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Tuesday, May 16
Keynotes
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Opening Keynote Address
Bill McDermott, President and Chief Executive Officer, SAP Americas, Corporate Officer, SAP AG
Léo Apotheker, President, Customer Solutions and Operations, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG
Presentations
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The Diminishing Returns of Traditional Supply Chain Planning
Pam Stegeman, Vice President, Supply Chain and Technology, Grocery Manufacturers Associations
Roddy Martin, Vice President, CPG and Life Sciences Industry Strategies, AMR Research
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Enabling Electronic Money-Movement Services and Financial Forecasting: ADP
Pam Rutherford, Vice President, Financial Systems Development, ADP Tax and Financial Services
Venkat Narayanan, Director, Funds Tracking System Analysis, ADP Tax and Financial Services
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Aerospace and Defense ERP Solution Reduces Implementation Time
Brian Kanter, Partner, Deloitte
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CLM: A Holistic Approach to the Administration and Execution of Contracts
Michele Pesanello, Partner, Life Sciences BCS, IBM Global Business Services
Joseph Miles, Industry Principal, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Understanding RFID Data Management: SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure at Intel
B.V. Pillai, SCM Manager, Intel
Steve Miller, SCM Development Manager, Intel
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ESA: The SAP Plan for an Integrated Business Process Platform
Hank Kehlbeck, Solution Principal, SAP NetWeaver, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Demand-Driven Retailing: Implementing for Rapid Success
Michael Arthur, Senior Project Manager, SAP Khimetrics, SAP
Myra Doherty, Retail Manager, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Creating the Critical Success Factors for a Customer System Implementation
Kaye Jendrisak, Director, IT Business Unit Support, FirstEnergy
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Achieving More Results with the Customer-Centric Enterprise
Bob Stutz, Senior Vice President, CRM Product and Strategy, SAP
Michael Fillman, Director, CRM Solution Strategy, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Expanding the Boundaries of Traditional ERP
Jeff Stiles, Vice President, mySAP ERP Solution Marketing, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Welch Allyn Uses mySAP PLM as Its Product Data Management Solution
Lauri Ventresca, Operations Program Manager, Welch Allyn
Liz Fowler, Solution Manager, mySAP PLM, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Overview of SAP NetWeaver: Next-Generation Business Process Platform
Bill Briggs, Senior Manager, Deloitte
Fergus Griffin, Vice President Solution Marketing, SAP NetWeaver, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Accelerating Innovation and Energizing Growth with ESA
Jason C. Childers, Enterprise Services Architecture Group, Whirlpool Corporation
Christian Hastedt-Marckwardt, Solution Marketing Director, ESA, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management with SAP xRPM
Carl Stills, Portfolio Manager, Imperial Irrigation District
Dave Maloney, Solution Principal, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. S&OP and Beyond at Brown-Forman
Jim Hutchinson, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Brown-Forman Beverages
Christopher Foti, Solutions Principal, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. AIG Streamlines Finance with SAP for Insurance
Althea Johnson, Senior Vice President, AIG American General
Terry Hirsch, Vice President, AIG SunAmerica
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. World-Class Service Parts Management with SAP Software
John Nepiuk, IT Business Technology Renewal Program Manager, Ford Motor Company
Mary Ann Tindall, Ford Business Technology Renewal Program Manager, Ford Motor Company
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Managing Configured Product Production, Costs, and Quotes
Wietze De Vries, Corporate Director of Systems and IT, Rigesa
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Leveraging ESA and SAP's Ecosystem to Accelerate Process Innovation
Peter Maier, Vice President, Process Industries IBU, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Defense Logistics Agency: Supporting the Warfighter with SAP Software
Cindy McGee, GS-15, Defense Logistics Agency
Jason Eccker, Senior Manager, Accenture
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Implementation Is Over: What Do You Do Now?
