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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.