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Join Us on October 17th!

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With advancements in technology, evolutions in workforce expectations, and unprecedented threats, the work of the federal government is constantly changing. Each year, leaders are tasked with protecting their role as stewards to the American people and challenged to rethink how government meets this mission.

Join us on Tuesday, October 17th for an illuminating journey into the current dynamics of the federal government, its leadership's foremost priorities, and compelling case studies showcasing transformative initiatives. This captivating experience promises to empower you with a profound understanding of how seasoned professionals are addressing disruptions in the supply chain, pioneering innovative applications of data analytics and machine learning, and enhancing the overall employee experience. Our lineup of breakout sessions for this year includes:

  • Journey to an Intelligent Enterprise, Track 1: A pragmatic vision for digital transformation.
  • Human Experience Management, Track 2: Enhancing employee well-being, tackling workforce challenges, and harnessing technology for HR improvement.
  • Federal Supply Chain Management, Track 3: Streamlining supply chain operations, with a focus on industry-specific solutions tailored for the public sector.

You won’t want to miss these forward-thinking sessions and spotlight moments featuring leaders from both government and industry who are leading the way in transformation and resilience.

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Details

Registration & Networking:
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. ET
Program:
9:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m. ET

October 17, 2023

Nationals Park
1500 S Capitol St SE
Washington D.C. 20003

Free for Government and Military*

for industry attendance, please contact Ben Henning for sponsorship details: ben.henning@sap.com

*must provide valid .gov/.mil email address for government registration.

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Agenda

8:00 AM

Registration/Networking/Breakfast

9:00 AM

Opening/Housekeeping Remarks

9:15 AM

Embracing the Digital Age: Reshaping Government for a Tech-Driven Future

Technology is transforming the way we live, work, connect, and everything in between. Industry executives and federal government experts alike face unprecedented challenges, and opportunities, in capitalizing on the new momentum as they race towards a bigger, better, more impactful 21st century government. It’s clear everyone’s eyes are on the future. The question remains: what does the future hold?

9:45 AM

Completing the Puzzle for Digital Transformation at Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is in the early stages of a multi-year effort (known as the One LMX Transformation Program [1LMX]) to transform mission-critical business systems. By leveraging data as a strategic asset, enabling a model-based enterprise that spans the full product value chain, and streamlining systems and processes to both grow and run the business, Lockheed Martin is taking the lead in forging a more resilient, secure, and modernized supply chain for the nation’s defense industrial base. To do this, Lockheed Martin is leveraging RISE with SAP to expand its enterprise cloud capabilities and introduce the tools needed to implement core business processes in managed FedRAMP-compliant cloud environments. These solutions will provide Lockheed Martin with a secure innovation platform on which to develop emerging technologies and enhance its strategic data management and analytics objectives.

10:15 AM

Deploying ERP to Improve Audit Readiness, Financial Reporting, and IT Controls

The United States Navy faces multiple challenges today, from the transformation of financial, HR and IT systems to the impact of geopolitical conditions on its strategic and operational initiatives. Representatives from IBM, SAP, and the U.S. Navy will discuss how retiring legacy systems and deploying modern Enterprise Resource Planning systems can help the Navy fulfill not only its policy directives, but also its mission-critical goals to transform and modernize Audit, Financial Reporting, and IT controls.

10:35 AM

Break & Transitions

10:45 AM

Breakout Sessions 1

Track 1: The Path to a Modern Enterprise

Modernizing your ERP presents the opportunity to rethink the data and business processes you need to support your mission operations for the next decade. There are many roads to cloud modernization, each unique, complex, and filled with lessons learned. Hear from federal leaders at varied points on their modernization path, as they share their approaches, insights and lessons learned.

Track 2: Scaling Agile for SAP with SAFe – The Army CECOM Shared Services Center Story

When the Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) is working --- silos come down and teams deliver greater value with more confidence. Getting to “great” takes leadership and workforce transformation. Learn how the Army set the conditions to improve IT governance and create a culture of greater transparency and collaboration. Applying SAFe to five large SAP systems (that support business functions, like finance, logistics, and supply chain) has helped leaders and their teams understand system interdependencies, accelerate service delivery, and improve program impact across the enterprise.

