SAP Rail and Mobility
Annual Congress 2026 (Tue 21st)
SAP Rail Asset Management (RAM)
Annual Meeting 2026 (Wed 22nd and Thur 23rd)
Sponsors SAP Rail and Mobility 2026
Sponsors SAP RAM 2026
Utrecht, 2025
Re-live the connections that made Utrecht 2025 special
And if you want to access the content, go to our Rail and Mobility Collaboration site.
Welcome to 2026 events in Dublin!
Hosted by Irish Rail at the iconic Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland.
Dates: April 21–23, 2026 (Tuesday–Thursday)
Venue: Croke Park
Join us for the SAP Rail and Mobility Annual Congress and the Rail Asset Management (RAM) sessions—three days packed with fresh ideas, practical insights, and collaboration with top industry leaders. Together, we’ll explore the future of rail and mobility and how SAP can contribute to innovate. Expect engaging discussions on customer experiences, along with the latest product updates and solution insights from SAP and its partners.
SAP ECC mainstream support will end between 2025 and 2027, with only costly extended maintenance available thereafter. For organizations running mission-critical SAP systems, these deadlines set a fixed horizon that cannot be ignored.
In railways and mobility, where public procurement and long project cycles are the norm, SAP ECC deadlines demand early action. The real risk isn’t 2027—it’s starting too late. Planning now ensures compliant tenders, controlled costs, and uninterrupted public transport services on the path to S/4HANA.
Highlights and Activities
- Free Time & Networking – Breaks built into the program for meaningful conversations.
- Roundtables – Open discussions around different themes led by an SAP expert
- Meet SAP Product Management & Partners – Direct discussions and demos by SAP experts and partners on product roadmaps and solutions.
- Workshops - focused on the hot technology topics for the industry, innovation at your hands.
During registration, you’ll select topics of interest and preferred activities.
We encourage you to make the most of every session—ask questions, share experiences, and connect over common topics and challenges.
Event Overview
SAP Rail and Mobility Annual Congress
Begins Tuesday morning (April 21) and continues through the day.
- Rail Asset Management (RAM)
Starts Wednesday (April 22) and concludes on Thursday (April 23) with a half-day program.
- Rail and Mobility workshop sessions (April 23)
Join the SAP experts for a hands-on experience around the latest technologies.
Agenda General Event
- DAY 1, 21st April
- DAY 1, Roundtables
Leila Romane| Managing Director, SAP UK & Ireland
In the UK & Ireland, nearly 9 in 10 SAP customers are either using or planning to move to SAP S/4HANA, with adoption continuing to grow as organisations embrace digital transformation and prepare for the 2027 maintenance deadline, and almost three-quarters of users seeing enterprise AI as beneficial to their business strategy — trends that are critical for rail digitalisation and automation initiatives.
Katharina Muellers-Patel | SVP, Service-Centric Industries, SAP Industries and Customer Advisory
SAP’s strategy for 2026 focuses on embedding AI and cloud-native capabilities across industry-specific solutions, using tools like Joule and Business Data Cloud to deliver automated, data-driven processes tailored to vertical needs.
Clement Egan | Chief Technology Officer at Irish Rail - Iarnród Éireann
Clement Egan, Chief Technology Officer at Irish Rail, will share insights from the organisation’s ongoing digital transformation journey, including how modern data platforms and cloud-first strategies are strengthening operational visibility, decision-making and integration across core systems.
TBC | SAP Customer
Hear directly from customers who have navigated the journey to SAP S/4HANA, uncovering the real‑world challenges, surprises, and breakthroughs along the way. This session shares practical insights on planning, change management, and automation, revealing how organisations are turning migration into opportunity — with many customers reporting measurable gains in process efficiency and data visibility, and a growing majority moving to S/4HANA ahead of the 2027 support deadline.
Jody Byrne, PhD I User Assistance Futures Research lead at SAP
Jody Byrne will present how SAP is transforming user assistance through AI‑powered guidance and contextual learning, helping users get the right support at the right time. With recent research showing that over 70 % of organisations see improved adoption when assistance is embedded and proactive, this session will demonstrate how smarter help accelerates change and boosts productivity in large enterprise applications.
TBC| Infosys
How can we deliver transformation and innovation while meeting the tight deadlines for projects?
TBC | SAP
Clement Egan | Chief Technology Officer at Irish Rail - Iarnród Éireann
Clement Egan, Chief Technology Officer at Irish Rail, will discuss current SAP landscape and future strategy related to SAP in Irish Rail.
Catherine Garcera | AI Solution Manager IBU at SAP
SAP AI 2026 strategy and the way we can apply this to the industry cases for maximizing value for Rail and Mobility.
