9.30am – 3pm1 October 2025+ Add to calendar
One Angel Square, Manchester
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, IT departments face mounting pressure to keep pace with ever-changing business demands. Traditional integration methods are increasingly proving inadequate in complex, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) offers a transformative approach that enhances flexibility and agility, enabling real-time supply chains, immediate business insights and personalised customer experiences.
During this session, you'll explore the fundamental principles of becoming event-driven and discover how this approach transforms operations with real-time responsiveness, together with industry expert Christian Holtfurth from Solace. Learn how EDA provides a scalable, future-ready platform to drive efficiency, improve decision-making and enhance customer engagement whilst addressing the critical challenge of IT system agility and real-time information access that organisations across the UK are grappling with today.
Ian Daniel from SAP will also explain how he thinks the three new SAP products help Enterprise Architects. He will cover SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP’s Integrated Toolchain for Business Transformation Management and WalkMe and show how they empower Enterprise Architects to simplify complexity and accelerate business transformation.
The enterprise architects of today's SAP world are increasingly being challenged with the need for platform modernisation in response to unlocking the latest capabilities and innovations to deliver business advantage. Callum Bromley, SAP Solution Architect from BAE Systems, will introduce the significance of platforms such as SAP BTP as a prominent fixture in the SAP estate of tomorrow and how you, as an EA, can begin to understand the route towards a future vision of your enterprise.
Who Should Attend
This session is specifically designed for Enterprise Architects working with SAP landscapes, Integration Architects managing complex system environments, SAP Technical Leaders responsible for system strategy, IT Directors overseeing digital transformation initiatives and Solution Architects dealing with multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Key Takeaways
Link Strategy Directly to Execution - See how SAP's integrated toolchain provides a unified view of your transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment and reducing architectural complexity
Discovering How Event-Driven Architecture Directly Enables Critical Business Outcomes
Unify Your Data with SAP Business Data Cloud - Learn how to provide seamless, governed access to all business data, enabling faster, data-driven decisions without complex integration projects
Mastering the Art of Keeping Your SAP Core Clean Whilst Building Reactive Extensions
Costa has more than 20 years of SAP experience delivering global implementations, strategic projects, upgrades, infrastructure installations, licensing and cloud migrations. Costa's senior management portfolio includes CoE and Group Infrastructure management positions in global & FTSE organisations such as Pentland, RS Components and Dunelm. His focus is on service delivery excellence, innovation, Agile practices, and Kanban adoption. His aim is to provide long-term strategic direction and leadership for the development, enhancement, and implementation of systems, thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo to help maximise SAP capabilities and drive organisations forward. Costa has supported the SAP User Group as a board director and in various special interest groups for over 10 years, always bringing his skills and enthusiasm to the table.
Solution Architecture Practice Manager, Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op)
Fiona Warburg
Solution Architecture Practice Manager, Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op)
Fiona has over 17 years' of experience working with SAP systems and nearly 21 years in IT. Fiona has worked for EDF, Wales & West Utilities, Hewlett Packard and B&Q on their SAP systems in both technical and managerial roles. She has worked on SAP projects and BAU support.
Callum has been working in the SAP space since 2013 in both end-user and consulting capacities. He is a certified SAP consultant, who specialises in manufacturing and supply chain technology disciplines. Currently, Callum works within the IM&T enterprise architecture practice at BAE Systems, acting as the SAP solutions SME.
Callum has been working in the SAP space since 2013 in both end-user and consulting capacities. He is a certified SAP consultant who specialises in manufacturing and supply chain technology disciplines. Currently, Callum works within the IM&T enterprise architecture practice at BAE Systems, acting as the SAP solutions SME. He's also a Co-Chair of the UKISUG Enterprise Architecture Community.
Sessions
Evolving the SAP Technology Landscape for the Future
Wednesday @ 10:15 AM
An SAP Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of SAP Technical and Architecture leadership experience, helping customers get the most from their SAP investment. Currently working at SAP in the Customer Advisory Enterprise Architecture team and previously 10 years as a Solution and Enterprise Architect at Royal Mail.
Director of EDA Solutions (SAP), Europe, Solace Corporation
Christian Holtfurth is an experienced Solution Architect and SAP co-development partner with 20+ years in IT and financial services. He specialises in event-driven integration (EDA) across sectors like manufacturing and retail, focusing on event-enabling SAP systems for real-time insights and decision-making.