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2023-06-22T10:00:00.000-04:00
SAP Vancouver 910 Mainland Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1A9
SAP Toronto 222 Bay Street, Suite 2000 Toronto, ON M5K 1B7
ALT Hotel Montreal 120 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 0L8
Alt Hotel 185 Slater Street, Ottawa, ON K1P0C8 CA
Alt Hotel Calgary 635, Confluence Way SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0G1
Come hear former Stanley cup champions and current SAP director for the Business Technology Platform – and former Green Bay Packer linebacker – Andy Mulumba discuss their unique journeys to the National Hockey League. The NHL leverage of data and analytics is at an ‘artform level’ of execution. Andy will draw parallels from lessons in the NHL and what it can teach businesses about the importance of preparation, team work and using analytics to improve performance while considering an effective Digital Transformation initiative.
Brendan Morrisson played for the Canucks from 2000-2008 and is now the host of the adventure and travel show, “Reel West Coast”.
Accelerating and simplifying your cloud transformation will help you achieve measurable improvements in your business. Learn about the cases of companies like yours, which have reinvented their business processes, have managed to increase talent retention, improve the customer experience and reduce costs through SAP Business Technology Platform. Discover how to ensure data quality, have advanced information, from SAP and non-SAP systems, in real time, to make decisions and become a truly an intelligent company.
Make your business more sustainable and profitable than ever. Reduce investment in operating and maintaining systems at your facilities. Unlock your critical business processes – access anywhere, anytime. Seamless transition to the cloud, at the pace that best suits your business. Maximize integration as a strategic lever in your digital transformation program, combining it with excellence in data management and user experience.
Please note: This is a customer-centric event. Any partner participation requires sponsorship, and only sponsoring partners are permitted to attend.
Welcome & Keynote - The power of BTP to enable digital transformation
Customer Success Story
BTP Overview & Build Demo
How to onboard and get value from BTP
Partner Presentation 3
Greatness requires preparation
12:15 pm
Networking Lunch with 3 Demo Pods Available
Pod #1 - Getting value across diverse data sets with SAP BTP Pod #2 - Understanding BTP for process automation, a productive user experience and rapid application development Pod #3 - Enterprise Integration for the connected Enterprise
1:30 PM
Keep Core Clean and Accelerate Migration:
Entering the LoCode - NoCode era with SAP Build
2:30 PM
Application Development and Operation with SAP BTP
Data & Analytics as center point for modern data management
Almost every enterprise goes through a digital transformation nowadays. A common reason to do so is to become a true data driven enterprise. In this session you will learn why data should be the center point of digital transformation and what kind of data & analytics strategy is needed to be successful.
2:00 PM
Transform Planning across Your Enterprise with Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) with SAP Analytics Cloud
Turn Data Chaos into Data Value with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Today, data is more fragmented than ever. Companies struggle to bring consistency in the data while keeping governance on it. And at the same time, business users are asking for more autonomy with this data.
Discover how SAP Datawarehouse Cloud can help addressing these problems with its innovative self-service modeling and space allocations capabilities.
Drive flexibility and innovation with the end-to-end data to value capabilities of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
How to optimize your migration from SAP Process Integration/Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite
Overview of the general process and programs to support your migration from SAP Process Integration/SAP Process Orchestration.
Learn about SAP and partner services and tools to help with your migration journey to SAP Integration Suite Customer Success Stories and Lessons Learned Resources available to help you plan and execute your migration
How Event Driven Architecture can help power your real-time business processes
Discovery how the New BTP service, SAP Integration Suite, Advanced Event Mesh is helping customers managing challenging Integration and Extension needs by distributing high volume of information with a high throughput to the right systems and applications, enabling disruptive transformations for SAP Customers.
Envisioning your Digital Transformation: Steps to a Strategy, Mindset and Practice
04:15 pm
Wrap-Up Day / Keynote Closing
John Gibson is the global leader for the Business Platform & Technologies (BTP) Centre of Excellence, reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, SAP BTP. The BTP Centre of Excellence is a team of senior, highly-skilled, customer facing resources covering all of SAP BTP including Data Management, Data Science (AI/ML), Analytics, Integration and Application Development. The teams are global experts and assist strategic customer and partner situations that have complex requirements or require new solutions. The team also play a pivotal role in technology and Customer Success strategy for SAP.
John has been with SAP for 18 years and has been in his current role for 4 years. John’s first role at SAP was to lead the Solutions team for SAP Canada and since then has specialized in leading global knowledge-based teams including OEM Presales, Business-by-Design (mid-size ERP) Presales and biz dev, Inside Sales Presales (ePresales), the virtual technologies unit and the specialized sales teams for SAP Cloud Platform (PaaS).
John is originally from the UK but is currently located in the Vancouver Development Centre, British Columbia, Canada.
Andy Mulumba is the BTP CoE North America Director for ISBN. In his current role, his primary focus is strategically finding ways to aid customers to get excited about BTP and think of it as a differentiator to their existing landscape with the help of our SAP Experts or Partners.
Peter Harborow has been with SAP for over 20 years. His passion is helping customers get value from diverse data sets, to develop greater insights & impacts to their business.
Based in Vancouver, Peter is currently the director of the Canada BTP center of excellence.
Scott Dillon is no stranger to SAP and helping customers understand how the Business Technology Platform can help solve real business challenges. Scott spent 20 years working for SAP and was the chief product advisor for BTP for 5 of those years. He’s no stranger to public speaking as the creator and host of the SAP Garage Series which was designed and delivered almost flawlessly for 3 years with live demos except for the episode where a Tornado got in the way of things. He is now working for one of the preeminent companies in the world of Event Driven Architecture in order to help SAP customers understand how to Integrate and Extend with BTP Advanced Event Mesh.
Steve Bickerton has been employed at SAP since 2007 and has been involved in the SAP analytics ecosystem since 1999. He is currently working in the North American BTP CoE, where he helps customers with their integration, data, and analytics concerns. He has been a regular contributor to HANA Executive Advisory Council and is a blogger on SAP communities.
Prior to SAP, Steve worked for 10 years in the Investment Banks of both JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. Steve graduated with Honours from Carleton University (BA Economics) and has an M.B.A. from the University of Hartford with a specialization in Finance.
Buntic Georgian is a strategic advisor on business analytics with a focus on helping organizations drive more business value out of their analytics investments. He has over 24 years of consulting experience focused primarily on analytics strategy and roadmap, design of analytics platforms and data warehousing.
Buntic is a frequent speaker and guest expert at ASUG/BI/SAP HANA industry events. He is also a published author within the SAP Data Warehouse sphere. Buntic earned his degree in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai and MBA from C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.
First starting at SAP as a summer intern, Kevin joined SAP full-time as a member of the SAP Presales Academy, a year-long Presales development program for early talent and is currently part of the BTP Solution Advisory team in Canada. He is specializing in integration where he is helping customers modernize and improve their integration capabilities through SAP's integration solution portfolio. In addition to this, he has been involved supporting customers through BTP enablement sessions including hackathons and technical academy workshops.
John makes part of the SAP BTP Solution Advisory team having as mission helping customers fulfill their digital transformation and innovation vision by leveraging the value of SAP Business Technology Platform(BTP). He specializes in providing insights on topics like Application Development & Automation, finding the right choices towards achieving agility and unlocking business potential through BTP Low-Code or Pro-Code solutions. Located in Montreal Canada, he has gathered more than 12 years of experience working with SAP and other players of the IT industry. He enjoys leading conversations around areas like Intelligent Enterprise and the role of BTP in the – keeping a Clean Core - Strategy
Mariajose has been part of SAP for 5 years, mainly in Solution Advisory focused on the SAP Business Technology Platform and has been able to help enterprises to innovate faster to cover their unique business requirements while keeping their core system clean. She also has experience with SAP Signavio solutions to perform business process analysis especially when it comes to identify best practices towards S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Passionate about technology and women’s empowerment, she has also been recognized as a Volunteer Ambassador for supporting women’s career development in the industry.
Over 6 years of experience developing, architecting and delivering SaaS solutions to enterprise customers. In his career he has worked in a variety of roles including software development, product management, and sales engineering. In these roles he has been customer focused which lead product design teams to create, rollout and incorporate various systems for aerospace, finance and business intelligence. In his role with BTP, Daniel works with Sales, Product owners and Partner organizations as a customer facing resource to lead business and technology discussions. In addition, Jason has been a speaker at SAP Conferences and Events about Integration Solutions and Automation are served by SAP solutions.
Shreyas is a Sr. Solution Advisor with over 13 years of overall industry experience in Enterprise Platform as a Service and has a strong focus in fostering digital transformation for his clients by leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform capabilities
Tony Cheung is a seasoned specialist in the data and analytics space with over 17 years of history with SAP, helping customers, including some of the Fortune 500 ones, to tackle various kinds of data projects: from data architecture and management to advanced analytics. In addition, he is passionate about applying the right technologies to solve business data puzzles. In his free time, Tony enjoys inspiring and collaborating with his children to explore new ideas, from a data chef to a home chef.
Bruno has been part of the SAP Solution Advisory team for five years. During that time, he has covered the SAP BTP portfolio and supported strategic engagements across North America. He started his journey with SAP in 2017 as part of the SAP Presales Academy in Mexico where he was awarded as the most innovative associate. Bruno moved to Canada in 2019 where we assumed the Innovation Architect role within the Business Technology Platform Solution Advisory team where he has led innovation discussions with strategic accounts throughout Canada. He also led and executed customer adoption events (webinars, hackathons, etc.) for strategic customers and designed product demonstrations to showcase SAP’s intelligent technologies. As the National Director of the SAP BTP Solution Advisory team, Bruno leads a group of experienced BTP professionals across Canada.
Prakash leads the SAP platform, data and technology service offerings for PwC Canada. He helps large organizations transform their ERPs for the digital economy through innovation with SAP Technologies and Solutions. He enables SAP customer’s ERP transformation journey from concept to implementation. To manage such implementations, he provides strategic direction across project teams, key stakeholders and program sponsors by adopting a fit-for-use transformation approach.
Satya has 13+ years of SAP implementation & sustainment experience with Technical & Functional knowledge. He is responsible for designing the Technical Solutions and leading the team in SAP implementation projects.
Tanveer Singh Sidhu, Integration Manager, SAP SuccessFactors at PwC Canada (LinkedIn)
Tanveer has 12 years of experience working in the SAP hybrid landscape in the integration domain. His area of expertise includes SuccessFactors integrations and IBP integrations. He is involved with designing the SAP HR landscape and technical lead for multiple implementations.
Pratik Shah, Senior Manager, SAP Consulting & Deals at PwC Canada (LinkedIn)
Pratik has been leading technical efforts on projects involving SAP integrations & development with a focus on SAP ERP and cloud solutions primarily. He works closely with the customer's technical team and business stakeholder to make sure all the key integrations are taken into consideration while setting up the architecture and then working with the vendor, customer and PwC team to make sure these integrations are setup between SAP and non-SAP products using various integration platforms available in the market.
Eric is a seasoned SAP professional with 28 years of experience.
His active involvement in complex projects of all kinds has allowed him to forge a solid reputation in the field of SAP consulting.
Throughout his career, he has successfully held a variety of strategic positions in sales, presales, program management and solution architecture for large, international organizations.
Among his most significant accomplishments, Eric has been actively involved in more than twenty SAP implementation and upgrade projects.
