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SAP UK & Ireland User Group Conference 2007

Speakers

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Executive Speakers

	Glynn Lowth Glynn is a senior manager at BASF IT Services Ltd, where he is responsible for SAP development and support in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia, for both BASF and third-party customers. He has previously held a number of commercial, financial, and IT p...more
26/11/2007 10:00am - 10:15am	Conference Opens
27/11/2007 3:20pm - 4:20pm	Conference Close

	Ian Pearson Ian Pearson graduated in Maths and Physics from Queens University, Belfast. After four years in missile design, he joined BT Labs as a performance engineer, and has since worked in areas from chip design to mobile telephony. He currently works as BT\...more
26/11/2007 11:15am - 12:15pm	A Trip To The Future

	Martin Tenk Head of Emerging Solutions, SAP EMEA Martin is responsible for Managing SAP’s Emerging Solutions team that works with many organisations, from large multi-nationals to local businesses, on their IT and applications strategy. He works with current and...more
26/11/2007 1:45pm - 2:45pm	SAP Technology - The Future

	Nigel Risner Nigel\'s biography can be viewed by clicking here...more
27/11/2007 9:15am - 10:15am	How To Create Impact Each & Every Time

	Steve Rogers Steve Rogers, Managing Director of SAP UK and Ireland, commenced his responsibilities on January 1st, 2007. He is responsible for driving the corporate strategy and is focused on transforming and growing the SAP UKI business while building solid rela...more
26/11/2007 10:15am - 11:15am	SAP - Strategic Vision for UK & Ireland

Other Speakers

	Alex Kemp Alex Kemp, SAP Practice Manager of ARINSO UK, is responsible for e-HR Solutions and Business Consulting, and SAP Consulting. Alex has a background of delivery of international projects, with 10 years experience of consulting and project management in...more
27/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:40pm	Is your e-HR strategy future proof?

	Andrew Lapham Head of Business Solutions, Yell PLC Andrew works for Yell PLC responsible for the UK enterprise business solutions. He leads a team of Business Solution Managers and Solution Architects who own the IS relationship with business stakeholders and man...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	SAP CRM Enables Faster and More Flexible Market Planning at Yell

	Andy Brown Solution Director – SAP Enabling Technologies Andy works for Atos Origin UK, specialising in SAP Data Management and Enterprise SOA. Over the past 11 years he has managed teams implementing SAP on a global scale, working extensively in the US, Middle...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Step One of the eSOA Journey - Data Unification

	Ann Fisher Payroll Controls Manager Ann has been with Zurich for 27 years and during that time worked in Finance including managing Salaries. In 1996 she was part of a team who moved the Payroll from Finance into HR. This was very successful and helped to facil...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Automating the full Maternity Process using Workflow
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Workflow Workshop incorporating integration with ESS/MSS

	Bill Batchelor Organisation Capability and Development Manager, Rolls Royce plc and previous Chair of Training Special Interest Group. Having long been integral to Rolls Royce’s learning and development programmes (crucially introducing distance learning to the com...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Preparing the Organisation for living with SAP

	Carol Laight Senior Finance Manager, XANSA Carol Laight is an FCA with over 25 years’ experience who has worked for Xansa as a senior finance manager for 3 years. Carol was the finance lead on Xansa’s SAP implementation project and is now the “system owner” respo...more
27/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:40pm	Streamlining In-House AP and Expense Management Processes at Xansa

	Chris McLellan Chris McLellan is the HCM Solution Owner for SAP UK Education where he has worked for the last eight years. He is a certified SAP HCM consultant and regularly teaches customers and partners how to implement SAP. His particular areas of interest are ...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in Enterprise Learning

Christopher Trueman Chris Trueman is responsible for IntelliCorp\'s R&D and managing its EMEA operations. Chris joined IntelliCorp in 1994 and held key leadership positions in consulting services, product management and product development before being appointed C...more

	Claire Broughton Claire Broughton holds the position Head of ERP within SAP and is also a qualified HR Business Consultant. Claire engages with customers and prospective customers to assist in understand, of how SAP can support their business processes or potential ...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in HR

	Craig Perrins Craig is the SAP HR Team Lead of Capita Group Information Systems. He is an IT professional with 10+ years SAP experience. As a Project Manager he has implemented a number of business solutions within the SAP HR field, many of which have been reliant...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	SAP HR ESS & MSS - New Starters: Ticking all the boxes.

