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Innovation with Purpose

Thierry Siraut

SAP University Alliances and SAP Next-Gen Belux Country Lead

@ThierrySAP

January 2017

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“Imagine a world without laptops,

a world where you speak to, engage

with, feel and wear technology – this is

the world SAP Next-Gen will serve and

drive innovation with Purpose.”


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SAP University Alliances and SAP Next-Gen


Mission: Build next gen innovators and connect them to the SAP ecosystem to accelerate disruptive innovation

SAP University Alliances enables faculty to bring SAP software and SAP University Alliances

curriculum into classrooms and academic research, to better prepare the next generation designers,

developers, data scientists, makers, entrepreneurs and business leaders for the exponential

enterprise. Through a network of 3,100+ educational institutions including 96% of top universities

across 106 countries worldwide, SAP University Alliances aims to develop critical skills for digital

futures among academics, university students and young thinkers, and to build the bridge to

executives and professionals.

To accelerate the impact of its global academic innovation network, SAP University Alliances has

launched SAP Next-Gen to enable SAP customers and partners to seed in disruptive innovation

and accelerate their exponential enterprise journeys and digital futures through connecting with

students, startups, academic thought leaders and researchers, accelerators, venture firms, and

other partners in the SAP University Alliances innovation network.

All SAP Next-Gen services and activities support SAP’s commitment to the 17 UN Global Goals for

Sustainable Development.


13SAP Next-Gen Labs

(every 3rd week new lab launches)

130SAP Next-Gen Consulting Projects

90SAP Next-Gen Innovation Tours

to Silicon Valley and New York

8 SAP Next-Gen Industry Labs

105 Countries

3000Universities

SAP Next-Gen Labs in numbers

20SAP Next-Gen Labs

150SAP Next-Gen Consulting Projects

97SAP Next-Gen Innovation Toursto Silicon Valley and New York

33 SAP Next-Gen Industry Labs and Technology/ special focus labs

106 Countries

3107Universities

SAP University Alliances and SAP Next-Gen By the Numbers

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SAP Next-Gen is linked to the Silicon Valleys of the World


26 SAP Next-Gen Labs for Industries


SAP Next-Gen Labs Memberships5 SAP Next-Gen Labs for Exponential Technologies and 2 special Focus Groups


SAP Next-Gen Lab for Purpose Driven Innovation SAP Next-Gen Global Challenges


SAP Next Gen Services SAP Next-Gen Consulting, SAP Next-Gen Innovation Tours…

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