Food will be available in the Foyer and seating available in Century Ballroom.

Join us as Southwest Gas shares its journey of leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to transform key business processes and drive operational excellence. In this keynote, Southwest Gas will present two pioneering case studies that demonstrate the impact of automation in enhancing efficiency and decision-making within their organization.

The first case study explores how Southwest Gas automated the Concur receipt download process using SAP BTP, resulting in seamless integration with Concur. The second case study focuses on the implementation of a QR code application integrated with SuccessFactors Learning Management System (LMS) via SAP BTP. This innovative solution enables Southwest Gas to manage employee and contractor qualifications in real-time, enhancing data accuracy, compliance, and security.

Southwest Gas’s experience with SAP BTP showcases how automation can optimize business processes, reduce costs, and drive superior organizational performance. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from their success and discover how your organization can achieve similar results.

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In the closing keynote, "AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions", Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz will give you insights into the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence. Drawing upon his extensive experience, Marek will explore the technical leaps characterizing the progress in AI and highlight the mindsets required for individuals and organizations to succeed in these transformative times. Prepare for an eye-opening and entertaining journey that evaluates where we are, anticipates where we're going, and challenges us to rethink our approaches to AI.

You will:     

• Discover how algorithms evolve to work independently, driving efficiency and innovation across industries.
• Learn from real-world examples to understand the implications of job automation and the importance of adaptive leadership in the digital age.
• Explore the role of algorithms as emerging economic agents that can create and consume value, transforming business models and strategies.
• Gain insights into the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of algorithmic agents and how businesses can thrive in this new landscape.

Curious about SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)? Join us for an inspirational and interactive session providing an overview of SAP BTP's five core areas: application development and automation, data management and analytics, extended planning, integration, and AI. We'll showcase real-world examples and use cases, highlighting how businesses benefit from this platform. Get a clear understanding of SAP BTP's distinct features compared to other tech platforms through simple demos. You will leave with practical insights to help you navigate SAP BTP for your organization.

You will:                                                                                                        

• Grasp the core components of SAP BTP, including its application development, data management, planning, integration, and AI capabilities.
• Explore concrete examples and use cases illustrating how businesses have successfully leveraged SAP BTP to address challenges and drive innovation. 
• Gain insights into what sets SAP BTP apart from other technology platforms, enabling informed decisions for your organization's digital journey.

In this session, Johnson & Johnson's approach toward clean core strategy will be discussed. The journey will cover the overall approach towards SAP BTP, key challenges faced, and how they were overcome.

You will:

• Learn how to develop a strategy toward Clean Core.
• Understand the importance of SAP BTP Platform strategy.
• Review challenges enabling SAP BTP and how to resolve them.

In this session, we will explore two of the common components built in SAP BTP – APIs and End User Experiences – and examine test automation approaches including API, load and functional for testing solutions built on SAP BTP. Learn what to look for in automation solutions supporting testing for SAP BTP, and how customers are leveraging test automation for SAP BTP today.

As a growing number of organizations start planning for their journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud with either RISE with SAP or GROW with SAP, one of the most important steps they can take is ensuring that they are ready.  Existing SAP customers are already well-versed with running tools like SAP Readiness Check, Custom Code Analyzer etc. However, effective preparation involves a diverse set of activities and good housekeeping practices. Well prepared organizations will perform data cleansing activities, look at data and analytics, manage and archive appropriate data, do regular testing, and ensure that their new deployment will follow clean core standards. While this may seem like a lot to do, SAP BTP can both help achieve these goals with speed and at scale and putting you squarely in the path of an effective SAP S/4HANA Cloud Transformation.

You will:

• Get acquainted with the key activities every customer needs to perform to be ready for their SAP S/4HANA Cloud Journeys. 
• Get familiar with the concepts of the clean core. 
• Obtain an overview of SAP BTP.
• Learn how SAP BTP can help address and accelerate your cloud preparation needs.

Join us for this interactive session as we walk through the key capabilities and product enhancements in SAP Datasphere, SAP's next gen data warehousing solution. Learn best practices for effective data modeling with layered architecture and data builder tools. Understand how SAP Datasphere offers a comprehensive data management solution that delivers seamless and context-rich access to mission-critical business data.

