Technology Executive Forum at SAPinsider 2024: AI Strategies for Tech Leaders

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are hogging the headlines and agendas of most IT and business teams. However, many leaders are struggling to separate hype from reality and apply AI tools, models, and concepts to achieve true business benefits. Project and purchasing agendas are already overflowing as leaders seek to rid their landscapes of technical debt and make important transitions to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud. But it doesn’t have to be an either-or scenario. If organizations don’t start to incorporate AI initiatives today, they will be left behind. In this unique executive session, we will look at where SAP customers are when it comes to applying AI technology and provide some practical strategies for building and scaling your AI initiatives.

Schedule

• 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM – Welcome & Executive Research Overview: How CIOs and Tech Leaders are Leveraging AI for Business Benefits
• 1:40 PM – 2:20 PM – Deciphering the Impact of AI on Business
• 2:20 PM – 2:45 PM – CIO Panel: From the AI Business Cast to Scalable Intelligence: What Leaders Need to Know
• 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM – AI Enablement: Navigating Your Partner Landscape to Get Your Data, Tools, Models, and Integration Right
• 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Executive Cocktails and Networking

Executive Research Overview: How CIOs and Tech Leaders are Leveraging AI for Business Benefit

In our opening session, we will review the latest SAPinsider research to see where you peers are when it comes to AI strategies, purchasing, and results. Benchmark your progress against the market in constructing your business case for applying AI in specific functional and IT scenarios and preparing your data and models. You will:

• Understand where AI is being evaluated for process improvement in specific functional areas such as finance, supply chain, customer service, and more.
• Learn how active SAP customers have become in germinating AI projects and measuring ROI.
• Discover what AI solutions SAP customers are looking toward such as SAP BTP, Hyperscaler solutions, and intelligent automation.
• See how companies are incorporating AI strategies into existing migration projects like those targeting the cloud and SAP S/4HANA.

Hear from:

Rizal Ahmed, President, SAPinsider

Deciphering the Impact of AI on Business and Building the “Algorithmic Enterprise”

In this immersive session, we will explore the impact of the recent advances in artificial intelligence on the business world. Starting with the emerging concept of “algorithmic enterprise”, we will unveil how successful organizations tap into the potential of artificial intelligence to achieve revenue automation, continuous evolution, and customer relationship saturation.

Executives and leaders will:

• Engage in hands-on activities to understand the potential for their organizations to lead and thrive in an increasingly AI-centric economy.
• Explore the building blocks of a successful AI strategy and the partnerships needed to ensure a successful strategy execution.
• Gain practical advice on selecting the right use cases and pilots within your organization.
• Expand their understanding of core AI concepts and how they can be applied.

Hear from:

Marek Kowalkiewicz, Professor and Chair in Digital Economy at QUT Business School

CIO Panel – From AI Business Case to Scalable Intelligence: What Leaders Need to Know

Join this interactive panel of CIOs and other tech leaders as they share strategies and lessons learned from their early AI initiatives. Follow their journeys as they search for the right business case, evaluate partners, prepare their data, and seek to establish solid security and governance strategies that will enable them to scale their AI initiatives for the long haul. You will:

• Understand how leaders select the right business cases and processes on which to apply AI.
• Discover what measures and results they rely on to measure AI success.
• See what skills and roles are critical to any AI project, and how companies are securing the training that they need.
• Prepare for the prerequisites for any AI project, including how to prep your data, build your models, and support important integration scenarios across your data landscape.
• Learn how companies are building AI centers of excellence and leveraging the partner and startup community to support their growing AI initiatives.

Hear from IT leaders:

Mark Slater, Vice President Digital Business Solutions, Reynolds Consumer Products

Stijn Stable, CTO, Carrefour

Sunil Srivastava, CTO, Pandora

AI Enablement: Navigating Your Partner Landscape to Get Your Data, Tools, Models, and Integration Right

In order to be successful with AI, you cannot go it alone. Tapping into the vast network of SAP and partner solutions can help you accelerate your AI plans, reduce costs, and improve your overall efficiency. But how do you make sense of this immense partner landscape and select the right tools and partners for your organization?

In this series of panel discussions, you will hear from a variety of partners that can support all aspects of your AI journey from data preparation to model selection, to integration, infrastructure, and advisory services. You will:

• Gain perspectives into the different ways partners can support your AI project from planning to execution.
• Learn the importance of having a strong governance and security strategy to protect your critical assets, data, and processes.
• Understand how application and data integration are important perquisites for AI success.
• Discover how to prepare, manage, and distribute your data to support various AI initiatives.
• Explore some of the latest capabilities of SAP BTP, Hyperscaler platforms, and other core partner solutions that can help accelerate your AI progress.

Thank you to our program sponsors:

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