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Melbourne Conference 2026 Speakers

Meet our customer, international, partner, thought leader and SAP expert speakers.

34 speakers, A to Z

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Swamy Bathina

Swamy Bathina 

Chief Enterprise Architect

SAP

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Swamy Bathina helps global organisations move from AI experimentation to governed, autonomous enterprise at scale. A Master Certified Architect in Enterprise Architecture awarded by The Open Group and a member of its global Peer Review Board, he brings over two decades of experience advising boards, governments and global organisations. 

Based in Australia, Swamy is a global thought leader at SAP with a focus on AI strategy, architecture and operating models for the autonomous enterprise. 

His research and speaking work centre on the architecture of the AI-native enterprise, helping practitioners and leaders translate AI ambition into measurable, scalable and accountable business value.

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Hemant Biradar

Principal Presales Advisor 

SAP

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Hemant is a Solution Advisor for Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing at SAP Australia. He works with organisations to reimagine planning processes using SAP Integrated Business Planning, advanced analytics and AI, translating complex supply chain challenges into practical solutions and measurable business outcomes. 

Martin Burger

Martin Burger

Enterprise Architect 

SAP

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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, and worked as expert and steering board member in large public health implementations.  

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Souvik Choudhary

Souvik Chowdhury 

Enterprise Architect 

SAP

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As an Enterprise Architect with over 5 years in architecture leadership and more than two decades of SAP enterprise systems experience, I specialize in driving digital transformation through strategic architecture, application rationalization, governance, and technology alignment. I have led complex SAP landscape transformations by developing enterprise roadmaps, establishing architecture governance frameworks, and implementing tools such as SAP LeanIX to improve portfolio visibility and decision-making. Through collaboration with business stakeholders and technology teams, I enable scalable, integrated solutions that align IT capabilities with business objectives. Passionate about embedding architecture practices across organizations, I focus on delivering sustainable outcomes that enhance operational efficiency, innovation, and enterprise value. 

Phil Cooley

Phil Cooley 

Head of SAP BTP  

DyFlex Solutions 

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Phil is a highly experienced SAP technology leader with more than 30 years of experience delivering enterprise SAP solutions across a broad range of industries. He specialises in SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), solution architecture, SAP innovation, application development, integration, and digital transformation.

As Head of BTP at DyFlex Solutions and former Chief Technology Officer of Bourne Digital, Phil has built and led high-performing teams, delivered hundreds of SAP BTP applications, and helped organisations modernise their SAP landscapes using cloud-native technologies and clean-core principles.

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Sean Davis

Head of ICT

Bulla Dairy Foods

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Michael Dayaseela

Michael Dayaseela 

Executive Director – ERP Data and Analytics 

Department of Defence 

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Michael is a highly accomplished and results-oriented Data and Analytics leader with more than 20 years of experience delivering strategic SAP-enabled business transformation across complex organisations. His expertise spans ERP strategy and implementation, enterprise architecture, data and analytics, business process optimisation, governance, and technology leadership.  

A recipient of the 2019 SAP Innovation Award for analytics process optimisation, Michael has consistently driven innovation and operational excellence through the effective application of data-driven solutions. He is a regular speaker at Australian and international Data and Analytics forums, where he shares insights on emerging technologies, digital transformation, and enterprise data strategy.  

Michael holds a Master's degree in Business with a specialisation in ERP Systems using SAP from Victoria University

Adam Dobneys

COLONEL Adam Dobney

Acting Director General Business Integration Branch 

Department of Defence 

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Colonel Adam Dobney has 27 years’ experience in the Australian Army with significant experience in digital capability delivery.  

Adam has worked in Defence’s SAP ERP Program since 2018, notably leading Data and governance activities in support of go-live, including the development of the Defence ERP data system.  

Adam spends his spare time watching Formula 1 and Australian Rules Football. He is an avid cyclist, and enjoys board games with his family.

Stuart Downes

Stuart Downes

Group Financial Controller

Service Stream

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Stuart has been working within large ASX corporate organisations in various leadership roles for finance function for the last 25 years. He has been a passionate advocate for finance and broader business transformation which has led to driving many enterprise projects such as cost out programs, operating model reviews, centralization, outsourcing arrangements and system implementations. 

Stuart has spent the last 4 years as Group Financial Controller at Service Stream and more recently workstream lead for their SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud implementation project replacing their existing enterprise Finance, Payroll and Human Capital Management Systems.

