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Join us at the UK & Ireland
INSPIRE User Group event
16 October 2023
Millennium Point, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Be inspired by some of the most experienced users of EPI-USE Labs' solutions!
Meet many of our prestigious clients at our annual INSPIRE User Group event on Monday 16 October, hosted in partnership with sister companies in our Group (groupelephant.com), EPI-USE and G3G.
Get valuable insights, and discover the potential and possibilities that can be harnessed for your own business. We will also showcase some of our latest software and services developments, and give you a glimpse into the future of SAP and EPI-USE Labs’ technology.
All SAP customers are invited to join us at this exclusive event. Our aim is to inform, inspire, foster collaboration and help you get the very best out of your SAP investment.
Let's connect, collaborate, network and be inspired!
This event took place on 16 October 2023. If you joined us, you can view the after- event page, watch the overview video and download presentations - see your email for the password.
Event Partners
Client and Partner speakers
Special guest speaker
Eddie Edwards, also known as Eddie 'the Eagle', is a British skier and Olympic speaker who was the first Briton to compete in the Olympic ski jumping challenge. Born in Gloucestershire, Edwards made his first attempt to join the British Olympic team in 1984, narrowly missing out on a place on the downhill skiing team.
Eddie is a true testament to the human spirit. His journey to becoming an Olympic athlete, despite numerous challenges and setbacks, is a remarkable story of resilience and unwavering determination. He not only defied the odds, but also captured the hearts of millions around the world with his indomitable spirit.
Join us and be inspired by Eddie's story!
Check out our agenda for the day!
The conference includes an impressive line-up of SAP experts, with an agenda packed full of inspiring keynotes, new client case studies, exciting live demos, SAP consultant-led workshops, client Q&A sessions and a networking reception at which you can connect with familiar and new faces.
Lunch and interactive pods
Pop into our pods throughout the lunch break for a quick update and interactive discussion on these focus topics:
- Landscape Software Innovation
- Journey to S/4HANA
- Data Privacy Access Risk Management
- HCM Reporting & Analytics
- Extending SAP SuccessFactors
- Elevating SAP SuccessFactors
- Global ERP & Payroll
Landscape Software Innovation
Focus on Landscape Software Innovation
Build lean, secure SAP landscapes and manage legacy data
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Data Sync Manager surgery with a focus on Basis |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Data archiving with Archive Central |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Data Sync Manager surgery for Programmers, Business Analysts, DevOps |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Data archiving with Archive Central |
Journey to S/4HANA
Focus on the Journey to S/4HANA
Get the most out of your SAP S/4HANA migration and implementation
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Building consensus with SAP Signavio process insights |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Shift to SAP S/4HANA |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | S/4HANA Public Cloud and BTP introduction |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Building consensus with SAP Signavio process insights |
Data Privacy Access Risk Management
Focus on Data Privacy Access Risk Management
Manage SAP data privacy, security and risk from assessment to compliance
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Gain insight into Privacy risk for SAP |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Access risk analysis in SAP SuccessFactors |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Retention and SuccessFactors integration Privacy updates |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | New solution: Materialised Risk Detection with Soterion |
HCM Reporting & Analytics
Focus on HCM Reporting & Analytics
Gain insights to achieve an intelligent HR Enterprise
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Document automation: Next steps with Document Central |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | SuccessFactors Integration Monitoring |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | New innovations: Chatterbox & Project Logic Lever |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Document automation: Next steps with Document Central |
Extending SAP SuccessFactors
Focus on Extending your SuccessFactors implementation
Get more out of SuccessFactors with innovative solutions
| 11:40 - 11:55 | GenAI and Process Automation in action |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Payroll Reporting Tile: Tips and tricks |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | SuccessFactors Home Page Custom Tiles |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Product demonstration: GeoClock |
Elevating SAP SuccessFactors
Focus on Elevating your SuccessFactors implementation
Solve common issues and improve business-as-usual processes
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Talent Management |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Leveraging Integration Centre |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Story Reporting |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Scheduling business rules as batch jobs |
Global ERP & Payroll
Focus on Global HCM and Payroll
Streamline multi-country projects and operations for HCM and Payroll
| 11:40 - 11:55 | The hidden costs of Global Payroll |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | ERP Pay: Accept payments with real-time reconciliation and fraud detection |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Payroll Control Center |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Ask a Global Payroll Expert |
When and where?
16 October 2023
In-person event
Millennium Point, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Our Speakers
Raven Mahabeer
General Manager of Information Management | Aberdare Cables
Raven Mahabeer
General Manager of Information Management | Aberdare Cables
Raven Mahabeer is currently the General Manager of Information Management of Aberdare Cables, a leading cable manufacturing company in Africa. Raven’s has spent many years in petro-chemical, fine chemicals and manufacturing focused on implementing automation and controls systems, information systems and business systems. Over the last decade Raven has been implementing value-add systems in the SAP space. This included migrating Aberdare from on-premise to Success Factors, SAP Cloud migration and more recently upgrading from ECC to S4 Hana. Although Raven’s initial career was as a Chemical Engineer, he is now largely seen as an SAP leader in the manufacturing industry.
