SAP TechEd 2020 Virtual event - my recap

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:

Summary

All TechEd news

Wrap up video

Replays

SAP TechEd in 2020 – A Guide

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

Developer Key Note replay

Developer Key Note samples

SAP TechEd 2019 Barcelona my recap

Note: The blog is cross posted on my blog at SCN.

I had a privilege to attend SAP TechEd this year again. It was possible through SAP TechEd 2019 Tutorial Mission contest.

This year due to my workload within project work, I almost forgot about the contest and I finished it very late in August. I think it was even on very last day for the contest's mission - a few hours before deadline. Then I forgot about it again. I thought that I was lucky enough on last year so there is no chance for me to make it happen this year too. Sometime in mid of September a tweets from people who succeeded with the contents started to pop up. I again assumed the TechEd would not be for me this year. How big my surprise was when an email from Developers@sap.com showed up in my mailbox. That was approximately 2 weeks before the event. Afterwards it went very quickly, booking flight ticket and hotel in Barcelona, building an agenda...

So I was there, attending the SAP TechEd again. I flown in a night before it started to be fresh for a conference. From last year, I knew what to pack to take with me. This time there was a nice present to all attendances - a reusable bottle for water. Which served very well, all participants helped conserve a water. Although I saw a one small drawback. The phone app needed separate registration to take a part in water refill program. I can understand that the registration thing hold some people back from participating. Perhaps it would be easier to make an authentication via some social network ID (twitter/facebook/google) or even via SAP ID...

The TechEd started with opening keynote on Tuesday morning. I think it is a kind of tradition to kick off such event with great visual presentation supported by music. It feels like one is on rock start concert and not on the conference. For TechEd veterans it is perhaps normal for me it is still amazing to experience it. I liked Juergen Mueller attitude shown during the key note. Bringing 17 years old programmer girl on a stage was great thing. The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world - also SAP gets that. At her age, I was trying to program some very basic graphic things in Pascal language on 286 type of computer at high school. She did her programming for her school assignment in cloud environment - very different times.

What was announced during the key note? I just focus on things that were related to topics I followed – data warehousing/analytics, integration and ABAP.

At first, an Intelligent Enterprise (IE) was discussed focusing on four examples of End-to-End processes (like Design to Operate, Total Workforce Management, Source to Pay and Lead to Cash). All this was described while emphasize an X data that is flowing around Experience part of the IE and O data flowing around Operation part of the EI whereas Intelligence is central part of the IE.

Later a BTP - Business Technology Platform (reference architecture) was introduced. It is next evolution of SAP’s digital platform. More less umbrella term comprising of four pillars: DB & data management, Analytics, App Development & Integration and finally Intelligent Technologies that are underlying technology foundation.

Next announcement was about SAP HANA Cloud. Which cloud solution based on HANA platform that address storage (multi-level data tiering), performance scaling, processing, quality, and consumption of data. It comes with services like Data Warehouse Cloud (see below) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Will be available before Christmas 2019. What I got from its presentation is that it is HANA based SaaS offering.

Now into more details of four pillars of the BTP. Within first pillar - DB & Data Management it was nice to see that SAP BW/4HANA has still a prominent spot within SAP business architecture in a category of on-premise apps. In cloud category there is a brand new solution called SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. I do not know how to call it better I tend to refer it as "DWaaS". This abbreviation can be seen in URLs pointing to UI of this solution e.g. https://*.hanacloudservices.cloud.sap/dwaas-ui/ so I guess I am not that far from naming it correctly. The DWaaS aims to be logical DW solution for dynamically changing landscapes. It can consume data coming from SAP BW, BW4, SAP SQL DW, SAP HANA etc. It is SAP’s response to new DWH requirements in cloud world. It is not a product coming out from project blueberry that I heard about on TechEd 2018. However, from what I understand it leverages part of functions that were developed during the blueberry project. More than 2k customers registered for DWaaS already at the time of the key note. Needless to say the DWaaS is in GA as of Q4 this year and DWaaS is one of services of the SAP HANA Cloud.

Concerning second pillar – Analytics. SAP Analytics Could (SAC) will be as of Q4 this year embedded into SuccessFactors. This follows announcement from Las Vegas TechEd where same thing was announced just in case of S4/HANA. The SAC is now primary analytics tools across SAP product portfolio. One more announcement with regards SAP’s BusinessObjects portfolio. Beta version 4.3 of SAP BusinessObjects BI platform will be available in December this year.