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Dr Milagros Fernandez Barrio

Dr Milagros Fernandez Barrio

 

Monash Business School 

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With a background spanning clinical medicine, medical research, and public health, Dr Milagros Fernández Barrio has contributed to vaccination initiatives, including supply chain coordination to ensure the availability of medical supplies across clinical sites, and national campaigns focused on cancer and diabetes awareness in Mexico. Currently pursuing a Master in Business at Monash Business School, she is expanding her expertise in business and supply chain management. Milagros brings a multidisciplinary and international perspective, combining her medical experience with a strong commitment to innovation, continuous learning, and professional development.

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Falko Gruenke

Falko Gruenke

SAP Adoption & Licensing | Global Head of Adoption Insights & Services

SAP

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Falko Gruenke is Global Head of Adoption Insights & Services at SAP, where he helps organizations turn SAP investments into measurable business value. With more than 20 years in the SAP ecosystem, he works at the intersection of cloud transformation, cost governance, and adoption — connecting data to decisions that matter. 

Software Asset Management runs deep in his DNA — and he sees it at a turning point. SAM is evolving from a compliance function into a strategic discipline that drives adoption, optimizes spend, and gives organizations genuine control over their digital future. That shift, and how customers can get ahead of it, is central to his work. 

As Supervisory Board Member of dinext. AG, Falko also supports strategic growth across SAP, cloud, and digital transformation. 

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Paul Hardy

Paul Hardy

Senior ABAP/Integration Specialist

Heidelberg Materials

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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.

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Richard Hodges

Senior Account Executive, SNP ANZ

SNP Australia Pty Ltd

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Richard Hodges is Senior Account Executive at SNP Australia, bringing more than 30 years of experience across enterprise technology, SAP consulting, business development and digital transformation. His career spans senior leadership, consulting and customer advisory roles, with a strong focus on helping organisations achieve meaningful business outcomes through technology.  

Prior to joining SNP, Richard held senior positions at TUI Consulting USA, SAP Australia and Capgemini. In his 16 years with SAP, he supported customers across complex enterprise transformation initiatives, with particular expertise in utilities, and asset intensive organizations. 

Jason Huang

Jason Huang 

Finance Transformation Leader 

Cummins Inc. 

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Jason Huang, CPA, is a Finance Transformation professional at Cummins who transitioned from a traditional accounting career into SAP solution design and enterprise transformation. Throughout multiple SAP implementation and transformation projects, he has led finance solution design and worked closely with business and technology teams to deliver integrated finance solutions that improve operational efficiency, financial transparency, and business decision-making. 

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Ibrahim Imtiaz

SAP Planning and process specialist

Sigma Healthcare 

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Ibrahim works as an SAP Planning Systems and Process Specialist, specialising in SAP IBP solutions to improve supply chain planning processes. He bridges the gap between business teams and IT, driving system enhancements, process improvements, and better forecasting, availability, and inventory outcomes. 

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Lam Kuen-Sang

Kuen-Sang Lam

Senior Director 

SAP on Oracle Cloud and Infrastructure Technology 

Oracle Corporation 

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Lam leads the Global Oracle-SAP presales team focusing on promoting and helping SAP customers to optimize their SAP deployments with Oracle Database, Cloud, and Infrastructure Technology.   

He has extensive experiences with many of the largest SAP implementations and had started working on SAP R/3 release 1 since 1992.  In the 90’s he was part of the SAP Asia’s Regional Basis Consulting team and was also awarded “Best BASIS Consultant (Regional)” in 1997.  One area of specialization of his was in the area of Unicode and Multi-National Languages support in SAP systems. 

Lam joined the Sun Microsystems’ Global Sun-SAP Competency Center from end 1997 till 2010 when Sun became part of the Oracle Corporation’s family.  

Scott Livezy

Scott Livezey 

SAP-on-Oracle Enterprise Tech Deployment Architect, North America

Oracle Corporation 

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Scott is an SAP enterprise architect with extensive experience in designing and supporting mission-critical SAP environments. After five years as a UNIX systems administrator and Oracle DBA, including consulting on large-scale database deployments and migrations, he began working with SAP in 1995, focusing on Basis and business continuity. 

After Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, Scott supported SAP customers in North America through Oracle Advanced Customer Services, then moved into presales as an SAP enterprise architect. 

He has provided architecture, deployment, and implementation support to hundreds of SAP-on-Oracle customers, including those using Oracle’s SAP-certified engineered systems and public clouds. Many deployments were among the world’s largest workloads on their platforms and carried stringent performance and business continuity requirements. 

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Georgina Mifsud 

SAP BTP Functional Consultant 

DyFlex Solutions  

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Georgina is an SAP BTP Functional Consultant, with over 30 years SAP implementation, transformation, upgrade, BAU support, testing and BTP experience. She has a keen eye for detail and diverse industry experience – Transport, Insurance, Banking, Mining, Grain/ Agriculture, Manufacturing. 

