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We’ll speak with digital transformation experts about challenges and solutions on the road to becoming an intelligent, sustainable enterprise.
Throughout the event, we’ll be looking at the practical action businesses and organizations can take. Our competence centers will provide valuable insights into best and next practices.
April 26, 2023
9:00 a.m.– 8:00 p.m.
Experts from different lines of business who are exploring digital transformation and innovation.
A blend of strategic and practical keynotes, engaging line-of-business talks, interactive sessions, and valuable opportunities to network with experts and peers. You can find the full program here.
Start your day in the varied Experience Zone with Customer Booths, Business Showcases and valuable networking with peers from your business unit. You'll hear the kickoff to the breakout sessions and interactive formats in our keynote. To the program.
Exciting practical examples with customers, partners and SAP. To the program.
Participate in an interactive, one-hour sustainability workshop led by SAP and partners. To the program.
Industry and solution experts will give you an exciting short keynote presentation on the respective topics, followed by an open discussion in a small personal group. To the program.
Sebastian helps turn SAP’s vision into reality: Reinventing how the world runs as a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises. In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, Sebastian is also driving SAP’s key strategic growth drivers including the SAP Business Network and the SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises. He is passionate about enabling business transformation, supply chain resilience, and ESG transparency for SAP’s customers.
Prior to joining SAP, Sebastian worked at BCG, where he helped companies define and implement their corporate, digital and sustainability strategies. He has published several thought leadership articles on artificial intelligence and digital strategy, and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
When not working or spending time with his two daughters, Sebastian occasionally brushes up his graffiti skills.
Overall 19+ years of expertise in driving HR Technologies
• Which provide Employees, Line Managers and HR experts the best user experience and enable efficiencies through automation
• To attract, retain, motivate, engage employees and enhancing their performance by continuously improving ways of working with simple, standardized, and transparent processes.
Meet Lisa and Tanja, the digital marketing dream team at Betty Bossi – the leading Swiss culinary company. With the help of Emarsys they love to create new omni-channel experiences that delight and inspire their customers.
Flexible project manager with specialization in SAP cloud & S/4HANA topics. Due to previous positions, projects are supported with project management as well as broad SAP basis knowledge and skills.
Elisabeth is an impact focused strategist, people and nature enthusiast. In her work, she is dedicated to make a difference to solve the biggest challenges of this decade – fight climate climate change and social inequality. For this, she works with businesses, governments and academia, fusing strategy, innovation and the most advanced technologies.
Expert in SAP Sustainability solution portfolio to enable & support stakeholders to drive sustainability:
Torsten has been with SAP for more than 15 years. He started as a developer for SAP sustainability solutions and switched to consulting as a customer developer where he relocated to the USA for 2 years. After his return, he did various customer implementation projects and led a team of consultants. In the last years, he worked as a Solution Architect for Sustainability and held the ownership of the SAP EHS Service Portfolio.
Sebastian works with colleagues, customers and partners to succeed in the environmental, social and governance criteria of sustainability. In doing so, he proves that sustainability is much more than a compliance topic, but a key driver for competitive advantage. There’s either sustainable business or no business. Session Title: Innovation for Corporate Sustainability
Darik is experienced in implementing S4 Hana in professional service providers and industrial companies. Moreover, he’s driving the area of ESG reporting with SAP within PwC Switzerland.
Sveinung Baumann-Larsen is a Partner and leads the EMEIA Tax Technology and Transformation practice at EY. He has been with EY since 2005 and is based in Oslo, Norway.
Sveinung is a firm believer in the power of data, technology and the importance of collaboration in addressing the most important and complex business issues of today. He and his teams advise on the tax and finance function transformation journey – from building the business case for change, to people, processes and governance, to implementation and beyond. He specializes in the interface between tax, finance and IT, helping companies address the various business imperatives that affect their performance across financial, tax and sustainability areas, bringing transparency to cost, driving efficiencies, regulatory compliance and cash savings.