Track 3: A Commander’s Reflections on Leading Digital Change

Join the former commander of the Royal Canadian Navy to hear lessons learned on their journey to leverage digital capability across the spectrum of operations to include logistics and sustainment operations.

11:15 AM

Break & Transitions 

11:25 AM

Breakout Sessions 2

Track 1:Army Modernization

The Army is undergoing digital transformation to enable an Intelligent Enterprise and ensure competitive advantage over peer and near peer adversaries. The convergence of digital initiatives provides the opportunity to transform data into knowledge for underlying insights and decision making across the spectrum of warfighting functions and day to day operations management. In this session, join BG Jake Kwon as he discuss how a digital supply chain and the integration of business systems drives the Army towards digital dominance.

Track 2: Amtrak – Transformational Journey to Core HR

With a growing and diverse population, a global climate crisis and longer traffic jams, America needs a rail network that offers frequent, reliable, sustainable, and equitable train services. In order to deliver such high standards to its customers, learn from Amtrak why they selected SAP SuccessFactors as a partner on their path to Core HR.

Track 3: Exploring the Modern Supply Chain

Transparency, resiliency, and sustainability are top of mind for federal leaders seeking to modernize their supply chains and deliver next-generation citizen services. Though no shortage of solutions exist, and myriad tools for deployment are available, many leaders remain at a crossroads on what’s next- everything from proper research and execution to properly assessing metrics for supply chain success and impact before they even begin. In this session, join public and private sector experts as they explore how they're building and preparing for the modern supply chain.

11:55 AM

Break & Transitions

12:00 PM

Networking & Lunch

12:50 PM

Breakout Sessions 3

Track 1: Follow the Budget: A Journey from Planning to Execution

Execution of the annual budget often requires managers to develop detailed spend plans that may not be recorded in the core financial system. Spreadsheets are a common solution. In this session, join federal leaders as they explain the tools, technologies, and strategies necessary for a smart and productive budgeting model. They will uncover ways to support development and tracking of detailed plans in order to compare actual results in real time.

Track 2: Using SuccessFactors to Optimize Navy Operations

Members of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory HR Information Technology team will address their SuccessFactors implementation story. Unique challenges and translatable lessons learned regarding project components such as pre-implementation planning, government approvals, resource planning and change management will be a part of this discussion. NNL will also discuss their late-phase critical path hyperfocus which led to a successful simultaneous launch of several SuccessFactors modules.

Track 3: DLA Warehouse Supply Chain Management Rollout

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Disposition Services plays a critical role in creating the most value out of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) inventory. Learn more about how DLA is revolutionizing its warehouse management system operations by adopting SAP standard processes, and accelerating system deployments that are critical to creating successful global logistics strategies.

1:20 PM

Transition Break

1:30 PM

Breakout Sessions 4

Track 1: Excellence in Action: Real-world Examples of Effective Data Utilization

Hear how public sector leaders are providing innovative capabilities to support their mission objectives using advanced data management and reporting capabilities. Explore how they're modernizing their systems and simplifying processes to collect, analyze and distribute information that is accurate, timely and relevant.

Track 2: ARMY DEVCOM, Modernizing HR at the Army

The past few years have shown us that change is a certainty. Hear from the HR Leadership team from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. They are responsible to hire, develop and retain a team of world-class scientists, engineers, analysts, technicians, and support staff who are fully focused on empowering America’s Soldiers today and in the future. Learn about their HR Modernization Strategy and its impact on eliminating boundaries and opening talent pools that were previously untapped.

Track 3: Procurement in the Cloud: Best Practices for Acquiring Modern Services and Technology

In an era defined by the swift and unprecedented progress of technology, organizations are confronted with a multitude of both opportunities and challenges. Traditional procurement methods, once the bedrock of reliability, dictate processes that are not responsive enough to meet the demands of our modern, interconnected world. Hence, the imperative to advance and modernize procurement strategies has become increasingly significant, not only for optimizing operations but also for enabling the government to access innovations that enhance delivery on mission priorities During this session, public sector leaders will discuss their organizations' journeys toward modernizing procurement. From navigating complex regulatory landscapes to wholeheartedly embracing agile practices, they will candidly share the strategies and tactics that have empowered them to maintain their leading position in the realm of procurement excellence.

