SAP S/4HANA & Cloud Migration

Tuesday 17 June

Keynotes

Supercharge Your Modernization and Unleash the Power of Business AI 

Timo Elliott, SAP

09:00 - 9:40 • 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.

Accelerate Your Transformation: What’s Next for SAP and Your Business 

Andreas J. Wagner, SAP

09:45 - 10:15 • 17 June

This keynote offers a forward-looking view into SAP’s vision for the intelligent enterprise and how customers can harness innovation to thrive in an evolving digital landscape. Get an inside look at SAP’s strategic roadmap and hear what’s coming across key solution areas. Discover how SAP is guiding organizations across Austria and beyond to simplify landscapes, unlock value, and lead with confidence in the next era of enterprise transformation.

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 - 11:45 • 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 program and how to prioritize change management and essential pre-project tasks 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 - 12:45 • 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.

impact20: Achieving End-to-End Compliance in SAP S/4HANA Projects with a Clean Core Approach

Sean Donoghue, Sovos

13:45 - 14:05 • 17 June

Regulatory mandates continue to challenge organizations migrating to SAP S/4HANA. With shifting regulations and the push for clean core architectures, a smart, scalable approach to compliance is essential. This session dives into market trends, architectural challenges, and a proven framework for achieving indirect tax compliance within SAP S/4HANA. 

You will:

  • Gain practical insights from real transformation projects-what works, what doesn't and how to get it right.
  • Understand how to integrate and automate tax determination and e-invoicing in SAP S/4HANA without compromising clean core principles. 
  • Learn how to avoid tax pitfalls, build flexible frameworks, stay audit-ready and drive success with the right skills, teams and governance.

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

Kurt Hollis, Deloitte

13:45 - 15:15 • 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

Charvi Sardana, Whatfix

15:45 - 16:05 • 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: Inside Merck’s SAP S/4HANA with RISE Journey

Salvatore LoBosco, Merck

15:45 - 16:30 • 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

16:45 - 17:20 • 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

09:00 - 09:45 • 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 business drivers for RISE and GROW.
  • Discover in a deep dive of RISE about its components & benefits. 
  • Delve into GROW including its components & benefits. 
  • Hear about RISE & GROW customer success stories.

The Journey to Clean Core

Henrik Secher Jarlskov, Gavdi Labs

10:15 - 11:00 • 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 keep 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. 

By attending, 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.

Case Study: Empowering Clean Core Governance at Merck

Thomas Diederich & Salvatore LoBosco, Merck

11:15 - 12:00 • 18 June

Explore how Merck is embracing clean core governance to manage customizations, align with SAP best practices, and maintain agility while reducing complexity and enabling a scalable, innovation-ready ERP environment. Gain insight into how the company is implementing governance frameworks to guide decision-making, support upgradeability, and sustain long-term value. Whether you're early in your transformation or refining your approach, this session offers practical guidance on building and maintaining a clean core.

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

Kurt Hollis, Deloitte

13:00 - 13:45 • 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...