SAP S/4HANA & Cloud Migration

Tuesday 17 June

Keynote

Supercharge Your Modernization and Unleash the Power of Business AI 

Timo Elliott, SAP

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM • 17 June

Modernization isn’t just about migrating systems—it’s about rethinking business processes to stay ahead. This session explores how AI and data integration are reshaping the modern enterprise, enabling businesses to break free from silos and create intelligent, adaptive workflows. Discover how AI is transforming organizations and workflows, and learn how to stay ahead by leveraging the latest research and proven strategies. We’ll share real-world examples and insights into what works, helping you turn migration into a powerful modernization journey.

Breakout Sessions

Make the Case, Plan the Path: Achieving Sustained Results for Your SAP S/4HANA Transformation 

Torsten Bech Andersson & Steffen Andersen, Implement Consulting Group

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM • 17 June

This session offers a strategic and actionable roadmap to justify and execute your SAP S/4HANA transformation. Learn how to identify, plan and track benefits for your business case and quickly decide on the right approach for the transformation. 

Get tips on how to avoid common pitfalls when planning the programme and how to prioritize change management and essential pre-project task like data archiving, custom code, TMS and WHM - to set the stage for a successful migration. Come away with the frameworks to bridge business strategy and IT execution, helping you position your project as a driver of measurable enterprise value from day one.

Charting the Right Course: SAP S/4HANA Deployment Models, Scenarios & Strategy

Kurt Hollis, Deloitte

12:00 AM - 12:45 PM • 17 June

Before diving into technical upgrades or executing on your migration plans, it’s essential to take a step back and evaluate the strategic decisions that shape your SAP S/4HANA journey. 

Attend this session to: 

  • Explore key differences between SAP S/4HANA deployment models, and understand how your choice impacts long-term scalability, integration, and total cost of ownership.
  • Evaluate transition scenarios (Greenfield, Brownfield, Selective Migration) and the pros and cons of each based on system readiness, business priorities, and technical complexity.
  • Identify key pre-migration questions, including custom code strategy, third-party compatibility, and data retention policies.
  • Align your SAP S/4HANA strategy with business transformation goals.

Deep Dive: Designing the Backbone: SAP S/4HANA Architecture, Integration & Cloud Readiness

Kurt Hollis, Deloitte

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM • 17 June

Once you’ve chosen your migration strategy, the next step is designing a technical architecture that supports performance, agility, and innovation. 

By attending, you will: 

  • Understand SAP S/4HANA architecture requirements, including differences based on cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployments. 
  • Explore the role of SAP BTP, SAP SAC, and SAP Datasphere.
  • Learn how to size your systems using Quick Sizer, memory estimations, and T-shirt sizing.
  • Prepare for secure, scalable operation through SSO, role management, and data archiving strategies. 
  • Get expert guidance around extensibility, hyperscalers, and cloud provider selection. 
  • Explore options for leveraging Fiori and rapid content activation for a smooth user experience.

impact20: Accelerate ROI from Your SAP S/4HANA Transformation with Next-Gen User Experience and Effective Change Management

Abraz Nadeem, Whatfix

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM • 17 June

Join our session to discover how Whatfix can enhance your SAP S/4HANA implementation by providing personalized in-app guidance, simulated training, targeted user communication, and real-time support to help improve user adoption and accelerate ROI from your investments. 

You will: 

  • Explore How Whatfix Can Enhance User Training: Learn how to use Whatfix's application simulation and adoption tools to provide users with personalized, context-sensitive guidance as they navigate the new system.  
  • Discover Best Practices for Change Management: Gain insights into effective strategies for managing change, ensuring your users are well-prepared and confident with the new systems and processes. 
  • Hear Success Stories and Key Lessons: Review case studies and experiences from organizations that have successfully implemented adoption solutions to manage their SAP transformation projects.

Case Study: From Architecture to Adoption: Inside Merck’s SAP S/4HANA with RISE Journey 

Salvatore LoBosco, Merck

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM • 17 June

This session offers actionable insights from Merck’s SAP S/4HANA with RISE initiative, including how they balanced infrastructure decisions with business priorities to build a clean, scalable ERP foundation. Gain insight into infrastructure and architectural decisions—from environment sizing and provisioning to global connectivity—and how they impacted user experience and long-term agility. Get lessons in managing downtime, provisioning, and integration complexity and come away with strategies for aligning ERP infrastructure with business transformation goals.

