Event Information
SAP TechEd in 2020 – A Guide
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How to Get the Most Out of SAP TechEd
In this blog you will find some suggestions about how to get the most out the SAP TechEd in 2020 virtual event. For insights and session recommendations from the experts, see Questions? Post as comment. Useful? Give us a like and share on social media. Thanks! Latest update: December 11, 2020 | |
Replays
Event Site
You can watch the replays from the SAP TechEd Event site.
- sap.to/TE2020 | Session Catalog | FIlter = On Demand
Small print: sessions are available on demand but not workshops or the expert Q&A’s.
YouTube
Playback is also available from the SAP TechEd YouTube channel.
News
SAP TechEd News Guide
All the announcements in one place
Event Site
For the official event site, go to
SAP News Center
For corporate news coverage, visit
The official hashtag for the event is #SAPTechEd.
For live streaming
About SAP TechEd
FW1H
- Who: you
- What: SAP TechEd in 2020, SAP’s annual technology education event.
- When: December 8–10, 2020
- Where: online
- Why: Get insights on SAP technology, development, and future trends
- How (much): no charge; just sign up here
Sign-up is required. If you want to participate in the hands-on labs it is first-come, first serve with limited capacity with a two workshop limit per attendee.
Apart from access to the sessions (presentations) and workshops, signing up also provides free access to SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd including a >50% discounted rate on SAP Global Certification (see below).
Cheat Sheet
New to the event? You are welcome!
In case you feel a little overwhelmed by all the SAPanese, jargon, and lingo, here is a cheat sheet to sort it out.
24th Edition
The SAP Technical Developers Conference was first held in 1996 in Orlando, Florida during SAPPHIRE. This evolved into an annual event with conferences in Europe, the US, and Asia. The last decade it has been hosted from three location, mostly Las Vegas, Barcelona, and Bangalore, for 3-4 days.
For the nostalgics, see
Sign Up / Log In
Learn how to sign up, build your schedule and get the most out of more than 500 sessions available.
Before you can sign-up for the event, you need an SAP ID service account, also free, and if you have interacted with SAP in any way in the past you probably already have one (e.g. your SAP Community account) but if not, here is how.
Tracks and Sessions
This year, the tracks nicely map to the latest Business Technology Platform update which, as you may recall, is an integrated offering comprised of four technology portfolios:
- Database and data management
- Application development and integration
- Analytics
- Intelligent technologies
The 4 BTP tracks have been complemented, like last year, with tracks about the Intelligent Suite and digital transformation. New are the Customer Experience and Partner Community tracks.
Session Catalog
For an overview of the tracks and sub-tracks with session recommendations see
Learning Journeys
Those familiar with SAP training will have completed Learning Journeys before. For those new, here is a briefing: What are Learning Journeys?
Tracks
There is a Learning Journey for each of the tracks
- Analytics
- Application Development and Integration
- Customer Experience
- Database and Data Management
- Digitial Transformation with Intelligent ERP
- Integrated Intelligent Suite
- Intelligent Technologies
Business Technology Platform
In addition, two Learning Journeys help you to familiarise yourself with BTP.
Certification
For those brave enough to attempt a certification, four additional Learning Journeys have been made available.
- SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori Applications
- ABAP Programming for SAP HANA
- SAP Cloud Platform Integration
- SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Extensions
Hands-On Workshops
During the Event
120-minute hands-on experience led by SAP product managers and developer in a small group virtual settings.
For the exercises, select the workshop from the catalog
The code samples of a number of workshops is made available on GitHub
SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd
SAP TechEd Learning Room
Attendees have free access to the SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd.
The learning room is available until Mar 31, 2021.
For more information, see
Certification Discount
The subscription includes a >50% discounted rate on SAP Global Certification. The offer is limited and available on a first come, first serve bases. Offering valid from Dec 1st to Dec 31st, 2020.
Should you experience any issues with the offer, best to post your questions to the learning room directly for best service.
Main Stage and Show Floor
Event Site
The keynotes, strategy talks, Q&A sessions, and other show floor content comes from the studio this year.
SAP Community Blogs
Follow the Tag
For the SAP Community blog posts on the topic, use the SAP TechEd tag. You can follow the tag to get notified.
SAP TechEd Replays
YouTube
Replays are available on the event site and YouTube.
openSAP
For the two previous editions, openSAP made a recap course available after the event with about 20 sessions. You can still watch the highlights on openSAP.
No information yet about a 2020 edition.
