SAP TechEd in Barcelona: Information to make SAP Fiori user experience adoption easier

[PeterSpielvogel]

SAP TechEd season is upon us and Barcelona is coming up soon on October 8-10, 2019. As in SAP TechEd Las Vegas, we will have many great user experience sessions to help you adopt the SAP Fiori UX, regardless of where you are today in your digital transformation journey. We have organized our content into three learning journeys:

• UX1: Become the UX transformation champion in your company


• UX2: Design and develop SAP Fiori apps


• UX3: Implement and run a great UX for your intelligent suite

 

Watch a video that discusses what you will learn at TechEd.



 

The list below contains some of the UX sessions at SAP TechEd Barcelona. For a full list, please visit the session catalog.

 

Date/Time	Session #/Location	Title/Abstract	Speaker
Tuesday October 8, 2019
11: 45 AM -12: 15 PM	UX818	Road Map for SAP Fiori Get a holistic overview of where the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) is heading. Review plans for SAP Fiori 3 along with key technology highlights, for example, for SAP Fiori launchpad or SAP Fiori elements and SAPUI5, as well as an overview of application road maps for SAP Fiori.	Thomas Reiss   Vice President, User Experience and SAP Fiori Product Management   SAP
12: 15 PM – 1:15 PM	UX210	Go Mobile with SAP Cloud Platform Enjoy the same ease of use and convenience using your enterprise software as you experience with your personal mobile apps. Learn how SAP Cloud Platform makes it simpler to go mobile with high-productivity development tools for mobile apps, a microapp creation tool, and rich software development kids (SDKs) for building native iOS and Android apps.	Jitendra Kansal   Senior Product Specialist SAP
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM	UX819	Road Map for User Interface Technology from SAP Get a holistic overview of user interface technologies and tools from SAP, including SAPUI5, SAP Web IDE, SAP Fiori launchpad, and more. This session focuses on how these technologies and tools play together, opening a lively discussion based on questions and interests of the audience.	Nis Boy Naeve   Vice President SAP
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	UX208	Explore SAP Fiori 3 for End-to-End Processes in the Intelligent Enterprise Discover how SAP Fiori 3 user experience (UX) can create a delightful, productive work environment for business end users. Experience how integration scenarios and a simple, consistent UX and interfaces across multiple SAP products improve decision-making and productivity. In other words, discover how SAP Fiori 3 provides a consistent, intelligent and integrated user experience.	Thomas Reiss   Vice President, User Experience and SAP Fiori Product Management   SAP
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	UX109	BP’s Migration Journey to SAP Cloud Platform BP has been going through a major initiative in migrating its on-premise portal and mobile applications, including some business-critical systems for SAP Cloud Platform. These legacy applications have been usually deployed on premise. As part of this migration journey, SAP and BP have been working together to make the transition as smooth as possible using cloud services available through SAP Cloud Platform. BP representatives share their experiences of the ongoing on-premise to cloud	Krish Kumar   SAP Cloud Platform Service Owner   BP International Limited
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM	UX350	Design and Development Bootcamp for SAP Fiori Apps Experience the approach that SAP teams use for design thinking and how to apply the methodology in designing user-centric SAP Fiori apps for your organization. This journey can take you all the way from understanding users to rapidly prototyping your designs for SAP Fiori apps. Get introduced to SAP Fiori elements and see how to use them to accelerate SAP Fiori apps development at scale, help ensure consistency across apps, and keep apps up to date with evolving design guidelines.	Sally Lawler Kennedy   Senior Director Innovation and Design Research   SAP     Joelle El Hayek   Product Manager   SAP
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM	UX820	Road Map for SAPUI5 SAPUI5, a leading user interface (UI) technology to develop enterprise-ready web apps, including SAP Fiori apps. Check how SAPUI5 combines new qualities such as openness, flexibility, and high innovation speed, with established strengths in SAP software, including enterprise readiness and standard support. Get an overview on both new and planned capabilities available in SAPUI5.	Frederic Berg   Vice President SAP Cloud Platform UI Core Services   SAP