Allison Godard, Senior Manager, The Home Depot
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Leveraging SAP Solutions for Corporate Services at AT&T
Charles Wright, Director, SAP Shared Services, AT&T
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. mySAP CRM: 2006 and Beyond
Dilawar Syed, Director, CRM Solution Marketing, SAP
Stefan Haenisch, Vice President, CRM Product Management, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Maximizing the Potential of Your Workforce with mySAP ERP HCM
David Ludlow, Vice President, mySAP ERP HCM Solution Management, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Supply Chain Management: The Road Map to an Adaptive Supply Chain Network
Hans Thalbauer, Vice President, Solutions Management, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Building the New Workplace with SAP NetWeaver
Peter Lagana, Associate Director, SAP Global COE, Wyeth
Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, Director of Solutions Marketing, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ESA Adoption Program: Accelerate Your Move to Agile Business Transformation
Joanne Aponiewicz, Director, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. SAP xApp Analytics: Aligning Strategy and Execution
Sinem Dorter, Global Information Systems Development Analyst, Whirlpool Corporation
Karol Bliznak, Solution Manager, SAP xApps Analytics, SAP
Roman Bukary, Vice President, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Innovation in RFID and GDS
Jian Ming Se, GDS Project Manager, Colgate-Palmolive
Carla Fields, IT Team Leader, RFID, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Using Price Optimization to Improve Profitability and Growth
Cindy von Hollen, Industry Principal, SAP
Michelle Nipko, Manager, Solution Development, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Managing Support in a Mature mySAP ERP Application Environment
Sean Bradley, Chief Information Officer (Retired), Joy Global
Thomas Morgan, Client Services Executive, Intelligroup
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Supply Chain Transformation at Air Products and Chemicals
William J. Cantwell, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Air Products and Chemicals
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. SAP Railcar Management: On Track with Functionality and Flexibility
Kent Stauffer, Team Lead Commercial Team, Mosaic
Sascha Schwarzbauer, Manager, BearingPoint
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Transforming the United States Postal Service
Steven Monteith, Executive Director, Human Capital Enterprise, United States Postal Service
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Global Retail Outlook: An Analysis of 2006 and Beyond
Ira Kalish, Director of Global Economics and Consumer Business, Deloitte Research
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Gaining Leverage for Logistics Service Providers
Jim Eckler, President and Chief Executive Officer, Progistix Solutions Inc.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Getting Down to the Business of Driving Value with Price Management
Reed Holden, Founder, Holden Advisors
Rafael Gonzalez Caloni, Vice President, Marketing, Vendavo
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Freescale and mySAP ERP HCM: A Global Implementation
Ruben Sanchez, Manager, Freescale Semiconductor
Tom Guckert, HR Project Manager, Freescale Semiconductor
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Driving Superior Performance in Supply Network Operations
Colin Masson, Research Director, AMR Research
Sudipta Bhattacharya, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and PLM, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Accelerating Business Innovation: Application Composition and Modeling
Susan Wright, Senior Manager, SAP Public Services Solution Group, BearingPoint
Gunther Piller, Product Management, Composite Application Framework, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. How Grainger Achieved Success with Its Big Bang Implementation
George Rimnac, Vice President and Chief Technologist, W. W. Grainger Inc.
Brian Vogt, Vice President, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Duet: Intuitive Business Processes Through Microsoft Office
Kara Achtermann, Manager, Technical Architecture, Lyondell
Nir Kol, Director, Office Suite Program Product, SAP
Thomas Grassl, Senior Marketing Manager, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Consumer Products Industry Update: Procter & Gamble and SAP
Frank Reinig, Supply Network, Global Process Owner, Procter & Gamble
Peter Brandt, Vice President of Industry Solution Marketing, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The Analytics Imperative for Core Insurance
Barry Rabkin, Senior Analyst, IDC, Financial Insights
Patrick Miller, Industry Principal, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Winning with SAP Solutions for the High Tech Industry
Dennis Upton, Chief Information Officer, Brother International
Grant Bodley, Industry Principal, High Tech, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SAP for Automotive Solution Portfolio Highlights -- (RM. 311 C)
Markus Kerle, Director, IBU Automotive, SAP
Thomas Wright, Industry Principal, Automotive, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Industrial Machinery & Components (IM&C) SAPPHIRE Kickoff -- (RM. 311 E)
Mike Masters, Global Application Solutions Director, Goss International
Mark Lehew, Industry Principal, Industrial Machinery & Components, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Department of Defense and Aerospace and Defense Industry Update (RM. 311 D)
Greg Rietzke, Industry Principal, Aerospace & Defense, SAP
John Barry, Vice President, Defense and Security, SAP
Mark Roddy, Industry Principal, Department of Defense, SAP
Martin Elsner, Director, IBU Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Oil and Gas Industry Outlook -- (RM. 311 B)
Holger Kisker, Director of Industry Business Unit, Oil and Gas, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SAP for Life Sciences Solutions: A Platform for Growth and Compliance
Terri Adelstein, Senior Director, Information Technology and Services, Cephalon Inc.
Greg Liscio, SAP Project Manager, Lannett Company Inc.
Behrooz Najafi, Vice President, Information Technology, PDL BioPharma, Inc.
