Keynote: How SAP is Supercharging Developers for What's Next | AI & Agents | SAP TechEd 2025

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Developers aren’t being replaced, but AI is making them faster. In the SAP TechEd opening keynote, SAP leaders demonstrate how builders can utilize the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to transform ideas into secure, scalable outcomes. You’ll see how the app–data–AI flywheel comes together: best-in-class applications generate a governed data layer that powers intelligent agents and experiences. The keynote highlights an open, choice-driven developer experience, featuring local SAP Build servers, a new VS Code extension, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and zero-copy sharing across SAP Business Data Cloud—now enhanced with a Snowflake partnership. It also introduces SAP-RPT-1, a relational foundation model purpose-built for tabular business data, enabling faster and higher-quality predictions without the need for bespoke models. For building and operating AI at scale, SAP showcases ready-to-use and extensible agents, low-code Agent Builder, pro-code agents using the SAP Cloud SDK for AI, agent interoperability via the A2A protocol, plus lifecycle governance with Agent Hub and Agent Mining. You’ll also see intent-based development (“vibe coding”) across SAP Build and VS Code—including ABAP in VS Code and an SAP-tuned ABAP-1 model for developer productivity. Customer stories from Uniper and Sartorius ground the tech in real outcomes, including a live warehouse demo with robots orchestrated by Joule. The session closes with a look at quantum optimization in partnership with IBM—pointing to a future where classical, AI, and quantum computing work in concert on real business problems. Speakers: Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer, SAP Michael Ameling, President, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Muhammad Alam, SAP Product & Engineering, SAP Geoff Scott, CEO & Chief Community Champion, @ASUGtv Torsten Müller, CIO & Head of Operations, @SartoriusGlobal Dr. Axel Wietfeld, Chief Procurement Officer, @UniperEnergy 00:00 - Opening: why builders matter 02:11 - Live link to Louisville & community pulse 09:29 - Developers in the AI-native era 11:02 - SAP app–data–AI flywheel on BTP 12:50 - Business Data Cloud updates + Snowflake 15:46 - Introducing SAP-RPT-1 (tabular AI) 35:23 - Demo: pipeline predictions with SAP-RPT-1 + HANA Cloud 41:42 - Benchmark engineering, Prompt Optimizer & AI for Europe 46:19 - Agents across LoBs; extensibility with Agent Builder 53:24 - Pro-code agents with SAP Cloud SDK for AI 1:01:29 - Agent interoperability (A2A), Agent Hub & Agent Mining 1:10:01 - Intent-based development (“vibe coding”) demo 1:20:12 - Customer story: Uniper procurement transformation 1:34:21 - Robotics warehouse demo orchestrated by Joule 1:46:01 - Quantum optimization with IBM & closing remarks Watch all SAP TechEd replays: https://sap.to/60577zqy5 Build faster and automate smarter with AI: https://sap.to/60597zqy9 Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://sap.to/60507zqyi Instagram: https://sap.to/60517zqyc Facebook: https://sap.to/60527zqyY Threads: https://sap.to/60547zqym About SAP: As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://sap.to/60567zqyo #SAPTechEd #BusinessAI #Developers #SAPBTP