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The future of automation for SAP operations
Bernd Engist
Automation has been the harbinger of change since the start of industrialization. Mission critical software application being at the heart of modern industries, automation is not only a pinnacle, but a base layer for the fourth industrial revolution. In this, session Bernd Engist, CTO, Avantra explores the future of automation and more.
May 19 2022 | 9:00am EDT
Schneller und weiter mit intelligenter Automatisierung
Bernd Engist
Avantra ist eine AI-gestützte Lösung, die Ihre komplexe SAP-Landschaft in beschleunigte Hyperflows verwandelt. Durch die Bereitstellung einer Automatisierungs-Basisschicht hilft sie SAP-Betriebsteams, komplexe geschäftskritische Legacy-Umgebungen besser zu verwalten, so dass sie Kapazitäten von der Verwaltung komplexer Legacy-Systeme freisetzen und Ressourcen für den Erfolg der Hyperautomatisierung einsetzen können. Der Fokus verschiebt sich von der reinen Verwaltung und dem Aufrechterhalten des Betriebs hin zur Wertschöpfung. Auf diese Weise wird aus 'Slow' ein 'Hyperflow'.
In dieser Session bietetBernd Engist, Chief Technology Officer, Avantra eine Einführung in Avantra - Der Automatisierungs-Baselayer, der SAP-Hyperflows erstellt
Going faster with intelligent automation
Bernd Engist and Brenton O'Callaghan
Avantra is an AI powered solution that turns your complex SAP landscape into accelerated hyper-flows. By providing an automation baselayer it helps SAP ops teams better manage complex mission-critical legacy environments so they can release capacity from the drag of managing complex legacy systems and redirect resources to power hyperautomation success. Shifting the focus from just managing and ‘keeping the lights on’ to creating value.
How to choose your SAP automation foundation to enable hyperautomation success
Brenton O'Callaghan
Brenton O'Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer at Avantra discusses how businesses can leverage the Avantra AIOps technology for SAP automation operation to future proof themselves and focus on innovation.
What you need to go forward, faster
What would you do with double the time available for SAP operations? With investment
in automation increasing and large scale adoption of AI based technologies, businesses
are preparing for growth in 2022. How prepared are you and how quickly can you move?
This Spring, Avantra brings you a four week program of expert content, looking at the
automation upshift for SAP operations, and how to boost your business off the starting line.
While speed and robustness often occupy polar ends of the spectrum, our sessions cover
security and resilience with rapid scalability.
Industry experts
Avantra brings industry experts, customers and live demonstrations to show you how to create the new future for your SAP operations. All while enabling the biggest technical brains in your business to go faster.
- Attend panel debates
- Interviews and Q&A
- Live demonstrations
A month of free to attend educational content.
Business focused debates
This Summit covers business topics designed for busy IT operational leaders that are growth focused and looking to make the business case for investment in an automation engine.
Hear from companies that have modernized and scaled their SAP operations through automation.
- Nick Miletich, Managecore
- Mark Gallagher, Formula 1
Technical demonstrations
Sessions include dedicated technical demonstrations, in product tours, the new Avantra automation engine and the AI enabled capabilities.
From real customer stories of rapid success to hands on demonstrations, join us to accelerate your journey to automation.
Summit speaker lineup
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Mark Gallagher
Formula 1 keynote speaker
Mark Gallagher is a renowned keynote speaker on a range of business topics relating to his experiences gained while working in senior leadership roles within Formula One motor racing over the last 30 years. Since 1998 he has spoken for many hundreds of organizations, ranging from national SME’s up to large, global corporations.
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John Appleby
Chief Executive Officer, Avantra
John Appleby leads Avantra as the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Avantra John served as the Global Head of DDM/HANA Center of Excellence at SAP and as the Global Head of SAP HANA solutions at Bluefin Solutions, subsequently acquired by Mindtree. John is a recognized thought leader in the SAP market and was part of SAP’s Mentors Group. John holds an MA in computer science from the University of Cambridge.
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Emily Tippins
Chief Marketing Officer, Avantra
Emily is a certified brand specialist with experience in building DevOps and IT Enterprise brands. Emily brings purposeful branding designed to resonate with the real technological and business challenges facing modern enterprises, building long-term relationships with influencers, partners, customers, and prospects. Emily is passionate about enterprise software and the advancement of women in tech.
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Bernd Engist
Chief Technology Officer, Avantra
Bernd Engist serves as Avantra’s Chief Technology Officer. Since Avantra’s inception nineteen years ago Bernd has been leading its technology vision and product development, ensuring innovation and top-notch quality. Bernd has an MA in electrical and electronics engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
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Tim Reiss
Technical Customer Success Manager, Avantra
Tim Reiss uses his 20+ years of SAP Basis experience to maximize the Avantra user's experience focusing on the North America region. Having worked for a variety of managed service providers Tim understands the challenges Avantra customers face. Leveraging this experience allows him to provide solutions and customizations which fit a variety of needs.
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Tyler Constable
Director of Sales Engineering, Avantra
Tyler Constable is a technical SAP specialist working with organizations on improving their SAP operations through proper monitoring and automation. Tyler has over 15 years of SAP experience, primarily in the SAP managed services world and enjoys continuing working with those organizations on implementing strategies through software to provide their end customers the best possible support. He has also worked within both small enterprises to large global organizations with some of the largest and most complex SAP environments.
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Peter Asigbetse
Principal Consultant SAP Industries, Avanra
Peter Asigbetse is a Principal consultant with 20 years experience in SAP development, workflow and integration. Working as part of the Avantra SAP Engineering team where he specializes in helping customers derive value through automation and integration of their on premise and cloud assets. Peter holds a BEng Hons in Aeronautical Engineering and an ATPL (Air Transport Pilot License).
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Brenton O'Callaghan
Chief Customer Officer, Avantra
Brenton O’Callaghan heads Avantra’s Customer Office team as Chief Customer Officer, specializing in helping customers solve real business problems. Brenton spent the last decade in the SAP space across a wide range of industries in EMEA, North America and India. Brenton holds a B.Sc in computer science from the University of Cork, Ireland.
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Manufacturing smarter, faster with SAP hyperautomation
Peter Asigbetse
A winning manufacturing strategy is therefore dependent on successful management of the SAP landscapes. One that releases capacity from the drag of managing these complex systems and redirects resources to fuel innovation. Avantra, an AI powered workflow acceleration solution for SAP customers can help you do just that. Peter Asigbetse, Principal Consultant, SAP Engineering at Avantra, explains how Avantra can make life easier for SAP ops teams to control and automate mission critical legacy environments so they can release capacity from the drag of managing complex legacy systems.
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Demystifying automation in SAP operations
Tyler Constable & Tim Reiss
With SAP Automation through Avantra your business can improve productivity, reduce costs and reduce risk while improving quality and compliance. But navigating the topic of SAP automation can get tricky sometimes. With a wealth of information available, we often ignore the basics. In this session, Tyler Constable, Director of Sales Engineering, Avantra and Tim Reiss, Technical Customer Success Manager, Avantra get down to the basics and demystify the world of SAP automation for you.
Future sessions - stay tuned!
Accelerated performance and the business of winning
Mark Gallagher & Emily Tippins
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April 21st | Time
Ask me (nearly) anything!
John Appleby
John Appleby, is a key member of the leadership team at Avantra. He has been instrumental in making Avantra a market leader in the SAP automation space. This is how the world knows John. But who is he really? Does he play golf (like all CEOs)?
Who is his favorite author? What does he like doing over the weekends? Does he have any hobbies? In this session, the man behind the title answers all these questions and gives you a sneak peek into his life.
May 16th | TBD
Going faster with intelligent automation (product demo)
Bernd Engist & Brenton O'Callaghan
Avantra is an AI powered solution that turns your complex SAP landscape into accelerated hyperflows. By providing an automation base layer, Avantra helps SAP ops teams better manage complex mission critical legacy environments so they can release capacity from the drag of managing complex legacy systems and redirect resources to power hyperautomation success. Shifting the focus from just managing and ‘keeping the lights on’ to creating value. Thereby, turning ‘slow’ into ‘hyperflow’.
In this session, Bernd Engist, Chief Technology Officer, Avantra, and Brenton O'Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer at Avantra, provide:
- An introduction to Avantra - The automation base layer that creates SAP hyperflows
- Product offerings
- What's new in the Avantra 21.11.5
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Mark Gallagher
Formula 1 keynote speaker
Mark Gallagher is a renowned keynote speaker on a range of business topics relating to his experiences gained while working in senior leadership roles within Formula One motor racing over the last 30 years. Since 1998 he has spoken for many hundreds of organizations, ranging from national SME’s up to large, global corporations.
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John Appleby
Chief Executive Officer, Avantra
John Appleby leads Avantra as the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Avantra John served as the Global Head of DDM/HANA Center of Excellence at SAP and as the Global Head of SAPHANA solutions at Bluefin Solutions, subsequently acquired by Mindtree. John is a recognized thought leader in the SAP market and was part of SAP’s Mentors Group. John holds an MA in computer science from the University of Cambridge.