The goal is to have a short introduction to the topic and an open conversation (SAP product coverage, whitespaces, functional, organizational or technical challenges, lessons learned from attendees...) among the participants. The roundtables will run for 20 minutes each, people will rotate in up to three stations, 10-12 people maximum per table.
15 roundtables will be offered at registration (see details on the next tab); the top ten will be running (they choose 3 each participant at the initial registration-resulting in three conversations of 20 minutes each).
European Rail Operator
This company decided to use RISE with SAP. Listen to details on how they made the decission, challenges and lessons learned.
Alicia Gutierrez | Solution Manager IBU at SAP
Urs Gerigh I Lighthouse Consulting
Let´s share the status, current and planned outcome related to SAP Best Practices and the Rail Model Company.
Join us for the pre-dinner event..
SAP's Strategic Direction 2026 for railways focuses on an AI-First approach, using AI to optimize maintenance, scheduling, and operations. Agentic AI is the latest development, let`s discuss how this will be adapted and adopted by railways.
SAP's Strategic Direction 2026 for railways focuses too on an Business Data Cloud approach, but Data could have many angles-one of them relates to the general theme of the day: 2027 is approaching and Data stream will need to be a key part of the go live project- but there can be many others... (data driven entities, data strategy, data tools from SAP, data challenges, data location and ownership, data across processes in company or across companies...).
SAP cybersecurity is a critical enabler of S/4HANA migration, embedding security-by-design through identity management, continuous monitoring, and automated security controls across cloud and hybrid landscapes. By integrating security assessments and remediation early in the migration journey, organisations can reduce risk, ensure compliance, and protect mission-critical data while accelerating a safe transition to S/4HANA.
Agile methodology and Agile development relates to the general theme of the day: 2027 is approaching and the need to secure a predictible and un-disruptive S/4Hana migration or transformation project- SAP Agile deployment will need to be a key part of the go live project- understanding SAP best practices or discussing about the challenges and lessons learned from others can be a must for certain customers.
Passenger experience with SAP relates to the use of SAP CX technology+ BTP to provide passenger services support, on the communication, commerce, MAAS, service, loyalty, retail and assessorial ...
Planning operations in rail passenger or logistics is a heavy process involving human resources, asset management and complex rules. How are the SAP solutions giving support to rail operations planning today and what is the need from the industry?
The theme for this roundtable focuses on the need of the industry to provide compliance learning and certifications for the key roles in the organization, being this a must to be able to develop some of the jobs.
Fuel management processes are still, and will for many years, convered very lightly with SAP. How are others doing it and what is best practice from SAP?
RISE builds on the general theme of the day: 2027 is approaching and we all need to secure a smooth S/4Hana migration or transformation to go to cloud- RISE deployment will need to be a key part of the go live project- understanding SAP RISE or discussing about the challenges and lessons learned from others can be a key input.
SAP's Strategic Direction 2026 is based for other markets in a Public cloud-First approach. The public cloud option, with the associated pros and cons for this industry, should be a key part of the decision process for the S4HANA strategy- understanding SAP s/4 public cloud solutions or discussing about the challenges and lessons learned from other solutions or other customers can be a very good insight for the process.
Real Estate relates to the general theme of the day: 2027 is approaching and we need to make sure all our existing processes are covered, or even improved, by S/4Hana migration or transformation- understanding SAP RE solutions + Planon or discussing about the challenges and lessons learned from others can be a very good success enabler.
BRIM for rail can be applied to different aspects and use cases- from the MAAS clearing house, to the revenue assurance for rail public entities, including one invoice for rail logistics or line item reconciliation for infrastructure providers... we can look at the possibilities and define what will be the focus for each discussion.
SAP BTP enables seamless integration during S/4HANA migrations by connecting SAP and non-SAP systems through prebuilt integration content, APIs, and event-driven services. This approach reduces complexity, preserves existing landscapes, and allows organisations to modernise their core while maintaining business continuity and flexibility. Let´s discuss how railways is using it...
Revenue management relates to the general theme of the day: 2027 is approaching and we need to secure a smooth S/4Hana migration or transformation to go to cloud- migration and evolution of the revenue management processes will need to be a key part of the go live project- understanding SAP revenue/funds/planning/profitability analysis solutions or discussing about the challenges and lessons learned from others can be a very good success enabler for the finance area.
SAP Essential Adoption Services combine expert-guided implementation, built-in automation, and security best practices to help customers adopt SAP solutions faster and more securely. They leverage low-code automation, AI-driven document processing, and automated operations alongside a strong security foundation, delivered through a structured assess-configure-deploy approach that improves efficiency, reduces risk, and boosts user adoption.
