activate and use the core components of SAP Business Data Cloud, showing attendees how to move from first activation to real usage by covering environment setup, core service configuration, and common implementation patterns that accelerate time to value.

What can organizations do to reduce the cost and complexity of transitioning to SAP S/4HANA? Discover practical strategies for managing data and documents that give your S/4HANA journey a first class upgrade and streamline your move to the new platform. Explore how implementing targeted process improvements now can maximize the benefits you’ll realize from SAP S/4HANA. 

In this session you'll learn:

• Why data archiving is the key to a fast and cost-effective transition.
• When you can begin incorporating capabilities such as machine learning, AI, and cloud-based services to elevate process automation.
• How real time data can increase visibility into cash flows and empower better financial decision making as you upgrade to a first-class financial operation.

Organizations implementing SAP face unique challenges where system readiness directly influences end-user involvement, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity. This session explores how a structured pre-implementation health check can mitigate risks and improve outcomes by identifying gaps in governance, testing, data migration, and security before go-live.

Attendees will learn how independent reviews can align stakeholders, improve outcomes, and build confidence across Business and IT leadership. Whether you're preparing for an SAP S/4HANA deployment or optimizing an existing roadmap, this session will equip you with practical strategies to reduce disruption, improve outcomes, and ensure your transformation delivers on its promise.

In this session, you will:

• Understand the unique risks and readiness challenges organizations face when implementing SAP.
• Learn how a structured pre-implementation health check can uncover gaps in governance, testing, data migration, and security.
• Explore a proven framework for assessing system readiness before go-live to reduce disruption and improve outcomes.
• Gain practical strategies to align Business and IT stakeholders and build confidence in your SAP transformation roadmap.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

During this hands-on lab, we’ll explore how SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) empowers teams to visualize data, plan strategically, and predict future outcomes using advanced analytics and machine learning. From interactive dashboards to collaborative planning tools, you’ll discover how businesses can break down data silos, streamline decision-making, and drive performance across the organization. We’ll explore how SAC empowers end users to create, adjust, and submit their own plans within a guided workflow. Instead of relying on manual spreadsheets or disconnected systems, users can enter data directly into the platform, collaborate with team members, and move their plans through structured approval steps. Managers can then review, provide feedback, and approve submissions—all within the same environment. Whether you’re a business leader, analyst, or operational user, this session will provide practical insights into how SAP Analytics Cloud enables you to plan with confidence, submit your forecasts seamlessly, and contribute to a more agile, data-driven organization.

This session will cover:

• All-in-one platform for analytics and planning: SAP Analytics Cloud combines business intelligence, planning, and predictive capabilities in a single, unified environment.
• Collaborative, workflow-driven planning: End users can create, adjust, and submit plans within structured workflows, improving transparency, accountability, and speed.
• AI-powered, data-driven decisions: Embedded artificial intelligence and tight integration with SAP data platforms enable more accurate forecasts, scenario analysis, and real-time insights.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.
 

SAP Business Data Cloud is SAP’s strategic product for data warehousing in the cloud. This hands-on workshop delivers a series of activities focused on SAP Business Data Cloud. In this beginner session, you will learn to use the different components in SAP Business Data Cloud and how to get started leveraging your corporate data and creating your first data model. The session will provide you with hands-on experience in multiple areas of SAP Business Data Cloud.

Key takeaways:

• The ability to get your hands on SAP Business Data Cloud.
• Understanding of the different components of SAP BDC.
• Knowledge of how to get started creating your first BDC data model.
   

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

As enterprises grow through acquisitions and extended supplier ecosystems, integrating new brands and partners without disrupting operations or governance becomes increasingly difficult. This session examines how organizations are using a 2-tier ERP strategy to support connectivity, control, and scalable growth across complex business networks.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Apply a 2-tier ERP strategy to integrate acquisitions, suppliers, vendors, and subsidiaries within an integrated business network.
• Use RISE with SAP and SAP Cloud ERP together to enable real-time data flow and operational alignment across diverse operating models.
• Maintain enterprise governance and data consistency while enabling midmarket partners and high-growth brands to adopt scalable, cloud-based ERP.
• See how to apply this model across consumer goods, food, and other industries where enterprises rely on acquisitions and partner ecosystems using solutions from SAP.

In an era where cyberattacks evolve faster than traditional defenses, understanding the anatomy of a breach is essential for any organization embarking on an SAP migration or transformation journey. This session provides a practical, enterprise-level view of how modern attacks unfold—and how to close the gaps before threat actors exploit them. We will deep dive into recent SAP platform attacks and provide step-by-step cyber intelligence details to guide you through the anatomy of a breach. Using a step-by-step walkthrough of real-world incident patterns, we will demystify how breaches progress—from initial foothold to lateral movement, privilege abuse, and data exfiltration.

We will explore security considerations and strategic actions to take preventative measures and/or implement secure-by-design guidelines as part of a migration/ transformation journey. From cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access governance, system hardening, integration security, data privacy and protection, to cyber defense mechanism, attendees will gain clarity on where security controls can fail and how to strengthen and design them.
Finally, we outline respectful and actionable best practices for building a defensible enterprise: implementing preventive and detective controls, designing a “secure by default” SAP landscape, establishing continuous monitoring, and integrating SAP security into broader enterprise resilience strategies.
Attendees will leave with a clear blueprint for strengthening their SAP environment, improving operational readiness, and putting the right safeguards in place to protect against the next breach.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how attackers establish an initial foothold in breach scenarios and specifically, common SAP‑related weaknesses exploited during intrusions, looking at techniques and privilege escalation.
• Understand techniques and escalations that progress toward data theft or business disruption.
• Discover best practices for building a defensible enterprise and effectively managing a breach.

This interactive session examines a challenge familiar to managers and budget holders across industries: enterprise workflows fragmented across inboxes, portals, and applications that slow execution and reduce visibility. Through guided discussion and live demonstrations, attendees see how SAP workflows such as approvals, notifications, and data capture from systems such as SAP S/4HANA can be handled directly within Microsoft Teams, simplifying day-to-day work while improving control and decision speed. 

By attending, you will: 

• See live demonstrations of SAP workflows, including approvals, notifications, and data capture, executed directly within Microsoft Teams.
• Learn how in-context workflows reduce inbox overload and eliminate delays caused by fragmented tools.
• Explore practical patterns for simplifying enterprise workflows while maintaining visibility and accountability.
• Engage with peers and experts to ask questions, compare approaches, and identify realistic next steps for modernizing SAP-driven work.

The move to SAP Cloud ERP (formerly RISE with SAP) isn't a "big bang" - it’s typically a multi-year journey through a complex hybrid landscape. For most Basis teams, this transition creates a massive visibility gap: managing legacy on-prem systems alongside new cloud instances and the critical non-SAP services that connect them. How do you maintain service level agreements (SLAs) when your visibility is fragmented across tools?
In this session, Shutterfly walks through the technical blueprint for achieving "full-stack" clarity during an SAP transformation. We’ll skip the marketing slides and dive into how Shutterfly used Avantra to bridge the gap between their heritage estate and their future-state Cloud ERP.

Attendees will learn:

• Technical strategies to unify monitoring across On-Prem, Hyperscalers, and cloud, eliminating "green dashboard" syndrome where SAP is up, but the business process is down.
• How Shutterfly replaced manual Basis toil with automated, cross-platform workflows that work consistently regardless of where the system resides.
• A step-by-step approach to migrating operational logic away from SolMan and Focused Run without losing historical performance context or security posture.
• How to feed complex SAP telemetry into self-service platforms (like ServiceNow) so the business sees the health of the process, not just the server.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, effective data management is crucial for organizations aiming to integrate their systems and leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive innovation and efficiency. Join us for an insightful session where we will explore how Boomi can seamlessly connect everything—from SAP systems to AI applications—enabling our customers to unlock new opportunities and enhance operational performance through robust data strategies.

Key takeaways:

• Integration Made Easy: Discover how Boomi's low-code integration platform simplifies the process of connecting SAP with various applications and data sources. This ensures a smooth flow of information across your organization, enhancing data accessibility and integrity.
• Harnessing AI Capabilities: Learn how to effectively manage and leverage AI technologies within your SAP environment. Gain deeper insights, automate processes, and enhance decision-making through intelligent data utilization.
• Importance of Data Organization: Understand the critical need for well-organized and managed data before embarking on AI initiatives. Proper data governance and structure are essential for maximizing the effectiveness of AI applications and ensuring reliable outcomes.
• Live Demo: Experience a live demonstration of Boomi Agents that process overdue/unpaid invoices. Witness how automating manual and error-prone processes can lead to efficient data management and improved collection of payments from customers.
• Future-Proof Your Business: Understand the critical role of a connected ecosystem in driving digital transformation. Learn how Boomi can help you stay ahead in a competitive landscape by ensuring your data is integrated, accessible, and actionable.

Still manually entering data into SAP systems? It’s time to let AI take over. This interactive session explores how AI-powered automation can convert complex, human-readable documents into structured data ready for SAP, eliminating the need for manual input across key business areas such as finance, supply chain, and compliance. 

In this session, you will:

• Gain insights into how to start small, scale effectively, and identify high-impact use cases that make AI adoption practical and valuable.
• Understand how AI can automate manual data entry tasks across SAP processes by transforming complex documents into structured, system-ready data.
• Explore real-world examples of AI-driven automation in global trade, finance, and customer service operations using SAP BTP.
• Discuss strategies to implement a flexible, scalable framework that works with ECC, SAP S/4HANA, GTS, and third-party systems without requiring RISE.
• Discover a practical approach to AI adoption, starting with a single use case and expanding based on ROI and operational impact.
• Examine technical requirements, integration options, and best practices for maintaining high data accuracy and compliance in automated workflows.

Grab a coffee and join an intimate, Experts Café conversation hosted by HGS, featuring insights from Michael Svolos and Srinivas Balasubramanian from Kyocera International. We’ll dig into how leaders are reshaping their data and analytics foundations as they evaluate SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) as part of their future enterprise architecture. 

In this fast‑paced session, we’ll break down:

• Why today’s SAP data and planning environments are hitting a wall — and what’s driving leaders to rethink tools, architecture, and processes. 
• How to balance harmonized, governed data with the agility your business teams demand. 
• The emerging BDC capabilities that matter now, including Seamless Planning and the potential they unlock for end‑to‑end enterprise planning.
• A practical look at AI readiness — what’s real today, what’s not, and what CIOs should be asking before committing to a platform path. 
• Clear guidance on when BDC actually makes sense (and when it doesn’t), plus how your peers are approaching these decisions. 
• You’ll leave with actionable insights, field‑tested perspectives, and a sharper understanding of how leading enterprises are navigating the next generation of SAP‑enabled analytics and planning. All in a candid, conversational café‑style setting designed for real talk. 
• Come for the coffee. Stay for the insights. Leave with clarity.

Join this session for an inspiring conversation as you are taken behind the scenes of one of the most transformative finance and ERP optimization journeys. This candid dialogue unpacks how a rushed SAP S/4HANA implementation created fragmented processes, manual workarounds, and unclear data flows; and how these challenges were turned into an opportunity for reinvention. Hear firsthand how this customer leveraged collaborative deep dives, smart automation, and a renewed focus on transparency empowered to stabilize its system, redesign critical finance processes, and finally unlock the full potential of its SAP S/4HANA landscape. Whether you're wrestling with similar post-go-live pains or simply curious how transparency becomes a catalyst for performance, this session delivers practical insights, honest reflections, and forward thinking inspiration. Be ready for a conversation about partnership, persistence, and the power of getting SAP S/4HANA right.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to regain control after a turbulent go-live and turn instability into structured, forward-looking progress.
• Understand how the right consulting partnership built on trust, deep expertise, and true collaboration becomes the decisive factor in creating transparency and eliminating inefficiencies across finance processes.
• Gain actionable insights to shift from reactive problem solving to sustainable performance enablement.

SAP S/4HANA migration is often viewed as a necessary technology upgrade. But leading organizations are transforming this moment into strategic opportunity—using complementary solutions to not only modernize their systems but fundamentally improve how they operate. This session features real customer case studies demonstrating dramatic efficiency gains, from analytics that transcend native SAP limitations and automation leveraging 1,900+ pre-built templates to financial close processes reduced from hours to minutes. Discover the "execution engine" framework that helps organizations turn major system transformations into advantages, improve SAP S/4HANA instance quality during migration, and achieve rapid ROI during complex implementations. You'll leave with a practical roadmap for migration optimization that goes far beyond technical cutover.

In this session, you will:

• Hear about real-world transformation stories from diverse industry leaders navigating SAP S/4HANA migration.
• Understand the "execution engine" framework for turning system upgrades into competitive advantages.
• Discover proven automation and analytics strategies using pre-built SAP templates and advanced reporting.
• Learn practical approaches to achieving rapid ROI while improving system quality during migration.

Sappi, a global leader in dissolving pulp and specialty paper products with operations across three continents, faced multiple global harmonization projects—including sales order migration, pricing tool consolidation, ACDOCA table transition, and global chart of accounts implementation. The challenge: process hundreds of thousands of records without overwhelming IT or introducing manual errors. Process Runner enabled Sappi's business users to manage complex data migrations independently: download data, apply fixes in Excel, and upload back into SAP with built-in validation. The result? Massive datasets processed in minutes, virtually zero manual errors, and IT bottlenecks eliminated during critical project phases. These automation capabilities directly address the challenges organizations face during major SAP transformations like RISE: data migration accuracy, testing efficiency, master data cleanup, and change management at scale.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to empower business users to manage SAP data migrations without IT dependency.
• Discover proven techniques for processing large-scale data changes while eliminating manual errors.
• Discover automation strategies applicable to RISE, SAP S/4HANA conversions, and other complex SAP transformations.
• Understand real-world approaches to accelerating go-live activities during resource-constrained periods.

As organizations accelerate their SAP S/4HANA transformations, maintaining compliance across access controls, audit requirements, and stakeholder alignment becomes increasingly complex. In this session, KPMG and Chevron reveal how they successfully navigated these challenges by incorporating intelligent systems for risk identification into the digital core build process. By engaging key stakeholders—including Internal Controls, Corporate Audit, and External Audit—from the onset, the team enabled real-time coordination with the build team and proactively mitigated access and SOD risks through AI-driven insights before they could become systemic. Discover how the entity’s compliance strategy uncovered hidden risks, aligned cross-functional teams, and integrated controls throughout the transformation lifecycle. Attendees will gain practical insights into how to apply similar strategies to their own SAP initiatives.

In this session, you will:

• Integrate compliance with stakeholders including audit functions—into the build process for real-time alignment.
• Design a proactive access control strategy that prevents issues before go-live.
• Leverage cross-functional collaboration to embed compliance into every phase of SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• Apply AI techniques to identify and mitigate SOD risks early in the transformation lifecycle.

As SAP organizations adopt SAP S/4HANA and modern operating models, traditional process visibility and point-in-time controls are no longer sufficient to manage scale, complexity, and risk. Fragmented reporting, manual monitoring, and after-the-fact analysis leave teams reactive to process breakdowns, compliance issues, and performance leakage across critical end-to-end processes such as Customer-to-Cash (C2C). This session examines how enterprises are operationalizing AI-enabled process intelligence to establish continuous monitoring across SAP-centric business processes. By combining process mining with AI-enabled machine learning, organizations gain real-time insight into actual process execution, surfacing control gaps and high-risk deviations without added manual effort. Attendees will learn how this approach shifts oversight from reactive analysis to proactive, continuous governance that strengthens audit readiness and drives sustained operational improvement.

Key learning objectives:

• Learn how to design and implement continuous monitoring across end-to-end C2C processes.
• Discover how process intelligence exposes control gaps, deviations, and inefficiencies in real time.
• Understand how to operationalize ongoing process oversight without increasing manual workload.
• Explore how organizations can move from reactive controls to proactive compliance and performance management.

Agentic systems are taking on tasks from cash positioning to FX execution. Hear how MassMutual and RSM are applying supervised autonomy in treasury: where it worked, where humans must stay in the loop, and what measurable outcomes they’re tracking. Discover how to vet, validate, and continuously supervise these agents: what to automate, what to escalate, and how to prove outcomes are explainable and reversible. You’ll leave with a playbook for safe autonomy in finance.

