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Sunday 24 May 2015SESSION6.00 PM Pre-Conference registration

6.30 PM Jumpstart

7.30 PM Networking Welcome Drinks

For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400 Produced by The Eventful Group

24 – 27 May 2015

Crown Promenade, Melbourne

http://www.masteringsap.com/financialsau

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Monday 25 May 2015SESSION SPEAKER SESSION CONTENT

8.00 AM: Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

8.30 AM: Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM

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Unleashing the Power of Collaboration: If Only We All Knew What We All Knew

Dominic ThurbonChief Creative Officer,ChangeLabs

To get ahead in the knowledge economy, companies must capture the expertise already floating around inside their four walls. Using everything from better technology to better meeting discipline, unleashing collaboration is a sure-fire way to drive innovation, productivity and engagement. In a competitive market, we cannot afford to let collaboration be a buzzword – we need to implement real strategies for making it happen.

In this insightful and empowering presentation, Dominic will:

Give you the 5 behaviours to unleash collaboration, both personally and organisationally Identify the common barriers to making it happen and show how they can be overcome Demonstrate the link between collaboration and innovation, productivity and engagement

10.00 AM – 10.40 AM: Morning Tea10.40 AM – 11.30 AM

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Drive Your Finance Transformation With SAP Simple Finance

Janet SalmonChief Product Owner Management Accounting,SAP (GER)

SAP is in the process of reinventing SAP Financials using SAP HANA to enable new programming paradigms and SAP Fiori to provide a new user interface. One of the most fundamental changes is the decision to bring all the transactional data into a single table that covers Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Asset Accounting and the Material Ledger. In this session we’ll look at the impact of these changes, discussing how accounts and cost elements will merge, what you can expect to see in Reporting and Planning, and how account-based CO-PA has been enhanced to provide better Profitability Reporting.

We’ll also look at the various deployment options including migrating your existing system and implementing a central journal that provides a basis for consistent group reporting and compare these with the side car model that many companies are already using.



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Change Leadership – What it Looks Like and How to Get the Results You Really Need

Greg TaylorIndependent Change Management Evangelist

Most models for change will tell you that some sort of “leadership buy-in” is a critical success factor for any initiative. But everyone on a project has a responsibility for leading change, not just the sponsor.

Through a range of practical examples, you’ll explore what change leadership look like at different levels and how can you get your stakeholders driving the bus, not just being a passenger.

What’s the one focus area that underpins change leadership at any level? What does change leadership looks like for the project or change manager? What is really needed from a project sponsor, and how do you influence a “difficult” sponsor

to give the right level of commitment? What does change leadership mean for the business representative working with the project

and what strategies are useful to engage these people? How you can tap into change leadership that will emerge amongst the people impacted by

change?

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Sweet on HANA – What We Love About SAP Finance on HANA

Leith WardSAP Finance Capability Lead,Accenture

Big changes are happening in SAP Finance with the introduction of Business Suite on HANA. The benefits of the digital age are within reach and will soon be the norm for finance departments.

In this session we will share what we love about the new Finance solution on HANA, our favourite improvements for quick win benefits and our vision for Finance organisations to unlock new value from the ERP.

See practical examples of big data, mobility and cloud applied to Finance to deliver business benefit

Understand the hype of Finance on HANA What’s new and what’s changed? Understand upgrade pathways Explore real applications for big finance data Discuss business case development



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Outpacing the Competition: How Under Armour Leverages “In-Time” Analytics to Win the Race

David RobertsVP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Director Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA)

Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and inconclusive data are the typical symptoms faced by today’s executive.

Complexity of data models and reporting tools have forced analyst into the ubiquitous data dump to MS Excel – filled with errors. Growth, organically and through acquisition, has led to farms of disparate systems and data models – causing discrepancies between details and data meanings. Combinations of the two leave leaders without sufficient information to drive decisions.

In our session, you will hear how Under Armour changed the inadequate analytics landscape into an outstanding, real-time decision support platform.

Provide historical background for understanding the challenges in financial reporting and analytics

Describe the strategy for overcoming the analytics quandary Introduce the Under Armour financial reporting and analytics case study Show examples of the analytics solutions deployed at Under Armour Draw the blueprint for selecting, harmonising and displaying performance metrics in real-time

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Building an External Knowledge Sharing Community for Collective Resolutions to Common Challenges

Cheryl Calvert IT Application Analyst,Incitec Pivot

In some organisations, training and knowledge management is SAP centric, with little attention focused on integrated systems such as AP-automation, travel management, consolidation, etc. Further, there is often scant 'Google' support and opportunities for networking and sharing knowledge with other similar users. This presentation is about our journey to build an international online community of Readsoft users where we can Google system problems and share resolutions.

