About SAP and SAP Autism at Work

At AutismWork

José H Velasco VP Operations and Strategy

Autism at Work Background In May of 2013, SAP Announced its objective to have 1% its global workforce represented by employees in the autism spectrum. About 650 Jobs SAP Vision Make the World Run Better and Improve People’s Lives

About SAP World Leader in Enterprise Software with 73,000 Employees, presence in 130 Countries, and with more than 280,000 Customers ruining through their SAP systems 75% of the world’s GDP

1 Partners Reality?

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About Autism at Work

2 Partners SAP Announcement

SAP Objective: 1% of Workforce in Autism Spectrum

SAP Autism at Work Roadmap

2013 20152017 2019 2020

LEARN VIA PILOTS AT PROCESS OPTIMIZATION & PROCESS MATURITY LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE SUSTAINABILITY OBJECTIVES ONBOARDING EQUIVALENCY

Create “Good Practices”. From Good to Better Practices From Better to Best Practices. Onboard 3-12 New Colleagues Fine tune processes & scale partnerships The organization has few special with Autism Per Location to reach sustainability objectives processes to hire people with Autism

Change Management Best Practices, Sharing Learnings, Inspire

3 SAP Autism at Work Today

2013-2014 Pilots • 55 Colleagues with Autism In Canada, Ireland, India, Germany, U.S.

• Software Developer • IT Project Management • Information Developer/KM • Customer Support • Software Testing • Graphic Designer • Business Analyst • Media / Communications • IT Technical Support • Data Analyst • System Administrator • Associate Consultant • Marketing Operations Associate

2015 Expansion • 100-120 Employees with ASD Globally by year’s end • New Locations: Brazil and Czech Republic • New Business Units : Success Factors, Ariba, …. • New Roles: HR / Finance-Administration © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 7

In-Spite-of and Because-of Autism

Resiliency, Resourcefulness, and an intense desire to work

Possible Traits in People with Autism

Transparent and Unambiguous Communications

Ability to see patterns, spot deviations in systems/ data

Strong Affinity with Software Development

Attention to details. Perseverance over long periods of time

High diligence and low tolerance for mistakes.

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Autism at Work Impact

ImpactingPartners Our Ability to Capture the Best Talent

Patrick Viesti Elijah Martinez Janis Oberman Project Management Associate Integration Specialist Quality Specialist SAP IT SAP Integration & Orchestration SAP Internet of Things

Before SAP Before SAP Before SAP • Graduated Cum Laude with a • Graduated Cum Laude with a • Master of Arts, Multimedia BA in Communications B.S. in Physics • 25 years of Industry Experience • Unemployed for 2+ years. • Unemployed for 2+ years. • Underemployed for 13 years.

Highlights Highlights Highlights • Speaker at United Nations, • Published SCN documents • Winner of SAP DKOM CBS, Al-Jazeera America seen more than 6,500 times Hackathon @ 11months on Job

5 Partners Impacting Our Community

18 Special Education Teachers from Souderton High School Spent the day at SAP Learning how

Impacting our Team Experience

6 Impacting our Company Identity

Impacting Our Vision to “Make the World Run Better”

EVP Tanja Rueckert with UN Secretary TED Speaker Temple Grandin General Bai Ki-Moon at The United SAP Bay Area Employee Event Nations Autism Awareness Day

Delaware Governor Jack Markel Kicks off Testifying at U.S. Congress Foreign Affairs Committee © 2013 SAP AG. AllAutism rights reserved. at Work Event in Philadelphia Hearing on the “Global Challenge of Autism” 14

7 Impacting New Ways of Thinking TV

CBS This Morning NBC Bay Area CBS Central Texas National Coverage - 4 Million Viewers Regional Coverage Local Coverage

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About Our Partners

8 Our Partners in the United States

GLOBAL

Palo Alto, CA Newtown Square, PA

Process in The United States

1 2 3 4 5 Position Search Candidate Search Soft Skills Training Pre-Employment Administrative at SAP & Pre-Screening & Lego Hangout Training Period

Requisitions Candidate Search 1-Week Soft Skills For Candidates Admin • Developers • Voc. Rehab • Social • 5 Weeks Training • Forms / Paperwork • Software Testers • SAP • Communications For Host Teams • Facilities / IT • Managers / Job •… • Universities, Colleges • Interviewing • Awareness Training Coach Comm. Plan Screening • Disclosure (extended) • … • Support Circle Prep • Phone Interviews For Other Employees • References 1-Day Lego Hangout • Autism Awareness • Meet & Greet (Brief) • Robots & Pizza

4+ weeks 2 weeks 5 weeks 3+ weeks

SAP Specialisterne PA/CA Vocational Rehab. Expandability / The Arc

9 New Employee Support Circles

HR Business Partner

Team Voc-Rehab Manager Counselor

Job / Life New Colleague’s New Colleague’s Personal Team Skills Workplace Personal-Life Counselor Buddy Coach Support Circle Support Circle

AaW Family Mentor

Support Model Transitions

Community Services Trainer Community Services Job Coach SAP Buddy, Manager, HRBP, Mentor

Candidate Success Factors Employee

Coaching 5 Week Candidate First 90 Days of Beyond the first 90 Training Employment Days of Employment

• During this time Candidates are • Selected Candidates become SAP • Employee is supported by Manager, trained at SAP funded by the State Employees Team Buddy, Mentor and Autism at of Pennsylvania or California Work program • Transition Specialist (Job Coach) is • Training is Delivered by available to SAP Manager and • Job Coach is available for any Expandability in Palo Alto or The employees in addition to new situation that may need attention. Arc in Philadelphia colleague

• Training Methodology by • Transition is safeguarded by Specialisterne Expandability in Palo Alto and The Arc In Philadelphia

• Expandability Available 7x24

10 Key Lessons from First Pilot

You Need Strong Partnerships

11 You Need Executive and Employee Support

Rodolpho Carduneto Volunteers

Gradual Immersion Works

Candidate Training

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Direct Indirect All Team Team Employees

12 Improve Process With Help of New Colleagues

People Just Need an Opportunity

13 Myth Busters

PartnersOrganization / Communication

14 SAP and Specialisterne Partners Persistency

Generosity

15 Last Thoughts

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16 We All At Can Be Autism Work