2:00 PM

Transition Break

2:10 PM

Breakout Sessions 5

Track 1: UiPath: The Foundation of SAP Modernization

Learn how UIPath enables organizations to automate routine tasks with robotic process automation. Hear about UIPath’s process mining tools, providing insight into how business processes actually execute in systems to identify bottlenecks, opportunities for automation, and control issues.

Track 2: AI & The Future of Work

Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming the most impactful technology of our era. In this session, Dan Hopkins of Eightfold.ai and Scott Sumner of the Defense Innovation Unit will make the case for responsible AI in the workforce, how it is a force for good, how it can uniquely solve skills-based hiring initiatives, optimize up-skilling and re-skilling, and advanced diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility within agencies and across government.This session will highlight cutting edge use cases currently being deployed with AI and how extending your SAP system with an AI system of intelligence can enhance and extend your SAP deployment.

Track 3: Logistics Reinvented: DLA's End-to-End System for Military Readiness

DLA is creating a more efficient, effective and reliable supply chain to better support the military services and America’s warfighters. Accenture is transforming DLA’s multiple logistics systems into a single, integrated end-to-end system, which will extend business functions based on leading practices with SAP charting DLA’s future for modernization.

2:25 PM

Transition Break

2:35 PM

Defining our Path Forward, Together

The future of the federal government is riddled with new opportunities and challenges for leadership from overcoming supply chain disruptions, rethinking new applications of data analytics and artificial intelligence, and everything in between. In the years ahead, how are leaders prioritizing their goals and strategizing for a future-focused government? Who is setting the tone for where the road ahead leads?

3:05 PM

RISE with SAP 2023: SAP's Cloud Strategy and Supporting our Federal Customers' Digital Transformation Journey

Leveraging cloud capabilities across an enterprise expands opportunities to drive innovation while optimizing decades of established business processes, with the aim of improving core operations and driving business transformation. This session will outline RISE with SAP which helps organizations strategically refactor and transform their enterprises in order to take advantage of innovations provided by SAP and its vast ecosystem. Specific key elements of RISE with SAP include SAP S/4HANA cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, business process transformation solutions, and SAP’s sovereign cloud delivery option for the defense industrial base.

3:45 PM

Closing Remarks

This moment will serve as a cohesive culmination of the day's content, encapsulating the key insights, discussions, and learnings that have unfolded throughout our time together. Moreover, it will also mark the exciting announcement of the networking reception, where you can engage with fellow attendees, speakers, and organizers, fostering valuable connections and discussions.

3:55 PM

Networking Reception

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Speakers

Mike Abrashoff

Mike Abrashoff

Former Commander
USS Benfold & Author

Michelle Bartoli

Michelle Bartoli

Chief, Budget and Finance, National Security Division
DOJ

Patrick Breen

Patrick Breen

Senior Procurement Executive & Director, Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Support
NSF

Adrian Carter

Adrian Carter

Chief Enterprise Architect, OCFO
USDA

Traci DiMartini

Traci DiMartini

CHCO
IRS

Ms Michelle Dirner

Ms. Michelle Dirner

Associate Director, Army SSC
APG MD

Amber Ferguson

Amber Ferguson

Chief, Data Analytics and Integration Office
U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM)

Elizabeth Groover

Elizabeth Groover

Chief, Talent Management & Development
Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM)

Aaron Kirkham

Aaron Kirkham

Warehouse Management System Program Manager
Defense Logistics Agency

Chris Kraft

Chris Kraft

Assistant Administrator, Financial Systems
FEMA

Brig Gen Jake Kwon

Brig Gen Jake Kwon

Director of Strategic Operations (IMA) Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7
Army Reserve

Admiral Lloyd

Admiral Lloyd

35th Commander
Royal Canadian Navy (fmr)