The presentation will be useful for anyone with an interest in facilitating or participating in an online user-group – to more effectively manage their integrated systems.

Why extending knowledge management beyond the organisation is valuable for users and vendors

Involving the vendor in knowledge sharing Live demonstration of user forum Tips for starting a user community and lessons learned Striking a balance between commercial confidentiality and actively promoting and supporting

a community

12.30 PM – 1.30 PM: LUNCH & EXHIBITION VIEWING



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Building the Technical Team of Tomorrow, Today

Benjamin RobbinsCo-Founder,Palador (USA)

Many organisations today struggle with how to recruit, train, and retain top IT talent. Technical skills and needs change at such fast rate that it seems that as soon as you’ve identified a technical need, the need changes. How can IT organisations expect to keep up? The problem isn’t technology, but team. Organisations should gear hiring practices towards certain individual’s traits, not for which technologies are on their CV. Organisations should also know how and when to go outside the organisation for expertise.

Talent not tools matter for tomorrow How to identify the right talent and where to find them What is the must-have core team? Will training solve your tech gap shortage? When and how to effectively to leverage vendors and outsourced talent How to dodge silver bullet thinking

2.30 PM – 3.20 PMBuilding a Great Team: The Foundation for a Winning Culture

David RobertsVP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Manager Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA)

Under Armour uses The Four Pillars of Greatness drive success in every aspect of the business – build a great product, build a great team, provide great service and tell a great story. All of these components are embedded into the fabric and culture that is Under Armour.

Understanding of The Four Pillars is taught within the first week with the team (class UA101) and reinforced through corporate and personal goals in the talent management solution. Come hear the stories and see the real-life example of the Under Armour cultural phenomenon.

Share the story of Under Armour and the company’s rich history Show how the “people agenda” is developed and managed through SAP SuccessFactors Provide examples of how individuality of teammates is used to create depth in our culture Explain how transparency and accountability are the bedrock for developing a family culture Give examples of public successes born from the Under Armour culture



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ESAP’s Innovations – Is There Something You’ve Been Missing?

Janet SalmonChief Product Owner Management Accounting,SAP (Germany)

While it’s hard to miss the marketing information about SAP Fiori and SAP HANA there are actually plenty of other innovations in Financials that you could easily miss. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can actually be used on any ERP system, so consider activating virtual info providers to modernise your CO-PA and material ledger reporting. Consider activating some of the business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more. Don’t forget that some of the UI innovations pre-date SAP Fiori and are available in any system currently using EhP 6 or later. Take away information about how to keep up-to-date on the changes being delivered.

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Forecasting and Budgeting – Using a Proven Approach to Get a Process That You Trust (and Like!)

Stuart HarmanPartner,Oliver Wight - Asia Pacific

Forecasting and budgeting make up a significant element of the work in any finance team. In many companies, despite the increasing take up of ever more sophisticated tools, both forecasting and budgeting take up a substantial amount of time and resource.

The financial forecasting and budgeting processes typically involve the finance team collating and making sense of a number of disparate inputs, often with little commentary provided from the rest of the organisation. This can lead to trust issues around the numbers submitted and often it is left to finance to make a call on the anticipated outcomes and use that as a forecast to guide key stakeholders expectations.

The annual plan or budget, often outdated as it is finally approved, usually lacks sufficient information to operate the business and can establish a framework that leads to disconnected functional plans. Since the primary emphasis of the traditional annual planning and budgeting process is on the anticipated financial results for the next fiscal year, it often creates disconnects with previously agreed-upon actions in support of strategy. It also creates competition for budget allocations.

Using an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process many organisations have now adopted a rolling re-planning approach that reduces the time spent collating forecast updates and budgets and clearly links the planned activities in each function to the company wide plans and projected outcomes.This deep dive presentation explores some of the elements of successful Integrated Business Planning, the finance team’s role in this process and how IBP leads to more robust plans, produced with less effort.

