Hear how the senior leadership team at Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) guided an SAP modernization initiative that brought SAP S/4HANA, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, Fiori UX, and a new customer portal live in a single coordinated deployment. Learn how they aligned business and IT around a shared vision; structured project teams and decision rights across functional leads, IT, and system integrators; and used a disciplined change management model with regular leadership engagement to keep people, processes, and technology in sync. Find out why they chose to implement multiple capabilities at once, how that decision shaped their target-state architecture and future platform plans, and what outcomes they achieved, so you can apply similar practices to your own SAP modernization initiative. Key Takeaways: Real-world strategies for aligning business and IT around a shared modernization vision. Insights on how to keep people, processes, and technology in sync through a disciplined change management model. An understanding of how key decisions shaped architecture and future platform plans.

As organizations pivot toward becoming "intelligent enterprises," Enterprise Architects are at the forefront of AI-driven transformation. This session addresses the challenge of integrating AI capabilities—not as isolated features, but as foundational elements—across the enterprise technology stack to create truly adaptive and responsive business environments. You’ll learn how to embed AI across architecture layers using SAP tools like Joule, Knowledge Graphs, and Business AI — enabling adaptive, intelligent enterprises ready for the next wave of innovation. Learn how to: Embed AI across enterprise layers using SAP tools. Develop resilient, flexible architectural blueprints that accommodate continuous AI innovation and future technological shifts. See real-world use cases driving AI-first transformation.

This interactive workshop moves beyond traditional presentations to focus on practical, peer-driven problem solving for today’s most pressing architectural challenges. Bring your own real-world architectural challenges and questions – whether it's a nagging technical debt issue, a tricky integration problem, or a strategy for aligning a technical solution with broader business goals - or just join in on the discussions to help others. Come prepared to collaborate, challenge assumptions, and leave with concrete ideas and a fresh perspective on your toughest architectural hurdles. You will: Exchange practical knowledge and experiences with peers in a trusted environment. Brainstorm and develop actionable strategies to solve complex architectural problems. Identify decision criteria for addressing technical debt while keeping transformation programs on track. Understand how enterprise architecture choices support business priorities, governance models, and long-term platform strategy.

Strap in for a journey through the vast, often chaotic universe of Enterprise Data Architecture. In this session, we’ll demystify core architectural principles that every organization must grasp to navigate data complexity at scale.  From legacy gravity wells to cloud-native wormholes, we’ll explore the real-world patterns and learn how to design resilient data architecture that evolves with your business - not against it. We will weave together stories and characters from Douglas Adam’s book ‘The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy’ and cover topics that are top of the mind for SAP customers like navigating BW modernization and maximizing the value from their business data with AI and ML.  Get ready for the for the ride! In this session, you will: Discover core architectural principles essential for navigating data complexity at scale in today’s enterprise environments. Learn how to build resilient data architectures that adapt and evolve with your business instead of working against it. Gain practical insights from real-world SAP use cases on legacy modernization, cloud-native design, and future-ready data platforms. Explore how to maximize business value from data by integrating AI and ML into your enterprise data architecture strategy.

As enterprises accelerate their transformation journeys, the role of the SAP Enterprise Architect is rapidly evolving; from maintaining system integrity to enabling innovation at scale. This session explores how to unlock agility, extensibility, and intelligence across the enterprise without compromising the clean core. Through real-world design patterns, we’ll examine how to leverage SAP BTP, composable architecture principles, and AI-enablement including SAP Joule to architect resilient, future-ready systems. You’ll gain practical insights into balancing side-by-side extensibility with on-stack stability, embedding automation into business processes, and enforcing innovation guardrails that scale. Whether you're navigating RISE with SAP, enabling modular business capabilities, or shaping your enterprise AI strategy, this session offers a blueprint for advancing the enterprise while staying grounded in architectural discipline. Key Takeaways: Frameworks for clean core extensibility and composable architecture. Use cases for embedding agentic AI, SAP Build, and automation in business workflows. Strategies for governing innovation without slowing it down. Integration design patterns for hybrid, event-driven, and cross-platform ecosystems.