You will learn how to:

• Identify which treasury activities are ready for agentic autonomy (cash positioning, FX workflows, exception handling) versus which should remain human-controlled and define clear escalation triggers.
• Apply a practical validation and supervision framework to continuously monitor agent performance, manage drift, and ensure every recommendation and action are explainable and reversible.
• Establish the governance controls required to operationalize agentic AI in finance—policy guardrails, approval workflows, and audit-ready evidence—so automation scales safely across the organization.

Healthcare organizations depend on always-on, highly secure systems to deliver life-saving services at scale. In this session, learn how McKesson, one of the largest healthcare distributors in the U.S., executed one of the largest SAP migrations ever completed to a hyperscale cloud - moving hundreds of servers and petabytes of data to Microsoft Azure in under four months. Facing end-of-support for on-premise hardware, McKesson accelerated its cloud timeline while maintaining zero disruption to patient care, pharmacy operations, or supply chain continuity.

Attendees will gain insight into the migration strategy that balanced speed with uncompromising security and compliance, including automated failover, high-availability architecture, and rigorous testing. The transformation delivered 30–40% SAP performance improvements, enhanced reliability, reduced infrastructure costs, and unlocked advanced capabilities such as AI-driven analytics and real-time scalability. This session goes beyond technical execution to highlight how cloud modernization can establish a future-ready foundation for innovation in highly regulated industries like healthcare.

Key learning objectives:

• Learn how to accelerate large-scale SAP migrations without disrupting mission-critical operations.
• Understand proven architectures for high availability, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance.
• Discover strategies to achieve rapid time-to-value while minimizing operational risk.
• See how SAP on Azure enables performance gains, cost optimization, and AI-driven innovation.

Across industries, SAP leaders are under pressure to modernize analytics and adopt AI, yet many remain constrained by fragmented data estates, slow analytics cycles, and disconnected platforms. These challenges do more than delay insights — they limit the real business value AI can deliver. Without clean, unified, and governed data, even advanced AI initiatives struggle to scale.

In this session, we explore how SAP-driven organizations are rethinking their data strategy to break down silos, accelerate insight, and build an AI-ready foundation - without disrupting core SAP investments. We’ll share a practical data narrative focused on unification, governance, and usability rather than tools alone, drawing on real-world patterns seen across SAP-centric enterprises.

We’ll also examine the growing alignment between SAP and Microsoft data platforms, including how SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and Microsoft Fabric are shaping a more integrated analytics and AI roadmap. Attendees will learn how modern data platforms enable SAP organizations to converge analytics, real-time intelligence, and AI into a trusted data estate, reduce ETL complexity, and improve productivity through embedded AI assistants - while positioning for tighter, future-ready integration across SAP and Microsoft ecosystems.

Key Takeaways:

• Why fragmented data remains the #1 barrier to SAP analytics and AI success.
• How unified, governed data estates accelerate insight and reduce analytics cycles.
• The role of embedded AI copilots in improving productivity across technical and business teams.
• How SAP customers can build custom, trusted AI experiences grounded in enterprise data.

As digital vulnerabilities grow more sophisticated, safeguarding the SAP backbone is no longer optional—it is a cornerstone of operational resilience. This session shows an aerospace and defence company methodology for shielding vital enterprise resource planning systems from modern exploits. We will examine the critical shift toward viewing security as a high-value investment rather than a functional expense. By prioritizing proactive defense mechanisms and dedicated resource allocation, organizations can transform their security posture into a competitive advantage.

In this session, you will:

• Elevate SAP as a Mission-Critical Investment: Shift the culture to treat the SAP ecosystem as a Tier 1 objective. It’s not just an expense; it’s a high-value investment that builds operational resilience and a distinct competitive edge.
• Proactive Defense and Resource Alignment: Stop playing catch-up. Adopt RTX-style frameworks for early risk detection and back them with dedicated resource allocation to neutralize vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
• Future-Proofing through Innovation: Stay agile by maintaining a strategic roadmap that tracks defensive trends. This ensures your security posture evolves faster than the threats, protecting long-term business agility.

From reactive to proactive. This session will show how Siemens Healthineers protects his critical SAP assets proactively in a global environment on its transformation to SAP Cloud ERP Private (RISE with SAP). We'll explore how the company ensures resilience and robustness against evolving cyber threats and maintains operational continuity and regulatory compliance.

This session will explore

• SAP Cloud ERP Private (RISE with SAP) Security Strategy: Explore the specific security challenges and considerations of a large-scale migration and how a global company like Siemens Healthineers is addressing them. 
• The Role of Onapsis: Learn how a specialized security platform helps to protect critical SAP systems by providing continuous vulnerability management, threat detection, and compliance monitoring. 
• Ensuring Business Resilience: Discover the strategies and best practices Siemens Healthineers uses to maintain operational continuity and minimize disruption during its digital transformation. 
• Maintaining Regulatory Compliance: Understand how a proactive security strategy helps to meet and sustain compliance with global and industry-specific regulations, such as those in the healthcare sector. 
• Protecting a Global Environment: Gain insights into the complexities of securing SAP assets across a large, distributed, and global organization.

As Jabil’s global SAP landscape expanded, the company faced a pressing need to modernize access governance and transform SOX compliance from reactive to strategic. With millions of SAP transactions occurring daily, identifying true segregation of duties (SoD) violations through manual, consultant-driven processes became costly and unsustainable. Jabil replaced this approach by automating transaction-based SoD monitoring and quantifying access risk to isolate real exceptions from theoretical violations. In this session, Susan Zortea, Jabil’s Global Governance Lead, will share real-world insights into how Jabil migrated to a cloud-based Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) platform to strengthen governance, improve compliance, and drive operational efficiency.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Automate Transaction-Based Monitorin: Replace manual, sample-based audits with Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) to analyze 100% of SAP transactions in real-time.
• Isolate Actual Risk: Use data-driven insights to distinguish between "theoretical" access risks and "real-world" violations to focus remediation on verified threats.
• Quantify Financial Exposure: Transition from qualitative risk labels to quantifying the financial impact of access violations to prioritize high-value governance gaps.

Post-SAP S/4HANA migration, legacy data retention is a requirement for compliance, audits, and business continuity.  Depending on your migration choice, standard SAP archiving may not be sufficient for a complete ECC system retirement. PBS data archiving experts will compare compliant data retention options for your choice of migration approaches.  Prepare for a complete legacy system shutdown, preserve historic data integrity, and reduce costs with the right solution for your organization.

In this session, you will:

• Learn the difference in SAP Data Archiving vs System Decommissioning Technology.
• Understand how your S/4HANA migration approach affects your legacy data retention.
• Learn best practices to ensure compliance for your legacy SAP data needs.

Organizations are accelerating their SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Datasphere implementations by adopting an AI-augmented development strategy. This approach enabled the organization to automate the creation of tailored Core Data Services (CDS) views and SQL logic, dramatically reducing manual effort and increasing development speed. The result was a significant boost in productivity, faster delivery timelines, and improved adaptability to unique business needs.

This session will explore how AI-powered development techniques can streamline SAP data projects and unlock new value. Attendees will gain insight into how automation can simplify complex tasks, improve scalability, and support integration with platforms like Microsoft Fabric. The discussion will also cover best practices in SAP data modeling and de-normalization, offering practical guidance for teams looking to enhance agility and deliver more impactful outcomes from their SAP investments.

In this session, you will:

• Discover how AI-driven tools can automate the creation of tailored CDS views, streamlining SAP BDC and Datasphere implementations.
• Learn how our clients are leveraging innovative development approaches to enhance productivity and reduce project timelines.
• Explore best practices in SAP data modeling and de-normalization for improved accuracy and integration with Microsoft Fabric.
• Understand how adopting AI techniques can unlock new business value and drive faster, impactful outcomes from SAP data initiatives.

Hear from Jill Notz, PwC US/MX Controller as she shares how PwC and SAP transformed PwC’s finance ecosystem with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud. Learn why PwC chose a cloud-first, fit-to-standard strategy and gain insights to help SAP teams drive public cloud success.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Evaluate readiness for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud based on business and operational priorities.
• Navigate key governance, controls, and decision points in a public cloud implementation.
• Balance standardization with flexibility while maintaining compliance and scalability.
• Apply real-world lessons to reduce risk and accelerate value from public cloud programs.

Legacy middleware is on the clock. This session shows how to sequence your migration without ruining what's already working — moving from legacy integrations to event-driven architecture on a stable runtime foundation. You'll see a live demo: a sensor event flows from the edge through SAP and lands on your phone in real time. Bring your phone. You're part of this one.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Establish and maintain operational stability as integration architectures evolve, ensuring readiness before change and resilience during modernization.
• Apply clear decision criteria for targeted automation, focusing on where automation reduces downtime and operational risk during migration and cutover activities.
• Shift integration and orchestration responsibilities away from PI/PO-style middleware, using edge-based patterns that preserve a clean SAP core and support SAP BTP adoption.
• Translate demonstrated patterns into action, using reusable checklists and decision templates to guide integration and operational decisions in complex, hybrid SAP environments.

In this session, Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) shares how they approached SAP modernization with a strong focus on day-one stability, execution confidence, and long-term operational simplicity. Representing the technology perspective, EWEB will discuss how RunMyJobs by Redwood supported go-live preparation through fast agent generation and installation, seamless integration with SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition and on-premise systems, and the ability to pre-schedule workflows and jobs ahead of cutover. Attendees will learn how these capabilities helped EWEB reduce technical debt, streamline daily platform management, and ensure critical processes were ready to run from the moment the system went live.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to prepare automation for day-one SAP go-live by pre-scheduling jobs and workflows to minimize cutover risk and post–go-live disruption.
• Understand how rapid agent deployment supports hybrid SAP environments, including SAP S/4HANA PCE and on-premise systems.
• Discover how to simplify day-to-day automation management while reducing technical debt and operational overhead.
• Learn how centralized dashboards and alerting improve operational visibility, reliability, and confidence after go-live.
• Understand how to build a scalable automation foundation that supports current SAP operations and future innovation.

ERP modernizations fueled by SAP S/4HANA migrations, cloud adoption, and hybrid strategies often uncover access risks that threaten compliance, security, and project timelines across the full SAP ecosystem and beyond. This session showcases authentic customer success stories illustrating how Saviynt Application Access Governance (AAG) along with Accenture's expertise delivers unified protection and accelerates transformations across the enterprise.
 
You will learn how to:

• Assess access governance solutions to address risks in dynamic ERP modernization efforts spanning SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Apply AI-powered modern tools to proactively detect, visualize, and resolve risks across diverse landscapes.
• Execute smooth migrations and capture measurable value through effective partner implementations.

Join major UK retailer, Sainsbury’s, and SAP Cybersecurity leader, SecurityBridge, as they share how embedded security safeguarded Sainsbury’s SAP S/4HANA transformation from planning through go-live. Discover how proactive controls, automated checks, and real-time visibility eliminated blind spots and strengthened compliance and resilience. 

Speakers Sushil Barai and Elizabeth Murphy bring decades of enterprise security experience, offering practical lessons for SAP teams, architects, and CISOs looking to build security and trust into their digital core.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how SecurityBridge's embedded security safeguarded Sainsbury’s SAP S/4HANA transformation from planning through go-live.
• Discover how proactive controls, automated checks, and real-time visibility eliminated blind spots and strengthened compliance and resilience.
• Understand how native SAP security support can change the game for the SAP enterprise sector.

This session shares a real‑world SAP S/4HANA transformation approach focused on reducing cost, risk, and complexity through early data archiving and legacy system decommissioning. Learn how a clean, cloud‑based content strategy supports a lean SAP S/4HANA core while preserving compliant access to historical data.

You will learn how to:

• Clean up and archive before migration to reduce SAP S/4HANA cost, risk, and timelines.
• Decommission ECC safely using SAP‑certified, cloud‑based archiving.
• Preserve business access to legacy data without burdening the SAP S/4HANA core.

Sun Chemical’s relationship with Serrala is a story of real-world transformation, not a polished fairy tale. In this candid fireside chat, Sun Chemical will share how they built a robust treasury and AR architecture using a suite of Serrala solutions while navigating the ever-evolving SAP landscape.
This session will spotlight Sun Chemical’s real-world decision-making. How the team navigated challenges, learned from both successes and setbacks, and prioritized what worked best for their organization. Attendees will gain practical insight into the considerations that shaped Sun Chemical’s treasury and AR strategy, emphasizing flexibility, efficiency, and partnership in a dynamic SAP environment.

The discussion will be honest about legacy challenges, the realities of integrating multiple platforms, and the importance of partnership and feedback in shaping the roadmap ahead.

In this session, you will:

• Discover practical insights from Sun Chemical’s treasury and AR transformation journey, including key decision criteria and outcomes.
• Understand how flexibility, efficiency, and partnership shaped Sun Chemical’s approach to evolving SAP challenges.
• Learn from real-world experiences with legacy systems, transitions, and adapting strategies for future SAP directions.
• Appreciate the value of candid feedback and collaboration in driving continuous improvement.

As governments around the world mandate real-time tax compliance, multinational enterprises like Brown-Forman are under pressure to modernize their SAP environments. For Brown-Forman, a global spirits company with operations in 160+ countries, regulatory change in Portugal, UK, Brazil, and Mexico posed a serious risk to IT bandwidth, finance operations, and business continuity.

In this session, Brown-Forman’s SAP leader and Sovos will share how they partnered to integrate real-time tax compliance directly into SAP across multiple jurisdictions. You'll hear how Brown-Forman redeployed IT and finance resources away from manual regulatory updates, eliminated the burden of ongoing SAP upgrades, and ensured always-on compliance in two of the world’s most complex tax environments.

Whether you're expanding globally or just trying to keep up with change, this is a must-attend for SAP customers who want to reduce audit risk, improve operational resilience, and simplify compliance at scale.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Build a scalable compliance strategy that keeps pace with real-time tax mandates in SAP
• Reduce internal IT burden by embedding e-invoicing and e-accounting compliance into SAP workflows
• Minimize business disruption through automation and proactive support for jurisdictional changes
• Justify compliance investment by quantifying risk avoidance, resource optimization, and operational gains
• Collaborate with tax and IT stakeholders to align on a unified compliance approach across global SAP landscapes

As Alberta’s largest financial services provider, ATB Financial doesn't just compete with the "Big Banks"—it outmaneuvers them. The secret? A relentless focus on agile, advanced IT infrastructure. In this session, join ATB Financial’s Ben Fleming, Senior member of IT staff, for an inside look at how they successfully deployed S/4HANA and SAP BTP to drive business-wide automation.

Discover how ATB designed an advanced on-premises environment that balances the power of S/4HANA with the flexibility of SAP BTP and the Integration Suite. You’ll learn how their strategic partnership with SUSE created a rock-solid foundation that delivers:

• Maximum Availability: Achieving "always-on" status for critical banking applications.
• Operational Simplicity: Reducing the overhead of administration and maintenance.
• Fortified Security: Proactively shielding the SAP landscape from emerging vulnerabilities.

Get a first-hand account of the architectural choices, the challenges faced during the transition, and the lessons learned from one of Canada’s leading SAP early adopters.

Hear how Victrola, a leading manufacturer of audio products, replaced its legacy SAP ECC 6.0 system with SAP Cloud ERP. This session will cover why Public Cloud was the strategic fit, how scope was defined using SAP’s Digital Discovery Assessment, and why Reply was selected as the implementation partner.

In this session, you will:

• Explore project structure, key challenges, and how Victrola is driving the transformation internally while leveraging SAP Cloud ERP for rapid, scalable success.
• Learn practical insights and lessons from launching a greenfield Cloud ERP implementation.
• Understand the importance of internal alignment, and how to maximize Cloud ERP for companies seeking agility, innovation, and rapid time to value.

ABP’s rapid growth and acquisition strategy created significant technical debt as disparate systems, processes, and data models were brought together at scale. Hear how they addressed this challenge by partnering closely with the business, ensuring technology decisions were anchored in operational realities and growth objectives rather than isolated IT solutions. A key focus was driving standardized business processes, reducing fragmentation while enabling consistency, scalability, and better decision‑making across the enterprise. In parallel, we partnered with a strategic service provider that was willing to look beyond rigid contracts and SOWs, adapting as priorities evolved and complexity surfaced. This relationship emphasized outcomes over transactions, allowing us to move faster and solve root‑cause issues rather than apply short‑term fixes. Together, these efforts significantly reduced technical debt and positioned ABP with a more stable, scalable, and business‑aligned technology foundation.