Next, the third pillar App Development & Integration. I liked how CPI – Cloud Platform Integration is developing. Especially within integration of SAP solutions and 3rd-party apps via SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors. Integration flows and data mapping are available on API Business Hub (api.sap.com) now. This is similar to what other integration (IaaS) companies are doing like mulesoft with their templates or built.io (now part of software ag) with flows. ML is used here to suggest best mapping fields by ML based content advisor. There is currently Open Connectors available to provide integration with 160+ systems.

The fourth pillar intelligent technologies. These comprises of Conversational AI, Intelligent RPA, IoT Cloud, IoT Edge. It was announced that will be 200 ML cases live by end of 2019. There was an interested demo show cased for automated user behavior mining. It started by identifying processes that can be automated. There is a tool called “spotlight by SAP” that provides overview of process (e.g. transactions in SAP ERP) that require a lot of manual effort. KPIs like total time spend in UI can be analyzed. Once the process candidate for automation is identified via Intelligent RPA tool, a bot can be created based on data from the user behavior mining. These solutions are coming from SAP spotlight. That is internal SAP startup focused on tools for process transparency and data-driven actions that developed the Spotlight by SAP tool.

Now to the TechEd’s sessions. Unlikely to my first year at the TechEd I was this time more picky while building my agenda. As rule of thumb, I always had a backup session scheduled in case some session would not be interesting enough for me. Anyhow, I attended approximately 20+ sessions, again related to topics I followed – data warehousing/analytics, App development / ABAP. Below I mention few of them.

Data warehousing/analytics

I enjoyed session about “SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytics Designer: Road Map (AIN828)” by David Stocker. I appreciate David’s sense of humor for example while mentioning that lady sitting close to him in the plane on the way to TechEd that had whole P/L printed with her and studying it whole trip :) yeah who on the earth would print the P/L :)

“Integrating SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP Applications (AIN103)” I learned that SAC is now strategic analytics platform for all core SAP business applications. Interesting demos were presented related to Digital Boardroom. Although it is separated product but it is based on different content in the SAC. Normally there are two flavors of the SAC implementation. One is embedded – means it sits on the same system just different tenant is provisioned to customer. Other one is cross app where data is coming from multiple apps to the SAC.

“Modeling a Data Warehouse with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (AIN378)”. A hands-on session on administration, creating data models and reporting in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

“One Data Management Strategy with SAP DW Cloud and BW/4HANA (AIN207)” – presentation on how DWaaS fits into business and IT user’s needs.

“SAP Data Hub: Data Integration with Enterprise Applications (DAT202)” – Data Hub is gaining traction also with newly ABAP, BW, SCP integration and SAC Push API.

“Intelligent Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud (AIN105)” – session so called SAC for planning. It was nice to see all what the SAC is capable of in terms of planning. We will see how all this will cope with current SAP portfolios of planning solutions like BPC (standard/embedded/optimized/simplified, ...)

“Integrating SAP Analytics Cloud in Third-Party Applications (AIN370)” - hands-on session on integration API for SAP Analytics Cloud. We build simple JAVA SCP app that consumed SAC’s API.

“SAC, BW/4HANA, and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (AIN376)” - hands-on session. I tried examples on how to consume BW/4 query in SAC. This seems to be important feature as BW queries (former BEx queries) will be only objects that the SAC can consume out of the BW/4.

“Overview of SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 (AIN208)” and    “SAP BW/4HANA: Road Map (AIN832)” – BW/4 is around for some time its 2nd version was introduced earlier this year. My only regret is to see that BW/4 simplifications (see BW4SL SAP Notes) are fixed and there are no plans to bring more functionalities of classic BW (like Analysis Process Designer) to BW/4.

App Development & Integration

Session “Unboxing SAP Cloud Platform (CAA115)”, I learned here that SAP Business Application Studio will replaced Web IDE going forward. How subaccount can be created for one account on SCP. In addition, there were interesting information about Neo part of the SCP although it is still supported but as SAP wants to give its customer option to go to any of hyperscalers so focus will be on CloudFoundry part of the SCP.

“Optimize Your Custom ABAP Code for SAP HANA (CAA104)” – For me a many new ABAP concepts were presented like: host expressions (here ABAP can derive correct type of variables from context), CTE - Common Table Expression (temporary results sets in SQL queries that can be accessed in other SQL statements), ABAP SQL Windowing (dividing data sets into subsets), hierarchies within CDS views, new built-in ABAP types, and so on.

