SAP Connect Day for Finance & Spend Management

Thursday June 18

VenueCollective in Amsterdam

Resilient procurement starts here & Finance moves at the speed of change

Join us at SAP Connect Day for Finance & Spend Management 2026 on June 18 in Amsterdam.

On this day we bring both Procurement & Finance Community together to meet your peers, SAP experts, and industry leaders for an inspiring day of keynotes, customer success stories, and interactive sessions on intelligent spend & finance solutions.

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

Control costs and uncover new savings opportunities with connected, real-time insights.
Simplify compliance and reduce risk through intelligent automation.
Empower teams with AI-driven insights that free them for more strategic, high-impact work.
Forecast better and act faster with AI-driven planning that helps you predict, simulate, and forecast with confidence.
Gain real-time visibility and control with a single view of financial performance across your business.
Automate routine work so teams can focus on strategic initiatives that drive sustainable growth.

We invite you to discover how to be opportunity-ready.

Aftermovie SAP Connect Day for Finance & Spend Management 2026

Presentations Connect Day for Finance & Spend Management

Keynotes

Break-out Session 1

Spend:

UNIQA - CNT Management Consulting

Finance:

Overheid:

Gasunie - SAP Fieldglass

Break-out Session 2

Spend:

SAP - Mervi Saarikorpi

Finance:

Overheid:

Blackline

Break-out Session 3

Spend:

Finance:

Overheid:

Icertis

Break-out Session 4

Spend:

Finance:

JDE - SAP Concur
MSG

Overheid:

Planon

Event Agenda

Speakers:

Thomas Kaspersen, Head of Finance & Spend Management EMEA, SAP

Roel Wijntjes, CFO Netherlands, SAP

Hans Sars, Head of Finance & Spend Management BeNeLux, SAP

Speaker: Guido van Beuningen, Global AI & Public Cloud leader - Corporate Segment, SAP

Spend
Finance

Autonomous Spend

Speaker: Duc Nguyen, SVP, Head of Product Management, SAP

Reimagine how you steer your business by operating finance as a “self-driving car”

The world is under pressure. Businesses need to constantly adapt and do more with less, while addressing increasing compliance requirements. SAP’s innovations and process design are there to help. But how to link this all together? How to make it real? What could an Intelligent Future Finance setup mean to you? Come. Listen. Discuss. And let’s find out.

Speaker: Michel Haesendonckx, VP, Global Functional Lead for the office of the CFO, SAP

Spend
Finance
Public

Session 1: Next-Gen ARIBA

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Session 2: AI Agents in Procurement

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Session 1: SAP EPM at Alliander

We’d like to highlight our two-part deep dive into modern finance transformation, featuring Satya Kollepara (KPMG) and Guido Tabor (Alliander Digital Lead Finance). The first topic, “The Alliander Success Story,” will showcase Alliander’s financial transformation journey using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). We’ll walk through real-world challenges, lessons learned, and the tangible business value, modeling benefits, and performance gains that have been delivered right to the front line.

The second topic, “AI in Financial Planning,” will explore how AI is reshaping financial planning, drawing on insights from KPMG’s latest Global AI in Finance Survey and SAP’s newest AI capabilities. We’ll cover the main challenges facing AI transformation and how KPMG ensures a successful implementation.

Speakers: Guido Tabor, Alliander & Satya Kollepara, KPMG

Sponsored by: KPMG

Session 2: Why your financial close is already falling behind and how Finance 2030 changes that

Three weeks waiting for a close. Month-end reconciliations. Reports that are outdated the moment they're finished. It's familiar and it's becoming increasingly hard to justify.

Real-time reporting is becoming the standard. AI regulation is making auditability a design requirement. Structural volatility demands scenarios that run continuously, not once a month. Finance 2030 is not a future scenario: it's the present. And the place where that pressure shows up first is the close.

In this session, Robert Jan Bronsema and Jeroen Beentjes (Finext) walk you through the transition from monthly sprint to Continuous Close, from T+8 to effectively T+0/T+1. Using a real-world case, we explore three architecture paths and the decision framework that determines which approach fits your organisation, ERP landscape, and ambitions.

Concrete, decision-ready, and directly applicable.