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM	UX101	Feel Left Behind? Develop SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 with SAP Web IDE for ABAPers Do you have an ABAP background and are new to working with SAP Fiori user experience and SAP Web IDE for app development on SAP Cloud Platform? Gain an understanding of how SAP Fiori uses SAPUI5 and what knowledge is needed. Learn why using the cloud makes sense and how you can develop easily with SAPUI5 on SAP Cloud Platform. Find out how to connect your on-premise system or work without a cloud connection to test the waters. Get started now with the trial version.	Oliver Graeff   Area Product Manager   SAP
2: 45 PM – 3:15 PM	UX709	UI5 Web Components at Work The framework for SAPUI5 is constantly evolving. UI5 Web Components implement SAP Fiori user experience (UX) out of the box and can be consumed by existing Angular, React or Vue.js stacks using simple HTML. With this framework, you can share proven qualities of SAP Fiori UX and SAPUI5, including theming support across SAP and non-SAP solutions. This session demonstrates how developers can work with UI5 Web Components, independent of the current SAP Fiori UX stack.	Elena Stoyanova   Developer   SAP Labs Bulgaria
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	UX207	SAP Fiori 3 UX and Design-Led-Development of SAP Fiori Apps for SAP S/4HANA Learn how the design-led development process enables the creation of delightful SAP Fiori apps for SAP S/4HANA. Understand the benefits of building on the strong foundation of SAP Fiori elements and SAPUI5. See how the design system for SAP Fiori introduces new concepts and features to improve the overall end-user experience and efficiency.	Emil Voutta   Vice President, SAP Design   SAP
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM	UX103	Develop SAP Fiori Apps Rapidly with Low-Code Development Tools Streamline app development for SAP Fiori by using standard floor plans that cover most scenarios for SAP solutions. Starting with reusable templates, find out how to use elements of SAP Fiori to build apps with a consistent user experience. Use simple annotations to fine-tune the look and feel to suit your audience.	Katja Zoch   Vice President, UX Engineering   SAP
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM	UX 209	Optimize User Experiences with SAP Cloud Platform Services Building exceptional apps to capture new audiences has become a top business priority. Flexible tools are required to innovate in a world where users expect business content in mobile, Web, and conversational channels. Learn how SAP Cloud Platform provides a powerful set of services to deliver these optimal digital experiences. In this session, we help you understand the options you have and connect the dots to make the right choice to develop your business apps.	Nis Boy Naeve   Vice President   SAP
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM	LT113	The Future of SAP Fiori Apps SAP Fiori UX is essential for running an intelligent enterprise. This talk introduces next-generation SAP Fiori apps and best practices to build them. Features include design innovations for SAP Fiori 3 UX as well as technologies to improve performance in SAP Fiori launchpad. Follow evolutionary steps to help secure your investments and leverage the enterprise-proven qualities of SAP Fiori. Understand how these tools can help you make existing custom SAP Fiori apps fit for these innovations.	Frederic Berg   Vice President SAP Cloud Platform UI Core Services   SAP
Wednesday October 9, 2019
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	UX102	Benefits of the Evolution of SAPUI5 and UI5 Web Components SAPUI5 helps ensure best practices for use of SAP Fiori user experience (UX) and beyond, including improved performance with a modularized framework and new tools for developers. To easily adopt qualities of SAP Fiori UX, SAPUI5 is evolving with UI5 Web Components to integrate with other UI technologies. At the same time, SAPUI5 covers qualities such as flexibility and theming, thus protecting your investment in SAP Fiori. Explore how UI5 is evolving, what is available, and what is coming.	Frederic Berg   Vice President SAP Cloud Platform UI Core Services   SAP
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM	UX818	Road Map for SAP Fiori Get a holistic overview of where the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) is heading. Review plans for SAP Fiori 3 along with key technology highlights, for example, for SAP Fiori launchpad or SAP Fiori elements and SAPUI5, as well as an overview of application road maps for SAP Fiori.	Thomas Reiss   Vice President, User Experience and SAP Fiori Product Management   SAP
