Move beyond broad AI interest and discuss where SAP teams are finding real traction. Participants will share which use cases are gaining momentum, what is holding others back, and how teams are building the data, process, governance, and adoption foundations needed for SAP Business AI, Joule, and agent-based capabilities. The discussion will help participants separate near-term opportunities from longer-term ambition and identify practical next steps for turning experimentation into value.

Each year, SAP Sapphire delivers a wave of announcements that influence the ERP transformation agenda, but determining which updates will drive meaningful change is not always clear. This session provides an independent, analyst-led perspective that translates the latest updates into practical implications for SAP S/4HANA and cloud ERP journeys. Join this session to gain clarity on what has materially changed, what remains uncertain, and how these developments should shape transformation priorities and decision-making.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Distinguish which SAP Sapphire announcements will materially impact your ERP strategy and which are unlikely to affect near-term decisions
• Understand how recent developments influence key transformation areas including clean core, data, integration, security and controls, and the role of AI 
• Evaluate how to incorporate new SAP guidance into your roadmap including where to stay the course, where to adjust, and how to manage risk and stakeholder expectations

Data quality issues discovered after go-live are among the most costly and disruptive problems in any SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration. Understand what cloud-readiness means for enterprise data, including the assessment, cleansing, and validation tasks required to protect go-live and long-term system performance. 

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Assess the current state of master and transactional data against the quality standards required for SAP S/4HANA Cloud 
• Understand the scope of data migration activities across key objects, including materials, business partners, finance, and open items 
• Apply a structured approach to data cleansing, deduplication, and enrichment that reduces rework and cutover risk 
• Recognize how early data readiness work connects to clean core strategy and post-go-live reporting accuracy 

Norfolk Southern knew from the start that clean, reliable data would be the cornerstone of a successful SAP S/4HANA transformation. This session shares how the organization made data cleansing a strategic priority, from implementing scalable data profiling, cleansing, and validation processes to establishing sustainable governance models to ensure lasting data integrity. Understand the business impact of clean data in SAP S/4HANA and get tips to resolve common data quality issues in the ECC environment pre-migration. Plus, discuss key metrics the company used to measure data quality improvements and support continuous monitoring.

Key takeaways:

• An understanding of how to make data cleansing a strategic priority
• Real-world insight into our data cleansing project and processes
• Key metrics that you can use to monitor and measure your data quality

In this session, Eneco walks through the planning-phase decisions that shaped their SAP S/4HANA migration: how they sequenced the move from SAP PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite, what it took to modernize their integration architecture, and how they restructured integration governance to sustain speed and flexibility post-migration. 

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand why treating PI/PO migration as a separate, follow-on project creates rework and how to sequence it as part of your SAP S/4HANA planning instead 
• Identify which integration architecture decisions must be resolved before migration begins and how Eneco approached each in the planning phase 
• Adapt Eneco's Center of Enablement model to distribute integration governance across functional and architecture teams and remove IT as a bottleneck 

Establishing a scalable reporting foundation is essential to sustaining SAP ERP transformation and enabling ongoing business evolution. In this session, Norfolk Southern shares how it established an enterprise-wide reporting foundation by integrating SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere, and Databricks into a scalable architecture that supports finance, operations, and supply chain.

Key Learning Objectives:

• See how Norfolk Southern structured its reporting architecture across SAC, SAP Datasphere, and Databricks
• Understand how SAC was used as the reporting front-end for dashboards, real-time analytics, and self-service reporting
• Learn how the architecture evolved to unify data, strengthen governance, and enable AI-driven analytics as reporting requirements expanded

Exchange perspectives on how organizations are assessing data, process, and integration readiness ahead of SAP S/4HANA and cloud ERP. Learn how peers are identifying hidden complexity, defining ownership across business and IT, and prioritizing foundational work to support transformation. Gain insight into where efforts are underestimated, what is being addressed first, and how others are avoiding downstream issues tied to legacy systems.

Decisions made during SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration directly determine how much of SAP Business AI your organization will be able to activate after go-live. This session examines where AI fits within a long-term ERP transformation, what the prerequisites are, and how to plan for it without diverting focus from the migration work at hand. 

