2025 SAP Public Sector Summit

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Public sector leaders are under increasing pressure to do more with less, making efficiency a mission-critical priority. Budget constraints, heightened oversight, and rising public expectations are driving agencies to rethink how they operate. But efficiency is not just about cutting costs. It means working smarter by modernizing systems, improving coordination, and using data to enhance outcomes and reduce risk. This panel brings together cross-functional government leaders to discuss how they are responding to the efficiency mandate. From reimagining legacy processes to strengthening collaboration across finance, technology, and procurement, panelists will share what meaningful transformation looks like in practice. The discussion will also explore how industry can better support this shift with adaptable and integrated solutions that align with long-term mission goals.

The call to modernize government is not new, but the urgency has never been greater. As agencies face aging systems, siloed processes, and rising expectations from the public, the need for a more agile, integrated, and cloud-forward approach has become a national imperative. Yet across government, the cost of inaction continues to grow, putting mission delivery and public trust at risk. This session brings together senior public sector leaders to reflect on this pivotal moment and what it will take to move from intention to lasting transformation. Panelists will explore the cultural, operational, and strategic shifts required to embrace cloud not just as a technology solution, but as a long-term foundation for innovation, resilience, and equity in public service. The conversation will also highlight how a suite-based modernization strategy that brings together people, processes, and platforms can unlock greater value across the enterprise and deliver improved outcomes for the American people.

Common systems are a proven best practice for driving efficiency, ensuring compliance, and standardizing processes across government. The General Services Administration (GSA) is leading the way with GO.gov – a new centralized travel and expense management platform that replaces individual systems as a shared service across civilian agencies.

Join us for a fireside chat to explore how GO.gov is transforming federal travel and expense management through technology and automation, delivering a more intuitive experience for federal travelers and streamlined operations for agency administrators. This session will share the vision behind GO.gov, its anticipated impact, and what it means for the future of government-wide efficiency.

Across all levels of government, data is now recognized as a strategic asset, and artificial intelligence is opening new pathways to enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and improve public services. But unlocking the full potential of AI and data requires more than advanced tools. It demands strong leadership, clear governance, and a commitment to mission-driven, responsible implementation. This panel features government leaders at the forefront of AI and data transformation, sharing real-world examples of how they are building scalable capabilities, modernizing infrastructure, and navigating key challenges related to policy, privacy, and workforce readiness. The discussion will also explore the expanding roles of Chief Data Officers and Chief AI Officers, and how they are shaping agency strategy to ensure innovation is rooted in trust, transparency, and long-term impact.

Click on the Breakouts tab at the top of this page to see more information on each of these 1:15PM sessions. 

Reimagining Operations: From Bottlenecks to Mission Impact
Room: Hemisphere A

Building a Future-Ready CMS: Modernizing Operations for Better Outcomes
Room: Hemisphere B

Building Trustworthy AI: Governance, Ethics, and Accountability
Room: Horizon

Government on the Move: Transforming Travel and Expense
Room: Rotunda | 8th Floor

Click on the Breakouts tab at the top of this page to see more information on each of these 2:05PM sessions. 

Success in Enterprise Service Delivery - Lessons from Leaders
Room: Hemisphere A

Accelerating Mission Impact with a Unified Platform for Data, AI, and Applications
Room: Hemisphere B

AI in Action: Streamlining Public Services Through Intelligent Case Management
Room: Horizon

Accountability in Action: Reducing Improper Payments Through More Efficient Processes
Room: Rotunda | 8th Floor

Click on the Breakouts tab at the top of this page to see more information on each of these 2:55PM sessions. 

Accenture’s Finance Reinvention Journey with SAP
Room: Hemisphere A

Become Future-Ready through Innovation with SAP NS2
Room: Hemisphere B

Agentic Automation: Achieving Outcomes in Defense Logistics and Enterprise Systems (UiPath)
Room: Horizon

Closing the Gaps in Compliance: Streaming and Optimizing Audit Programs
Room: Rotunda | 8th Floor

Click on the Breakouts tab at the top of this page to see more information on each of these 3:30PM sessions. 

