In times of increasing digitalization and economic dynamics, industrial companies are challenged more than ever to increase their efficiency and productivity. This is the only way they can remain competitive in the future. All of this is forcing them to move away from traditional processes and systems - and to use powerful digital technologies. Pfeiffer Vacuum and Busch Vacuum, two leading German mechanical engineering companies that we at MHP are currently supporting as their implementation partner, are also facing these fundamental changes and challenges of digital transformation. The basis for their new common-IT approach is S/4HANA from SAP, a cross-industry established and a state-of-the-art system for all business processes. You can look forward to valuable insights on how to succeed in the digitalization journey in a heterogeneous, volatile, and complex business environment - one in which diverse, globally distributed organizations, and stand-alone companies must come together to achieve long-term success. This keynote lecture will provide you with insightful project experiences from our consulting practice. Digital Transformation Stage M | 02:00 - 02:20 pm | Impulse Session

User centricity is crucial for any future business success. Fully focusing on the needs and preferences of users is a decisive factor in success, especially where data and technology interact. Companies that implement strategies that are both strategically internalized and end-to-end will be the leaders of their industries in the future. But why is this interaction so decisive for success? In this introductory presentation you will learn about the influence of user-centered action as a measure that differentiates you from the competition. You’ll also gain insight into how data and technology can become profitable enablers for product and service success. Get to grips with the relevance of user centralization with a simple example from everyday life and increase your awareness of user-centric business processes. Personal Development Stage P | 03:10 - 03:30 pm | Personal Development

Mistakes are the driving force behind all personal development. So let’s talk about them! Let’s talk about the cloud migration journey that didn’t go as planned. The journey to the cloud is a big topic for many of our customers right now, so it’s only logical that we too were once taking our first steps into the cloud. This introductory presentation, drawn from the experiences of an expert software developer and architect from MHP, shows the side that hardly anyone else talks about: What can go wrong on a cloud journey? Almost more important, however, is how we dealt with our mistakes and what we learned from them – especially what we learned about error culture. Join us on an exciting journey full of (wrong) decisions and get ready to hear about best practices and experiences that will help you to at least avoid making the same mistakes we did. Personal Development Stage P | 03:35 - 03:55 pm | Personal Development

The last of its kind - The challenges IT will face after major projects IT has become a highly dynamic competitive factor - it must be continuously developed to ensure that complex business processes run efficiently and securely at all times. From customer experience to manufacturing and logistics. This brings new challenges: How can the know-how of IT systems be secured for everyone? How can technical monocultures and dependencies on service providers and software vendors be avoided? And what will the IT infrastructures and large-scale digital projects of the future look like? You will get answers to these and other questions in this impulse lecture. You can look forward to valuable impulses that will help you and your company to correctly assess the opportunities and risks of modern IT systems as well as their external requirements and dependencies. Customer Experience Digital Sales & Service Platforms Stage M | 03:35 - 03:55 pm | Impulse Session

The digitalization of HR processes offers enormous potential for efficiency – previously manual processes can be accelerated, automated and standardized. But how can HR transformation succeed? Especially for global players with many international sites. Together with Dürr AG, we will show you in this presentation what to look out for in order to raise human capital management and human experience management to a new level. The machinery manufacturer is a global leader in the automation and digitalization of Industry 4.0 and has fundamentally modernized its HR organization with a comprehensive HR platform solution. You can look forward to valuable inspiration for your HR transformation. Digital Transformation Stage H | 03:35 - 03:55 pm | Impulse Session