In this session, you will learn:

• Preparation.
• Perseverance.
• Partnership.

Organizations moving from ECC to SAP S/4HANA face two simultaneous mandates: preserve a clean core while modernizing business processes, including those in tax and finance. In this session, you'll learn how Tech Mahindra achieved seamless, scalable tax and e-invoicing transformation with Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE solutions and SAP S4/HANA. Discover how you can redesign your financial and tax operations during your SAP S/4HANA transformation—from real-time determination to automated sales tax return preparation and filing—and how AI can automate repetitive steps, flag anomalies, and strengthen audit trails.​

​You will:​

• Unpack pragmatic approaches to migration and financial transformation and how to minimize ABAP/user exit customizations. Learn how to relieve IT and tax stakeholders from ongoing maintenance and facilitate a more agile tax and e-invoicing workflow.​
• Leave with ideas on a project blueprint to accelerate SAP S/4HANA adoption while elevating your team from compliance processors to strategic advisors.

This insightful session explores the transformative shift from legacy Testing Centers of Excellence to a modern Quality as a Service model, deeply integrated with SAP's ecosystem through our longstanding partnership. 

By attending, you will:

• Discover how to build and deploy agile business process assurance functions that accelerate alongside AI-powered innovations, ensuring seamless adaptation to rapid enterprise changes.
• Gain practical understanding of integrating AI technologies to enhance traditional quality practices, supporting complex, heterogeneous systems and applications for future-ready operations.
• Explore demos and real-world examples for insight into how SAP customers and partners have leveraged Tricentis' solutions to achieve resilient, high-velocity software quality assurance in an era of unprecedented innovation.

CHS, Inc. completed a business-critical SAP S/4HANA migration for a core SAP application, which increased integration and data dependencies and expanded application complexity. As a result, traditional quality assurance practices were unable to keep pace with the speed and scale of post-transformation testing requirements. This session explores how CHS turned to the Tricentis platform to perform the massive regression test scope necessary to maintain their SAP application performance, as well as validate thousands of data row migrations on a daily basis. 

In this session, you will: 

• Learn how CHS streamlined their SAP test cycle timelines by over 60% per release.
• Discover how adopting a platform approach enables end-to-end test cases with improved coverage across multiple applications.
• Understand how to democratize test automation across a team of 30+ members, all with varying quality experience.

SAP Cloud ERP is more than a technical migration — it’s a financial transformation. As organizations move to SAP S/4HANA and RISE, contracts now extend beyond software to infrastructure, services, SLAs, and AI, increasing cost complexity and long-term financial impact.
In this session, Ferromex shares how it approached its SAP S/4HANA transition through a FinOps strategy — reviewing 46 contracts and addendums, identifying unfavorable terms, and strengthening executive readiness for negotiation. Learn how to bring transparency, financial governance, and cost control into your SAP Cloud ERP decision — and turn migration into a strategic advantage.

Key learning objectives:

• Understand the financial impact of SAP Cloud ERP contracts — including infrastructure, services, SLAs, and AI — and why traditional license thinking no longer applies.
• Apply a FinOps framework to SAP S/4HANA and RISE decisions to gain transparency, improve governance, and strengthen negotiation readiness.
• Turn migration into strategic advantage by aligning IT, finance, and executive leadership around long-term cost control and value optimization.

As SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) approaches end of life, finance teams are reassessing whether their planning and consolidation environments can meet today’s operational and reporting demands. In this session, Cirrus Logic shares its experience moving off SAP BPC and modernizing finance processes using CCH Tagetik.

Attendees will dive into Cirrus Logic's finance transformation journey and: 

• Understand the factors that led Cirrus Logic to move off SAP BPC, including the need for an SAP-centric solution that reduced IT dependence and combined planning and consolidation in a single EPM platform
• See how CCH Tagetik integrates with Cirrus Logic’s SAP environment and why that mattered to the team
• Take away lessons from a nine-month implementation focused on improving speed, accuracy, and flexibility

As SAP landscapes evolve with more frequent updates, cloud services, and SAP S/4HANA innovations, traditional testing approaches often struggle to keep pace. Test automation is no longer optional; it is foundational to protecting business continuity, reducing risk, and enabling faster, more confident change. This session explores what has changed in SAP testing and what actually works today, using AI-powered test automation as a practical enabler—not a buzzword. 

Attendees will examine key capabilities from Worksoft Connective Automation Platform 2026 in the context of proven SAP quality strategies and come away with:

• An understanding of how modern automation approaches support resilient test design, smarter execution, and sustainable maintenance across complex SAP business processes.
• Clear, actionable guidance for integrating automation into your SAP delivery pipeline.
• Actionable guidance to reduce test debt and scale testing with confidence as change accelerates.

What does AP automation in SAP look like in the real world, beyond the hype? Join xSuite for a customer case study session, featuring Lutron Electronics, Altenloh, Brinck & Co., and Century Aluminum. Hear first-hand why each organization started its AP automation journey, what they automated first, and how they scaled toward more touchless processing while maintaining control, compliance, and visibility. The panel will share practical lessons on handling exceptions, approvals, adoption, and governance, plus how AP automation can support broader SAP modernization and transformation priorities.

Join this session to learn:

• A practical “start here” playbook for AP automation in SAP.
• Strategies to reduce manual effort without sacrificing compliance or control.
• How to build momentum and scale automation across teams, sites, or regions.
• A clearer way to measure progress and value beyond “processed faster".
• Ideas you can apply immediately to your AP roadmap, regardless of where you are starting".

National Gypsum Company shares how a long-standing SAP partnership has helped sustain and evolve its SAP landscape for over eight years. In this session, learn how a flexible AMS model—combining onshore, offshore, and scalable expertise—enabled continuous innovation, strong technical governance, and seamless support for complex SAP integrations. The discussion will also highlight how National Gypsum is leveraging AI, data platforms, and predictive analytics to drive smarter manufacturing operations and operational efficiency.

System conversion to SAP S/4HANA can be complex, especially for organizations with customized ECC landscapes and mission-critical operations. In this session, Cricut shares how it successfully transitioned from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA in partnership with YASH Technologies. Attendees will explore Cricut’s conversion roadmap, including system readiness, custom code adaptation, data validation, integration testing, and go-live planning. Discuss the key risks typically associated with conversions and how Cricut proactively mitigated them to ensure a smooth transition. Attendees will leave with actionable guidance and best practices for reducing complexity, controlling risk, and accelerating time to value in their own SAP S/4HANA conversion journeys.

In this session, you will get:

• Actionable guidance to build a conversion-ready roadmap with tips to assess ECC readiness, prioritize custom code remediation, and structure a phased path to SAP S/4HANA. 
• Proven risk-mitigation strategies for complex landscapes, including strategies to manage data integrity, integration dependencies, and testing cycles to avoid business disruption during SAP S/4HANA conversion.
• Practical approaches to accelerate time to value through automation, parallel testing, and smart cutover planning, and see how this helped shorten timelines and stabilize operations faster post-go-live for Cricut.
• Firsthand insights into what worked, what to avoid, and how to apply Cricut’s best practices to your own SAP ECC-to-SAP S/4HANA journey.

As SAP environments move to the cloud—whether through RISE with SAP Private Cloud Edition (PCE) or on hyperscalers—security teams face a larger attack surface and added complexity, while still needing to protect user experience and performance for SAP users.

In this session, Zscaler leaders will explain how a Zero Trust approach helps secure high-value SAP investments during and after cloud migration, featuring real-world customer perspectives from Siemens, Volkswagen, and Deutsche Börse.

In this session, you will:

• Learn about the security, operational, and user experience challenges of moving SAP to the cloud.
• Explore why modern security controls are critical to reducing risk across the SAP digital estate during and after migration.
• Hear how global enterprises like Siemens, Volkswagen, and Deutsche Börse are putting Zscaler solutions into practice.

This session examines how Aerospace made change enablement a strategic priority by embedding it into every phase of its SAP S/4HANA program to support user adoption and long-term sustainability. See how a structured framework of stakeholder engagement, targeted training, and continuous feedback prepared teams for new processes and reduced resistance during rollout. Hear how early planning increased user confidence and strengthened readiness across business and IT. Get lessons from Aerospace to improve the effectiveness of your change approach, better prepare users for new ways of working, and achieve smoother adoption throughout your SAP S/4HANA transition.

Join this session to understand how Dodge modernized their Data & Analytics strategy with SAP Datasphere during an SAP S/4HANA migration. You’ll see how, after a comprehensive initial assessment, Dodge adopted SAP Datasphere to centralize and streamline our data management process. Learn how we significantly simplified our architecture with a more agile approach while simultaneously getting more access to SAP data than ever before.

You will:

• Learn how a shift from BW to Datasphere enabled a more accurate, stable, and scalable data landscape.
• Understand how Dodge approached the complete rewrite of our ERP data pipelines using a combination of Datasphere and SAP S/4HANA native Extract Load Transform (ELT) functionalities.
• Hear how Dodge was able to achieve a single version of the truth, with increased governance and increased delivery agility.

Get real-world lessons from Eneco to modernize integration by replacing traditional interfaces and ABAP proxies with standard APIs and event-driven connectivity in SAP S/4HANA. Examine the architectural decisions and governance practices that enabled faster innovation, reduced integration complexity, and improved operational reliability, and come away with the knowledge to: 

• Replace traditional interfaces and ABAP proxies with standard APIs and event-driven connectivity in SAP S/4HANA.
• Reduce manual effort and complexity by moving away from custom interfaces toward standardized approaches.
• Identify architectural decisions that improve operational reliability across SAP integrations.
• Inform integration planning and design decisions within your own SAP landscapes.

As finance organizations plan their move to SAP S/4HANA, one critical question remains: What can you do now to prepare your Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) processes for the future? This session examines how finance teams are modernizing EPM as part of their SAP S/4HANA journey to reduce complexity and accelerate value. Attendees will see how CCH Tagetik delivers a unified, AI-enabled platform running natively on SAP HANA to support core finance processes within SAP-centric environments.

By attending, you will learn how to:

• Accelerate time to value using a unified platform for consolidation, planning, ESG, and tax.
• Run EPM natively on SAP HANA to reduce integration complexity and IT overhead.
• Enable a phased, low-risk approach without disrupting evolving SAP systems.
• Apply agentic AI to improve data preparation, forecast accuracy, and data interrogation.

Functions that once operated independently, Finance, Tax, and GRC, are now collaborating to meet the demands of real-time compliance, automation, and strategic insight. AI and digital transformation are driving this convergence, creating shared workflows and integrated controls across the enterprise. In this power session, we’ll highlight real-world use cases where these functions are coming together to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and deliver business value.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Identify key drivers behind the convergence of Finance, Tax, and GRC functions.
• Explain how AI and automation enable cross-functional collaboration and shared workflows.
• Analyze real-world use cases where integrated processes improve compliance and efficiency.
• Evaluate strategies for breaking down silos, building a unified governance, and reporting framework.

India’s updated financial record-keeping requirements under the Companies (Accounts) Rules have created new data residency obligations for global organizations operating in the country. These regulations require financial data to be backed up daily and stored on servers physically located within India, a challenge for companies whose SAP landscapes are hosted in Europe or the United States.
In this session, HARMAN shares how it met these requirements without re-architecting its global SAP environment or relying on costly full-system backups. With a large, globally distributed SAP footprint, HARMAN needed a way to isolate and store only the India-relevant financial data required for compliance while avoiding excessive storage growth, network strain, and production impact.

Using EPI-USE Labs’ Data Sync Manager, HARMAN implemented a selective, automated approach that extracts only the required company code data and stores it locally in India. This approach delivered massive storage savings, significantly shrinking the compliance-related backup footprint while also cutting backup runtimes by nearly 90% and eliminating manual effort, all within a secure and auditable process.

Attendees will gain insight into how HARMAN turned a regulatory requirement into a scalable SAP data strategy that balances compliance, cost control, and operational stability. This session provides a practical model for global SAP teams navigating India’s evolving financial data residency rules.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how HARMAN met India’s SAP financial data residency requirements without moving its entire SAP landscape.
• Understand how selective SAP data copying can deliver massive storage savings, reducing compliance-related backup footprints by more than 90%.
• Discover how to automate daily, auditable backups while avoiding production system impact.
• See how regulatory compliance can directly translate into lower storage costs and operational efficiency gains.
• Take away a repeatable approach for global SAP environments facing regional data residency regulations.

This session examines how Loparex recovered from a challenging SAP S/4HANA go-live across four manufacturing sites, when adoption gaps, master data issues, and planning misalignment pushed teams back to manual workarounds and undermined confidence in the system.

Learn from Loparex’s experience and come away equipped to:

• Recognize early indicators that post–go-live SAP S/4HANA value is eroding before issues become entrenched.
• Distinguish between technical stabilization issues and execution breakdowns driven by adoption, data, and planning gaps.
• Move beyond a deployment-focused mindset by reinforcing education, behavior change, and execution discipline after go-live.
• Protect the expected return on SAP S/4HANA investments by addressing execution risks during planning and correcting breakdowns in live operations.

Modern SAP Managed Services are evolving beyond traditional ticket-based support into strategic business enablers. This session explores how organizations can drive continuous innovation, improve system stability, and optimize operational costs through outcome-driven managed services. Learn how proactive monitoring, automation, and expert-led delivery models help maximize SAP investments post go-live.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to transform SAP Managed Services from reactive support into a proactive value-driven model.
• Understand the evolution of SAP Managed Services in modern digital enterprises.
• Discover how modern Managed Services enable faster business change adoption.

Learn how Team Liquid is unlocking AI-driven analytics using SAP Business AI on SAP BTP with SAP AI Core and SAP HANA Cloud to support real-time competitive decision-making. Understand how large volumes of historical match data are used to train models, creating a scalable foundation for AI-driven insight generation. Explore how Team Liquid designed AI agents in Joule that translate natural-language questions into repeatable analytical workflows across historical match data. Gain insight into the company's plans to extend Joule-based AI agents and what this reveals about scaling AI use cases beyond initial deployments.

BridgeBio, a leading biotech innovator, transformed its access governance framework by implementing SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) in a highly regulated, GxP-compliant environment. This session explores how the organization aligned business requirements with IAG’s capabilities to streamline access management, enhance security, and meet stringent compliance standards. Discover how BridgeBio approached the complexities of GxP validation while deploying key IAG modules including Access Analysis, Privileged Access Management, Access Request, and Access Certification. The session will highlight how the team navigated regulatory challenges, automated critical processes, and built a scalable governance model that supports both operational efficiency and audit readiness. 

You will learn:

• How BridgeBio simplified access governance using SAP IAG to strengthen security and streamline operations.
• Key strategies for navigating GxP validation requirements in a regulated environment.
• How automation of access provisioning and certification improved compliance and reduced manual effort.
• Lessons learned from BridgeBio’s implementation journey to inform future access governance initiatives.

Hear directly from Woodstream about its enterprise-wide SAP Cloud ALM rollout and how it was embedded into their SAP S/4HANA program to drive smoother execution across all workstreams.

By attending, you will gain real-world lessons to:

• Integrate SAP Cloud ALM early in an SAP S/4HANA program to support testing, integration oversight, and clean core discipline.
• Establish lifecycle management practices that improve coordination and execution across complex workstreams.
• Address adoption, visibility, and cross-team alignment challenges when introducing new ALM processes and tools.
• Apply the most impactful elements of Woodstream’s approach to guide ALM planning and execution in your own transformation efforts.

Effective access governance is essential for balancing security, compliance, and agility in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. This session will showcase how SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) and SAP Access Control are leveraging AI-powered innovations to enable intelligent, adaptive access management at scale. We'll explore how seamless integration with partner technologies, such as Microsoft Entra, helps build a unified, scalable access governance framework across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Attendees will gain practical insights into implementing AI capabilities that enhance risk detection, automate access certifications, and streamline compliance processes. Through a strategic deep dive, we’ll demonstrate how these solutions evolve with your business, empowering teams to proactively address access risks and build a future-ready governance strategy. Join us to see how SAP and its partners are redefining access governance for a dynamic, risk-aware world.

SAP S/4HANA migrations are routinely under-delivered — not because the technology fails, but because the business case is developed too late, the roadmap is built in isolation, and C-suite buy-in is secured on cost rather than value. 
In this session, Resulting’s Head of Growth challenges that model by showing how a structured, strategy-first roadmapping approach reframes the conversation, positioning a technology migration as a board-level driver of growth.