Fernando leads SAP IBP for Deloitte Switzerland, having 20+ years on SAP SCM APO/IBP with focus in ESG.
Engineer on SCM from Polytechnic School of São Paulo and Master of Science. APICS CPIM certified.
Dorothee is passionate about HR, people and digitalization. 5 years ago she started her career in SAP first as Solution Expert especially for Core HR before she became HR Executive Advisor and now Customer Success Partner for Human Experience Management. Dorothee holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Trier and has worked in various HR functions throughout her career. She has previously held the position of Head of a Center of Excellence and Shared Services HR including Payroll.
Irina is part of EY’s Markets and Business development leadership since 2016. She is focusing on client success and EY’s go to market for innovative SAP based business solutions and our EMEIA lead for SAP Sustainability. Irina is based in Zurich and brings more than 15 years of successful SAP enabled business transformation implementations.
Dr. Kaveh Rashidi is a senior manager in the team of Sustainability and Climate Change at PwC Switzerland. He leads topics related to the intersection of technology, data intelligence and ESG.
Sveds-Hjalmar is a Finance & Procurement professional working for ABB since almost 10 years in various roles. In his current role as “Head of Procurement Digitalization” he manages a set of system implementations as well as support organizations globally with the aim to drive towards higher automated & digital ways of working, internally & externally. Born and raised in Sweden, likes to spend time outdoors and is a true “foodie”.
Lisa Spiegel is responsible for Tegut's IT customer consulting and, together with her team, is responsible for business analysis, requirements and change management - including in the context of Tegut's SAP landscape.
Peter is a Manager with over 8 years of experience in leveraging technology to drive business transformation and growth. Based in the Zürich Area, Switzerland, he specializes in implementing intelligent automation and process mining technologies, such as Celonis, UiPath and SAP Signavio, to streamline business operations and reduce costs. Additionally, he is part of the EY CCaSS Digital Pillar, driving sustainable business transformation through cutting-edge digital technologies and analysis.
As a project manager and solution architect, Michael Zangl has been helping companies successfully implement projects in the SAP and asset management environment for over 20 years.
Sebastian Steinhaeuser and Guests
In 2018, Implenia launched the transformation project "Inspire" across all business units to replace legacy systems, harmonize processes and establish a new overall IT platform based on S/4HANA. Globally comparable data from Implenia`s activities enable continuous optimization and control of processes, projects and form the basis for optimized solutions for Implenia`s customers. Anita Eckardt, Executive Committee & Head Divison Specialities at Implenia, accompanied Inspire and shares her experiences.
Sustainability in business is more important today than ever before. This session will highlight the various steps SAP Signavio can take to help customers shape their sustainability journey and leverage Business Process Intelligence as one of the key enablers to turn insights into action and achieve holistic governance for sustainable development. Key insights: Understand how SAP Signavio products can help your organization translate sustainability insights into process actions. - You know the key steps to achieve the above goals in this process.
Customer Experience (CX) and Business Process Excellence (BPE) are closely related. By aligning BPE and CX, we create processes that are efficient and effective, while also providing great experiences for our customers. With a new program called LEAP (Leading in Experiences and Processes), we implement a common understanding and framework of how we will manage and improve our business processes at Hilti to achieve efficient and compliant processes resulting in excellent employee and customer experience across all business areas and processes.
ABB is using SAP S/4HANA CFIN as a stepping stone to a full finance and digital transformation and disentangle multiple ERP’s. With Global Finance Transformation (across 70+ countries), standardization and governance for Finance Master Data and Business partner data (SAP MDG) and "System of Report" with better decision support based on real-time insights for Financial KPI’s.
