SAP Connect Day Chicago

Act with confidence now—lead with vision tomorrow

Chicago, IL: April 2, 2026

 

Join us in Chicago, where bold ideas meet real-world impact.

Experience how AI-powered solutions and connected data can help you streamline operations, make sharper decisions in the moment, and unlock new opportunities for growth. See how SAP brings strategy, execution, and trusted AI together—so you can move from today’s priorities to tomorrow’s advantage.

At these exclusive events, you can expect:

  • Keynotes that challenge your assumptions
  • Six parallel events dedicated to core business functions: 
    • IT
    • Finance
    • Procurement
    • Human Resources
    • Supply Chain 
    • Customer Experience
  • Live AI and cloud demonstrations that redefine what’s possible
  • Peer-to-peer conversations about what’s working, what’s failing, and what’s coming next
  • A showfloor built to provoke, inspire, and push you forward
  • Line-of-Business sessions focused on real challenges and outcomes

Discover more and secure your spot today!

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Finance Track

Procurement Track

Supply Chain Track 

Agenda

Business challenges are more complex than ever, so all parts of your organization need to work as one to overcome them. Discover how SAP combines AI, data, and applications like never before to unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Sam Goodwin - Winning Through Uncertainty 

Uncertainty isn’t just inevitable—it’s a hidden opportunity waiting to be unlocked. In a world where disruption is the new normal, Winning Through Uncertainty equips leaders and organizations with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive under pressure. Sam Goodwin’s renowned keynotes inspire a transformative shift in mindset, empowering teams to face complexity with clarity, confidence, and bold action. When the unknown arises, Sam doesn’t just help you navigate it—he shows you how to win.

This session will focus on the business case, decision making process, and reasons behind why SCSK decided to select SAP Cloud ERP as their financial core solution. 

Join Alphabet to learn how to break the "ETL Trap" by uniting SAP Business Data Cloud with BigQuery. This session explores how a bidirectional, zero-copy data foundation preserves rich SAP semantic context. Discover how to build reliable, governed AI agents that reason over massive datasets.

Business data fabric is an architectural approach that connects data across multiple clouds and platforms while preserving mission-critical business context. It enables trusted data for analytics, data integration, and more. Join this session to explore the key capabilities and how SAP Business Data Cloud unifies all your SAP and non-SAP data.

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For on-premises ERP customers, the first step toward unlocking the flywheel effect of the SAP Business Suite is to modernize to an AI-ready ERP with a clean core. Based on your starting point and requirements, there are three proven paths to get to the Business Suite—starting fresh, modernizing with a clean core, or a hybrid approach. This session will explore SAP Cloud ERP in a Two-Tier ERP model, and the reasons why many of our customers have pursued this approach to achieve the strategic priorities while allowing them to immediately tap into the latest innovations including Joule and AI use cases.  Standardizing on SAP technologies including BTP and BDC offers distinct advantages in running a multi-ERP landscape.

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SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is SAP’s unified platform designed to extend existing systems, integrate applications and business processes, and build AI-supported applications across your enterprise. As the foundation of SAP Business Suite, SAP BTP unlocks the full potential of your applications, data, and AI. Learn how you can leverage the full capabilities of SAP BTP to accelerate business agility, unlock innovation and future-proof your business for whatever lies ahead.

Download the presentation HERE.

Business challenges are more complex than ever, so all parts of your organization need to work as one to overcome them. Discover how SAP combines AI, data, and applications like never before to unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Sam Goodwin - Winning Through Uncertainty 

Uncertainty isn’t just inevitable—it’s a hidden opportunity waiting to be unlocked. In a world where disruption is the new normal, Winning Through Uncertainty equips leaders and organizations with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive under pressure. Sam Goodwin’s renowned keynotes inspire a transformative shift in mindset, empowering teams to face complexity with clarity, confidence, and bold action. When the unknown arises, Sam doesn’t just help you navigate it—he shows you how to win.