You will:                                          

• Get an introduction to data integration, overviewing SAP and non-SAP Data Integration including techniques for data federation, snapshot, and real-time replication.
• Review data consumption, integration with SAP Analytics Cloud, Excel-based tools, SAP SAC Add-in for MS Excel/Analysis for Office, and Integration with Power BI.
• Explore the future roadmap and understand the potential of Generative AI with SAP Datasphere.

Leveraging SAP BTP, organizations can transform their SAP control environment to proactively manage risk. By adopting this innovative technology, organizations can modernize the control environment and stay ahead of potential risks. The KPMG SAP BTP risk monitoring apps/KPI provide comprehensive capabilities that enable clients to monitor, analyze, and mitigate risks in real time. They empower businesses to streamline their control processes, enhance data security, and help ensure compliance with industry regulations. By leveraging the KPMG SAP BTP risk monitoring apps, organizations can proactively identify and address potential risks, leading to improved operational efficiency and better decision-making.

You will:

• Learn how to adopt KPMG SAP BTP risk monitoring apps/KPI to proactively manage risk.
• Identify key processes and controls to be monitored.
• Set up a pilot in SAP S/4HANA private cloud environment.
• Set up a baseline KPI to measure progress.

Pregis continues to discover the potential of SAP BTP to help accelerate their business outcomes and create better user experiences by using SAP BTPs  extensive database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities available on one unified platform for cloud and hybrid environments. Learn about their foray into manufacturing analytics and techniques for optimization.

You will:

• Learn how Pregis successfully created a single version of truth and analytics platform using SAP BTP (SAP HANA Cloud).
• Learn how Discovery, enrichment, integration, cleansing, and orchestration of different data assets done in SAP HANA code and creating a Datahub for analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud provides analytics capabilities to support 50+ business priorities reporting in the key functional areas.

In this session you will discuss the benefits and challenges of transitioning business operations to the cloud, using SAP Integration Suite to connect on-premises, multi-cloud, non-SAP, and SAP systems with cloud applications. Join this session to understand why Florida Crystals transitioned to iPaas, what their key drivers and motivators were, and see the outline of benefits that were achieved as a result of the transition. Learn how to implement SAP’s solutions to transition to the cloud, creating an agile and responsive IT infrastructure to take them into the future. 

You will:

• Learn why Florida Crystals is transitioning to iPaaS and how it can benefit your organization. 
• Hear the advantages of transitioning from on-premises to the cloud, and how SAP Integration Suite can play a pivotal role in this transformation. 
• Explore the process of growing a middleware footprint to connect business processes using various technologies. 
• Gain insights and best practice advice based on project management experience, to help you prepare for your own successful migration, achieve better speed and cost-effectiveness with cloud-based technologies.

What's On Your Mind? is a dynamic discussion that aims to address the potential of SAP BTP and AI to power innovation and transformational opportunities for organizations. In this interactive session, you have the opportunity to directly engage with an expert who will provide insights and answer your questions. By allowing the conversation to be steered by you, the discussion will cater to the specific interests and needs of the participants, making it a highly personalized and informative experience. 

You will:

• Discuss the core features offered by SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) understanding how they can address business needs and challenges.
• Talk about how to navigate the various tools, resources, and documentation available within the SAP BTP ecosystem. 
• Gain insights into trends and advancements in cloud-based solutions, runtime technologies, and agile development practices.

Anyone considering an upgrade, migration or new implementation of SAP faces the decision of which RISE edition to choose and where to deploy and run. In this session, we explore the RISE option from the perspective of the Large Enterprise SAP customer and evaluate aspects of the RISE Private Cloud offering with an eye towards business continuity and the implications to basis and SAP operations teams considering RISE. Additionally, we explore the end of Solution Manager, SAP’s BTP and Clean Core concepts, and implications for SAP customers operating in hybrid environments during transition.

You will:

• Receive a high-level comparison of RISE editions and considerations for the large enterprise SAP customer.
• Learn considerations for testing, change management, and operations during the migration to RISE from ECC, with a focus on business availability.
• Understand managing the end of Solution Manager and options for current gaps in Cloud ALM.

Discover the power of a clean core approach in the extensibility of your ERP system. In this session, we'll explore what it means to maintain a clean core, how to leverage SAP Build and SAP Build Code, and the role of ABAP development in the process. Get hands-on insights through short demos, and engage in an interactive discussion presented in simple terms. Whether you're starting or refining your clean core journey, this session provides actionable steps.

