Agenda

Day 1

Wednesday, March 5

Time Session-Topic Speaker Room Venue
  Keynote Session
08:00 - 08:30 Registration & Light Breakfast
08:30 - 08:45 MC Opening Bea Gonzales Moon/Lunar/Galaxy
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome Address Tak Kusano
09:00 - 09:20 2025 HCM Partner Ecosystem Strategy Gareth Bowen & James Finlay
09:20 - 09:40 2025 APAC Outlook Tim Bryant
09:40 - 10:00 Platinum Sponsor Rolling Arrays Technologies Hosted by Marvin Rougier
EPI-USE Labs - Martin Ullmann
10:00 - 10:10 Group Photo David Tan
10:10 - 10:40 Break
  Keynote Session
10:10 - 11:40 How we Win: The Strategy Connection (Go-to-Market & Product Strategy) Nicolle Gurule Sternberger & Josh Gosliner Moon/Lunar/Galaxy
11:40 - 12:10 Voice of Customer featuring Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) and Deloitte Hosted by Pankaj Rusia
Customer - Pitichai Dejprasertsri (Wann), CPF
Partner - Gobind Singh, Deloitte
12:10 - 12:30 Platinum Sponsor EPI-USE Labs Hosted by Marvin Rougier
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Sales & Presales:
  • SAP Business Suite - Best Practice & Demo
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Exploring Business Value of Transitioning to a Skills-Based Organization
  • Nicolle Gurule Sternberger & Bea Gonzales
  • Minal Shah
  • Sean Collins
Moon/Lunar
Marketing:
  • SAP HCM Marketing Growth Priorities and Partners
  • SAP in Digital : Trends and Insights
  • Partner Led Demand Generation (PLDG) Made Easy: A Workshop
  • Marketing with SAP : Leveraging SAP HCM Events
  • Hannah Delany
  • Praveen Rao
  • Praveen Rao
  • Praveen Rao & Hannah Delany
Wind
Customer Success & Delivery:
  • SAP & Partners - Better Together!
  • CVJ Delivery Success
  • Succeeding with HCM and Business Suite
  • Manish Raj
  • Karen Winfield
  • Naomi Benjamin
Galaxy
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Sales & Presales:
  • The Value of AI for HR
  • Prfs Success for Indirect
  • How to Deliver Winning Solutions Demos
  • Sujay Bhat
  • Marc Jones
  • Leong Yin Wah
Moon/Lunar
Marketing:
  • Build your campaign: a DIY session : Workshop
  • Wrap up and Q&A
  • Praveen Rao
  • Praveen Rao & Hannah Delany
Wind
Customer Success & Delivery:
  • Unlock the power of HCM Accelerators to Drive Growth
  • Driving Customer Success
  • Adopting AI Innovations
  • Karen Winfield
  • Siran Barzorak
  • Ronald Lee
Galaxy
  Networking Dinner
17:30 - 18:30 Transport (bus) to Dinner from Hotel (Avani+) Tawadang German Brewery
62/61 Rama III Rd,
Chong Nonsi, Yan Nawa,
Bangkok 10120, Thailand
18:30 - 18:45 Welcome Message Welcome by Tim Bryant
18:45 - 22:00 Dinner
22:00 - 22:30 Transport (bus) to Hotel (Avani+)
Day 2

Thursday, March 6

Time Session-Topic Speaker Room Venue
08:00 - 08:30 Light Breakfast
08:30 - 10:30 Winning with a unified HR foundation:
The key to AI innovation and business growth
  • Money Matters: Driving Success with SAP's Payroll Solutions
  • Time Matters: Driving Success with SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking
  • Realize the Value of an AI-enabled Core with Time Tracking & Payroll
  • Employee Central Payroll is the heart of the SAP Business Suite
  • Nicole Petschel
  • Nicole Petschel & Pachara Padetpai
  • Nicole Petschel
  • Nicole Petschel
Lunar
Learning & Talent:
  • Overview of SAP SuccessFactors' Skills strategy in the areas of Learning & Talent
  • How to successfully position and implement SAP Skill's strategy and Open Skill Ecosystem across our Learning and Talent modules by TalenTeam
  • Learning & Talent Business Opportunity & Sales Motion best practices
  • Daniel Torrens
  • Jon Foster & TalenTeam
  • Daniel Torrens
Air 2-3
Win HCM with the Power of SAP Business Suite:
The transformative impact of SAP Business Suite and SAP's AI-First Strategy, with a special focus on the GROW & RISE journey and its comprehensive Human Capital Management (HCM) offering.
  • HCM in the SAP Business Suite
  • GROW with SAP Journey for Net New
  • RISE with SAP Journey for Install Base
  • Route to Success for HCM with SAP Business Suite
  • Nicolle Gurule Sternberger
  • Frank Freitag
  • Yugesh Jerath & Naomi Benjamin
  • Yugesh Jerath
Moon
SAP BTP and Extensibility:
This track will provide partners with concrete recommendations on where to invest resources in support of SAP SuccessFactors and our customers, specifically for the consumption of BTP for HR and in alignment with our growth bets of AI, skills, analytics, and integration. The sessions will include both strategic guidance suitable for all partners and technical information oriented towards partners that wish to build content and/or extensions.
  • SAP BTP Strategy and Application for HCM in 2025
  • The Partner Build Process for Extending HCM Solutions
  • Business Data Cloud - What Partners Need to Know
  • Mick Collins
  • Anoop Garg
  • Mick Collins
Galaxy
10:30 - 11:15 Break
  Keynote Session Moon/Lunar/Galaxy
11:15 - 11:30 Day 2 Open / Recap Gareth Bowen
11:30 - 12:00 Voice of Customer featuring Kasikorn Bank and PWC Hosted by Pankaj Rusia
Customer - Sunicha Sangkavichitr & Natchata Pashaiyu, KBank
Partner - Jirapol Tangtatswas, PWC
12:00 - 13:00 Businesss Transformation Management: Go To Market
  • Managing Business Transformations with SAP Signavio and LeanIX
  • The Digital Adoption Imperative with WalkMe
  • Thi Nguyen
  • Raj Sundarason
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
  Keynote Session Moon/Lunar/Galaxy
14:30 - 16:00 Embracing Challenge with a Mindset of Resilience and Agility Guest Speaker: Rob Lilwall
16:00 - 16:30 Strengthening ties between Product Development and our Partner Ecosystem Peter Solowy
16:30 - 17:00 Closing David Tan
17:00 - 18:00 Networking
 

End of HCM Partner Summit 2025