Start the day with a high-level overview of the latest SAP innovations shaping the future of finance. This keynote will highlight key updates across ERP, planning, risk, and compliance, and provide a forward-looking perspective on SAP’s finance roadmap. Gain insight into how these innovations are enabling finance teams to drive greater agility, automation, and strategic visibility across the enterprise, setting the stage for the deeper sessions that follow.

Get a forward-looking view of SAP’s finance roadmap, highlighting the latest innovations shaping finance-led ERP. Learn how upcoming capabilities will help finance teams drive agility, automation, and smarter decision-making across the enterprise.

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Artificial Intelligence is reshaping finance—from automating financial accounting processes to enabling more transparent and agile enterprise planning. In this panel, SAP experts will discuss how AI-driven innovations are helping accounting teams streamline the close, improve accuracy, and reduce manual effort, while also enhancing financial planning and cost transparency through SAP EPM.

Vendor fraud is becoming faster, more sophisticated, and increasingly AI-driven. In this session, we’ll explore how fraudsters exploit weaknesses in vendor master data and payment processes within the P2P chain. Learn how leading organizations protect themselves by implementing real-time bank account ownership verification. Discover how Trustpair’s native SAP connectors empower finance teams.

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Explore SAP’s GRC roadmap and learn how new capabilities help organizations manage risk, ensure compliance, and maintain control in an increasingly complex business environment—without slowing the business down.

Get the latest updates on SAP’s treasury and working capital roadmap, including new and upcoming enhancements designed to improve liquidity visibility, cash forecasting, and financial resilience.

Download the presentation HERE.

Business challenges are more complex than ever, so all parts of your organization need to work as one to overcome them. Discover how SAP combines AI, data, and applications like never before to unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Sam Goodwin - Winning Through Uncertainty 

Uncertainty isn’t just inevitable—it’s a hidden opportunity waiting to be unlocked. In a world where disruption is the new normal, Winning Through Uncertainty equips leaders and organizations with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive under pressure. Sam Goodwin’s renowned keynotes inspire a transformative shift in mindset, empowering teams to face complexity with clarity, confidence, and bold action. When the unknown arises, Sam doesn’t just help you navigate it—he shows you how to win.

Join Justin Morse, Vice President of Solution Advisory for the Americas, as he shares a forward-looking perspective on where procurement is headed and how leaders can prepare for what’s next. This keynote will explore the strategic shifts, emerging priorities, and bold decisions shaping the future of procurement.

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Hear from Vincent Toesca, Chief Product Expert, as he unpacks the vision behind Next-Gen Ariba and the value it brings to modern procurement teams. Learn what’s changing, why it matters now, and see a supporting demo that brings the innovation to life.

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Go beyond vision and into execution - see how Next-Gen Ariba comes to life in real-world scenarios. Discover how these innovations translate into tangible outcomes, driving efficiency, resilience, and smarter decision-making.

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Discover how SAP Fieldglass helps organizations transform services procurement by connecting people, processes, and spend in one powerful suite. This session highlights how greater visibility and control can unlock agility, compliance, and value across your extended workforce.

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Partner Session

Business challenges are more complex than ever, so all parts of your organization need to work as one to overcome them. Discover how SAP combines AI, data, and applications like never before to unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Sam Goodwin - Winning Through Uncertainty 

Uncertainty isn’t just inevitable—it’s a hidden opportunity waiting to be unlocked. In a world where disruption is the new normal, Winning Through Uncertainty equips leaders and organizations with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive under pressure. Sam Goodwin’s renowned keynotes inspire a transformative shift in mindset, empowering teams to face complexity with clarity, confidence, and bold action. When the unknown arises, Sam doesn’t just help you navigate it—he shows you how to win.

Discover our Future of Work predictions report, which offers HR a view of 10 emerging predictions across three pillars—Working, Workforce, and Work Practices. Built on early trend detection, foresight techniques, and global survey data, it details insightful potential futures with strategies to help people and organizations thrive.