You will:                                           

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the clean core approach.
• Learn about the technology that supports you in keeping your core clean using SAP Build, SAP Build Code and ABAP development.
• Leave with actionable steps to kickstart or enhance your clean core journey, armed with practical knowledge.

As AI continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in software development, its impact on software testing is profound and far-reaching. This session looks at the present and future of AI in software testing, exploring how emerging technologies such as Generative AI for code creation, low-code/no-code development platforms, and autonomous testing are transforming the way we ensure quality and reliability in software. The discussion will also highlight the role of intelligent quality assurance platforms in this new era, offering insights into how these platforms can harness AI to accelerate innovation, improve accuracy, and support continuous delivery in today’s fast-paced development environments.

You will:

• Learn how technologies like Generative AI, low-code/no-code platforms, and autonomous testing are reshaping software testing processes, enhancing both quality and reliability in software development. 
• Understand the importance of intelligent quality assurance platforms that leverage AI to accelerate innovation, increase testing accuracy, and support continuous software delivery, especially in fast-paced development environments. 
• Gain insights into how AI-driven tools and platforms are set to redefine the future of software testing and quality assurance will help attendees understand how they can integrate these technologies to stay ahead in the evolving tech landscape.

Are you being bombarded with news about AI? Are you trying to get an understanding of how AI figures in SAP's product portfolio? Are you wondering how AI will help you in running your business in SAP in a more intelligent manner? Do you want to start your AI journey with SAP but do not know where to start? If the answer is 'yes' to all of these, then this session is for you. Get started on your SAP business AI journey by attending this session wherein I will cover all these areas.

You will:

• Get an understanding of the key AI terms & phrases. 
• Get acquainted with SAP's approach to business AI. 
• Obtain an overview of how SAP embeds and enables AI in SAP S/4HANA & other applications. 
• Become familiar with a few popular SAP AI apps.

You've chosen the best enterprise applications, including SAP, to run your business-critical processes. Now, maximize the value of both SAP and your best-of-breed applications with AI-powered integration from the world's most widely used Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about Boomi’s vision for AI-powered integration and gain valuable insights into maximizing SAP’s full potential, positioning your organization for successful transformation in the AI era!

You will:

• Discover how Boomi's unique, SAP-certified native connector reduces manual integration time and effort between SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Learn about how Boomi AI-agents can help you become radically more productive by drawing on 300 million integration patterns to autonomously perform tasks while ensuring security.
• See a live demo of ‘Boomi FinTalk’ by Vianai, a partner AI-agent that allows finance users to ask questions to any financial data across ERP systems, databases, data lakes, and documents using natural language.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, harnessing the power of Generative AI (GenAI) is crucial for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge. This session delves into the transformative potential of SAP’s GenAI Hub, guiding you through the journey of ideating, designing, and implementing GenAI-driven innovations within your organization. We will start by exploring a real-world business problem, setting the stage for a deep dive into a practical use case that demonstrates the value of GenAI. The session will then uncover the architectural framework that underpins these innovations, highlighting key design considerations and technical components. Sharing insights from our experience, we’ll discuss lessons learned during the implementation process, providing valuable takeaways that can help you avoid common pitfalls. Additionally, we’ll outline critical roadmap requirements for SAP, ensuring that your GenAI initiatives are aligned with future developments. Finally, we’ll offer our recommendations on how to effectively ideate, design, and implement GenAI innovations, empowering your organization to unlock new opportunities and drive business growth. Join us for this insightful session and discover how to leverage SAP GenAI Hub for groundbreaking business innovation!

You will:

• Understand the business problem.
• See the use case.
• Review the architecture and lessons learned.
• Learn about Roadmap requirements to SAP.
• Understand our recommendation on how to Ideate/Design/Implement GenAI innovations.

SAP is all-in on AI technology. From SAP Joule to the slew of new AI-related features in SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, SAP's AI future is very bright. But what about customers that are still running legacy ECC and Business Suite systems? In this session, we'll show you how to utilize SAP BTP to enrich your legacy systems with modern AI technology. Following a clean core philosophy, we'll demonstrate techniques to infuse AI technology into your current landscape and level up user experiences like never before.

