SAP HR Connect Stockholm 2026

April 15, 2026 | Sergel Hub | 09:00 - 18:00

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 Stockholm on the 15th of 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.

Leverage AI and data-driven insights to make smarter, more contextual decisions across your business
Unify skills intelligence, recruiting, and talent development to match people with the right opportunities
Innovate and scale with an open platform and a robust partner ecosystem, ensuring flexibility and future.readiness
Navigate EU Pay Transparancy requirements with confidence, ensuring fairness and compliance
Harness People Intelligence to unlock deeper workforce insights and drive stratgic HR decisions

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

Only sponsoring SAP partners are to attend, as this is a customer & prospect-facing event.

Agenda

Grab breakfast and a coffee and meet our partners!

Head over to the main stage to be welcomed by our moderator.

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.

Speakers:

Franka Feiler, Business Developer, SAP SuccessFactors

Dr. Autumn Krauss, Chief Scientist, SAP SuccessFactors

Artificial intelligence in HR is no longer just about automation or insights — it’s about creating connected, intelligent experiences across the entire organization.

As companies move beyond basic AI use cases, a new shift is emerging. Agentic AI can proactively guide decisions, connect processes, and support employees and leaders in real time.

In this panel, customers and experts will share real-world stories of how to design for connection and link HR to every part of the business through unified technology, aligned leadership, and elevated employee experiences.

We will explore how organizations can move from isolated tools to integrated, intelligent solutions that drive resilience, performance, and measurable business impact — while ensuring responsible and human-centered adoption.

Panel:

Dr. Autumn Krauss, Chief Scientist, SAP SuccessFactors

Daniel Högberg, Managing Director, Accenture

Melissa Shelley Höjwall, Global HR Tech Leader, H&M

Mikael Karlstein, Global Head of HR Technology, Sweco Group

Omar Prunera, Senior Director Employer Services International, ADP

Moderator: Henna Ylitalo, Head of People & Culture, SAP Nordics

Room 1:

How to build a business case for a skills first organisation and unlock more value in SAP
Most organisations know they need to move toward skills-based talent strategies — but being able to prove demonstrable business outcomes and manage data in fragmented systems remain two of the biggest barriers. The answer isn't more tools. It's making your existing SAP SuccessFactors investment work harder.

In this session, Chris Illingworth from Beamery will share how leading enterprises use Beamery's AI-powered intelligence layer — deeply integrated with SAP SuccessFactors — to turn skills data into actionable workforce strategy. You'll learn a practical framework for building the business case with real examples from global enterprises.

This session gives HR and talent leaders a clear, pragmatic path from ambition to execution of a skills first approach and outlines possible business outcomes.

Partner: Beamery
Speaker: Chris Illingworth, Solution Principle Skills Intelligence

Room 2:

The Skills Operating Model: How to Re-Architect Your Organization for AI, Mobility, and Pay Transparency
Cobrainer is the AI-powered Job & Skill Architecture engine for enterprises under transformation pressure. Most organizations want to work skills-based — but can't, because their job data is fragmented, outdated, or inconsistent across SAP. Cobrainer fixes that foundation: we automatically generate and maintain a living Job & Skill Architecture that becomes the single source of truth for skills, roles, and proficiency levels — pushed directly into your SAP SuccessFactors landscape. In an AI-driven economy, clean job and skill data is the prerequisite. Cobrainer is the engine that delivers it.

Partner: Cobrainer
Speakers:
Kenyan Price, Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Daniel Weis, Vice President Enterprise Sales

Room 3:

Unlocking tomorrow’s talent
Operationalizing skills and work intelligence inside SAP

Partner: TechWolf
Speaker: Paul Grantham, Pre-sales Engineer

Room 1: SmartRecruiters
Room 2: EU Pay Transparency - People Intelligence
Room 3: Adoption Success: Evolution Session

Hiring is evolving faster than ever – and we’re quickly moving toward a future that’s more intelligent, data-driven, and people-centric. To stay competitive, future-ready organizations must place insights, AI, and skills at the center of their talent strategies to make smarter hiring decisions and drive better business outcomes.

Join this session to learn how intelligent hiring helps organizations elevate talent experiences, accelerate hiring processes, and ensure every hire is aligned with business and workforce goals. 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.

Speakers:

Babatunde Ojo, Senior Solution Value Advisor, SAP SuccessFactors

Paul Marchant, Regional Vice President, SmartRecruiters

As EU member states rapidly begin adopting new pay transparency legislations, HR leaders must assess their current compensation and reporting practices to ensure compliance. In this session, leading experts will provide insight into what’s coming and how your organization can stay one step ahead with the right processes and technology in place.

