SAP TechEd in 2020 – A Guide

[dvankempen]

For this year's post, go to

• SAP TechEd in 2021 – A Guide

How to Get the Most Out of SAP TechEd

In this blog you will find some suggestions about how to get the most out the SAP TechEd in 2020 virtual event.

For insights and session recommendations from the experts, see

• SAP Cheat Sheet, Special Edition: SAP TechEd in 2020

Questions? Post as comment.

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Latest update: December 11, 2020 |

• Replays


• Learning Journeys


• Hands-On Tutorials Code Samples

Replays 

Event Site

You can watch the replays from the SAP TechEd Event site.

• sap.to/TE2020 | Session Catalog | FIlter = On Demand

Small print: sessions are available on demand but not workshops or the expert Q&A's.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/488701653?dnt=1&app_id=122963

YouTube

Playback is also available from the SAP TechEd YouTube channel.

• youtube.com/c/SAPTechEdChannel

News

SAP TechEd News Guide

All the announcements in one place

• SAP TechEd News Guide

Event Site

For the official event site, go to

• events.sap.com/teched-global | sap.to/TE2020

SAP News Center

For corporate news coverage, visit

• news.sap.com/topics/sap-teched

Twitter

The official hashtag for the event is #SAPTechEd.

For live streaming

• Twitter simulcast of Channel 1

About SAP TechEd

FW1H

• Who: you


• What: SAP TechEd in 2020, SAP's annual technology education event.


• When: December 8–10, 2020


• Where: online


• Why: Get insights on SAP technology, development, and future trends


• How (much): no charge; just sign up here

Sign-up is required. If you want to participate in the hands-on labs it is first-come, first serve with limited capacity with a two workshop limit per attendee.

Apart from access to the sessions (presentations) and workshops, signing up also provides free access to SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd including a >50% discounted rate on SAP Global Certification (see below).

Cheat Sheet

New to the event? You are welcome!

In case you feel a little overwhelmed by all the SAPanese, jargon, and lingo, here is a cheat sheet to sort it out.

• SAP Cheat Sheet, Special Edition: SAP TechEd in 2020

24th Edition

The SAP Technical Developers Conference was first held in 1996 in Orlando, Florida during SAPPHIRE. This evolved into an annual event with conferences in Europe, the US, and Asia. The last decade it has been hosted from three location, mostly Las Vegas, Barcelona, and Bangalore, for 3-4 days.

For the nostalgics, see

• Celebrating Twenty Years of #SAPTechEd! by dianna.disanto (2016)

Sign Up / Log In

Learn how to sign up, build your schedule and get the most out of more than 500 sessions available.

Before you can sign-up for the event, you need an SAP ID service account, also free, and if you have interacted with SAP in any way in the past you probably already have one (e.g. your SAP Community account) but if not, here is how.

• Sign-up Steps

Tracks and Sessions

This year, the tracks nicely map to the latest Business Technology Platform update which, as you may recall, is an integrated offering comprised of four technology portfolios:

• Database and data management


• Application development and integration


• Analytics


• Intelligent technologies

The 4 BTP tracks have been complemented, like last year, with tracks about the Intelligent Suite and digital transformation. New are the Customer Experience and Partner Community tracks.

Session Catalog

For an overview of the tracks and sub-tracks with session recommendations see

• SAP Cheat Sheet, Special Edition: SAP TechEd in 2020

Learning Journeys

Those familiar with SAP training will have completed Learning Journeys before. For those new, here is a briefing: What are Learning Journeys?

Tracks

There is a Learning Journey for each of the tracks

• Analytics


• Application Development and Integration


• Customer Experience


• Database and Data Management


• Digitial Transformation with Intelligent ERP


• Integrated Intelligent Suite


• Intelligent Technologies

Business Technology Platform

In addition, two Learning Journeys help you to familiarise yourself with BTP.

• Business Technology Platform


• SAP Business Technology Platform: Use Case Guide

Certification

For those brave enough to attempt a certification, four additional Learning Journeys have been made available.

• SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori Applications


• ABAP Programming for SAP HANA


• SAP Cloud Platform Integration


• SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Extensions

Hands-On Workshops

During the Event

120-minute hands-on experience led by SAP product managers and developer in a small group virtual settings.

For the exercises, select the workshop from the catalog

• Workshops

The code samples of a number of workshops is made available on GitHub

• SAP Samples "teched2020"

SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd

SAP TechEd Learning Room

Attendees have free access to the SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd.

The learning room is available until Mar 31, 2021.

For more information, see

• SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd in 2020 – Guide by ulrich.klingels

Certification Discount

The subscription includes a >50% discounted rate on SAP Global Certification. The offer is limited and available on a first come, first serve bases. Offering valid from Dec 1st to Dec 31st, 2020.

Should you experience any issues with the offer, best to post your questions to the learning room directly for best service.

Main Stage and Show Floor

Event Site

The keynotes, strategy talks, Q&A sessions, and other show floor content comes from the studio this year.

• Channel 1


• Agenda

https://youtu.be/S5GEbKRmAz4

SAP Community Blogs 

Follow the Tag

For the SAP Community blog posts on the topic, use the SAP TechEd tag. You can follow the tag to get notified.

SAP TechEd Replays

YouTube

Replays are available on the event site and YouTube.

• SAP TechEd (YouTube Channel)

openSAP

For the two previous editions, openSAP made a recap course available after the event with about 20 sessions. You can still watch the highlights on openSAP.

• SAP TechEd 2019 Recap


• SAP TechEd 2018 Recap

No information yet about a 2020 edition.

SAP PRESS

Event Discount

SAP PRESS is offering a special conference discount: 15% on any active books and E-Bites when you use the code TECHED20 at checkout. The offer begins on December 8 and ends on December 10 at 11:59 PM PDT.