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand how SAP Business AI capabilities are embedded within SAP S/4HANA Cloud, including Joule and process intelligence features, and what they require of the underlying system to function 
• Recognize why clean core discipline and process standardization during migration are the primary enablers of SAP Business AI readiness after go-live 
• Assess current readiness to adopt SAP Business AI capabilities and identify the gaps that must be addressed during the transformation program 
• Distinguish between AI capabilities available at go-live and those that require a more mature, stable post-migration foundation 
• Incorporate AI readiness into long-term ERP planning without diverting focus or resources from near-term migration priorities 

Most SAP S/4HANA migration programs underinvest in change management until adoption problems are already visible, at which point they are significantly harder and more expensive to address. This session moves beyond frameworks to focus on the practical interventions that drive sustained user adoption across complex, multi-stakeholder programs. 

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Identify the adoption risks that emerge at each stage of an SAP S/4HANA migration and the signals that indicate change management is falling behind 
• Build a change management approach that is sequenced with the program timeline rather than bolted on at go-live 
• Engage business stakeholders and process owners as active participants in the migration rather than recipients of a system rollout 
• Address resistance at the team and leadership level using targeted communication and reinforcement strategies 
• Measure adoption progress during the program so corrections can be made before go-live, not after 

Selecting the right migration approach and cloud deployment model is one of the most critical early decisions in an SAP ERP transformation. This session breaks down the various migration paths and deployment options and provides criteria to determine which approach is the right fit for your organization.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Differentiate between system conversion (brownfield), selective data transition (bluefield), and new implementation (greenfield), and determine when each approach is appropriate
• Evaluate SAP Cloud ERP deployment options, including SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition (via RISE with SAP) and SAP Cloud ERP Public Edition (via GROW with SAP)
• Understand how RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP support cloud ERP adoption, including what is included in each offering
• Learn from customer examples to understand how organizations are approaching SAP Cloud ERP transformation

In the age of agentic AI, SAP’s platform strategy gets a major upgrade. See how the unified platform evolves and understand the role of the platform within SAP’s overall product strategy. Learn how the platform can support both your move into the cloud and to a comprehensive AI strategy.

By attending this strategy session you will hear about:
SAP's evolved platform and the strategy going forward

• The role of the elements like SAP Build, SAP Integration Suite, Business Data Cloud, Ai foundation, SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio
• Major innovations across the portfolio and how the platform supports you to build and manage agents and intelligent application across the lifecycle

AI capabilities, including SAP Joule, are being activated alongside SAP S/4HANA migrations, not after them. That means organizations need a governance framework for AI-driven processes in place before go-live, not as a follow-on initiative. This session addresses how to assess and control the risks that AI introduces into SAP workflows during migration and early operations, when control environments are already under pressure from transformation itself.  

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand how AI tools embedded in SAP S/4HANA, including Joule, interact with access controls, SoD rules, and approval workflows, and where migration creates new exposure 
• Learn how to extend your migration-phase control framework to cover AI-assisted transactions, non-human identities, and automated decision-making 
• Leave with a risk assessment approach for AI use cases in SAP S/4HANA that can be embedded into your migration workstream rather than addressed after go-live 

Managing identities and access remains an ongoing challenge for customers, and operating in a hybrid landscape requires an integrated approach to provide a seamless user experience while ensuring security and compliance.  

Key Objectives:

• Understand challenges in managing identities and access in a hybrid landscape, including architecture requirements to consider in adopting AI
• Learn about the portfolio and reference architecture of identity and access solutions from SAP
• Hear about considerations for integrating into your broader enterprise identity strategy

Joule and embedded SAP Business AI are increasingly becoming part of the broader transformation conversation. This demo-led session shows how Joule can support practical business and project scenarios across the SAP portfolio, while helping attendees understand what must be in place before these capabilities can deliver value.

Attendees will learn how to:

• See practical demos of Joule navigating data, triggering actions, explaining information, and streamlining common tasks across SAP applications
• Assess the data, process, security, and role-design foundations required for successful Joule adoption
• Build an activation and adoption approach that accounts for governance, skills, change management, and measurable value

This 90-minute masterclass offers an interactive, hands-on learning experience that gives practitioners direct exposure to the tools shaping the most consequential decisions in SAP S/4HANA migration planning.

