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About this invitation-only event:
The decision to transition to RISE with SAP is a critical one that can significantly impact manufacturing organizations' digital transformation journeys and business successes. While RISE offers the promise of simplification, cost reduction, and innovation, the path to successful adoption is a challenge. This event will focus on the critical importance of aligning IT investments with business outcomes. Participants will explore strategies for optimizing costs, maximizing ROI, and ensuring that the move to SAP RISE delivers tangible business value. The forum will also explore best practices for effective collaboration between IT and business stakeholders throughout the migration process. We will uncover crucial gaps and pitfalls that senior executives must steer their organizations clear of to realize the desired outcomes of agility, innovation capability, operational savings, and financial success. Namely:
- Aligning business and IT expectations
- Navigating contractual complexities
- Establishing clear accountability matrices
- Understanding the financial risks and opportunities
- Mitigating unexpected costs and complexities
- Maintaining visibility and control
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in candid discussions, share their own experiences, and learn from the collective wisdom of their peers. The forum will also feature expert insights from Avantra's senior leadership team.
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Participants:
John Appleby
Chief Executive Officer AVANTRA
John Appleby is the Chief Executive Officer at Avantra. John leads the company's strategy in delivering innovative SAP AIOps solutions. He oversees the development of intelligent automation platforms that help enterprises optimise their IT operations, reduce costs, and improve reliability. John is passionate about leveraging automation to transform IT management. His leadership has been instrumental in positioning Avantra as a leader in SAP operations automation, helping businesses achieve significant time and cost benefits.
Brenton O'Callaghan
Chief Customer Officer AVANTRA
Brenton O'Callaghan is the Chief Customer Officer at Avantra. With over 15 years in IT and a decade focused on SAP, Brenton leads a team dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experiences through data-driven insights and intelligent automation. Under his leadership, Avantra has achieved a 3-year average customer satisfaction score of 94%+ and an industry-leading NPS of +54. Brenton's success stems from his customer-centric approach, deep technical expertise, and belief in the power of combining technical skills, industry knowledge, and empathy.
Bernd Engist
Chief Technology Officer AVANTRA
Bernd Engist is the Chief Technology Officer at Avantra. With over 21 years of experience at the company, Bernd leads the technological vision and development of Avantra's SAP operations automation platform. He oversees the engineering and design teams, focussing on creating robust, resilient solutions that balance business needs with technical excellence. Bernd is passionate about developing innovative automations for SAP environments. His leadership has been instrumental in advancing Avantra's capabilities in AIOps and hyperautomation for enterprise SAP landscapes.
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8:00am Arrivals, introductions, coffee, cakes, networking
8:30am 1st Roundtable - Everyone will put forward and vote on a challenge and/or ideas relating to the theme. The challenge owner will then be questioned by the group.
9:15am Coffee / Break
9:30am 2nd Roundtable - Discuss solutions around the challenge discussed in the 1st session.
10:10am Spokesperson from each table will present the challenges and solutions discussed and further thoughts from the floor are given.
10:20am Final wrap up
10:30am Networking
Key takeaways :
- Gain a deeper understanding of the potential pitfalls and challenges associated with SAP RISE migrations and their impact on business success and financial performance.
- Learn strategies for aligning business and IT expectations to ensure a successful transition while optimizing costs and ROI.
- Discover best practices for contract negotiation, establishing clear accountability, and mitigating financial risks.
- Understand the importance of maintaining visibility and control over SAP systems within RISE to ensure operational efficiency and financial transparency.
- Identify opportunities to optimize value, mitigate risks, and drive business success throughout the SAP RISE journey.
Who is invited?
This invitation-only roundtable is specifically designed for C-level executives who are directly involved in or responsible for making strategic decisions regarding SAP cloud investments. Our audience includes CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, CIOs, COOs and other senior leaders who are exploring, considering, or currently navigating the transition of SAP workloads to RISE.
Ideal participants are those who:
- Are actively seeking insights into the benefits and challenges of RISE with SAP and other cloud migration strategies.
- Understand the commercial benefits and risks of different cloud migration strategies.
- Aim to enhance their organization's operational efficiency and growth through informed technology investments.
- Wish to engage in a high-level strategic dialogue with peers and experts in the field of SAP.
To ensure a focused and valuable discussion, personal invitations are being extended by TechPros.io in collaboration with Avantra.
How it works
Each invitee is required to attend a 15-minute one on one briefing call to discuss the event's format, objectives, and what participants can expect. This call is an integral part of the preparation, ensuring that all attendees are well-informed and ready to contribute to the dialogue.
During online registration, submit a challenge you face related to the topic (maximum 80 characters). TechPros.io will confirm your participation with a calendar invitation. On the day of the event, vote on the challenge to be discussed. The event starts with the challenge owner detailing the issue, followed by a collaborative discussion and solution-finding. There will be options to feature in post-event thought leadership content.
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Why Attend?
B2B Enterprise Sales and Marketing leaders
This is a peer group learn session and its critical participants are in similar roles. We reserve the right to decline registrations.

A structured and collaborative approach to analysing a current business problem, identifying solutions with the help of experts on the subject

Clarify the challenges your company currently faces, relating to the subject and business risks of maintaining the status quo

Identify and discuss a range of solutions to these problems, the implications of the changes to the business and the critical success factors relating to implementation

Following the event, receive a summary of the challenges identified, the solutions put forward and the critical success factors required
Why participate in a Challenge Forum? See below:

Domas Voroneckas
Profitability & SAP PaPM Deloitte

Prasenjit Sengupta
SAP Solution Delivery Cognizant

Mukund Shinde
Director SAP
Cognizant


Interesting challenges with professional and experienced participants.
Domas Voroneckas
Profitability & SAP PaPM at Deloitte


True collaboration and a great experience to see how ideas from different ends meet to address a challenge.
Prasenjit Sengupta
SAP Solution Delivery at Cognizant


Good to connect with Industry leaders and understand their challenge and solution.
Mukund Shinde Director SAP at Cognizant
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Avantra is a leading AIOps platform that provides observability, automation, and insight for SAP environments. Avantra helps enterprises accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by ensuring optimal performance, security, and compliance of their SAP systems across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid landscapes.
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