Orica
2025
What Clean Core Looks Like in Practice
Ideas that matter → Build things that matter
What’s New for 2026?
From ideas that matter to building things that matter.
In 2025, the conversation was about ideas that matter: AI possibilities, transformation plans, Clean Core strategies and what organisations intended to do next.
In 2026, the focus moves to building things that matter. Projects have matured. AI is moving into production. Organisations have another year of experience behind them. And the official 2026 SAP TechEd curriculum reflects a technology landscape moving rapidly from intent to execution.
If you joined us last year, this is the next chapter.
Returning organisations
The Organisations Are Back. Their Stories Have Moved On.
Several organisations from 2025 are returning, with another year of experience and entirely new stories to share. They’ve had time to live with their decisions, build on the original work, find out what scales and understand what they would approach differently today.
AI in practice
AI Has Moved From Possibility to Practice
AI was already a major conversation in 2025. This year, more of that conversation is grounded in real processes, real teams and real SAP environments.
132,000
invoices reviewed by a governed AI agent
A$425M
in annual AP spend in scope
100+
users with Joule for Consultants
Village Roadshow Group
Deploying a Governed AI Agent to Prevent Duplicate Payments
The session explores the wider challenge of putting an AI agent into a live finance process, including human oversight, accountability and controls.
Fonterra
Hear what changed when Joule for Consultants moved beyond a pilot and into everyday SAP project delivery.
Mitre 10 New Zealand
Turning Incoming Emails into an Intelligent S/4HANA Finance Workflow with SAP Document AIMaking AI Earn Its Place in SAP Testing
See how an emailed PDF moves through AI-powered data extraction, human review and into S/4HANA — then where AI genuinely improves testing, where it doesn't, and why the foundations still matter.
Candid conversationsBetween the Lines: What SAP Doesn't Tell You About Deployment and Transformation The S/4HANA Story No One Tells — When Data Migration Goes Wrong Building the Architecture SAP Said Wouldn't Work When an Integrated SAP Landscape Has to Come Apart
More Mature Conversations. Including the Difficult Ones.
Mastering SAP has always created space for candid conversations about what happens in practice. That includes what worked, what didn’t, what teams discovered along the way and where experience challenged the conventional recommendation.
Robert Holland, SAPinsider
Norman Alimagno, Go Global Business Services (JG Summit Holdings Inc.)
Prashant Jagdale, Amaresh Kumar & Nikhiljith Madhavan Nair, IAG
Barbara Rojas, Warner Bros. Discovery
These sessions bring the lessons, complexity and trade-offs of real SAP environments into the room.
Peer exchangeWhat's On Your Mind: Moving Beyond ECC — What's Helping Organisations Make Progress? What's On Your Mind: Navigating SAP Licensing, Pricing and Consumption
Be Part of the Conversation
What’s On Your Mind? creates space for open, peer-led discussion around issues SAP customers are actively working through. There are no slides or formal presentations. Attendees bring their questions, a facilitator guides the discussion, and people in the room share their experiences and perspectives.
The same peer exchange continues throughout the event, with networking time built into the programme for attendees to compare experiences, make connections and continue conversations outside the session rooms.
SAP TechEd curriculum
The 2026 SAP TechEd Curriculum Has Moved Forward Too
As the official SAP TechEd on Tour stop for APAC, the event brings the 2026 SAP TechEd curriculum to Sydney. This year’s curriculum reflects the movement from ideas into execution.
01
Build AI that moves from intent to execution
Explore how AI moves from individual capabilities into real business processes.
View SAP TechEd sessions →02
Prepare for the autonomous enterprise
Understand the role of increasingly autonomous processes, agents and applications across the enterprise.
View SAP TechEd sessions →03
Work with Joule and AI agents
Go deeper into agents, orchestration, development and AI-native experiences.
View SAP TechEd sessions →04
Govern AI at enterprise scale
Explore how governance, evaluation and control evolve as organisations introduce more AI services and agents.
View SAP TechEd sessions →05
Get more from SAP Business Data Cloud
Understand the changing role of trusted business data as a foundation for analytics, AI and intelligent applications.
View SAP TechEd sessions →06
Rethink transformation with AI
Explore how agent-led approaches are beginning to influence migration and modernisation.
View SAP TechEd sessions →07
Build for what comes next
Develop scalable, secure and extensible applications for an evolving SAP landscape.
View SAP TechEd sessions →The curriculum gives SAP practitioners practical knowledge and skills to build things that matter.
New voices
New Voices. Different Perspectives.
The programme also brings in organisations that weren’t part of the Sydney programme last year, including:
Village Roadshow Group
IAG
Warner Bros. Discovery
Queensland Health
Brisbane City Council
Sydney Water
Service Stream
Fonterra
Genesis Energy
Blackmores Group
Under Armour
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
They bring different industries, different stages of transformation and new experiences into the community. Meet them across the agenda and the speaker line-up.
So, what’s really new?
The Biggest Change Is Where the SAP Community Is in the Conversation.
Over the past twelve months, ideas have moved into implementation, AI has moved further into production, and transformation programmes have matured enough for organisations to reflect on what worked, what didn’t and what they understand differently today.
SAP’s technology has moved forward too, bringing new conversations around autonomous processes, Joule and AI agents, governance, Business Data Cloud and how to build securely and at scale. The programme reflects that progress, while creating more opportunities to ask questions, compare experiences and learn directly from peers working through similar challenges.
In 2025, it was about ideas that matter.
In 2026, it’s about building things that matter.
17–19 November 2026 · ICC Sydney