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Run SAP Readiness Check and interpret outputs across custom code risk, simplification item conflicts, and add-on compatibility 
• Use Signavio to analyze current-state processes, identify gaps against SAP best practices, and document target-state designs 
• Navigate SAP Cloud ALM to structure the migration program, assign workstream ownership, and establish go-live readiness tracking 
• Understand how outputs from all three tools connect and inform planning decisions across assessment, process design, and program structure

Get hands-on with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) and learn how to design roles, automate access, and enforce risk-aware policies alongside your shift to Cloud ERP.  

Key Learning Objectives:

• How to streamline role design, access requests, and reviews using IAG + SAP Cloud Identity Services
• How to extend governance across hybrid landscapes with centralized risk analysis and policy enforcement
• Practical strategies to scale IAG adoption and build a future-ready access governance model

In this 90-minute hands-on lab, attendees will work through guided exercises to design and assess a technical architecture that supports performance, agility, extensibility, and ongoing innovation in SAP S/4HANA. The session focuses on how architecture, integration, user experience, and custom code decisions impact system performance, scalability, and flexibility in a cloud operating model, helping teams identify constraints, expose tradeoffs, and define what must be addressed to move forward.

Attendees will:

• Map current architecture to surface system dependencies, data flows, and migration constraints
• Identify custom code risks and determine what must be redesigned, externalized, or retired
• Define clean core boundaries across SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP to enable extensibility and upgrades
• Pinpoint drivers of system sizing, performance, and cost across data and processing patterns
• Evaluate how SAP Fiori and access architecture impact security, performance, and user experience
• Prioritize architecture decisions and readiness gaps to move forward with confidence

Join this 90-minute masterclass to learn about the latest AI innovations to boost developer productivity and achieve operational excellence. Participants will get expert-guided, hands-on experience leveraging SAP Integration Suite to unify SAP and non-SAP environments. Plus, explore automated migration tools and options for leveraging Edge Integration Cell to manage APIs and run integration scenarios within your private landscape. Whether you’re planning your move from SAP Process Orchestration or aiming to streamline hybrid workflows, this session gives you the practical skills to accelerate your digital transformation.

As enterprises look ahead to AI-enabled business processes, many are finding that fragmented integration landscapes can slow innovation, increase risk, and complicate SAP S/4HANA and cloud migration efforts. This session explores how organizations can take practical steps to simplify their integration environments, modernize architecture with SAP Integration Suite, and build a foundation that supports cloud, SAP S/4HANA, and AI-driven transformation.

Key learning objectives:

• Understand why fragmented integration landscapes can create risk and complexity during SAP S/4HANA and cloud migration
• Learn how integration simplification can support both near-term migration readiness and longer-term AI ambitions
• Explore how SAP Integration Suite can help organizations consolidate tools, improve governance, and reduce architectural complexity
• Hear customer examples of how companies are lowering costs, improving agility, and preparing their integration landscapes for future innovation

SAP S/4HANA migration is the right moment to rethink how controls are monitored, because the environment you are moving into is faster, more automated, and more integrated than what you are leaving behind. Quarterly sampling and manual reviews were designed for a slower system landscape; they will not keep pace with the transaction volumes and integration complexity of a live SAP S/4HANA environment. This session shows how to use migration as the opportunity to build continuous controls monitoring into your target operating model from the start.  

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand why SAP S/4HANA's speed, automation, and integration complexity make continuous monitoring a necessity rather than a best practice for post-migration operations 
• Learn how to scope a CCM program during migration planning, identifying the highest-risk financial and access controls to automate first 
• Walk away with a phased approach for moving from periodic audit cycles to real-time control visibility that is operational from day one of go-live 

As SAP customers modernize core operations while preparing for the disruptive impact of AI, leaders are being forced to rethink how large-scale change is executed, governed, and sustained. In this fireside chat, Timo Elliott sits down with Nik Giannakakis, one of the SAP community’s most recognized technology leaders, to discuss the realities of operating SAP S/4HANA at scale, the strategic decisions shaping modernization efforts, and how AI is beginning to influence technology and business priorities at the highest levels.

Moving to the cloud introduces a new paradigm of shared responsibilities between cloud service providers (CSPs) and their customers. This shift requires a reevaluation of traditional internal controls and audit practices, and a deeper understanding of the delineation of responsibilities to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance.  