	Damien Ghee Damien is IT & Programme Director for Warburtons Ltd, which is established as one of the top ten leading consumer grocery brands in the UK producing over one million bakery products each day. Prior to Warburtons, Damien was IT Director for Unil...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	SAP on BlackBerry

	Daphne Jacob Daphne Jacob holds the position of Senior Software Engineer and is from the UK Payroll Localisation Development Team. Daphne joined SAP in 2004 and has been working on the UK Payroll for the past 3 years.  Her main responsibilities are the Maintena...more
27/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:40pm	De-Mystifying E Filing

	Dion Ashton Dion Ashton, ACMA, is Senior Business Analyst at Princes Ltd in Liverpool, working mainly on the FI and CO modules. During his five years with Princes, his roles have included Financial Accountant and Management Accountant (UK Trading). ...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Easy Excel to SAP integration for Financial Data.

	Gareth Russell Gareth is the Domain Architect for ERP at T-Mobile UK.  He has over 10 years of Mobile Telecoms experience and first became involved with SAP when he was seconded as a business expert to the initial implementation of SAP at T-Mobile UK in 2000.  He t...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Managing the Network Expenditure @ T-Mobile UK
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Managing the Network Expenditure @ T-Mobile UK

	Geoff Fogg Geoff Fogg is Principal SAP Technologist at Yell working with the Business Solutions Group. This team works primarily on SAP innovative initiatives and aims to anticipate business demand within Yell in the areas of R/3, BW and CRM. Geoff has been wor...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	SAP CRM Enables Faster and More Flexible Market Planning at Yell

	Gerard Moran Gerard Moran - SAP Business Development Manager, Open Text Corporation Gerard graduated from the University of Salford with a BSc (Hons) in Information Technology, in 1996. Gerard has 10 years of experience in the IT industry focused on the managemen...more
27/11/2007 2:00pm - 2:45pm	Improving Operational efficiency and productivity within Accounts Payable

	Harry Patel Finance Director of Garrard & Co. Harry Patel has been working in Retail since 1984, studying at the City of London Polytechnic Harry qualified as Charted Certified Accountant and was appointed Finance Director of Garrard & Co after demergin...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	ERP in 6 weeks

Hugo Bell Hugo Bell is an experienced Systems Project Manager working for Terra Nitrogen (UK) Limited. Qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science from Teesside University. He has experience of working with a wide range of environments, including Manage...more

	Ian Dowson Global IM Audit Manager, BOC Group (June 2007) Chairman of Audit, Control and Security (ACS) Special Interest Group Until recently Ian led the global IM audit team at the BOC Group with responsibility for providing assurance over the delivery of core...more
27/11/2007 2:00pm - 2:45pm	Effective SAP Project assurance

	Ian Scott Head of Supply Chain for the UK Ian Scott has worked at SAP for 11 years, always in the Supply chain area. He has worked his way down from doing real implementation work to now being Head of Supply Chain for the UK and is a great fan of SAP\'s SCM ...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in SCM

	Jaap van der Leeden Jaap van der Leeden is the manager of the SAP Competency Centre Shared Services team for Air Products. He has worked within IT for 19 years in many different roles from technical programming and analysis, to project and account management and more re...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Implementing SAP's Learning Solution in a Global Enterprise

	Jacques Dekock Jacques heads up Business Information Services (BIS) for Habitat that sells design led home accessories and furniture in four European countries – the UK, France, Spain and Germany. Habitat also has a Franchise business with partners as far a field a...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Going Though a BW Implementation in the retail industry

	James Elkington Beginning his career at Grant Thornton Chartered Accounts as the System Administrator, James then had three years development experience for a niece software house. After this he moved into a pre-sales role as a product specialist for 6 years at a pi...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Reduce manual data entry of information and speed up document delivery

	Jason Kiely Jason is the Capability Head for ERP at Bluefin Solutions. Jason has over 15 years of experience in IT, and 10 years of experience in SAP, working for Druid, Diagonal, Morse and now Bluefin. Following a post graduate MSc course at Birmingham Univer...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Helping HR Organisations Implement Technology Better

	Jens Koerner Jens Koerner - B&D Consultant at BPJens is an SAP NetWeaver BI consultant and project manager with Inforte -a Business & Decision company . He is the technical lead manager of the team of consultants that implemented the reporting solution wh...more
27/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:40pm	An Accelerated approach to a strategic FICO Business Intelligence solution

	Jim Smith Jim joined SEVEN in May, 2007. Prior to that he was at Cadbury Schweppes where he held the positions of IT Audit Manager and before that a global lead role in SAP Security and Authorisations. Originally from the USA, Jim was educated at the College o...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Is GRC Just Risk Rebranded?

