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SAUG Summit 2008 - Agenda

Day 1 (29 Jul 2008)
9:00 AMOpening Summit Opening
Ally Thorne, Business Application Manager, Dimension Data
Tim Ebbeck, President and Managing Director, SAP Australia New Zealand
10:00 AMKey note 1 The Disappearance of Organisational Boundaries
Denise Ganly, Research Director, Gartner
11:00 AM  Morning Tea
11:30 AMKey note 2 The Australia Post Journey to an Integrated Enterprise
Wayne Saunders, CIO Office, Information Technology, Australia Post
12:30 PM  Lunch
1:00 PMDemonstrations Solution Demonstrations
Adrian Noblett, Senior System Engineer, F5 Networks
Belinda Wooden, Symphony Solutions, Senior Analyst
Lindsay Brown, Business Development Manager, Adobe Systems
2:00 PMStrategy Benchmarking & KPIs
Greg Harbor, Director of Value Engineering, Industry Solution, SAP Australia
2:00 PMOperations From MDMP to Unicode - A multilingual system upgrade in a global organisation
Alan People, Sales & Distribution Applications Team Lead, Roche Products Pty Ltd
2:00 PMSolutions Exciting new developments in the General Ledger
David Ward, Managing Principal - Financials, SAP Australia Pty Ltd
Peter Brady, Financial Systems Manager , Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd
2:00 PMInfrastructure Virtualisation - It's Reality
Gary Whitelaw, Architecture Consultant, CITEC
Meng Ngai, Chief Technology Officer, Attorney-General's Department
3:00 PM  Afternoon Tea
3:30 PMKey note 3 The Challenges of rolling out SAP Globally
David Jacques, Director-IT Services, Dev. and Emerging Markets, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
4:45 PMEvening event Gala Cocktail Party - Le Cirque du Monde
Day 2 (30 Jul 2008)
9:00 AMKey note 4 Business Network Transformation
Ian Kimbell , VP Business Process Validation, SAP AG
Stefan Kneis, Global head of the SAP Customer Community Program , SAP AG
10:00 AMStrategy Governance Risk & Compliance
Geoff Dancer, Manager Security Team, CorpTech
Jeff Reeves, Director, Protiviti
10:00 AMOperations Do I need to use Solution Manager for my next upgrade? Why?
Natalie Kleinert, SAP Solution Architect, Powercor Australia Ltd
Patrick McIntyre, Senior Support Consultant, SAP Australia New Zealand
10:00 AMSolutions SAP CRM 2007: Here and Now!
Scott Hirst, Solution Architect , SAP Australia
10:00 AMInfrastructure Discovery Server – rapid eSOA realisation
Chris Enstock, Senior Consultant, Fujitsu Australia Limited
10:45 AM  Morning Tea
11:15 AMKey note 5 Blocking & Tackling with MDM
Rodney Masney, Global Information and Technology Architect , Owens-Illinois
12:15 PMAwards SAP Partner - Customer Awards of excellence
Tim Ebbeck, President and Managing Director, SAP Australia New Zealand
12:45 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM  Solution Demonstrations
Mahesh Venkatraman, Practice Lead, SAP Upgrades, Satyam Computer Services
Mark Szulc, Technical Solutions Manager, Adobe Systems
1:45 PMStrategy Managing Remote Operations
Bob Bridger, Solution Architect, SAP Australia
James Stone, Manager Information Systems, ASICS Oceania Pty Ltd
1:45 PMOperations Enhancements Packs in Upgrades
Martin Riedel, Global Customer Communities and Advisory, SVP, SAP AG, Walldorf
Viji Philip, Competency Lead – SAP Upgrades, Cognizant
1:45 PMSolutions Looking into Portals
Brian Lane, Global Portal Solution Centre Manager, British American Tobacco
Nigel Bernie, IT Application Services Manager, Vector NZ
1:45 PMInfrastructure Migrating From Business Connector To PI
Darrel Mitchelson, Team Lead , Goodman Fielder
Mark Finlayson, National Solution Line Leader, Oxygen
Neeraj Gupta, SAP Practice Head (Australia and New Zealand), Satyam Computer Services Ltd
2:45 PM  Afternoon Tea
3:15 PMProduct ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)
Carl Hubbard, Solution Architect - HCM , SAP Australia
3:15 PMProduct Business Intelligence
Pierre Cassano, Principal Consultant - BI, SAP Australia
3:15 PMProduct Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Rob Delnoij, Regional CRM Solution Principal, SAP Asia
3:15 PMProduct Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Paul Swain, SCM Solution Architect, SAP Australia
4:15 PMKey note 6 Global Communities and Upgrades
Martin Riedel, Global Customer Communities and Advisory, SVP, SAP AG, Walldorf
Stefan Kneis, Global head of the SAP Customer Community Program , SAP AG
Day 3 (31 Jul 2008)
8:00 AMBoot Camp ESOA Boot Camp
9:00 AMKey note 7 Gen Y 2.0 - offline with reality or in tune with the future?
Anders Sorman-Nilsson, Managing Director, Thinque
10:00 AMOperations Change Management
Greg Taylor, Head of Business Integration, United Group Ltd
Wayne McClure, Business Transition Manager, BlueScope Steel
10:00 AMSolutions Enterprise Search – the answer may not be Google!
Tim Wilkes, Solutions Manager, SAP Australia New Zealand
10:00 AMInfrastructure Run SAP best practice
Patrick McIntyre, Senior Support Consultant, SAP Australia New Zealand
11:00 AM  Morning Tea
11:30 AMInfrastructure Troubleshooting SAP AS Java
Ian Cook, Senior Consultant, Netweaver Application, SAP
11:30 AMEducation Web 2.0
Laurel Papworth, Social Network Strategist
11:30 AMStrategy Corporate Performance Management - here and in the future
Peter Kokinakos, Associate Partner and Performance Management Lead, IBM
12:30 PM  Lunch
1:30 PMStrategy Developing a Corporate Reporting Strategy
David Scullin, Manager, Reporting and Analytics, Rio Tinto Ltd.
1:30 PMOperations Establishing a Customer Competency Centre
Anna Reed-Stephenson, 1SAP Manager, Bluescope Steel
John Mernagh, Support Architect - AGS Australia, SAP Australia
1:30 PMSolutions SAP's top 100 TLAs - I'm so confused about SAP
Phillip Merrick, Solution Architect, SAP Australia New Zealand
2:30 PMKey note 8 SAP Blueprint for Business Intelligence.