What to Expect at SAP Sapphire 2026
While SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference’s themes have remained relatively consistent over the past few years, the real value comes from how they show up across the individual tracks. Each one reflects a different entry point into the same broader shift: AI-enabled, cloud-first, data-driven, and platform-centric enterprise operations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
SAP Sapphire 2026 is taking place in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center May 11-13.Sessions span across 17 content tracks and focus on various industries, solutions, functions, and maturity levels.
If you’re attending this year’s conference in Orlando, here’s what to expect at SAP Sapphire 2026:
TRACKS AT SAP SAPPHIRE 2026
AI Foundation
Supporting agents and intelligent automation, the AI Foundation track is where SAP’s AI narrative becomes practical. Sessions will focus on embedding AI directly into business processes, not treating it as a standalone capability. With Joule and Joule agents at the center, the emphasis will be on how AI connects SAP and third-party models to trusted data, business context, and enterprise controls and ultimately drives measurable outcomes across functions.
Noteworthy sessions include:
Business Data Cloud
SAP Business Data Cloud centers on unifying and governing data across the enterprise so it can actually support AI and analytics at scale. Conversations for this track will move beyond access to data and toward trust, structure, and real-time usability.
Sessions to prioritize:
Business Suite
The Business Suite track reflects SAP’s push to reframe how enterprises operate. Rather than a collection of applications, SAP Business Suite is positioned as a connected system of processes, data, and AI, designed to work together end-to-end. Sessions will focus less on individual solutions and more on how they integrate to drive coordinated outcomes.
Sessions worth exploring:
Business Technology Platform (BTP)
Using BTP as the foundation for innovation, this track will focus on how organizations are extending, integrating, and building on SAP. It’s where strategy becomes buildable and where differentiation starts to take shape.
Sessions that stand out:
Business Transformation Management
Business Transformation Management is where the conversation moves beyond technology. This track is focused on how transformation is structured, governed, and sustained over time, from enterprise architecture to change management.
Some sessions under this track include:
Cloud ERP
Cloud ERP remains central, and this track focuses on modern ERP as a real-time, AI-enabled system that supports agility and scalability. Conversations will cover how ERP evolves once it’s in the cloud and continues to deliver value across finance, supply chain, procurement, sales, and more.
Sessions to consider:
Customer Experience (CX)
The CX track highlights SAP’s push toward connected, end-to-end customer engagement. Sessions will cover the alignment of front-office and back-office processes, with Joule and AI agents playing a growing role in personalization and insight, for a more seamless, data-driven customer journey.
Sessions worth exploring:
Industries
The Industries track focuses on how AI, data, and cloud play out in sector-specific contexts, from manufacturing and retail to wholesale and life sciences. Sessions will zero in applicability, such as how industry nuances shape transformation priorities, regulatory considerations, and time-to-value.
Noteworthy sessions include:
Joule
The Joule track is centered on SAP’s AI copilot as an embedded layer across enterprise workflows, designed to surface insights, automate decisions, and interact with users in more intuitive ways. The emphasis will be on how Joule changes the way users engage with SAP systems altogether.
Some AI-focused sessions:
Spend Management
The Spend Management track emphasizes visibility, compliance, and supplier collaboration with SAP Ariba’s Source-to-Pay applications, augmented by AI to improve forecasting, risk mitigation, and procurement efficiency.
Some sessions under this track include:
Supply Chain Management
This track’s sessions will cover supply chain resilience and agility, including AI’s growing role in planning and optimization. What stands out here is the move toward more autonomous supply chains that sense, analyze, and act in real time.
Sessions to consider:
Sustainability Management
Sustainability continues to shift from compliance to integration, and this track focuses on embedding ESG data and metrics into core business processes, supported by unified data and analytics via Cloud ERP.
Sessions to prioritize:
READY FOR SAP SAPPHIRE 2026?
We look forward to hearing more about these topics at SAP Sapphire 2026. Stay tuned for our recap post to learn more about key insights and takeaways from this year’s conference!
The Crescense team will be at Sapphire 2026 and would love to chat. Let us know if you’re coming!
This piece was adapted from an article originally published by Clarkston Consulting. Learn more about Clarkston here.