SAP Connect Day for Finance and Spend Management

Wednesday, 18th March 2026
The Brewery, London

Innovation to Inception: Turning Transformation and AI into Reality

Procurement and finance teams everywhere are navigating rapid change - rising costs, volatile markets, shifting suppliers, and growing pressure to deliver more value with fewer resources. In today’s rollercoaster economy, staying opportunity-ready demands agility, real-time insight, and connected, intelligent processes across procurement and finance.

Join us to discover how forward-thinking organisations are using SAP Business Suite and SAP’s AI-powered Finance and Spend management solutions to increase productivity, close skills gaps, and drive smarter, faster decisions across the business.

At this flagship event, you'll discover how to:

Gain real-time visibility and control with a unified view of financial performance and enterprise spend.
Forecast better and act faster using AI-driven planning, simulation, and predictive insights.
Control costs, uncover new savings opportunities, and manage risk through connected, intelligent automation.
Empower teams by automating routine work, freeing them to focus on strategic, high-impact initiatives that drive sustainable growth.

Join your procurement and finance peers, SAP executives, and industry leaders for an inspiring day of insightful keynotes, customer success stories, and in-depth sessions exploring the future of intelligent finance and spend management.

Event Agenda:

Guests are invited to check in, pick up their badges, and explore the showfloor at their own pace.

Welcome and Keynote surrounding this year's theme of Innovation to Inception: Turning Transformation and AI into Reality.

Take a moment to recharge with fresh coffee and tea in our showfloor.

Many enterprises experiment with AI, but few successfully operationalize it at scale. In this session, SUEZ shares how it embedded autonomous negotiation into its commercial operations, moving from human-led decision making to continuous, outcome-driven execution. Together with Pactum, SUEZ demonstrates how agentic AI can deliver measurable value by acting directly within enterprise workflows, not just advising them.

Paige Cox, Chief Product Officer at Pactum, & Robert Baillie, Head of Procurement at SUEZ R&R UK.

Join this session to hear directly from a global company on how they are achieving the gold standard for record-to-report by leveraging BlackLine to complement and extend SAP.

In this session, the customer will share their journey and how they:

Extended their SAP investment by automating and standardizing critical financial close activities through a seamless integration between BlackLine and their SAP environment.
Gained real-time visibility and strengthened financial controls over their balance sheet, intercompany processes, and financial close, reducing risk and improving compliance.
Empowered their finance team to shift focus from manual, repetitive tasks to strategic analysis that drives business value.

This session will provide practical insights for any organization running SAP that is looking to optimize their financial operations, accelerate a broader digital finance transformation, and empower their finance teams to become true strategic partners to the business.

Enjoy lunch on the showfloor and connect with fellow attendees and exhibitors.

Running simultaneously across four tracks:

The AI-Orchestrated CFO: Transforming FP&A into Enterprise Intelligence

SAP envisions FP&A as a core pillar of the Office of the CFO within SAP's Business Suite, evolving finance from reactive reporting to proactive, AI-driven enterprise intelligence. This session explores how SAP integrates enterprise-wide data for real-time visibility, enabling CFOs to orchestrate seamless planning, automate decisions, and build resilience amid volatility through SAP Business AI innovations like Joule and intelligent agents. Join us to discover the path to autonomous finance where FP&A powers strategic value creation across the enterprise.

- Suraj Shah, Customer Solutions Director, EMEA, SAP

Using SAP GRC and AI to Safeguard Your License to Operate

Managing compliance effectively requires more than documenting regulations—it requires clear linkage between regulatory requirements, enterprise risks, and control execution. In this session, we will examine how SAP GRC enables an integrated approach to compliance management, ensuring regulations are translated into measurable risks and auditable controls across the organization. Attendees will see how SAP solutions, enhanced with AI, help monitor regulatory change, assess control coverage, and highlight compliance gaps—reducing the risk of non-compliance and strengthening operational resilience.

- Bo Baade-Pedersen, Solution Advisor CoE, Risk and Security, SAP

The Fieldglass AI Advantage; Empowering intelligent decision making

- Jamie Taylor, Head of Solution Advisory, Spend Management, SAP

Partner-led Session - excelerated group

Full session details coming soon!