“Road Map: ABAP Platform (CAA800), ABAP Strategy (CAA100) and Get the Big Picture of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model (CAA103)”. From product direction point of view, there are two main forks:

1. On-prem = SAP NW AS for ABAP7.5 (versions 7.50, 7.51. 75.2), these are only in maintenance mode

2. Cloud = 
           2.1 SAP S/4HANA Cloud or ABAP Platform for SAP S/4HANA

          2.2 SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment (steampunk), not innovation code line

More on steampuk. At last year’s TechEd there was RAP (RESTful ABAP Programming) model introduced. That was with so-called unmanaged scenario where programmer need to code all (e.g. CRUD) operations. Now there is managed scenario where some of functionality like Insert/Update/Delete is delivered out of the box. This certainly speeds up developing of Fiori apps. ABAP is still evolving but now with strategy = “cloud first but not cloud only”.

I spent some time at show flor too. SAP was running many interested things there. Few of them to mention: “unconference” meetups, community lounge, developer garage, community talks / community theater, app space where attendees had a chance to work on SAP tutorials, open source bar where few OSS projects that SAP contributes to were presented, learning zone, SAP runs SAP and others. SAP and especially people from SAP Developer and Community Relations team did pretty good job in here.

Funny thing happened on Tuesday night. I was so focused and in rush to complete tutorials in app space that I did not notice that people are leaving for the day. Security people had to kick me off from there :)

In closing, I want to say that it was great experience to be at the TechEd this year again. I met some people I know from different SAP gatherings (like Inside Tracks and/or Code Jam) there at the TechEd too. Not mentioning meeting strangers over morning coffee or during a lunch. Simply the TechEd is the place where community comes together. So thank you SAP community for having me.

PS: One more thing I want to mention waste management at the TechEd facility. I was very surprised to see that there were no dedicated bins for recyclables (paper, glass, metals, plastics). All the waste produced by conference attendees was just thrown into one type of bin for common trash. I do not think they separate and recycle it later. If the facility operator does not care about it – SAP should. Even it would mean to pick different operator/location IMHO.

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SAP TechEd 2018 Las Vegas my experience

Note: The blog is cross posted on my blog at SCN.

Although second TechEd of this season is over now I just want to come back to first one that was in Las Vegas. So here’s my experience…

It was September 17^th Monday’s evening when I checked my emails and I saw an email with subject “SAP TechEd Invitation to Register”. I didn’t even care to open the email as I thought that it another marketing email inviting for the TechEd. I continued to read a news feed on my phone for another hour before I wanted to go to bed. After I was done with reading the news hour I checked my emails for last time and the email from Craig Cmehil popped up. This time I opened it and read it. It was really nice surprise to hear that I was selected for the TechEd. As Craig mentioned in the email I should have received an official invitation with details about how to claim my TechEd prize. I realized that he referred to the first email I received on that evening. So it turned out the first email wasn’t marketing one but invitation to the TechEd. I was lucky I opened the 2^nd email otherwise I would completely miss my chance to go to the event :-)

So this is how I made it SAP TechEd 2018 in Las Vegas for first time. I was fortunate enough to be selected based on my participation in SAP TechEd 2018 Tutorial Mission contest held back in August. When I participated in the content I had an option to choose TechEd location. I didn’t really expect to be one of lucky winners so I thought to myself it has to be Las Vegas or nothing :-) and it worked out.

As a preparation for conference I read few blogs (e.g. How to Survive SAP Tech-Ed) about it. For someone like me attending for first time the best source of information is Tammy Powlas blog Getting Ready for #SAPTechEd – a @SAPCommunity Call. 

I arrived to Vegas on October’s 1^st Monday evening. Thanks to my friend and SAP mentor Ethan Jewett I attended SAP Mentors Reception. Although a jet lag started to attack me very soon it was it was very pleasant occasion to meet and talk to other SAP mentors. 

On Tuesday I woke up very early and had enough time to register myself for conference. I used some time before registration was opened to familiarize myself with the conference’s venue. Sands Expo Convention Center it large facility and short walk way around it helped me later during the conference to easily navigate between different floor, rooms etc. Just one remark to registration process. Paying attendees were eligible to receive free hoodie. Although I wasn’t one of them as my ticket was provided by SAP to me for free I heard some comments regarding the hoodie. On Tuesday morning only large sizes were available and some people were not happy about that :-) I guess smaller sizes were given away on days before already as registration was opened since Sunday’s evening. 