SAP PRESS
Event Discount
SAP PRESS is offering a special conference discount: 15% on any active books and E-Bites when you use the code TECHED20 at checkout. The offer begins on December 8 and ends on December 10 at 11:59 PM PDT.
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@ Jelena Perfiljeva | as promised
Phew .. thanks ... that was really overdue.
Q: What is the schedule?
I see „December 8–10, 2020“ and „48h Event“ ... that seems to not fit together.
As the event this year covers all times zones the date (dec8-10) is much more than 48h.
Having a more detailed schedule (start/end) would be helpful to plan accordingly.
Christian
Good questions, Christian Braukmüller !
When I know more I’ll update the blog accordingly. Note that this is just a humble community contribution, all official communication is through the event site events.sap.com/teched-global.
The 48 hours, as I understand it, refers to Channel 1.
For most timezones the 48 hours are Dec 8 -10, and it will be around the 48 hours, plus if you miss something we make sure there is access to the content after.
Thanks for this Denys! Note there will be access to a limited edition of SAP Learning Hub scaled specifically for TechEd. Looking forward to the exciting new format!
Thanks Jessica for mentioning: I have updated the blog accordingly.
As many others looking forward to more details on the program 😉
I am a bit worried regarding the upcoming virtual experience having the 'Sapphire NOW Reimagined' in June, as well as the 'ASUG Best Practices' in September in mind. Crossing fingers for your setup.
If you in some way can "engage" and interact with us listeners during the session, I strongly encourage you to do so. Real-time feedback tools like Kahoot! or Mentimeter "actually works" 😉
Thanks. I looked into SAP Teched website but could not find any link for registration and also searched in SAP Learning Hub. Please provide required URL for registration if I am missing anything.
FW1H
Hello Denys,
Appreciate your efforts in writing out this blog. Its really helpful. Thanks for that.
However, I'm further interested to know more about SAP Certification options in this SAP Tech Ed. Could you bring more light on this ?
Cheers,
Amit Bharti
Hi Amit,
To my knowledge, as of yet SAP TechEd never included any certification specials during the event.
Denys thanks for the info.
“If you want to participate in the hands-on labs it is first-come, first serve with limited capacity with a two workshop limit per attendee.”
I understand these limitations when in person, but why these stringent limits for a virtual event?
Hi Ivan, Good question! Maybe my colleagues at the event can respond. Will ask.
How to avail TechEd 50% Certification offer ? Really excited going to attend first time and planning for certification also same here let's wait and enjoy
Hi Ravi Shankar Lakshminarayanan,
Thanks for pointing this out; I will add the reference to the blog
https://events.sapteched.com/pages/sap/sapteched2020/explore
Thanks for your time and effort! Just one more thing by using this option we can register for certification from Dec 1st only, Correct me if I am wrong.
The SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd opens December 1st until March 31st and you get two attempts at 50% I understand from the small print. More information will be available soon, no doubt, once the site is available.
Hi Denys,
This blog has been very very helpful in choosing the tracks and sessions for the TechEd days. I was looking for information on how to place request for "on demand" sessions - presumably people should be demanding those in some way. Could you please share the process if you come across the same.
Donka just posted this, sharing here in my query for fellow SAP-ers
14 OnDemand Workshop sessions at SAP TechEd 2020 available for all of you! | SAP Blogs
If we purchase certification on Dec1, it contains any validity? Let's say we need to complete bedore TechED complete(Dec 08-10) ? If there is any restrictions kindly let me know.
Thanks in advance for your time and effort.
Hi Ravi,
Best to reach out to the Learning Hub for specific questions.
Communicated is that SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd opens December 1st until March 31st and you get two attempts at 50%.
There is no reference to the event dates (12/8-10).
Hi Denys,
The Global certification is not available for the country India
Hi Kumar,
The offer starts today (Dec 1st).
For questions, best to ask on the Learning Hub directly.
Hi Denyas,
if i cleared exam in 1st Attempt so can i appear for another exam for 2nd attempt as SAP offering 2 attempt.
Pls confirm.
Hi Nitesh, best to post this question on the TechEd 2020 Learning Room of SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd directly.
Hai Denys,
I purchase two attempts using the campaign code, till now I didn't receive a confirmation from SAP.
Please Suggest
Thanks in advance,
Arun Selvaraj
Hi Arun,
For personal assistance, best to post questions on the TechEd 2020 Learning Room of SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd directly.
My colleagues there should be able to help you out.
Hai Denys,
Thanks
Will It Be abap or node.js as our backend in future ?
Tune in into https://events.sapteched.com/widget/sap/sapteched2020/Catalog/session/1602555753134001up73 to find out