Digitalization is changing the economy and existing business models. The OECD calls for Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) to address tax challenges, which will be implemented in Switzerland with a constitutional amendment as of January 2024. How can internationally active companies meet and implement the requirements of BEPS 2.0 Pillar 2? In this session, we will show how companies can meet the new compliance requirements while continuing to create value. Under BEPS 2.0, the increased reporting requirements created by Pillar 2 require multinationals to pull resources from across the enterprise to collect and raise awareness of the right data at the source. By using SAP tax management tools such as SAP Profitability and Performance Management, the process can be managed end-to-end from data collection to calculation and reporting.
No matter whether your prime target is around growth, risk minimization and compliance – the move to SAP S/4HANA will build the foundation for it. In this session we will explain how you derive based on your business goals the right roadmap and strategy to move to the next generation ERP and highlight quick wins you can harvest along the way. We will do this in a 360 degree view, starting with the business process leveraging SAP Signavio, looking into the solution needed with RISE with SAP and not forgetting the application and data life cycle with SAP CALM.
Renowned for their development and production of unique aircrafts, Pilatus is taking-off into the Cloud managed by SAP. To navigate the transformation journey onto S/4HANA, a close collaboration between Pilatus and SAP with S/4HANA Cloud, private edition powered by Microsoft Azure was setup. Future steps towards an optimized landscape are already visible on the horizon.
With its 300 supermarkets in Germany, Tegut stands for "good food" and successful innovation projects in the retail environment. The Migros subsidiary reports on its role as an innovative speedboat in the Migros universe, turbulent cybercrime experiences, the successful SAP migration to the cloud, and the important simultaneous transformation planning for the next step towards SAP S/4HANA.
Testo is an expert for highly precise measurement technology and innovative measurement solutions, with 37 subsidiary companies around the world. The Group aims to stay ahead technologically, one aspect of that is its IT landscape. Testo is taking a lean approach to migrate to S/4 HANA Cloud, achieving the first implementation in 2022 of the 3-system landscape Public Cloud template, and is now in progress on further rollouts. Testo will share it’s strategy, challenges faced and learnings made moving to cloud ERP.
Stadler has implemented a new customer portal to support its customers in managing their fleets and service processes. The portal uses SAP's Business Technology Platform to digitally simplify and facilitate collaboration between manufacturers, service providers, regulatory authorities, and operators. It also makes the service process more transparent through integrated end-to-end processes. The portal provides access to analytical and graphical information on each train, allowing fleet managers to monitor its status and location in real-time. Customers can order replacement parts via the portal and manage their on-site inventory.
Many enterprises have undertaken a business transformation journey underpinned by S/4HANA and SAP BTP. In this session, Roche will outline their ERP strategy and how Cloud Innovation Platforms fits in to achieve the vision and benefit patients. As a real life example, Roche will share their “Plant Maintenance” use case that empowers their field technicians demonstrating how they realize business value faster and more reliably.
Unleashing the potential of your data has never been easier. With SAP Cloud solutions such as the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud or the SAP Analytics Cloud, companies of all sizes and managers of all departments can link data across the enterprise. The Swiss Post and NTT DATA Business Solutions will share best practices and discuss experiences and potential paths in the field of analytics.
The Syngenta Group has transformed its planning processes by using SAP Analytics Cloud. Gytri Kadikar will discuss how SAP Analytics Cloud is transforming our planning strategy and enabling us to make data-driven decisions more efficiently and effectively. You will learn how SAP Analytics Cloud is streamlining our planning process, increasing efficiency, and improving planning capabilities. We'll also show you how SAP Analytics Cloud has enabled us to overcome obstacles and prepare for the future, no matter what it brings.
At the SAP Switzerland Hackathon, customer teams develop a prototype based on SAP BTP in just 4 days. Let's celebrate the winners and learn what made them winners!
For the complete digitalization of business processes, interactions across company boundaries must also be considered. In asset and maintenance management various collaborative scenarios between operators, manufacturers and service providers exist. SBB presents possible scenarios and takes an in-depth look at cross-company maintenance processing with the help of SAP Business Network for Asset Collaboration.
