The African SAP User Group, AFSUG announced that a number of local SAP customers will be sharing their invaluable insights and success stories at the highly anticipated upcoming SAPHILA 2023 conference. Set to take place from 09 to 11 July 2023 at the Sun City Resort in South Africa’s Northwest province, the event will feature speakers from a number of organisations representing several sectors across the continent, including automotive, retail, pharmaceutical, financial services, oil, and gas, and more.
A critical part of this, says AFSUG General Manager, Amanda Gibbs, is a look at the business and technology journeys of local SAP customers. “SAPHILA offers an excellent opportunity for African customers to give practical insights and real-world, actionable advice to their peers, discussing challenges faced, strategies implemented, and positive outcomes achieved.”
Stream speakers at SAPHILA 2023 will include Sasha Perhat, senior manager: HR systems at Toyota; Hanlie van der Berg, SAP architect at BMW; Robert Heneke, executive head: cloud, SAP development and technology and Anja Leonard, enterprise solution architect both from Pick ‘n Pay; Orscilla Haggard, group executive: finance business support and Bushy Thebehali, application services manager from Aspen Pharmacare; Ronel Pfotenhauer, business owner, SuccessFactors and People Analytics and Prinushlee Govender, data scientist, People Analytics at SANLAM; Innocent M Dlamini, COO and sponsor of the SAP transformation project at Sincephethelo Motor Vehicles Fund; Aveena Mothilall, CIO at Engen Petroleum; Rob Coombe, group IT manager, Royal Eswatini Sugar Corporation; and Werner Carstens, SAP solutions architect, Capitec Bank.
“Another drawcard speaker from outside the African region is Juan Carvallo Alarcon from the King Abdullah University of Technology, KAUST, a private research university located in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, who will be speaking on the transformation of KAUST into a living lab and smart city,” she comments.
As an added bonus, Diamond SAPHILA sponsor Dimension Data will be holding a client panel discussion, where several local organisations will talk about how and why they have navigated their unique SAP journey to the cloud, across a range of deployment, subscription, and licence options.
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