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SAP Innovation Day

AI Everywhere For Better Business Outcomes

Breakout Sessions
  The Perfect Retail
11:25 AM Introduction
Didier Uljasz - Industry Value Advisor Expert at SAP
11:40 AM Digitize to ‘retell’ your retail journey
Erhan Ergun - Head of SAP Middle East Business Unit at Nagarro
11:55 AM Commerce Anywhere
Matt Whitehar - Expert Solution Consultant at SAP
12:10 PM How supply chain enables your omnichannel journey
Francesco Penza - Business Development Manager - Center of Excellence for Logistics and Business Network – SAP EMEA
12:25 PM Enabling True Real Time Operations
Giuseppe Bruni - Global Head, Industry and Value Advisory at Solace
12:40 PM Hyper-personalization
Matt Whitehart - Expert Solution Consultant at SAP
12:55 PM How Data empower your entire ecosystem
Mikhail Avetisov - AI and Automation Expert at SAP
01:10 PM Smart decision making in a digital-first world
Seref Can Kucukkarakurt - Presales Director, Turkey & Mena at NTT DATA
Eshan Walia - Head of Digital Transformation at Sharaf Retail
01:25 PM Q & A with Jumbo and Lulu
Martin Dibden - Account Director at SAP
Sumit Roy - Chief Information Officer at Jumbo Electronics Company Ltd.
Sudeendra Pulivendala - Technical Services Manager - SAP at Lulu Group International
  Energy: Digital Operations, Sustainability, Next-Gen Automation, AI: How Energy Companies can Adapt in the New Era?
11:25 AM Welcome, Presentation of the Agenda
Harish Bansal - Regional Industry & Value Advisory Lead at SAP

11:30 AM The Role of AI & Data in the Energy Industry
11:30 AM Digital Trends in the Energy Sector
Alok Raj - Partner Technology Consulting SAP at EY
11:40 AM Drive Next-Gen Automation with SAP's Cloud ERP & Business AI
Sridhar Valathi Rajakumar - Director Customer & Solution Advisory for Energy and Natural Resources at SAP
12:00 PM Conares: Making the Switch to a Next-Generation ERP
Rajesh Sivaraman - Senior IT Manager at Conares
12:15 PM Competing in the age of AI with SAP Business Technology Platform
Nicky Johar - SAP Center of Excellence, Business Technology Platform, Presales at SAP
12:30 PM Importance of Data in Enhancing the Effectiveness and Reliability of Business-driven AI Systems
Shiva Thanoo Pillai - Program Delivery Manager at EDGE Group
Lazaros Lazaridis - VP EMEA South at Syniti
12:45 PM Core Industry: Driving Operational Integrity, Innovation and Sustainability Across Enterprise
12:45 PM Race Up Towards Creating a Sustainable Enterprise
Nicolas Cotro - Solution Advisor for Demand & Supply Planning, and Sustainability at SAP
01:00 PM Panel Discussion: Enhancing Transparency, Monitoring and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Emirates Global Aluminium
Adil Zafar - Associate Partner EMEA Leader for RISE with SAP at IBM
Rippun Kaushal - Senior Managing Consultant at IBM
01:15 PM Manage Shutdowns Efficiently with SAP's STO Cloud Solution
Hisham Gouda - Chief Solution Expert at SAP
01:30 PM Closing
  Industrial Manufacturing: Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing Through AI: A Vision for the Future
11:25 AM Introduction & the Role of AI in Sustainable Manufacturing
How AI is revolutionizing manufacturing processes to enhance sustainability.
Aasif Khan - Industry Executive Advisor - Discrete Industries at SAP
11:40 AM End to End Digital Twins across Supply chain Management powered by SAP and AI
Guillaume Lepp - Managing Director at Accenture Middle East
Phillip Jorgensen - IX Innovation Hub Lead at Accenture EMEA
12:00 PM AI based Demand Sensing & forecasting  at Al Rawabi
Intelligent Demand forecasting for businesses with SAP IBP for Demand
Abhay Bhatt - Regional Manager, Middle East at Bristlecone
Mohammed Azeem - IT Director at Al Rawabi
12:20 PM Revolutionizing Cloud ERP: Harnessing Embedded AI for Seamless Integration and Enhanced Performance
Uncovering the seamless integration of AI technologies within our cloud ERP, showcasing how it optimizes operations and drives business performance.
Mohammed El Mehdi Lotfi - Senior Presales Expert at SAP
12:40 PM PPAssist: Transforming Production Planning with Generative AI
Harnessing the power of Generative AI application developed on SAP BTP to provide production planning simulation based on Product Demand
Ajay Prasad - Pre-sales & Projects Director at Inflexion Tech
12:55 PM Fire Up Innovation with SAP Business AI
Showcase cutting-edge AI technologies and solutions specifically designed to address challenges in manufacturing (Gen AI Use cases)
Faisal Haneef - SAP Cloud Platform - Middle-East and Africa at SAP
01:15 PM Closing
Aasif Khan - Industry Executive Advisor - Discrete Industries at SAP
  Public Services: Journey Towards Zero Government Bureaucracy
11:25 AM Welcome and Agenda
Tarek Darwish - Public Sector Industry Advisor - EMEA South at SAP
11:30 AM Introducing Zero Government Bureaucracy
Introduction to the ZGB initiative launched by the UAE's Prime Minister, H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, highlighting the key objectives, KPIs, and implementation methodology.
Hesham Amiri - Advisor, Government Services Sector UAE Prime Minister’s Office
11:45 AM Building Blocks for Zero Government Bureaucracy
In the age of AI, governments have access to an arsenal of tools to help in identifying the bureaucratic bottlenecks, drive process efficiency, and ensure proper monitoring and governance across the whole of government
Tarek Darwish - Public Sector Industry Advisor - EMEA South at SAP
Sean Patrick O'Brien - Executive Industry Leader & Head at SAP
12:00 PM Identifying Government Bureaucracy: AI enabled Process Intelligence
How can process mining help government agencies in identifying process bottlenecks and improve the efficiency of citizen services. This demo of SAP Signavio Process Intelligence tool presents the data-driven approach to uncovering bureaucracy
Salvatore De Caro - Presales Director for EMEA South at SAP Signavio
12:15 PM Automating Citizen Services
Decreasing citizen burden from service applications requires service automation driven by AI with intuitive design and simple and quick turnaround time. This demo showcases examples of SAP BTP capabilities required to automate citizen services
Mohamed Ashour - Principal Data Scientist, Enterprise AI and Automation, Global Center of Excellence at SAP
12:30 PM Delivering Proactive Citizen Services
Ensuring a citizen journey is complete seamlessly requires interaction across multiple government entities. This presentation highlights how an event-driven architecture is key to deliver proactive services that require minimal citizen interaction.
Alam Khan - Technology Lead for Middle East at Solace
12:45 PM Reimaging the public sector workforce for zero government bureaucracy
Jitesh Soni - Partner Technology Consulting SAP at EY
01:00 PM Closing
Tarek Darwish - Public Sector Industry Advisor - EMEA South at SAP
  Role of Generative AI In Finance
11:25 AM Welcome Note
Kuldeep Raina - Director, Customer Advisory - Finance & Risk at SAP
11:30 AM Increasing Productive With Generative AI
  • Enable Business Value Unlocking with Intelligent Signavio
  • Streamline your finance processes with intelligent skills
Ernesto Schmitz - Business Transformation Lead - EMEA South at SAP
11:50 AM Customer Fire Side Chat Session
Rizwan Saleem - Group Chief Financial Officer at GMG
Rahma Beaugrand - VP, SAP MES Sustainability Ambassador at SAP