Attendees will learn: 

• Why most S/4HANA business cases fail the boardroom — and how to fix that.
• How to map strategic priorities directly to SAP S/4HANA capabilities.
• How to reframe migration from an IT cost to a board-level growth investment.
• How to build a roadmap the C-suite will actually champion.
• How to phase your migration to reduce risk and avoid the big-bang trap.
• What CFOs, COOs, and CIOs need to see to give and sustain sign-off.
• How to align competing executive agendas around a single coherent plan.
• Why value realization must be designed in from day one vs bolted on after go-live.
• How to ensure your SAP investment delivers value within the timeline the business expects.
• How tools and accelerators like Resulting IT's agentic AI architect S4SensAI fast-tracks your roadmap, scoping, and value identification.

Find out how JLR made clean core enforceable within its SAP S/4HANA program by establishing clear governance, decision criteria, and escalation paths for application development teams. Attendees will learn how the company evaluated extensibility versus custom enhancements, managed deviations based on business value and risk, and worked with SAP to resolve edge cases while protecting long-term system integrity.

By attending, you will: 

• Understand how JLR embedded clean core as an enforced design principle across its SAP S/4HANA program.
• Hear how they leveraged an SAP Activate–aligned “SAP Standardization Board” to govern design, extensibility, and enhancement decisions.
• Explore real examples where SAP extensibility tools reduced the number of enhancements, and where deviations were necessary to deliver business outcomes.
• Learn how tiered design authority and direct collaboration with SAP helped maintain long-term system integrity.

See firsthand how Joule supports faster, smarter work across the SAP portfolio through a series of live demos that show generative AI in action across everyday business scenarios.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Use Joule to navigate data, trigger actions, and streamline common tasks across SAP applications.
• Apply Joule capabilities to accelerate day-to-day workflows in practical business scenarios.
• Get started with Joule using a clear activation and adoption approach.
• Account for required skills, governance considerations, and value drivers when deploying Joule in an SAP environment.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

SAP Business Data Cloud is SAP’s strategic product for data warehousing in the cloud. This hands-on workshop delivers a series of activities focused on SAP Business Data Cloud. In this beginner session, you will learn to use the different components in SAP Business Data Cloud and how to get started leveraging your corporate data and creating your first data model. The session will provide you with hands-on experience in multiple areas of SAP Business Data Cloud.

Key takeaways:

• The ability to get your hands on SAP Business Data Cloud.
• Understanding of the different components of SAP BDC.
• Knowledge of how to get started creating your first BDC data model.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

As organizations evaluate SAP Cloud ERP, many assume that accessing full innovation and cloud operating model benefits requires moving workloads to hyperscaler public cloud data centers. In reality, SAP Cloud ERP can be deployed in existing customer data centers or colocation environments while maintaining the same software features and operating model as hyperscaler hosting options.

This session examines how SAP on-site and in-place hosting options are structured, how they compare to hyperscaler deployments, and how they can eliminate unnecessary migration and significant data center transition costs. Learn how these models support efficient data aggregation, secure AI inference for both SAP and non-SAP data, and access to SAP innovation, including Joule agentic AI. 

Attendees will:

• Understand the on-site and colocation hosting options available for SAP Cloud ERP.
• Examine what remains consistent across hosting models, including capabilities and operating approach.
• Evaluate risk, cost, infrastructure, and data residency considerations tied to staying on-site.
• Explore how innovation, including AI capabilities such as Joule, is supported in on-site environments.
• Gain guidance for determining whether on-site Cloud ERP aligns with enterprise architecture and long-term IT strategy.

Organizations preparing to move from the classic General Ledger to SAP S/4HANA face a series of strategic, technical, and business value decisions. With multiple transition paths available, including transition of SAP General Ledger, SAP S/4HANA Finance adoption, or a phased implementation of SAP Central Finance, leaders must understand how each option shapes process redesign and future flexibility.  

This session will equip you with the information to select and prepare for the right SAP S/4HANA Finance deployment, including insight into the key differences between SAP S/4HANA Finance-based financial solutions and SAP General Ledger, and the classic version of the general ledger in SAP R/3. Learn how SAP S/4HANA enables process simplification, unlocks business-value opportunities, and reduces pain-points, as part of a finance process transformation. Get a practical overview of recent developments in SAP S/4HANA Finance, and proven practices to avoid common pitfalls, as you plan for an SAP General Ledger migration. 

You will:

• Examine the key differences between SAP S/4 HANA Finance-based financial solutions and SAP General Ledger and the classic version of the general ledger in SAP R/3.
• Realize process simplifications and leverage business-value opportunities to reduce your pain-points as part of Finance process transformation with SAP S/4HANA. 
• Learn how recent developments in SAP S/4 HANA Finance can influence your plans for SAP General Ledger migration.
• Unearth hidden tips and tricks to ease the SAP S/4 HANA Finance Migration challenges and learn from the hard-won successes and lessons from other customers for a much smoother migration.
• Carefully review the strategic, business-value and technical considerations one must consider for planning the SAP General Ledger or SAP S/4 HANA Finance deployments.

Grab a drink and join us as Pub Hour kicks off in the Exhibit Hall. You'll get tips for saving up to 80% on appliance costs before migrating to SAP S/4HANA. 

Hear how the senior leadership team at Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) guided an SAP modernization initiative that brought SAP S/4HANA, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, Fiori UX, and a new customer portal live in a single coordinated deployment. Learn how they aligned business and IT around a shared vision; structured project teams and decision rights across functional leads, IT, and system integrators; and used a disciplined change management model with regular leadership engagement to keep people, processes, and technology in sync. Find out why they chose to implement multiple capabilities at once, how that decision shaped their target-state architecture and future platform plans, and what outcomes they achieved, so you can apply similar practices to your own SAP modernization initiative.

Key Takeaways:

• Real-world strategies for aligning business and IT around a shared modernization vision.
• Insights on how to keep people, processes, and technology in sync through a disciplined change management model.
• An understanding of how key decisions shaped architecture and future platform plans.

This session examines how Under Armour modernized its integration landscape by consolidating toolsets from MuleSoft, Boomi, and SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI, Neo environment) to SAP Integration Suite on SAP BTP as part of its intelligent enterprise transformation.

By attending, you will:

• Understand the business and architectural drivers behind the company’s decision to consolidate multiple integration platforms to SAP Integration Suite.
• Learn how prepackaged SAP integration content, API Management, and event-driven capabilities reduced custom development and established standardized, reusable, and governed integrations.
• Explore how the company’s integration consolidation supports broader intelligent enterprise goals across commerce, supply chain, and finance.

Step through a real-world customer journey to SAP ERP Private Cloud through RISE with SAP and gain practical lessons from a successful implementation delivered in collaboration with SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS). 

Key learning objectives: 

• Prepare early for Bill of Materials validation, services selection, key SLAs, and deployment timelines to establish a strong foundation for the migration.
• Build the right team from Day 1 by onboarding key members across Infrastructure, Application, Database, Security, Functional, and Program Delivery, ensuring full alignment on scope, timeline, and methodology.
• Select the right partners to support the journey, leveraging SAP and PwC’s methodology, proven collaboration, industry knowledge, and experience to guide both current migration needs and future strategic direction.
• Identify and assess key migration variables including legacy customizations, third-party add-ons, cloud governance criteria, and other dependencies to strengthen delivery consistency.
• Empower team members with the right technical, business, and strategic skillsets to make accelerated decisions and stay on course.
• Embed change management from Day 1 to organize, communicate, and mitigate concerns across business and IT communities, enabling a smoother and more reliable RISE migration.

As American Industrial Transport (AITX) evaluated its path to the cloud, leadership needed a clear, data-backed way to assess options and justify a potential move forward. In this session, learn how AITX used SAP Signavio process intelligence and AI-driven analysis to uncover inefficiencies, quantify value opportunities, and replace assumptions with objective insight. Hear how those findings were translated into a business case that aligned stakeholders, prioritized investments, and supported informed decision-making around cloud ERP and RISE with SAP. Attendees will come away with practical guidance for using process data to evaluate cloud transformation options and structure more effective executive-level discussions.

As enterprises accelerate adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba, and SuccessFactors, the complexity of managing cybersecurity, risk, and compliance across this fragmented ecosystem increases dramatically. This workshop provides a deep dive into how to operationalize the Shared Responsibility Model (SRM) across SAP cloud platforms. Attendees will be guided through a structured methodology to clarify ownership boundaries, embed security and compliance into SAP programs, and define a unified governance model. Interactive exercises and real-world case studies will equip participants with practical tools to identify control gaps, align cyber strategies with enterprise risk frameworks, and drive compliance across hybrid SAP environments. This session is designed for security, risk, and IT executives who want to go beyond theory and return with a blueprint ready to apply across their SAP cloud landscape.

You will learn how to:

• Apply the Shared Responsibility Model to SAP cloud applications to clarify ownership and reduce risk. 
• Design a unified cyber, risk, and compliance strategy across SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba, SuccessFactors, and more. 
• Identify control gaps and implement governance models that scale across hybrid SAP environments. 
• Align SAP cloud security operations with enterprise risk frameworks and regulatory expectations.

Dive into dashboard design and data visualization in a detailed, practical, step-by-step, and ready-to-use way. Understand the key dashboard design rules, such as the usage of different visualization, colors, and text, as part of an overall dashboard design process and find out what to avoid. This best practice, hands-on lab will enable you to take your dashboards to new heights.

In this session, you will:

• Start with a complete run down of best practices for building easy to consume dashboards.
• Get detailed, step-by-step material that you can apply right away as part of your next dashboarding project.
• Uncover the key dos and don’ts that will make your data visualization projects shine.

Whether you're on ECC or SAP S/4HANA, innovation can and should happen now. In this session, you’ll learn 10 practical strategies that unlock S/4HANA-style benefits (including enhanced financial insights, better analytics, and smarter planning), without waiting on a full migration. 

This session will cover: 

• Native enhancements like Material Ledger, COGS splitting, and modern asset accounting. 
• Cloud extensions (SAC, Ariba, IBP, BTP/Fiori) that integrate directly with ECC or S/4.
• Strategic use of Central Finance for real-time Universal Journal reporting, bridging ECC to S/4.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.
 

This hands-on lab explores a modern enterprise IAM (Intelligent Access Management) scenario spanning complex SAP and non-SAP landscapes. Participants will work through an identity lifecycle in which Microsoft Entra, ROI iAM running on SAP BTP, and SAP GRC Access Control are used together to provision access to Salesforce, from user creation and automated provisioning to AI-driven access requests and traceability across systems.

By attending, participants will learn how to:

• Enable Microsoft Entra to act as a central IAM for SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Create users in Microsoft Entra to trigger automated provisioning to SAP BTP applications.
• Configure identity lifecycle steps using ROI iAM as an access management accelerator for Entra.
• Submit self-service access requests for Salesforce using natural language with SAP Joule.
• Execute risk evaluation for non-SAP permissions using SAP GRC Access Control and review end-to-end traceability in Microsoft Entra and SAP Joule.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

This hands-on lab explores a modern enterprise IAM (Intelligent Access Management) scenario spanning complex SAP and non-SAP landscapes. Participants will work through an identity lifecycle in which Microsoft Entra, ROI iAM running on SAP BTP, and SAP GRC Access Control are used together to provision access to Salesforce, from user creation and automated provisioning to AI-driven access requests and traceability across systems.

By attending, participants will learn how to:

• Enable Microsoft Entra to act as a central IAM for SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Create users in Microsoft Entra to trigger automated provisioning to SAP BTP applications.
• Configure identity lifecycle steps using ROI iAM as an access management accelerator for Entra.
• Submit self-service access requests for Salesforce using natural language with SAP Joule.
• Execute risk evaluation for non-SAP permissions using SAP GRC Access Control and review end-to-end traceability in Microsoft Entra and SAP Joule.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Note: This lab session includes laptops for attendee use, available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
You are welcome to bring your own device if preferred. Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

Attend this session for hands on experience migrating existing SAP Process Integration and Process Orchestration (PI/PO) integrations to SAP Integration Suite. Participants will work with common PI/PO interface patterns and redesign them using cloud-native integration capabilities to support scalable, real-time integration across SAP and non-SAP systems.

Attend to:

• Assess SAP PI/PO interfaces, including channels, adapters, mappings, and routing logic, to determine migration and redesign approaches.
• Rebuild PI/PO integration scenarios in SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration using modern integration flows and prebuilt content.
• Transition PI/PO-centric designs to API-based and event-driven integration patterns that better support real-time processing.
• Deploy and test migrated integrations in SAP Integration Suite, validating behavior, error handling, and operational stability.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Don't miss the opportunity to take part in a high-energy, escape room–style experience designed to simulate the real-world pressures of a cloud transformation. Working through deadline-driven scenarios that reflect the complexity of cloud decision-making, participants will practice collaboration, prioritization, and change leadership under pressure.

Key learning objectives:

• Navigate cloud transformation scenarios that require rapid decision-making and cross-functional coordination.
• Apply proactive change management techniques to address evolving requirements and constraints.
• Collaborate effectively across business and IT roles to resolve cloud-related challenges.
• Build confidence and clarity to lead cloud transformation initiatives more effectively.

Accounts Payable is no longer just about automation - it’s becoming a strategic lever for finance transformation. In this session, discover how next-generation AP automation powered by AI and SAP-native technology is redefining efficiency, accuracy, and visibility across finance organizations.
Join xSuite as we break down what truly defines a modern AP solution today - from global e-invoicing compliance to AI-driven capture, prediction, and analytics. You’ll see how intelligent, SAP-embedded automation enables faster processing, fewer errors, and real-time insights.
Through practical examples, we’ll show how finance teams are moving beyond manual work and fragmented tools toward scalable, future-ready AP processes that support better decisions and stronger compliance.

Key takeaways:

• How to simplify global invoice processing with SAP-embedded e-invoicing and compliance.
• How LLM-based intelligent capture improves accuracy and reduces manual effort.
• How AI predictions automate coding, approvals, and exception handling.
• How modern AP reporting turns transaction data into actionable insights.
• Why native SAP integration is critical for performance, security, and Clean Core alignment.

In this interview-style session, the CFO of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest global AIDS organization, and Nagarro share a candid, behind-the-scenes look at how a global healthcare nonprofit modernized its finance and operational foundation to scale with confidence. Serving over 2.7 million patients across 45 countries, AHF embarked on a transformation to strengthen global visibility, governance, and executive decision-making through a unified cloud-based finance core, without slowing down the organization’s mission.
 
The discussion explores how implementing the SAP Business Suite helped AHF standardize processes across geographies, enhance real-time insights, and streamline procure-to-pay, enabling faster and more informed leadership decisions. Rather than focusing on technology features, this session highlights executive priorities, key lessons learned, and practical guidance for organizations navigating similar complexity, regardless of industry or size.

Attendees will walk away with clear perspectives on:

• How modern cloud ERP can elevate finance from a back-office function to a strategic enabler, ensuring every dollar saved through efficiency can be redirected to what matters most.
• How real-time visibility and smarter decision-making empower finance leaders to drive sustainable business value.

Winning in the next era requires more than a series of one-time projects and siloed tools — it requires an enterprise-wide approach that's built for change. In this session, discover how SAP’s Business Transformation Management solutions empower you to architect a business that learns, adapts, and improves continuously. We’ll reveal how SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, and WalkMe come together to unify strategy and execution, and enable seamless adoption of new technology and ways of working in a connected and collaborative way.

Upgrading to SAP S/4HANA presents a unique opportunity to address long-standing segregation of duties (SoD) and compliance challenges—but timing matters. This session explores how a global organization evaluated whether to redesign roles in ECC prior to migration or modernize during the SAP S/4HANA transition. Attendees will hear practical considerations, tradeoffs, and lessons learned from each approach, and how those decisions impacted security, controls, and project outcomes. The discussion offers guidance for organizations balancing speed, risk, and compliance during SAP S/4HANA programs.

