Mastering SAP Collaborate - Melbourne 2024

Angela Colantuono is the newly appointed President and Managing Director of SAP Australia and New Zealand. In this role Angela is responsible for all customer operations across the market. She ensures the company delivers on its purpose of making the world run better and improving people’s lives for our customers, our partners and our community in Australia and New Zealand.

Angela joined SAP in 2017, entering SAP as the Head of Key Enterprise & Public Sector Accounts for SAP SuccessFactors in Australia, before moving into the Head of SuccessFactors role ANZ and most recently was the head of SAP SuccessFactors HXM – APJ.

Before joining SAP, Angela spent more than 16 years with Oracle (joining via the acquisition of Siebel) managing the industry verticals focusing on Customer Experience, HR & ERP.

Angela has over 25 years of Business Applications experience in the Software Industry and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Passionate about Women in Leadership and empowering our next generation of female leaders, Angela is a trusted mentor to individuals from across the globe, spanning various industries and functions

Kirk Docker is one of Australia’s finest interviewers and storytellers. He is the co-creator and director of the ABC program You Can’t Ask That, now in its 7th season. The show has been awarded Rose d’Or, AACTA and Walkley awards and is the most successful format in ABC history, selling to 32 territories, and broadcast in 9 different languages world wide. When it comes to the content he creates, no subject is off-topic. Kirk’s interviewees range from ex-politicians to ice users to sexual assault survivors. He has a deep curiosity, compassion and playfulness that elicits honesty from his participants, many of whom have never sat in front of a camera before. Through thousands of hours of open dialogue, what’s become absolutely clear to Kirk is that every human, no matter what they believe or how high their stature, share a core value: the desire to be understood. 

As Senior Vice President of Finance & Accounting at Lionsgate, Kate brings over 18 years of expertise as a senior technology executive. With a track record of designing, implementing, and managing complex global technology solutions, Kate has consistently showcased leadership in team building and product/service delivery for discerning clientele.

A versatile professional, Kate excels in fostering strong partnerships between business units and IT, as well as establishing fruitful alliances with external vendors. She boasts extensive experience in the Media and Entertainment industry, spanning areas such as TV and Motion Picture development, production, marketing, and distribution, alongside Home Entertainment and worldwide product fulfillment.

Driven by a passion for problem-solving, Kate is dedicated to deriving business value through innovative applications of technology, human capital, and streamlined processes.

Timo Elliott is a Global Innovation Evangelist for SAP. He works closely with leading-edge organizations around the world on their digital transformation initiatives. Over the last 30 years with the company, he has given presentations to business and IT leaders in over 60 different countries, talking about SAP's strategy and future trends, illustrated with real-world examples of customer innovation. He has worked in the UK, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and California, and currently lives in Paris, France. He has a degree in Econometrics and holds a patent in the area of mobile analytics.  

As an accomplished Cyber Security Transformational Leader with extensive experience in Digital transformations for Finance, Supply Chain, and other enterprise applications like enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) and compliance, Guarav brings a unique combination of technical knowledge and business acumen.

With over 18+ years in the industry, he has a proven track record of protecting organizations from cyber threats while maximizing their investment in digital transformation.

In addition to leadership role, he is a highly sought-after Speaker and Author, delivering sessions and publishing articles on various topics related to cybersecurity and digital transformations. His recent speaking engagement was at the prestigious Gartner IT Symposium 2023, which happened in Orlando in Oct 2023 and is deemed The World's Most Important Gathering of CIOs and IT Executives.

Guarav's expertise spans the entire spectrum of SAP security, including Identity and Access controls, Governance, Risk and Compliance, more importantly, into Vulnerability Management and Threat Management, Incident Response, and Back Up and Disaster recovery. He is passionate about going beyond traditional SAP Security and rather be true Cyber Security and covering all aspect of SAP Security Operations Map, including Infrastructure and Cloud Security as well.

In this customer facing role, Tina is responsible for helping EMEA businesses drive data innovation typically as an important component of an enterprise wide transformation initiative.

As a business strategy professional, Tina has more than 25 years of experience in business process re-engineering, defining business impact and leading transformation programs – she has two passions: data and diversity.

She’s an American who chose to move to Paris for a greater work-life balance and international experience for her family. When she moved to EMEA in 2016 she became the head of data innovation, where she works directly with senior business executives to design a data management approach, future state information management capabilities and consult with executives on the design and execution of their data strategy.

Tina's expertise ranges from building best practice enterprise programs, defining data management innovations, driving data technology development, and managing teams of data stewards and data operations. Tina has practical experience as head of SAP’s own data governance program, responsible for the enterprise data strategy across SAP.

A recognized expert in information management, Tina is regularly requested to speak at industry events and lead SAP’s Chief Data Officer engagement. She spends a significant amount of time presenting SAP’s point of view on the power of data and a data-driven culture.

Tina also serves as President of the European chapter of the Women in Big Data network whose mission is to promote diversity in the field of data management. She runs a program with over 6,000 members across EMEA targeted at providing training, awareness, mentoring and job sharing in the growing field of big data (including ML, AI, Data Science, IoT and Data Warehousing). Under her leadership the region has grown and now includes chapters in South Africa, Israel, Russia and Slovenia as well as many other tech hubs like Berlin, Paris and London.

Divya Sharma is a HR Digital Transformation leader at Microsoft with current focus on driving AI strategy and innovation for HR. He has led several large scale complex HR transformation initiatives, including the recent implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central across 108 countries at Microsoft.

Divya has over 20 years global experience in talent management, employee engagement, HR Analytics, change management, culture initiatives and HR technology cross different industries. He is a thought leader with vast experience in employee centered solutions, solving complex HR scenarios, holistic change management and leading large global teams. Divya earned his M.B.A. in International Business and Human Resources from DePaul University Chicago.

As an Innovation principal for AI, Kim supports customer and partner enablement with AI innovation opportunities across process and usability to enable an intelligent enterprise. She has over 20 years of experience spanning South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Australia; she has held various operations, the centre of excellence and technology roles during her career, helping her develop a well-rounded understanding of the end-to-end business processes. Kim is passionate about evolving businesses digitally using intelligent applications. She leverages her business, technical, and financial acumen to assist customers in building organisations for the future.  
 
Kim is an expert in the application of Artificial Intelligence in business. She holds both MBA and PhD degrees from Stellenbosch Business School. Her research has led to multiple academic publications exploring the integration of Artificial Intelligence into business. Kim founded and is leading the SAP partner AI Council of Australia. The council focuses on unlocking opportunities and possibilities for the responsible adoption, operation, and scaling of AI across Australian industries. 
 
Kim has presented at multiple events, including DigitalNSW, SAP User group, and Partner Kick-off sessions and participated in the SAP ANZ best-run podcast. She also shares her AI in business knowledge through guest lecturing at universities across South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia.