Thank you for your inter­est in the ASUG Min­neso­ta Chap­ter meet­ing on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 26 at Mar­riott Min­neapo­lis West.

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

Agen­da: 

8:00 — 9:00 a.m. — Attendee Break­fast (Done­gal Ballroom)

9:00 — 9:15 a.m. — ASUG Min­neso­ta Chap­ter Wel­come (Water­ford Ballroom) 

9:15 — 9:30 a.m. — Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ner (Water­ford Ball­room)
Pre­sent­ed by: Dinah Swain, Chief Devel­op­ment Offi­cer, Open Arms of Minnesota 

9:30 — 10:15 a.m. — Plat­inum Keynote Speak­er: Cus­tomer Pan­el on BTP (Water­ford Ball­room)
Pre­sent­ed by: Jonathan Bragg, BTP Evan­ge­list, Mind­set Con­sult­ing with guest pan­elists from Pat­ter­son Com­pa­nies and CHS

10:15 — 10:30 a.m. — Net­work­ing Break

10:30 — 11:15 a.m. — Break­out Ses­sions 

- Track 1 — Data Ana­lyt­ics — Water­ford I: Nav­i­gat­ing Macro­eco­nom­ic Trends and Opti­miz­ing Trea­sury
   Oper­a­tions in the Era of Dig­i­tal­iza­tion
   Pre­sent­ed by: John Min, Chief Econ­o­mist, MON­EX USA, Rob Jack­son, Prin­ci­pal Solu­tions Archi­tect, Ser­rala
- Track 2 — Automa­tion — Water­ford II: Gen­er­a­tional Per­for­mance & Inno­va­tion from Dell/​AMD/​RedHat — ​“I feel       the need, the need for speed…”
   Pre­sent­ed by: Vin­ny Lee, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Sales Exec­u­tive, Dell Tech­nolo­gies, Rick­ey King, Advi­so­ry Sys­tems Engi­neer, Dell Tech­nolo­gies, and Jim O’Don­nell, Senior SAP Spe­cial­ist Solu­tions Archi­tect, Red Hat
-Track 3 — Talent/​Training/​Process Man­age­ment — Water­ford III: One Skill, Two Skill, Upskill, New Skill!
  Pre­sent­ed by: Oliv­er Hid Adria, Direc­tor — Cus­tomer Evo­lu­tion, U.S Mid­west, SAP
- Track 4 — HANA/S/4HANA — Gal­way A: S/4HANA Cloud 2023 Release In a Nut­shell
   Pre­sent­ed by: Zach Ver­non, Region­al Exec­u­tive Advo­cate, S/4HANA Cen­ter Of Excel­lence, SAP

11:15 — 11:45 a.m. — Net­work­ing Break

11:45 — 12:15 p.m. — Break­out Sessions 

- Track 1 — Data Ana­lyt­ics — Water­ford I: Auto­mat­ic, Tool-Aid­ed Busi­ness Analy­sis of SAP Sys­tems — Easy and     Quick Sys­tem and Process Effi­cien­cy Wins
  Pre­sent­ed by: Ken Kiefer, VP Cus­tomer Suc­cess, and Dr. Heiko Hecht, Pres­i­dent, IBIS Amer­i­ca 
- Track 2 — Automa­tion — Water­ford II: Apply­ing the Prin­ci­ples of Hyper­automa­tion to dri­ve busi­ness suc­cess
   Pre­sent­ed by: Chris Clex­ton, Strate­gic Account Exec­u­tive and Scott Lewis Account Exec­u­tive, Pre­cise­ly 
- Track 3 — Talent/​Training/​Process Man­age­ment — Water­ford III: Future-Ready Your SAP Teams 2.0
   Pre­sent­ed by: Tom Fred­er­ick, Senior Direc­tor, Glob­al­Source IT
- Track 4 — HANA/S/4HANA — Gal­way A: Using SAP Data Archiv­ing to Pre­pare for Migra­tion to S/4HANA
   Pre­sent­ed by: Ann Bich­ler, Sr. Data Archiv­ing Con­sul­tant, PBS Soft­ware Americas

12:15 — 1:15 p.m. — Lunch (Done­gal Ballroom)

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

- Track 1 — Data Ana­lyt­ics — Water­ford I: How Automa­tion De-Risks Code Reme­di­a­tion
   Pre­sent­ed by: Caitlin Christo­pher, Account Exec­u­tive, smartShift 
- Track 2 — Automa­tion — Water­ford II: Build Process Automa­tion Use Case: Ven­dor Onboard­ing with SAP BTP
   Pre­sent­ed by: Ker­stin Deut­ner, SAP IT Archi­tect, CNT Man­age­ment Con­sult­ing
- Track 3 — Talent/​Training/​Process Man­age­ment — Water­ford III: SAP Enter­prise Data Integri­ty Test­ing,
   a new approach to ver­i­fy­ing SAP data integri­ty
   Pre­sent­ed by: Cur­tis O’Dell, Glob­al Busi­ness Man­ag­er, Tri­cen­tis
- Track 4 — HANA/S/4HANA — Gal­way A: Action­able Insights to Speed S/4HANA Mod­ern Migra­tion
   Pre­sent­ed by: Bri­an Albertel­li, Prin­ci­pal Solu­tion Engi­neer, Work­soft, Inc

Done­gal Ballroom

1:45 — 2:00 p.m. — Giveaways 

2:00 — 3:00 p.m. — SAP­py Hour


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