You will:

• Examine ways that SAP BTP can be used as a digital on-ramp to modern AI technology stacks.
• Explore the art of the possible with some common AI models. 
• Demonstrate techniques for seamlessly integrating AI technology into legacy SAP applications. 
• Review options for using SAP BTP to integrate with 3rd-party AI services such as OpenAI.

Do AI ethics matter? Can they actually do any good, and for whom? As AI scales across the globe, people are wondering who owns the role of implementing responsible AI, how to go about practically applying responsible AI tactics, and whether it actually works to help protect businesses and humanity. In this talk we'll work through some of the most challenging and controversial topics around AI ethics, and address the compelling reasons why implementing responsible and ethical AI is a strong strategic move that can benefit your business, your customers, and humanity.

You will:

• Understand the most common reasons for resisting responsible & ethical AI practices.
• Learn why responsible AI is a strategic business move.
• Realize how to start a meaningful responsible AI practice within your organization.

Customers that use SAP tools and technologies for SAP Fiori application development are the latest beneficiaries of generative AI. Capabilities build into SAP Fiori tools, which comes as part of SAP Build Code, allow people to create apps directly from business requirement documents or event a picture of the app that they want. In this interactive session, we will work together to create requirements and generate an application to show how the latest SAP Fiori innovations for developers can help you build SAPUI5 apps quickly and easily.

You will:

• Gain practical experience in implementing an AI use case.
• Understand the many advantages and capabilities of integrating AI with your current processes.
• Plan for the long-term sustainability of AI solutions.

The Hyperscaler Cloud not only provides a foundation for scalable infrastructure but also offers valuable business insights into the SAP ecosystem. In today's data-driven and AI-enabled enterprises, SAP and the Hyperscaler cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) together play a significant role in enabling the GenAI initiative for the enterprise. This session covers real-world use cases of companies leveraging GenAI to better manage their IT environment, how GenAI works with SAP, SAP's AI capabilities, the foundation and machine learning models it utilizes, integrating GenAI into the SAP ecosystem, and offerings for AI-enabling SAP Enterprise. Attendees will understand how to access SAP data using GenAI and ways it can be applied to gain advantages, learn how organizations are using GenAI to improve business processes, and how to start building a strategy around GenAI.

You will:

• Learn how Enterprises are leveraging GenAI to improve business processes.
• Understand how to access SAP data using GenAI and methods it can be applied to gain advantages.
• Explore which SAP and Hyperscaler solutions include or can access AI capabilities.
• Receive guidance on Building a strategy around GenAI in an SAP enterprise.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven applications, vector databases have emerged as a crucial component for efficient similarity search and information retrieval. However, as these systems handle increasingly sensitive and personal data, ensuring privacy and security is also becoming increasingly important. This presentation explores the intersection of privacy-preserving techniques and vector databases in the context of LLM applications, addressing the growing concerns around data protection and regulatory compliance.  We will explore multiple advanced techniques, examining how they can be applied to vector databases to enhance privacy without significantly compromising performance. The presentation will also cover practical implementations of these techniques, discussing real-world challenges and solutions in integrating privacy-preserving methods with vector database systems.  This presentation aims to equip AI practitioners, data scientists, and privacy professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop LLM applications that respect user privacy and comply with evolving data protection standards.

You will:

• Master cutting-edge encryption techniques for vector databases, including homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation, to secure high-dimensional data in LLM applications.
• Design and deploy privacy-aware query processing systems, including query obfuscation and secure aggregation, to prevent information leakage in LLM-powered applications.
• Develop robust access control and data governance strategies tailored for vector databases, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations in AI systems. 
• Apply privacy-preserving techniques to real-world LLM applications using popular vector database systems, balancing privacy protection with system performance and functionality.

In 2008, SAP deployed the first SAP System into the cloud, marking the initial step toward SAP Cloud Transformation. By 2023, Generative AI had reached a maturity level that encouraged the commencement of AI transformation in our businesses. Let's delve deeper into what is possible, how to approach AI transformation responsibly, Lemongrass's journey in this regard, and the lessons learned in bootstrapping such a massive mission. This session will include various live demonstrations and discussions on business strategy, business value, and architectural patterns.

You will:

• Define a Company Strategy for AI.
• Architect and Design AI inside your Business. 
• Implement AI Transformation.
• Operate the AI (this is the Ops of AIOps).

