SAP Transformation Excellence Tour

Join us in Melbourne to envision the future

Transformation begins with a vision. See the future of business, built on EA

Join us in Melbourne to envision the future
Location
Q Events
123 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Date
Jun 11, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM AEST
View agenda
Seats
120 Attendees
Save your seat!

Enterprise architects will play a key role in the future of business.  

Companies today need to transform in order to adopt generative AI and other emerging technologies. And to do that, they need the right EA strategies and solutions.

Come to the SAP Transformation Excellence Tour in Melbourne and explore the latest, most innovative ways to combine the power of EA with process excellence and digital adoption and build a repeatable, end-to-end transformation capability.

Learn how solutions like SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, and WalkMe are designed to help you embed a culture of continuous transformation across four key pillars—people, processes, applications, and data.

Expert EA sessions include:

  • Application modernization: Use proven methodologies to assess your app portfolio, manage dependencies, develop a transformation road map for modernization and cloud migration.
  • Smart architecture governance: Transform governance from a challenge into an asset. Optimize decision-making, reduce risk, automate workflows, avoid common pitfalls, and create a single source of truth for all governance activities.
  • AI adoption and governance: Turn AI potential into real business value. Move fast on your AI initiatives while keeping AI deployments secure, reliable, and compliant.  Maximize the impact of AI without slowing down innovation.

Don't miss this opportunity to network with fellow enterprise architects and seasoned transformation practitioners – and learn the best ways to apply your EA expertise to building a robust transformation capability at your organization. 

Register now!

Event Partner

Hicron-logo
kapish-logo-2023

Agenda

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Registration & Networking: Connect with fellow attendees over light breakfast and coffee before the program begins. 
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks

A brief welcome from event organizers and an outline of the day’s vision. 

Josh Beatty
Josh Beatty
Head of Business Transformation Management ANZ
9:45 AM – 10:30 AM
Opening Keynote

Business Transformation from Strategy to Execution with SAP

For more than half a century, SAP has been the driving force behind businesses worldwide, navigating a landscape of relentless change that is now accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Join us for this captivating keynote session as we delve into building a robust transformation capability to meet future challenges head-on. Discover the four essential pillars of transformation—people, processes, applications, and data—and learn how to initiate meaningful transformation and change within your organization.

We will explore how solutions like SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, and WalkMe —with the power of GenAI - can embed a culture of continuous excellence and innovation. 

Dee Houchen
Dee Houchen
CMO, SAP LeanIX & SAP Signavio
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Customer Fireside Chat

Pioneer change through people-first digital transformation

Digital transformation is accelerating with rising AI investment, yet many enterprises don’t realize their investments' full potential. WalkMe's people-first digital adoption approach helps enterprises avoid this pitfall and achieve an 85% ROI through in-app guidance, automations, data validation and contextual AI. Learn how WalkMe empowers employees, speeds up proficiency, and bridges the gap between tech and people.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Morning Break & Networking
11:35 AM – 12:00 PM 
ERP Transformation

Connecting Business Processes and IT for Successful ERP Transformation

ERP transformation requires clear visibility into your organization's processes and IT landscape. Without this visibility, organizations struggle to understand the full impact of changes, leading to delayed decisions, increased risks, and misaligned transformation initiatives.

In this session you will learn how SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX combine to create transparency across process and technology landscapes. Whether you're starting fresh with a new ERP implementation or upgrading your existing system, learn how to derive the insights needed to navigate complex transformations and maintain visibility throughout the journey. 

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Customer Spotlight

Customer Spotlight Sponsored by Gold Partner Kapish: Fireside Chat

Josh Beatty
Josh Beatty
Head of Business Transformation Management ANZ
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch and Networking
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Customer Spotlight

A Real Life Transformation Journey: Fireside Chat

Dee Houchen
Dee Houchen
CMO, SAP LeanIX & SAP Signavio
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Hicron Presentation
Jakub Wolinski
Managing Director, Hicron
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Mastering IT Complexity

Enabling Innovation: Freeing your application portfolio of tech debt and obsolescence risk

Technical debt stands in the way of organizations adopting new innovations, from cloud technologies to AI.

As companies maintain multiple redundant applications and continue running outdated systems, they accumulate technical debt that results in rising costs, system failures, decreased productivity, and employee turnover.