Speakers: Jeroen Beentjes & Robert-Jan Bronsema, Finext

Sponsored by: Finext

Gasunie | External Workforce Management - Procurement and HR

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Speakers: Erik Grave, Gasunie, Peter van der Veeken & Ralph Ophelders, SAP

Sponsored by: SAP Fieldglass

Spend
Finance
Public

Session 1: Strategy Procurement: Amplify Strategic Procurement with Insight, Plan and Action

More info soon

Speaker: Mervi Saarikorpi, SAP

Session 2: CNT Management Consulting group with customer UNIQA Insurance Group Europe

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Speaker: Zornitsa Zdravkova, UNIQA Insurance Group Europe

Sponsored by: CNT Management Consulting

Session 1: Organon | The Dutch approach to ViDA and Navigating Tax Digitization with SAP

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Speaker: Michel Bulkmans, Organon & Daniel Kroesen, EY

Sponsored by: EY

Session 2: Planon | From Buildings to Intelligent Ecosystems

If you're responsible for public sector estates or finances, you're probably dealing with at least one of these right now: maintenance backlogs you can't get ahead of, sustainability reporting that eats up your team's time, budget decisions made on incomplete data, and systems that don't talk to each other.

This session is a practical look at what happens when you connect your real estate and FM operations directly into your SAP environment. Not a product pitch. A conversation about the actual problems, what's causing them, and what organisations that have solved them did differently.

We'll cover how teams have cut administrative workload by up to 80%, extended asset lifespans by 20%, and finally got a single, reliable view of their portfolio that finance and estates teams can both work from.

If you're heading into a budget cycle, facing a compliance deadline, or just tired of spreadsheets holding your estate strategy together, this one is worth an hour of your time.

Speaker: Luciën Kamps, Planon

Sponsored by: Planon

Financieel Risicobeheer met BlackLine

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Speaker: Margot Frens, BlackLine

Sponsored by: BlackLine

Spend
Finance
Public

Session 1: REWE GROUP | REWE Group’s Sustainability linked SCF Program

REWE Group and SAP Taulia successfully transformed a traditional Supply Chain Finance setup into a fully transparent, sustainability-linked Early Payment Program. By dynamically tying supplier financing rates to EcoVadis ESG ratings and SBTi commitments, the initiative actively incentivizes sustainable practices across the supply chain. This strategic shift is deeply integrated into REWE’s overarching ESG framework, directly supporting the ambitious targets of their €900m Sustainability-Linked Bond. Since its launch, the program has optimized working capital while earning multiple prestigious industry awards for driving actionable ESG impact.

Speaker: Konstantin Kleemann, SAP Taulia - Presenting REWE Group

Sponsored by: SAP Taulia

Session 2: Port of Rotterdam | The importance of preparation and taking along the business during an implementation

Unlocking successful implementations: what really makes the difference.

Most organizations invest heavily in tools yet still struggle to realize value. Why? Because the real challenge isn’t technology, but alignment.

During this SAP Connect breakout session, Dionne van Ommen (Port of Rotterdam) and Anouk Suijkerbuijk (KPMG) share real-life lessons from a CLM transformation: what went wrong, what worked, and what they would do differently.

Expect a practical session on:

Why starting with tooling leads to failure
The critical role of process, governance, and stakeholder alignment
How to turn ambition into a future-proof procurement and CLM setup

Speakers: Dionne van Ommen, Port of Rotterdam & Anouk Suijkerbuijk, KPMG

Sponsored by: KPMG

Session 1: An usage based invoice model with SAP Subscription Billing

In a market where flexibility, scalability, and transparency are becoming increasingly important, customers expect to pay for what they actually use. A usage-based model makes this possible. It creates a fairer relationship between provider and customer: lower consumption results in lower costs, while growth or increased usage automatically leads to a higher contribution.

Speaker: Jurgen Woudenberg, McCoy

Sponsored by: McCoy

Session 2: Heineken | How Heineken is achieving the gold standard for R2R

Heineken is redefining record to report (R2R) with integrated SAP and BlackLine solutions. Intelligent automation and standardized processes are accelerating close cycles, improving transparency, and reducing risk. Discover the practical use cases and lessons learned that are enabling more insight-driven finance.

Speakers: Filip Forceville, Heineken & Ann-Sofie Dequae, BlackLine

Sponsored by: BlackLine

Icertis | Contract in Uitvoering: van juridische zekerheid naar budgetcontrole en operationele grip

In een context van stijgende kosten, toenemende verantwoordingsdruk en beperkte middelen, staan publieke organisaties voor de uitdaging om meer maatschappelijke waarde te leveren met minder capaciteit. Contracten spelen hierin een cruciale, maar vaak onderbenutte rol.

