Where the Automotive Industry Ignites September 11-13 2018 Marriott at Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI Produced by In collaboration with Host OEM: Message from the Producer To prepare for the fourth annual Best Practices for Automotive conference, an extensive research project took the conference team across North America in a series of focus groups. After meeting with professionals across all automotive sub-segments and surveying hundreds more, top themes like connected manufacturing (Industry 4.0), analytics-based decisions, the need to standardize and embrace change emerged as the most impactful for driving opportunity and growth in today’s complex business environment. With this voice of the customer driving the content, the 2018 Best Practices for Automotive conference will deliver thought-leadership and expert insights on how to stay on the cutting edge by embracing digital technologies and strategies. General Motors, Adient, BMW, Toyota and other leading companies will share their success stories on hot topics like evolving automated technologies, Blockchain General Motors, Adient, and on-demand manufacturing. Plus, SAP will deliver exclusive future-focused roadmap sessions covering the BMW, Toyota and other tools your organization needs to maximize on software and leading companies technology investments. will share their success The event is a key convergence for SAP industry leaders, decision-makers, analysts, users and solution providers. stories on hot topics Tap into the collective wisdom of the community, build lasting relationships with your peers and discover invaluable like evolving automated insights for innovation this September in Detroit! technologies, Katie Walker Blockchain and Conference Researcher & Producer on-demand manufacturing. Produced by In Collaboration with Host OEM: 02 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Featured Speakers The Networked Future: How to Make Mobility Data Work Blockchain for Future of Mobility for Consumers & Businesses Uli Muench Stefan Krauss Nick Pudar Global Vice President, Industry Business General Manager Discrete Industries, SAP Director, Corporate Strategy, General Motors Unit Automotive, SAP Radical Innovation Through BMW’s Cosmic S/4 HANA Success Story Agile Experimentation Mikkel Holm Jensen Jakob Gajdzik Sven Roemer Co-founder, Diplomatic Rebels; Partner, Prehype Project Manager, Finance IT, Partner, Deloitte & (Former) Senior Design Manager, LEGO Group BMW AG Adient’s Ariba Trifecta: Communication, Deployment & Hypercare Gestamp’s Smart Shopfloor: A PoC with Leonardo & a Connected Warehouse Michael Hare Manali Phatak Pablo de la Puente Senior Manager SAP Project Services, Adient Manager IT Business Relationship, Adient Corporate Information Systems Director, Gestamp 03 #BP4Auto Visit auto.bestpracticeconferences.com for a full list of our 2018 speakers Conference Schedule Arrival Day - Tuesday, September 11 3:30 PM Registration Opens 5:00 PM Welcome Reception Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, September 12 7:15 AM Breakfast & Exhibition Viewing The Networked Future: How to Make Mobility Data Work for Consumers & Businesses 8:15 AM Keynote Uli Muench - Global Vice President, Industry Business Unit Automotive, SAP Stefan Krauss - General Manager Discrete Industries, SAP 9:15 AM Keynote Panel Driving Change: Creating the Next Generation of Vehicles 10:00 AM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing INNOVATION SUPPLY CHAIN MANUFACTURING FINANCE General Motors Transforming & Simplified Supply Chain Solution with Drive Digital Transformation with SAP S/4 Central Finance: Goodyear’s Disrupting with SAP Continental Industry 4.0 Journey Towards “One Version of the Dan Mahlebashian - Global Business Mark Mazur - SAP Center of Excellence Frank Platt - Senior Director, Global Truth” 11:00 AM Solutions, Executive Director, Leader, BearingPoint Manufacturing, SAP Jeff Will - Global IT Manager SAP General Motors Continental Speaker Finance CoE, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Otto Schell - SAP Business Architect, Company Opel Satisfying Business Needs Faster with Satisfying Honda Supplier & Returnable Gestamp’s Smart Shopfloor: A Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating the Agility of SAP Fiori UX & Mobile Packaging Requirements Using SAP JIT PoC with Leonardo & a Connected Financial Insights for Automotive Applications Calls & Scanning Warehouse Companies 11:50 AM Onyedika Onwudiwe - SAP CoE Global Alain Grenier - Senior Business System Pablo de la Puente - Corporate Carsten Hilker - Global Solution Owner, Director, Adient Analyst & EDI Coordinator, Waterville TG Information Systems Director, Gestamp S/4HANA Finance (Central Finance), Leonardo De Biasi - Business Heiko Edelmann - President & CEO, PMC SAP Development Director, TechEdge USA America Eric Bramley - Senior