Shon Lyblanovits

Shon Lyblanovits

C-SCRM, PMO Lead
CISA

Katie McCulloch

Katie McCulloch

Director, Business Integration Office
DOI

Sean Morse

Sean Morse

Economic Indicators Division
US Census Bureau

Ghazal Parsa

Ghazal Parsa

AVP, HR Service Delivery & Transformation
Amtrak

Dr. Jeffrey Pullen

Dr. Jeffrey D. Pullen, PMP

Associate Director, Financial Systems, Justice Management Division
DOJ

Greg Puorto

Greg Puorto

Human Resources Information Technology Manager
Naval Nuclear Laboratory (FMP)

Stephanie Studds

Stephanie Studds

Assistant Associate Director, Economic Indicators Division/EID
US Census Bureau
*pending approval

Scott Sumner

Scott Sumner

Technical Program Manager, AI/ML Portfolio
Defense Innovation Unit

Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Thomas

Director, Acquisition and Grants Office
NOAA

Cherie Vullo

Cherie Vullo

Leader, Talent Acquisition & Workforce StrategyLeader, Talent Acquisition & Workforce Strategy
Naval Nuclear Laboratory (FMP)

Frank Wilde

Frank Wilde

Deputy Director, EBS-MFCT,
US Army

Maria Barcarse

Maria Barcarse

Director, NA Center of Excellence
SAP

Tami Becker

Tami Becker

Head of Global RISE, New Markets and Programs
SAP

Brig Gen (ret) Carl Buhler

Brig Gen (ret) Carl Buhler

CEO
Buhler Consulting

Leslie Casson-Stevens

Leslie Casson-Stevens

IVA, Federal
SAP

Greg Chapman

Greg Chapman

RVP Federal
SAP

Aaron Dechario

Aaron Dechario

Navy Global Account Leader,
SAP

Derek Dyer

Derek Dyer

CFO and Co-Founder
C5MI

Shane Gorman

Shane Gorman

Chief Operating Officer, Business Technology Platform
SAP

Mike Hofer

Mike Hofer

HR Transformation Executive
SAP SuccessFactors

Dan Hopkins

Dan Hopkins

VP, Global Public Sector
Eightfold.ai

Max Kroschwitz

Max Kroschwitz

Account Executive
SAP

Harish Luthra

Harish Luthra

CEO
SAP NS2

John McGurrin

John McGurrin

Global Vice President - Procurement, Supply Chain and Business Networks
SAP

Dan Miller

Dan Miller

Director Defense Solutions
SAP

Tony Montana

Tony Montana

Federal SAP Service Area Leader,
IBM

Seán Morris

Seán Morris

Principal
Deloitte

Greg Rietzke

COO Regulated Industries
SAP

Adam Rosenbaum

Adam Rosenbaum

Director, Public Sector Alliances & Business Development
Tricentis

Constance Sayers

Constance Sayers

Chief Revenue Officer
GovExec

Todd Schroeder

Todd Schroeder

Vice President, Public Sector
UiPath

Sarah Taylor

Sarah Taylor

S/4HANA Center of Excellence Solutions Expert
SAP

Brooke Williams

Brooke Williams

Vice President,
SAP Business Network

 
 
 
 
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Getting Here

Travel


Attendees can take the Green Line to the Navy Yard station or the Orange, Blue or Silver Lines to the Capitol South station. The Navy Yard station is just a block away from Nationals Park, and the Capitol South station is a 15 minute walk to and from Nationals Park.

Parking


Complimentary parking in Garage C at Nationals Park is available for guests driving to the ballpark. The garage is located at the corner of N Street SE and First Street SE with the vehicle entrance on First Street SE. When entering the garage, drivers will need to let the parking attendant know that they are there for the event. Guests are encouraged to park near the elevator banks located on each level on the plaza side of the garage. Once parked, take the elevators or stairs down to "PL" (Plaza) which is street level. From there, guests will enter the ballpark through the small red tent with a white "curly W" where event security will be located for entry screening.

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PRESENTED BY

SPONSORED BY

DIAMOND

IBM

PLATINUM

Accenture Federal Services
Ernst & Young

GOLD

UiPath
C5MI
Deloitte
cBeyondData
Eightfold AI
Tricentis

SILVER

Cognitus
NS2
Collibra
Dell Technologies
DocuSign
Zebra

BREAKFAST

Resolve Tech Solutions

LUNCH AND LANYARDS

groundswell

NETWORKING

Carahsoft

BATTING PRACTICE

KPMG