Events

Mian Ahmad

Digital Transformation Leader at Rheem Australia

Mian leads a team of technical experts who help the company achieve its goals, innovate, and grow. Rheem is a well-known manufacturer of heating, cooling, and water heating brands with a global presence. In Australia, Rheem is widely recognized, with manufacturing facilities in Rydalmere and Moorabbin. With over 20 years of experience in technology-driven business transformation, Mian has worked in the US, Asia, and Australia, collaborating with global customers in various industries such as Manufacturing, Retail, FMCG, contracting, and services.

Shelina Amatya 
Senior Strategic Customer Success Manager at WalkMe

Shelina has spent the past 7 years at WalkMe partnering with some of Australia and New Zealand’s largest organisations to embed digital adoption into the heart of their transformation efforts. Her work spans industries such as banking, government, and telecommunications — focusing on improving user experience, driving adoption, and realising the full value of enterprise technology. 

Mark Bain

Executive General Manager, Digital at Engenco Limited 

Mark Bain is accountable for the development and delivery of Engenco Limited’s digital and technology strategies. He has led the modernisation, simplification, and cloud transformation of Engenco’s infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity, delivering material cost savings while establishing strong vendor partnerships and fostering an engaged, purpose-driven digital team. He will talk about how Engenco Limited future-proofed its SAP landscape with a strategic ECC upgrade.

Alexia Bayyouk 
Solutions Architect at SAP

Alexia Bayyouk is a Solutions Architect at SAP with over 5 years of experience supporting businesses across many industries. Alexia works closely with business to help them navigate and understand how SAP can help modernise, optimise, and innovate to future-proof business processes and systems through integrating processes, data, AI. Her session equips you with practical techniques to customise, extend and maximise the impact of Joule in your organisation.

Martin Burger

Enterprise Architect at SAP 

Martin is an Enterprise Architect and Industry Expert, with over 20 years of experience in working with customers, from business strategy to GoToMarket and implementation. He believes in blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality to solve critical business and IT challenges. He brings strong expertise in Healthcare, Life Sciences and Public Sector industries.

Greg Carino 
SAP BTP Cloud Solution Architect at SAP

Greg is a SAP BTP expert with over 10 years of consulting experience, specialising in building and leading innovative projects on SAP BTP and helping customers unlock the full value. Join Greg to understand SAP's event-driven ecosystem, explore the capabilities of SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh and learn how to best support event-driven scenarios to enhance employee, partner and customer experiences.

Simon Carlson

Senior Solutions Advisor at WalkMe

Simon brings over 15 years of presales experience across the UK, Australasian, and Middle East markets, working with global enterprises and government agencies on complex digital transformation initiatives. With a strong technical foundation in security, identity, and network design, his career has spanned tier-1 security vendors, leading systems integrators, and large-scale enterprise environments. Join him for a high-impact showcase of how leading Australian organisations are pushing the boundaries with WalkMe

Michael Dayaseela

Director – Analytics at the Department of Defence

Michael is a highly accomplished and results-driven data & analytics professional with 20+ years of extensive experience in SAP strategic planning and execution, architecture design, business process improvements, governance management & technology thought leadership. In his session, attendees will be taken through the massive transformation journey the Australian Defence Force is currently undertaking to uplift their Data and Analytics capabilities.

Gavin Diamond

Vice President of ANZ at Box

With over 18 years of executive leadership in some of the world’s top software and services companies, Gavin is passionate about building high-performance cultures, driving growth, and leading transformational change. In his session, Gavin will share how leading organisations have unlocked over $1 million in cost savings, streamlined operations and delivered richer user experiences by rethinking their content and archiving strategy in the cloud. 

Thorsten Freitag

Innovation Architect at SAP

Thorsten is passionate about the intersection of technology and business strategy and has over 20 years of experience. He helps executives communicate the business benefits of emerging technologies and assists IT teams in understanding their impact. He has architected and developed solutions in various domains and is a frequent speaker on technology topics. In his session, he will talk about Joule and Joule Studio, as well as SAP BTP AI Foundation.

Troy Goldner 

SAP Delivery Lead at Hydro Tasmania

Troy is passionate about creating a collaborative space for the Hydro Tasmania SAP Delivery Team and broader Business to work together in maximising Hydro Tasmania’s continued investment in SAP and bringing to life their vision of “Creating Excellence in SAP”. With expertise in AP, VIM, HR, Payroll, GRC, EHS, Audit and SuccessFactors  – Troy brings a rich and versatile skill set to the table.

Jon Gooding

Solution Architect at SAP 

Dive into Business Data Cloud with Jon – an interactive, end-to-end hands-on experience you won’t want to miss! An SAP Certified Professional and an expert in the Business Technology Platform, Jon provides solutions to enables clients to leverage data, analytics, and cloud capabilities for their enterprise applications. 

Jamie Grande

Head of Enterprise Applications at Lion

Jamie has over 25 years of experience leading technology teams. Passionate about innovation, she still enjoys getting hands-on with coding from time to time. What excites her most is seeing her team experiment with new technologies and deliver real, tangible business value.  

Paul Hardy

Senior ABAP Developer at Heidelberg Materials

Paul has worked on country-specific SAP implementations across the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, and Australia. He is an SAP Mentor and the author of six books on ABAP programming, most notably the ‘ABAP to the Future’ series. A prolific public speaker, he has presented at SAUG and SAP events worldwide, including SAP TechEd in Las Vegas. He will show you more of the 'monstrous' experiments he has been doing with AI.