Matt Bishop
ERP HR Lead | Serco
Matt Bishop
ERP HR Lead | Serco
Matt Bishop is the ERP HR Lead at Serco, covering the responsibilities of functional lead across the HR systems estate, overall design authority and solution architect in this space. His scope covers a complex environment of UK & Europe, Middle East and ASPAC, which includes multiple payrolls and legislative environments. His interests are aligning HR systems to industry best practice and helping his business customers get the most value out of their investment in technology.
Leighton Joskey
Head of SAP and Finance Systems | Warwick University
Leighton Joskey
Head of SAP and Finance Systems | Warwick University
Ronan Menou
SAP Service Delivery Manager | Engie
Ronan Menou
SAP Service Delivery Manager | Engie
Ronan has started is carrer as an ABAP developer on SAP in 2001 , then move on to different positions of Business Analyst, project manager. He worked in different countries ( UK , Belgium ) and is now based in Paris, France. He is currently working as a SAP Solution Architect for ENGIE Retail FRANCE on the B2C Market . He has worked on several subject including EU’s GDPR implementation on SAP. He is working in the Utility Sector since 2004 and did several SAP implementations and upgrade in that sector.
Paul Hammersley
ALM Product Portfolio | EPI-USE Labs
Paul Hammersley
ALM Product Portfolio | EPI-USE Labs
Stuart Browne
Founder& Managing Director | Resulting IT
Stuart Browne
Founder& Managing Director | Resulting IT
Stuart has held leadership roles in the SAP ecosystem over a 22 year period, spanning consultancy, delivery management, practice development, sales, marketing and analyst relations. With an eclectic mix of skills and one of the largest SAP networks in the UK, Stuart has established a formidable reputation that has enabled Resulting to flourish.
Harsha Patel
Technology Solutions Manager | BT
Harsha Patel
Technology Solutions Manager | BT
Harsha has been working with BT for the last 30+ years in the IT arm of the corporate business. rising through the ranks from programming to project management. She has accelerated through the Graduate programme and worked on all roles aligned to the IT Development cycle from programming to analysis, design, testing and delivery.Harsha has successfully delivered Business improvement capabilities into the Global services, Wholesale, Openreach, Facilities Services and BT Group divisions.
She is an experienced Senior Project Manager with proven track record to define and facilitate the systems implementation and delivery of strategic IT projects to help improve business efficiency, reduce costs and improve customer experience to benefit BT’s external & internal Customers.
In recent years, Harsha has led complex and sizeable ERP transformation/migration strategic SAP programmes where she is responsible for one of the biggest things happening in the business right now – EE integration into BT. The cross-business scope and the opportunity to contribute to programmes that are core to the BT business now and in the future is hugely motivating for her.
Gary Midgley
Manager, Systems Engineering | BBC
Gary Midgley
Manager, Systems Engineering | BBC
Gary has been working in SAP HR and Payroll for over 20 years. Starting off, working on a Payroll implementation, being a super-user. He now has a true global view of SAP HR and Payroll and throughout his career have developed Payroll for UK / Ireland and China. With other countries, like Singapore, Japan, USA, Canada and more recently Brazil on full global roll outs. He has a very detailed knowhow of SAP Modules, PA / OM / PY / TM / PB, SAP Net weaver (ESS / MSS / HRA) HR Forms / DPF / Workflow / SAP Mobile Integration. His current role is related to recently implementing Success Factors / Hana Cloud Portal and Cloud 4 Service solutions
Peter Alexander
Technical Solution Specialist | BT
Peter Alexander
Technical Solution Specialist | BT
Peter has worked in the telecommunications Industry for over 30 years in various roles, joining , what was then Mercury One2One, in 1998 , as a tester at the start of the mobile revolution. Mercury One2One, through various take-overs, mergers and stock market flotations is now part of BT.BT took over EE in January 2016. For the last 10 years he has worked in a team accountable for managing the mobile test estate in various capacities. His team perform tasks from Unix Admin, connectivity, code delivery, data management and much time analysing issues during testing, as well as interacting with many third party support teams.
Michael Gleeson
Founder | The HR Fixers
Michael Gleeson
Founder | The HR Fixers
HRIS / Shared service specialist with extensive experience in system design, data programmes, Payroll, HR transformation and shared services deployment & operation. Michael has managed numerous large scale transformation projects allowing him to drive efficiency of global business services through the use of technology and refinement of systems. He has a passion for data and the need for data driven decisions. “An idea without data is still just an idea”
Sarah Mackinlay
Senior Vice President of People Project and Integrations | Menzies Aviation
Sarah Mackinlay
Senior Vice President of People Project and Integrations | Menzies Aviation
Sarah is the Senior Vice President of People Project and Integrations at Menzies Aviation. Sarah has spent the majority of her HR career in the transportation sector and has been involved in a variety of global projects focusing on HR efficiency in the form of processes, structures and technology. Most recently, she leads the global implementation of SAP across Menzies covering in excess of 40,000 employees in 61 countries. Sarah has a passion for finding simple and pragmatic solutions to enable optimum operational delivery.
