e-leadership training for SMEs and start-ups today
- SAP‘s engagement to develop eSkills for Europe’s digital economy Dr. Kay P. Hradilak, SAP Business Transformation Services
Brussels, September 9th, 2015
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- SAP supports eSkills development inn several stages Major SAP initiatives
for eSkill development
# employ
OpenSAP MOOC
SAP Start Up Focus
# educate
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Student
Entrepreneurship
Program
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- SAP University Alliances Build the Talent of the Future for the Digital Enterprise
 The SAP University Alliances aims to develop
highly qualified graduates with critical skills for the
21st century workforce.
 Specific events to develop entrepreneurial skills
and ideas are SAP InnoJams, CodeJams and
Design Thinking workshops
 Regular innovation competitions as “Utility of
Tomorrow Innovation Contest”
2,300+ Universities
8,000 faculty members
in 90 countries worldwide
over 1.400 events 2014
Supported by the SAP University
Competence Centers in using
SAP solutions in the classroom
See: https://ideas.sap.com/ua / | www.uac.sap.com
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- Student Entrepreneurship Program of University Alliances -
Student
Entrepreneurship
Program
 An core element of the SAP University Alliances.
 With different partners SAP enables in this area students to found their
own business.
 SAP University Alliances advises students to believe in their own
innovation ideas and supports them to concrete these ideas and make
them viable.
 Tools, techniques and workshops are provided individually and globally
by SAP- eg by entrepreneurship bootcamps, support in start up
pitches.
 After setting up a business – door opener to SAP Startup Focus
program and access to SAP Ventures and other venture capital
companies.
See more: https://ideas.sap.com/ct/a.bix?c=%7BD7F92BB9-09BA-4EAB-A9C2-69E756A2E680%7D
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- Startup Reach: 2000+ startups in our programs SAP provides
startup support by
 Startup Focus
Program
 SAP Developers
Center
 Partner Edge
Program
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- SAP Startup Focus Program -
SAP Startup Focus is a program for
startups with big data, predictive
analytics and/or real-time data
decision solutions.
We want to make SAP HANA
available to the startup community,
help eligible startups accelerate the
development of their solutions and
assist with bringing them to market.
Benefits for startups include:
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Access to SAP executives involved in solution
design, brand marketing and product creation
Carefully selected mentor network tailored to
participating companies
Educational and relationship building opportunities
with key market leaders in technology
Support from experienced developers who have
built solutions on SAP HANA
Our success to date:
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SAP Startup Focus Program
- Being local, globally ICN Startup Events Q2 2015
HANA Startup Forums (global)
Meetups (local)
Tel Aviv
Berlin
Partners (selected)
Berlin
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- SAP + NET IMPACT join at IMPACTATHONS 
Events in Manheim and Berlin (Winter 2015)

At University Mannheim - 60 student from 15
universities

SAP employees joined as team members and Design
Thinking coaches

Support by Social Startups experts
See: http://news.sap.com/germany/2015/03/27/sap-impactathon-ideen-die-etwas-bewegen/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTckEZsYIUM
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- ACADEMY CUBE -
(As of July 2015)

Academy Cube became an independent not-forprofit entity in October 2014

Cisco joined Academy Cube as new Strategic
Partner and Shareholder

Kick-Off UK & Ireland: Opening of National Office at
Birmingham City University

National Offices now operating in Spain, Portugal,
Italy, UK and Germany/ Austria

Outlook: Development of certifications in cooperation
with multiple partners in the area of Industrie 4.0,
Data Scientist, Design Thinking etc.
See: http://www.academy-cube.eu
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- Open SAP -
OpenSAP is an online platform which offers
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).
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Courses on Big Data, Cloud, IoT, Mobile
applications development.

Courses for teachers and trainers on
programming

OpenSAP courses are free of charge (except
for optional system access) and are offered
in English and French (“Africa Code Week :
Les ados se mettent au code !” )
Link: https://open.sap.com/
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- Industry 4.0 curricula -
SAP and Festo Didactic
have
developed an Industry 4.0
curriculum with 8 universities from
around the world:
University of Kansas, RWTH Aachen,
Frankfurt University of Applied
Sciences, DHBW Mosbach,
Technische Universität Darmstadt,
Aalborg University, Birmingham City
University and Fudan University

The curriculum offers teaching materials for
universities to train young talents for the
production world of the future

Targets engineering, business and executive MBA
students

University Alliances program member universities
can integrate parts of the curriculum into existing
seminars as well as use the curriculum to create
entirely new courses
See: http://scn.sap.com/community/uac/events/blog/2015/03/18/sap-ua-launches-new-industry-40-curriculum
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- Initiative for Digital Transformation (IDT) The IDT is an interdisciplinary research platform to investigate
conditions under which companies can make use of the potential of
digital transformation.
Founders:
 SAP and the Technical University Munich
(TUM)

 Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar, Professor of
business informatics at TUM, and Gerhard
Oswald, Member of the Executive Board at
SAP SE.

Survey on the necessary skills for digital transformation
and what employers do to boost them; questionnaire for
companies (CEO, CIO), Universities etc.
Study analysing the experience of industry-leading companies
from around the world on the path to digital transformation.
The insights are compressed to derive sector-specific
recommendations for the digital transformation.
This will allow companies to develop their individual digitization
strategy.
See: https://www.tum.de/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/kurz/article/32410/
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Thanks a lot!
Dr. Kay P. Hradilak
Enterprise Chief Consultant
Strategic Industries Public
SAP Deutschland SE & Co.KG
M +49 160/ 3603845
kay.p.hradilak@sap.com
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