Over 25 years of experience in the SAP Landscape focusing on aligning customer needs with SAP Technologies.
My passion for Data and Analytics is creating true business value for our customers along their data driven journey.
Toros Aledjian is a Senior Director of Global SAP Business Technology Platform Go to Market with responsibilities for Customer Experience, Business Development and Go to Market initiatives.
With over 23 years at SAP, Toros has advocated and promoted all aspects of Development, Product Management and Customer engagement on a variety of projects from CRM to UX to SAP BTP.
He brings over 27 years of technical industry experience in government and commercial software. His engagement in and promotion of partnering and instrumental Business Development brings a unique insight for potential business growth, through Customer engagement that fosters a productive and efficient win – win environment.
Leonard Maganza is the Chief Customer Officer at Syniti where he helps large enterprises in all industries manage their most critical asset – their data.
He joined Syniti as the company’s 15th employee. During his 20+ year tenure, he’s held various roles including leading sales and consulting services in the Americas where he helped shape the direction and expertise of the company’s now more than 1,000 delivery experts. He has been a driving force in establishing Syniti as the premier partner for complex data migration and governance initiatives at some of the world’s largest enterprises.
Leonard has a deep understanding of how businesses operate at the commercial and transactional level, and a unique ability to translate the language of IT into clear business purpose and outcomes. Prior to working in the enterprise information management space, he spent five years implementing ERP systems and 10 years as a certified public accountant. A Brooklyn native, he currently resides in Texas.
Richard Dampf is a Managing Director with msg global solutions in NA where he focuses on SAP Profitability and Performance Management. Richard has been with msg for 6+ years focusing on system architectural design, delivery and sales. Richard’s business background includes 25+ years in finance and risk on the business side. Over the course of his career, Richard has held line positions within CFO areas as well as various internal and external consulting positions where he implemented business process and IT improvements. Richard is also a CPA and regularly represents msg at industry conferences and trade shows as well as other partner and customer webinars and enablement events including SAPPHIRE, CSKOM, SAP Insider and ASUG.
Marc is a Software Quality Engineer with 30 years of IT experience in the Application Quality Management space. He has a passion for technology and an accomplished QA professional with a proven record of successful contribution in quality management, performance management, security and automation technologies. He has worked for the likes of IBM, HP and Microsoft and is a Sr. Solution Architect for Tricentis.
Mike Pettinella is a Subject Matter Expert for the LiveCompare (SAP Change Impact Analysis) solution by Tricentis. He has 20 years of experience with LiveCompare helping Fortune 500 companies implement LiveCompare to modernize their SAP testing practices and to support digital transformation projects. With his testing background, he has helped accelerate SAP delivery, mitigate risk, and decrease costs related to IT projects of all sizes. Mike graduated from University of Massachusetts. Amherst with degrees in Business and computer science.
Sue is a seasoned veteran within the information management space, with over 25 years’ experience focused on the blend of business requirements enabled by technology. Leveraging a strong data strategy perspective that drives toward business outcomes, Sue’s expertise in translating business needs to the technologies that support them encompasses a broad set of solutions within the SAP portfolio across transactional, data warehousing, big data and IoT scenarios. Sue has held a variety of technical, management, and strategic roles within both public and private industry sectors, which enables a rich appreciation for the occasionally turbulent partnerships that must be accommodated across people, culture, and technology.
Over 19 years of experience in SAP across several teams in North America, Germany and India. Starting off as a product developer at SAP Labs, Arun went on to delivered key Portal implementations with SAP Consulting services on his next role and subsequently drove MaxAttention engagements for SAP’s largest customers in NA. In his current role as a BTP CSP within the Canada MU for the last 2 years, Arun provides strategic advisory on SAP BTP to ensure customer success and adoption of our BTP Public cloud solutions in the post sales world. Arun works on removing impediments to adoption, proposes tailored use cases to our customers and partners with them to speak and engage at events such as Sapphire.