Scott Lundstrom, Vice President of Research, Health Industry Insights, IDC
Joe Miles, Industry Principal, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Chemical Industry Outlook -- (RM. 311 A)
Karl Wachs, Chief Information Officer, Celanese Corporation
Abbe Mulders, Chief Information Officer, Dow Corning
John Wheeler, Chief Information Officer, Nova Chemicals
Greg Peterson, Industry Principal, Chemicals, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The SAP Vision for Mill Product Industry Solutions
Eckhardt Siess, Vice President, IBU Mill Products and Mining, SAP
Sonny Hathaway, Industry Principal, Mill Product Industries, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SAP for Public Sector Solutions: 2006 and Beyond
Tom Shirk, President, SAP Global Public Services, ISM, SAP
Rand Blazer, President and General Manager, SAP Public Services, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Technology: A Key Enabler to Successful and Innovative Retailers
Cathy Hotka, Senior Vice President, Technology and Business Development, Retail Industry Leaders Association
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SAIC Does CRM Right
Glenn Burgess, Project Sponsor, SAIC
Sven Hansen, Program Manager, SAIC
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Enhancing Your Customer Relationship ROI Investment
Gerrard Rutter, Vice President, Information Services, Adobe
Gary Matula, Vice President, Information Systems, MOLEX
Anne Fish, SAP Global CRM ROI Program Manager, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. mySAP ERP Provides Business Value with a Platform for Growth and Innovation
Anna Reuhl, Enterprise Applications Manager, Dow Corning
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. mySAP SRM Application Road Map
Dion Graham, Vice President, SAP
John Zepecki, Senior Vice President, mySAP SRM, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SAP NetWeaver: Supporting Governance, Risk and Compliance Management
Kevin Kern, Chief Information Officer, CA
Michael Heckner, Senior Director of Solution Marketing, Compliance Suite, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Enterprise Information Management: The Information Framework for ESA
Sherfudeen Hassan, Enterprise Architect, Chep
Adolf Allesch, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver, Capgemini
Lothar Schubert, Director, Solution Marketing, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Overview of SAP xApps: 2006 and Beyond
Hanif Ismail, Vice President, SAP
Paige Leidig, Director, SAP
Wednesday, May 17
Keynotes
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Morning Keynote Address: SAP in 2010
Henning Kagermann, Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer, SAP AG
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Keynote Address: Simplicity Through SAP
Shai Agassi, President, Product and Technology Group, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG
Presentations
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Increasing Brand Equity and ROI Through Marketing Automation
Brenda Karls-Skalecki, Project Manager, IT Services, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Laura Zahringer, Promotion Manager, BEM, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Focus on Financial Services: Vision, Mission, and Strategy
Falk Rieker, Vice President, SAP
Jim Hughes, Senior Vice President, SAP
John Burke, Vice President, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Design for Environment: Economic Imperative of RoHS & Emerging Regulations
Gary Matula, Chief Information Officer, Molex
Pam Gordon, President, Technology Forecasters
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Improving Business Results by Leveraging SAP Solutions in Midmarket Metals
Brian Mclafferty, IT Director, Thomas Steel Strip
Jon Jarvis, Director of Finance, Thomas Steel Strip
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Achieving Manufacturing Excellence with Process-Based Metrics and ESA
Alan Schrob, Director, Manufacturing Excellence, Nova Chemicals
John Wheeler, Chief Information Officer, Nova Chemicals
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Business Acquisition Management Solution: An SI-Led Composite Application
Susan Wrignt, Senior Manager, BearingPoint
Martin Ondas, Project Manager, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Under Armour: Growing with SAP Solutions
Andy Grenier, Director of Computer Applications, Under Armour Inc.
Joseph (Jody) D. Giles, Chief Information Officer, Under Armour Inc.
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. America Online Inc.: An On-Time and On-Budget Implementation
Brian Hargreaves, Vice President and Assistant Controller, America Online Inc.
Robert Hutchison, Technical Director, America Online Inc.