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM	UX200	Discover New Interaction Paths to SAP Software Unlock the potential of your workforce through an intelligent, intuitive user experience (UX). Tap into the SAP Fiori UX to help users realize their best selves and stay in tune with their digital contexts and preferences. Use a natural UX to enable them to engage in the ways they feel most comfortable, ultimately helping them become more productive.	Vanessa Micelli-Schmidt   Director Strategic UX Innovation   SAP
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM	UX819	Road Map for User Interface Technology from SAP Get a holistic overview of user interface technologies and tools from SAP, including SAPUI5, SAP Web IDE, SAP Fiori launchpad, and more. This session focuses on how these technologies and tools play together, opening a lively discussion based on questions and interests of the audience.	Nis Boy Naeve   Vice President   SAP
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM	UX303	Linde Creates SAP Fiori Apps at Scale with SAP Fiori Elements Global industrial gases and engineering leader Linde uses SAP Fiori elements to build a wide variety of SAP Fiori apps to streamline how its employees use SAP software. During this session, focus on the combination of apps for Overview Page, List Report, Object Page, and Analytical List Page. Discuss how this combination brings together information from Linde’s SAP ERP application and Microsoft SharePoint to enable faster decision-making in an increasingly competitive market.	Wolfgang Lechner   IT Consultant   Linde
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM	UX 261	Develop Apps with SAPUI5 Learn how to build a freestyle app in the cloud using SAPUI5 following our latest recommendations and updated best practices. Develop apps quickly and efficiently with the evolved tools in SAPUI5, including new controls and features and updated application templates. Understand how to structure your app code to get the maximum out of recent and upcoming framework improvements.	Tommy Vinh Lam   Developer   SAP SE     Elena Stoyanova   Developer   SAP Labs Bulgaria
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM	UX203	All You Need to Know About SAP Fiori Launchpad SAP Fiori launchpad provides users a role-based, responsive, central entry point for your business apps. Join this session to learn how to get started with SAP Fiori launchpad in your organization. Learn about the latest product updates and recommendations, the road map towards a central entry point across on-premise and cloud systems, and the latest based on design in SAP Fiori 3 user experience (UX).	Thomas Hensel   Product Expert   SAP SE
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM	UX820	Road Map for SAPUI5 SAPUI5, a leading user interface (UI) technology to develop enterprise-ready web apps, including SAP Fiori apps. Check how SAPUI5 combines new qualities such as openness, flexibility, and high innovation speed, with established strengths in SAP software, including enterprise readiness and standard support. Get an overview on both new and planned capabilities available in SAPUI5.	Frederic Berg   Vice President SAP Cloud Platform UI Core Services   SAP SE
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM	UX350	Design and Development Bootcamp for SAP Fiori Apps Experience the approach that SAP teams use for design thinking and how to apply the methodology in designing user-centric SAP Fiori apps for your organization. This journey can take you all the way from understanding users to rapidly prototyping your designs for SAP Fiori apps. Get introduced to SAP Fiori elements and see how to use them to accelerate SAP Fiori apps development at scale, help ensure consistency across apps, and keep apps up to date with evolving design guidelines.	Sally Lawler Kennedy   Senior Director Innovation and Design Research   SAP     Joelle El Hayek   Product Manager   SAP
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	UX104	Building SAP Fiori Apps Quickly and Simply Empower your business users with a modern, intuitive user experience. Whether you are starting with a transaction in the SAP GUI interface or a new business scenario, SAP has tools to help you build SAP Fiori apps with minimal coding. SAP Screen Personas software helps transform SAP GUI transactions into SAPUI5 apps that run on any device. Elements in SAP Fiori help streamline the app development process with standard templates for the most common application types.	Sebastian Steinhauer   VP UX Engineering   SAP
