This session delves into SAP Business Suite and the integrated applications that support core enterprise processes across finance, supply chain, procurement, human resources, and customer operations.

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Map how SAP Business Suite applications connect to one another across end-to-end business processes.
• Identify the role each application plays in structuring and running enterprise operations.
• Evaluate SAP Cloud ERP Private (formerly RISE with SAP) and SAP Cloud ERP Public (formerly GROW with SAP) as guided adoption paths into SAP Business Suite.
• Apply lessons from customer success stories to plan, adopt, or optimize an SAP landscape based on proven outcomes.

Attend this session for insight into why many SAP S/4HANA programs 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 programs.
• Prevent issues such as incorrect MRP 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this session, Jaguar Land Rover 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LINKS TO PREREGISTER FOR THE HANDS-ON LABS WILL BE SENT TO ALL CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS VIA EMAIL 6 WEEKS PRIOR

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.

LINKS TO PREREGISTER FOR THE HANDS-ON LABS WILL BE SENT TO ALL CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS VIA EMAIL 6 WEEKS PRIOR

Join this hands-on lab for real-world practice modernizing classic on-stack extensions to align with clean core principles in SAP Cloud ERP Private. 

Participants will: 

• Learn how to analyze existing custom code, apply the ABAP Cloud development model, and refactor extensions to reduce core modifications while preserving required business logic. 
• Practice governing clean core development using tools such as the ABAP Test Cockpit to identify non-compliant objects and guide remediation decisions.
• Discover practical extensibility patterns that complement SAP Fiori development, support side-by-side innovation on SAP BTP, and enable long-term upgradeability in cloud-based SAP landscapes.

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.

A leading manufacturer and distributor company of cleaning and hygiene solutions is replacing its legacy SAP ECC system with SAP Cloud ERP (formerly SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud) through the RISE with SAP (formerly GROW with SAP program.). This session will cover why Public Cloud was the strategic choice, how SAP’s Digital Discovery Assessment shaped the project scope, and why Reply was selected to lead the greenfield implementation.

In this session, you will:

• Explore project structure, key challenges, and how they are driving the transformation internally while leveraging SAP Cloud ERP for rapid, scalable success.
• Gain practical insights and lessons learned from launching a greenfield SAP Cloud ERP implementation.
• See how Commerce Cloud adjustments are being made to align seamlessly with SAP Cloud ERP.
• Understand why strong internal alignment is key to maximizing the benefits of GROW and RISE with SAP enabling adaptability, innovation and faster business outcomes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This session provides an overview of the functional, technical, and user experience enhancements delivered in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2508 and how they fit into SAP’s broader cloud ERP innovation roadmap.

Attend this session to:

• View demos of the latest advancements around user experience, integration, embedded AI, and more.
• Gain practical guidance on how to prepare for adoption, including upgrade readiness tips and tools.
• Understand how recent innovations support process standardization, automation, and cloud adoption goals.
• Gain awareness of forward-looking innovation themes to inform near-term planning.

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.

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.