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 BTP, Integration, User Experience, Implementation, and Process Automation.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.