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM	UX350	Design and Development Bootcamp for SAP Fiori Apps Experience the approach that SAP teams use for design thinking and how to apply the methodology in designing user-centric SAP Fiori apps for your organization. This journey can take you all the way from understanding users to rapidly prototyping your designs for SAP Fiori apps. Get introduced to SAP Fiori elements and see how to use them to accelerate SAP Fiori apps development at scale, help ensure consistency across apps, and keep apps up to date with evolving design guidelines.	Sally Lawler Kennedy   Sr. Director Innovation and Design Research     SAP     Joelle El Hayek   Product Manager   SAP
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM	UX350	Design and Development Bootcamp for SAP Fiori Apps Experience the approach that SAP teams use for design thinking and how to apply the methodology in designing user-centric SAP Fiori apps for your organization. This journey can take you all the way from understanding users to rapidly prototyping your designs for SAP Fiori apps. Get introduced to SAP Fiori elements and see how to use them to accelerate SAP Fiori apps development at scale, help ensure consistency across apps, and keep apps up to date with evolving design guidelines.	Sally Lawler Kennedy   Sr. Director Innovation and Design Research     SAP     Joelle El Hayek   Product Manager   SAP
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM	UX821	Road Map for SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services Get the latest updates on the road map for SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services and related software development kits (SDKs) for mobile service for app protection, development and operations for agents and consumers, and SAP Fiori user experience.	Prakalp Phadnis   Product Expert   SAP SE
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM	UX262	Building Central SAP Fiori Launchpad Sites on SAP Cloud Platform SAP Fiori launchpad on SAP Cloud Platform provides users an intuitive central entry point for multiple SAP products, in the cloud and on premise. Join this hands-on session to learn how to configure SAP Fiori launchpad sites on SAP Cloud Platform in a multicloud environment and how to integrate apps on premise such as SAP S/4HANA and cloud systems. Experience the launchpad experience following the design available in SAP Fiori 3 user experience (UX).	Sibylle Brehm   Senior Product Specialist   SAP     Thilo Seidel   Area Product Owner   SAP SE
Thursday October 10, 2019
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM	UX264	Simplify Development of SAP Fiori Apps for End-to-End Scenarios Build intuitive apps that can delight your workforce and deliver an optimal work experience. Develop standard apps using SAP Fiori elements and one of its floor plans, including list a report page, an object page, an overview page, and an analytical list page. Learn how to apply annotations to personalize the visual appearance of the apps you are developing.	Suneet Agarwal   Development Architect   SAP Labs India     Marcel Wächter   Development Architect   SAP SE
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM	UX263	Develop SAP Fiori Apps from Back End to User Interface This workshop takes you on a journey through developing a transactional SAP Fiori app end to end, starting with back-end data from SAP Business Suite and ending with a functional user interface based on SAP Fiori user experience (UX). Develop in SAP Gateway technology with CDS annotations to expose your data. An SAP Fiori app built with SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori elements in the SAP Web IDE consumes this service. You can then extend this SAP Fiori app through custom logic.	Andre Fischer   Product Manager - SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment & SAP Gateway   SAP     Oliver Graeff   Area Product Mgr   SAP
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	UX202	A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How SAP IT Drives Simplicity Using SAP Fiori Learn how SAP IT is using SAP Fiori to create a simple and light-weight, internal user experience (UX) for more than 96,000 SAP employees worldwide. Gain insight on SAP IT’s app architecture and the implementation of SAP Fiori UX on SAP Cloud Platform. Spiced up with related live demos of various features, this session provides participants with a holistic impression of SAP Fiori UX.	Lena Strifler   IT Technology Consultant   SAP SE