The TechEd started with key note delivered by Bernd Leukert. Personally I expected some more technical person like Björn Goerke to deliver it. Reason is that this is the technical conference thus the technical people like CTO would fit better. However, I understand that delivering 3 key notes by same person can be little too much. As for the key note an announcements were: a part of “Kubernetes as a Service” and “SAP Cloud Platform Functions” for me the biggest was “SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment” is now GA. The SAP CP ABAP Environment also known as project steampunk. Other than that emphasis of the key note was “intelligent enterprise”.

For rest of my TechEd stay I following tracks related to mostly Analytics (Next Gen Data Management (DAT),    Applied Intelligence (AIN),  App Landscapes and Cloud Native Architectures (CNA) and Integration Out-of-the-Box (INT) sessions. In total I attended 27 sessions. I did few exercised at google booth – part of App Space. Unfortunately had no time to do more tutorials in other vendor’s booths. Also not really had time to go through all exhibitor’s booths. I visited only few which I had an interests in their products. In next part of the blog I briefly introduce what I learned during sessions I attended.

As my TechEd package didn’t contain hands-ons I was only visiting few of them and I tried just shadow other people who were working on them. It was actually great to meet new people and engage.

AIN100 – Analytics Overview 101 – Dedicated to SAP’s analytics strategy. Got an overview on what’s are current tools within portfolio.  In this session I learned about SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) tool. 

CNA222 - A Developer’s View of SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment – one of sessions related to SAP CP ABAP Environment. Overview of use cases for ABAP in CP was provided. Along the others I think possibility to leverage ABAP skills in CP by SAP customers is the biggest benefit of ABAP Environment in the CP that I see. Learned things like: $TMP as development package is not present anymore in the CP; ABAP key words related to web/dynpro, OS, SAP GUI (basically everything which have no sense in cloud environment, see what is whitelisted in blog) are not supported; RESTful ABAP Programming (RAP) intro. Seen demos on: console app; abapGit usage, CDS view creation + ODATA service generation + FIORI Elements preview.

AIN200 – SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW/4HANA: Complementing SAP S/4HANA – Got an overview of SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics, apps (Content) available in this area; how it is integrated with SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Speakers were nicely answering to pretty tricky questions like “do we still need BW if we have embedded analytics?”  J

DAT110 – Project Blueberry – A Sneak Peek – intro to new product Packaged DWH as a Service (DWaaS). It shares same code line as SAP BW/4HANA; to be a first app to run on the SAP CP ABAP Environment; components of SAP “DWaaS”; integration with integration to SAP Data Hub and SAC were discussed.

AIN105 – Overview of SAP Cloud Analytics (SAC), All Analytics on One Platform – Dedicated to analytics as BI/Planning/Predictive/App Design on one platform; Live connections that is used to access data in SAC tool. Very basic feature of the SAC that I learned is that it doesn’t move/store/replicate any data before it is displayed to user.

DAT367 – End-to-End Modeling and Operations with SAP BW/4HANA – hands-on session. In this one we did a creation a new data flow; creation of a Process Chain in the SAP BW/4HANA Administration Cockpit and finally we tried data tiering optimization in BW/4HANA system.

DAT100 – Analytics Clients for SAP BW/4HANA – learned about analytics strategy as big picture, front end tools like SAC, SAP Lumira (mostly about designer edition as for discovery edition won’t get new major feature updates starting in 2019) and SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office were discussed. Great demos were provided. For support of BEx tools in SAP BW/4HANA see SAP Note 2496706.

AIN864 – SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office: Road Map – Learned about upcoming new features of 2.7 version introduced for the tool like: EPM and Analytics plug-ins in MS Excel are now merged into one products; left outer join feature; comments feature; history panel; integration with SAC; etc.

CNA120 – ABAP Strategy – current innovation in ABAP were discussed, in particular:

1. On premise: SAP S/4HANA On Premise

2. Cloud:

2.1 SAP S/4HANA Cloud

2.2 SAP CP ABAP Environment

Other topics: implication on modifications/custom code (move to cloud extensions); must learn topics for ABAP developers like in area of UI: SAP Fiori / SAPUI5, RESTful ABAP Programming model (RAP); area of code pushdown: ABAP SQL, Core Data Services and code pushdown in SAP HANA; area of code securing/managing: ABAP Tools, Development-methodology; area of cloud: In-App extensibility, SAP Cloud Platform. There are many new things going on in ABAP. Really exciting times to be an ABAP developer!