Trusting the forecast The importance of assumptions and measures to validate forecast numbers – what you should

look for How finance can add real value to the forecasting process through scenario planning Improving the annual planning process A more credible and efficient annual planning process Regular and routine monthly updates to plans, minimising or eliminating financial surprises More aligned and synchronised planning and execution from top to bottom across short,

medium and strategic horizons



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Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs at Monash Using Data Analytics

Justine WaddickExecutive Director, Procure to Payment ServicesMonash University &Michael LawlerCEOSelera Labs

In this session Michael and Justine will discuss how using modern data analytics has allowed Monash to reduce costs, reduce the effort associated with business exceptions, and boost financial performance, while significantly improving their governance, risk, and compliance position. Monash performed an analysis of their historical data, and implemented active continuous monitoring to enable ongoing prevention and monitoring of exceptions such as duplicate vendor payments. Learn how the latest approaches to detecting quality and process exceptions allow CFOs to have complete confidence in the quality and compliance of their financial data at all times.

How modern analytics techniques outperform traditional SAP and DB Reports Which finance data and business processes can benefit most from modern analytics Outcomes achieved by analytics-based solutions at Monash Live demo of tool used at Monash Business-level overview of integrations and service models Keys to simple, quick, non-invasive rollouts

2.30 PM – 3.20 PM

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Account Reconciliation Best Practices to Ensure Accuracy in the Numbers

Ann Furlong FCCADirector of Operations - APAC,Blackline

Account reconciliation is a critical control to help ensure an organisation's financial integrity. Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process can lead to mistakes on the balance sheet and overall inaccuracies in the financial close which may be putting your company at risk.

In this session we’ll go back to the basics, beginning with what it means to ‘do an account reconciliation’ and why it is important to do them correctly and in a timely fashion. Attendees will learn how to remove reliance on manual spreadsheets, leverage technology to improve the quality and completeness of their reconciliations, and automate processes in order to better ensure the accuracy of the company’s financial statements.

Formalise company-wide policies and automate procedures surrounding the financial close process.

Gain visibility and control over the status, progress, exceptions and risk points around the financial close

Create automated workflow to ensure tasks are assigned, prepared and reviewed by the right people at the right time

Import data directly from SAP with a customised connector and use standardised templates to improve the quality and consistency of reconciliations

Query real-time dashboards and reports to gain insight into specific reconciliations Use an online document repository for easy access to all supporting documents associated

with reconciliations

3.20 – 3.50: Afternoon teaFor more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400 Produced by The Eventful Group


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Build A Culture of Accountability: The Key to Organisational Success, Empowered People and High Performance

Gregory BayneDirector / Leadership Capability Consultant,Total Leader and Coach Solutions

If you ask any senior executive what they believe is a key factor to driving a culture of success, it will be accountability. Yet very few organisations successfully implement a culture of accountability. We will explore the role of people, processes and systems in building a culture of accountability, and most importantly generating the experience of ‘feeling accountable’ across an organisation. If you wish to know more about how you in your role can help build a culture of accountability, then this talk is for you.

The key principles underpinning a culture of accountability The role of people, processes and systems in generating accountability Top three strategies to put into place Case studies and examples of organisations getting it right Key actions moving forward

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Building Relationships That Enable Success - Bridging the Finance/IT Divide

Adam BeeFinancial Systems Analyst,Marks and Spencer (UK)

If a restructure or acquisition was forced on your team tomorrow, would your team have the skills and resources needed to lead the project and make it a success? The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) was absorbed into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in November 2013. Within 6 months, a major finance data migration and application redevelopment project was successfully completed. This session will outline the key steps that enabled the on time and on budget delivery of a complex, multifaceted finance/IT project.

What skills sets and personalities are required in a high performing finance systems function? Bringing down the barriers between finance and IT Habits of successful project teams in face paced, agile environments Lessons learnt from the DFAT/AusAID SAP migration

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What the Experts Are Saying About Product Costing

Martin MunzelManaging Director,Espresso Tutorials (Germany)

Product costing is highly integrated with the SAP modules FI, MM and PP. In this presentation, Martin will explain what prerequisites you need to get product costing up and running, and what the interfaces to the other modules are. Understand the difference between product cost planning, cost object controlling and material ledger, and for what purpose these sub-modules are designed. Find out in what different scenarios cost object controlling can be used and how to effectively manage your month-end closing process.