Join us to discover:

• Timeline and key requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive

• Best practices for enhancing pay transparency across the employee lifecycle

• How SAP solutions can help you analyze, mitigate, and report on pay gaps

Speaker:

Thomas Rydin, Senior Presales Specialist, SAP SuccessFactors

Review the key HR Focus Areas for 2026 (or the top HR Trends for 2026), as defined by the Future of Work Research Lab, and highlight how the services in the Preferred Success and/or Advanced portfolio will help our SuccessFactors customers be successful. We are working with the region to secure a customer panelist to support the topic, and if one isn’t available, we can speak to a customer example.

Outcome: Customers will have a more strategic picture of how PrS/Advanced can help them achieve their overarching strategies and not just their tactical day to day needs.

Speakers:

Jill Venable, Product Manager, SAP SuccessFactors

Chris Stiles, Product Manager, SAP SuccessFactors

Short break in between sessions

Room 1:

The world of cybersecurity is changing: what does this mean for payroll?
The cybersecurity world is shifting fast. AI-driven social engineering, supply-chain breaches, new coding realities are just a few of the tools being used to target payroll. Join this session and become a cybersecurity expert for 30 minutes and see how prepared you are for the prospective risks that exist today. We will help to translate the threats into the potential impact on payroll and map the latest threats to each step of the payroll life cycle - from hiring to offboarding - and will help you understand concepts including out-of-band bank-changes, least-privilege access and threat surface.

Partner: ADP
Speaker: Omar Prunera, Senior Director, Employer Services International

Room 2:

Connecting HR, Time, and Payroll for Better Accuracy and Efficiency
How to align time tracking, HR data, and payroll processing to improve data quality, reduce manual corrections, and ensure compliance.

Partner: Zalaris
Speaker: Vivian Chiha, Senior Consultant

Room 3:

Building a Scalable HR Platform with SuccessFactors
How to leverage the SuccessFactors platform, integrations, and extensions to create a future-ready, connected HR ecosystem.

Partner: Pentos
Speaker: Erik Ebert, SuccessFactors Solution Advisor

Room 4:

Turning HR Data into Better Business Decisions with People Intelligence
How to use People Intelligence to support leadership and planning.

Partner: NTT Data Business Solutions
Speaker: Halvor Belbo Lukerstuen, Director Human Experience Management Consulting

Short break in between sessions

Room 1:

Using AI in HR: What Creates Real Value Today?
How to apply AI responsibly in recruiting, insights, and employee support.

Partner: Accenture
Speakers:
Daniel Högberg, Managing Director
Malin Lundin, Management Consultant

Room 2:

Building a Strong HR Foundation: Designing for Stability, Scalability, and Change
Most HR systems are designed to go live, not necessarily to evolve. As organisations change, gaps can emerge across data, processes, and system design: impacting consistency, agility, and scalability. This session explores how to build and sustain a robust HR foundation that supports ongoing change and enables future innovation.

Partner: Effective People
Speaker: Anders Hummeluhr, Solution Architect and Head of Advisory

Room 3:

SAP BTP for HR — Closing Gaps, Driving Agility, Delivering Impact
Unlock the full potential of your HR ecosystem with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Go beyond the boundaries of SAP SuccessFactors by seamlessly closing process gaps, accelerating innovation, and connecting your entire workforce landscape.

Partner: Gavdi
Speaker: Jakob Stigaard Sørensen, Managing Director, PXMSOFT

Room 4:

Reducing Payroll Complexity Through Automation
Standardizing payroll processes with Time Management and Employee Central Payroll, focusing on automation, process efficiency, and reducing manual corrections.

Partner: SD Worx
Speaker: Pieter Van Der Wal, Global SAP/BPO Director

Break before the final session and wrap-up

Skills are becoming the currency of the future-ready organization. But how do you move from static roles to a truly skills-driven approach?

In this session, explore how SAP SuccessFactors helps organizations put skills at the center of talent and career development. Powered by AI and a unified skills framework, you can connect learning, performance, succession, and workforce planning to unlock the full potential of your people.

Speaker:

Donald Ross, Head of Talent Intelligence Learning and Engagement Solutions, SAP SuccessFactors

Organizations invest heavily in customer and financial data, yet people data often remains siloed and underused. Without a connected view of the workforce, it’s difficult to answer critical questions about skills, performance, risk, and readiness.

In this session, discover how SAP uses its own solutions, including SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Business Data Cloud, to unify people and business data through People Intelligence. Learn how AI-driven insights help align talent strategy with business goals, close skills gaps, and enable smarter, real-time decisions.

See how SAP Runs SAP and how connected people data can drive measurable business impact.

Speaker:

Helena Rempel, Manager People Analytics, SAP