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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Find out how Jaguar Land Rover (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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.