In deze sessie gaan we in op de contractwaarde, die niet wordt bepaald op het moment van ondertekenen maar tijdens de uitvoering. Zonder actieve sturing leidt dit tot verborgen kosten, gemiste afspraken, inefficiënte processen en verhoogde auditrisico’s.

We bespreken hoe organisaties contracten kunnen transformeren van statische documenten naar actieve stuurinformatie — door contractuele afspraken direct te koppelen aan uitvoering, controle en besluitvorming.

Aan de hand van herkenbare voorbeelden uit publieke dienstverlening en leveranciersmanagement tonen we hoe dit leidt tot:

betere budgetcontrole en kostenbeheersing
verlaagde operationele druk door automatisering
verbeterde naleving en auditability
meer grip op leveranciersprestaties en risico’s

Deze sessie biedt een praktisch en strategisch perspectief op hoe contract lifecycle management publieke organisaties helpt om efficiëntie te verhogen en tegelijkertijd hun maatschappelijke doelstellingen te realiseren.

Speaker: Michiel van Dijk, Icertis

Sponsored by: Icertis

Spend
Finance
Public

Session 1: Get More from Every Contract in SAP Ariba - Today and Tomorrow

For most procurement teams, contracting ends at signature. But that's exactly where the value should begin. In this session, Icertis and SAP will showcase how AI-native contract intelligence - embedded directly within SAP Ariba - turns every contract into an active driver of spend value. Join us to learn how customers are capturing this value today, including our AI-native contracting experience for next-gen Ariba, and how contract intelligence becomes a foundational layer for SAP's Autonomous Enterprise vision.

Speakers: Martin Mohr, Icertis & Isabelle Peerdeman, SAP

Sponsored by: Icertis

Session 2: NS | Bridging a gap with the use of AI, a first procurement Agent

In this session, we will explore a common yet often overlooked challenge: ensuring that agreements captured in signed contracts are accurately reflected in day-to-day operations. When this translation falls short, it can result in inefficiencies, missed savings opportunities, and increased risk within the invoicing process.

We will highlight a practical and effective approach: systematically matching incoming invoices with signed contracts. This method helps strengthen financial control while significantly reducing invoicing risks.

Additionally, we will dive into the key challenges behind this issue, including IT constraints, complexities within the system landscape, and the emerging role of AI agents. Together, these factors can limit an organization’s ability to fully capture value and drive operational improvements.

Join this session to gain actionable insights into bridging the gap between contracts and execution and unlocking tangible business benefits.

Speaker: Stan Jilesen, NS

Sponsored by: McCoy

Session 1: SAP PaPM - The hidden Gem for the CFO Office

More info soon

Speaker: Reinier van Delden, MSG

Sponsored by: MSG

Session 2: JDE | Finance & Expense

More info soon

Speaker: Stefan van Sliedrecht

Sponsored by: Concur

Planon | Meer doen met minder: een slimmere aanpak van vastgoedbeheer in de publieke sector

Als u verantwoordelijk bent voor vastgoed of financiën binnen een publieke organisatie, herkent u waarschijnlijk minstens één van deze situaties: een achterstand in onderhoud die u niet wegwerkt, duurzaamheidsrapportages die uw team onevenredig veel tijd kosten, budgetbeslissingen op basis van onvolledige informatie, en systemen die niet met elkaar communiceren.

Deze sessie is een praktische verkenning van wat er gebeurt als u uw vastgoed- en facilitaire processen rechtstreeks koppelt aan uw SAP-omgeving. Geen productpresentatie, maar een eerlijk gesprek over de problemen waar organisaties dagelijks mee te maken hebben, wat die problemen veroorzaakt, en wat organisaties die ze hebben opgelost, anders hebben gedaan.

We bespreken hoe teams hun administratieve werklast met wel 80% hebben teruggebracht, de levensduur van bedrijfsmiddelen met 20% hebben verlengd, en eindelijk een betrouwbaar, centraal overzicht van hun portefeuille hebben dat zowel financiën als vastgoed kunnen gebruiken.

Staat er een begrotingscyclus voor de deur, heeft u te maken met een compliance-deadline, of bent u het gewoon zat dat spreadsheets uw vastgoedstrategie bij elkaar houden? Dan is deze sessie een uur van uw tijd meer dan waard.

Speaker: Darja Schuurmans, Planon

Sponsored by: Planon