• learning.sap-press.com/saptecdhed/2020

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• Denys van Kempen

Over the years, for the SAP HANA Academy, SAP’s Partner Innovation Lab, and à titre personnel, I have written a little over 300 posts here for the SAP Community. Some articles only reached a few readers. Others attracted quite a few more.

For your reading pleasure and convenience, here is a curated list of posts which somehow managed to pass the 10k-view mile stone and, as sign of current interest, still tickle the counters each month.

• Good Reads (my two cents)

[dvankempen]

@ jelena.perfiljeva | as promised

• SAP TechEd 2019 – A Guide

[CBasis]

Phew .. thanks ... that was really overdue.

Q: What is the schedule?

I see „December 8–10, 2020“ and „48h Event“ ... that seems to not fit together.
As the event this year covers all times zones the date (dec8-10) is much more than 48h.

Having a more detailed schedule (start/end) would be helpful to plan accordingly.

Christian

[dvankempen]

Good questions, christian.braukmller4 !

When I know more I’ll update the blog accordingly. Note that this is just a humble community contribution, all official communication is through the event site events.sap.com/teched-global.

The 48 hours, as I understand it, refers to Channel 1.

[grassl]

For most timezones the 48 hours are Dec 8 -10, and it will be around the 48 hours, plus if you miss something we make sure there is access to the content after.

[jessica_knell]

Thanks for this Denys! Note there will be access to a limited edition of SAP Learning Hub scaled specifically for TechEd. Looking forward to the exciting new format!

[dvankempen]

Thanks Jessica for mentioning: I have updated the blog accordingly.

[Thyge]

As many others looking forward to more details on the program 😉

I am a bit worried regarding the upcoming virtual experience having the 'Sapphire NOW Reimagined' in June, as well as the 'ASUG Best Practices' in September in mind. Crossing fingers for your setup.

If you in some way can "engage" and interact with us listeners during the session, I strongly encourage you to do so. Real-time feedback tools like Kahoot! or Mentimeter "actually works" 😉

 

[former_member147188]

Thanks. I looked into SAP Teched website but could not find any link for registration and also searched in SAP Learning Hub. Please provide required URL for registration if I am missing anything.

[dvankempen]

FW1H

• ...


• How (much): registration opens early November 2020, no charge

[former_member661734]

Hello Denys,

 

Appreciate your efforts in writing out this blog. Its really helpful. Thanks for that.

However, I'm further interested to know more about SAP Certification options in this SAP Tech Ed. Could you bring more light on this ?

 

Cheers,

Amit Bharti

[dvankempen]

Hi Amit,

To my knowledge, as of yet SAP TechEd never included any certification specials during the event.

[_IvanFemia_]

Denys thanks for the info.

“If you want to participate in the hands-on labs it is first-come, first serve with limited capacity with a two workshop limit per attendee.”

I understand these limitations when in person, but why these stringent limits for a virtual event?

[dvankempen]

Hi Ivan, Good question! Maybe my colleagues at the event can respond. Will ask.

[former_member712792]

How to avail TechEd 50% Certification offer ? Really excited going to attend first time and planning for certification also same here let's wait and enjoy

[dvankempen]

Hi warcraft_10,

Thanks for pointing this out; I will add the reference to the blog

https://events.sapteched.com/pages/sap/sapteched2020/explore

[former_member712792]

Thanks for your time and effort! Just one more thing by using this option we can register for certification from Dec 1st only, Correct me if I am wrong.

[dvankempen]

The SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd opens December 1st until March 31st and you get two attempts at 50% I understand from the small print. More information will be available soon, no doubt, once the site is available.

• https://learninghub.sap.com/teched/

 

[sunny_13]

Hi Denys,

This blog has been very very helpful in choosing the tracks and sessions for the TechEd days. I was looking for information on how to place request for "on demand" sessions - presumably people should be demanding those in some way. Could you please share the process if you come across the same.

[former_member714511]

If we purchase certification on Dec1, it contains any validity? Let's say we need to complete bedore TechED complete(Dec 08-10) ? If there is any restrictions kindly let me know.

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.

[dvankempen]

Hi Ravi,

Best to reach out to the Learning Hub for specific questions.

Communicated is that SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd opens December 1st until March 31st and you get two attempts at 50%.

There is no reference to the event dates (12/8-10).

[former_member212573]

Hi Denys,

 

The Global certification is not available for the country India

[dvankempen]

Hi Kumar,

The offer starts today (Dec 1st).

For questions, best to ask on the Learning Hub directly.

[nitesh_gawas]

Hi Denyas,

if i cleared exam in 1st Attempt so can i appear for another exam for 2nd attempt as SAP offering 2 attempt.

Pls confirm.

[dvankempen]

Hi Nitesh, best to post this question on the TechEd 2020 Learning Room of SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd directly.

[Arun_selvaraj]

Hai Denys,

I purchase two attempts using the campaign code, till now I didn't receive a confirmation from SAP.

Please Suggest

Thanks in advance,

Arun Selvaraj

[dvankempen]

Hi Arun,

For personal assistance, best to post questions on the TechEd 2020 Learning Room of SAP Learning Hub, event edition for SAP TechEd directly.

My colleagues there should be able to help you out.

[Arun_selvaraj]

Hai Denys,

Thanks

[SuhasKoul]

Will It Be abap or node.js as our backend in future ?

[dvankempen]

Tune in into https://events.sapteched.com/widget/sap/sapteched2020/Catalog/session/1602555753134001up73 to find out

[sunny_13]

Donka just posted this, sharing here in my query for fellow SAP-ers

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