Speakers

Raise your profile and become a speaker at YOUR UK & Ireland SAP User Group Conference and help other SAP Users benefit from YOUR experience.

Share YOUR Knowledge
Share YOUR Experience
Tell YOUR story

As a customer speaker at the Conference, you will receive one complimentary delegate package including accommodation to the event. What’s more, your organisation will receive a preferential delegate rate of £300 as a thank you for allowing you to present.

Submit your Presentation Proposal Form form by the 30th March to benefit from this fantastic opportunity.

We are looking for sessions in:

HR
Payroll
BusinessObjects
Business Analytics
Financial Excellence (including EPM)
Risk Management
Training
SCM
ALM
Mobile
Hana
CRM

The UK & Ireland SAP User Group will be there to help you develop your presentation and will provide you with FREE Speaker Training. Please contact us on 01642 343411 or by email conference@sapusers.org to begin the process or download our Presentation Proposal Form.

As we confirm speakers for inclusion in our extensive programme, their details will be uploaded on this page, providing you with an opportunity to find out a little bit more about our speakers.

Keynote Speakers

Ray Wang

Organisation Name: Constellation Research

Ray Wang of Constellation Research, leading industry analyst, is to return as a keynote speaker to the UK & Ireland SAP User Group Conference in November. A highly sought after thought leader focused on enterprise strategy and disruptive technologies, Ray Wang has advised organisations and spoken to audiences around the world. His dynamic presentation style brings life and energy to technology and business topics such as business process transformation, next generation software, SaaS/Cloud solutions, social CRM, analytics, and ERP. He is the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View.”

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Ray Wang to keynote 2012 User Group Conference

Posted by spark on March 23, 2012 in Tags: Constellation Research, Ray Wang, SAP User Group Conference, UKiSUG12

We are pleased to announce that Ray Wang from Constellation Research will again be a keynote speaker at this year’s User Group Conference. Ray has been one of our most popular speakers over the years, so we are delighted that he will be returning .

R “Ray” Wang is the Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research, Inc. and the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View”. He previously was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group. With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise.

Stay tuned to find our more about other confirmed speakers for this year’s event.

Collaborating on IT best practice

Posted by spark on March 13, 2012 in Tags: Computer Weekly, SAP, SAP User Group

User Group chairman Alan Bowling discusses on Computer Weekly how IT processes can be better standardised across industry sectors and the benefits of cross-industry collaboration.

To read the full article click here.

SAP.info speak to the UK&I User Group

Posted by spark on March 5, 2012 in Tags: BOUG, Business Objects, SAP, SAP User Group, SAP.info

Recently SAP.info spoke with Alan Bowling and Craig Dale from the UK & Ireland SAP User Group regarding the role of the User Group and its plans for 2012, following the recent merger with the Business Objects User Group UK (BOUG UK).

To read the article in full, please click here

The Times highlights User Conference’s use of the latest delegate tech

Posted by spark on March 1, 2012 in Tags: LinkedIN, RFID, SAP User Group Conference, The Times

Last year’s User Conference saw us use RFID technology for the first time to connect delegates via LinkedIn. The success of the technology see us getting a mention in a special supplement on Business Events in today’s edition of The Times.

To read more click here

In memory computing – it’s now practical and it’s here to stay

Posted by ukisug on February 13, 2012

It’s refreshing to see that SAP is backing the idea of in-memory computing (http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=14907). It’s a simple fact that the amount of data never gets smaller: as a result, as organisations deal with more and more of it, so we all need more and faster ways to actually process and use that data.

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