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.

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.

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 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

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.

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.

As SAP landscapes become more complex and hybrid, teams are under pressure to modernize integrations and operating models without destabilizing systems that must remain available and compliant. This session examines how integration modernization and operational readiness can be sequenced using Red Hat as a stable runtime foundation, enabling teams to move away from legacy middleware without introducing unnecessary risk or architectural sprawl.

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.

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.

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.

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.