SAP HR Connect London 2026

23rd April 2026 | Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's | 8:30AM - 6PM

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Your people thrive on connection. Your business does too.

Rapid disruption and nonstop acceleration have disconnected people, systems and processes. It is the quiet force that holds organisations back - from fragmented workflows to disengaged employees to data that doesn’t tell the full story. When organisations stay connected, engagement increases, performance strengthens, and progress accelerates. Because real success is no longer about how fast you move through change, but how well you stay connected as everything shifts around you.

Join us at HR Connect London on 23rd April, where you’ll engage with a community of HR leaders, peers and experts explore how SAP SuccessFactors AI-enabled suite helps you build a workforce strategy that fuels connection.

At HR Connect, you’ll learn how SAP SuccessFactors connects your people, your business and your goals through:

- Unified skills intelligence, recruiting, and talent development that that engages employees and fuels performance.

- Integrated AI and data that delivers contextual insights across your business.

- An open platform and expansive partner network designed for limitless connections and continuous innovation

We’ll show you how to keep your people, processes and progress moving forward together – so you can make every employee a success story.

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Agenda

Humans + Agents: Designing Tomorrow’s Workforce Today with KPMG

How can organisations can seize the opportunity to redesign work by bringing humans and digital agents together as collaborative teammates, rather than separate capabilities? We will unpack the journey from early experimentation to full-scale hybrid workforce adoption. Through practical examples, operating model insights, and future‑ready workforce architecture principles, we will demonstrate how leaders can act now to avoid future regret, build safe and resilient AI‑enabled environments, and unlock a step‑change in productivity, capacity, and employee experience.

Dan Beck, SuccessFactors General Manager and Chief Product Officer and Autumn Krauss Chief Expert

How leading organisations are moving from transformation ambition to real business value. Panellists discuss why they are rethinking operating models and workforce strategies, how they’re standardising and simplifying at scale, and how technology, data, and skills are enabling practical, organisation‑wide outcomes. The session focuses on design intent, global operating models, skills‑based transformation, and embedding value through continuous improvement, AI, and integrated HR experiences

Maryann Abbajay, Chief Revenue Officer , Steve Raymond – National Grid, Gail Kinahan – Standard Chartered, PageGroup and PwC

Doddington 1 - NO SESSION

Grand Hall 1 - Payroll Modernisation - Building a Case for Change. Nick Francis, Payroll Manager, Decathlon with Gavdi

Doddington 2 - A Unified Skills, Development and Careers Goal: How RS Group Built for Scale and Employee Experience with Skillsoft

Discover how RS Group created a single, connected view of skills, development and career pathways. Hear how they aligned timing, budget and internal capability to understand the skills they have today, and the skills they will need tomorrow. Learn why scalability, employee experience and smart integration guided their fit‑for‑purpose approach, enabling a practical, joined‑up transformation journey. Skillsoft is the most recent part of the plan and will cover their contribution to the plan.

Grand Hall 2 - Helping people succeed in the AI era with WalkMe for SAP SuccessFactors HCM”

A digital adoption strategy is critical to realising the full value of your SAP investment and navigating the evolution of agentic AI. WalkMe for SAP SuccessFactors HCM empowers employees and managers to complete HR workflows correctly and confidently through personalised guidance, automation, AI assistance and learning in the flow of work. Discover how organisations are increasing ROI and employee satisfaction while reducing support costs by delivering intelligent support at the moment of need.”

Hardwick Hub - Migration project's best kept secret: SpinifexIT

Migration can feel complex - especially when the path forward isn’t clear. For many organisations, uncertainty, perceived risk, and mixed experiences make it easy to pause.

In this session, we move beyond theory and into real experience.

You’ll hear directly from a customer who has been through the journey - what held them back, what changed, and how they approached migration with confidence. We’ll show how the right tools and approach can turn complexity into a structured, manageable transition - often working quietly behind the scenes to ensure success.

Together, we’ll share practical insights to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

Doddington 1 - Beyond Compliance: Sellafield’s Steps Towards Skills-Based Development with Talenteam

Compliance training was just the beginning. Sellafield is now taking the next step, shifting towards development-led learning and skills-driven career planning. In this session, hear how they built the case for change, implemented job architecture and job profiles using SAP SuccessFactors, and navigated the realities of organisational readiness. A practical look at what it takes to move from where you are today to where you want to be.

Grand Hall 1 - Governance Over Guesswork: How IMI Delivered a Global HR Template with Delaware

This fireside chat focuses on how strong governance and design discipline underpin successful global HR transformation, far more than the technology itself.

Using IMI’s programme as the anchor, the discussion walks through their journey from a fragmented HR landscape to a structured, globally aligned model.

The session highlights how this approach:

Prevented rework and late-stage redesign

Avoided over-customisation and fragmented processes

Enabled true standardisation at scale

Doddington 2 - Payroll, The Most Important System Nobody Talks About with EX3

Payroll underpins every organisation, yet it rarely gets the strategic attention it deserves. This panel brings together four distinctive perspectives to change that.