Download the presentation HERE.

Explore the SAP SuccessFactors product vision, strategy, and roadmap and see how innovation is driving the future of HCM. From generative AI and skills-based talent intelligence to intuitive, unified experiences, learn how SAP SuccessFactors creates connected moments across the employee lifecycle to help organizations succeed in 2026 and beyond.

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Discover how SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors works alongside the SAP SuccessFactors Learning and Talent portfolio to fuel speed, quality, and business success – empowering your organization to build a workforce ready for what’s next.

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Part 1: The key to any successful business transformation is a solid foundation. But are disparate systems and siloed data preventing you from embracing true innovation? Learn how a connected approach to core HR, time, and payroll can help you streamline your people and business processes while ensuring AI readiness.

Part 2: From personalized learning and succession planning to goal and performance management and compensation insights, AI and a common skills framework can elevate your learning and talent strategy. See how AI agents can help you tackle real HR challenges to drive agility and innovation while building an agile and future-ready workforce.

Download PART 1 presentation HERE.

Download PART 2 presentation HERE.

Explore how autonomous AI agents are redefining human-AI dynamics at work—reshaping employee priorities, team collaboration, and management practices. Discover how SAP SuccessFactors is embedding agentic AI across the HCM suite to scale intelligence responsibly while strengthening trust, motivation, and human connection at work.  The session will round out with a fireside chat with a customer.

Download the presentation HERE.

Business challenges are more complex than ever, so all parts of your organization need to work as one to overcome them. Discover how SAP combines AI, data, and applications like never before to unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Sam Goodwin - Winning Through Uncertainty 

Uncertainty isn’t just inevitable—it’s a hidden opportunity waiting to be unlocked. In a world where disruption is the new normal, Winning Through Uncertainty equips leaders and organizations with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive under pressure. Sam Goodwin’s renowned keynotes inspire a transformative shift in mindset, empowering teams to face complexity with clarity, confidence, and bold action. When the unknown arises, Sam doesn’t just help you navigate it—he shows you how to win.

The supply chain is the backbone of any successful business, driving competitive advantage through efficiency and adaptability. However, disruptions, evolving regulations, and volatility can quickly derail even the best strategies, products, and teams. Join industry experts to explore how organizations can build resilience, manage risks, and ensure operational continuity in the face of uncertainty.

Customer trust and loyalty are earned, not given – and it all starts with the supply chain. From design, plan and sourcing to delivery and service, every step shapes how customers perceive quality, reliability, and value. Discover how supply chain excellence can transform operations into exceptional customer experiences. Learn practical strategies to ensure every product and interaction consistently delights your customers.

Supply chains are moving faster than traditional systems can adapt. With AI-powered development, automation and integration services, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) offers supply chain teams a way to extend core SAP applications—IBP, TM, EWM, and S/4—without touching the digital core. Join this session to explore how to use SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, and Joule‑powered copilots to automate exceptions, predict supply risk, and embed intelligent recommendations directly into planning and logistics workflows, and see how SAP BTP provides the blueprint for AI extensibility to deliver real ROI and a foundation for continuous supply chain innovation. 

AI is redefining Alphabet's supply chain roadmap. Explore their vision for deploying agentic AI to transform procure-to-pay and global vendor management for 215K+ workers. Discover how Alphabet envisions leveraging the SAP BDC and BigQuery partnership to power core SAP processes, drive predictive procurement, and scale enterprise agility.

Hear first hand from SAP's customers how technology enables supplier diversification, real-time visibility, and scenario planning to navigate disruption and maintain a thriving, competitive edge in today’s dynamic environment.

 

Business challenges are more complex than ever, so all parts of your organization need to work as one to overcome them. Discover how SAP combines AI, data, and applications like never before to unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Sam Goodwin - Winning Through Uncertainty 

Uncertainty isn’t just inevitable—it’s a hidden opportunity waiting to be unlocked. In a world where disruption is the new normal, Winning Through Uncertainty equips leaders and organizations with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive under pressure. Sam Goodwin’s renowned keynotes inspire a transformative shift in mindset, empowering teams to face complexity with clarity, confidence, and bold action. When the unknown arises, Sam doesn’t just help you navigate it—he shows you how to win.