Integration and interfaces of CO-PC with other modules How to use product cost planning How to apply your own business process to the cost object controlling scenarios What is material ledger and how can you use it to improve your reporting What reports are available in CO-PC



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Entrepreneurship and Social Business, Leadership and Innovation

Daniel FlynnCo-Founder,Thankyou Group

At the age of 19, Daniel was deeply affected by hearing about children in Africa who would spend hours each day collecting water for their family – water that wasn’t even safe to drink. After researching the World Water Crisis, Daniel discovered that Australians spend $600 million on bottled water each year, while in developing nations over 900 million people didn’t have access to safe water.

The injustice of these two facts inspired Daniel to do something. He came up with the idea to marry these two extremes together in the form of a bottled water company that would exist for the sole purpose of funding safe water projects. Thankyou Water was born in August 2008.

To date, Thankyou has helped over 78,000 people with safe water access, nearly 68,000 people with health and hygiene training and almost 7000 people with short-term food aid and long-term food security in nations like Cambodia, Kenya, India, Timor Leste and Haiti.

Daniel is passionate about entrepreneurship, leadership and inspiring others to achieve their dreams and do what others might say is impossible. During this presentation he will talk about:

Taking an idea and making it a reality Making the impossible possible Digital/social media marketing Entrepreneurship and social business Leadership and innovation Philanthropy

6.00 PM: UXC Oxygen Mastering SAP Networking Drinks



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SAP Treasury Implemented in 12 Weeks… The RDS Way

Jitu PatelSystems Analyst - Global Finance,Zespri International (NZ)&Craig StreetGroup TreasurerZespri International (NZ)

With the existing SaaS Treasury Management System (TMS) being decommissioned in three months Zespri needed another TMS solution to manage their portfolio of money market deposits, FX forwards, swaps and NDFs as well as commodity. SAP solutions are always thought of as having long implementation times and being too complex. The only logical choice is another specialist SaaS TMS package, or was it? This session will go through why Zespri chose the SAP RDS solution, some of the features of the RDS, what to watch out for and where we can go from here.

What is an RDS? Scoping, scoping and more scoping The software selection process Lessons learned and hints from the Zespri RDS experience Where to from here?

9.00 AM – 9.50 AM

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A Four-Phase Approach to Transform Culture at the ATO

Julie PraterSenior Director - Corporate Services, Systems Support,Australian Taxation Office

The ATO has a strong history of administering Australia’s tax and superannuation systems. Core to this success has been the strong culture which has shaped the way the organisation operates. However, the environment within which the ATO moves is rapidly changing. In response to this, technology innovation, customer centricity, efficiency and productivity have been put in the spotlight. The Commissioner has called for organisational reinvention, with culture change a key strategy in embodying the organisation’s values and transforming the client experience. The one drawback of having a strong culture is that it is notoriously difficult to change!

Join Julie as she shares the ATO’s experiences and outlines their four-phase approach that you can take back and apply to your own organisation.

Background - why was change inevitable at the ATO?Phase 1 - diagnosing the issue and ascertaining the current statePhase 2 - determining the desired culturePhase 3 - identifying the change levers that will deliver the new culturePhase 4 - embedding the new culture



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Successfully Transforming the Finance Function: Developing and Delivering on a Vision

Nicole TournierDirector - Finance Strategy,Monash University

Over the last four years; Monash University has successfully transformed its finance function, through the introduction of more than 200 better practice technology and process solutions and comprehensive enhancements to their budget methodology. Along with significant organisational change that impacted more than 900 individuals creating a shared service operation, centres of excellence and business partner functions.

In this session we share our comprehensive change management approach for this enormous change program, highlight our learnings and also demonstrate how; when successfully managed, change can be a catalyst for complete transformation.

Developing and delivering on a vision Stakeholder engagement, how much is too much? Easy: Defining a new process, Hard: getting people to follow it The small stuff that will trip you up Energy and resilience for the long haul

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Empowering Managers With Self-Service Real-Time Financial Reports: The Story of the Great and the Unexpected

Dan AuberManager, Projects and Innovation,Auckland Council (NZ)

When the Auckland ‘super-council’ was first amalgamated in 2009, 1000 managers across the enterprise were receiving static retrospective financial reports on a monthly basis. Seeing an opportunity for increased transparency and manager accountability, Auckland Council decided to roll out SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence tool to deliver online, real-time dashboards with drill down analysis.This project turned into much more than the implementation of a new technology: It was a whole new operating model! Could such a diverse group of managers – from Park Rangers to IT Project Managers, Stormwater Engineers to Building Inspectors – be expected to manage and interpret financial data? The answer is yes… with a little bit of support and training!

