Women in SAP Event

Women in SAP Event

THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT MICROSOFT EXPERIENCE CENTRE, Oxford Circus, London

The Women in SAP stream has already hosted a series of insightful webinars and a popular women-only speaker training event this year, and we are delighted to confirm our first in-person full day event will take place this summer.

The day will be hosted at an exciting venue in Central London and will provide an opportunity to meet with like minded people from across the whole SAP community, to hear and talk about some of the challenges and opportunities facing our network. These are some of the sessions planned for the day:

  • Addressing Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process
  • Personal stories from female leaders
  • Lessons from the Microsoft Employee Resource Group
  • The value of Allyship - Advocating for Women

Tracey McLaren from Greggs will present My SAP Journey so far…

Tracey will cover her IT/SAP journey and her challenges she’s faced and overcome. She will also share why the Greggs Women’s Development Program was started and the amazing success stories because of the program. Looking at the future of S/4HANA within Greggs, Tracey will take you through the Discovery Phase and what decisions they are making especially regarding COE Structure and Training.

There will also be a networking reception following the event to enable us to share more experiences and talk about the personal journeys we are on.

The event is open to attendees from the customer and partner networks. It is not exclusively open to women only; we welcome allies to join our event. Numbers are however limited so make sure you don’t miss out - Get the date in your diary now!

Tracey Pilon from Microsoft will present Microsoft Employee Resource Group

  • Women at Microsoft ERG – Our Vision, Mission, and Values
  • How we structure ourselves for success – Workstreams – Tech, EIC, Intersectionality, Partner Outreach
  • Our journey – What we have learned through the good and bad times
  • Community, Partners, and Stakeholder Collaboration
  • What’s next and tough conversations

Lynne Mills from Microsoft will present My Career Journey Insights

Join Lynne Mills, Infrastructure Director, Microsoft Customer Success Unit, for a fireside chat to gain insights into her career journey. Lynne will be joined by Manavi Banerjee and Priscilla Lee, SAP Cloud Solution Architects within the Microsoft Customer Success Unit, to chat about their challenges and opportunities and the decisions they have made to help them forge successful careers.

Take a look at our outline agenda, with full details to follow.