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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.