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Enabling the Customer-Centric Enterprise with mySAP CRM: 2006 and Beyond
Angela Bandlow, Vice President, CRM Product Management, SAP
Stefan Haenisch, Vice President, CRM Product Management, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Driving Financial Excellence and Predictability with mySAP ERP Financials
Monika Ahrens, Solution Manager, mySAP ERP Financials, SAP
Philip Say, Director, Solution Marketing, mySAP ERP Financials, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. From Promise to Practice: Business Process Transformation Enabled by RFID
Andres Botero, Director, RFID Program Management, SAP
Krish Mantripragada, Director, Solutions Strategy, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Empowering Businesses with a Single Version of the Truth
Andrea Pelosi, Leader, Information Management, Nortel
Sunil Gupta, Director, Solutions Marketing, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. ESA and Industry Value Networks: Customer Value with Industry Ecosystems
J. Patrick Kennedy, Chairman, CEO, Owner, OSIsoft
Richard Yim, Vice President, Sol. Mktg., Platform Ecosystem, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Putting SAP's Information Worker Solutions to Work for Your Organization
Dennis Moore, General Manager, Emerging Solutions, SAP
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. A Practice-Maturity-Based Approach for Today's Enterprise Solutions
Noble R. Abdullah, Chief Information Officer, Chevron Oronite LLC
Vikas Pandharpurkar, Head of SAP Practice Maturity Group – Functional, Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Carolina Turkeys: Outperforming the Competition
Ron Wells, Director of IT, Carolina Turkeys
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Receivables Management Development Project
Joe Mercure, Business Analyst, Zurich
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Midsize Industrial Manufacturers Think Big
Brian Arehart, Director of Business Technology, AIDA-America
Ed Brady, Director of IT, American Meter Company
Lance Litmer, IT Director, Electro Scientific Industries
Mark Lehew, Industry Principal - IM&C, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. TiVo's Amazing Race: A Client's Perspective of Prioritizing and Sequencing
Steve Zoppi, Chief Information Officer, TiVo Inc.
Albert Kleynhans, SAP Solutions, BearingPoint
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Measuring Public ROI from IT: Public Sector Panel Discussion
Cory Casazza, Information Technology Manager, Washoe County WINnet
Jerry Handfield, State Archivist, State of Washington
Tony Cresswell, Deputy Director, Center for Technology in Government
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Slade Gorton's Successful Implementation of a Custom Catch-Weight Solution
Bonnie Hardy, Vice President, Shared Services, Slade Gorton & Co.
Joe Arcabascio, Technical Development Manager, Slade Gorton & Co.
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CRM for Professional Services: Deloitte's Experience
Noreen Cohen-White, National Technology Leader, Deloitte
Robert Fishman, Senior Manager, Deloitte
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Act Immediately and Grow Strategically with SAP CRM On-Demand Solutions
Rick McGee, Vice President, Software as Services, IBM Global Technology Services
Pat Bakey, Senior Vice President, North American CRM Business Unit, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management as a Strategic Weapon
Amit Chatterjee, Vice President of Strategy for the Products and Technology Group, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Maximize Supply Chain and Service Parts Processes with Integrated Solutions
Scott Koval, Marketing Manager, Caterpillar Logistics Services
Krish Srinivasan, Strategy and Business Development Manager, Caterpillar Logistics Services
Peter Goebbels, Vice President, SAP Service and Asset Management, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Evolution of Process Integration in SAP NetWeaver
Thomas Ehrman, Director, Global Enablement Services, Whirlpool
Harald Nehring, Director, Solution Marketing, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The Value of Enterprise Services in High Technology: Intel's Experience
Peter Loop, Chief Architect, Intel
Scott Gerwig, ESA Manager, Intel
Ray Homan, Vice President, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Applied Biosystems: Enabling Trade Compliance with SAP GTS
Leighton Yates, Director, Global Compliance, Applied Biosystems
Ritika Suri, Business Development, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. SAP Application Management: Improving Value to the Business
Senthil Kumar, Practice Head, Application Management Services, Wipro
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ConAgra Foods' TPM Solution
Peg Jensen, Vice President, Enterprise Systems Implementation, ConAgra Foods
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. AIG Improves Finance Operations with SAP for Insurance
Jim Rowland, Vice President, AIG
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Creating an Adaptive Supply Chain Through Supplier Collaboration
Daryl Dellinger, Manager, SAP Business System, Continental Teves
Theresa Wrobel, E-Commerce Manager, Continental Teves
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Leveraging SAP Technology with Six Sigma to Reduce Working Capital
Janet Hammill, Master Black Belt - ERP Benefits, Rohm and Haas Company
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lenovo: The New PC Company
George Reichert, Vice President, IT Strategy, Lenovo
Steven Bandrowczak, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Lenovo
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. SAP Solutions for Homeland Security
Chuck Mahan, Vice President, Homeland Security and Defense, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Executive Vision for SAP for Retail
Jim McMurray, Senior Vice President, Retail, SAP
Rick Chavie, Senior Vice President, Retail Business Unit, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Most Admired Companies Run SAP Solutions: John Laing Homes
Steven Scardina, Vice President, Information Technology, John Laing Homes
Roland Schmid, Industry Principal, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Enhanced Sales Force Effectiveness with SAP Mobile Sales
John Goetz, Systems Development Manager, eBusiness, CRM, Lincoln Electric
James Goldfinger, Director, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. FSCM at Grainger
Mark Laube, Vice President, Finance, Grainger
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Manage the Product Life Cycle and Innovation for Growth and Competitiveness
Marc Halpern, Research Director, Gartner
Douglas Macdonald, Director, Solution Strategy, NPDI, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Using SAP Best Practices to Simplify Your Implementation of SAP NetWeaver
David Steiner, Solution Engineer, SAP
Marian Maravilla, Product Manager, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Introducing ES Community, ES Ready, and Ecosystem Architecture
Ken Tsai, Director, Solution Marketing, SAP
Vishal Sikka, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Architecture, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Next-Level Innovation: Manufacturing Intelligence to Information Delivery
Keith Carey, Senior Information Delivery Specialist, Dow Corning
Andy De, Senior Director, Application Solutions Management, SAP
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. How Far Can You "Move the Needle" with an Integrated SAP Platform?