Most SAP S/4HANA programs struggle not because of tooling, but because data visibility, governance, and reporting break down as organizations move across legacy, transitional, and target landscapes. This session examines how Nordic Naturals chose a data-first transformation approach to its SAP S/4HANA migration, using SAP Business Data Cloud to preserve reporting continuity, improve decision-making, and manage coexistence during a phased transition. Attendees will see why establishing a unified data foundation early helped the team reduce risk and guide migration scope and sequencing. Hear why Nordic Naturals pursued a data-first approach instead of a traditional ERP-led migration and come away with new options to consider as you plan your SAP S/4HANA journey.

Finance transformation often stalls when planning and close are spread across fragmented ERPs, disconnected teams, and spreadsheet-heavy processes that slow decisions and limit scalability. In this session, NTT DATA Business Solutions shares its journey to establish an integrated Enterprise Performance Management foundation using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SimpleFi Solutions' EPM Applications to unify planning, reporting, and financial consolidations in a single platform. 
You will hear how the team prioritized speed-to-value by leveraging SimpleFi's expertise and application content (without “starting from scratch”). The session will walk through a practical roadmap that sequences capability rollout across consolidations and global planning design, headcount planning, pipeline and revenue planning, expenses and direct costs, and ultimately CapEx, balance sheet, and cash flow to deliver an end-to-end finance view for the CFO.Beyond the architecture, the speakers will outline their execution “compass”: design for expansion, ensure finance-led ownership, keep clarity of vision, and accelerate responsibly with IP, reinforced by lessons on sequencing, cross-functional collaboration, and early data quality readiness.Finally, the session will quantify why this matters: reducing manual extraction and spreadsheet risk, enabling automated synchronization, improving transparency of assumptions, and delivering real-time analytics and cost-center-level planning with consolidated views.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to deliver SAP Enterprise Performance Management using SimpleFi’s EPM Applications (with SAP Analytics Cloud) to unify planning, reporting, and Financial Planning and Consolidations in one platform.
• Identify why finance transformation stalls in fragmented ERP and spreadsheet-heavy environments, and what to change to regain speed and scalability.
• Understand a pragmatic rollout roadmap across consolidations, global planning design, headcount, pipeline and revenue, expenses and direct costs, and ultimately CapEx, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Discover how to accelerate speed-to-value by leveraging proven application content and expert delivery, avoiding “start-from-scratch” implementations.
• Take away execution principles and measurable outcomes: design for expansion, finance-led ownership, data readiness, reduced manual extraction and spreadsheet risk, automated synchronization, transparent assumptions, and real-time analytics.

Drawing on firsthand experience guiding some of the world’s largest SAP Cloud ERP transformations, David Robinson, President of SAP North America, SAP Americas, will share how SAP is helping customers turn years of technical debt and customization into a launchpad for end-to-end, cloud-first ERP modernizations that emphasize clean core principles and AI adoption. He will exemplify why organizations must move from one-time projects to IT operating models that allow for persistent innovation rather than “go live” as an end state.

The application of generative AI to technical SAP operations has a practical and already proven side. With focused scope, AI does a remarkable job of converting the available firehose of alerts and data from SAP systems into something digestible and useful for Basis teams. This session examines how to use AI to convert a stream of metrics and machine detail into a human-readable, prioritized set of actionable responses. Then, reduce resolution time to acute system outages and use automated early identification to prevent them entirely.

You will learn how to:

• Eliminate alert fatigue and false alarms, focusing on what matters for business continuity.
• Convert from technical context to insight, using generative AI to interpret complex SAP monitoring checks, recommend "next best actions" and response priorities.
• Empower junior staff to troubleshoot critical database licensing or performance issues safely using AI-driven guidance"

Experience how SAP business processes can be seamlessly extended into Microsoft Teams to streamline workflows and accelerate decision-making.  During this session we will demonstrate how Purchasing approvals in SAP S/4HANA can be conducted inside Microsoft Teams, showing how the requestor can be kept up to date, and how the information in Teams is aligned with the SAP S/4HANA data. We will show how Looply handles the data integration into Teams, making it easy to support any SAP process.

This session explores PetMeds’ SAP Cloud ERP (formerly "SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud") implementation to modernize its core operations and support scalable growth. Hear how the company evaluated Public and Private deployment options, how they determined what to standardize versus configure, and how those choices guided their implementation approach and supported a more predictable build. Discover how Fit-to-Standard workshops, clean core practices, and preconfigured content shaped scope decisions and helped maintain compliance and quality while accelerating deployment. Come away with proven ways to manage rapid timelines, avoid complexity, maintain scope discipline, and set up your organization for a smooth SAP Cloud ERP rollout.

As SAP landscapes transition toward hybrid architectures and cloud-native environments, the traditional perimeter of SAP security is disappearing. To protect the core of your business, organizations must move beyond simple compliance and adopt a proactive, enterprise-wide cybersecurity mindset. Join authors Gaurav Singh, Manager, SAP Cybersecurity, Under Armour and JP Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO, Onapsis for an exclusive "Meet the Authors" session. Drawing from their comprehensive SAP Press book, "Cybersecurity for SAP," the authors will explore how to evolve your defense strategy to meet modern threats.

In this session, you will:

• Focus on System-Level Focus: Addressing vulnerabilities isn't just about patching; it's about understanding real-world threat scenarios—how an attacker might actually move through your landscape.
• Understand the importance of Cross-Functional Roles: Whether you are an Enterprise Architect or a Developer, security is now a core part of the job description to ensure "secure by design" principles.

Moving to S/4HANA, adopting RISE with SAP, or replacing SAP IDM or GRC? Modernization is your opportunity to rethink access governance. Visit the Saviynt booth to see how Saviynt delivers modern AI powered Application Access Governance built for today’s SAP landscape.  

Learn how to:

• Modernize governance for SAP applications.
• Prevent SoD risks before they become audit findings.
• Simplify emergency access and activities.
• Automate compliance reporting.
• Extend governance to non-SAP applications in a single unified platform.

SAP Cloud ERP (formerly RISE with SAP) simplifies infrastructure management, but most of your business runs well above the power-ping-and-pipe layer of Cloud ERP Private services agreements. Business-critical SAP workflows often leverage SAP, non-SAP, cloud services, and APIs – and all fall well outside standard Cloud ERP monitoring.
In this session, explore how to create a single point of control for your entire hybrid solution – anywhere it runs. Learn how to bridge the data gap between SAP Cloud ALM and your broader IT operations, ensuring the end of “green light outages.”

Attendees will learn how to:

• Integrate SAP Cloud ALM, SAP for Me and ServiceNow with your on-premises and non-SAP cloud footprints for a single, unified view.
• Monitor integration for critical non-SAP components (SaaS, OS, DB, and middleware) that your Cloud ERP environment depends on to function.
• Use the "Shutterfly" model to validate performance and availability across hybrid boundaries, ensuring seamless handoffs between SAP-managed and customer-managed layers.

This SAP GRC for SAP HANA 1.0 Roadmap Session will provide a forward-looking view of SAP’s evolving Governance, Risk, and Compliance portfolio as organizations face rising regulatory complexity and digital risk. The session highlights key innovations across Access Control, Process Control, Risk Management, and Audit Management, with emphasis on cloud transformation, AI-enabled capabilities, and tighter integration with SAP ecosystem. Attendees will learn what’s coming in SAP’s roadmap, how it impacts current landscapes, and the practical steps needed to modernize GRC processes. Participants will leave with clarity on future direction and actionable guidance to prepare for the next generation of intelligent, connected GRC.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is among the platforms SAP recommends for RISE with SAP environments, yet most organizations are only scratching the surface of what it enables. This session shows you the automation, compliance, and lifecycle toolchain already included in your subscription that eliminates manual toil across your SAP estate. Stop firefighting. Start operating.

Key Takeaways:

• Steadier day-2 ops.
• Migration-safe maintenance rhythms. 
• Measurable time/cost savings from automation.

In this session, we’ll explore how SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Seamless Planning, and SAP Business Data Cloud come together to create a more connected, intelligent planning environment. You’ll see how SAC enables end users to build, adjust, and submit their plans through structured workflows, while Seamless Planning ensures tight integration between planning processes and core SAP business applications.

We’ll also highlight how SAP Business Data Cloud provides a unified, trusted data foundation through integrated data products, enabling consistent, real-time access to business-critical information across the enterprise. This strong focus on integration and data products helps eliminate silos, improve data quality, and support more reliable, enterprise-wide planning.

This session will cover: 

• Connected planning experience: SAP Analytics Cloud enables end users to create, adjust, and submit plans through structured workflows, supporting collaboration and transparency across the organization.
• Seamless integration: Seamless Planning tightly connects planning processes with core SAP business applications, reducing manual work and ensuring consistent, real-time data.
• Unified data foundation: SAP Business Data Cloud delivers integrated data products and a trusted data platform, eliminating silos and enabling more accurate, enterprise-wide planning.

The SAP landscape is no longer confined to the core—it’s moving to the cloud and edge. But managing hybrid architectures and ensuring seamless integration across diverse environments remains a significant challenge for IT leaders.

Join experts from SAP and SUSE for a deep dive into the synergy between SAP Integration Suite, Edge Integration Cell and SUSE Rancher for SAP applications. We will move beyond the basics to show you how a secure, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform serves as the foundation for modern SAP workloads. Whether you are tackling decentralized manufacturing, retail logistics, or complex hybrid clouds, you’ll leave this session with a clear blueprint for building a scalable, future-ready SAP integration strategy.

Key learning objectives:

• Discover how SUSE Rancher simplifies hybrid management from core to cloud to edge.
• Understand why SAP introduced the Edge Integration Cell and the specific "real-world" use cases it solves.
• Get a first look at recent innovations and the future roadmap for both platforms.

At some point, your SAP system may face an audit. This session explores what an audit might entail, how to prepare, and what separates a smooth audit from a painful one. Learn about different types of auditors, the focus of various SAP assessments, and why these distinctions matter. Gain insights into key areas including security, basis configurations, change control and transports, configurable controls, and reports through the lens of common questions and potential audit risks. Walk away with actionable steps to prepare, from obtaining an update on prior findings and gathering typical audit evidence, to coaching your team on how to effectively work with an auditor. Whether you are managing an SAP system under audit or you are an auditor yourself, this session provides valuable information to take the stress out of an audit.
 
You will:

• Understand the types of auditors and SAP audits and how each impacts what you are being asked.
• Review common areas of audit focus when your SAP system is in scope.
• Learn the dos and don’ts of working with auditors.
• Receive a checklist of tips for preparing your SAP system and your people for an audit.

This session provides a comprehensive review of the latest features, functions, and capabilities of SAP BTP, including planned enhancements across development, integration, automation, data, and AI. Attendees will gain clarity on how SAP BTP services fit together and how roadmap priorities influence architecture decisions and platform planning.

Key learning objectives:

• Understand how SAP BTP capabilities are organized across core service categories.
• Identify platform components most relevant to modern SAP landscapes.
• Assess roadmap priorities and their impact on adoption sequencing and architecture planning.

As SAP landscapes move toward clean core and cloud-first architectures, application teams are reassessing how low-code tools fit into modern SAP development. This session examines SAP Build and how its capabilities are evolving to support extension and automation across SAP-centric application landscapes.

Key learning objectives:
Understand the purpose and use cases across SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Work Zone.
Learn how SAP Build fits into clean core–aligned architectures alongside ABAP Cloud, SAP Integration Suite, and other SAP BTP services.
Determine when SAP Build is appropriate versus pro-code approaches for SAP extensions.
Explore the SAP Build roadmap and the capabilities shaping future extension and automation scenarios.

This session provides an essential overview of SAP's Business AI strategy and capabilities as we move into 2026. Obtain a holistic understanding of how SAP is transforming every enterprise through intelligent & AI-powered innovation. 

Emerge with:

• A solid grasp of how SAP embeds AI across business processes.
• Understanding of how Generative AI applications & capabilities including SAP Joule & Joule-based applications such as Joule for Consultants, Joule for Developers, & Joule Agents helps companies run at peak performance.
• A primer of the powerful technological enablement framework for Generative AI including SAP AI Foundation, AI Core, Generative AI Hub, Joule Studio, & Knowledge Graph.
• An overview of how customers can kickstart and/or accelerate their SAP AI journeys.
• A glimpse of the upcoming AI attractions in 2026.

This session provides an overview of the core capabilities of SAP Business Data Cloud and a forward-looking view of how the platform is evolving across data management, analytics, and AI. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of which capabilities are available today, what's coming in the next 12 months, and how BDC supports their data and AI priorities.

In February, SAP Business Suite marked its first anniversary. This session uses that milestone as a starting point to examine how the integration of applications, data, and AI within SAP Business Suite cloud capabilities supports business efficiency, intelligence, and innovation, and how the journey to SAP Business Suite can reshape operations while helping organizations maximize their technology investments.

Attend this session to:

• Understand why SAP Business Suite matters to you as an SAP customer.
• Get an understanding of its building blocks.
• Obtain an overview of how to plan for your journey to the SAP Business Suite.
• Understand key tools, services, and enablers that SAP provides to ensure customer success in this journey.

As SAP landscapes evolve across cloud and hybrid models, customers have asked: Where does SAP Cloud ALM fit in my organization and how should we use it for implementation, operations, and ongoing transformation? 
This session clarifies the role SAP Cloud ALM plays in driving innovation, managing change, supporting testing, and maintaining visibility from planning through post-go-live operations. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of when SAP Cloud ALM is needed, the problems it is designed to address, and how it has become the execution platform for SAP’s integrated transformation toolchain.

Key learning objectives:

• Identify the business and delivery drivers that support establishing SAP Cloud ALM as the central platform for implementation and operations.
• Distinguish the core use cases SAP Cloud ALM supports across delivery governance, testing, change, and operational visibility.
• Recognize how SAP Cloud ALM bridges the gap between implementation and operations for both new implementations and migrations (conversion / selective data transfer).
• Understand how SAP Cloud ALM connects with SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX as part of the integrated transformation toolchain, and how each is used across transformation planning, execution, and operations.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

Experience how SAP Cloud ALM helps you adopt the SAP intelligent enterprise and accelerate your implementation projects. This hands-on training explores how SAP Cloud ALM supports implementation and transformation activities aligned with clean core, RISE with SAP dashboard and best practices. Through focused, hands-on exercises, participants learn how to manage project execution, governance, and quality.

Key learning objectives: 

• Get an overview of SAP Cloud ALM capabilities for implementation and transformation scenarios.
• Understand Clean Core governance and RISE with SAP dashboard outcomes across the transformation lifecycle.
• Learn how SAP Cloud ALM supports test management and quality assurance during implementation.
• Confidently use SAP Cloud ALM to support implementations, enforce clean core adoption and track RISE with SAP dashboard metrics.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

This session provides an overview of SAP Cloud ALM and its role as SAP’s strategic application lifecycle management platform for cloud and hybrid SAP landscapes. 

By attending, you will: 

• Understand the role of SAP Cloud ALM within SAP’s ALM portfolio and how it differs from SAP Solution Manager and third-party ALM tools.
• Explore Cloud ALM capabilities across implementation, testing, deployment, and operations using a lifecycle-driven perspective.
• See how SAP Cloud ALM integrates with SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP, SAP BTP, and SAP Integration Suite to support end-to-end visibility.
• Gain insight into the Cloud ALM roadmap, including upcoming enhancements and strategic innovation themes shaping future releases.

This session provides a comparison between traditional on‑premise SAP security operations and the security model used in SAP RISE. Participants will learn how the shift to a cloud‑managed environment changes visibility, control, and responsibility—especially regarding security logs, monitoring, and incident response. By the end of the session, the audience will understand the key differences, what security capabilities they retain, what SAP takes over, and how to adapt their security operating model for RISE.

Explore SAP Cloud ERP as an AI-powered SaaS ERP application designed for organizations that rely on technology to support efficiency, innovation, and growth. Understand how SAP is evolving traditional ERP through business best practices, intelligent automation, embedded analytics, and cloud-native architecture that supports scalability, resilience, and security.

Attend this session to:

• Explore key business capabilities and innovations based on the latest 2602 release.
• Get a guided tour of its key technological aspects, including the multi-tenant SaaS foundation.
• View demos to see how SAP Joule is reshaping the user experience and supporting improved productivity across SAP environments.
• Get guidance on whether and how to leverage a 2-tier Cloud ERP model underpinned by SAP Cloud ERP.