	Jo Carvell Jo has worked with payroll since 1993 and SAP processes for over 10 years as project team member, end user and support consultant. Jo currently manages the Accenture Human Capital Management Solutions Customer Support Desk, and with her team of SAP H...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Best Kept Secrets in SAP Payroll

	John Barnes John Barnes has worked on SAP education projects for over ten years. As a Training Manager he has been responsible for several multi-business/multi-national training programmes, most recently for Johnson & Johnson’s EAME rollout. Having personall...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Training - a Critical Factor for Successful Projects

Judith Webber Regional SAP HR Systems Coordinator, Halliburton Brown & Root Ltd Judith is responsible for all aspects of the continued use and enhancement of SAP HR within Europe, EurAsia and Africa, ensuring the delivery of benefits to the region. Planning a...more

	Kevin Cousins Kevin Cousins has worked at Anglian Water for 25 years, the last 7 years in the role of the IT Education Manager. Kevin is currently the Vice Chairman of the Training Special Interest Group and welcomes the opportunity for knowledge sharing around tr...more
27/11/2007 2:00pm - 2:45pm	Develop Post Implementation capability to maintain and enhance systems

	Kevin Handscombe Kevin has led the research and implementation of continuous auditing at KPMG LLP. His background is in general audit, IT audit and IT Advisory. He has Over 20 years experience with clients from a variety of industries, sizes and platforms. He is also...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Continuous auditing in ERP systems

	Martin Reddington Visiting Research Fellow, Roffey Park and University of Glasgow, CEO Martin Reddington Associates Since leaving Cable & Wireless, where he was Programme Director, HR Transformation, Martin blends academic research with consultancy. He has just su...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Helping HR Organisations Implement Technology Better

	Martin Riedel Global Head of the Upgrade Office & Senior Vice President - SAP AG Martin Riedel joined SAP in January 2006 as Partner in the Office of the CEO/internal consulting organization. In November 2006 he becomes head of the Global Upgrade Office (GUO)...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in Upgrades

	Maureen Gregory Maureen Gregory holds the position of UK and Ireland Payroll Product Manager within SAP and is also a qualified HCM Business Consultant. Maureen joined SAP in 1996 and spent five years as a Senior Payroll consultant working on several large complex...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in Payroll

	Mukesh Rai Mukesh Rai holds the position of Associate Manager at SAP Labs. He is responsible for the UK/ Ireland/ South Africa// India Payroll Localisation Development Teams at Bangalore. Mukesh joined SAP in 2000 and spent about four years as a developer wor...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in Payroll

	Natalie Chiang Natalie is a Principle Solutions Consultant at SAP. Natalie qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She then joined Deutsche Bank Mergers and Acquisitions in London, before moving on to execute transactions and government lo...more
27/11/2007 2:00pm - 2:45pm	Beyond Tools. Solutions for the Future of your Business

	Nichola Male AW Supplier Portal Business Project Manager Nichola joined Westland Helicopters Ltd (WHL) now AgustaWestland (AW) after graduating with BA (Hons) in Social Science. AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica\'s company, is a provider of total capability soluti...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Using a Vendor Portal to Drive an E-Orderbook

	Oleg Figlin Principal Solutions Architect, SAP UK Oleg has more than 9-years experience in software architecture, business solutions, software design and development. Broad knowledge of SAP NetWeaver, integration technologies and strong insight into SOA. In pa...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Business Value of Enterprise SOA

	Paul Phillips Paul is the British Gas Residential Test Manager at Centrica. He is an IT professional with 17+ years experience in the utilities sector holding both PRINCE2 & ITIL qualifications. In recent years, he worked as the non-functional test manager for...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Gaining Strategic Value from Testing