She has strong skills in SAP BTP transformation requirement gathering, S4 HANA /ECC processes and configuration in FI MM SD Ariba modules as well as skilled at using Jira, Confluence and SAP Cloud ALM. 

She has worked with leading industry clients to capture, articulate and design SAP functional implementations and BTP functional requirements. 

Skilled in working with business and technical resources to fulfil implementation, enhancements, support, UX design and development. 

Meticulous at documenting business processes, functional and technical specifications, end to end testing, SDD and training documentation accurately and concisely, to ensure integrated understanding of end-to-end processes, by team members, end users, business stakeholders and technical developers. 

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Monique Nankervis

Monique Nankervis

Senior Regional Manager, Adoption Insights & Services (ANZ, India, Japan & Korea)

SAP

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Monique Nankervis is Senior Regional Manager of Adoption Insights & Services at SAP, covering ANZ, India, Japan, and Korea. With more than 20 years in the SAP ecosystem, she is a trusted voice on commercial governance, cloud adoption outcomes, and the evolving role of Software Asset Management across diverse markets. 

Her focus is both strategic and hands-on: helping organizations translate modern SAP investments into measurable business value. That means working closely with customers to build transparent frameworks around how subscription and consumption models within RISE with SAP are priced, monitored, and optimized. In her view, SAM done well is not about control, it is about giving organizations the clarity to grow their SAP investment with confidence. 

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Judith O’Callaghan 

Program Director and Enterprise Transformation Advisor  

Northpoint Integrity Services Pty ltd 

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Judith O’Callaghan is a transformation strategist, SAP Program Director and Founder of Northpoint Integrity Services, with more than two decades of experience leading complex enterprise transformation across critical infrastructure, utilities and large organisations. She is the creator of Phase 0, a pre-execution discipline that helps leaders establish clarity, readiness and evidence before making significant transformation commitments. 

Judith is also developing the discipline of Enterprise Disruption Management — helping organisations understand and manage the disruption transformation creates across people, operations, leadership, customers and the wider enterprise.

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James O'Donnell

Head of Sales for Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia

Syniti

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Ching Oois

Ching Ooi

Enterprise Architect

SAP

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Ching Ooi is an Enterprise Architect at SAP who helps organisations unlock greater value from their SAP investments through AI, enterprise architecture, and business transformation. Ching partners with business and technology leaders to accelerate their journey toward the SAP Autonomous Enterprise.

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Dr. David Paynter

Dr. David Paynter

SAP IBP Project Lead

Burra Foods & Academic Tutor/Lecturer - Supply Chain at Monash Business School 

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Widely recognised global expert in Digital Supply Chain Planning, David has published extensively in both academic and corporate literature whilst working globally, across Europe and in Australasia. He has led operational supply chain transformation as a business leader and as a management consultant and lectures at leading Australian universities on the integrative value of digital technologies. The value David brings to organizations is the mix of analytical understanding, strategy and digital transformation, using an integrative cross-functional approach to implementation.

Neel Plahe

Neel Plahe 

Head of ANZ Value Advisory

SAP 

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Neel Plahe is the Head of ANZ Value Advisory at SAP, where she partners with organisations to turn strategic vision into measurable business outcomes. With a rare combination of technical depth and commercial insight, she works alongside C-level executives to navigate complex transformation journeys — bringing clarity to the decisions that matter most. 

From rigorous TCO analysis and benchmarking to building the business cases that secure executive alignment, Neel's work is precise, purposeful, and grounded in real-world impact. She leads a team of advisory professionals who share her commitment to making transformation not just achievable, but compelling. 

For Neel, value advisory is more than methodology — it's about enabling organisations to see what's possible and giving them the confidence to act on it. 

Alex Prokurnya

Alex Proskurnya 

Project Apollo – Finance Functional Lead 

Service Stream 

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Alex brings over 20 years of experience advising multinational organisations across Europe and Australia on optimising core finance processes and SAP technologies. His expertise spans the end-to-end financial performance management lifecycle, from strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting through to financial execution, consolidation, reporting and external disclosures. 

A recognised industry speaker, thought leader and published author, Alex actively contributes to Australia's leading technology conferences and professional communities. His engagements include speaking and facilitating sessions at Mastering SAP Australia, the SAP Australian User Group (SAUG) National Summit and Melbourne Annual Conference, and the Microsoft Power BI & Fabric Melbourne Community. He has also served as the SAUG SAP S/4HANA Special Interest Group Lead, was shortlisted among SAP ANZ's Top 10 finance speakers, and has published articles in ANZSAP Magazine 

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Scott Rouse

Scott Rouse

ICT Manager

Burra Foods

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Scott Rouse is an ICT leader focused on driving technology as a key unlock for efficiency and profitability across the modern business value chain. After a non-traditional pathway to ICT though the Australian Defence Force, retail, B2B sales, manufacturing operations and operating his own regional IT business; he worked through roles in ICT Infrastructure, Security and Operations.  