DAT202 – Conversion Paths to SAP BW/4HANA – different possibilities on how to convert BW system to BW/4HANA based system. Few interesting facts about the BW/4HANA that caught my attention: 3k tables were removed, 5 mil of ABAP code lines removed in BW/4HANA in comparison to NetWeaver based BW system.

DAT204 – SAP BW/4HANA: An Agile Architecture for the Intelligent Data Warehouse – different architecture approaches discussed within BW/4HANA like: simplified EDW, flexible EDW, agile DWH and relational Data Lake architecture.

DAT366 – SAP BW/4HANA and SAP SQL Data Warehousing – hands-on session. Example of an integration of SAP and non-SAP data combined in SAP BW/4HANA and SAP SQL Data Warehousing solution. We created Flowgraph in Web IDE tool (DWH) and data flow in BW/4HANA. Data from both sources were accessible in SAP BW/4HANA.

CNA302 – Custom Code Adaptation for SAP S/4HANA – Options of checking custom code when converting to SAP S/4HANA were discussed. Different tools for that were presented like Custom Code Lifecycle Management (CCLM), ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) etc.

CNA202 – How to Get to SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics – capabilities of S/4HANA’s embedded analytics were discussed. Many demos presented.

DAT370 – Experience with Using SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BW/4HANA – hands-on session. We could practice working with SAC tool in scenarios leveraging local data and live data. It was great session as Ingo Hilgefort went beyond expectation and he provided very deep insight on topics like storytelling in analytics, gave a tips on books for BI people etc.

DAT101– What’s New in Native Development for SAP HANA – delta information between HANA 2 SPS02 and SPS03 were discussed from Client Interfaces, SQL, SQLScript, CDS, Development Tools and XSA perspectives.

INT303 – Using Hana Express with No SAP Experience – Example on how HANA Express edition can be installed and used even in productive manner.

DAT839 – SAP Data Hub: Road Map – SAP Data Hub 2.3 solution was discussed.

CNA210 – Entering the World of Git with ABAP – Great session showcasing power of ABAPGit in conjunction with Continuous Integration (CI) tool Jenkins. In spirit of “CTS goes Git” demo was presented where and ABAP change was done in development system in Eclipse. The change was pushed (exported) to git repository. CI part (pipeline): CI server observed the change in the repository. It created a new build and deployed it into test system. Afterwards the CI server tests the change in test system. In case the test is successful the change is promoted to production system.

CNA216 – A Technical Deep Dive into the ABAP RESTful Programming Model –Technical things about the RESTful ABAP Programming (RAP) model. Stared with business object (BO) and business service details. Demo on how the BO is modeled/implemented via business definition/implementation language. Followed by service definition and binding. Finally, the BO was exposed in SAP Fiori UI service with SAP Fiori Elements Preview called from Eclipse.

CNA415 – Test Driven Development with ABAP – better say it was about how to write testable ABAP code. Great session by Graham Robinson. I had a lot of fun while attending it. Graham showcased in his demo how he can rely on a fact that ABAP code was refactored correctly by leveraging ABAP Unit classes.

DAT203 – Best Practices for Modeling Mixed Scenarios – very helpful session providing an examples of possible mixed scenarios while combining modeling capabilities of BW/4HANA and HANA.

DAT108 – An Outlook on Data Integration Tools from SAP: When to Use What – different use cases of products like SAP Data Services, SAP Cloud Platform Integration for data services, SAP HANA smart data integration / SAP Cloud Platform Smart Data Integration, SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server and SAP Data Hub were discussed.

DAT876 – SAP BW/4HANA: Road Map – features were discussed from Recent innovations -> Planned innovations (2019) -> Product direction (2020) -> Product vision (2021) point of view. See also here.

DAT815 – Machine Learning in SAP HANA – machine learning capabilities of HANA were discussed.

AIN102 – Application Design with SAP Analytics Cloud – probably best session in analytics area I had a chance to attend. David Stocker discussed a lot of detail on how SAC was designed. Also many background information on how SAP tried to integrate many of their BI front end tools. Can’t wait to try this tool out. Hope there will be trail version available soon!

In closing I’d to say that it was a great experience for me being at the TechEd. A part of gaining knowledge, opportunity to talk to SAP people like product managers, trying out new solutions, and so on the biggest asset of the TechEd is that you meet a lot of new people. It doesn’t matter either you stay few minutes longer after some session finished and discuss the topic further, or you join a bunch of strangers talking about topic you are interested in while waiting in hallway to enter room where another session gonna start soon, or you join people during lunch… basically wherever you go during the TechEd there you will find some new people who share with you a common interest in SAP solutions.