SUGTalks

In our first episode of series 6 of SUGTalks we are joined by Michiel Verhoeven, Managing Director of SAP UK & Ireland and Paul Cooper, Chairman of UKISUG to discuss our recent the CONNECT conference, and their thoughts on what 2022 has in store for the SAP community. 

In the final episode of Series 5 of SUGTalks – and last episode of the year – Craig is joined by Dawn Ingle, IS Director at Shoosmiths. Dawn shares her experiences from initially applying to join the police force to starting out in IT, and how a secondment in France saw her working on an SAP project for the first time. 

In this week’s episode of SUGTalks, Craig is joined by Cheryl Millyard, UKISUG Board Member & Head of Business Service Centre at Gloucestershire County Council and Guy Sorrill, Director of Consulting at Sysdoc in the first ever episode of SUGTalks to be recorded in person. Together they discuss the Cost of Change and the important decisions customers need to make regarding their future use of SAP.

In the first in our new series of interviews with senior IT leaders, Vincent Petit, ERP & Finance Systems IT Director at Inchcape joins Craig to discuss his journey into the world of ERP and SAP. They discuss Vincent’s path that led him to his current role, as well as the role SAP plays within Inchcape, and how automation is helping the business increase the consistency and speed of transactions.

In this week’s episode of SUGTalks, we are joined by Fiona Warburg, SAP Centre of Excellence Manager at Welsh Water and Emma Chambers, Head of Nibs Business Process and Activity Management at NATS, to discuss Women in SAP. Emma and Fiona highlight some of the recent UKISUG initiatives to support its female members and preview what is planned for the  upcoming Connect conference. 

You can learn more about UKISUG  Connect here: www.sapusers.org/connect 

In this week’s episode of SUGTalks, Craig is joined by Lindsey Rowe, Head of Strategic Programs & Purpose at SAP to discuss the company’s initiatives around sustainability and the environment. Lindsey highlights the work SAP is doing both internally as well as externally with customers. She also discusses SAP’s Climate 21 program and its focus on the three zeros; zero emissions, zero waste and zero inequality.

You can learn more about some of SAP's initiatives here: https://www.sap.com/uk/about/company/purpose-and-sustainability.html
https://www.sap.com/uk/products/sustainability

In this week’s episode of SUGTalks, we are joined by Simon Nichols, Founder and Wellbeing Director at Thrive to discuss how mindfulness can be used to improve mental health. In addition, Simon and Craig discuss the activities Thrive will be running during  UKISUG Connect which is taking place later this month.  

You can learn more about Thrive here: https://itstime2thrive.co.uk/ 

You can learn more about the Connect conference here: www.sapusers.org/connect 

In this week’s episode of SUGTalks we are joined by Leighton Joskey, Head of SAP and Finance Systems at University of Warwick and Bert Schulze, VP, S/4HANA Product Success, Co-Innovation & Product Content at SAP to discuss how to make the business case for moving to to S/4HANA.

Leighton shares his organisations experiences on the move to S/4HANA, whilst Bert provides SAPs perspective alongside advice on how to manage the overall migration process.

In this week’s episode of SUGTalks, we are joined by Emma Chambers, Head of NIBS Business Process & Activity Management at NATS and Simon Carpenter, RISE with SAP Go-To-Market and Strategy Lead EMEA North at SAP. The podcast covers everything from what RISE with SAP is, how users can benefit and the wider role of partners. 

In this episode of SUGTalks we are joined by Ray Wang Founder & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research.

Ray recently released his new book “Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants" and in this interview we discuss the inspiration for Ray's new book, and what SAP users can learn from it.