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the differences in responsibility across various cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Understand the impact on security practices, compliance considerations and internal controls
• Hear best practices for collaborating with your cloud service providers, and where you can find the information you need as you evaluate the impact on your internal controls environment.

Moving to SAP S/4HANA requires more than a technical lift and shift — it is a decision point for how your organization will consume, extend, and govern analytics going forward. Understanding how SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics works alongside tools like SAP BusinessObjects and SAP BW before migration begins helps teams avoid costly rework and ensures reporting capabilities are ready at go-live. This session gives you the foundational knowledge to make informed analytics architecture decisions as part of your migration planning process.  

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the analytics consumption options available in SAP S/4HANA, including SAP Fiori, SAP BusinessObjects, and SAP BW, and how to evaluate the right approach for your organization's needs 
• Learn how core data services (CDS) views work in SAP S/4HANA and what your team needs to know about extending them to meet business reporting requirements 
• Leave with a clear picture of the skills and training your team will need to operate SAP S/4HANA analytics effectively, so you can build enablement into your migration plan 

This session delves into SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition via RISE with SAP, including insight into the latest capabilities and how the offering is structured and delivered through RISE with SAP.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand how SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition is structured across application, platform, and infrastructure layers and delivered through RISE with SAP
• Examine core capabilities, including real-time analytics, industry-specific functionality, and enhanced integration across SAP and non-SAP systems
• Understand how RISE with SAP packages these capabilities through a standardized framework, migration tools, and subscription-based services 
• Identify how managed cloud infrastructure and the continuous delivery model support ongoing updates and innovation

Bring your toughest questions on access, controls, audit readiness, and accountability in cloud-based SAP environments. This roundtable gives security, GRC, and controls leaders a forum to pressure-test current approaches, surface blind spots, and discuss where responsibility should sit across SAP, hyperscalers, system integrators, IT, and the business. Participants will come away with peer-tested ideas for strengthening control coverage and reducing risk as SAP landscapes become more connected and automated.

Once your ERP model is established, the next critical decision is how you move. This session focuses on the technical and operational realities of each transformation approach, giving practitioners the analysis tools to evaluate trade-offs and commit to a path with confidence. 

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand what greenfield, brownfield, and selective data transition each involve technically, including how they differ in system conversion, data handling, and process inheritance 
• Evaluate the implications of each approach for custom code remediation, historical data retention, and business continuity during cutover 
• Identify the system-specific and organizational signals that indicate which approach is appropriate, including landscape complexity, process maturity, and tolerance for disruption 
• Recognize how the transformation approach shapes the scope and sequencing of clean core, integration, and change management work that follows 

Examine how to structure governance, roles, and decision rights from the outset so accountability is built into the program rather than imposed after problems surface. 

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Define the governance structure and steering model appropriate for the scale and complexity of your SAP S/4HANA program 
• Assign ownership across workstreams in a way that is specific, documented, and enforceable rather than broadly shared 
• Establish escalation paths that surface issues at the right level without creating bottlenecks or bypassing program leadership 
• Align business and IT ownership so functional decisions are made by the right stakeholders at the right time 

One of the most common and costly surprises in SAP S/4HANA migration is discovering that the SoD framework built for SAP ECC no longer works. Fiori apps, flexible approval workflows, and a restructured authorization model create entirely new risk combinations, and most organizations don't find the gaps until post-go-live, when auditors do. Before your migration moves further, gain a clear picture of what breaks, why it breaks, and what to redesign early in your migration planning.   

Key Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the specific technical and business changes in SAP S/4HANA that invalidate ECC-era SoD matrices 
• Learn how to identify new SAP S/4HANA risk combinations that require new rules and role design 
• Leave with a practical approach for rebuilding your SoD matrix as part of migration planning, not as a post-go-live remediation effort 

Compare how SAP leaders are evaluating RISE, GROW, public and private cloud, and different migration approaches based on cost, control, and long-term flexibility. Hear how peers are structuring decision frameworks, aligning business and IT stakeholders, and navigating tradeoffs across commercial models, operating models, and partner involvement. Leave with a clearer view of how others are making these decisions and what considerations are shaping their direction.