SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence is an ener­giz­ing event in the enter­prise tech­nol­o­gy world. The speak­ers are vision­ary. The con­ver­sa­tions are cat­alyt­ic. And if you’ve attend­ed before, you already know that the hard­est part isn’t find­ing some­thing valu­able; it’s inte­grat­ing all the information.

That’s exact­ly where the ASUG Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nars come in. They offer ear­ly access to a packed sched­ule. It’s a delib­er­ate, focused day designed to offer a slow-paced deep dive that allows par­tic­i­pants to build a foun­da­tion for the rest of the event. It’s a blue­print to help you build the plans that SAP Sap­phire will ush­er in.

The con­fer­ence and pre-con­fer­ence expe­ri­ences are a well-posi­tioned pair. Where SAP Sap­phire goes wide, cov­er­ing the full breadth of SAP’s inno­va­tion ecosys­tem, ASUG Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nars go deep on spe­cif­ic chal­lenges. They are also built around real deci­sions, with every ses­sion struc­tured around a chal­lenge SAP cus­tomers are active­ly nav­i­gat­ing right now: AI strat­e­gy, ERP migra­tion, sup­ply chain opti­miza­tion, finance trans­for­ma­tion, and more. 

The infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed was at the cor­rect lev­el for me to under­stand SAP’s strat­e­gy and lev­el-set my knowl­edge in prepa­ra­tion for the two days of the conference.

This helped val­i­date the direc­tion my com­pa­ny is head­ing while also pro­vid­ing addi­tion­al con­tent for our S/4 pro­pos­al, change man­age­ment case, and val­ue story.

These com­ments from the 2025 ASUG Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nars rep­re­sent what they are for: giv­ing you the con­text, con­fi­dence, and clar­i­ty to make every ses­sion at Sap­phire even more valuable.

Pre-Con Has Dif­fer­ent Mean­ing for Dif­fer­ent Participants

The chal­lenge one per­son brings into the room isn’t the same as the chal­lenge the per­son sit­ting next to them brings. Maybe you’re mid-migra­tion and need val­i­da­tion. Maybe you’re build­ing the busi­ness case for AI and need to hear from peo­ple who’ve already done it. Maybe you just need clar­i­ty before the main event sets in.

ASUG Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nars are orga­nized around three prac­ti­tion­er com­mu­ni­ties, each focused on a dif­fer­ent dimen­sion of enter­prise transformation:

• Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture Com­mu­ni­ty: Con­nects busi­ness vision to tech­ni­cal archi­tec­ture, focus­ing on align­ing strat­e­gy with scal­able, long-term design
• Busi­ness Trans­for­ma­tion Man­age­ment Com­mu­ni­ty: Focus­es on peo­ple, process, and change — ensur­ing trans­for­ma­tion is adopt­ed, exe­cut­ed, and sustained
• SAP BTP and Tech­nol­o­gy Com­mu­ni­ty: Designed for prac­ti­tion­ers build­ing and inte­grat­ing real SAP solu­tions, turn­ing ideas into sys­tems and sys­tems into impact

How to Find Your Ide­al Pre-Con­fer­ence Seminar:

If You’re Lead­ing Orga­ni­za­tion­al Transformation

Trans­for­ma­tion doesn’t suc­ceed on tech­nol­o­gy alone. Behind every suc­cess­ful SAP jour­ney is some­one or a team respon­si­ble for mak­ing sure the archi­tec­ture, the strat­e­gy, and the peo­ple are all mov­ing in the same direc­tion. Enter­prise archi­tects are the ones trans­lat­ing busi­ness vision into tech­ni­cal real­i­ty, align­ing invest­ments to out­comes, and ensur­ing that what gets built today doesn’t become tomorrow’s com­plex­i­ty. If that’s the work you’re doing, we at ASUG rec­om­mend that you attend the fol­low­ing sem­i­nars and sessions.

Mon­day:

Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture and Busi­ness Trans­for­ma­tion Man­age­ment: A Deep Dive

Addi­tion­al ses­sion dur­ing SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence main days includes:

• Wednes­day:
  • ASUG Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion: Enter­prise archi­tec­ture and trans­for­ma­tion (BTM1865)

If You’re Look­ing to Inte­grate and Extend SAP and Non-SAP Systems

SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form (BTP) is a cloud-based plat­form that inte­grates, auto­mates, and extends SAP and third-par­ty appli­ca­tions. It acts as the con­nec­tive tis­sue for enter­pris­es, enabling appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment, data ana­lyt­ics, AI inte­gra­tion, and process automa­tion to mod­ern­ize busi­ness oper­a­tions with­out chang­ing the core sys­tem. If you’re extend­ing SAP solu­tions, inte­grat­ing sys­tems, or explor­ing what AI and automa­tion look like in prac­tice on BTP, this sem­i­nar gives you a focused space to move past the con­cepts and into the decisions. 

Mon­day:

BTP101: Com­pre­hen­sive Overview of SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form — Foun­da­tions, Devel­op­ment, Inte­gra­tion, and Gov­er­nance 

Build­ing Mod­ern Appli­ca­tions on SAP BTP: From Clean Core to Cloud-Native Solu­tions – Hands-On Workshop

Mod­ern Data Strat­e­gy to Imple­men­ta­tion: From Plan­ning to Hands-On Exe­cu­tion with SAP Busi­ness Data Cloud

Addi­tion­al ses­sions dur­ing SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence main days include:

• Wednes­day:
  • ASUG Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion: AI strat­e­gy for SAP Busi­ness Data Cloud (BDC1866)
  • ASUG Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion: Appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment on SAP BTP (BTP1863)

If You’re Build­ing Your AI Strategy

AI is every­where at SAP Sap­phire. But before you can engage with it mean­ing­ful­ly, you need a frame­work — some­thing that moves you from curios­i­ty to clarity.