Hosted by Radinka Mufti, a second-year graduate consultant at EX3, and featuring Dan Beck, Chief Product Officer at SAP SuccessFactors, Ruth Hayes, HR Technology Director, who is leading a global payroll transformation at Renesas, and Ned McEvoy, EX3’s Chief Practice Officer and one of the most experienced payroll practitioners in the market, the session explores why payroll is a once- in-a-generation investment and why the time to act is now.

Covering SAP Employee Central Payroll, the emerging SF Pay platform, and a real client transformation story, this is a 30-minute conversation that connects proven technology with future capability and makes the case for payroll as the foundation for AI, automation, and workforce intelligence.

Grand Hall 2 - Kneading Change - Warburtons Journey to SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking with NTT DATA Business Solutions

This presentation explores Warburtons’ journey to modernising time tracking using SAP SuccessFactors, delivered in partnership with NTT DATA Business Solutions. It outlines the move from a complex, manual landscape to a streamlined, integrated solution, highlighting the project’s collaborative approach across HR, Payroll, and IT. The session covers the design, pilot and delivery phases, and shares the key success factors that enabled the programme to be delivered on time, under budget and with strong business engagement.

Hardwick Hub: From Insight to Infrastructure: How National Grid is Rewiring Workforce Strategy.

History & Context: The backdrop: Zoë Yujnovich's agenda : the Great Grid Upgrade, £70bn+ investment, and a workforce transformation happening at an unprecedented pace. Why HR Operations & Transformation had to move beyond traditional HRIS thinking, and why Beamery with SAP SuccessFactors has become a critical part of that story.
The Proof of Concept: The killer question: with limited investment, where would the biggest impact be? How National Grid used a task-based digital twin approach: and what happened when they stress-tested it against traditional consultancy findings.
What's Next: Scaling across the group. Improving model accuracy. Expanding into new use cases, including shared services design. And feeding task-derived skills data into SAP's Talent Intelligence Hub: closing the loop between workforce intelligence and the wider SAP Ecosystem whilst optimising the employee experience with SAP SuccessFactors Career & Talent Development.

Grand Hall 2 - Avoiding The Cliff Edge - Bank of Ireland’s Journey to Employee Central Payroll with Deloitte

Eoin Hyland describes how Bank of Ireland had a burning platform, driving them to move from legacy systems SAP SuccessFactors, with a focus on the implementation of Employee Central Payroll. He will describe the highs and the lows of how they achieved this partnering with Deloitte in just 18 months and shares lessons learned to help other customers who are considering embarking on the same journey.Grand Hall 1 - Enterprise HR Delivered On Time and On budget: SuccessFactors for Growth Markets with EPI USE

Doddington 2 - Transformation at scale with the IBM story.

A repeat of last years' session back by popular demand.

Grand Hall 1 - Navigating the Shift: From Today’s Hiring Challenges to Intelligent Hiring with SAP and SmartRecruiters

The talent landscape is changing rapidly, and traditional approaches can’t keep up. In this session, we’ll break it into three clear steps. First, we’ll define what’s happening in the world of hiring today, consolidation, AI, and uncertainty. Next, we’ll outline why moving toward intelligent hiring is the key response, what it looks like and why it matters. Finally, we’ll show how SmartRecruiters, integrated within the SAP SuccessFactors ecosystem, supports this shift and what’s ahead on the roadmap. Walk away ready to take your first steps toward a more intelligent hiring future.

Doddington 1 - Enterprise HR Delivered On Time and On budget: SuccessFactors for Growth Markets with EPI USE

In this practical session, EPI-USE and Lewis Silkin LLP share a real-world story of how a modern HR transformation can be delivered pragmatically, affordably, and successfully without compromising on capability.

Through an interview-style discussion, we’ll explore how Lewis Silkin LLP approached their HR transformation from the ground up: building a compelling case for change, establishing and negotiating budget and project delivery key considerations and challenges. Attendees will hear how a phased, scalable approach, supported by pre-built industry solutions, can deliver immediate value while enabling future growth.

Attendees will leave with:

- Practical guidance on making a tier-one HR system viable for growth organisations

- Key lessons for delivering on time and on budget

- A realistic view of phased implementation and long-term value

- Insights into building strong vendor and partner relationships

- Whether you’re at the start of your HR transformation or looking to optimise your current approach, this session will provide actionable insights grounded in real experience.

Hardwick Hub - Gaining Deeper Insight into your Organisational Structures, Supporting Org Effectiveness, Transformations and Re-Oganisations with Ingentis org.manager for SAP SuccessFactors

The panel session will share insights from three leading organisations on how they tackle the everyday challenges faced by both private and public sector organisations. These include gaining deeper insights from organisational data, improving effectiveness, and managing the complexities of transformation and reorganisation.