Note:
The blog is cross posted on my blog
at SAP Community.
This
year it was obviously very different experience. Due to pandemic situation mostly
all over the world, SAP TechEd event was held virtually. That came with some
advantages (it was for free) but some may miss face to face part of the TechEd
experience. I think format of this year TechEd will prevail going forward
however I think perhaps there will be some parts of it (like pre/after show
events) that will not be organized virtually. What about gathering of few SAP aficionados
and do the TechEd together at some location? Something like small SAP Inside
Track – the TechEd edition? Yeah just an idea. Of course, only in case there is
no pandemic :(
I
liked a “channel 1”. Even when I had no session scheduled I just tuned in.
There was a plenty of information available with regards other sessions that I was
not aware of, talks/discussions with community members, guests, replays etc. In
general, it served me good to get an overview on what is going on other TechEd
topics that I wasn’t initially interested in.
In
addition, I found a very useful to follow social media during the event.
Especially a discord
channel to get a tips what are good sessions to see its replays, see live
comments from community or just simply hang out with other TechEd goers.
Naturally
based on my job, I followed tracks like Analytics, Database and Data Management
in detail and partially App Development and Integration. During the time of the
TechEd I focused on session type Workshops and Expert Q&A’s because in these
I could leverage the most e.g. while having an access to system, performing
exercises, ask live experts etc. Most of regular sessions I watched / will
watch on demand afterwards. Concerning the workshops, some of them were not
really occupied by attendees – simple people did not show up. This I think had
a multiple reasons. As the whole event was free, some people may signed up to just
whatever workshop was available at the time they were building their agenda.
Later on they either were busy with their daily jobs, they forgot about it
because they weren’t notified or simply didn’t care. In future perhaps better notification
process would need to be setup. In case of some workshops I attended I got the
notification when it was about to start via email from SAP sometimes from zoom.
I guess for some people it was confusing.
Most
of sessions are available on demand. It creates a useful resource list to study
for all attendees. There are many sessions I still want to go through. Thus, I highly
appreciate this option to do it on demand.
One
more highlight for me was a music theme of the TechEd. It was a song called Mysteries
by Richard Lacy and Sarah Mac from album Big & Bold 80's. Great choice I
admit.
As I tweeted after the event: ... certainly, a new experience as was all in virtual - but I liked it, good job! thanks #SAP
See you perhaps not virtually only on
next year's TechEd :)
More
information:
SAP
Cheat Sheet, Special Edition: SAP TechEd in 2020
TechEd-2020
SAP Analytics Q/A Summary (SAP DWC, SAC, BW4HANA) - day 1
TechEd-2020
SAP Analytics Q/A Summary (SAP DWC, SAC, BW4HANA) - day 2