Unified Oversight and Operations: Turning Insight into Enterprise Action
Room: Hemisphere A

Operationalizing Enterprise Intelligence for Decision-Driven Government
Room: Hemisphere B

NS2 Cloud for Government & Secure GenAI Strategy
Room: Horizon

Safeguarding Government Travel Data: Strategies for Secure, Compliant,
and Efficient Travel Programs
Room: Rotunda | 8th Floor

Click on the Breakouts tab at the top of this page to see more information on each of these 4:20PM sessions. 

The Future of SAP Testing Is Agentic: Redefining Modernization in Public Services
Room: Hemisphere A

AI and Automation – Transforming Public Sector Operations
Room: Hemisphere B

Agentic AI: Public Sector Transformation with AWS
Room: Horizon

Integration Made Easy: Connecting Your Finance, HR, and ERP Systems
Room: Rotunda | 8th Floor

Agencies are rethinking how core programs are managed by replacing manual, fragmented processes with streamlined digital workflows. By embedding compliance directly into operations, program leads are reducing administrative friction, improving delivery timelines, and freeing teams to focus on mission priorities. In this session, government leaders will share practical examples of how operational redesign is improving efficiency, strengthening accountability, and delivering measurable mission value.

Track #1: Future-Ready Government

As CMS oversees programs that touch the lives of more than 150 million Americans, the agency faces unprecedented pressure to deliver services more efficiently while navigating tighter budgets, rising beneficiary expectations, and a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. In this session, Deputy Administrator and COO Kim Brandt will discuss how CMS is modernizing legacy workflows, improving cross-center coordination, and leveraging data to reduce administrative burden and strengthen program integrity. She will share how her office is rethinking procurement, financial management, and operational processes to make the agency more agile, collaborative, and outcomes-focused, as well as where industry can provide scalable, integrated solutions that support CMS’s long-term mission to deliver high-quality, efficient services nationwide.

Track #2: Decision-Driven Government

As AI adoption accelerates in government, ensuring these systems are used responsibly is critical to maintaining public trust. Agencies are embedding governance frameworks, ethical guidelines, and compliance controls directly into AI systems and workflows to promote fairness, transparency, and accountability. This session will explore how leaders are operationalizing responsible AI principles at scale, aligning innovation with oversight, and setting a foundation for sustainable, trusted AI adoption.

Track #3: AI-Powered Government

Discover how agencies are simplifying travel and expense management to reduce delays, boost compliance, and offer greater visibility into spending, all while improving efficiency and the employee experience in a hybrid workforce.

Track #4: Smarter Spend

The cost and risks associated with maintaining legacy or siloed administrative systems are leading government organizations to consolidate systems at the enterprise level. Deploying enterprise-wide services can reduce cost and redundancies, increase standardization of data and processes, and better prepare organizations to take advantage of AI-enabled business processes. Hear from leaders who oversee successful, established enterprise-wide services organizations in the government today. What makes them successful? How do they measure success? How do they plan and budget for innovation? What is most challenging? How will technology, such as AI and SaaS solutions, change how enterprise services are managed and delivered?

Track #1: Future-Ready Government

As the Department of Defense seeks to modernize operations, audit readiness, and warfighter support, a unified platform strategy is essential to enabling trusted data, scalable applications, and responsible AI. This panel explores how the Digital Mission Platform brings these capabilities together, establishing a foundation where clean, governed data flows seamlessly across commands, powering AI, analytics, and decision-grade insights. Leaders will discuss how the Digital Mission Platform enables interoperability, drives agility, and empowers mission outcomes by aligning platform, data, and AI investments across the enterprise. Join us to hear how the DoD is building the future state today — securely, sustainably, and at speed.

Track #2: Decision-Driven Government

As agencies look to modernize operations, AI-powered process automation is becoming a key driver for reducing manual effort in core systems and accelerating service delivery. By integrating intelligent case management tools, agencies are streamlining workflows, triaging citizen requests more efficiently, and automating decision flows across high-volume programs. This session will explore how leaders are taking the first steps to operationalize AI in public services, from optimizing existing processes to improving speed, accuracy, and scalability in mission-critical operations.

Track #3: AI-Powered Government

Improper payments burden government agencies each year by draining staff time, straining budgets, and diverting attention from mission priorities. This session explores how modernized, automated travel and expense processes, based on proven commercial best practices can improve oversight, boost efficiency, reduce errors, and strengthen accountability.

