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SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software – enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, and related applications and services that help companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries run better. By extending the availability of software across on-premise installations, on-demand deployments and mobile devices, SAP enables people at the office or in the field to work more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. We believe that the power of our people, products and our partners creates significant new value and unleashes sustainable growth – for our customers, SAP, and ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large.

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I'm a brand journalist for SAP. Before writing about the capital markets for Sybase, I was a reporter covering the financial exchanges in Chicago, European regulation in Dublin and banking legislation in Washington, D.C. My alma maters include the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

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Dan Wellers is the Global Lead for Digital Futures at SAP Marketing Strategy.  He has held myriad U.S. and international roles with software, services, and hardware organizations – from start-ups to mega-cap global firms – in high growth emerging technology markets.  Currently focused on strategic insights and futures, his 30 years of experience includes roles in marketing, business strategy, management, consulting, and sales.  Dan holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management – Cornell University, and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from St. Lawrence University. 

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Jeanette Rohr is a brand journalist with the SAP News Center.

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Global Marketer | Content Strategist | Writer & Arts Advocate| Exploring digital and creative evolution via conversations with business leaders and rock stars

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As Solution Manager – Sustainability in Retail & Fashion at SAP Retail Industry Business Unit and PhD research student at Edinburgh Napier University, Carina guides retail and fashion ecosystems in its shared mission for a sustainable, circular economy.

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Patrick McCarthy is Senior Vice President and General Manager of SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass. Follow him at @PJM_Iam or visit www.ariba.com and www.fieldglass.com.

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Ryan co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father and brother. As CEO, he has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world, with more than 10,500 customers, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100, and 99 of the top 100 business schools. In the private market, Qualtrics raised $400M in funding from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners. Three days before the company was scheduled to go public, Qualtrics was acquired by SAP in January 2019 for $8B in the largest private enterprise software acquisition of all time.

In 2016, Ryan co-founded 5 For The Fight, the campaign to eradicate cancer by supporting groundbreaking cancer research. 5 For The Fight is crowdfunding for cancer research, inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer.

Ryan was named to Fortune’s 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business. He was listed as one of Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35” in 2013. He has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Inc., The New York Times, TechCrunch and USA Today, and has frequently appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and FOX Business. Ryan is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/people/ryansmith1/">

Sean Thompson is Executive Vice President, Network and Ecosystem, SAP Procurement Solutions. Follow @seantho or visit www.ariba.com and www.fieldglass.com.

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Tricia’s specialty is telling stories about how tech helps ‘real people’ do amazing things. She’s won dozens of awards while at SAP for her outstanding storytelling videos. Before joining SAP, Tricia worked for 20+ years as an award-winning on-air news anchor/journalist.

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As a lifelong philomath with 15 years’ in tech, 20 in the military, and 40 on earth - Ryan is driven by his passions toward empowerment, creativity, and adventure. This has led him to Global Sponsorships Marketing, where he’s enjoyed leading digital content strategies, managing regional PR, and most recently, property management. In his free time, he enjoys his family’s company along with playing/coaching/watching sports, learning the latest biohacks and occasionally… he finds the time to write.

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Evan Welsh is Global Head and Vice President of People Performance & Digital Sales Innovation, Midmarket, SAP. In this role, he leads a global team that is responsible for all people-related topics for the 2,000+ person organization, including leader performance, employee performance and experience and digital selling. He helps shape how they sell (using digital tools), how they are enabled (with the latest innovations in training) and how they progress their careers at SAP.

Prior to this role, he spent most of his career in communications, including executive and strategic communications, global media relations, social media, corporate social responsibility and corporate reputation management. Since joining SAP in 2005, Evan has held various positions of increasing responsibility and has managed major product launches and press events in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, including planning and executing the SAP communications plan at Super Bowl XLVIII in NYC, hosting 15 international reporters in Ghana and launching a new product in Beijing and Shanghai.

Evan is an adjunct professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., where he teaches courses in International Public Relations and Reputation Management. Prior to joining SAP, he was director of public relations and communications for The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, Pa. Growing up, he lived in Switzerland for nine years and graduated from the Kantonsschule in Zofingen.

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