Events

ASUG Dallas-Fort Worth & Oklahoma Chapter Meeting—November 2023

Regional Chapter Events
Nov 10, 2023 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star located at 11 Cowboys Way Frisco, TX 75034 located at 11 Cowboys Way, Frisco, Texas 75034
Included with membership

Thank you for your inter­est in the ASUG Dal­las-Fort Worth & Okla­homa Chap­ter meet­ing on Fri­day, Novem­ber 10 at the Omni Frisco Hotel in Frisco, TX! Please note that there will be a net­work­ing event from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. at the SAP office locat­ed at 7500 Win­drose Ave Ste 250, Plano, TX 75024 on Thurs­day, Novem­ber 9.

We’re thrilled to announce that this chap­ter meet­ing will be an ASUG Cam­pus Con­nect event! Learn more about ASUG Cam­pus Con­nect here!

If you have any ques­tions, please email Chap­ter Man­ag­er Gwen­dolyn Glas­ner.


Agen­da: 

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. — Reg­is­tra­tion and Breakfast 

8:30 – 8:45 a.m. — ASUG Chap­ter Wel­come and ASUG Updates

8:45 – 9:05 a.m. — ASUG Cam­pus Con­nect Overview 
Pre­sent­ed by:
Car­olyn Dolezal, Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer, ASUG

9:05 – 9:20 a.m. — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las SAP Overview
Pre­sent­ed by:
 Sri Krov­vi­di, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dallas

9:20 – 10:05 a.m. — Prime­Source Build­ing Prod­ucts Process Automa­tion and Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Jour­ney
Pre­sent­ed by: Steven Branch, Pres­i­dent, Con­fig­urable Management

10:05 – 10:15 a.m. — Net­work­ing Break

10:15 – 11:00 a.m. — Break­out Sessions 

Track 1 — Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion — Star Ball­room D1: Marathon Petro­le­um Cor­po­ra­tion’s S/4 Imple­men­ta­tion Jour­ney
Pre­sent­ed by:
Robert Phe­lan, IT Man­ag­er — SAP Devel­op­ment, Marathon

Track 2 — Automation/​Cloud Strat­e­gy — Star Ball­room D2: Build­ing & Secur­ing a S/4HANA Cloud Envi­ron­ment
Pre­sent­ed by:
 Brett Mur­phy, Exec­u­tive Archi­tect, Clear Technologies

Track 3 — Change Man­age­ment (AM) / SAP Enter­prise Sup­port (PM) — Star Ball­room C: How Flow­ers Foods main­tained data integri­ty and con­ti­nu­ity dur­ing SAP S/4HANA migra­tion
Pre­sent­ed by:
Sun­dar Iyer, Sr. Direc­tor – QA and Release, Flow­ers Foods, Inc. and Cur­tis O’Dell, Tri­cen­tis

ASUG Cam­pus Con­nect — Star Ball­room D3
Host­ed by: Jeff Word 

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. — Net­work­ing Break 

11:15 – 11:45 a.m. — Break­out Sessions

Track 1 — Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion — Star Ball­room D1: Beat the Zugswang – How to build in BTP & SAC in your con­ver­sion strat­e­gy
Pre­sent­ed by:
Rajeev Dev, Dig­i­tal ERP Head, Nihilent

Track 2 — Automation/​Cloud Strat­e­gy — Star Ball­room D2: How Automa­tion De-Risks Code Reme­di­a­tion
Pre­sent­ed by:
Mar­ques Green, Account Exec­u­tive, smartShift

Track 3 — Change Man­age­ment (AM) / SAP Enter­prise Sup­port (PM) — Star Ball­room C: Auto­mat­ed SAP DevOps Orches­tra­tion
Pre­sent­ed by:
 Yas Ward, Sales, Rev-Trac

11:45 – 1:00 p.m. — Lunch 

12:30 – 12:50 p.m. — Net­work­ing Activity 

1:00 – 1:30 p.m. — Break­out Sessions 

- Track 1 — Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion — Star Ball­room D1Deliv­er­ing Rel­e­vant and Secure SAP Data for Test­ing and Train­ing
Pre­sent­ed by: 
Vin­cent Ham­mond, SAP Data Archi­tect, Qlik

- Track 2 — Automation/​Cloud Strat­e­gy — Star Ball­room D2: Bring­ing Cloud Automa­tion to SAP at a Top Inte­grat­ed Ener­gy Com­pa­ny
Pre­sent­ed by:
Babu Ayyalu, SAP on Cloud Solu­tions Archi­tect, Lemon­grass, and Alex Williams, Account Direc­tor, Lemongrass

1:30 – 1:45 p.m. — Net­work­ing Break

1:45 – 2:15 p.m. — Break­out Sessions 

Track 2 — Automation/​Cloud Strat­e­gy — Star Ball­room D2: SAP Pro­cure­ment as a Cat­a­lyst to Build a Com­pa­ny-wide Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Prac­tice
Pre­sent­ed by:
Alan Sal­ga­do, Solu­tion Archi­tect, CNT Consulting

Track 3 — Change Man­age­ment (AM) / SAP Enter­prise Sup­port (PM) — Star Ball­room C: To S/4HANA or not to S/4HANA? ….. that is the ques­tion.
Pre­sent­ed by: VerNeil Mesech­er, Sr. Direc­tor – Cus­tomer Engage­ment Events Liai­son, North Amer­i­ca, SAP

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. — Net­work­ing Break

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. — Break­out Sessions 

Track 2 — Automation/​Cloud Strat­e­gy — Star Ball­room D2: Mas­ter­ing SAP Data Oper­a­tions: Seam­less Migra­tion and Inte­gra­tion with Data­Lark
Pre­sent­ed by:
James Keefe, Direc­tor of Sales, LeverX

Track 3 — Change Man­age­ment (AM) / SAP Enter­prise Sup­port (PM) — Star Ball­room C: One Skill, Two Skill, Upskill, New Skill!
Pre­sent­ed by: VerNeil Mesech­er, Sr. Direc­tor – Cus­tomer Engage­ment Events Liai­son, North Amer­i­ca, SAP

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. — Net­work­ing Break

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. — Clos­ing Com­ments and Give­aways — Star Ball­room C 

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. — Hap­py Hour — Star Foy­er

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Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star located at 11 Cowboys Way Frisco, TX 75034

11 Cowboys Way
Frisco, Texas 75034
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