Join Dan as he discusses both the technology and the human side of this incredibly successful project.

An introduction: The previous state and aims of the project Preparing for change: Requirements gathering, creating a common language, governance and

data security issues Report development and testing Training and communication aspects (some unexpected!) What the solution looks like now and what it has achieved so far



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Heidi FischerChief Relationship Officer, IQX Business Solutions

You’ve got great ideas to improve business operations by increasing capacity or replacing current assets. The capital budget is under pressure, so how do you ensure that executive decision makers are able to effectively prioritise and select those initiatives that are of greatest value to the organisation?Join us in exploring the power of user-friendly and intuitive CAPEX apps. We will show you an easy and clear CAPEX process results directly in the right projects being approved. Quickly and on time.

• Start with user experience - responsive, intuitive web applications• Seamless, user-centric processes, not transactions• Capital budgets, programs and projects in context• Include everybody with forms, workflow and collaboration• Store and access supporting documentation• Eliminate bottlenecks with mobile reviews and approvals

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Resilience and Composure - How to Maintain Performance Under Pressure

Greg LaytonDirector,NeuroSport

SAP projects are often high demand and high pressure with looming deadlines and competing priorities. What skills you need to succeed personally and ensure the business goals are met in these types of environments? How can you maintain focus under immense pressure? Performance in clutch moments is often the only thing that separates first from second place. In this session, Greg will share with you the secrets used by the greatest coaches and athletes to maintain composure under pressure. And most importantly, how this translates to the business world where there are no lights and cameras.

You will learn the cost of cognitive overload and key skills for building resilience to large workloads and pressure.

The cost of cognitive overload Mindmapping Changing your state The formula for resilience

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Supercharge Your Analysis – Migrating from Excel to SAP BusinessObjects

Adam BeeFinancial Systems Analyst,Marks and Spencer (UK)

Ever feel like you’re drowning in spreadsheets, waiting forever for links to update, always checking if ranges are up to date? If any of this is true, then it’s likely that your team has outgrown its current solution. If your team is a smaller part of a larger organisation, how do you push your agenda to the forefront? We’ll discuss how a team within Marks and Spencer is spearheading the use of SAP BusinessObjects to enhance the quality of its financial analysis whilst reducing their dependency on Excel.

Assessing the situation, does your team over rely on spreadsheets? Generating the case for change Pushing your agenda in an IT change management environment Lessons learnt at Marks and Spencer



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Delivering Delight to MMG’s Managers With Multi-System Mobile Approvals

John MoySAP UI, Mobility and Development Architect,MMG

In 2014 MMG Ltd embarked on an ambitious strategy to aggregate workflows from 10 different inboxes spanning both SAP and non-SAP systems, into a unified inbox tailored for both mobiles, tablets and desktops - and to deliver this to 500 managers processing several thousand approvals per month. With user experience a key concern, the MMG team implemented a solution that included a native mobile application with offline capability, as well as a web application for the desktop.

Learn why MMG selected this solution over alternatives such as SAP Fiori Approvals Learn how MMG simplified visibility of workflows into a single badge number Find out how the solution significantly improved approval times Understand key learnings and challenges in delivering a successful rollout See a demonstration of the solution

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Leveraging Rule BasedFinancial and HR Planning – The New Flexible Way of Planning

Puneet GuptaManaging Partner,BackOffice | CPM Consulting

With changing policies and guidelines globally, organisations are continuously facing pressures of timely budget completion and accurate decision-making. Typically such changes can include operational changes in rules and policies and disparate rules across geographies and changes due to M&A activities. The key challenge is how quickly and easily it is to adapt to these changes with minimal impact on the timelines. Using rule based planning these challenges can be overcome leveraging a flexible and scalable business user centric platform eliminating need for further customisations.

This interactive session will outline the rule based planning concepts including HR planning scenarios along with an opening dialogue around typical issues with their remediation.

Typical challenges and possible remediation taking HR Planning scenario as an example Rule based planning concepts Sample business case taking a typical HR planning scenario Overview of the rules and rules type for the sample business case Live demonstrations of the rule based planning concept Key advantages and benefits from the HR rule based planning concept

10.50 AM – 11.30 AM: Morning Tea



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Getting What You Want Every Time: Key Principles and Tools for High Powered Communication and Influence

Gregory BayneDirector / Leadership Capability Consultant,Total Leader and Coach Solutions

The requirement of the skill of influence is becoming increasingly more and more important and in fact is now almost an essential success factor. If you do not have the art of high powered communication you will not get what you want each time, meaning you will ultimately not achieve what you wish to achieve. Are you as influential and inspiring as you would like to be? Do you get what you want every time? If not, then this is the session for you.

