SAP Transformation Excellence Tour Athens
Transformation starts with process excellence
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Become an enterprise built for the future!
Confident transformation requires more than isolated initiatives or one-time improvement exercises. It demands a proactive, data-driven approach that connects people, processes, data, and applications, enabling continuous value creation across the enterprise.
Discover how to:
- Become a future-ready enterprise: Learn how to minimize friction, optimize processes, empower employees, and realize their full potential.
- Modernize your ERP landscape: Take advantage of the integrated toolchain to transform to cloud ERP in a confidently while maximizing the business impact.
- Safeguard the business impact of AI agents: Discover the best process improvement opportunities for AI agents, ensure they act as intended, and monitor their performance efficiently.
Hear directly from two of Greece’s leading companies, PPC and Viohalco, as they share their experiences and perspectives on business transformation, bringing real-world insights to the conversation.
Meet industry peers, SAP experts, and transformation leaders, and gain practical insights into achieving continuous business transformation.
Registration is free, but we’re almost at full capacity. Secure your seat today and hear firsthand from PPC, Viohalco, and SAP experts!
Agenda
9:30 - 10:00
Registration, Breakfast and Networking
10:00 - 10:15
Welcome Note
Setting the Stage
Andreas Xirocostas
Managing Director, SAP Hellas, Cyprus & Malta
Andreas Alexiou
Senior Solution Executive Greece, Cyprus, Malta, SAP BTM
10:15 - 10:45
Keynote
How to build a transformation capability to navigate change and become a future-built enterprise
Winning in the next era requires more than a series of one-time projects and siloed tools — it requires an enterprise-wide capability that's built for change. In this session, discover how SAP’s Business Transformation Management portfolio empowers you architect a business that learns, adapts, and improves continuously. We’ll reveal how SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, and WalkMe come together to unify strategy and execution, and enable seamless adoption of new technology and ways of working in a connected and collaborative way. Learn how leading organizations are eliminating their transformation debt, optimizing processes, empowering employees, and realizing their full potential. Whether you’re modernizing your IT landscape, re-imagining how work gets done, or scaling your agentic AI strategies across the organization, you’ll walk away with a clear path to becoming future-ready.
Wassilios Lolas
Global Vice President, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP BTM
10:45 - 11:30
Keynote
SAP’s Strategy to Value: Building a Value-Driven Transformation Capability leveraging Value Hackathon and the power of the Business Transformation Network
Successful transformation requires more than ambition—it requires a clear focus on measurable business value. Yet, according to the 2025 Business Transformation Network Pulse Check, most organizations still struggle to systematically measure and realize transformation outcomes.
Join this session to explore practical approaches for building a value-driven transformation capability through strong governance, portfolio management, and programs such as the Digital Value Badge Program. You'll also hear how SAP established an enterprise-wide value management approach, identifying over €150 million in qualified value opportunities through initiatives like the Value Hackathon and driving measurable business impact across multiple business functions.
Monika Majerska-Grochola
GVP Business Transformation Management, Co-Lead Business Transformation Network, SAP
11:30 - 11:45
Coffee Break & Networking
11:45 - 12:15
AI Keynote
Agents with Impact: Moving AI from IT Experimentation to Enterprise-Wide Outcomes
As the use of AI agents accelerates across your enterprise, governance and control are just as critical as determining where and how to deploy agents for the greatest impact.
Discover how to holistically manage the lifecycle of your AI agents with SAP. This includes clear alignment to your business strategy, processes, governance and guardrails, in order to scale safely and deliver value across your organisation.
- Scale AI agents from experiments to enterprise value.
- Learn how to built-in controls, compliance, and guardrails.
- How to connect agents to business strategy.
Simon Uerdingen
Senior Solution Engineer, Global Practice Lead, SAP LeanIX
12:15 - 13:00
Enterprise Architecture
Building your AI governance foundation: Ensuring agility, increasing efficacy, and mitigating risk with SAP LeanIX
The role of enterprise architects in AI governance is subject to new scrutiny as organizations look to increase agility and encourage adoption while mitigating risk. The rise of agentic AI further highlights how EAs are being challenged to deliver the visibility and control that organizations need. In this session, you'll learn how SAP LeanIX provides the toolkit to excel in building an agile and effective AI governance practice.