10:30 AM – 12:30 AM	UX363	Design Exemplary User-Centered Applications with the Latest SAP Fiori 3 UX Harness how to create new applications optimized to support employees more effectively in their daily work. Get started with the SAP Fiori 3 user experience (UX) and learn about the processes, methods, and tools that can help you build applications to truly meet your users’ needs.	Emil Voutta   Vice President, SAP Design   SAP     Kai Richter   Chief Designer   SAP
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM	LT114	Implement SAP Fiori Efficiently Out of the Box for SAP S/4HANA SAP Fiori, the new user interface of SAP S/4HANA, provides the single access point to all innovations delivered with SAP S/4HANA. This session shares best practices for implementing SAP Fiori user experience and demos new tools to jump-start your implementation, including out-of-the-box task lists for rapid activation and the content manager.	Sven Krueppel-Berndt   Vice President, SAP Fiori Portfolio and Consumption   SAP
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM	UX104	Building SAP Fiori Apps Quickly and Simply Empower your business users with a modern, intuitive user experience. Whether you are starting with a transaction in the SAP GUI interface or a new business scenario, SAP has tools to help you build SAP Fiori apps with minimal coding. SAP Screen Personas software helps transform SAP GUI transactions into SAPUI5 apps that run on any device. Elements in SAP Fiori help streamline the app development process with standard templates for the most common application types.	Sebastian Steinhauer   VP UX Engineering   SAP
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM	LT116	How SAP is Building a Consistent, Integrated User Experience with SAP Fiori Alexander Lingg, Head of SAP User Experience (UX), and Frederic Berg, Vice President of Cloud Platform Core UI Services, discuss SAP's UX strategy. Find out how their respective organizations work hand in hand to build a consistent, integrated, and delightful user experience for the intelligent enterprise using SAP Fiori UX technologies.	Alexander Lingg SVP, Head of SAP User Experience, SAP Frederic Berg Vice President SAP Cloud Platform UI Core Services, SAP
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM	UX350	Design and Development Bootcamp for SAP Fiori Apps Experience the approach that SAP teams use for design thinking and how to apply the methodology in designing user-centric SAP Fiori apps for your organization. This journey can take you all the way from understanding users to rapidly prototyping your designs for SAP Fiori apps. Get introduced to SAP Fiori elements and see how to use them to accelerate SAP Fiori apps development at scale, help ensure consistency across apps, and keep apps up to date with evolving design guidelines.	Sally Lawler Kennedy   Senior Director Innovation and Design Research   SAP     Joelle El Hayek   Product Manager   SAP
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM	UX361	SAP Fiori for Rapid Activation of SAP S/4HANA and Content Configuration During this session, learn and experience how to efficiently implement SAP Fiori launchpad for SAP S/4HANA, using the latest tools for scoping, rapid activation, and content customization. SAP Fiori launchpad includes a design concept and user interface area that displays user-specific information such as profile details, settings and preferences, available apps, and recently visited objects and apps.	Carola Steinmaier   Product Expert   SAP SE     Sven Krueppel-Berndt   Vice President, SAP Fiori Portfolio and Consumption   SAP
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM	UX265	Bring the Full SAP Fiori User Experience to Your Screens in SAP GUI This hands-on session gives you an chance opportunity to transform screens in the classic SAP GUI interface in SAP S/4HANA into simple, role-based, adaptive designs using SAP Fiori UX without coding. The focus of this session presents how to use SAP Screen Personas software to make complex screens in SAP GUI more intuitive. This proven approach improves user productivity, reduces training time, and increases data quality with minimal load on your IT team.	Sebastian Steinhauer   VP UX Engineering   SAP     Katja Zoch   Vice President, UX Engineering   SAP
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM	LT112	SAP Fiori 3 UX and the Intelligent Enterprise Experience Learn all essentials about the latest evolution of the design system for SAP Fiori 3 user experience (UX). Explore how SAP end-users can benefit from such innovations as an enterprise-ready mobile experience, conversational user interfaces. and embedded artificial intelligence.	Emil Voutta   Vice President, SAP Design   SAP