SAP Cloud Identity Services are central to modern SAP landscapes - but many programs struggle with where IAS/IPS fit, how trust is established, and how SAP BTP security concepts translate into real configuration decisions. This session will clarify the positioning of Identity Authentication Service (IAS), Identity Provisioning Service (IPS), and related components, then connect those fundamentals to SAP BTP security essentials. You will see live demonstrations of common trust setups, group management patterns, authentication options, and a first IPS integration scenario. Take-home exercises will help you replicate the configurations later in your own environment.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the purpose and positioning of SAP Cloud Identity Services (IAS/IPS) within SAP’s IAM landscape.
• Describe core SAP BTP security constructs (global account, directories, subaccounts, entitlements, role collections).
• Establish and validate trust relationships between IAS and SAP target systems (and common SAP cloud services).
• Configure IPS connectivity patterns (cloud and on-premise via proxy) and understand typical integration flows.

This session analyzes the results of SAPinsider’s latest SAP ERP Deployment Research Report and provides clear, data-driven benchmarks to help organizations assess their SAP ERP deployment strategy.

By attending this session, you will: 

• Learn how peers are structuring SAP landscape
• Use benchmark data to understand where your organization stands today and how others are prioritizing governance, security, modernization, and readiness for AI-driven innovation.
• Gain actionable insights to validate current decisions and identify informed next steps for evolving SAP architecture with confidence.s across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments, and how adoption patterns for SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP BTP, and integration platforms differ by maturity level.

Explore the details of functionality, differentiators, and important platform aspects in the latest SAP GRC On Premise and Cloud provisioning and compliance solutions. Gain detailed insights into the SAP Compliance applications of SAP GRC Access Control 12.0 and SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance and consider which application, platform, and functionality is best for current and long term compliance and provisioning requirements.

You will:

• Learn about the GRC evolution and why it is important to progress and plan ahead. 
• Discover how to identify where you are on the evolution roadmap, define where you want to be, and what it takes to get there through time and effort estimates. 
• Learn about SAP GRC application functionality through the lens of real customer examples of success and pitfalls at different stages of the GRC evolution.

In many companies, the security team is often the last to be notified about user on-boarding, off-boarding, or position changes that require adjustments to users' system access and security permission levels. These delays, coupled with high volumes of manual provisioning tasks, create significant inefficiencies, leave employees without the necessary access, and introduce risky Segregation of Duty -conflicting permissions.  This session explores how SAP GRC Access Control HR Triggers, alongside SAP SuccessFactors or SAP HR streamlines provisioning through timely event-driven automation of the access request and provision process and how to leverage HR Triggers day-to-day SAP Security provisioning operations.

You will:

• Examine key SAP access provisioning challenges when HR-driven events are not integrated, including inefficiencies, security risks, and high-volume manual workloads.
• Explore SAP GRC Access Control 12.0 and SAP Cloud IAG HR Trigger capabilities for automating provisioning through HR event–based actions integrated with SAP SuccessFactors or SAP HR.
• Analyze how Arizona’s Salt River Project implemented SAP GRC HR Triggers to enable consistent, timely, HR-driven SAP access provisioning.
• Highlight key customer and consulting partner insights, including recommendations, challenges, and pitfalls to avoid for a successful and value-driven SAP GRC HR Trigger implementation.

SAP IAG Bridge enables organizations to bridge governance processes and content between SAP Access Control (GRC) and cloud/hybrid landscapes using SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG). This instructor-led session focuses on practical coexistence and phased modernization patterns: establishing the bridge architecture, configuring connectivity to target systems, synchronizing identities and repository objects, and implementing access request patterns that work across on-prem and cloud. You will see guided demonstrations of bridge-relevant configuration concepts such as integration touchpoints (including identity and provisioning patterns commonly used with IAS/IPS), request lifecycle and workflow routing considerations in hybrid environments, and approaches for aligning controls and audit evidence across tools. The session concludes with a practical view and will be supported by take-home exercises.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain SAP IAG Bridge architecture and positioning relative to SAP Access Control (GRC) in hybrid/cloud scenarios.
• Identify key integration touchpoints for bridging (including identity and provisioning patterns commonly used with IAS/IPS).
• Configure foundational connectivity and repository synchronization needed to support hybrid governance (identities, entitlements, and role structures).
• Demonstrate access request and workflow patterns suited for coexistence (routing, custom fields, and lifecycle visibility).
• Describe practical approaches to controls alignment (e.g., SoD ruleset) and audit-friendly evidence across GRC and IAG.
• Describe how IAG supports periodic reviews within a bridge operating model at a high level.

Join SAPinsider as we reveal the latest findings from our Intelligence Benchmark report on SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) use cases and adoption across the SAPinsider community. This session will discuss how, organizations are using and adopting SAP BDC in their SAP ecosystems, how their data architecture and governance readiness aligns with their SAP BDC implementation, the top drivers and barriers to adoption, and which SAP BDC use cases and products are in production. We’ll then have an open discussion, inviting attendees to share their own data modernization experiences, challenges, and lessons learned. This interactive dialogue will help you benchmark your organization’s progress and identify the next steps for advancing your data and analytics journey.

Key takeaways:

• An understanding of where SAP customers are in adopting SAP BDC.
• Insight into how leading organizations are extracting the most value from their data.
• The ability to benchmark your own data and analytics maturity with your peers.

AI is redefining how finance operates. From accelerating the close to enabling predictive planning and real-time liquidity decisions, AI is creating a new standard for speed, accuracy, and insight. This session will cover findings from SAPinsider’s State of the Market: Finance Technology and Automation Report, revealing how leading organizations with SAP environments are deploying AI to transform core processes and what’s next for the intelligent finance function.

Join this session to understand how to:

• Apply insights about the AI revolution in finance to your own strategic roadmap.
• Identify key trends in AI and automation adoption within finance operations in SAP environments.
• Explain how AI-driven solutions improve efficiency in financial close and record-to-report processes.
• Analyze the impact of predictive analytics and scenario modeling on planning and forecasting.
• Evaluate strategies for leveraging automation to enhance cash management and liquidity visibility in SAP environments.
• Compare your organization’s finance technology maturity against SAPinsider community benchmarks.
• Develop an action plan for prioritizing AI and automation use cases in finance transformation.

Is your tax team driving value in the organization? Get beyond the complexity of shifting regulations, cross-border compliance, and the rise of digital mandates. Learn how AI and automation are driving new ways of working in tax that are essential for managing risk and driving efficiency. This session unveils findings from SAPinsider’s State of the Market: Global Tax Management Report, exploring how organizations with SAP environments are modernizing tax operations across Sales & Use Tax, VAT/GST, Corporate Tax, and e-invoicing. Discover where your organization stands against peers in AI maturity, tax controls, and technology adoption.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Apply insights about the AI revolution in tax to your own strategic roadmap.
• Formulate strategies to advance tax technology adoption and automation initiatives in SAP environments.
• Assess the maturity of global tax management practices across indirect and direct tax domains.
• Describe best practices for implementing tax controls and compliance frameworks in SAP environments.
• Differentiate approaches for managing Sales & Use Tax, VAT, and GST using automation.
• Explain how AI technologies are transforming corporate (direct) tax processes.
• Identify priorities for meeting global e-invoicing mandates and digital compliance requirements.

This session provides a first look at findings from SAPinsider’s SAP ERP Migration and Transformation Research Report and offers a forum to benchmark key decisions against current market data as 2027 approaches. Discover how organizations are navigating timing pressure and making deployment tradeoffs as timelines tighten. 

By attending, you will: 

• Understand where organizations currently stand in SAP S/4HANA adoption and how those positions are influencing near-term decisions. 
• Examine how RISE with SAP and SAP Cloud ERP are affecting existing SAP ERP customers, including impacts on scope, timing, and deployment approach. 
• Identify the most common challenges and roadblocks organizations report as they plan or execute their move to SAP S/4HANA .
• Use research insights to assess risk exposure and extended maintenance expectations.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) functions are under pressure to adapt to a rapidly changing regulatory landscape while managing complex SAP environments. AI and automation are transforming what organizations must look for and do to lower risk, strengthen controls, and enable predictive compliance. This session explores findings from SAPinsider’s State of the Market: GRC Report, looking at how organizations in SAP environments are leveraging intelligent technologies to modernize governance frameworks, automate compliance, and proactively manage risk.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Apply insights about the AI revolution in GRC to your own strategic roadmap.
• Identify key trends in AI adoption for GRC processes within SAP environments.
• Explain how AI-driven tools enhance risk management and predictive analytics.
• Describe best practices for automating governance and compliance workflows.
• Analyze strategies for implementing continuous controls monitoring and SoD management using intelligent technologies.
• Evaluate the impact of AI on audit readiness and regulatory compliance.
• Develop an action plan to prioritize AI and automation initiatives for GRC transformation.

Attend this session for an up-to-date look at SAP Integration Suite and its role in supporting scalable, governed integration across hybrid SAP landscapes. 

By attending, you will: 

• Get a guided tour of SAP Integration Suite's current capabilities, architectural positioning, and product roadmap, including how SAP is evolving support for APIs, events, and messaging.
• Gain clarity on where SAP is investing and what that means for shaping future platform and integration plans.
• Understand how SAP Integration Suite fits into broader transformation initiatives, including cloud adoption and clean core strategies.

SAP Joule is quickly becoming a core part of SAP’s AI strategy, yet many customers remain unclear on what Joule is designed to do, where it fits within the SAP landscape, and which teams it is intended to support. The session examines where Joule is embedded across SAP applications today, how it supports insight and action without replacing existing tools or roles, and how platform capabilities on SAP BTP enable extension, control, and governance. Attendees will get a clear understanding of who Joule is for, what it enables out of the box, what requires deeper technical engagement, and how to evaluate its relevance for their organization.

Learn how to: 

• Define what SAP Joule does and does not do, including how it differs from analytics tools, workflow engines, and traditional automation.
• Identify which Joule components are relevant to business users, IT teams, developers, and consultants.
• Differentiate how embedded Joule experiences, Joule for Developers, and Joule Studio are used in practice based on role, responsibility, and depth of engagement.
• Evaluate where SAP BTP capabilities, including extensibility and orchestration, become necessary to move beyond standard Joule usage.

This session will cover what the Material Ledger is, why it matters, and how to prepare your data, processes, and design for a smooth transition. You’ll leave with a practical understanding of how to make the most of Material Ledger in your SAP S/4HANA Finance landscape. Take this opportunity to see an overview of the 5 key functions that Material Ledger provides. See which functionalities are available with mandatory activation of Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA and which ones you need to activate yourself. Learn best practices for configuring Material Ledger and for trouble shooting issues post go-live. What are the key decisions you need to consider before implementing Material Ledger. Understand how Material Ledger integrates with the Universal Journal. See the key Material Ledger reporting transactions and how they are used in ECC. Learn the correct sequence of steps required to activate the material ledger in an SAP system that is already up and running. Find out what’s required to convert your parallel currency, parallel valuation, and actual costing data to be compatible with the material ledger. Gain insight into how to detect (and correct) MM and FI-GL errors in order to perform a successful conversion. 

You will: 

• See the five different ways Material Ledger can be used. 
• See what functionality is and is not activated with mandatory Material ledger in SAP S/4HANA. 
• See details of what is involved in implementing material ledger. 
• Understand the best way to prepare for Material Ledger when transitioning from ECC to SAP S/4HANA. 
• Learn how to optimize Material Ledger activation and data conversion.

Printing remains mission critical to SAP business operations, yet cloud-based SAP services do not have direct visibility into printers secured behind corporate firewalls. As organizations adopt RISE with SAP and SAP BTP, this disconnect introduces new challenges for delivering business-critical output. 
This session examines how to ensure printing reliability as SAP landscapes evolve.

Key learning objectives:

• Assess printing dependencies within SAP landscapes to identify mission-critical output.
• Understand printing challenges introduced by RISE with SAP and SAP BTP.
• Evaluate the relevance of emerging standards such as IPP Everywhere and Microsoft Modern Print.
• Identify common failure scenarios affecting SAP printing in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Design reliable and secure printing architectures for SAP landscapes.

As SAP customers embark on or plan for an SAP S/4HANA transformation, SAP security professionals must prepare for this new frontier. With the Clean Core approach, the SAP landscape is shifting toward an API-first model where SAP BTP, specifically SAP Integration Suite, is central. For organizations coming from the SAP PI/PO world, this this is a new environment with its own limitations and challenges. As SAP Integration Suite becomes the hub for both SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP integrations, the granular RBAC controls familiar from the ABAP/Java world are no longer available in the same way.
 
Join this session to:

• Gain clarity on how SAP Integration Suite reshapes integrations with a Clean Core.
• Learn about process and architecture considerations to secure and govern SAP Integration Suite.
• Walk away with guidance on tenant strategy, CPI security, API security, policy and identity and access management.

This session from SAP provides an overview of the latest news, enhancements, and strategic roadmap for SAP Security. It highlights recent innovations, key capability improvements, and upcoming developments designed to strengthen security, compliance, and resilience across SAP landscapes. Attendees will gain insight into SAP’s security direction and how these updates support evolving business and regulatory requirements.

Rapid digitalization is increasing the number of global tax regulations around the world, from electronic invoices to preparation of tax returns on behalf of tax payers. Join this session to learn recent innovations and what is planned for the future.

You will:

• Learn about recent and upcoming regulations (electronic invoices, tax reform in Brazil, ViDA in Europe, etc.), including system demonstrations.
• Learn about SAP newly released functionalities to automatically reconcile draft returns issued by authorities and subsequent submissions.
• Learn how you can leverage AI to minimize compliance risks and SAP’s roadmap.

Explore how SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is evolving as the central hub for planning, analytics, and intelligent decision-making. As business environments become more complex, organizations need connected data, advanced planning capabilities, and AI-driven insights to stay ahead. This session will cover the future direction of SAP Analytics Cloud, with an emphasis on three key areas: Core Planning, Artificial Intelligence, and the data platform that underpins planning.

This session will cover: 

• All-in-one platform for analytics and planning: SAP Analytics Cloud combines business intelligence, planning, and predictive capabilities in a single, unified environment.
• Collaborative, workflow-driven planning: End users can create, adjust, and submit plans within structured workflows, improving transparency, accountability, and speed.
• AI-powered, data-driven decisions: Embedded artificial intelligence and tight integration with SAP data platforms enable more accurate forecasts, scenario analysis, and real-time insights.

In this session, JLR shares lessons from their evolving SAP S/4HANA initiative and discusses the benefits of anchoring decisions in business outcomes versus technical milestones. 

Attendees will: 

• Understand where business ownership impacted priorities and outcomes, including key differences compared to a traditional IT-led SAP S/4HANA program.
• Hear how lessons from the initial production rollout are being applied as the transformation scales across the business.
• Get tips to evaluate implementation partners against evolving program needs, including when and how to reset expectations or change system integrators.
• Discuss proven strategies to drive business change and adoption through training models, superuser networks, and frontline user support.

Jabil successfully migrated its Access Violation Management (AVM) solution to the latest AVM Cloud platform, enabling standardized and scalable governance across multiple global SAP S/4HANA systems. This session explores how the organization executed this transformation to support continuous controls monitoring across its diverse manufacturing subsidiaries.

Attendees will learn how Jabil approached the migration with a focus on planning, risk management, and adaptability to regional operational needs. The session will highlight how the new cloud-based AVM solution improved governance frameworks, enhanced compliance, and delivered operational efficiencies. Real-world insights will be shared on how the team overcame challenges during the transition and leveraged advanced analytics to support better decision-making across business units.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to plan and execute a multi-system AVM Cloud migration with effective risk management.
• Key challenges and solutions for deploying AVM across diverse global manufacturing operations.
• How the cloud-based AVM platform improved governance, compliance, and continuous monitoring.
• Ways to leverage AVM analytics to drive operational efficiency and informed decision-making.

AI and Agentic AI promise significant benefits, however, they bring security risks such as breaches of privacy and confidentiality, unauthorized access and action. The unpredictability of Generative AI also poses new risks. We must ensure chat bots, co-pilots and agents stay within their intended scope boundaries and authorizations. Agents that interact with business systems and especially those that can act on users' behalf need to be carefully controlled and these risks multiply when agents start collaborating together.
 
This session gives an overview of the security risks for AI workloads across the stack, from agent and application, down to the models, platforms, and infrastructure. This established cybersecurity practice helps to identify security risks so they can be addressed early. Join this session to learn techniques, tools, and services that SAP uses itself to secure AI workloads and minimize risk without inhibiting pace of innovation.