Track #4: Smarter Spend

As the Federal Government seeks to emulate the private sector, there are few examples of SAP transformations that mirror the scale and complexity of Federal agencies – Accenture is one of them. Accenture set out to reinvent its finance organization with a bold vision: migrate to a clean core in a single, global instance of SAP S/4HANA to centrally manage finance operations for a multi-billion-dollar business with nearly 800,000 employees across 50+ countries. Join Michalene Schechter to learn how private sector innovations with SAP can be applied to the Federal Government today. 
 

Track #1: Future-Ready Government

SAP NS2 is delivering SAP’s Business AI portfolio through a deliberate approach to empower customers with AI-driven efficiencies. AI innovations can reduce costs, support workforce development, and improve public services. Join this session to learn how SAP NS2 will deliver these capabilities with federal security mandates.

Track #2: Decision-Driven Government

Join us for an insightful conversation between UiPath's Public Sector Chief Technology Officer and the Defense Logistics Agency's Chief Information Officer as they explore the transformative potential of agentic automation in defense logistics operations. This fireside chat will delve into DLA's journey leveraging automation  technologies to streamline mission-critical processes, and examine their strategic roadmap for implementing agentic AI capabilities in 2026. The discussion will highlight how intelligent automation is evolving from robotic process automation to autonomous, goal-oriented agents capable of making decisions and solving complex problems across the defense supply chain. Our speakers will share perspectives on the unique challenges of implementing agentic automation within defense logistics frameworks, the integration opportunities between ERP and enterprise AI-powered solutions, and how these technologies are reshaping operational readiness while maintaining security and compliance. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the practical applications of agentic automation, lessons learned from DLA's automation journey, and a forward-looking vision of how autonomous agents will enhance decision-making, optimize resource allocation, and drive innovation across the defense logistics enterprise.
 

Track #3: AI-Powered Government

Harness the power of both a technological and human security net to help mitigate risk, manage compliance, and boost productivity. Using the combined force of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and SAP Concur auditors, learn how organizations can rapidly and accurately unearth trends that indicate spend management issues.

Track #4: Smarter Spend

In a future-ready government, leaders need more than upgraded tools. They need connected intelligence that can turn complex data into confident decisions. By integrating finance, procurement, HR, and logistics into a single intelligent platform, agencies are moving past outdated systems and siloed processes toward full operational visibility. This session will showcase how real-time insights are enabling executives to improve accountability, allocate resources strategically, and act with speed and precision. Speakers will share how these capabilities are accelerating modernization, strengthening transparency, and driving measurable mission results.

Track #1: Future-Ready Government

Government leaders are increasingly focused on turning data into actionable intelligence that drives measurable results. By consolidating fragmented data sources, implementing outcome-based reporting, and delivering tailored insights to decision-makers, agencies are improving performance, reducing inefficiencies, and strengthening governance. This session will highlight strategies for building a unified data vision, aligning cross-functional teams, and ensuring insights translate into policy and operational action.

Track #2: Decision-Driven Government

Government agencies at all levels require cloud solutions that deliver enhanced security while meeting their unique regulatory and operational needs. This session provides an overview of the NS2 Cloud portfolio designed for federal, state, and local government customers. We will explore our secure Generative AI roadmap and highlight innovative capabilities built to support public-sector missions, compliance requirements, and evolving security expectations.

Track #3: AI-Powered Government

Government travel programs handle highly sensitive information from traveler identities and
itineraries to financial transactions that must be protected with the highest levels of security and
compliance. This session explores the unique risks associated with government travel data and
the increasing expectations for safeguarding it across federal, state, and local agencies. The
session will highlight practical strategies for enhancing efficiency without compromising
security, ensuring agencies can modernize their travel programs and confidently protect the
integrity of their most sensitive information.

Track #4: Smarter Spend

SAP’s introduction of Joule marks a new era of intelligent automation—and a new level of complexity for public sector teams modernizing with S/4HANA and beyond. Powered by agentic AI, Tricentis helps SAP customers accelerate change while maintaining control, compliance, and reliability. In this session, learn how modern QA practices enable agencies to balance innovation with assurance and confidently deliver on their modernization goals.

Track #1: Future-Ready Government

AI and automation are reshaping the landscape of government operations, driving innovation, efficiency, and improved public service delivery. This session explores the dynamic intersection of AI and automation within a digital transformation and how we are leveraging AI/automation as part of the move to S/4HANA.

