Hey Everyone!

SAP TechEd in 2026 is just around the corner, and preparations are in full swing at SAP! This year event series kicks of on October 27 with SAP TechEd Berlin, coupled with SAP TechEd Virtual, followed by various tour stops  around the globe up to Q1 2027. Like last year, SAP TechEd Virtual will comprise a selection of livestreamed on-site Berlin sessions accompanied by a special online program – and is free of charge. 

SAP TechEd is the leading tech conference for all developers, IT professionals, business experts, tech visionaries, innovators, and leaders eager to gain in-depth knowledge of SAP’s solutions, platforms, and technologies, along with insights into their future direction. It also offer an opportunity to network and connect with peers and SAP experts. 

Whether you are attending in person in Berlin or joining virtually from anywhere in the world, there is a rich lineup of sessions waiting for you – from strategy talks and road maps to deep dives.  Hands-on workshops to get your hands dirty and the show floor experience, including “Ask the Expert” pods, Developer garage and AI Workspace, are waiting for the on-site participants.

Save the dates and register now!  

 at SAP TechEd in 2026

If you're an ABAP developer, architect, or simply curious about what's next in the ABAP space — this post is your one-stop overview of all ABAP-related sessions at this year's event. 

 This year's lineup of insightful ABAP sessions revolves around following overarching topics: agent-led development – transitioning from AI-assisted to fully agentic workflows powered by the ABAP MCP Server; ABAP Cloud innovations in SAP BAIP, ABAP environment and SAP Cloud ERP – the latest in RAP, CDS, and the ABAP language, including AI-infused application development; and agent-led custom code migration and modernization – accelerating the journey from SAP ECC to SAP SAP/4HANA Cloud and supporting the clean core strategy. 

Keynotes & ABAP-related sessions at SAP TechEd Berlin

 Keynotes

KEY100 | Built for the ones who build | 📺Livestream: KEY100v
Imagine if you could walk into work and just build. No data pipelines. No models to teach the business. No AI cost surprises. SAP brings together AI, tools, business data, governance, agents, and a new UX layer in one integrated AI platform so you can build freely and turn ambitious ideas into business outcomes. Find out what’s ready for you today.
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CET
Speakers: Philipp Herzig – Chief AI Officer and Chief Technology Officer, SAP 

KEY101 | Agent v0.0.7 – A license to skill | 📺Livestream: KEY101v
Your mission: master the AI-driven development revolution. Join Agent Kasimir to see how the SAP Business AI Platform, the Joule Studio solution, and open ecosystem tools give developers a license to skill. From agentic orchestration to context-aware code, discover how modern spycraft meets enterprise tech to redefine how we build software. 
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CET
Speakers: Josh Bentley (SAP), Rich Heilman (SAP), DJ Adams (SAP), Rekha D R (SAP), Sheena M K (SAP), Shilpa Shankar (SAP), Antonio Maradiaga (SAP), Witalij Rudnicki (SAP), Nora von Thenen (SAP)

 Strategy Talks (25″)

ST124 | Strategy for agent-led development in ABAP | 📺Livestream: ST124v
Development using ABAP development tools transitions from being AI-assisted to agent-led. This spans greenfield development as well as the migration and modernization of existing solutions. Get insights into our strategy for agent-led development in ABAP and the evolution of AI capabilities for ABAP enabled by the SAP Joule for Developers add-on.
Speakers: Sonja Liénard (SAP), Dr. Alexander Rother (SAP)
On-site schedule 1: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM CET 
On-site schedule 2: Thursday, Oct 29 | 12:00 PM – 12:25 PM CET
Virtual schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM CET 

ST122 | Extending the SAP Autonomous Suite
See and experience the journey of extensibility across SAP Autonomous Suite. Discover how AI-driven development with SAP Build solutions including the ABAP Cloud model is transforming the way extensions are designed, generated, and deployed. Learn the way forward to make your extensions ready for the era of agentic AI.
Speakers: Khaled Musilhy (SAP), Dr. Alexander Rother (SAP)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 2:45 PM – 3:10 PM CET

️ Road Maps (25″)

AD819 | Road map for agent-led ABAP development 
Development in ABAP is transitioning from being AI-assisted to agent-led. This spans greenfield development as well as the migration and modernization of existing solutions. Learn what is available and what's coming next.
Speakers: Dr. Alexander Rother (SAP), Simona Marincei (SAP)
Schedule 1: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CET
Schedule 2: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 12:45 PM – 1:10 PM CET

TM817 | What's next in extensibility for SAP Autonomous Suite? 
Explore agent-driven extensibility innovations shaping the future of SAP Autonomous Suite. See what's ahead of us regarding enabling your extensions for the era of agentic AI and how to leverage our assistants for that reality.  
Speakers: Oren Shatil (SAP), Dr. Alexander Rother (SAP)
Schedule:  Wednesday, Oct 28 | 12:00 PM – 12:25 PM CET

 Deep Dives (45″)

💡Tip: Many deep dives have a paired hands-on workshop – we recommend attending both to get the full learning experience!

