Save the Date! 13 November 2024 at 13.30

CIOs and technology leaders face numerous challenges in managing their projects, technology portfolios, and people. They face increasing demands from their stakeholders and user bases, and technology and solutions are evolving more rapidly than ever before. Business, industry, and market volatility are throwing additional challenges in front of most leaders as they deal with changing prices, consumer satisfaction, and supply chain uncertainty.

This unique tech event will offer peer-led sessions to discuss specific challenges and gain practical insights and observations from your peers. We will start the day by highlighting some of the most relevant trends from our latest executive research and some hard-hitting thought leadership before breaking into smaller working groups to discuss your questions and challenges.

2024 CIO Top Challenges and Projects from SAPinsider Executive Research

In our opening session, SAPinsider’s Chief Research Officer, Riz Ahmed, will highlight the latest research from our two executive studies, “The CIO’s Agenda for 2024 and Beyond” and the “CIO’s Transformation Report Card”. This is the third year we have conducted each of these studies, and we will share important insights and trends such as:

• Where are customers with their SAP S/4HANA upgrade?
• What has the adoption rate around RISE with SAP been, and what’s accelerating and challenging customers?
• Why executives are focused on business process transformation and automation as a foundation for their overall digital transformation initiatives.
• How integration and edge integration are playing a bigger role in executive strategy.
• What skill sets are executives prioritizing and how are they thinking differently about their overall teams?
• Where are executives with their AI plans and strategies?

Executive Breakout Sessions

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is the top SAP project on executives’ priority lists. Executing the project is just the beginning. How do you effectively manage this massive project, ensuring success and generating positive ROI for both your IT and business stakeholders? We will delve into this topic and more.

Building an AI Strategy

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have taken over the business headlines and are in every technology partner’s positioning and portfolio. How do you separate hype from reality and get started on projects that matter to the business and deliver results?

RISE with SAP

A portfolio of services and licenses meant to be accelerators and value adds to your SAP S/4HANA project and overall digital transformation. How do you truly make sense of RISE with SAP and leverage it to deliver value to your specific project? Hear from leaders who have been through it to get practical advice for making the right decision for your organization.

Integration from the Edge to the App

The wealth of business applications and data platforms that companies are adopting regularly is immense. This has put additional burdens on technology leaders and their architects to create efficient, flexible, and scalable end-to-end integration strategies from the edge of the network to the core applications. We will discuss various approaches and strategies for addressing some of the most pressing issues.

Automation and Business Process Transformation

The top way that executives focus on generating business value from their digital transformation is through the automation and innovation of their current business processes. Technology, for technology’s sake, will not cut it in today’s world. Business process is where the value lies, and the move to SAP S/4HANA has forced many customers to let go of heavy customizations and inefficiency to embrace automation and AI. How do you make this work while adopting the technologies and solutions that best fit your organization?

Skillsets and Organizational Changes

Organizational change is a common challenge for most large projects. It is a neverending battle as these transformation projects continue to spread in scope and impact. Many of these innovative solutions, from SAP S/4HANA to AI to data and analytics, require another set of skills, forcing organizations to bring IT and the business together in new and different ways to drive and scale innovation. Hear how your fellow leaders are addressing these challenges and building their SAP organization of the future.

 

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