You will learn:

• Full-stack security risks for AI workloads (SAP or otherwise). 
• Core principles of AI and Agentic AI threat modeling and risk identification. 
• Techniques, tools and services that can help reduce security risks.

Lucid Motors, a fast-growing electric vehicle manufacturer, faced increasing complexity in its SAP security landscape as it scaled operations. To address challenges in compliance and efficiencies in role management and user provisioning, the company launched a strategic initiative to modernize its SAP security framework using automation and AI.

Join this session to explore how Lucid Motors accelerated its SAP security transformation by integrating advanced technologies and fostering cross-functional collaboration. You will learn how the team used GPT-based tools and automated data analyzers to streamline role placement and user mapping, while automated testing tools reduced cycle times and improved accuracy. The session will also highlight the importance of alignment between project management, IT, business stakeholders, and internal audit to ensure compliance and scalability. Lucid’s experience offers practical strategies for building a future-ready SAP security model that supports both current operations and long-term growth.

You will learn:

• How to integrate AI-driven tools into SAP security workflows to accelerate role design and validation.
• Techniques for fostering cross-functional accountability and compliance alignment across project teams.
• Best practices for implementing automated testing to reduce errors and streamline cutover.
• Approaches to building scalable governance frameworks that support long-term adaptability.

As organizations face increasing complexity in financial and operational structures, static master data hierarchies can no longer keep pace. This session introduces Flexible Hierarchies in SAP S/4HANA, which is a powerful, adaptable framework that allows finance and controlling teams to design, manage, and maintain hierarchies for cost centers, profit centers, and more without IT involvement. This session provides real-world implementation tips and best practices to help you simplify hierarchy management and improve reporting flexibility, whether you're centralizing shared services, managing frequent org changes, or supporting global consolidation.
 
You will:

• Understand how Flexible Hierarchies support dynamic, attribute-based financial structures.
• Learn to use SAP Fiori apps to create and manage hierarchies with ease.
• Discover how to streamline reporting and reduce manual effort using tagging and automation.
• Explore how to incorporate custom fields for company-specific needs. 
• Gain practical tips for implementing and maintaining hierarchies across financial areas.

2025 was a dramatic wake-up call for business-critical application security, marked by critical zero-days, public exploits, and a significant rise in sophisticated, targeted attacks against SAP systems globally. Security Operations Center (SOC) teams are struggling to keep pace, frequently lacking the deep SAP threat insights and specialized exploit detection necessary to defend these complex, mission-critical assets effectively.

This session will provide security professionals with an in-depth, educational look at the new threat landscape, detailing the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by threat actors to directly compromise SAP applications.

You will learn:

• Key Lessons from 2025: Analysis of the most impactful SAP vulnerabilities, exploits, and breaches, including the anatomy of zero-day attacks and ransomware infiltration vectors.
• Next-Gen Methodologies: The essential tools and specialized threat insights required to overcome the knowledge gap and achieve effective, rapid defense for SAP.
• The Power of Unification: How Onapsis Defend (for specialized SAP context and exploit detection) and Microsoft Sentinel for SAP (for centralized SIEM, AI, and SOAR capabilities) integrate to provide a unified, accelerated incident response workflow that protects your critical business systems.
• Walk away with a clear roadmap for leveraging specialized threat intelligence and automation to optimize your SAP incident detection and response processes.

Running SAP in modern, hybrid infrastructures demands operational excellence long after go-live. SUSE Trento delivers exactly that by providing intelligent, automated, and consistent Day-2 operations for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA landscapes. In this session, we’ll explore how Trento improves system reliability and reduces operational risk through continuous configuration validation, proactive health checks, and built-in best-practice guidance based on SAP and SUSE recommendations.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
Power is available at the tables. Please connect to the secure event Wi-Fi and test your browser before the session begins.

This hands-on workshop is designed for practitioners who already have a foundational understanding of SAP Analytics Cloud and want to elevate the quality, performance, and impact of their stories. Participants will work through a series of guided, practical exercises focused on dashboard design and story design, effective use of SAP Analytics Cloud components, and proven best practices for building high-quality dashboards and data visualizations. The session goes beyond introductory concepts to explore design patterns, layout strategies, interaction techniques, and practical tips drawn from real-world project experience. By the end of the workshop, you will have the skills and confidence to design, build, and deliver scalable, business-ready SAP Analytics Cloud stories that drive insight, adoption, and decision-making across the organization.

Key takeaways:

• Proven best practices for building high-quality dashboards and data visualizations.
• Practical story design tips drawn from real-world project experience.
• The skills and confidence to design, build, and deliver scalable, business-ready SAP Analytics Cloud stories.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

As SAP landscapes evolve toward cloud and hybrid operating models, system management teams are increasingly responsible for supporting continuous transformation while maintaining operational visibility and readiness. This session examines how SAP’s integrated toolchain brings together SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, and SAP Cloud ALM to connect architecture, process, and execution context across SAP initiatives, enabling transformation to progress without disrupting day-to-day operations.

Attendees will:

• Understand the distinct role each solution plays within SAP’s integrated toolchain.
• Assess how application landscape and dependency visibility inform transformation planning and system readiness.
• Examine how process insights are translated into executable scope and tracked through implementation and operations.
• Learn how SAP Cloud ALM supports monitoring, release coordination, and execution oversight during continuous transformation.

In this case study, learn how The Andersons leveraged its upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 2023 to unlock embedded journal entry workflow, utilize the Group Reporting Preparation Ledger, and strengthen consolidation governance. By activating capabilities not previously available, the team improved compliance, increased audit transparency, and accelerated close performance.
If you’re planning an S/4HANA upgrade, replacing BPC, or seeking stronger controls within your financial close, this session will provide practical insights into release-driven transformation, workflow design, and reporting evolution.

Key takeaways include:

• Lessons learned from implementing the new Group Reporting journal workflow.
• Approaches to optimizing CDS-based reporting for performance and flexibility.
• Coordination strategies for client-side testing, security roles, and documentation.
• How targeted consulting support can complement in-house S/4HANA upgrade efforts.
• Limitations and challenges encountered during the transition, and how they were addressed collaboratively.

Did you know 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing to deliver ROI due to flawed integration? Being recognized as a Leader in both the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management and Integration Platform as a Service, Boomi can help set you up for success when it comes to your SAP agentic transformation. 

Use Boomi for SAP Data Connector to effortlessly move SAP data with Change Data Capture (CDC) and reliably fuel your agentic workflows. Built on the same proven, trusted technology, Boomi’s SAP connector operates at the application layer and is 100% compliant with SAP license usage. Come join our Boomi and SAP experts to see how the connector could work for you!

Join this action-packed session to:

• Effortlessly move SAP data to your cloud data lakehouse by using Change Data Capture (CDC) and fuel SAP agentic workflows.
• Real-World Applications: Hear success stories from customers who use Boomi for SAP to unlock the value of their SAP data.

Tax is no longer a back-office function—it is a strategic driver of value during SAP S/4HANA migrations. Yet many organizations struggle to embed tax requirements into system design, resulting in fragmented data, manual processes, and compliance risk. This session provides a comprehensive roadmap for integrating corporate income tax, operational transfer pricing, indirect tax, and sales and use tax into your SAP transformation strategy. Whether you are planning your migration or seeking to maximize post-go-live value, this session will equip you with actionable steps to make tax a catalyst for business performance—not an afterthought.

You will:

• Gain practical insights into building a tax data strategy aligned with enterprise finance transformation.
• Learn how to enable predictive analytics and improve operational efficiency.
• Explore how leading organizations leverage SAP capabilities, AI, and real-time analytics to automate tax processes and optimize global compliance.

Faced with the challenge of modernizing a fragmented data landscape, Caleres built a scalable, cloud-native architecture that unified SAP and non-SAP data sources for a future-ready data platform. In this session, we’ll share how we achieved seamless integration across SAP S/4HANA, legacy ECC, and non-SAP systems using SAP Datasphere and Microsoft Fabric. You’ll learn how SAP Datasphere’s ELT capabilities accelerated the creation of our business models, how native data lineage and impact analysis supported governance and transparency, and how maintaining Microsoft Power BI as the reporting layer enabled unified analytics without disrupting our existing workflows. Join us to discover how the strategic architectural choices we made, and the synergy between SAP Datasphere and Microsoft Fabric, delivers near real-time insights, ensures governance, and optimizes cloud spend while minimizing disruption.

You’ll Learn:

• How we integrated SAP S/4HANA, ECC, and non-SAP data into Microsoft Fabric for unified analytics.
• Techniques for accelerating time to value using ELT modeling and real-time data availability.
• Ways to leverage SAP Datasphere’s advanced features to enhance data quality and usability.
• Strategies we deployed for ensuring reliability and cost efficiency in daily operations and cloud architecture.

Norfolk Southern’s journey to modernizing enterprise reporting is driven by strategy, innovation, and a commitment to deeper insights. This session explores how we integrated SAC, Datasphere, and Databricks into a seamless, scalable architecture that meets evolving business needs while laying the foundation for a smarter, faster, and more connected future. Hear how our evolution began with the successful implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), which delivered intuitive dashboards, real-time analytics, and self-service reporting to our business users across key functions, including finance, operations, and supply chain. We’ll share how our transformation continues as the demand for unified, intelligent data grows. 

Key takeaways:

• Real-world insight into how the adoption of SAP Datasphere and Databricks marks a strategic shift for our organization. 
• An understanding of how we moved beyond a technical upgrade to break down data silos, enhance AI-driven analytics, and establish a single, governed source of truth for enterprise-wide reporting.
• A look at where what’s next in our data transformation journey.

In many SAP programs, significant time and cost are absorbed by documentation, implementation alignment, testing preparation, and iterative review cycles. Functional requirements are often translated inconsistently, technical artifacts vary across teams, and manual validation introduces delays and rework that increase delivery risk and inflate development costs.

See how an AI-driven Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) platform designed for SAP environments embeds structured intelligence directly into development workflows to standardize requirement analysis, generate consistent technical documentation, support disciplined code review, and streamline test preparation while improving traceability across the lifecycle. Understand how to apply these capabilities within existing governance models by walking through use cases such as translating functional specifications into structured technical artifacts and accelerating interface modernization, including migrating from MuleSoft to SAP Integration Suite.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Introduce structured, AI-assisted requirement-to-technical translation within SAP projects.
• Standardize documentation and technical artifact generation across teams.
• Embed guided review and validation workflows into SAP development cycles.
• Automate test case creation and traceability documentation • Reduce rework by enforcing consistent SDLC checkpoints.
• Support structured interface migration from MuleSoft to SAP Integration Suite.
• Track improvements in cycle time, quality, and development cost efficiency.

Ensuring your SAP S/4HANA system is still secure and compliant with your licensing agreements after a brownfield upgrade can be a challenge. While the introduction of Fiori can be a tremendous UI improvement for end users, an uncontrolled introduction of Fiori functions can lead to a nightmare of unauthorized access and SOD violations. Join this session to gain insight into a holistic approach to securing a brownfield SAP S/4HANA upgrade using GRC Access Control to maximize compliance while minimizing effort and RISE license costs.

In this session, you will learn how to:
Reengineer granular, SOD-compliant security roles to simplify the upgrade process.
Harmonize Fiori catalogs with security in a holistic approach to reduce work significantly.
Optimize RISE license fees as part of the reengineering."

Strap in for a journey through the vast, often chaotic universe of Enterprise Data Architecture. In this session, we’ll demystify core architectural principles that every organization must grasp to navigate data complexity at scale. 

From legacy gravity wells to cloud-native wormholes, we’ll explore the real-world patterns and learn how to design resilient data architecture that evolves with your business - not against it. We will weave together stories and characters from Douglas Adam’s book ‘The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy’ and cover topics that are top of the mind for SAP customers like navigating BW modernization and maximizing the value from their business data with AI and ML.  Get ready for the for the ride!

In this session, you will:

• Discover core architectural principles essential for navigating data complexity at scale in today’s enterprise environments.
• Learn how to build resilient data architectures that adapt and evolve with your business instead of working against it.
• Gain practical insights from real-world SAP use cases on legacy modernization, cloud-native design, and future-ready data platforms.
• Explore how to maximize business value from data by integrating AI and ML into your enterprise data architecture strategy.

Finance is no longer about accounting – it’s the key to steering profitable growth to be a strategic partner.  Join this session to learn how to be an effective strategic partner with the core tools that SAP offers for Enterprise Performance Management including understanding the latest AI innovations and roadmap.  See how to utilize iterative simulations to articulate strategic objectives across business units.  Understand how continuous closing activities during the period yields early insights.  Learn how to plan and forecast based on harmonized data products.

By attending this session you will:

• Understand a high-level overview of Enterprise Performance Management from SAP.
• Get an introduction to the planning and extended planning capabilities from SAP.
• Learn about select key AI Innovations and roadmap.
• Understand how the integrated approach to intercompany and close is a step towards continuous closing.
• Learn the latest innovations and roadmap for the strategic financial consolidation solution SAP Cloud ERP, group reporting.

Join this session to understand the latest AI innovations and roadmap for the Accounting and Financial Close and area within the SAP Financial Management portfolio of applications including SAP Advanced Financial Closing, SAP Universal Journal, SAP Universal Revenue Recognition, Value Chain Analysis, Universal Parallel Accounting, and SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine. Learn high level strategies to tackle IFRS 18.  Understand how SAP is bringing together apps, data, and AI into the SAP Business Suite creating a virtuous flywheel utilizing SAP Business AI, Joule, and SAP Business Data Cloud. 

By attending this session, you will:

• Understand SAP’s Business Suite and AI strategy.
• Learn about the key AI Innovations and roadmap for the SAP Accounting and Financial Close and area within the SAP Financial Management portfolio of applications.
• Understand the latest Agentic AI strategy for Accounting and Financial Close.
• Understand the latest product updates for SAP Advanced Financial Closing, SAP Universal Journal, SAP Universal Revenue Recognition, Value Chain Analysis, Universal Parallel Accounting, and SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine.

The strategic mandate for SAP enterprises has transitioned from technical migration to the pursuit of the autonomous enterprise. While the move to SAP S/4HANA or Cloud ERP provides the foundation, many organizations find the path to operational AI obstructed by legacy technical debt, fragmented data silos, and a widening security perimeter. Success in this next phase requires an architectural shift that treats security and governance, integration, and a modern data foundation not as secondary IT tasks, but as the primary drivers of business intelligence.

This panel convenes senior executives from across the SAP ecosystem to share their perspectives on reducing the risk of cloud migrations, managing complex relationships with software and infrastructure providers, the best ways to activate and manage data essential for future AI use, and more.

Key takeaways include:

• Managing relationships between SAP, cloud providers, and system integrators to prevent project drift and control the hidden costs of cloud-based ERP.
• Moving beyond traditional perimeter defense to integrate SAP-specific vulnerability and compliance monitoring directly into the cloud landing zone.
• Using modern integration platforms to bridge SAP and non-SAP data, creating real-time data streams for analytics and AI.
• Practical insights from Callaway Golf Company and Blue Diamond Growers on transitioning from stabilization mode to continuous innovation.

Immediately following the keynote, continue the conversation at the Lucky Insider Reception in the Exhibit Hall.

Are you ready to elevate your SAP security expertise? Join us for an immersive and interactive SAP Security Game, crafted to simulate real-world security challenges faced by organizations—with brand new use cases! Participants will navigate various scenarios designed not only to test but also to enhance their strategic and technical expertise in SAP security. This active session offers an invaluable opportunity to enhance your skills in security planning, compliance management, and breach response while promoting collaboration and learning in a supportive and competitive setting. Throughout the workshop, we will engage with three critical topics including preventative security control implementation, compliance request/audit handling, and security breach response. 

You will: 

• Learn to develop and implement robust security controls to safeguard your SAP environment. 
• Gain experience in efficiently managing and responding to compliance requests and audits with precision. 
• Practice responding swiftly and decisively to a simulated security breach, aiming to minimize damage and ensure business continuity.

Scaling Accounts Payable shouldn’t mean adding headcount or complexity. In this 15-minute booth session, see how touchless AP enables teams to handle higher volumes without manual effort. Through a live demo, we show how routine tasks like data entry, routing, and posting are automated end to end in SAP. The result is a streamlined AP process where automation scales effortlessly and teams focus on exceptions, control, and accuracy.