This session explores proven methods for evaluating and addressing technical debt, to support successful digital transformation initiatives.

Mobin Barati
Senior Principal, SAP
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Operational Excellence

Elevating Business Agility: Achieving Operational Excellence with SAP Signavio or Leverage your Digital Twin to increase transparency and drive value realization with SAP Signavio

In today’s competitive landscape, business agility is vital. This session demonstrates how SAP Signavio empowers leaders to achieve operational excellence through continuous improvement and innovation. Learn to leverage SAP’s process transformation solutions to make transformation a core capability while fostering a growth mindset. We'll address challenges such as siloed operations and share strategies to enhance synergies and transparency, ensuring strategic alignment and efficient decision-making. Join us to explore how SAP Signavio supports sustainable success in ERP transformation, procurement, finance, supply chain processes, and beyond, whether you're using SAP or non-SAP systems.  
Joy Kennedy
Strategic Solution Advisor, SAP
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Break & Networking
3:30 pm - 4:00pm
Mastering IT Complexity

AI Governance: The foundation of effective AI adoption

The excitement around generative AI is hard to ignore, but turning potential into real business value is a challenge. Organizations need to move fast while keeping AI deployments secure, reliable, and compliant.

This session explores how enterprise architects and IT leaders can take control of AI adoption, understand where AI is being used across their application landscape, and ensure data integrity. We’ll discuss how to manage AI risks, improve governance, and maximize the impact of AI initiatives without slowing down innovation.

Kisanga Devendra
Sr. Solutions Engineer, APAC
3:30 pm - 4:00pm
Operational Excellence

Optimize your procurement processes to accelerate value realization with SAP Signavio

In today's dynamic business environment, procurement teams face mounting pressure to deliver more value against a backdrop of limited resources. This session explores how SAP Signavio solutions empower procurement organizations to overcome challenges like limited process transparency, underutilized systems and capabilities, and resource-intensive manual activities.

We'll explore how our solutions enable you to increase visibility in your procurement processes, pinpoint improvement areas, including opportunities to automate manual processes and working capital optimization strategies. Additionally, learn how to enhance procurement compliance by targeting areas such as maveerick buying and insights like the 3-way match rate, all leading to faster value realization.

Projit Mookerjee
Projit Mookerjee
Senior Solution Advisory, Business Transformation Management, SAP
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Mastering IT Complexity

Cloud migration and application modernization: From strategy to execution

Modernizing your application portfolio is essential for maintaining business agility and innovation. In this session, we'll explore how to evaluate your application portfolio and build a modernization strategy using proven methodologies.

We'll dive into how organizations can build an effective modernization strategy by evaluating their current portfolio, managing dependencies, and creating a transformation plan. You’ll learn how SAP LeanIX helps organizations to gain the visibility and insights needed to make informed decisions and track transformation progress.

4:00pm - 4:30pm
Operational Excellence

Unlock instant answers to your burning process questions with generative AI

Join us for a transformative session on optimizing processes with SAP Signavio's innovative process AI capabilities. Enhance your procure-to-pay operations, redesign plan-to-fulfill strategies to prevent overstock, and identify metrics that matter with effortless process analysis and instant, actionable insights. Experience how SAP Signavio democratizes process mining for everyone, regardless of technical expertise, and speeds up decision-making by up to 50%, leveraging over 50 years of SAP's process expertise. Discover how to unlock the full potential of your processes and drive measurable value. Don’t miss this chance to get ahead in your business transformation journey.

How can I improve my procure-to-pay? How can I re-design my plan to fulfill process to avoid over stock? Which metrics should I best monitor along the process? Imagine analyzing your processes at a glance and receiving immediate, actionable advice – all with a simple, natural language question. With SAP Signavio's process AI capabilities, you can:​

Accelerate and simplify process analysis and modeling, empowering you to work smarter, not harder.​

Democratize process mining, making it accessible to everyone within the organization, regardless of technical background.​

Fast-track business decisions by up to 50% with immediate insights and instant recommendations, backed by SAP's 50+ years of process expertise.​

Join our session and discover how you can harness the process AI for SAP Signavio solutions to get ahead of your business transformation and drive measurable value.

Sukhjinder Girn
Senior Solution Advisory, Business Transformation Management, SAP
04:30pm - 5:30pm
Networking Drinks