Andy Main, Global Customer Practice Leader for SAP Solutions, Deloitte Consulting
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Enterprise Systems: High Performance Through Distinctive Capabilities
Mark Willford, Senior Executive, Accenture
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Optimizing Your IT Infrastructure for ESA
Peter Gibbels, Global SAP Solutions Lead, Hewlett-Packard Company
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Accelerating Business Transformation Through ESA/SOA
Carol Lee Cobb, Mobility Strategist, Customer Solutions Group, Intel
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Predictions and Preparedness for Compliance
Mark Feldman, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Virsa Systems
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Beating the Competition to Market with New Products
Jeff Frye, President, Linx-AS LLC
Cyd Riede, Solution Principal, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Financial Transformation at Allstate
Joe Raphael, Director, Finance and Stastical Applications, Allstate Corporation
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Transforming Hubbell with SAP NetWeaver and Web Services
Mike Jeletic, Director, Application Development, Hubbell Incorporated
Dan King, Manager, Capgemini
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Maximize Revenues and Margins with Improved Pricing Strategies
Dean Meyer, Director, IT Strategy and Design, Hexion Specialty Chemicals
Greg Peterson, Chemicals Industry Principal, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Distributed Manufacturing Through Supplier Collaboration
Dan Raven, Worldwide Director of IT Applications, Smart Modular
Mark David, Solution Principal, Supply Chain, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. BWXT Y-12: Optimizing Business Operations with SAP Software
Charlie Barton, Manager, Enterprise Computing, BWXT-Y12
Valerie Homan, SAP Strategic Manager, BWXT-Y12
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Delivering Operational Excellence and Business Value via SAP NetWeaver MDM
Randy Burdick, Chief Information Officer, OfficeMax
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Successfully Integrating Acquisitions Using SAP Solutions for Growth
Leslie Buttorff, President, Quintel Consulting (representing Energy East)
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Audi Drives Demand with mySAP CRM
Michael Redemann, IT Project Manager, Customer Relationship Management, Audi AG
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Leveraging mySAP ERP to Drive Operational Excellence at Harley-Davidson
Jim Haney, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Harley-Davidson
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sales and Operations Planning Panel Discussion
Sandy Markin, Director, SCM Solutions, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Effective Print Management for Business-Critical Information
Renee Zaremba, Manager, Enterprise Solutions Marketing, Hewlett-Packard
Christopher Hearn, Director, Solution Marketing Platform, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Learn How to Develop a Successful Customer Road Map
Martin Gerhardt, Enterprise Architect, Syngenta
Ravi Swaminath, Director, Solution Services, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SAP xApp Cost and Quotation Management: The Best of Both Worlds
Simon Heeps, Senior SAP Analyst, McCormick and Company
Juergen Lindner, Product Manager, SAP xCQM, SAP
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Realizing Business Value in a Business Transformation
Kent Cys, SAP Program Manager, McAfee
Raj Joshi, Managing Director, Infosys Consulting
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. SAP Catch Weight Management: Pilot Customer Experiences and Benefits
Kenny Rawls, Project Manager, Tyson Foods
Claudia Blecken, Product Manager, SAP
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Implementing a North American HR Shared-Services Platform at RBC
Chris Herrndorf, Senior Manager, Human Resource Services, Royal Bank of Canada
Robin Bloomfield, Manager, HR Technology, Royal Bank of Canada
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Citrix: Agility and Speed with SAP Solutions
Trenton Cycholl, Director, Application Services, Citrix
Gopi Kalahasthy, Manager, Financial & Supply Chain Management, Citrix Systems Inc.