Manager, Deloitte 12:30 PM Lunch & Exhibition Viewing Robotic Process Automation: Workshop: Who Moved My Cheese? The Power of Digital Product Navigating Maquiladoras & the Current Goodyear’s Journey into Back-Office What Can Supply Chains do NOW to Platforms: Product Development with NAFTA Environment: Your SAP & Automation Capability Prepare for the Impending Digitization SAP Product Structure Management Financial Systems 1:30 PM Derrill Wakefield - Global IT Director, The Wave? Michael Brolly - Business Systems, Bill Hahn - Principal, Tax - Automotive, PwC Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Martin Rowan - Senior Partner, Reveal Applications & Processes, Caterpillar Brian Vogt - Principal/Partner - Advisory Services, PwC Cybersecurity & Effective Protection of Speeding Ahead: Driving Accuracy, Leveraging S4 Central Finance to Corporate Assets Efficiency & Customer Compliance in Navigate Disruption 2:20 PM Ronald E Fisher - Infrastructure Labeling with SAP & IoT Jared Alamat - Executive Leader, Global Assurance & Analysis Division Director, Soma Venkat - Vice President, Finance Transformation, General Motors National & Homeland Security Information Technology, CooperStandard John Grant - Partner, EmTeeGee Toyota Canada’s Launch to SAP S/4 SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Creating a Global Manufacturing Structuring Success; Harnessing HANA Materials Platform Trusted Answers & Technology Across Kim George - National Manager, Matt Blyth - Vice President, Strategic Nidamaluri Nagesh - Vice President, Regulatory Landscapes to Drive 3:10 PM Enterprise Business Solutions, Toyota Customers - Procurement & Business TechMahindra Competitive Growth Canada Networks, SAP Samir Mehta - Vice President of Digital Chris Carlstead - Managing Director, Mark Swallow - Associate Partner, IBM Transformation, TechMahindra Indirect Tax, Thomson Reuters 3:50 PM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing Radical Innovation Through Agile Experimentation 4:50 PM Special Guest Keynote Mikkel Holm Jensen - Co-founder, Diplomatic Rebels; Partner, Prehype & (Former) Senior Design Manager, LEGO Group 5:30 PM Evening Reception 04 auto.bestpracticeconferences.com | #BP4Auto Conference Schedule Conference Day 2 - Thursday, September 13 8:00 AM Breakfast & Exhibition Viewing 9:00 AM Welcome Blockchain for Future of Mobility 9:10 AM Keynote Nick Pudar - Director, Corporate Strategy, General Motors Connected Vehicles & Delightful Driver Experience Laurens Eckelboom - Vice President, Head of Business Development SAP Vehicles Network, SAP Keynote 9:50 AM Automotive OEM Telco Company Parking Industry Leader 10:30 AM Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing STANDARDIZATION DIGITAL STRATEGY DATA & REPORTING AFTERMARKET BMW’s Cosmic S/4 HANA Success Story Transforming All Spend to Drive Greater BOSCH’s Multi System into One Innovative Dealer Interaction at Jakob Gajdzik - Project Manager Finance & More Sustainable Value Automotive Systems Landscape: Komatsu Enabled by the SAP Cloud IT, BMW AG Pete Komendarek - Corporate Consolidation Made Simple with Platform Sven Roemer - Partner, Deloitte Procurement Controller, Raymond Automation Roger Touhy - SAP Solution Architect, 11:30 AM Corporation Andreas Mellen - IT Manager, BOSCH Komatsu Abhi Mukunda - Corporate Procurement Dr. Steele Arbeeny - Chief Techology Chet Harter - Vice President Digital Analyst & Systems Lead, Raymond Officer, SNP Business Systems, SAP Corporation Driving Standardization & Harmonization Combine Business Networks & Speed Up Your SAP Rollout Without Discussion: How Ford Embraces within BorgWarner Turbo Systems Technology with Electromobility Getting Caught in Data Risks Complexity for Commercial Excellence Lars Berggren - Director Integrated Digital Twins DeAnna Cunningham - Senior IT in Aftermarket Parts Sales & Pricing Business Planning, BorgWarner Turbo Uli Muench - Global Vice President, Manager, CooperStandard Marie Doyle - Global Business Vendavo 12:20 PM Systems Industry Business Unit Automotive, SAP Launch Manager, Ford Motor Company Michelle Nemeth - Process Integration Manager, Ford Motor Company Mitch Lee - Profit Evangelist, Vendavo 1:00 PM Lunch & Exhibition Viewing Adient’s Ariba Trifecta: Communication, Design Thinking to Drive Realizing True Efficiency: Using Dealership Dashboards: Managing Deployment & Hypercare Organizational Change Reporting to Achieve Real-time Through KPI’s Michael Hare - Senior Manager SAP Kelly Stalcup - Organizational Change Global Enablement Pete Kleffner - Senior Director Business Project Services, Adient Consultant, Volkswagen Dana Antoun - IT Leader Americas, Systems, Rush Enterprises 2:00 PM Manali Phatak - Manager IT Business Shannon Finn Connell - Partner, WABCO North America Relationship, Adient EmTeeGee Kelli Long-Sisco - Director of Customer Services, iConnect Inc Reliably Planning