Today he leverages his varied career experience together with architecture, governance, agile methodology, digital literacy, and innovation as key pillars for delivering transformation and value within a business-aligned ICT portfolio. 

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Ashley Saltzman 

International Negotiator, Commercial Escalation Specialist 

ashleysaltzman.com 

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Ashley Saltzman is an international negotiator and commercial escalation specialist with more than 30 years of experience in large-scale technology transformations. 

Known as “the man who defuses bombs”, Ashley has spent his career resolving high-stakes commercial escalations, complex negotiations and disputes across the technology industry. Across roles at SAP, Accenture and IBM, he has worked on more than 700 escalations, often in situations where commercial tensions are high, stakeholder relationships have broken down and major programs are at risk. 

Ashley spent seven years at SAP as Head of Commercial Escalations across Asia Pacific Japan and the UK & Ireland, helping executive teams navigate the commercial and delivery challenges of more than 160 troubled S/4HANA programs. 

Anthony Spradberry

Anthony Spradberry

Pre-Sales Lead

SNP Australia Pty Ltd 

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Antony Spradbery is Pre-Sales Lead at SNP Australia and an experienced SAP professional with more than two decades of experience spanning finance, SAP consulting, solution architecture and enterprise transformation. 

Antony began his SAP career with a strong foundation in Finance (FI), progressing into SAP FI Practice Lead and Team Lead roles. This combination of finance expertise and hands-on SAP experience gives him a strong understanding of how financial processes, business requirements and enterprise data come together during complex transformation. 

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Michael Stephenson 

National Manager of Heavy Vehicle Planning, Access & Partnerships 

Linfox

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Michael Stephenson is the National Manager of Heavy Vehicle Planning, Access & Partnerships, and oversees Linfox’s subcontractor management portal FOXLink, an in-house subcontractor onboarding and management system used in Australia and New Zealand. 

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Varun Thamba

Varun Thamba

Global VP & Head of AI GTM, SAP

SAP

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Varun is a Global Leader in the Business AI & Technology space, currently with SAP, the digital transformation partner for some of the largest and most innovative organisations globally. Varun is responsible for the global AI GTM of SAP's AI suite. From enabling the AI agents in Autonomous enterprise to making the Business AI platform the workbench of choice for AI innovation in enterprises, Varun works closely with the SAP global leadership, marketing, product management and engineering on the path to market, pricing strategies, global sales plays to drive budgets, consumption campaigns and the evangelisation of SAP's AI portfolio across the board. Varun also manages emerging topics like Sovereign AI GTM, Business cases for M&A in the AI space, AI partnerships and joint GTMs.

Deloy Tran

Deloy Tran 

Solution Advisor 

SAP

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Deloy is a Solution Advisor at SAP, specialising in extension, innovation and AI capabilities of SAP’s Business AI Platform (BAIP). Passionate about enabling agile, future-ready enterprises, Deloy helps organisations harness the power of BAIP to build intelligent, scalable solutions that accelerate digital transformation and unlock new business value.  

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Marcus Williams

Demand Planning and Systems Manager

Sigma Healthcare 

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Marcus is a Demand Planning and Systems Manager at Sigma Healthcare, where he leads demand planning capability and supports the reliable availability of critical healthcare products across a complex national distribution network. He brings a practical business perspective on improving forecast quality, focusing planners on meaningful exceptions and turning better insights into day-to-day supply chain decisions. 

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Wilson Yang

Wilson Yang

APAC Head of Adoption Insights & Services

SAP

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Wilson Yang is APAC Head of Adoption Insights & Services at SAP, leading the capabilities that turn complex data into clear, actionable decisions for customers and teams across the region. With more than two decades of experience across technology and transformation, grounded by a Doctorate, he brings a distinctly insight-led perspective to the challenges of cloud adoption and governance. 

Wilson leads a multidisciplinary team that connects data foundations, insights, and enablement to strengthen transparency and support measurable adoption outcomes. For him, Software Asset Management is not a reporting function, it is a discipline that bridges data, business priorities, and organizational decision-making. Getting that connection right is what enables customers to navigate complexity with real confidence.

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Torsten Zang 

Senior Director 

SAP Customer Evolution 

SAP

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Within SAP Customer Evolution Torsten is leading the CRM Move, supporting SAP’s customers to adapt the most innovative CX solutions and helps them to successfully create their individual transformation journey.00B

oining SAP in 2012 he had several customer facing roles including global account management for two of SAP’s largest customers. Following SAP’s cloud first strategy he joined the global transformation programs in 2018.00B00B

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