Mark “Godfather” Finnern to Kick Off SAP Inside Track Silicon Valley

One Week Away! … Finalized Agenda! … Exciting News!

The one-and-only SAP Mentor Herder Alumnus Mark Finnern recently announced that he will be kicking off SAP Inside Track Silicon Valley with a special keynote as we convene for the first Silicon Valley Inside Track in years on Saturday, September 12, at HanaHaus in Palo Alto.

If this is your first SAP Inside Track you may not be familiar with SAP Mentors, the shepherds behind the Inside Track series. SAP Mentors are our top community advocates: influencers, bloggers, tweeters, customers, consultants, and technical wizards nominated by the community to engage with all things SAP (and many things beyond).  Mentors came up with the idea for and foster SAP Inside Track programs, and bring hugely valuable perspective and life to SAP in general.

As chief community evangelist while at SAP, Mark Finnern founded the SAP Mentor program and was its Chief Herder until he headed out to The Circus earlier this year.

Mark will be kicking off SAP Inside Track Silicon Valley with a keynote on Playful @ Work, providing a peek at what he’s been up to in life since SAP, and if you know Mark, you know you do not want to miss this.  If you don’t know him, be sure to be there bright and early for your @finnern initiation.

And with that, our agenda is complete and packed with brilliant and varied hot content tied together by the threads of fully engaged SAP community members such as yourselves.

We’ve already told you about Sam Yen and Ray Wang’s sessions. You’ll also hear from our sponsor at Neptune Software Njal Stabell as he talks about what they’ve got going on with HANA Cloud Platform Mobile Services. We’ll then have Pankaj Kumar directly from the HCP Product Management team to dive into the extensions story at the heard of HANA Cloud Platform. In addition, Padman Ramankutty, CEO of Intrigo Systems, a key SAP partner, will be talking about omni-channel, supply chain, and SAP.

Finally, you should know that in addition to taking care of your appetite for learning, we’ll be supplying you with light breakfast starting at 8:30, we’ll feed you lunch, and we’ll give you more information during the day on how and where you can get in on the Nordic after-party, so save your time beyond the close of SITsv into the evening as well.

Bottom line: right in line with today’s hottest SAP topics, expect a full day of content revolving around the disruptions of the digital economy and what it means to, and beyond, SAP and enterprises like us.

We convene bright and early on Saturday, September 12! See you at 8:30 at HanaHaus!

PS: Spaces are filling up but there’s still time to tell your friends about this event! Tell them to get tickets today!

SAP Inside Tracks are SAP community events organized with support from SAP Mentors.

SAP Inside Track Silicon Valley is sponsored by Neptune Software and organized by Njål Stabell and Srini Tanikella.

Additional support is provided by the SAP Mentor program and SAP Mentors Maria Farrales and Moya Watson.

We look forward to seeing you there!