Danielle Larocca
Senior Vice-President of HCM Solutions | EPI-USE Labs
Danielle Larocca
Senior Vice-President of HCM Solutions | EPI-USE Labs
Senior Vice-President of HCM Solutions Danielle Larocca has worked in the SAP HCM space for over 20 years. An SAP Mentor and featured speaker at numerous conferences, Danielle has authored four best-selling books on SAP, is the Technical Editor for the SAP Professional Journal, and often the Voice of the Expert on SAPInsider’s Ask the Expert series for HR.
Evan Jones
Managing Director | EPI-USE Labs
Evan Jones
Managing Director | EPI-USE Labs
Stephen Owens
Partner | EPI-USE Labs
Stephen Owens
Partner | EPI-USE Labs
Stephen is Partner in charge of Labs worldwide. Stephen joined EPI-USE in 1999 after periods at PwC in global risk management and Eskom, a power generation and transmission company where he focused on process control research. In EPI-USE He established the iLAB incubator with an initial focus on software quality assurance and testing and then lead the EPI-USE Analytics company delivering driver based forecasting and scenario planning solutions utilising proprietary EPI-USE software integrated with SAP. After a move to Australia he spent a number of years delivering SAP HR & Payroll projects to large corporates before establishing an S/4HANA finance consulting service and the Asia Pacific regional leadership role for EPI-USE Labs. In 2021 he was asked to lead Labs, which he reluctantly agreed to, noting he was not keen to always be the least smart person in the room.
Jan van Rensburg
Senior executive | EPI-USE
Jan van Rensburg
Senior executive | EPI-USE
Jan van Rensburg is a senior executive at EPI-USE Labs, focusing on information security, risk and compliance, and a director at ERP.
Andrew Borresen
SAP Advisory Lead and CTO | G3G
Andrew Borresen
SAP Advisory Lead and CTO | G3G
Andrew is a seasoned Technology Executive with 23 years of business and SAP technology transformation leadership across consulting advisory, enterprise, and solution architecture disciplines. Andrew is a highly versatile professional with strategic and operational skills in technology and commercial disciplines and has proven success in architecting solutions to support global business transformation initiatives across the USA, EMEA, and APAC. Andrew’s experience covers divestiture carve-outs, ERP platform consolidation programs through mergers and acquisitions, greenfield ERP installations and upgrades, and continuous business improvement initiatives.
Jhani Coetzee
Team Lead for NextGen SAP Development | EPI-USE Labs
Jhani Coetzee
Team Lead for NextGen SAP Development | EPI-USE Labs
Jhani heads up the NextGen SAP development team and oversees UI/UX across multiple products at EPI-USE Labs. Jhani has been involved in the design and implementation of the web apps for QM.
Sylvain Bernard
Senior Technical Associate - French Team Lead and SLO | EPI-USE Labs
Sylvain Bernard
Senior Technical Associate - French Team Lead and SLO | EPI-USE Labs
Sylvain has 14 years of experience as an SAP Consultant. He has performed more than a hundred DSM Implementations for customers in Europe, Americas and Asia, using EPI-USE Labs’ products for different SAP components like ECC, BW, CRM, SRM, SCM, GTS and NW, including SAP HANA and S/4 Simple Finance. As the SLO SME for Europe, he’s responsible for assisting customers with carve-outs or system optimisations, leveraging EPI-USE Labs’ unique IP.
Jamie Neilan
Professional Services Director | EPI-USE Labs
Jamie Neilan
Professional Services Director | EPI-USE Labs
Jamie is the Professional Services Director for EPI-USE Labs in Europe, with 20 years of experience in the IT services Industry, primarily with businesses using SAP. Jamie’s career started as a SAP Technical Consultant; he then went on to specialise in SAP data projects, BASIS, RunSAP, and Pre-Sales/Solution Architecture. He has a variety of SAP certifications, and his background includes programming, DBA work, web design and SAP technical work. Jamie has broad experience on various platforms, and is passionate about leveraging SAP technology to bring value to our clients.
Eben de Lange
Product line lead: Enterprise Information Management | EPI-USE Labs
Eben de Lange
Product line lead: Enterprise Information Management | EPI-USE Labs
Eben de Lange is head of the Enterprise Information Management product line at EPI-USE Labs. He led the team which designed, developed and released Query Manager 4, as well as playing a key role in the design and bringing-to-life of the Microsoft Excel Add-in for Query Manager.
James Howgego
EMEA Cloud Technology Presales | SAP SuccessFactors
James Howgego
EMEA Cloud Technology Presales | SAP SuccessFactors
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