Conference Activities WEDNEsday, NOVEMBER 18

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Maximizing Your Impact

In an environment where change is constant and the pace of change accelerates, the demands on IT to deliver more and enable greater flexibility only continue to increase. To maximize impact in this dynamic environment, the challenge to consider is how to manage the extreme speed of technical change at the outer edges, while maintaining stability and consistency at the core.

In this keynote address, SAP Corporate Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Vishal Sikka will introduce the notion of "timeless software" - software that is natively designed to endure and even benefit from change. He will outline how to balance the desire for easier consumption, new ways of working, and easier access to business-critical functionalities. Through tangible product demos and customer examples, Sikka will also highlight how SAP is bringing products from concept to market that address customer needs for quick install and fast time to value. In addition, while these products are fully integrated, they can also be consumed and assembled in pieces to meet the needs of today's fast-paced environment.

Keynote Speaker: Vishal Sikka — Corporate Officer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAP Dr. Vishal Sikka is the Corporate Officer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAP, leading the company's technology and innovation strategy across its product portfolio. Sikka is responsible for ensuring a clear and harmonized road map for SAP products to deliver ongoing innovation and long-term value to customers worldwide. Furthermore, Sikka leads the company's forward-thinking efforts around emerging technologies using design thinking to build SAP next generation products. He is responsible for SAP's global research efforts and is chartered with SAP's architecture governance and standards. Prior to his role as Corporate Officer and CTO, Sikka was the senior vice president of architecture and chief software architect at SAP, responsible for the road map and the direction for the architecture of SAP's products and infrastructure. Before that, he was head of the advanced technology group responsible for strategic innovative projects. Before joining SAP, Sikka was area vice president for platform technologies at Peregrine Systems (Remedy), responsible for application development and integration technologies and architecture. He joined Peregrine following the acquisition of Bodha, Inc., where he was founder and chairman/CEO. Bodha developed technology for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and for semantic information integration. Vishal holds a doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University in California, and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, at Xerox Labs in Palo Alto, and at two startup companies.