Join us for the "What's On Your Mind? Motivations Behind AI" session, where we delve into the key findings of the SAPinsider AI research report published in July 2024. This dynamic discussion will explore the primary motivators and top drivers for businesses to employ AI, addressing the critical questions of "Why AI?" and "Why now?". We will discuss the expected outcomes of AI implementation in the near, medium, and long term, and how these outcomes can drive significant business value. In this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to engage directly with Robert Holland, who will provide insights and answer your questions. By allowing the conversation to be driven by you, the participants, this session will cater to your specific interests and needs, ensuring a highly personalized and informative experience.

You will:

• Gain insights into the top drivers and motivations for businesses to adopt AI, based on the latest SAPinsider AI research report.
• Learn about the anticipated outcomes of AI implementation in the near, medium, and long term, and how these can lead to tangible business benefits.
• Participate in a personalized discussion with Mark Vigoroso, where your questions and interests shape the conversation, ensuring relevant and actionable insights.

Fundamentally, AI without a business driver is simply an academic exercise – enter SAP Business AI. Join us as we provide an overview of the SAP Business AI roadmap and foundational knowledge to springboard your business-driven AI journey. We will start with the AI Services offerings, with SAP Joule, tabular AI (recommendations), and business document processing. Then we’ll discuss the AI Platform that enables this, with generative AI management, our data strategy, AI ethics and responsible AI, and trustworthy computing. Finally, we’ll discuss the technology around business foundation models, enhanced conversational experiences and knowledge substrate, and differentiated solutions with fine-tuning.

You will:

• Gain comprehensive insights into the AI Services offered by SAP.
• Explore the foundational elements of SAP's AI Platform
• Dive into the future of business AI with a discussion on cutting-edge technologies.

KPMG’ Product Allocation solution is designed to tackle the complexities most customers encounter trying to balance product demand and supply. The solution offers a configurable set of criteria to meet the strategic objectives of an organization, allowing them to drive equitable distribution across markets or optimize profitability while driving distributor / customer satisfaction. The solution augments the product allocation procedures and enriches the decision-making process leveraging the insights generated through AI models. The solution allows organizations to implement a flexible and scalable allocation solution that can respond to supply disruptions / shortages, address profitability objectives and drives customer satisfaction. 

You will:

• Achieve Operational Excellence: AI Based Product Allocation for SAP S/4 customers.
• Review product allocations based on flexible criteria like customer rankings, Shelf-life Expiry dates (SLED) of lots, customer KPIs, and customer/product margins. 
• Understand optimized profit margin with effective product allocation.
• Boost customer satisfaction through improved AI enabled Product Allocation in SAP S/4HANA.

In recent years, the SAP industry has been inundated with buzzwords like "automation" and "AI," creating both excitement and confusion. But what do these terms really mean for your SAP technical teams? In this session, we will demystify AI and automation, revealing their practical applications and synergies. Discover how to seamlessly integrate AI with technical automation to streamline operations, ensure consistency, and free up valuable time for your team to focus on strategic business initiatives. Join us to unlock the potential of these technologies and transform your operational landscape.

You will:

• Go away with a clear understanding of the basics of how AI works. 
• Get an understanding of AI ethics and SAP's methodology around it. 
• Leave with the knowledge of what technical operations AI concepts you can put in place today at your organization.

SAP Cloud ALM facilitates the implementation and operations of intelligent cloud and hybrid business solutions by offering a range of tools designed to accelerate project deployment and ensure business continuity. It leverages AI capabilities for dynamic thresholding alerts and response procedures, supported by Joule. Additionally, SAP Cloud ALM includes features such as Changepoint Detection in Real User Monitoring, among other advanced functionalities, to optimize performance and maintain seamless operations.

You will:

• Learn about SAP Cloud ALM and its benefits for of intelligent cloud and hybrid business solutions.

Discover how Joule, the AI copilot from SAP, helps business get smarter insights and better outcomes. In this interactive session with Joule at your side, we will answer the most frequently asked questions about Joule. Whether you're new to Joule or looking to maximize its potential within your organization, this session provides you an opportunity to ask your questions and share your experience. Join us for an interactive learning experience.

You will:

• Gain insights about Joule.     
• Discover the latest product features leveraging the power of Joule.     
• Learn about the latest announcements like Joule and Microsoft copilot integration.