SAP ECC to S/4HANA: What Teams Facing 2027 Need to Decide
If you're still on ECC, the challenge isn't knowing you need to move. It's deciding how to move, what to change along the way and how to avoid expensive decisions you'll have to undo later. Brownfield, greenfield, selective data transition, RISE or GROW can all look viable on paper. The harder question is what they mean once you start delivering.
Across two days, get beyond the theory and learn from organisations already navigating those decisions. Hear how Brisbane City Council governed a complex S/4HANA build across multiple partners, why SA Power Networks is taking a continuous-improvement approach, and how Warner Bros. Discovery is balancing speed with control. Put your questions directly to SAP experts and compare approaches with peers, so you leave with a clearer path forward and fewer unknowns in your own transformation.
The S/4HANA Story No One Tells — When Data Migration Goes Wrong
Norman Alimagno, Go Global Business Services (JG Summit Holdings)
What rushed cutover, limited testing and missed source data look like when the problems surface after go-live.
How Brisbane City Council Created End-to-End Visibility Across Its S/4HANA Build
Andrew Greinke, Brisbane City Council
How Brisbane City Council connected processes, requirements, build items, tests and defects into one day-by-day view across multiple delivery partners.
Why Your SAP Strategy Should Walk Among Hills Rather Than Climb Mountains
Jason Anthony, SA Power Networks
Why SA Power Networks favours continuous improvement over wait-and-leap transformation, and how keeping SAP current reduces risk.
How Mitre 10 Responded When Its Transformation Model Stopped Scaling
Nicole McFadden, Mitre 10 New Zealand
What to do when a rollout model that worked for the first stores cannot scale across hundreds more.
Building SAP Capability Across a Global Business
Donna Chamberlain, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
How to build SAP expertise inside the business when a central team cannot support 5,000 users alone.
Delivering S/4HANA Finance at Speed Without Losing Control
Barbara Rojas, Warner Bros. Discovery
How Finance and IT can accelerate an S/4HANA program without compromising control, compliance or business continuity.
Why User Experience Was a Non-Negotiable Part of the SAP Upgrade at Pan Pac
Lisa Jury and Ross McMillan, Pan Pac Forest Products
Why treating user experience as part of the upgrade can reduce training and change pressure later.
What's On Your Mind: Moving Beyond ECC — What's Helping Organisations Make Progress?
Robert Holland (SAPinsider) with Jocelyn Dart, Simon Kemp and Kevin Richardson (SAP)
No slides, no presentation. Ask three SAP people the question you can't ask your vendor, alongside every other customer in your position.
Between the Lines: What SAP Doesn't Tell You About Deployment and Transformation
Robert Holland, SAPinsider
An independent view of what has materially changed in SAP's roadmap, what remains uncertain and where projects can get caught out.
What's On Your Mind: Navigating SAP Licensing, Pricing and Consumption
Robert Holland with Rudy Gesterkamp (PowerCo) and Murali Shanmugham (SAP)
Discussing the challenge of keeping licence and seat costs under control when consumption is changing and no one yet knows what AI will add to the bill.
TM101 · Modernize Your ERP Landscape: Transformation Paths to SAP Cloud ERP
SAP TechEd curriculum
A practical comparison of the paths to Cloud ERP based on where your organisation is starting.
TM103 · Reimagining Migration and Modernization with Agent-Led AI Assistants
SAP TechEd curriculum
Where AI genuinely changes the migration effort estimate.
A defensible position on approach and sequencing, and the list of questions your integrator hasn't answered yet.
Programme director · ERP architect · Finance lead on the business case · Adoption owner
Pre-conference 17 Nov · Main conference 7–8 Jun · RACV Royal Pines Resort Gold Coast · Agenda and timings subject to change