Track #2: Decision-Driven Government

Generative AI has evolved into sophisticated systems capable of reasoning and autonomous action, transforming how public sector organizations operate. AWS leads this transformation with unmatched AI choice, superior cost performance, and enterprise-grade security. With AWS AI for SAP, organizations streamline operations, accelerate decision-making, and deliver more efficient public services. The future of work is being reshaped by AI agents—autonomous systems that act with minimal human intervention—with AWS enabling billions of these agents to work alongside humans, solving complex problems and dramatically improving productivity while delivering the reliability trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.

Track #3: AI-Powered Government

A summary of connection options for SAP Concur with your organization’s finance, HR, and ERP systems to streamline processes, improve data accuracy, and enhance visibility into spending. This session is an introduction to practical integration options and best practices for making your business systems work seamlessly together.

Track #4: Smarter Spend

Fuel up your morning discussions with a networking breakfast ahead of the 2025 SAP Public Sector Summit.

Get ready to elevate your game and lead your team to victory! The legendary Mike Krzyzewski shares insights, inspirations, and proven principles learned throughout his unparalleled coaching career.

Discover the secrets behind Coach K’s success on and off the basketball court as he unveils powerful strategies for motivating individuals, fostering strong team dynamics, and cultivating unwavering confidence.

Leadership under pressure. Innovation with purpose. In this compelling panel, distinguished veterans from across the U.S. military share how they led transformational initiatives within some of the nation’s most complex organizations. From modernizing legacy systems to motivating teams through uncertainty, their stories offer timeless lessons in resilience, strategic vision, and change management. Federal leaders will walk away with insights to drive innovation and unify their own missions.

The following roundtables are available during this time block:

1. Gaining Efficiency and Accuracy by Modernizing your End-to-End Budgeting, Planning, and Execution Processes | cBEYONData
   ATRIUM GALLERY
   This conversation will focus on innovative strategies and technology-enabled solutions to streamline budgeting activities to improve transparency and accelerate decision-making. We will explore how organizations can cut through inefficiencies, build greater transparency, and empower leaders with the right information at the right time. Join us to share lessons learned, success stories, and practical strategies for making budget execution not just faster, but smarter.
    
2. Creating Operational Efficiency Across the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle Through AI-Enabled Smart Contracting | Cognitus
   CONTINENTAL C
   Federal agencies and their supplier networks face growing pressure to improve efficiency, transparency, and compliance throughout the acquisition process. This session explores how AI-enabled smart contracting can modernize the full lifecycle — from buyers to n-tier suppliers — by streamlining workflows, connecting data across systems, and automating compliance. Participants will learn how modern ERP and AI technologies can help reduce administrative burden, improve visibility, and enable faster, more accountable acquisition outcomes across the Federal landscape.
    
3. Smarter Contracts, Stronger Missions: How AI-Enabled CLM Empowers Federal Agencies | Icertis
   CONTINENTAL B
    
4. Modernize and Innovate with SAP and Microsoft | Microsoft
   HORIZON A
    
5. Readying for Modernization: Transform with Clean Core | SAP
   HEMISPHERE A
    
6. Modern Government in Motion: Reimagining How Agencies Work, Serve, and Deliver | SAP
   INT'L GATEWAY
    
7. Driving Value Fast: Adoption of your SAP Investment | SAP
   HORIZON B 
    
8. Moving to the Cloud: Cloud ERP via RISE with SAP | SAP
   HEMISPHERE B
    
9. Closing the Compliance Gap: Building Audit-Ready, Cost-Savvy Federal Programs | SAP CONCUR
   ROTUNDA
   Government agencies face growing pressure to modernize compliance, boost audit readiness, and reduce costs, all while adapting to shifting executive orders and workforce challenges. Join this roundtable to discuss best practices for achieving auditability, finding common ground across agencies, and linking compliance to measurable cost savings. We’ll explore how to leverage commercial technology, strengthen charge card programs, and maintain transparency and efficiency, even amid headwinds.

With over 40 years of experience overcoming challenges in business and in life, Alden Mills understands what it truly takes to be successful - an Unstoppable Mindset. Training audiences to focus on the aspects of challenges that are within their control, Alden offers a practical approach to raising standards and developing confidence through an internal sense of resilience. Much more than just a motivational experience, his session provides a system to tackle tough challenges, use obstacles to your advantage, and achieve success time and time again