AD100 | Agentic AI development with the ABAP development tools | 📺Livestream: AD100v
Explore how agentic development with ABAP development tools is transforming the developer experience. This session provides insights into the ABAP tool strategy, and the technical foundations behind it, with a focus on the ABAP Language Server and ABAP MCP Server, and gives an outlook on modern ABAP development.
Speakers: Anne Keller (SAP), Dileep Kumar Reddy Ajjungunti (SAP)
On-site schedule 1: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CET
On-site schedule 2: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM CET 
Virtual schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CET
Related HOW: AD160

AD200 | ABAP Cloud in action: Discover the latest innovations
Ready to elevate your cloud-native development? Explore the latest innovations in ABAP Cloud, including powerful enhancements in the ABAP language, Core Data Services, embedded analytics, and the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model, such as the transactional outbox patterns with the background processing framework and collaborative draft.
Speakers: Carine Tchoutouo Djomo (SAP), Volker Drees (SAP)
Schedule 1: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CET
Schedule 2: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM CET
Related HOW: AD260

AD201 | SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Sizing and monitoring of productive apps
Build applications based on the ABAP Cloud model that are fully aligned with a clean core strategy (level A). Explore key considerations and tasks before and after the go-live of custom apps, including system landscape, sizing, technical monitoring, integration with the SAP Cloud ALM solution, and tools for effective troubleshooting.
Speakers: Frank Jentsch (SAP), Steffen Siegmund (SAP)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM CET
Related HOW: AD261

TM103 | Reimagining migration and modernization with agent-led AI assistants | 📺Livestream: TM103v
Explore how a new generation of agent-led AI assistants is rewriting the economics of migration and modernization by cutting costs, fast tracking project timelines, and spanning the full migration lifecycle. At the same time, learn how SAP is accelerating the path to the Autonomous Enterprise and empowering you to take advantage of these AI agents.
Speakers:  Sören Ruder (SAP), Sonja Liénard (SAP)
On-site schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 11:30 PM – 12:15 PM CET
Virtual schedule: Thursday, Oct 29 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM CET

TM105 | Agent-Led custom code migration: From planning to mass Adaptation 
Custom code migration often bottlenecks the move from SAP ERP Central Component to SAP Cloud ERP Private. See how an agent-led toolchain accelerates the process from planning in SAP Cloud ALM to AI-powered mass remediation with the Custom Code Migration Agent in SAP Joule for Developers. Plus, discover the latest custom code management innovations.
Speakers: Olga Dolinskaja (SAP), Marco Matha (SAP)
Schedule 1: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CET
Schedule 2: Thursday, Oct 29 | 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CET
Related HOW: TM260

TM107 | Building AI-infused applications with ABAP Cloud in SAP Cloud ERP 
Explore how to extend SAP Cloud ERP and transform standard business services into intelligent cloud apps with the ABAP Cloud development model. Learn to embed advanced generative AI capabilities into apps built using the ABAP RESTful application programming model—all while keeping the core clean and future-ready.
Speakers: Volker Drees (SAP), Carine Tchoutouo Djomo (SAP)
Schedule 1: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM CET
Schedule 2: Thursday, Oct 29 | 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM CET
Related HOW: TM364

TM108 | The journey with clean core continues for SAP Cloud ERP Private | 📺Livestream: TM108v
Discover how the clean core strategy has evolved in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. Explore the latest in extensibility, new capabilities in the dashboard for RISE with SAP Methodology, and how AI helps make custom code compliant with clean core. Learn about new guidance for data, integration, and clean core in relation to SAP's API policy.
Speakers: Markus Göbel (SAP), Olga Dolinskaja (SAP)
On-site schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 12:30 PM – 01:15 PM CET
Virtual Schedule: Thursday, Oct 29 | 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CET

 Hands-on Workshops (120″)

AD160 | Build apps and Web APIs with ABAP Cloud using agentic AI 
Learn to leverage agentic AI to rapidly build transactional SAP Fiori apps and services with ABAP Cloud using the ABAP RESTful application programming model (RAP) in the ABAP development tools for VS Code.  
Speakers: Wolfgang Woehrle (SAP), Anne Keller (SAP), Dr. Alexander Rother (SAP), Dileep Kumar Reddy Ajjugunti (SAP)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CET
Related DD: AD100

AD260 | Level up app development with innovations in ABAP Cloud and Joule
Explore innovations in the ABAP RESTful application programming model to build modern apps. Generate multi-node business objects and use capabilities like event-driven side effects, collaborative draft, background processing, and analytical tables for a greater end user experience. Use the SAP Joule for Developers add-on to accelerate development.
Speakers: Carine Tchoutouo Djomo (SAP), Marina Blank (SAP), Anne Keller (SAP), Frank Jentsch (SAP)
Schedule: Thursday, Oct 29 | 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM CET
Related DD: AD200

