SAP Transformation Excellence Tour 2026
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LOCATION
SAP Dublin, Waterside Citywest Business Campus, Dublin
DATE
Sep 17, 2026
09:30 AM - 4:15 PM IST
09:30 AM - 4:15 PM IST
SEATS
60 Attendees
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 leading organizations are using process insights to improve performance, optimize costs, and confidently execute transformation strategies, while staying aligned with market benchmarks and business priorities.
Explore 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 agent-led toolchain to transform to cloud ERP confidently while maximizing the business impact.
- Safeguard the business impact of AI agents: Discover and monitor the best process improvement opportunities for AI agents, ensure they act as intended, and monitor their performance efficiently.
Meet industry peers, SAP experts, and transformation leaders, and gain practical insights into achieving continuous business transformation.
Registrations for the event are now closed. Please contact petra.hlozanek@sap.com if you have any questions
Partners
Agenda
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Arrival and Coffee
10:00 – 10:15 AM
Welcome Note
Ray Joyce
Head of Sales for SAP Ireland
10:15 - 10:45 AM
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 organisations are eliminating their transformation debt, optimising processes, empowering employees, and realising their full potential. Whether you’re modernising your IT landscape, re-imagining how work gets done, or scaling your agentic AI strategies across the organisation, you’ll walk away with a clear path to becoming future-ready.
Wassilios Lolas
Global Vice President, Strategic Solution Advisory, Business Transformation Management SAP
10:45 – 11:15 AM
Customer Presentation
From Blueprint to Reality — How Canada Life is Governing Enterprise Architecture at Scale
As organisations navigate increasing complexity and accelerating transformation, enterprise architecture governance has never been more critical — or more challenging. Clare Stone, Enterprise Architecture Governance Manager at Canada Life Europe, joins us for a fireside chat on how one of Europe's leading financial services organisations is building the governance frameworks, stakeholder alignment, and architectural clarity needed to scale with confidence. From managing a multi-entity landscape to driving measurable business outcomes, Clare shares the lessons learned and the practices that are making a real difference. A must-attend conversation for anyone looking to turn architecture strategy into execution.
Clare Stone
Enterprise Architecture Governance Manager, Canada Life Europe
Mariana Salazar Mejia
SAP LeanIX Strategic Positioning & Value Management, SAP LeanIX
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 PM
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.
Wassilios Lolas
Global Vice President, Strategic Solution Advisory, Business Transformation Management SAP
12:15 - 12:45 PM
Keynote
Your Processes Hold the Answers. Let's Find Them Together.
Every organization has untapped potential hiding in its day-to-day processes. The question is whether you have the visibility to act on it.
In this session, we'll show you how to uncover hidden inefficiencies and cost savings, benchmark your performance against industry peers, and zero in on the highest-impact, lowest-effort opportunities first — so you can build momentum fast and demonstrate results.
The answers are already in your data. Let's find them together.
Kazim Cansever
Solution Advisor, SAP Signavio
12:45 - 13:00 PM
UKISUG
Meet UKISUG: Maximising the Value of Your SAP Investment
Join UKISUG for a short introduction to the UK's SAP user group and discover how they're helping SAP customers get more value from their SAP investments.
In this 15-minute session, they'll share who they are, the benefits of UKISUG membership and the practical ways they support SAP professionals and organisations through networking opportunities, expert-led events, customer-led communities, education and access to SAP.
Whether you're looking to connect with peers, stay informed on SAP developments, influence SAP's roadmap or access guidance to support your transformation journey, UKISUG is here to help.
James Squires
Head of Commercial, UK & Ireland SAP User Group
13:00 – 13:45 PM
Lunch
13:45 – 14:30 PM
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.
Victor Amestoy
Solution Engineer
13:45 – 14:30 PM
Process Excellence
Deploying AI agents with confidence with SAP Signavio
AI 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.
Kazim Cansever
Solution Advisor, SAP Signavio
14:30 – 15:00 PM
Break
15:00 – 15:45 PM
Keynote
Accelerate ERP transformation: Understanding the role of Tricentis and Syniti within SAP's agent-led toolchain
Learn how SAP's agent-led toolchain accelerates and de-risk your ERP transformation. Discover how SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management by Syniti and SAP Enterprise Application Quality Assurance solutions by Tricentis help organizations reduce transformation risk, improve data readiness, ensure continuous quality, and accelerate time-to-value throughout their transformation journey.
Florian Schwitzgebel
Product Marketing Director, Business Transformation Management SAP
Paul Ranson
Strategic Sales Director, Tricentis
Aidan Smith
Client Account Executive - Syniti
15:45 - 16:15 PM
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, Business Transformation Management SAP
Liam O’Neill
Managing Director, BPMD
Clare Stone
Enterprise Architecture Governance Manager, Canada Life Europe
16:15 PM
Closing Note