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meeting the Demands of a Cyclical Business
Bill Mangham, Director, SAP Business Improvement, TIMET
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. OMNOVA Solutions: Driving Business Improvement in a Midmarket Company
Doug Wenger, Chief Information Officer, OMNOVA Solutions
Joe Weger, Principal, OMNOVA Solutions
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Using Duet for Public Services: Simplifying Access
David Vernon, Global Field Support Specialist, SAP
Mike Grim, Director, Composites Now, SAP
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. SAP Software Enables Profitable Growth for Wholesale Distribution
Tammy Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Border States Electric
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. The Selection Process for SAP Solutions
Michael Clarke, Vice President, Information Technology, Waste Management Inc.
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Yaskawa Electric: One View of the Customer Drives Service and Leads
Maricel Cabahug, Director, Information Technology, Yaskawa Electric America
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Duet: Delivering the mySAP ERP Application to Microsoft Office Users
Mikes Sisois, Chief Information Officer, Atmel
Ranjan Das, Senior Vice President, Emerging Solutions, SAP
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Lean from Shop Floor to Design: Leveraging SAP xMII for Six Sigma
Claude Poliquin, Business Development Manager, Pratt & Whitney Canada
Robert Cadotte, Principal Business Analyst, Pratt & Whitney Canada
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Consolidate Your IT and Lower Total Cost of Ownership with SAP NetWeaver
Heiko Sterner, Senior IT Manager, Mattson Thermal Products Gmbh
Reiner Muenkel, Member of the Adaptive Computing Steering Board, T-Systems International
Amit Sinha, Director, Solution Marketing, SAP NetWeaver, SAP
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Customer Experiences on Their Roads to ESA
Todd Sorenson, Director, Customer Advisory Office, North America, SAP
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Scaling to 29,000 Users at Deloitte, with a Mobile Solution from SAP
Thomas Finegan, Senior Technical Specialist, Deloitte
Sami Muneer, Director, SAP
Thursday, May 18
Keynotes
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (re) design
Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder, SAP, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, SAP AG
Presentations
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Whirlpool and SAP xMII
Rui Fonseca, Director, Global Development, Manufacturing, Whirlpool Corporation
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Future Directions for Claims Management
Gary Givler, Vice President, Cincinnati Insurance Companies
John L. Crow, Associate Manager, Claims Technology, Cincinnati Insurance Companies
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Driving Hyundai's Vehicle Assembly with SAP Solutions
Michael Zanchettin, Senior Manager, Information Technology, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Clinical Trial Supply Management with SAP Software at Chiron Vaccines
Giammarco Morellini, Information Technology, Chiron
Mario Harlinghaus, Clinical Operations Leader, Chiron Vaccines
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. mySAP PLM Reduces Customer Response Time at Siemens Power Generation
Gillian Saunders, Engineering Business Process Excellence Manager, Siemens Power Generation
Mia Britel, Senior Program Manager, Accenture
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Purdue University and SAP: Shaping the Future of Higher Education
Doug Christiansen, Dean of Admissions, Purdue University
Jeff Whitten, Vice President for Information Technology, Purdue University
Malcolm Woodfield, Business Development, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optimizing Store Operations
Josh Jewett, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Family Dollar
Tom Beauchamp, Chief Information Officer, Hot Topic
Don Grant, Group Vice President and Director of Applications, Phillips-Van Heusen
Susan Reda, Executive Editor, Stores Magazine
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Canada Post: Transforming Canada Post with Process Innovation from SAP
Aaron Nichols, General Manager, SAP Centre of Excellence and Information Technology, Canada Post Corporation
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. AMD Achieves More Success in Channel Sales and Service Management with CRM
Victor Salas, IT Project Manager, AMD
Vinay Iyer, CRM Solution Principal, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Driving Operational Excellence with mySAP ERP
Frank Eck, Director Application Solution Management mySAP ERP, SAP
Si-Mohammed SAID, Solution Marketing mySAP ERP, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Intel and SAP Work Together with mySAP SRM to Gain Procurement Excellence
Jenny Balamut, Department Manager,Enterprise Application Services, Intel Corporation
Joel Levinson, Director, Enterprise Application Services, Intel Corporation
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Increasing User Productivity: End-to-End Processes and Interactive Forms
John Harrickey, Director of IT, CSA International
Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, Director, Solution Marketing Platform, SAP
Jeff Sharpe, New Product Introduction Advisor, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Expanding Adoption of ESA by Implementing Extended ESA Services
Steffen Karch, Senior Business Consultant, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Duet: The Road Ahead
Rob Koplowitz, Senior Director, Microsoft
Sharada Achanta, Senior Director, Solution Marketing, SAP
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. How CLP Power Benefits from the SAP and Microsoft Partnership