What's on Your Mind - SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Migration

4:45 PM - 5:20 PM • 17 June

Bring your most pressing questions—and your toughest challenges—to this interactive session where you —attendees— drive the conversation. Designed as an open, informal discussion, this is your chance to engage directly with SAP experts, industry leaders, and fellow SAP customers on the SAP S/4HANA topics that matter most to you. Alongside expert guidance, you’ll gain insights from your peers who are navigating similar journeys, offering fresh perspectives and lessons learned. Every question shapes the conversation, making this a highly relevant and personalized learning experience.

Wednesday 18 June

The Journey to SAP Business Suite with RISE & GROW

Anurag Barua, SAP

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM • 18 June

As business models rapidly evolve and technology changes accelerate, enterprises such as yours are striving to enable the former by fully utilizing the latter. SAP’s capabilities and offerings allow your enterprise to run in an efficient, agile, scalable, intelligent, secure, and sustainable manner. RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP are the two frameworks SAP provides to simplify and accelerate customers’ journey to the cloud and thus enable them to run in an efficient, agile, scalable, intelligent, secure, and sustainable manner. Attend this session to obtain a comprehensive understanding of RISE and GROW. 

You will: 

  • Learn about the drivers for RISE and GROW.
  • Discover in a deep dive of RISE about its components & benefits. 
  • Delve into GROW including its components & benefits. 
  • Hear from selected RISE & GROW customer success stories.

The Journey to Clean Core

Henrik Secher Jarlskov, Gavdi Labs

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM • 18 June

SAP keeps talking Clean Core, but most companies do not really see any realistic possibility of getting anywhere near a Clean Core scenario for their SAP systems. Instead of writing off the concept of Clean Core as something that cannot be done this session aims to position a path forward - a way to get started and incorporate Clean Core as a way of delivery. This is a topic that has been treated much in black and white and in many aspects in absolutes. 

This session turns that discussion on its head and investigates the underlying challenges and its potential business value creation and impact. A central part of the session is an honest insight into why this is an issue for so many SAP customers and why companies keeps failing at getting this off the ground. Start to take ownership of your custom development and with it managing the risks and execution prowess of your critical SAP business systems. Get started on a path that will potentially lead to massive savings in upgrades and life cycle management of your custom code - together with a greatly improved TCO on your SAP business systems. 

You will: 

  • Learn how we get so messy with our critical business systems. 
  • Recognize the outcome and impact of investing in a Clean Core. 
  • Understand where you are and how to take the first steps towards a Clean Core. 
  • Get to a higher tier with your custom development. 
  • Manage the constant decay of custom code.

Customer Panel: Three Paths to SAP S/4HANA: A Comparative Look at Deployment Models in Practice

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM • 18 June

Migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA presents a range of strategic decisions—none more critical than selecting the right deployment approach. In this customer panel, three SAP customers share how they navigated this complex terrain, each choosing a different path: Greenfield, Brownfield, and the Selective Data Transition approach. Panelists will walk through the business case behind their decisions, the technical and organizational criteria they evaluated, and how their chosen strategy aligned with their transformation goals. Whether you’re preparing your roadmap or reevaluating your approach, this session offers real-world guidance to help you make informed decisions.

Turning Strategy into Action: Executing Your SAP S/4HANA Migration

Kurt Hollis, Deloitte

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM • 18 June

Once you’ve selected your deployment approach and designed the architecture—now it’s time to execute. This session examines the step-by-step process of performing a system conversion, implementation, or selective migration to SAP S/4HANA. 

Attendees will come away with actionable guidance to: 

  • Use SAP Readiness Check and simplification item analysis to prepare your system.
  • Leverage SUM, CVI, the Migration Cockpit, and custom code tools.
  • Manage dual landscapes during conversion and create execution runbooks for each environment.
  • Plan your go-live with proven cutover and testing strategies.
  • Navigate complexities such as custom code remediation, third-party add-on compatibility, and data migration validation.

New Sessions Coming soon...