The most important two concepts you need to understand about high powered communication and influence

Gain awareness of how your brain is wired and how this impacts on your level of communication

Strategies and tools for shifting the power of your communication Identify three key actions to put into practice straight away back in the work place

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Getting Started in Mobile Today! Benjamin RobbinsCo-Founder,Palador (USA)

Many organisations know that there is opportunity in mobility, the trick is figuring out which opportunities are right for your business. From creating a strategy for mobile to security, to device ownership, to what apps to build, to extensible back end services, there are many angles to consider. Come learn how to step by step transform your business into a mobile enabled business.

• What is an effective mobile strategy?• What are the gotchas with mobile enabling existing business processes?• How to avoid data privacy and authentication land mines• What is the difference between good mobile UI/UX and bad?• How to correctly create back end services Should you build a native, hybrid, or HTML5 app?



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Martin MunzelManaging Director,Espresso Tutorials (Germany)

Classical planning in ERP, BW IP, BPC, Renovated Panning in ERP, Express Planning, HANA Planning Application Kit, Smart Financials - there is an abundant supply of planning tools available in SAP. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the individual tools, and how do you know which tool is the right one for your organisation?

In this session, Martin will explain a methodological approach to assess the tools available, and give an overview of the functionality of each tool. He will also shed some light into SAP’s release strategy for the future.

An overview of the planning tools available in SAP ERP A comparison of the ERP planning tools with BW-IP and BPC Planning functionality with HANA The pros and cons of each tool A matrix of the planning tools to support you in deciding which one to use Tips for your planning strategy

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One Tool for Budgeting, Planning, BI Reporting, Dashboards and Predictive Analytics

Steven KellarManaging Director,BOARD

Frustrated with long development timeframes, having to use multiple tools or resorting to Excel when working with your SAP data? With one product, BOARD can deliver your reporting, dashboards, budgeting, planning, mobile applications, advanced data calculations, and predictive analytics throughout your organisation. Learn how United Energy and Multinet Gas used BOARD to make sense of their SAP data, resulting in considerable improvements in the speed & flexibility of their Financial reporting.

Seamless integration between SAP and BOARD Budgeting, planning and forecast models BI reporting and dashboards Mobile deployment of applications Advanced financial modelling, statistical functions, clustering and predictive analytics United Energy and Multinet Gas case study: benefits and challenges of the project

1.10 PM – 2.10 PM: LUNCH & EXHIBITION VIEWING



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Stuart HarmanPartner,Oliver Wight Asia Pacific

The introduction of new processes or tools is a constant for most organisations in the 21st century but in too many instances this change does not go as well as planned. In this presentation Stuart Harman, from Business Improvement Specialists, Oliver Wight, will talk about the key ingredients for sustainable change based on his experience applying Oliver Wight’s Proven Path methodology which has enabled success for more than 1000 clients around the world over the last 40 years.

The key stages of a change project The importance of excitement The need for ownership and how to ensure it Measures of success

BPC Customer Fishbowl Join two experienced SAP customers as they share their journey with SAP BPC on HANA in their organisations. This a chance to hear different perspectives on the tool in distinct environments and have an interactive discussion with the speakers after their presentations

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David Roberts VP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Director Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA)

Globalisation, diversification and “abbreviation” (shorter attention spans for consumers) has led to an increasingly complex environment for businesses and public organisations. The greatest challenges are (1) predicting business outcomes, (2) planning investments and operations based on predictions and (3) executing with precision to preserve the organisation’s precious resources. In this session, you will hear how Under Armour successfully bridged the gap between function and technology to grow revenues, improve margins and optimise operational efficiency.

The need for organisational culture shift from planning (reactive) to predicting (proactive) business outcomes

Define the critical steps within the predict, plan and execute processes Share details of Under Armour’s journey to successful integrated business planning Describe how Under Armour uses SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) on HANA for

financial and operational planning Demonstrate methods for evaluating real-time performance using SAP analytics solutions (SAP

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Colin TeoVP Group Management Reporting and ELP Office,Neptune Orient Lines (Singapore)

As the global markets are still recovering, it was never more important for management to have the right information at right time to enable decision mapping. With this as a key requirement, NOL has embarked on an initiative to streamline consolidation and management reporting using SAP BPC on HANA.