AD261 | SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshooting 
Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot side-by-side applications built with the ABAP Cloud model on SAP BAIP, ABAP environment, aligning with a clean core strategy (level A). Use technical monitoring tools for an application based on ABAP Cloud and gain practical troubleshooting experience with ABAP development tools for Eclipse. 
Speakers: Frank Jentsch (SAP), Steffen Siegmund (SAP), Wolfgang Wöhrle (SAP), Robert Werlich (SAP)
Schedule: Thursday, Oct 29 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CET
Related DD: AD201

TM260 | Migrate and modernize your custom code from ECC to RISE with agentic AI 
Experience the RISE with SAP journey moving custom extensions from SAP ERP Central Component to SAP Cloud ERP Private. See how the Custom Code Migration Agent in SAP Joule for Developers streamlines custom code adaptation leveraging MCP tools and AI for ABAP in custom code tools. Then, modernize your custom code following the clean core approach.
Speakers: Olga Dolinskaja (SAP), Thomas Fiedler (SAP), Ingo Bräuninger (SAP), Hitesh Bindal (SAP)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CET
Related DD: TM105

TM268 | Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data services
Performance issues can hide within data models for extensions. Analyze real-world anti-patterns in business applications built with the ABAP Cloud development model on core data services–based data models. Learn to analyze and resolve bottlenecks using ABAP cross trace, SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code, and SAP HANA database explorer.
Speakers: Robert Werlich (SAP), Thomas Fiedler (SAP), Ingo Bräuninger (SAP), Steffen Siegmund (SAP)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM CET

TM364 | Build smart extensions in SAP Cloud ERP with ABAP Cloud and business AI 
Build an AI-infused application with the ABAP Cloud development model in SAP Cloud ERP. Learn to enhance an application built with the ABAP RESTful application programming model by embedding advanced generative AI capabilities. Implement AI capabilities with a clean core approach, then apply these concepts to your cloud extensions.
Speakers: Volker Drees (SAP), Marina Blank (SAP), Hitesh Bindal (SAP), Dileep Kumar Reddy Ajjugunti (SAP)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM CET
Related DD: TM107 

 Demo Stations on the Show Floor

Visit the the Demo Stations throughout the whole event on the Show Floor and engage with SAP experts such as Thomas Alexander Ritter and Karl Kessler, and meet the speakers for Ask the Expert sessions!

 Community Talks & Ecosystem Insights

I encourage you to visit the Community Talks and Ecosystem Insight sessions that will be offered throughout the events on-site. Below are some interesting sessions for ABAP developers – more in the session catalog!

Tuesday

CT1151 | A look back at 30 years of SAP TechEd 🔥
This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the SAP TechEd conference, which has evolved to become the premier community for SAP software technologies. SAP TechEd is the ideal place for customers and partners to learn, communicate, and channel back to SAP. Join us to travel back and see what has made SAP TechEd such a unique experience.
Speakers: Karl Kessler (SAP)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 04:30 PM – 04:50 PM CET

PAR1102 | Spec first: The disciplined way to develop ABAP with agents 
Speakers: Jon Friesen (Amazon Web Services), Stephan Kremer (Amazon Web Services)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 11:00 PM – 11:20 PM CET

CT1085 | Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developers 
Speakers: Björn Schulz (Self-Employed)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM CET

CT1091 | Connecting AI agents to the ABAP RESTful application programming model 
Speakers: Leon Karlau (ADventas Consulting GmbH)
Schedule: Tuesday, Oct 27 | 05:00 PM – 05:20 PM CET

Wednesday

CT1158 | AI-first, API-first: What changes when AI becomes the user 
Speakers: Tomasz Wilk (Capgemini Polska Sp. z o.o.) 
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 10:30 PM – 10:50 PM CET

CT1160 | Transforming SAP Fiori apps with AI skills 
Speakers: Archish Ruppa Sakthidaran (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 11:30 PM – 11:50 PM CET

CT1234 | SAP-RPT-1.5, custom apps in ABAP, and agents: Closing the context gap
Speakers: Douglas Cezar Kuchler (sovanta AG)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 03:00 PM – 03:20 PM CET

CT1222 | Rethinking security for modern SAP solution landscapes
Speakers: Tsovinar Chugaszyan (RedRays)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 04:00 PM – 04:20 PM CET

CT1231 | Twenty years of ABAP then agents arrived: Reinventing development
Speakers: Douglas Cezar Kuchler (sovanta AG)
Schedule: Wednesday, Oct 28 | 05:00 PM – 05:20 PM CET

Thursday

CT1235 | Designing AI-first SAP software extensions
Speakers: Douglas Cezar Kuchler (sovanta AG)
Schedule: Thursday, Oct 29 | 10:30 PM – 10:50 PM CET

Join Us

I hope this overview gives you even more reasons to join us at one of the SAP TechEd 2026 tour stops in Berlin (DE), Fort Worth  (US), Sydney  (AU), Bangalore (IN), or at DSAG TechXchange (DE), or to attend SAP TechEd Virtual, free of charge!

In the meantime, you can watch the replays of last year's event: ABAP Cloud at SAP TechEd Virtual 2025 , or join the ABAP Sessions at Devtoberfest 2026 running currently online and free of charge from September 21 to October 16, 2026!

We look forward to meeting and interacting with you. Stay tuned!

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