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	UX103	Develop SAP Fiori Apps Rapidly with Low-Code Development Tools Streamline app development for SAP Fiori by using standard floor plans that cover most scenarios for SAP solutions. Starting with reusable templates, find out how to use elements of SAP Fiori to build apps with a consistent user experience. Use simple annotations to fine-tune the look and feel to suit your audience.	Katja Zoch   Vice President, UX Engineering   SAP
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM	UX260	Create Analytical SAP Fiori Apps Quickly and Efficiently Make cost-efficient usage of embedded analytics by using one of the SAP Fiori elements, the Analytical List Page floor plan. Explore how different annotations can change the look, feel, and behavior of the floor plan to meet your business requirements and enable you to rapidly create impressive analytical apps.	Mariana Naboka   Product Expert   SAP SE     Yuval Morad   Product Owner Web IDE   Labs ISR
SAP Showcase Sessions (All day, October 8 – 10)
All day	40	Experience Innovation Using SAP Fiori UX Examine our vision for how new interaction paradigms powered by cutting-edge technology can let SAP Fiori user experience (UX) intelligently adapt to individuals. See how you can personally experience SAP Fiori UX using neurofeedback devices that analyze how different visualizations and designs affect your way of processing information. Find out how we can revolutionize workplace learning using the same technology. Try controlling next-generation SAP Fiori 3 UX hands-free, using just your eyes.	N/A
All day	41	The Future of User Interaction Understanding intent-based interaction and seeing the context helps in many complex business situations. For example, our prototype shows how a semantic network across systems can simplify elaboration of decision templates. Get to know a user experience (UX) study on how SAP can integrate Qualtrics software into our own applications. By bringing end-users closer to the design and development of our products, SAP is taking a leap toward continuously improving product experience	N/A
All day	42	Build Simple SAP Fiori Apps for Complex Transactions Management of sales orders using SAP S/4HANA Cloud is one of SAP’s most adopted solution capabilities. Our cloud strategy dictates that we offer simplicity to our customers, from CTOs to end-users, even for the most complex data and processes. The SAP Fiori user experience (UX), intuitive and highly performance-oriented, promotes higher end-user productivity. Find out how characteristics such as simple, yet powerful and flexible, optimally support professional users in doing their jobs.	N/A
All day	43	Design and Develop SAP Fiori Apps Join our discussion on designing and developing SAP Fiori apps. Meet experts who can provide details on the next-generation SAP Fiori 3 user experience (UX); SAPUI5, the UI development toolkit for HTML5; and SAP Web IDE, an application development experience based on SAPUI5. SAP Fiori elements offer predefined patterns such as pages to simplify UI development of SAP Fiori apps, and SAP Screen Personas provides browser-based screen add-ons for personalizing user interfaces for SAP solutions.	N/A
All day	44	Implement, Run, and Mobilize SAP Fiori UX Join our discussion on implementing, running, and mobilizing SAP Fiori user experience (UX). Meet experts on SAP Fiori UX out of the box and SAP Fiori launchpad, which enables access to SAP Fiori apps from one single entry point to user-specific information such as profile details, settings, and preferences. SAP Cloud Platform Portal service and SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services provide access to the SAP Cloud Platform marketplace, cockpit tiles, diagrams, or graphics for the digital workplace.	N/A
All day	46	SAP Design Thinking Experience the SAP Design Thinking approach in this interactive hands-on session on SAP Fiori user experience (UX), which provides a consistent UX across devices. SAP Fiori elements foster UX consistency and increase development efficiency and maintainability across releases. The SAP Analytics Cloud solution provides business intelligence and predictive analytics capabilities. Explore how these SAP offerings promote a business technology platform, an innovation culture, and customer co-innovation.	N/A

 

For the SAP UX Engineering team, Peter Spielvogel.