Below are the key objectives we focused on during Phase 1 of the project.

Avoid multiple versions of truth by having unified solution that seamlessly integrates to legacy systems (SAP and non-SAP)

Support detailed analysis by processing and reporting on huge volume of data Reduce dependency on IT development by deploying user centric and dynamic solution Reduce manual processes by automating most of the processes by reducing the reporting

cycle What were the key management reporting challenges faced by NOL? How did NOL overcome the challenges by using SAP BPC on HANA as unified solution? Key considerations that contributed to project success How can you plan for your SAP BPC projects based on NOL’s experience?

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John Young Portfolio Manager - Workforce & Finance, eSolutions, &Nicole Tournier Director – Finance Strategy,Monash University

Five years ago Monash University made a conscious decision to shift from developing in-house SAP solutions to sourcing best practice software-as-a-service solutions and integrating with SAP. Thereby avoiding the costly overheads associated with customisation and rapidly decreasing the time taken implement.

This has not been an easy strategy to implement and many challenges have been faced, but by working together Finance and IT have been able to successfully deliver integration across multiple Finance systems and other areas of the University are now using a similar approach.

Bringing the technical support resources along on the journey Addressing a culture of providing a solution that panders to everyone’s needs The hidden costs in dealing with legacy decisions Can you actually roll back customised functionality?

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Be Successful With Your Technology - Become an Elephant Whisperer

Greg TaylorIndependent Change Management Evangelist

OK – let’s talk about the elephant in the room. If your users don’t adopt your systems effectively, then you can’t really claim success. Good user adoption doesn’t happen by accident, but by incorporating some simple strategies you can be well on your way to taming the beast.

This presentation will explore practical examples, showing you how to:

Get real commitment from the right people Incorporate user experience into your design strategy Persuade even the toughest resistors to change Make use of social tools to enhance your support model Leverage business processes to demonstrate adoption and ROI

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New Ways of Thinking for Success in the Digital Economy

Steve MitchellGeneral Manager Technology – Queensland,Queensland Motorways

Today, we do almost everything online, from banking and buying to chatting and dating. Now the focus is on the ‘Internet of Things’ - networks of smart, connected products that are already making big bucks for companies through product differentiation and providing vast customer data. This new way of doing business provides incredible opportunities for companies, but it also requires a whole new mindset and approach to IT.

Queensland Motorways has made great inroads into the digital economy, but it has been no easy ride. Join Steve as he outlines what it has taken to turn the IT organisation into a revenue-building hub of innovation (and improving employee engagement along the way).

• Finding your differentiating factor in the digital economy• Identifying traditional business processes that are holding you back and stamping them out• Building strategic partnerships - a hybrid approach• Planning to fail - a new approach to risk• Building a culture of innovation in your IT team and beyond• What’s next for Queensland Motorways?



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WORKSHOPSWednesday 27 May 2015

8.30 AM: Workshop Registration

9.00 AM – 4.00 PM

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Financial Reporting With SAP Janet SalmonChief Product Owner Management AccountingSAP (Germany)

Janet’s workshop which has been sold out for the past three years is as jam-packed, practical and in-depth day that will expose and unpack how the world of reporting is changing. Find out how you can deliver real-time reports on desktop and mobile devices that can be acted on by executives straight away.

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Gain Agility and Control: HandsOn SAP BPC Workshop

Eric SmitGlobal Senior Director – Center of Excellence,SAP (Germany)

Discover how you can deploy and get the most value out of this widely adopted application from SAP’s Enterprise Performance Management solution suite.

Attend this SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Hands-On Training Workshop and learn how to:

Planning Topic: Generate both web and excel reports Import source data from Non SAP and SAP sources and drill back to your source Setup business process flow for the planning process Extend reports with functionality like dynamic formatting, sorting, filtering and ranking Text comments management Publish book of reports Administrator functions: adding accounts and create formulas to calculate Setup security including users, data and task profiles

Consolidation topic: Basics of the consolidation model Ownership Management Setup, run and monitor controls Setup, run and monitor business rules for translation, intercompany and consolidation

This workshop is intended for organisations evaluating SAP’s BPC tool and / or looking to improve their budgeting, planning and consolidation processes.

Please note: You will be required to bring your own laptop to this workshop



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