Business as Unusual with SAP

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the SAP board and leads SAP Product Engineering with global responsibility for all business software applications. This includes all functional areas from product strategy and management to product development and innovation, as well as product delivery and support. He is responsible for a portfolio that includes the SAP S/4HANA suite, SAP Digital Supply Chain, SME, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, and industry solutions. Thomas is in charge of all development cross-functions at SAP, comprising the global SAP Labs Network, SAP Enterprise Adoption, Globalization Services, and SAP User Experience, as well as the overall quality of SAP software products ensuring a consistent level of scalability, reliability, performance, security, and data protection across all solutions for SAP's customers. Peter Maier is president of industries and customer advisory at SAP. In his role, Peter is responsible for making SAP and partner products relevant for SAP customers in their various industries. The customer advisory group showcases SAP solutions and consults SAP customers on achieving the business value generated by the SAP portfolio. Peter is passionately driving innovation that makes his customers more successful, and he frequently shares his strategy and insights with SAP customers, partners, press, and analysts. He is regularly invited to deliver keynote speeches and to moderate panel discussions. In strategy meetings, he advises leading customers on becoming intelligent and sustainable enterprises in the experience economy. Peter joined SAP in 1991 as a consultant for the chemical industry, and has held numerous roles in SAP's industry organization. He is a valued expert on trends, challenges, and best practices in the process industries and beyond, and he has earned the trust of strategic customers as an executive sponsor.