Bühler is driving multiple digital transformation initiatives in manufacturing, which have been a key business driver in the past years. To ensure future readiness, a fit-gap-analysis has been initiated to assess whether SAP Digital Manufacturing can bring additional benefits to Bühler compared to the current on-premise SAP Manufacturing Execution solution. This presentation introduces the project’s approach, identified gaps and value-adds, as well as future options for Bühler.
Learn how reinforcing Collaboration and Digitalization between Richemont luxury Maisons and their partners (Suppliers and External Manufacturers) has contributed to increase Supply Chain agility and performance in a context of growth and uncertainty. In its journey, Richemont has launched a new Digital Product approach, to bring continuous value to all the users and stakeholders and prepare together the future.
With over 50 million annual views on their recipes, Betty Bossi has built up a large fan base and has become a go-to source for culinary inspiration in Switzerland. However, encouraging customers to not only cook with their recipes but also purchase their kitchen gadgets can be a challenge. This presentation will demonstrate how marketing automation can enable companies like Betty Bossi to provide customers with inspiring content, precisely when they need it, through the most effective channels, resulting in increased sales and customer loyalty.
Fast company growth in a market which is in a technological shift requires highly resilient and scalable business processes. We will showcase how SAP CX Sales and Service Cloud improved our customer service capabilities in both quantity and quality since GoLive in DACH region in June 2021.
Discover how KISTLER, the global market leader in measurement technology and the winner of the SAP Quality Gold Award in Cloud Transformation, leverages SAP SuccessFactors to continue transforming its HR landscape. Join our session to gain valuable insights from this successful HXM project that harmonized global HR processes, unified HR data and increased employee satisfaction. True to the KISTLER motto “measure.analyze.innovate”.
Hear how Nestlé embarked on a global, multi-year IT HR transformation that touches over 260,000 employees in over 100 countries. The transformation allowed us to offer value-driven HR capabilities at scale in a fast, enjoyable and easy way. From simplifying and improving the recruitment process to engaging with thousands of candidates across the world in new ways each week. From end-to-end efficiency through hyper automation by design to a mobile enabled enable great Employee Experience, pushing the functional boundaries & using new capabilities that are at the edge of innovation (e.g. BTP).
To ensure that products are always stored correctly and delivered on time, Aveniq will give you an insight on how one of their customers works with a specialized logistics service provider. Despite the many advantages, this also brings challenges. Let’s discuss together in an open discussion how integration is key for futureproof CX solutions.
For some years now, the selection, implementation, and long-term use of an HR cloud solution has been on the HR agenda in numerous companies. In this roundtable we will discuss the added value, potential challenges of the HR cloud transformation and share lessons learnt that companies made during the different process stages.
Discuss your questions in an open Roundtable with experts from Geistlich and Swisscom and figure out how to break down complex SAP CX multi-systems to the lowest common denominator, simplify them and introduce them step by step. Get valuable insights on how to benefit from constant improvements and how organizational adjustments run frictionless with your next level customer relation management.
The new era of customer experience has begun and is taking on a whole new dynamic with Emarsys! In a short impulse presentation, we will show how Emarsys supports our customers in targeting their contacts on the basis of cross-departmental data, with content and location of the address. With this data you create the breeding ground for successful automation and not only keep up with the fast pace of the market, but also use it for your own benefit. Join us to discuss how B2B companies can excel in all phases of the customer journey and reach, delight and retain your customers.
Today, executives rank environmental sustainability as their top priority, up from fourth place in 2021. But Despite pressures to provide greater transparency, executives struggle to execute on their ESG goals. Almost 3 in 4 executives (73%) say their organizations struggle to manage an overload of manual data, while 7 in 10 say they have difficulty consolidating or manipulating data. Organizations with greater maturity in operationalizing ESG are realizing business benefits. ESG “leaders” are 43% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability — and 52% more likely to attribute a very great impact on profitability to their ESG efforts. In the roundtable we will discuss the insights from our new IBM Institute for Business Value study, how organizations are addressing the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) challenge, what benefits they expect from ESG initiatives, and how they weigh sustainability against other business objectives.
