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Ashok is the VP of SAP Cloud Platform Center of Excellence in North America.  SAP Cloud Platform Center of excellence helps customers understand and leverage the SAP Cloud Platform and its associated Business Services and make them a truly Intelligent Enterprise.

Prior to this, Ashok was the VP and Head of SAP MaxAttention in North America. SAP MaxAttention focus on maximizing customer success by delivering business value. Ashok was responsible for seven North American regions including Canada and over 250 employees throughout North America acting as Engineering Architects and Technical Quality Managers for our Premium Customers.

Ashok began his career at SAP in 2004 and was the Head of Mission Critical Support in North America. Prior to that he was an Escalation Manager handling Mission Critical Customer situation in North America.

He has a Masters in Computer Science and began his career as a programmer with increasing movement into more customer facing roles which included Pre-Sales Activity, Consulting and Support. 

Ashok lives in Downingtown, PA with his wife and two children.

Anthony is responsible globally for the go to market, sales growth and business development of SAP’s Extension Suite and Integration Suite; focused on influencing the sale of these SAP Business Technology Platform capabilities to SAP’s prospects and customers. Anthony is responsible for developing SAP’s market opportunity for these Suites and how they deliver measurable value, enabling companies to transform their application environments and workplaces to maximise the value they gain from digital transformation efforts.

Prior to this Anthony was responsible for the business development of the SAP Jam solution, and also the Solution Management of SAP’s Customer Experience Solutions, pushing innovation to improve customer insight and intimacy. Anthony joined SAP in 2009 from Oracle where he was Head of CRM On Demand Product Management for EMEA. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of Siebel, Anthony was Siebel’s Chief Technology Director for EMEA, where he designed and developed Siebel's Information Technology Strategy offering and was universally recognised as a leading authority on Siebel’s technology and architecture. Starting at Siebel Systems in 1997, Anthony was one of the founding members of the company and an authority on CRM solution design and implementation and recognised for influencing areas of the products design, company growth and sales execution strategy.

Prior to his roles in the Software industry, Anthony held CIO positions, where he was responsible for designing and implementing diverse solutions. Initially qualified as a builder and surveyor in the construction industry, he developed his IT skills pioneering the creation of innovative software solutions for supporting customer-facing activities & sales processes.

He is married and lives in a village near Lincoln, England. He has 2 Foster children and 3 of his own, his eldest being severely autistic, yet inspires him daily to try and make a difference.

Daniel Lahl, Global Vice President of Product Marketing at SAP, has extensive executive experience in cloud, data management, data warehousing and analytics.  While at SAP Dan has led Product Marketing for emerging technology initiatives, including Cloud Platforms, Data Integration, In-Memory Database and Mobility.  In 2019 and 2020 Dan was named one of the world’s most influential Product Marketing professionals by the Product Marketing Alliance.   Dan is currently focused on growing SAP’s cloud Business Technology Platform business.  Dan has degrees from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago.  In his off hours, Dan is committed to his Church, his family, running and the gym.

Steve Day has 20 years’ experience in Enterprise Software Marketing and Sales, including 10 years with SAP.  He is responsible for SAP Business Technology Platform product marketing globally, and presents regularly at customer events including SAPPHIRE NOW, ASUG, TechEd, SAP Insider and SAP Innovation Days.  Steve spends his time helping customers transform their business with SAP solutions for a sustained competitive advantage.  When not working with SAP customers Steve and his family can be found climbing and skiing the mountains around Vancouver, Canada.

Nis Boy Naeve is a long-term industry expert who held various positions at SAP SE. He offers a rare combination of strong technical understanding, business acumen and design thinking, acting successfully across all levels including executives. One of his latest key achievements is the definition, alignment and rollout of the User Experience Strategy. Currently he is heading SAP Cloud Platform Experience & Adoption defining a scalable digital approach to for platform adoption.

After studying physics in Kiel and Dublin, Nis Boy Naeve joined SAP in 1995 as a developer where he soon took over development management for a SAP HR module. He successfully finished customer specific development projects as well as various internal cross projects.

In 2003 he took over the program office for a key usability initiative and became the lead for the follow up programs. Through this Nis Boy Naeve became a key driver for User Experience topics in the SAP ERP area. In 2006 he expanded his footprint by founding a program management organization to enable the execution of SAP’s overall User Experience roadmap which was followed by the foundation of the SAP UI Governance and the UI Guidelines Team.

