An SAP Inside Track (SIT) is a local grassroots community event where SAP Community members come together to share knowledge about SAP related topics. The event is driven/organized by the community, low-cost or even free and very informal: everyone who is interested may participate. Everyone can benefit or contribute: act as presenter, take part in discussions, exchange information, realize networking or enjoy the social get-togethers in the evening. But there are not only SAP Inside Tracks out there. In this overview you see many different event types to only name a few. You don't have to stick to these names but of course the community knows those already very well. 😊
Read this post about SAP Stammtisch.
What are the benefits of a community driven event?
Organizing an SAP Inside Track may seem like a big task, but with the help of this article and some SAP Community friends, it can be done with relatively little effort and with a large impact. Everyone can organize a SIT event, independently if you are SAP Partner, Customer, Consultant or Developer, it doesn’t matter. There are no rules, but below guidelines and recommendations can help you to set up an SAP Inside Track more easily.
First of all, we would love to hear from you! Let us, the SAP Community Team, know about your intention to organize an SAP Inside Track. As the SAP Community offers some monetary support for your event (maximum 500 € per year and SIT Event), this will be the request for it as well. This financial support can be used for food, room bookings, stationeries, but not for travel expenses.
Let me give your further details on the following steps how to start organizing an event:
1. Location
2. Content
3. Speakers
Announce your SAP Inside Track to invite speakers:
4. Attendees
Announce your SAP Inside Track to invite attendees, too. You can use the same channels as for reaching out to your speakers:
5. Sponsorship
Find one or more sponsors for your event. SAP Community supports SAP Inside Tracks with up to 500 Euro for Catering. If you want to take advantage of this, please send an email to SAP Community .
This is mostly not enough and external financial support often is required and welcomed. The contacts for receiving sponsorship are frequently:
One great SAP partner that you could reach out to is SAP PRESS which would provide 10% discount on all books for SAP Inside Track attendees as well as a few free books to give away during the event!
6. Badges in SAP Community
You can get a badge for organizing, volunteering, attending or speaking at a community driven event. Read my post to get more information and prerequisites, e.g. you would need to provide a list of SAP Community profile names if you want to get badges assigned.
You see, there is a lot to take it but it's worth. Here are some more tips & tricks to have a successful event on-site:
I hope this information helps you to understand more about SAP Inside Track or to organize your own one!
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