Running simultaneously across four tracks:

Enabling AI in Finance

Join us to explore how AI is influencing the evolution of finance. This session will cover the shift from traditional automation to more adaptive, agentic AI systems and their impact on decision-making and efficiency across core finance processes. Discover how Joule, the AI copilot, allows you to maximise financial efficiencies in processes around cash management and receivables management. Hear from experts about emerging trends and practical applications in this rapidly changing landscape.

- Deepa Bajaj & Avalon Ridler, Finance Solution Advisors, SAP

Building a Total Workforce Management Strategy for Success: Creating Collaboration across Multiple Functions in your organisation to develop a Total Workforce Strategy that’s fit for the future

Explore how a complex organisation built a unified total workforce strategy across all functions, strengthened skills across internal and external workers, and used SAP Fieldglass and SuccessFactors to drive transformation. Hear the key successes, challenges, and lessons from their journey.

- David Mason, Director of Third Party Workforce Management, Philip Morris International, Hannah Lindsey-Clark, F&S Customer Success Manager, & Jill Bassett, Solution Advisor Expert, SAP

Additional Partner-led Sessions from: EY & Vertex, and Icertis. Full session details coming soon!

Running simultaneously across four tracks:

SAP Procurement - Next Gen

- Mike Evans, Presales Specialist, Amelia Shu, Anju Gupta, SAP

A Fieldglass Adoption Story

In this panel discussion, the audience will gain a practical, first‑hand understanding of a customer’s Fieldglass adoption journey—from initial business drivers and implementation challenges to realized benefits and measurable outcomes. Kate will share lessons learned, change‑management insights, and best practices for driving user adoption, optimizing contingent workforce processes, and maximizing value from the Fieldglass platform.

- Kate Richardson, Technology Consulting Director, AMS, Chris Evans, Head of Program Success, EMEA MEE & APAC, & Lydia Bowler, Fieldglass Program Success Manager, SAP

AI-Powered Finance Transformation: Unlocking End-to-End Visibility for Smarter Decisions - SAP Signavio

As CFOs evolve into strategic leaders, end-to-end visibility is essential—but silos, manual controls, and limited insight persist. This session shows how AI-driven process intelligence from SAP Signavio boosts transparency, automates control monitoring, and accelerates transformation. Learn how real-time data and advanced analytics replace static reporting—enabling faster, smarter decisions and proactive risk mitigation across the finance value chain. See how leading organizations combine AI, automation, and process mining to build finance functions that are efficient, intelligent, agile, and resilient.

Key takeaways:

Shift from static reports to real-time, AI-powered insights for faster decisions.
Automate control monitoring to increase transparency and reduce risk.

Combine AI, automation, and process mining to build an agile, resilient finance function

- Komal Mathur, Director, EMEA, Business Transformation Management, SAP Signavio

Additional Partner-led Session from: Vistex. Full session details coming soon!

Take a moment to recharge with fresh coffee and tea in our showfloor.

Running simultaneously across four tracks:

SAP Finance - Cash Management

- Melania Maior, Head of Treasury Customer Solution Advisory, SAP

AI Now - What's Available Now & Roadmaps

- Glen Ramsey, Senior Solution Consultant, SAP

Elevating Enterprise Value Through Services Procurement: Smarter, Faster, more Agile

- Jamie Taylor, Head of Solution Advisory, Spend Management & Sarah Hayers, Solution Architect, SAP

Partner-led Session - SAP Taulia

Full session details coming soon!

Running simultaneously across four tracks:

Supplier Onboarding to Intelligent Supplier Management: Scaling with AI-enabled ORION U-Qualify - Stratesys

In this customer-led session, Stratesys shares how ORION U-Qualify, integrated with SAP Ariba SLP, enables a global move from manual supplier onboarding to AI-enabled, intelligent supplier management.

The session highlights key business drivers, global rollout considerations, and how improved data quality, governance, and automation help reduce risk and cycle times. Key takeaways include practical lessons on scaling supplier qualification with SAP Ariba SLP using AI and ORION accelerators, without adding complexity.

- Andrew Hart, UK Procurement Practice Lead, Stratesys

Partner-led Sessions from: Acuiti Labs & DigitalRoute, SAP Concur, and apsolut. Full session details coming soon!

We’re thrilled to welcome David Fishwick - entrepreneur, star of Bank of Dave, and one of the UK’s most inspiring business voices. Full session details coming soon.