Andre Blumberg, Technology and Architecture Manager, CLP Power
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Significant Supply Chain Savings Through Better Supplier Collaboration
Kelly Bugbee, Manager, Burton Snowboards
Roger Murray, Chief Information Officer, Burton Snowboards
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Enterprise Management Reporting for Financial Services
Edgar Iverson, SAP Application Manager, Janus Capital Group
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Bridgestone Firestone: Implementing a Global Business Transformation
Clair McCloy, Vice President, Finance, Bridgestone Firestone Diversified Products LLC
Lori Jones, Director, IT, Bridgestone Firestone Diversified Products LLC
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Event Management: Improving the Transparency of Your Supply Chain
Myra Gill, SAP xApps Team Lead, International Paper
Dirk Eiterich, Senior Consultant, IDS Scheer
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Accelerated Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Solutions at Goodrich
Jim Harmon, Director, SAP Competency Center, Goodrich
Richard Minney, Director, Axon Global
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. SAP Improves Replenishment and Efficiency at Saint Francis Health System
Allyn Bigelow, Financial Systems Manager, Saint Francis Health System
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Implementing SAP for Retail at Sobeys
Clinton Keay, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Office, Sobeys
William Cheung, Vice President, Applications Development, Sobeys
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Excel with SAP NetWeaver and ESA in the Service Industry: Inelectra
Pablo Videtta, Director, Project Controlling, Inelectra
Magaly Grüber, Director and Project Manager, GRAM & Asociados
Roland Schmid, Industry Principal, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Wrigley Achieves More Value with SAP Trade Promotion Management and CRM
Paul Barbary, Vice President, CRM, The Wrigley Company
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Manufacturing at the Speed of Customer Demands at Siemens VDO Automotive
Glen Freymann, Project Leader SAP, Siemens VDO Automotive
Paul Borror, Manager, SAP Competence Center, Siemens VDO Automotive
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Transportation Planning with mySAP SCM at International Paper
Alan Myers, Senior IT Manager, International Paper
Bernd Mosbrucker, Product Manager, Supply Chain Mgmt., SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Business Information Management with SAP NetWeaver
Rick Burns, Vice President, Engineering, Winter Corporation
Robert Dorin, Senior Research Director, Winter Corporation
Lothar Schubert, Director, Solution Marketing, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Explore the New Preconfigured Enterprise Services Environment from SAP
Craig Cook, Program Manager, SAP
Jason Wolf, Senior Vice President, New Product Introduction, SAP
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Ensuring Trade Compliance with SAP GTS at Halliburton
Terry Soderstrom, Vice President, Trade Compliance, Halliburton
Randy Strader, Solution Management, SAP
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Best Practices in Enabling Adaptive Manufacturing
Ravi Gopinath, Vice President, Engineering and Industrial Services, Tata Consultancy Services
Andy De, Senior Director, ASM Manufacturing, SAP
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Innovation Redefined
Matthew Porta, Vice President and Partner, IBM Global Business Services
Peggy Vaughan, Global Consulting Services Leader, IBM Global Business Services
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Leveraging Cognizant's Global Delivery Model for Higher Business Benefits
John Beaumont, Vice President, Cognizant Technology Solutions
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Reexamine Your SAP Strategy with mySAP ERP and ESA
Dale Young, Vice President, North American SAP Technology, Capgemini
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Increasing Flexibility with Datacenter Virtualization
Nick Ritter, Manager of IT, Systems Engineering, UGS
Rey Perez, SAP Data Center Practice Manager, Sun Microsystems
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. User Performance
Gilles Smith, Director, RWD Technologies
Josh May, Product Specialist, RWD Technologies
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wrigley Gets a Clear View: Global Rollout of Web-Enabled Dashboards
Paul Barbary, CRM/TPM Program Manager, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
Scott Harpley, CView Business Inteligence Team Leader, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Global Reporting at Allianz: Strategy Against Complexity
Juergen Ott, Head of Group Financial Data Management, Allianz AG
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Putting Portals to Work for Business-to-Business E-Commerce
Angie Flinn, Manager, eBusiness, Lennox International
Rob Lytton, Director of E-Commerce Program, Lennox International
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. SAP Enables Wyeth.com
Peter Lagana, Associate Director, SAP Global COE, Wyeth
Rick Schnell, Vice President, Global SAP Center of Excellence, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Ensuring Environmental Compliance with SAP xEM
Bill Grygar, Manager, North American Compliance, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Matt O'Keefe, Director, TechniData America
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Integrated Army Enterprise
John Greaves, Partner, CSC
LTC J. Gary Hallinan, Program Manager, U.S. Army
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Operational Excellence: Optimize Operations to Maximize Revenue and Profit
Martin Dempsey, Director, Application Development and Support, J. Crew Group Inc.