Paul Hickman 
Director S/4HANA Project at Roy Hill (now Hancock Iron Ore) 

Paul has over 20 years of experience driving enterprise IT outcomes across the Oil & Gas and Mining sectors. Recently, Paul successfully led Roy Hill’s transition from ECC to S/4HANA on time and under budget.  Prior to Roy Hill, Paul managed a complex SAP landscape migration to SAP’s private cloud for a global miner and in preparation for the transition to S/4HANA. Explore with Paul how Roy Hill aligned executive vision, technical readiness, and business ownership to deliver a successful S/4HANA migration on time and under budget.

Shruthi Jayaram 

Senior Product Specialist, Go-to-Market, Application Lifecycle Management at SAP 

Shruthi is a Senior Product Specialist with over 14 years of experience in the SAP ecosystem, specializing in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions including SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP Focused Run. Based in Melbourne, she plays a key role in supporting customers across Australia and New Zealand in adopting SAP Cloud ALM to drive efficient implementation and sustainable operations. 

Lt. Col. Sandeep K. Jadhav

Engineering Lead and Senior Product Manager (ERP Analytics) at the Australian Defence Force

Sandeep is a Charted Professional Engineer and was awarded ‘Fellow’ status by Engineers Australia in 2015 for highest level of Engineering Leadership and Management. He also is a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma Methodology. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive engineering and management experience, particularly in project delivery and through-life support within the Army. He will share updates on the Defence Data and Analytics Transformation.

Mike Laanen

SAP Solutions Architect at Lemongrass 

Mike is02Fa Solution Visionary with over 30 years of tech adventures under his belt. A passionate explorer of innovation, Mike thrives on turning complex challenges into clear, impactful solutions. He’s the spark who connects ideas, people, and possibilities—drawing from a career spanning consumer products, energy, financial services, public services, and more. 

Josef Hans Lara

Director of Business Development at VersaFile

Josef Hans Lara an accomplished leader in Global Business Development. Josef excels in SaaS and Services sales and Software Licensing. He is known for driving revenue growth, entering new markets, and servicing Fortune 500 customers.

Hendrik Luetjohann 
Business Process Principal Consultant at SAP
 

Hendrik is a Business Process Principal Consultant and Architect with deep expertise in procurement and supply chain. He assists customers in adopting SAP ERP Cloud through the S/4HANA Customer Care & Regional Implementation Group and supports Clean Core initiatives as part of the SAP Clean Core Office. 

Jason Luo

Enterprise Architect at SAP 

Jason is an Enterprise Architect with 17 plus years of experience in designing and implementing enterprise-grade solutions across Data and Analytics domains. With a proven track record of bridging technology and business strategy, he  focuses on leveraging data as a strategic asset to deliver actionable insights and enable intelligent business transformations. In this session, you will gain insights into recently launched industry starter kits. You will see how industry content within LeanIX looks like and how it can help your transformation by applying industry relevance.

Phil McLoughlin 
Manager Strategic Data, Systems and Solutions at Powerlink Queensland

Phil McLoughlin is passionate data and analytics professional with a range of experience in strategy, project and operational roles in the utilities, banking and retail industries. Currently, Phil is responsible for overseeing the Enterprise Data, Analytics and Applications space at Powerlink Queensland, a high voltage electricity transmission network operator that develops, operates, and maintains the high-voltage electricity transmission network across Queensland, delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions to over five million residents and 241,000 businesses. 

Phillip Merrick 
Business Architect at SAP

Phillip has been working in the information technology space across 5 decades and the bulk of that with SAP, which is code for “late career intern”. His current focus is applying enterprise architecture principles to support public sector organisations across Australia/New Zealand, across business, operating model and process domains.

Judith O'Callaghan 

Founder and Principal at Northpoint Integrity Solutions

With over 20 years of expertise in SAP and business transformation, Judith is a trusted advisor for organizations transitioning from SAP ECC to S/4HANA. Driven by a passion for SAP S/4HANA transitions, Judith combines innovative thinking from neuroscience, positive psychology, and organizational strategy. This holistic approach ensures that her clients achieve not only technical readiness, but also strategic alignment and people engagement—setting the stage for sustainable success. 

Murali Shanmugham 
Global Business AI Strategy Advisor at SAP

Murali is a Global Business AI Strategy Advisor at SAP Australia who brings over 20 years of experience helping various customers with SAP solutions. In his current role, he leads the go-to-market strategy and is driving the adoption of SAP Business AI among customers and partners helping them reimagine their business processes with emerging technologies. As an active member of the SAP Community, he drives various initiatives to foster collaboration within the SAP ecosystem. 

Travis Smith

Principal SAP Enterprise Architect at SA Power Networks

Travis is the Principal SAP Enterprise Architect at SA Power Networks, the main electricity distributor in South Australia. He will discuss their transformation and modernisation journey post S/4HANA. Travis is also a member of the SAUG Committee.

Robert Weller  

VP, Executive, SAP Global Content Officer at SAP Global Content Group 

Jerry Wong

Principal Engineer at Lion

Jerry leads integration and development initiatives at Lion. A builder at heart, he remains hands-on and deeply passionate about the emerging technologies. He will show all the successes and challenges they had with BTP and other solutions at Lion.

Jared Yabanci 
SAP Solution Advisor – SAP BTP and Business Data Cloud at SAP

Jared Yabanci, has been with SAP Australia for nearly 18 Years, starting off as an Implementation Consultant for DataServices and Information Steward at BusinessObjects coming fresh from Germany and then moving to PreSales at SAP advising customers on all things Data, Data Management, Data Migration, Data Quality, Master Data Governance, etc. Jared will talk about the different building blocks of SAP BDC and how everything works together. 

Jason Zhang 
SAP Specialist, Data, Analytics and AI at DXC Technology 
 

Jason will demonstrate the SAUG Hackathon solution that reimagines customer experience using the power of SAP Business AI. It will also include a scalable design of SAP BTP architecture, as well as SAP Business Suite.