SAUG National Summit 2018 | SAP Australian User Group | 20 August 2018 | Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, 14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Why you must attend?
• The only independent member run event, created by customers for customers – so you get the full picture
• Join even more leading international experts in S/4HANA, UX, Digital Transformation and more, who will show you what is coming, demonstrate global best practices and help you develop your own strategy.
• Globally renowned Technology Futurist, Master Strategist, and one of the world’s most in-demand technology speakers, Ray Wang (USA), will inspire you, help you make sense of emerging technologies and trends and give you incomparable insights into the most critical SAP issues
• Sessions will include case studies, best practise expert sessions, road mapping, workshops, demonstrations and networking to really ramp up your SAP knowledge and build your career.
• LOB streams in key areas such as Financial Transformation, HR and more for targeted learning
• Discover how over 30 leading customer organisations, are transforming, improving, innovating and optimising their SAP systems, gaining real business value, tackling disruption and grabbing opportunities from new technologies
• Choose from 12 streams for targeted learning, covering numerous topic areas including Digital Transformation, S/4HANA, UX, Technology, Financial Transformation, Innovation, HR & People, Optimising SAP and more.
• With over 70 breakout sessions, you can tailor your own agenda and maximise your Summit experience.

What's new this year:
• Even more global experts in areas such as S/4HANA, SAP Product Strategy, Digital Transformation, Industries, Emerging Technologies and more to advise and inspire you
• Dedicated one day deep dive streams; led by experts on User Experience/Fiori and S/4HANA, to help you with your strategy, implementation or optimisation
• Transformation Skills stream for everyone – learn about Change Management, Digital Disruption, Project Success and how to build skills and innovation to better embrace Transformation, emerging trends and the changing nature of work
• Sessions on the latest technologies including Machine Learning, AI, IoT, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain and much more
• Pre- Conference half day Workshop (separately bookable): Understanding the technical conversion process to SAP S/4HANA – small size, practical, interactive, hosted by international S/4HANA experts (limited places available). Click here for more information.

2018 Speakers:

Hendrik Luetjohann
BTS Principal Business Consultant and Product Expert – SAP S/4HANA On-Premise & Cloud

Ajeet Agarwal
Finance Product Expert, SAP S/4 HANA Regional Implementation Group APJ

Jocelyn Dart
SAP Mentor, Product Expert and UX Strategist

Lars Rueter
S/4HANA Product Management and Head of SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group for APJ

Jacek Klatt
Platinum Consultant, Technology & Platform Architect, SAP APJ

Matthew Perry
Chairperson, SAP Australian User Group & Chief Information Officer, Orora Group

Mani Pirouz
Global Vice President, Product & Portfolio Strategy, SAP SE

Lisa Hornschemeier
Principal PM Manager EAS (Enterprise Application Service) and Direct, Microsoft Corporation (USA)

Henrik Wagner
Global SAP Practice Lead & SAP Mentor Virtustream

Daniel Clarke
Solutions Architect, Google Cloud

Jacki Phillips
Team Lead SAP Business Intelligence & SAUG SIG Lead – BI Canberra Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

Peter Rowe
Senior Solutions Engineer, Flexera Software

Tony Beeston
Principal Product Marketing Manager, CA Technologies

Andreas Kral
Senior Solution Adviser, Analytics & Insight Centre of Excellence, SAP ANZ

Michael John Choudhury
Manager Reporting & Analytics, Bolton Clarke

Amy Parker
Leader Finance, Analysis & Reporting TasNetworks

Chris Paine
SAP Mentor and Senior HR Consultant, Discovery Consulting

Associate Professor Paul
Hawking SAP Mentor & Independent, Consultant

Charith Samaranayake
Senior Business Analyst, Stefanus Husin SAP Developer & Vijay Vital, SAUG EA SIG Lead, WINC

Thomas Boulton
Director Digital Transformation, Public Sector & Eric Maisonhaute Senior Solution Advisor - Concur SAP ANZ

Evan Wu
SAUG SIG Lead: EA & Enterprise Architect, DuluxGroup

Satha Pillay
Chief Information Officer, Veolia Australia

Francis Cheng
Project Officer, Australian Taxation Office

Pete Andrew
Chief Operating Officer, SAP ANZ

Clint Vosloo
SAP Mentor & Managing, Partner EV Technologies

Jon Wilson
Digital Supply Chain & Manufacturing Centre of Excellence SAP ANZ

Peter Maier
General Manager SAP Industries SAP SE (Germany)

Gareth Thompson
Head Finance Systems and Analytics & Stephen Brown, Manager Financial Systems, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Chris Paine
SAP Mentor and Senior HR Consultant, Discovery Consulting