Customer expectations are rising, and AI is now the catalyst for transformation – but its impact depends on whether it can act with full business context. Today, only 25% of organizations operate on fully harmonized CX systems, while the rest remain limited by fragmented data, siloed applications, and disconnected processes. At the same time, just 10% have scaled advanced, agentic AI across customer experience, making it clear that most companies cannot unlock AI’s full value without a unified foundation. In this session, you’ll explore how SAP Customer Experience – the world’s best agentic CX solution for enterprises running SAP ERP, and an integral part of the SAP Business Suite – uniquely unifies customer engagement data with ERP driven operational insights directly within the business processes that power Marketing, Commerce, Sales, and Service. This foundation eliminates integration complexity and provides a trusted, unified view of the customer – creating the conditions needed for AI to deliver real value. Enabling more intelligent workflows and a new generation of agentic AI that can reason, decide, and act with full awareness of your business. We’ll share the latest on SAP’s approach to Joule, including how role based assistants and emerging agentic capabilities are driving productivity and operational efficiency across customer facing teams – while helping CX leaders ensure AI investments translate into revenue growth. You’ll also learn about the latest product innovations across the SAP CX portfolio and what’s ahead. The session will then transition into a fireside chat featuring an SAP customer and partner, offering real-world insights into how organizations are transforming customer experience with SAP CX and the SAP Business Suite. As the kickoff to the CX track, this session provides a clear view of how SAP is elevating customer experience through a tightly connected ecosystem of data, applications, and AI, setting the stage for deeper discussions throughout the event.

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Agentic AI is reshaping how businesses innovate and grow by automating discovery, streamlining transactions, and orchestrating fulfillment with digital trust at scale. Learn how agents act on intent to unlock smarter decisions, surface the right offerings at the right moment, and create seamless, scalable commercial experiences across industries.

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AI is transforming how brands acquire, engage, and retain customers, by embedding predictive intelligence directly into every interaction. In this session, you’ll see how organizations connect customer and operational data to orchestrate end-to-end, omnichannel journeys where AI continuously predicts the next best action, optimizes timing and content, and personalizes experiences at scale. These intelligent, data-driven journeys replace fragmented campaigns with seamless, coordinated engagement across every channel. Learn how AI-powered marketing deepens relationships, increases lifetime value, reduces churn, and turns everyday interactions into lasting loyalty.

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AI is no longer a future ambition for sales organizations; it’s today’s business imperative. In this session, we’ll explore the AI trends reshaping sales and how to move from vision to trusted, scalable revenue impact with agentic AI and Sales Cloud. 

You’ll see how AI-driven SAP Sales Cloud, as part of SAP Customers Experience, connects your ERP data with front-office customer experience data to embed AI directly into sellers daily workflows. Paired with CPQ, Sales Performance Management, and Revenue Intelligence, SAP delivers a connected experience where deep data insight surfaces growth opportunities and guides seller actions to optimize growth.  You’ll leave knowing how to drive predictable revenue outcomes with agents.

AI is helping organizations reimagine how sales teams work to supercharge revenue growth. Combining intelligent operations, enhanced seller experience, data-driven strategy and planning, with real-time customer insights from SAP Sales Cloud, drives sales productivity - sales teams are focused, informed, and rewarded for success. In this session learn how customers are transforming their sales operations and aligning performance with strategy.

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AI is unlocking new value through service, making it possible to improve customer experience while increasing operational efficiency. This session shows how service solutions from SAP use AI and ERP-connected context to get to the right resolution faster and personalize support at scale. You’ll see practical, high-impact AI use cases that improve resolution times, response accuracy and service productivity, helping minimize disruption for organizations and their operations.

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