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Steve van Wyk heads the Platform and Technologies business at SAP EMEA North. This role encompasses Data & Database Management, Analytics, SAP Cloud Platform as well as the innovation portfolio. He manages a highly skilled and specialized team across the EMEA North region who work with customers to accelerate their journey to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise.

Steve’s career spans 21 years in the high-tech industry with 10 years at SAP working in in 3 different regions, Africa, and Europe. Prior to moving to Europe in 2020, Steve was based in Singapore leading the Platform & Technologies Business in APJ, where his team were instrumental helping customers deliver on their specific digital innovation visions.

A technologist at heart, Steve loves the art of the possible, and helping customers understand how the use of outcomes-based technology can help companies derive new routes to market, communicate with their customers in a new way, ultimately unlocking the value of data to drive top line and bottom-line growth. Steve has worked for Vendors like Microsoft and Sybase, as well as working in the partner ecosystem.

Steve holds a Master’s Degree in Sales Transformation Management from Middlesex University.

With over 25 years of proven leadership and business development experience, underpinned by a postgraduate MBA, Craig joined UKISUG as its first employee in 2004.

Craig has led the User Group through intense growth and looks forward to providing increased benefits to all parts of the SAP ecosystem. Representing the User Group within the SAP User Group Executive Network (SUGEN), Craig works collaboratively with both SAP Executives and User Groups from around the world at a strategic level, to create added value for SAP customers globally.

In 2019, Craig joined the Board of the Institute of Association Leadership (IAL) as a non-executive Director (NED) having spent 15 years leading UKISUG, enabling him to give something back to the industry. IAL supports Associations in their strive for excellence, by sharing best practice and leveraging experts from relevant industries.

Craig looks forward to helping drive the institute forward into its new era.

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.

Boris Andree is Director in SAP´s Intelligent Robotic Process Automation Solution Management team. He focuses on strategy, Go-to-Market and adoption of intelligent technologies and solutions. During his >19 year-long career he held various positions in regional and global teams at SAP and at SAP partners, building strong expertise in the areas of Business Intelligence, SAP HANA and Artificial Intelligence.

Venugopal Chembrakalathil is a product manager in SAP Intelligent Business Process Management. He has been working with SAP SE since 2001 in various roles in business process management domain. He is an expert advisor of SAP Intelligent Business Process Management, understand customer requirements, enable customers to automate their business processes and make them successful in their digital transformation journey.

Venugopal is an expert speaker in various SAP events like SAPPHIRE, TechEd and publish blogs to guide SAP customers and partners to understand the value proposition of SAP Intelligent Business Process Management.

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.

Dr. Vadim Klimov is an SAP integration architect and a certified developer who works at Arm (Cambridge, UK), where he is focused on definition of integration strategy and roadmap, SAP integration design principles and implementation of integration solutions using products and services such as SAP PO and SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite. He also contributes to SAP Community being a technical author and speaker at SAP technology events on SAP integration topics.

Marco Verhoef is a Dutch SAP consultant now for over 20 years. He works for a utilities company called ENECO, this company was recently bought by MITSUBISHI.

In 2016, after pushing through a business case for migration from SAP Process Integration On-Premise towards SAP Cloud Platform Integration (then is was called HANA Cloud Integration, HCI) the company entered the Cloud Integration Arena.

As an early adopter, together with Guido Koopmann and Igor Mitrovic, we were invited to join many SAP Product Management activities like SAP TechEd, (ASUG) workshops, webinars, Walldorf info days, competitions, product improvement programs etc.

As a stereotype Dutch citizen his hobbies are cycling, ice-skating and sailing. His wife and kids are Scottish/Dutch and often challenge his English language skills.