Date: October 14, 2021
Time: 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. CST
Event Overview
SAP has announced ‘RISE with SAP’ as their transformational service offering. Infosys Live Enterprise has been built upon sentient, agile and intelligent technologies. Leveraging this experience, we are enabling organizations to transform into live enterprises. Both ‘RISE with SAP’ and ‘Infosys Live Enterprise’ are disruptive in nature and trend-setters in the market place today.
Even as enterprises reinvent themselves with these solutions and services, the student community and those starting their careers in the SAP domain need to understand how the next 5-10 years will look like in this space. The future is about companies like Infosys bringing together SAP, cloud, and AI/ML to redefine new business models. Join this session and listen to experts from Infosys, SAP, and Fayetteville State University to know more about the latest and most important trends.
Speakers
Dr. Murat Adivar, Professor of Business Analytics and Director of SAP Next-Gen Lab at FSU
Murat Adivar is a full-time professor of Business Analytics at Broadwell College of Business and Economics. Before joining Fayetteville State University (FSU) he worked at Campbell University, North Carolina State University, and Izmir University Economics (as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs). Murat Adivar is currently SAP Coordinator and the Director of SAP Next-Gen Lab at FSU. He is the author of more than 40 research articles and 2 books. Murat Adivar recently became a member of the ASUG Carolinas Team.
Colleen Raftery, Director, SAP Next-Gen
An entrepreneurial, innovative professional with more than 25 years of extensive sales and business development experience, Colleen Raftery joined SAP in 2007 and has held several operational roles throughout the SAP Marketing organization since.
Working with customers and partners that have purpose at the heart of their business strategy is her passion. For the past 10 years, Colleen has been part of SAP University Alliances/Next-Gen, a purpose-driven innovation university and community aligned with the company’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and supporting SAP customers across 25 industries and seven lines of business in more than 180 countries.
Ramesh J. Chougule, SAP Cloud and Digital Leader, Infosys
With 23 years of expertise spanning technologies and business processes, Ramesh has performed a variety of roles in consulting, sales, and delivery of ERP programs. In his current role, he is responsible for developing SAP Cloud and the digital business in North America. This involves defining strategy and go-to-market planning for SAP on Cloud, developing intelligent industry solutions using AI/ML/IoT/blockchain technologies, building partnerships with SAP AG and hyperscalers, and helping clients on SAP initiatives.
Ramesh also leads Infosys' flagship Innov8 program with purposeful SAP innovations and partnerships aimed at defining tomorrow's business models for key industries such as life sciences, consumer packaged goods (CPG), automotive suppliers, hi-tech, and utilities. In his previous role as a partner with Infosys’ business consulting division, Ramesh led digital transformation programs enabled by S/4HANA implementations in life sciences and CPG.
Rashmi Joshi, Sr. Marketing Manager, Infosys
Rashmi Joshi is a Senior Marketing Manager and leads the SAP practice marketing at Infosys. She is an Engineering graduate with a Master’s degree in Information Technology and has 14 years of B2B marketing work experience. She has managed and delivered multiple marketing campaigns across IT service lines and led product launches including TradeEdge, Infosys Equinox.
