SAP Transformation Excellence Tour 2026

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 to 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.

Transformation at scale demands alignment across strategy, technology, and people. In this panel discussion, senior leaders from SAP, our partners and customers, share their perspectives on what it takes to lead complex, multi-year transformation programmes. From securing executive sponsorship and managing competing priorities, to aligning business and IT on a shared vision — hear firsthand how these organisations are navigating the realities of large-scale change. This candid conversation explores lessons learned, what leadership looks like in practice, and how strong partnerships between customers, advisors, and technology providers are accelerating outcomes.

Technology and process transformation are only part of the equation. Lasting transformation happens when people, leadership and culture evolve alongside new ways of working.

In this session, Melanie Marshall will explore why so many transformation initiatives struggle to deliver their intended outcomes and what organisations can do differently. Drawing on her Adaptive Excellence® approach, Melanie will share practical strategies for building trust, strengthening leader and team capability, reducing friction and creating a culture that adapts and excels through continuous change.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to build an organisation that not only manages transformation, but thrives because of it. 

Melanie Marshall is the Adaptive Excellence expert, author, speaker and founder of Adapt & Excel®. With more than 20 years of experience leading teams and organisations through complex change, Melanie helps businesses strengthen culture, improve performance and build the adaptive capabilities needed to thrive in rapidly changing environments. Her practical, people-centred approach combines leadership, operational excellence and organisational design to help teams deliver sustainable transformation outcomes.

One of the biggest challenges facing enterprise architecture teams is driving adoption beyond the EA function — getting data into the tool and enabling decision-makers to self-serve insights without specialist knowledge. In this session, hear how one organisation has tackled this head-on by integrating SAP LeanIX with Copilot, building a natural language agent that allows CIOs, executives, and non-technical users to query application landscapes, understand integration dependencies, and surface critical information in seconds. This session also covers how AI is being used to reduce the burden of data input and maintenance, and what has worked in securing executive sponsorship and building momentum across the organisation. A practical, peer-to-peer session for anyone looking to move their EA capability from a back-office function to an enterprise-wide asset.

Mark Howes is the Principal Business Architect at Gallagher. With over 30 years’ experience in SAP and business architecture, he’s passionate about helping teams connect technology to real business outcomes. Mark enjoys working closely with people, bringing a practical, down-to-earth approach to every project. When he’s not architecting solutions, you might find him enjoying the great Kiwi outdoors.

In this demo you will see how SAP’s Integrated Toolchain brings together everything needed to confidently lead a transformation.

People are the most volatile and unpredictable element of any transformation. No matter how well-designed the technology or how sound the strategy, success ultimately depends on whether people adopt new ways of working. This session explores how WalkMe helps organisations ensure adoption of new technology by reducing the learning curve. Combined with integrated SAP content, WalkMe provides in-application guidance that meets users where they are — driving behaviour change, reducing support costs, and accelerating time to value. Hear directly from Digital Adoption experts on why putting people at the centre of your transformation and turning technology rollout into genuine business adoption, ultimately leads to transformation success.