Agenda RAM
- DAY 1, 22 April
- DAY 2, 23 April (Break-out) Infrastructure
- DAY 2, 23 April (Break-out) Rolling Stock
Johnny Clemmons
SAP Industry Business Unit Manager for Construction, Prof. Services and Travel and Transport
Hands-on Sessions
| Day 1 (April 21) | Day 2 (April 22) | |
| 1 | Apple on device AI for SAP mobile applications | Apple on device AI for SAP mobile applications |
| 2 | SAP AI demos | SAP AI demos |
| 3 | Signavio Rail best practices in your hands | Signavio Rail best practices in your hands |
Workshops
ATTENDEE PROFILE: Business/IT experts, basic understanding of SAP AI, no need for technical AI skills, good understanding of their business needs
DURATION: 3 hours
AGENDA
- SAP AI: How can we taylor to the industry needs? Discover the different ways to innovate with SAP business AI
- We will explain the different ways to interact and co-innovate with the SAP AI teams (AI Hackaton, Custom AI, Forward Delivered Engineering...)
- SAP AI for Railways and Mobility: What are we doing already? Feedback on running industry use cases development or SAP ideas
- SAP AI for my company: Wish list, Use cases Deep Dive and fine tune
- Let’s fine tune the use cases that the attendees will propose
- Pre-work: participants are welcome to come with their desired use case upfront.
- This is the beginning... Use case prioritization and next steps
ATTENDEE PROFILE: Business/IT experts, basic understanding of SAP BDC, no need for technical skills, good understanding of their business needs
DURATION: 3 hours
AGENDA
- Details coming soon
Logistics
- Venue
- Hotels
From the airport… |
Approx Time |
Bus 41 from airport | ~30–40 min |
Aircoach express | ~35 min+ |
Taxi / rideshare | ~20–30 min |
Bus + walk via city | ~40–60 min |
Croke Park Stadium, Celtic Suite
Jones' Rd, Drumcondra, Dublin 3, Ireland
In the vibrant heart of Dublin city, Croke Park is in one of the world’s best-connected and friendliest cities. We are a 15 minute drive from Dublin Airport, a top-5 transatlantic hub and only 5 minutes from the city centre.
How to get there
On Foot
Croke Park is just a 15 minute walk from the City Centre. See our location on google maps.
By Train
The closest railway station is Drumcondra at the intersection of Drumcondra Road (N1) and Clonliffe Road, a 5 minute walk from the stadium. The closest DART stations are Connolly and Clontarf. Connolly is a 15-20 minute walk and Clontarf a 20-25 minute walk to the stadium. The closest LUAS & Intercity Rail stop is also at Connolly Station.
By Luas
Croke Park is a 16 minutes (1.3km) walk from Connolly Red Line Luas stop. The stadium is also just 15 minutes (1km) walk from both Parnell and Marlborough Green Line Luas stops. For further information visit Luas.ie
By Bus
Dublin Bus
Dublin Bus offers a high-frequency, accessible and easy to use service from all over Dublin. A number of services bring you quite close to Croke Park and many others will get you to the city centre from where the stadium is a 15 minute walk.
Bus Routes that serve Croke Park
1, 7, 13, 14, 16, 19, 27a, 27b, 29a, 31/a, 31b, 32, 33, 40, 40b, 40d, 41, 41b, 41c, 42, 43, 44, 53, 123, 122 View route map and stop locations
Bus Éireann
Bus Éireann provide a nationwide bus service and private coach hire options to travelling fans. You can find out more about their schedules and services on the GAA News section of their site. Bus Éireann schedules and services
By Bike
Croke Park is just a cycle from the City Centre. The nearest Dublin Bike stations are located on North Circular Road and Mountjoy Square. For further information visit Dublin Bikes.
There are cycle locking facilities around the stadium, including the Cusack Stand car park and two-tier bike storage in the Davin Stand car park.
Contacts
Johann Schachtner
Head of Transport Asset Management
SAP
johann.schachtner@sap.com
Catherine Garcera
IBU Lead for AI and Sustainability
SAP
catherine.garcera@sap.com
Alicia Gutiérrez
Head of Railways
SAP
alicia.gutierrez@sap.com
Distance: ~25–30 min walk, Price/night ~€180+
Hotels nearby
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Distance: ~3–5 min walk from Croke Park, Price/night: ~€80–€140 approx. |
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Distance: ~10–15 min walk, Price/night: ~€100 approx. |
Distance: ~15 min walk, Price/night: ~€66–€90 approx
Holiday Inn Express Dublin City Centre by IHG
Distance: ~25–30 min walk, Price/night: ~€73–€90 range depending on dates
| Distance: ~20–25 min walk, Price/night: ~€168 approx |