Emily Tippins
Chief Marketing Officer, Avantra
Emily is a certified brand specialist with experience in building DevOps and IT Enterprise brands. Emily brings purposeful branding designed to resonate with the real technological and business challenges facing modern enterprises, building long-term relationships with influencers, partners, customers, and prospects. Emily is passionate about enterprise software and the advancement of women in tech.

Bernd Engist
Chief Technology Officer, Avantra
Bernd Engist serves as Avantra’s Chief Technology Officer. Since Avantra’s inception nineteen years ago Bernd has been leading its technology vision and product development, ensuring innovation and top-notch quality. Bernd has an MA in electrical and electronics engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Tim Reiss
Technical Customer Success Manager, Avantra
Tim Reiss uses his 20+ years of SAP Basis experience to maximize the Avantra user's experience focusing on the North America region. Having worked for a variety of managed service providers Tim understands the challenges Avantra customers face. Leveraging this experience allows him to provide solutions and customizations which fit a variety of needs.

Tyler Constable
Director of Sale Engineering, Avantra
Tyler Constable is a technical SAP specialist working with organizations on improving their SAP operations through proper monitoring and automation. Tyler has over 15 years of SAP experience, primarily in the SAP managed services world and enjoys continuing working with those organizations on implementing strategies through software to provide their end customers the best possible support. He has also worked within both small enterprises to large global organizations with some of the largest and most complex SAP environments.

Peter Asigbeste
Principal Consultant SAP Industries, Avantra
Peter Asigbetse is a Principal consultant with 20 years experience in SAP development, workflow and integration. Working as part of the Avantra SAP Engineering team where he specializes in helping customers derive value through automation and integration of their on premise and cloud assets. Peter holds a BEng Hons in Aeronautical Engineering and an ATPL (Air Transport Pilot License).

Brenton O'Callaghan
Chief Customer Officer, Avantra
Brenton O’Callaghan heads Avantra’s Customer Office team as Chief Customer Officer, specializing in helping customers solve real business problems. Brenton spent the last decade in the SAP space across a wide range of industries in EMEA, North America and India. Brenton holds a B.Sc in computer science from the University of Cork, Ireland.