How do I start the journey into the cloud? What steps do I need to take to make the company more resilient? And which advantages will result from this? In this moderated roundtable we will discuss the questions above and learn from our valuable customer how they managed their travel & expense journey to the cloud. Get valuable first-hand "lessons learned" and see how, despite challenges, the employee experience has been increased.Join the discussion and ask your questions – live.
The path to the cloud is different for every company, but the "how to get there" is a question that many SAP customers are currently dealing with. In this moderated roundtable, we will dive deeper into the topic of "RISE with SAP’ and the transformational aspects associated with such a change. Learn from RISE-customers and experts about their experiences and learnings in this journey. Ask your questions and join the discussion - live.
Join this interactive sustainability workshop to learn more about holistic steering and reporting and discuss with other participants and sustainability experts. In this one-hour event, you will learn how to develop a sustainable steering and reporting strategy that takes into account all relevant internal and external factors around your business. Don't miss this opportunity - seating is limited!
Join this interactive sustainability workshop to learn more about holistic steering and reporting and discuss with other participants and sustainability experts. In this one-hour event, you will discover how to develop a sustainable steering and reporting strategy that takes into account all relevant internal and external factors around your business. Don't miss this opportunity - seating is limited!
Join this interactive sustainability workshop to learn more about holistic steering and reporting and discuss with other participants and sustainability experts. In this one-hour event, you will discover how to develop a sustainable steering and reporting strategy that takes into account all relevant internal and external factors around your business. Don't miss this opportunity - seating is limited! More information & registrationJoin this interactive sustainability workshop to learn more about holistic steering and reporting and discuss with other participants and sustainability experts. In this one-hour event, you will discover how to develop a sustainable steering and reporting strategy that takes into account all relevant internal and external factors around your business. Don't miss this opportunity - seating is limited!
Join this interactive sustainability workshop to learn and discuss with other peers about how to integrate sustainability throughout the supply chain. In this one-hour session, you will have the opportunity to discover how you can enrich your Supply Chain Planning process with carbon footprint data to provide visibility on generated carbon emissions and support business decisions on the path to decarbonization. Don't miss this opportunity - seating is limited!
Join this interactive sustainability workshop to learn more about the fundamental systemic changes needed to achieve a zero-waste, circular economy and, in turn, the power of the ecosystem. In this one-hour session, you will discuss how technologies such as AI and blockchain can accelerate change along the value chain, and interact with other attendees to understand the achievements and challenges on the path to zero-waste and circular economy. Don't miss this opportunity - seats are limited!
Join this interactive sustainability workshop to learn and discuss with other peers about the key areas for corporate sustainability and how can you take action for better outcomes. In this one-hour session, you will zoom into the sustainability target dimensions (Steering & Reporting, Zero Emission, Zero Waste, Zero Inequality) and outline prio areas, challenges and innovative solution approaches. Don't miss this opportunity - seating is limited!
Nehmen Sie an diesem interaktiven Nachhaltigkeits-Workshop teil und diskutieren Sie mit anderen Teilnehmern über die wichtigsten Bereiche der unternehmerischen Nachhaltigkeit und darüber, wie Sie Maßnahmen ergreifen können, um bessere Ergebnisse zu erzielen. In dieser einstündigen Sitzung werden Sie sich mit den Zieldimensionen der Nachhaltigkeit (Steuerung und Berichterstattung, Null Emissionen, Null Abfall, Null Ungleichheit) befassen und die wichtigsten Bereiche, Herausforderungen und innovativen Lösungsansätze skizzieren. Lassen Sie sich diese Gelegenheit nicht entgehen - die Plätze sind begrenzt!
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