These ses­sions are designed for tech­nol­o­gy and busi­ness lead­ers who need to make con­crete deci­sions about AI adop­tion. You’ll leave with a work­ing under­stand­ing of SAP’s AI strat­e­gy and a clear­er sense of what your organization’s next steps are towards inte­grat­ing AI into your ERP land­scape — with­out get­ting lost in the noise.

Mon­day: 

Mas­ter­ing SAP AI on BTP: From Strat­e­gy to Pro-Code Imple­men­ta­tion 

Unlock­ing Busi­ness Val­ue with AI: Strat­e­gy, Secu­ri­ty, and the Road Ahead 

Max­i­mize Val­ue and Con­trol Costs Across Your SAP Cloud and AI

Addi­tion­al ses­sions dur­ing SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence main days include:

• Tues­day:
  • Design­ing an AI-ready SAP land­scape: API mod­ern­iza­tion and SAP BTP (FOU2372)
  • Acti­vat­ing agen­tic AI: The 2026 guide for proven busi­ness ROI (FOU1234)
  • Ace AI risk and scale to enter­prise with SAP’s uni­fied plat­form and toolset (FOU1829)
• Wednes­day:
  • When AI becomes the inter­face to the enter­prise (FOU2337)
  • Komatsu’s inno­va­tion adop­tion using SAP Busi­ness AI and clean core (FOU2470) 

If You’re in the Mid­dle of an ECC to SAP S/4HANA Migration

Whether you’re pre-go-live, post-go-live, or some­where in between, the ECC to S/4HANA jour­ney is rarely a straight line. But our Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nar can help you val­i­date your direc­tion, bench­mark your approach, and bring sharp­er insights back to your stakeholders.

Hear­ing from orga­ni­za­tions that have been where you are and suc­cess­ful­ly nav­i­gat­ed it is one of the most valu­able things you can do before attend­ing the SAP Sap­phire ERP sessions.

Mon­day: 

Jump­start Your Jour­ney to Cloud ERP 

Addi­tion­al ses­sions dur­ing SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence main days include:

• Tues­day:
  • A trans­for­ma­tion play­book: Cargill’s approach to SAP S/4HANA (ERP1629)
  • SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA: What’s new, why change, and why now? (ERP1622)
  • ASUG Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion: Cloud ERP and SAP S/4HANA (ERP1864)
  • Gov­ern­men­tal mul­ti­stage SAP soft­ware trans­for­ma­tion with SFWMD (ERP1268)
• Wednes­day:
  • West­ern Sugar’s suc­cess with SAP Cloud ERP (ERP2238)
  • Sem­pra Infra­struc­ture: Trans­form­ing oper­a­tions through RISE with SAP (ERP2245)

If Your Focus Is on Ser­vices and Sup­port, Includ­ing SAP Cloud ALM

Sup­port is one of the fastest-mov­ing areas in the SAP ecosys­tem right now, with new AI capa­bil­i­ties, tools, and licens­ing mod­els. These ses­sions bring you up to speed before the main event so you can engage with new announce­ments from an informed per­spec­tive, includ­ing prac­ti­cal guid­ance on SAP Cloud ALM and how it fits into a more con­nect­ed, intel­li­gent sup­port strategy.

Mon­day: 

Unlock­ing Trans­for­ma­tion­al Val­ue: A Prac­ti­cal Intro­duc­tion to the New SAP Ser­vices and Sup­port 

Addi­tion­al ses­sions dur­ing SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence main days include:

• Tues­day:
  • Knowl­edge graphs in action: Unlock insights with gen­er­a­tive AI (SER1297)
  • Col­lab­o­ra­tive agen­tic work­flows: Boost­ing sup­port with the sup­port stu­dio (SER1298)
  • Ask me any­thing with SAP and ASUG: New sup­port ser­vices (SER1516)
  • Accel­er­at­ing busi­ness process­es with agen­tic AI in cus­tomer sup­port (SER1296)
• Wednes­day:
  • How Intel Cor­po­ra­tion uses next-gen­er­a­tion license man­age­ment (SER1518)
  • Next-gen SAP Ari­ba solu­tions: Guid­ed onboard­ing for pro­cure­ment suc­cess (SER1295) 

The Real Advan­tage: Arriv­ing Already Aligned

ASUG Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nars are an oppor­tu­ni­ty to go in depth on your busi­ness chal­lenge through longer, more focused ses­sions where you’re engag­ing direct­ly with SAP experts and peers who are work­ing through sim­i­lar chal­lenges. You can ask spe­cif­ic ques­tions, pres­sure-test your approach, and get imme­di­ate, informed per­spec­tives on the issues you’re active­ly try­ing to solve.

What­ev­er your busi­ness chal­lenge, there is like­ly an ASUG Pre-Con­fer­ence Sem­i­nar designed to meet you where you are. Join us and take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to start your week with clar­i­ty, direc­tion, and the right con­ver­sa­tions already underway.