What to Expect at Sapphire 2026
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The SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Orlando is right around the corner – are you ready?
While SAP Sapphire’s themes remain familiar, the real value comes from how those ideas take shape across each track. Viewed together, they signal where SAP is placing its bets: practical AI, stronger data foundations, and platforms built to support execution. SAP’s 2026 Orlando materials also point to an event focused on making AI more usable in the flow of work, with Joule positioned more prominently in that story.
We’re also expecting to hear additional updates about SAP’s aquisition of Reltio and what’s in store for SAP S/4HANA Cloud for GxP in the year ahead.
What to Expect
Here’s a breakdown of what to expect at Sapphire 2026 and where to spend your time.
AI Foundation
What took shape as vision-setting in 2025 now feels much more focused on execution. This track is where SAP is expected to show how AI fits into everyday work, especially through Joule and automation that can respond to business context in a more useful way.
Sessions to consider:
- Accelerating time to value from AI concept to live deployment
- Activating agentic AI: The 2026 guide for proven business ROI
- Get started with SAP AI Core on SAP Business Technology Platform
- Building trust in AI: Digital sovereignty for responsible AI
Business Data Cloud
This is where the AI conversation becomes more tangible. The Business Data Cloud track focuses on the data foundation required to make AI usable across the enterprise, with particular attention on architecture, governance, and timely access to insight.
Sessions to prioritize:
- Accelerate insights across your organization with SAP Business Data Cloud
- Uncover the benefits of modern master data management
- SAP Business Data Cloud: Future innovations in data, AI, and analytics
- SAP Business Data Cloud: Innovation road map for data and AI
- How to get started with data products in SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP Business Suite
This track is less about product messaging and more about how SAP is reframing the enterprise operating model. The emphasis is on connecting applications with data and AI in ways that feel more unified across the business.
Sessions to prioritize:
- Driving SAP Business Suite expansion: Lead with AI
- Scaling AI: Enterprise AI fabric built on Joule Assistants and Joule Agents
- SAP ECC to SAP Business Suite: Migration strategies and cloud insights
Business Technology Platform (BTP)
BTP still serves as the foundation, but the conversation has evolved. Rather than explaining what the platform is, SAP appears more focused on what organizations can do with it now, especially around integration, development, and AI-driven extensions.
Sessions to prioritize:
- Getting started with SAP BTP
- Quick wins with SAP BTP: Starter use cases that deliver business value
- Becoming a future-ready enterprise with SAP BTP
- AI on SAP BTP: What’s new, what’s next, and why it matters
- Explore strategy and future road map for SAP BTP
- From pilots to powerhouse: Scaling AI in cloud ERP with SAP BTP
Business Transformation Management
This track takes a wider view. It focuses less on the technology itself and more on what it takes to move transformation forward, from governance decisions to architecture alignment and execution.
Sessions to prioritize:
- Ten ways WalkMe solutions speed up adoption and ROI
- Build a transformation capability that delivers measurable value
- Navigating the era of AI-native enterprise architecture with SAP LeanIX
- Accelerate ERP transformation with the AI-enabled integrated toolchain
Cloud ERP
This remains one of the most important tracks because it sits close to the core of business operations. SAP is positioning cloud ERP as more than a migration path, with greater emphasis on real-time responsiveness, embedded AI, and a clearer connection to business value.
Sessions to prioritize:
- The future of enterprise: Innovations in SAP Cloud ERP Private
- RISE with SAP: Your AI-augmented ERP modernization journey
- SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA: What’s new, why change, and why now?
- Cybersecurity and RISE with SAP: Thoughts from the C-suite
- Don’t just migrate: Make SAP Cloud ERP your launchpad for growth
Customer Experience
This track reflects SAP’s continued focus on connected customer journeys. Expect more attention on how ERP and CX come together, with AI playing a larger role in how organizations guide engagement and respond to customer needs.
Sessions to prioritize:
- Personalization: Data-driven, AI-enhanced engagement that builds loyalty
- A look into the future of the agentic customer experience
- The future of retail: AI, data integration, and composable commerce
Financial Management
Finance stands out as one of the areas where AI may move from concept to practical value most quickly. This track is likely to center on automation, better forecasting, and stronger support for decision-making in a more real-time finance environment.
Sessions to prioritize:
- The AI advantage of SAP Concur solutions
- Leading intelligent finance with trusted AI for EPM
- Trusted intelligence: Access compliance built for the AI-enabled enterprise
Sustainability Management
Sustainability is continuing to shift closer to core operations. SAP is framing it less as a reporting requirement and more as something that should be built into ERP, supported by business data, and reflected in day-to-day decision-making.
Sessions to prioritize:
Are you ready for Sapphire 2026?
We look forward to hearing more about these hot topics at SAP Sapphire 2026. Stay tuned for our recap post to learn more about key insights and takeaways from this year’s conference!