	Paul Viney Paul is the Managing Director of iQlink. He has over three years experience in mobilising SAP applications, ranging from SAP IM and WM bar-coded RF solutions, workflow solutions such as purchase and expense approvals to mobile applications such as mo...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	SAP on BlackBerry

	Pete Steer HR Payroll & Benefits Director Pete has been with Zurich for 35 years and after the early part of his career in the Sales Admin part of the Life business, he moved to HR where he has been involved with all aspects of managing Zurich’s Shared Serv...more
27/11/2007 11:40am - 12:25pm	Workflow Workshop incorporating integration with ESS/MSS

	Phil Nilson Employer Strategy Manager, HMRC. Phil works in the Business Customer Unit based in Newcastle. The team’s main role is providing support and guidance to a wide range of HMRC’s customers: employers, their representatives and the payroll software indu...more
27/11/2007 2:00pm - 2:45pm	HMRC update on topical issues affecting payroll

	Ramesh Varsani Ramesh Varsani is Finance Transformation Director at BizAps. He leads BizAps’ team of SAP Finance specialists in delivering best-practice financial processes to clients. He is a chartered management accountant and SAP Financials specialist with over ...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Best Kept Secrets of SAP Financials

	Richard Brown Richard Brown is Head of Business Intelligence for SAP UK & Ireland and is responsible for the SAP solution in the region. He has been with SAP for over 8 years, working with the SAP BI solutions both from a product introduction /management persp...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in Business Intelligence

	Richard Fisher Senior Business Consultant Richard is a Senior Business Consultant in SAP UK\'s NetWeaver sales team, presenting and demonstrating SAP\'s latest technologies, with emphasis on SAP NetWeaver Process Integration. Richard has been with SAP for over 7 ...more
26/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:45pm	What's New in Netweaver

	Richard Good Richard Good, Programme Manager, Capita Group Plc. Richard Good is the programme manager for Group Information Systems at Capita Group Plc, with responsibility for the group’s SAP Portal development and implementation and SAP business process improv...more
27/11/2007 2:00pm - 2:45pm	Enterprise Portal solutions for project systems

	Richard Hurst Richard Hurst has over 10 years of SAP experience. He joined IntelliCorp in 1999 and is responsible for implementing and training on IntelliCorp products in support of SAP lifecycle events. Previously Richard worked as a Business Analyst for Texaco’s...more
27/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:40pm	Lessons Learned from McCormick’s upgrade to ERP6

	Richard Pascoe Richard is the Head of Retail at Morse and has worked in Retail and IT for over 20 years. Prior to joining Morse, Richard was IT director at A&G UK limited responsible for a global multi channel retail solutions, providing both business advice ...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	ERP in 6 weeks

	Roman Schachtsiek Roman Schachtsiek works as a Consultant in Accenture’s Global Service Line „Human Performance“. He has multiple years of experience in the workforce transformation and change management area and accompanied the Siemens/datango SAP Rollout Project....more
27/11/2007 2:55pm - 3:40pm	Efficient SAP Rollout and Solving the Global Training Issue at Siemens

	Romano Kowalczyk ISC Outsourcing and Contracts Manager Romano has worked at Premier Foods for 9 years and has held various positions in the ISC division. One of his roles is on the SAP Fusion Programme, where he has responsibility for all hardware and related infra...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Capturing time in order to save money

	Simon Harbour Simon has been involved with SAP software since 1993. He has previously held a number of technical and managerial positions, most recently with a large UK utility organisation. For almost a decade, Simon worked for SAP UK, and in that time, developed...more
27/11/2007 10:25am - 11:10am	Opening the door to SAP Upgrades - Preparation, Execution & Beyond

	Stefan Grabarek Stefan has over nine years SAP HCM experience and has completed many full lifecycle projects in both the private and public sectors. Stefan is currently engaged on a SAP HCM implementation including UK and ROI payroll. Stefan is the local SAP HCM pay...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Best Kept Secrets in SAP Payroll

	Susie Davison Susie has been working with SEVEN since May, 2007. Prior to that she was Director of SAP Systems at Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management and oversaw the implementation, from cradle to grave, of ECC 5.0 across the business. Bizarrely educated ...more
26/11/2007 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Is GRC Just Risk Rebranded?

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