12:10 PM Fire Side Chat Session - SAP & Microsoft Partnership
Prashant Agarwal - UAE Enterprise & Strategic Accounts at Microsoft
Rahma Beaugrand - VP, SAP MES Sustainability Ambassador at SAP

12:25 PM Transforming Uncertainties into Sustainable Value with Gen AI
Stephen Fernandes - Partner - Client Executive Leader | SAP Alliance at EY
12:45 PM Augmenting Human Decision Making in Finance
  • AI driven Analysis with Just ASK
  • Smart Insights Powered by AI
  • Financial Planning powered by AI
Robert Lightfoot - Global Unified Data & Analytics Solution Advisory Hub Lead at SAP
Raheel Khan - Sr. Solutions Advisor, Planning & Analytics Business Technology Platform at SAP
01:05 PM Intelligent Compliance and Regulation
  • Driving compliance through Cognitive Screening
  • Statutory Compliance to FTA, covering E-Invoicing, VAT & CIT
Luigi Di Rito - Enterprise AI and Automation at SAP
Kuldeep Raina - Director, Customer Advisory - Finance & Risk at SAP

  Next Generation Spend Management powered with Intelligence and Collaboration
11:25 AM Opening Remarks
Basel Alshawa - Senior Director - Head of Intelligent Spend & Business Network - Middle East & Africa (South Region) at SAP
11:30 AM Role of AI and Innovations in Future Roadmap of Spend Management
Introduction to the AI capabilities and future roadmap for all ISBN Solutions
Llyod Keays - Incubation and Pioneering Executive, SAP Business Network
12:00 PM Revolutionize Strategic Sourcing with Intelligence & Analytics
Walkthrough of latest Innovations intertwined with AI/ML for the SAP Spend Control Tower, SAP Ariba Guided Sourcing and SAP Ariba Supplier 360
Dina Sallam - Senior ISBN Solution Advisor
12:20 PM Journey to Digital Procurement Transformation - Customer Success Story
Customer Success Story on Transformation by Etisalat
Huzail Mohideen - Head of Operations Excellence & Procurement Analytics at e&
Sandeep Kumar Patnaik - Senior Manager, Procurement Studio at Bristlecone
12:35 PM Bring Intelligence and Compliance in External Workforce Management
Showcasing SAP Fieldglass innovations with AI in Contingent Workforce and Service Contracts
Sherif Nada - PSAP Fieldglass Demand Generation and Business Development Lead - MENA at SAP
12:50 PM Next-Gen B2B Collaboration: Unleashing Power of AI and Beyond in Business Networks
Introduction to of SAP Business Network (Supply Chain Collaboration, AIN and LBN)
Customer Success Story about SAP Logistics Business Network from Borouge
Francesco Penza - Business Development Manager - Center of Excellence for Logistics and Business Network – SAP EMEA
Johan Asting - Sr. Program Manager, Supply Chain Transformation at Borouge
01:05 PM Role of Technology in Future of Procurement - Customer Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion with Industry Leaders on the Future of Procurement and role of AI
Selin Turkmenoglu - Head of Regional Alliances & Strategic Initiatives, MENA at NTT DATA
Nikita Zaritskiy - Group Procurement Director at Beyond One
Suhail Siddiqui - Director Procurement & Supply Chain at Juma Al Majid Holding Group
Mahmoud Salem Alalawi - Executive Director at Abu Dhabi Government
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