Moving enterprise data to the cloud presents a transformative shift in the way data is managed, accessed, and leveraged. However, there are a number of challenges to understand and overcome. This session will move beyond the hype to explore the top five tangible opportunities and associated challenges that data professionals must navigate to ensure a successful cloud data strategy. We’ll dig into the opportunities, like how the cloud unlocks scalability and flexibility and enables real-time analytics, and then dive into the critical challenges that come with this evolution including security and compliance, cost, governance, and more. 

Key takeaways:

• Expert advice on navigating the key challenges managing data in the Cloud.
• Insight into the other side of the coin - the unique opportunities that the Cloud presents.
• Answers to your toughest data in the Cloud questions.

This session explores how KPMG leverages SAP Joule for Consultants to improve execution and accelerate outcomes across cloud transformation initiatives.

Attendees will get practical lessons and field-tested guidance to:

• Optimize resource utilization by reducing time spent on repetitive delivery work and improving focus on higher-value program activities.
• Improve execution predictability and cross-team coordination by embedding AI support directly into transformation workflows.
• Identify where Joule can deliver the greatest speed-to-value impact across cloud transformation initiatives.

Organizations face increasing pressure to meet stringent data sovereignty requirements while continuing to innovate and operate efficiently.  This session proposes a transformative approach to GRC by unifying applications, data, and artificial intelligence within a cohesive, sovereignty-aware architecture. By integrating advanced data management capabilities and intelligent automation, enterprises can achieve real-time visibility, consistent compliance enforcement, and auditable decision-making across the entire data lifecycle. AI-powered analytics further enhance risk detection, streamline reporting, and enable proactive governance while ensuring that sensitive information remains within required geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. This integrated model not only strengthens regulatory compliance and reduces operational risk but also unlocks new opportunities for strategic value creation, positioning organizations to operate confidently in an increasingly complex global regulatory landscape.

Large, complex, global multinational companies often face significant challenges in managing lease accounting due to multiple SAP instances, lack of integration with leasing software, decentralized processes, and off-system activities. These challenges can lead to inefficiencies, manual work, increased audit findings, and difficulty maintaining consistent controls across the enterprise.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• How to design a scalable financial foundation that supports business growth without operational burnout.
• Proven frameworks for forecasting and cash flow planning used by high-performing entrepreneurs and executives.
• Leadership and delegation strategies that transform financial data into actionable growth decisions.

As SAP customers move toward cloud-centric landscapes, transitioning from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM requires more than replacing one tool with another. This session examines the fundamental differences in architecture, operating model, and scope that require teams to rethink how application lifecycle management is delivered in cloud-first SAP landscapes.

Attendees will: 

• Identify which common SAP Solution Manager use cases map to SAP Cloud ALM and which require changes in approach or continued use of other tools.
• Learn how organizations typically phase the transition by lifecycle use case, including parallel operation across implementation, testing, and operations.
• Evaluate organizational, process, and governance impacts that teams should plan for when moving to SAP Cloud ALM.

Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT concern — it’s a business imperative. In a world of increasing regulatory pressure, AI-powered threats, and complex digital ecosystems, SAP environments remain high-value targets for cyberattacks. Yet many organisations still struggle to translate technical risks — such as unpatched vulnerabilities, excessive user access, and insecure integrations — into board-level conversations that drive action. Learn how to reframe SAP security from reactive protection to proactive value creation. Explore how to quantify risk in business terms, align with executive priorities, and build security strategies that support trust, compliance, and business continuity. With real-world insights from global operations and transformation programs, you'll leave with a practical framework for elevating cybersecurity to a strategic conversation.

You will learn how to:

• Speak the language of the business: Learn how to communicate SAP cyber risks to senior executives with impact — linking technical threats to financial, reputational, and operational outcomes.
• Prioritize what matters most: Discover how to assess and rank SAP vulnerabilities using likelihood and business impact — helping teams focus on what really drives risk reduction.
• Stay ahead of emerging risks — from AI-enabled threats to data sovereignty and new compliance pressures.

SAP Business Data Cloud provides the trusted data foundation required for enterprise AI. In this session, you’ll learn how SAP brings together governed data products, the SAP Knowledge Graph, and SAP Databricks to enable AI use cases for end-to-end business processes.

Delve into the SAP BTP services available to build custom AI agents and AI-powered applications using enterprise business data, from platform capabilities to activation paths and typical usage patterns.

By attending this session, you will learn how to: 

• Use SAP BTP services to enable agents and intelligent application behavior.
• Ground AI scenarios in SAP business data using SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Datasphere.
• Determine when to use Joule Studio, SAP AI Core, and supporting BTP services.
• Position AI capabilities within a broader SAP BTP strategy.

Note: This lab session is BYOD (bring your own device). A limited number of devices may be available to borrow if needed.
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Join us for an interactive hands-on lab where you'll explore the most in-demand capabilities of SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) from intuitive role design to automated access requests and intelligent access reviews. This session will guide you through how IAG integrates seamlessly with SAP Cloud Identity Services, creating a unified identity lifecycle across your enterprise landscape. You’ll learn how to extend IAG to support key business applications, both within and beyond the SAP ecosystem, enabling centralized policy enforcement and risk analysis. Experience firsthand how to configure critical features like access risk analysis, role provisioning, and cross-system workflows, all while using real-world scenarios that mirror today’s governance challenges. By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with actionable best practices for optimizing access governance in a hybrid environment, strategies to scale IAG adoption effectively, and insights into building a future-proof, intelligent governance model.

Capacity is limited to 50 participants. If the lab is full, please join the waitlist. Pre-registered attendees should arrive at least 10 minutes before the session to claim their seat. To ensure an on-time start, any unclaimed seats will be released to waitlisted attendees 5 minutes before the session begins. If you’ve preregistered and later decide not to attend, please remove the session from your agenda in the event app so your spot can be offered to the waitlist. Waitlisted attendees should monitor the event app on the day of the lab and be prepared to proceed to the room quickly if space becomes available. Note: To receive waitlist updates, be sure to enable networking and allow push notifications in the app.

Many companies have standardized on Microsoft Active Directory user authentication (Kerberos) for Windows workstation logon as well as for application authentication and single sign-on (SSO). For example, SAP GUI SSO is often implemented using a Kerberos SNC library. In recent years, Microsoft has made enhancements to its products so that customers can gradually remove their dependency on Kerberos and Active Directory, and use Entra ID instead. The challenge has been how to support thick client applications (e.g., SAP GUI) when Kerberos is no longer available. Often SAML is used with web-based applications, but this doesn’t work with thick client applications. In this session, SecurityBridge will explain how recent innovations in their popular TrustBroker product now allow it to provide SSO and MFA using OpenID Connect (OIDC), without requiring any BTP service or additional infrastructure.

You will:

• Learn how to address the challenge of seamlessly moving away from Microsoft Active Directory authentication to Entra ID with thick client applications such as SAP GUI. 
• Understand how MFA can be enforced during (and after) logon based on a per-SAP system policy. 
• Discover how risk based and context aware authentication can be implemented; e.g. MFA might be enforced when a user tries to log on and that user has previously been identified conducting suspicious activity on that system.

Learn how financial institutions are deploying AI models using SAP’s OpenAI Platform in SAP BTP to modernize credit risk decisioning, fraud detection, pricing, and other financial processes. Discover how SAP BTP’s open, model-agnostic architecture supports integrating foundation models, operationalizing decision services, and embedding intelligence into SAP S/4HANA and finance workflows. Gain insights into the technical patterns, integration points, and lifecycle management capabilities that enable scalable, compliant AI deployment across financial landscapes. Understand how SAP’s OpenAI Platform provides the tools and governance structure needed to build, orchestrate, and continuously improve AI-driven processes.

You will:

• Learn how SAP Open AI Platforms works in Financial deployments.
• Explore how clients have deployed new AI capabilities in Banking and Finance.
• Hear how R and Python AI models can interact with real-time SAP data in HANA.

Your SAP S/4HANA Finance budget is approved, but are you ready to start your SAP S/4HANA Finance initiative? You have heard of many stories—some horrifying—and you are very eager to know how easy or hard it will be to implement an SAP S/4HANA Finance migration. 

This session will cover:

• Both the smooth and painful SAP S/4HANA initiatives that may be relevant to you. 
• Best practices for migration, based on the lessons learned from other migration projects. 
• Pre-migration consistency checks and validations that you must perform to be ready for SAP S/4HANA Finance, as well as post-migration validations. 
• Options available to you to fully exploit the power of SAP S/4HANA Finance parallel currencies. 
• Insights into the extensive data clean-up efforts may be required for you to be ready for your SAP S/4HANA Finance migration.

Join us for an insightful customer story detailing our complex SAP S/4HANA migration that initiated our enterprise-wide digital transformation. This session will dive into the architectural decisions that enabled the deployment of the new digital core with both cloud-based (SAP Sales Cloud, SAP BTP) and critical on-premises systems. We’ll share critical lessons learned about the practical hurdles faced, from managing a complex legacy landscape with third-party integrations to the decisions we had to make around master data governance. Understand the ‘what and the why’ of our architectural design, what we got right, what we might do differently next time, and how we delivered a scalable platform for continuous innovation that meets the needs of the business and positions our company for the future.

Key takeaways:

• Insight into the architectural decisions around the deployment of both cloud and on-prem systems.
• The key architectural decisions we had to make and the outcomes from those decisions.
• Lessons learned from what we got right and what we’d do differently next time.

SAP Treasury is evolving fast—and staying current is the key to staying competitive. This session will cover the latest innovations across SAP S/4HANA Treasury and Risk Management, including newly released features, embedded intelligence, real-time analytics, and SAP Fiori apps that are changing the way Treasury operates. Whether you're just starting your SAP S/4HANA journey or looking to optimize your existing setup, this session will give you a practical, no-fluff rundown of the tools, features, and capabilities that matter most. Delivered with real-world client examples, this session is a must for Treasury, Finance, and IT leaders who want to lead the curve, not chase it.

In this session, you will learn to:

• Identify the most impactful new features across SAP S/4HANA Treasury. 
• Leverage the latest Fiori apps for payments, cash visibility, and deal execution.
• Take advantage of recent innovations in bank connectivity, acknowledgments, and security. 
• Understand SAP’s Treasury roadmap and how to align it with your digital strategy. 
• Avoid common missteps when activating new functionality post go-live.

This dynamic discussion session examines recent high-profile cybersecurity breaches to highlight how threats evolve, how attackers exploit vulnerabilities, and how impacts extend far beyond the breached organization. Attendees will learn how disruptions to systems, sensitive data exposure, and compromised third-party relationships can trigger financial losses, regulatory scrutiny, reputational damage, and supply chain instability. The session will also explore broader economic implications, including market volatility and increased operational costs for organizations that were not directly breached.

Join this session for an interactive discussion on:

• Strengthening security posture.
• Improving vendor risk management.
• Building resilience to mitigate far-reaching effects of modern cyberattacks.

SAP environments generate security signals that are hard for traditional SOC and MDR services to interpret because the “why” often lives in identity, authorizations, and business context - not just logs. As a result, teams face alert fatigue, slow triage, and containment steps that stay outside SAP in tickets and spreadsheets instead of becoming verified, auditable actions. 

In this session, we’ll show how an AI-driven SOC as a Service (SOCaaS) purpose-built for SAP connects SOC workflows with Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) to enrich detections with relevant context, automatically build evidence packs, and guide analysts from investigation to decision. 

You’ll learn how guardrail-based automation can handle SOC1/SOC2 tasks end-to-end while keeping SOC3 in control for high-impact approvals - so response actions remain governed and compliant. Finally, we’ll walk through a pragmatic adoption model that starts small (critical alerts and high-risk identities), proves measurable MTTA/MTTR improvements, and scales across on-prem and cloud SAP landscapes with an audit-ready trail from alert to verification.

In this session, you will:

• Understand why SAP security alerts require identity and authorization context - and why generic SOC playbooks often miss the real risk.
• Learn how to connect SOC operations with IGA to enrich detections with entitlements, role changes, SoD/critical access signals, and user lifecycle events.
• Discover an agentic triage flow that assembles an evidence pack automatically (timeline, correlated signals, and decision-ready proof).
• Learn how to reduce alert fatigue by automating SOC1/SOC2 tasks (deduplication, enrichment, investigation steps) while escalating only high-signal cases to SOC3.
• Explore a guardrails-first response model (recommend → approval → execute) that keeps actions governed, explainable, and compliant.
• See how to drive SAP-native response actions through your IGA or IAM applications - such as locking/logoff, deprovisioning, workflow approvals, and risk checks - rather than stopping at tickets.

Are you curious how to better navigate and leverage the underlying financial (FI) data structures in both ECC and SAP S/4HANA? Join this session to discover how to locate where FI data is stored and link the raw SAP data with what your end users see to ultimately enhance financial reporting. 

You will: 

• Identify the key tables where FI data is stored in both SAP S/4HANA and ECC Understand the consolidation of ECC tables in SAP S/4HANA Link the data behind the scenes to the data that your end users can display. 
• Expand your ability to quickly write specifications for custom report development using Report Writer, ABAP or BI by leveraging your knowledge of tables. 
• Learn to quickly troubleshoot complex FI process by going behind the scenes to investigate the raw SAP data, without being hindered by the limitations of standard FI reports. 
• Understand how to cross reference the tables using the key fields of SAP-GL.

Before embarking on your technical migration and implementation plans, it’s essential to take a step back and evaluate the strategic decisions that shape your SAP S/4HANA journey. This session provides concrete evaluation criteria and actionable guidance to align your SAP S/4HANA strategy with business transformation goals. 

Attend to:

• Evaluate and the pros and cons of Greenfield, Brownfield, Selective Data Migration approaches, including differences based on system readiness, business priorities, and technical complexity.
• Identify key pre-migration considerations, including custom code strategy, third-party compatibility, and data retention policies.
• Assess key differences between SAP S/4HANA deployment models and understand how your choice impacts long-term scalability, integration, and total cost of ownership.

As financial operations grow more complex, the need to support multiple accounting principles, currencies, and valuation methods simultaneously has become a strategic imperative. Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) delivers a transformative approach to financial management by enabling seamless, real-time parallel postings across ledgers within a unified data model. This session will unpack why Universal Parallel Accounting is one of the most impactful innovations in SAP S/4HANA. You’ll learn how UPA simplifies configuration, enhances compliance, and eliminates traditional reconciliation challenges by integrating core functions such as Asset Accounting, Overhead Management, Product Costing, and Revenue Recognition with the Universal Journal. 

Attend this session in order to: 

• Gain a clear understanding of UPA and its role in transforming finance and compliance in SAP S/4HANA. 
• Learn how to configure multiple ledgers and valuation views to support legal, group, and management reporting. 
• Explore how UPA integrates with core SAP modules (FI, CO, AA, ML, Margin Analysis) to reduce duplication and improve accuracy. 
• Understand reporting impacts and how UPA supports real-time insights across multiple dimensions and accounting principles.

New this year, SAPinsider is spotlighting the women driving innovation in technology and the allies who support them. This program brings their achievements into focus with interactive experiences that recognize bold leadership, celebrate progress, and ignite the ideas that will shape tomorrow. By bringing these voices together, we shift celebration into action. Engage in conversations that spark inspiration and accelerate progress. Connect with peers transforming how technology powers business and society. Participate in panels, roundtables, and networking designed to turn shared passion into new opportunities and lasting collaboration. With every connection made here, female leadership takes another step forward. And remember, you are not here by chance. You are here because you earned it.

Leading Through Change:

• Session 1: Culture and inclusion evolution, AI and skills, and navigating adversity as leaders​.
• Session 2: Coaching & Mentoring: building networks, finding mentors, nurturing relationships, boosting critical thinking, and countering imposter syndrome.
• Session 3: (Active Workshop) The 5 Skills to Move When you Are Stuck.
• Session 4: Personal branding, social media to make an impact.

As SAP environments move to managed cloud models such as SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition, traditional responsibilities in Basis, security, infrastructure, and operations are evolving fast.

In this session, we explore four SAP roles that are being fundamentally reinvented in the cloud era. What happens when you no longer manage hardware? When patching is automated? When some tasks become a shared responsibility? And when governance and business service level objectives matter more than system administration?

You’ll gain practical insight into how cloud operating models are redefining technical ownership and required skills — and how to position yourself to stay relevant and future-ready.