In 2010 Nis Boy Naeve was appointed as the Chief Product Owner of SAP User Interface where he was driving the UI technology and framework development. 2013 he focused on defining, aligning and sharpening the UX and UI strategy through intensive interactions with customers and partners. In 2016 he set up a global product management organization for Digital Experience Services.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nis-boy-naeve-3400754
Twitter: @NisBoyNaeve

Udo Paltzer is a Product Manager for SAP’s integration platform technology with focus on process integration and API based integration. Udo has 20 years of experience in the integration domain including cloud and on-premise integration technology. As a product manager Udo supports customers in their cloud integration journey and aligns customer requirements towards SAP’s integration platform technology with SAP engineering. Furthermore Udo is a regular speaker at events and individual customer & partner workshops.

Jonathan Russell drives the GTM of the Digital Experience Portfolio as part of the Extension Suite.  He has Global responsibility for the Business & Market Development of the portfolio.

During his 9+ years at SAP, Jonathan has held several roles across different LoB’s and industries’.  All of these roles have been customer facing and focused on sales, renewals and most importantly customer success.  For Jonathan, ‘customer success’ is not only a successful roll-out and adoption but the realisation of the agreed business benefits and ROI.

Having worked in sales for the last 20+ years, Jonathan has a strong empathy with the challenges sales’ teams and customers’ face and is focused on ensuring all engagements add value to driving the sales process forward and helping teams be successful.

Jonathan joined the Extension Suite team as a passionate believer that the workplace needs to transform into a far more collaborative environment leveraging the power of technology to streamline processes, increase efficiency, drive productivity and deliver an incredible holistic experience.

As part of these initiatives to transform the workplace, Jonathan is exploring how AI / ML can be used to further drive change, particularly around processes that are functional, and role based.

Andreas is an experienced Product and Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in User Experience tools and services, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Software, Agile Methodologies, Mobile Applications, and SAP ERP. 

SAP Cloud Platform adoption, Platform experience, partner enablement

•              End-to-end experience of Platform tools and services

•              Partner enablement for Cloud engineering and operation

•              SAP Discovery Center App Missions by SAP partners

Shilpa Vij is a Senior Product Manager for SAP’s integration platform. She has spent a decade at SAP Labs India, where she has been a seasoned cloud engineering expert, program lead, product expert, and now works as a product manager.

Shilpa started her professional journey at Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd as a C++ developer. Shilpa received her bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering in 2007 and currently pursuing “Credentials of Readiness”- a business certification from Harvard Business School.

At SAP, she is dedicated to and contributes to product and customer success. She works globally across industries with customers and Integration experts for product planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements and defining the product vision.

Within SAP she works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure revenue growth and customer satisfaction. She provides enablement sessions and expert-level workshops in the areas of SAP’s Integration Suite. Currently, her area of interest lies in discovering, learning, and projecting “product management” as an art.

Craig Stasila is the Global Go-To-Market Lead for the SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite. His career spans more than 20 years of SAP implementation, product development, solution management, covering a range of platform and integration technologies.

Passion speaks for itself, certainly when it concerns Iver. He lives and dies with a passion for analytics, interactive analyses and visualization techniques; always striving to help customers get better performance insights. Iver van de Zand leads SAP Product & Solution Management for Analytics and as such is instrumental in driving SAP Analytics product directions and go-to-market.

Katryn Cheng is a Senior Director in Solution Management and helps drive Go-To-Market and Strategy for SAP's Augmented BI solutions.  Katryn has been with SAP since 2001 and has remained involved and passionate about Analytics ever since.  She has held many roles over the past 20 years, including Senior Analytics Solution Advisor and Global Analytics Readiness Lead, and has helped numerous partners and customers get value out of their data with SAP Analytics solutions.

Gaurav Dey, is part of Adoption Enablement & Experience team for SAP Business Technology Platform at SAP Labs. His responsibilities revolve around platform evangelism and helping the ecosystem adopt SAP BTP with best practices. In this role he provides analytic and strategic direction to partners and customers through client-facing council and trainings. He is very passionate and enthusiastic about technology and believes in potential it has, to make our world run better.  

Tania is Executive Liaison Manager within the SAP Global User Groups Organization. She works closely with SAP User Groups around the world, connecting SAP customers with SAP industry and technology experts, and ensuring a successful dialog between SAP and its end users. She strives to provide SAP customers with the latest knowledge to help them do their jobs faster and easier and overcome challenges of the agile and fast-paced technology sector.

Toros Aledjian is a Senior Director of Global SAP Cloud Platform Go to Market with responsibilities for Customer Experience, Business Development and Go to Market initiatives.

With over 20 years at SAP, Toros has advocated and promoted all aspects of Development, Product Management and Customer engagement on a variety of projects from CRM to UX to SAP Cloud Platform.

He brings over 27 years of technical industry experience in government and commercial software.   His engagement in and promotion of partnering and instrumental Business Development brings a unique insight for potential business growth, through Customer engagement that fosters a productive and efficient win – win environment.