Christian Oehler
Director – Global Customer Value Services, SAP SE

Graham Robinson
SAP Mentor & Principal Consultant, Yelcho Systems Consulting

Anup Powale
Technical Lead, Jemena

Rudolf Hois
VP & Chief Product Owner for SAP S/4HANA On Premise, P&I, SAP SE & Irene Hopf Global thought leader SAP Solutions

Bernhard Wieder
Accounting Discipline, UTS Business School

Abhay Krishan Rastogi
IT Transition Lead, AGL

Julie Dennis
APJ Digital Trust and Data, Privacy Specialist SAP APJ

Alisdair Templeton
SAP Mentor, Independent Consultant

Pierre Van Rooyen
Senior Solution Advisor, Database and Data Management, SAP ANZ

Michael Gee
Program Manager, Department of Human Services

Les Smith
Finance & Risk Centre of Excellence, SAP ANZ

Srivatsa V
Head of HCM CloudSupport – APJ SAP Labs (India) & Susan Fletcher Manager - Cloud Product Support, SAP ANZ

Christian Willig
Strategic Analytics Specialist, Energy Queensland

Alexandra Carvalho
SAP Mentor & SAP APJ Lead, BI Group

Paul Swain
Head of Solution Centre of Excellence &Carmen Almajan Cloud ERP Champion SAP ANZ

Ray Wang
Advisor, Author, Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research (USA)

Satha Pillay
CIO of Veolia, an early and successful adopter of both IBM Cloud and S/4HANA, who is about to upgrade S/4 and transition the remainder of the Veolia business

Clive Ewin
Partner at IBM and the Leader of Enterprise Applications who brings IBM’s global S/4HANA experience to the discussion

Sehida Frawley
Head of Digital Business Services, SAP ANZ

Marcus Scott
Vice President, South East Asia & Japan, SNP Transformations SEA

Stuart Dickinson
Director, General Manager, DXC Oxygen

Steven Wong
ANZ Customer Success & Pre-Sales Manager, Panaya

Dr. Susan Foster
SAUG SIG Lead, Organisational Change and Training & Senior Lecturer, Monash University

Irene Hopf
Head of Global Centre of Competence for SAP Solutions, Lenovo (Germany)

Dave Chapman
CIO & Peter Makris, Director Core Banking, Xinja

Chris Hill
Head of HANA Enterprise Cloud &Amy Hawkins, HANA Enterprise Cloud Specialist, SAP ANZ

Lars Rueter
S/4HANA Product Management & Head of S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group, SAP APJ

Chris Costley
Director Customer & Operations Transformation, IDP Education Ltd

Shailendra Kumar
VP & Chief Evangelist, Analytics & Leonardo, SAP APJ & GC, and bestselling author on Data & Analytics: “Making Money Out of Data”

David Dekker
Director & Head of Education SAP ANZ

William Anderson,
Warehouse Distribution System Co-ordinator & Siow Boon Chua, Development Lead, IXOM

Murali Shanmugham
SAP Mentor & SAP Cloud Platform Solution Advisor, SAP ANZ

Hendrik Luetjohann
BTS Principal Business Consultant & Product Expert – SAP S/4HANA On-Premise & Cloud, SAP SE

Simon Kemp
SAP Mentor & SAP UX Practice Lead, Plaut IT Australia

Greg Hill
Director - Strategy, Innovation and Delivery, La Trobe University

Ray Wang
Advisor, Author, Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research (USA)

Graham Robinson
SAP Mentor & Principal Consultant, Yelcho Systems Consulting

Scott Hirst
Senior Director SAP Customer Experience, SAP ANZ

Anthony Drumm
CCSP Manager, Cloud InfoSec and Privacy Solution Advisory SAP APJ

Colleen Hebbert
SAP Mentor & Security, Specialist

Riley Rainey
SAP Mentor Alumnus & SAP Cloud Platform Global Architect, SAP USA

Dr. Susan Foster
SAUG SIG Lead, Org Change & Training | Senior Lecturer, Monash University

Peter Cridland
Senior Account Executive, SAP Sales Cloud ANZ

Panellists:

Paul Williamson
Stockland

Andrew Bettenay
Endeavour Energy

Jonathan Pepper
Rio Tinto

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• Microsoft
• Aws

GOLD:
• Flexera
• DXC.Technology
• Virtustream
• SNP
• Lenovo
• Panaya
• CA Technologies
• Google Cloud

SUPPORTING:
• Rev Trac
• Speller International
• Wipro
• GA Systems
• Esker
• Excel 4 Apps
• Epi Use Labs
• Blackline
• Systems + People
• Loftware
• IconIntergration
• Inspiring Safer Workplace
• Kofax
• Suse
• Swift
• Opentext
• IQx Business Solutions
• Basis
• Serole
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Kpmg

MEDIA:
• Inside Sap
• Apac CIO Outlook

SAP INNOVATION STREAM:
• SAP