Simon Uerdingen
Senior Solution Engineer, Global Practice Lead, SAP LeanIX
12:15 - 13:00
Process Excellence
Deploying and maximizing AI agent impact with SAP Signavio
BAI agents promise transformative benefits for business processes, but uncertainty often overshadows their potential. Where can agents deliver the highest impact? How to ensure they work as intended? How to measure their business impact?
If these questions resonate with you, join us to discover how SAP Signavio solutions cut through the noise and support your path to AI agent excellence.
In this engaging session, we'll explore how SAP Signavio helps you:
- Discover the highest-impact opportunities for AI agent implementation.
- Guide agents with precise instructions, ensuring they act as intended.
- Understand and monitor agent behavior to uphold compliance, accountability, and continuous value realization.
Haydar Bora Taser
Senior Value Advisor, SAP BTM
13:00 - 13:30
Enterprise Architecture
AI Governance with SAP LeanIX at PPC Group
This session presents PPC Group's AI Governance Model, which anchors every AI initiative to the Group's existing Business Capability Framework. It shows how SAP LeanIX operationalizes that model — serving as the connective backbone that links business capabilities, initiatives, applications, and AI agents into a single governed structure, while also assessing value realization, business and financial impact, and risks.
Tereza Simou
Digital Strategy & Innovation Unit, PPC
13:00 - 13:30
Process Excellence
From Growth to Process Excellence: Viohalco's Transformation Journey
Growth creates opportunity, but it also raises an important question: how can organizations scale while preserving efficiency, consistency, and agility? In this conversation, we will share Viohalco's evolving vision for Process Excellence and Business Process Management as strategic enablers of sustainable growth. We will discuss the journey towards a more connected, process-driven enterprise, the importance of building a shared foundation for organizational knowledge, and the role of platforms such as SAP Signavio in supporting this ambition. Through the experience of Cenergy, one of the Group's fastest-growing and most project-intensive businesses, we will explore how a process-centric approach can help organizations scale capabilities, strengthen collaboration, accelerate knowledge transfer, and support operational excellence in increasingly complex environments. Looking ahead, we will discuss how process knowledge can evolve into a strategic asset, enabling AI-driven collaboration, continuous improvement, and smarter decision-making across the Viohalco.
Alexandros Couclelis
Business Processes Transformation Manager, Viohalco
Artemios Makris
AI Transformation Senior Director, Cenergy Holdings
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch and Networking
14:30 - 15:00
Keynote Session
Maximize ROI and Drive Agility: Transform Your ERP with SAP's agent-led toolchain
In a world where business evolve faster than traditional ERP systems can adapt, many organizations struggle to keep their landscapes aligned with innovation and competitive demands. To stay ahead, companies need an ERP landscape that can continuously evolve across people, processes, applications, and data dimensions. Discover how SAP's agent-led toolchain accelerates your RISE with SAP transformation, reduces risk, and maximizes business impact by unifying all the dimensions. In this session you'll learn how it accelerates and de-risks transformation at every step, from initial move to Cloud ERP to ongoing improvements, intelligently orchestrating people, process, application, and data layers to ensure your RISE with SAP journey delivers the right business outcome from day one.
Wassilios Lolas
Global Vice President, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP BTM
15:00 - 15:30
Panel discussion
Building Transformation as a Capability – How to Move from One-Time Projects to a Permanent Organisational Muscle
Too many organisations still treat transformation as a one-off programme — a finite project with a start date, an end date, and a hope that the benefits stick. But the companies that consistently outperform are the ones that have built transformation as a standing capability: embedded in governance, resourced with permanent competencies, and wired into how the business makes decisions every quarter. In this panel, we'll unpack what it actually takes to make that shift. How do you secure and sustain executive sponsorship — not just for a single initiative, but for an ongoing transformation mandate? Who needs to be at the table — the full board, the CFO, the CIO, or a dedicated transformation sponsor? And what are the governance models, operating rhythms, and alignment mechanisms that keep business and IT moving in the same direction — not just at kick-off, but year after year?
Wassilios Lolas
Global Vice President, Strategic Solution Advisory, SAP BTM
Kleisthenis Stamatiadis
Senior Director, Business Operations & Transformation, Viohalco
Monika Majerska-Grochola
GVP Business Transformation Management, Co-Lead Business Transformation Network, SAP
15:30 - 15:45
Closing Note
Q&A and Wrap-up
15:45 - 16:45
Networking