Mike Mauro, Director of SAP, J. Crew Group Inc.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Transforming PG&E into the Leading Utility in the United States
John Greer, Director, Planning and Enterprise Architecture, Pacific Gas & Electric
Frank Meerkamp, Senior Executive, Accenture (representing PG&E)
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Making the Safe Passage to SAP Solutions
Jon Wurfl, Solution Principal, CRM, SAP
Marcia Jacobs, Group Director, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Driving Strategy to Execution with Performance Management with mySAP ERP
Andreas Frank, Director, Application Solution Management, mySAP ERP, SAP
Brian Wood, Director, Solution Marketing, SAP Analytics, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Implement ITIL Processes with SAP Service and Asset Management
Bettina Giese, Solution Manager, SAP
HaJo Lockermann, Director, SAP Service and Asset Management, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Business Event Management with SAP NetWeaver
Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Thomas Volmering, Product Management, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Realizing the Full Value of Your Implementation of SAP NetWeaver MDM
Jeffrey Massa, Program Director, SAP
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. SAP xApps Add Value to NPDI
David Musil, Program Leader, Kimberly-Clark
Douglas Macdonald, Director, Solution Strategy, NPDI, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SAP NetWeaver Portal and SAP NetWeaver BI: Implementation at Graybar
Kirk Dykema, Director, Process and Technology Integration, Graybar
Marty Joyce, Director, Applications Management, Graybar
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The Capital Group Companies: Developing a World-Class Data Warehouse
Paul Godby, Vice President, The Capital Group Companies
Shree Khare, Manager, Corporate Systems, The Capital Group Companies
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Principle-Driven SAP Software Implementation: Walking the Talk at Raytheon
Carl Porter, Program Manager, Raytheon Missile Systems
Kevin Lunn, Principal, Deloitte Consulting
Greg Healy, Director, Consulting Engagements, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Gas Pipeline Company Manages SOX Compliance and Business Growth
Terry Jaroszewski, Senior Accounting Manager, Operations, Energy Transfer Partners
Alex Andrade, Senior Manager, BearingPoint
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Implementation of Channel Management at Toyota Material Handling
Alan Cseresznyak, Vice President, Planning, Finance, and Information Technology, Toyota Material Handling USA
Sean Kelly, Managing Director, BearingPoint
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Managing for Growth and Future Improvement in K-12 Schools
Charles Thompson, Chief Information Officer, Orange County Public Schools
Nick Gledich, Chief Operations Officer, Orange County Public Schools
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Retail/Consumer Products Value Chain: Collaboration in Category Management
Carol Mackenzie, Retail Industry Principal, SAP
Dieter Becker, Business Development Category Management and ESA, SAP
Gary Adams, Solution Principal, Consumer Products - ISM, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Morris Communications: Mitigate Risk and Reduce Costs with SAP for Media
Steve Strout, Chief Information Officer, Morris Communications
Gary Fromer, Senior Vice President, SAP Managed Services, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Customer Relationship Management in State and Local Government
Steve North, Deputy Director of Support Services, Gwinnett County
Jerine Rosato, Program Manager, Strategic Management Services, Port of San Diego
Tony Powell, Intra-Departmental Projects Administrator, State of Florida
Jorge Macias, Coordinador de Diseño y Mejora Continua, INFONAVIT
Milford Sprecher, Business Development Manager, State and Local Goverment, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Integrating Travel Management at John Deere
Andrea Heitman Keefe, Manager, Travel and Expense Shared Services, Deere & Company
Marc Herington, Business Analyst, Deere & Company
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. McKesson: Leveraging mySAP SRM as a Tool for Procurement Transformation
Siva Padmanabhan, Director, Corporate Procurement, McKesson
Manfred Heil, Director, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Weaving Performance Management in the Business Process Platform
Brian Wood, Director, Solution Marketing -- SAP Analytics, SAP
Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Director, Solution Marketing -- SAP Analytics, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Ensure Continuous and Effective Business Operations to Get Ready for ESA
Frank W. Reinig, Supply Network Global Business Process Owner, Procter & Gamble
Greg Pike, Senior Vice President, SAP
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Overview of SAP xApps: 2006 and Beyond
Paige Leidig, Director, SAP
Sunder Ramesh, Senior Director, SAP

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