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Annual Conference
The virtual event will be structured in a way that encourages open and honest discussions, and we encourage you to bring your questions, ideas, and experiences to the table.
Attend this virtual roundtable to connect with your peers and expand your professional network. Also, to discuss the most pressing challenges faced in the Application Lifecycle Management community today and gain valuable insights into how to successfully navigate those challenges. Our Application Lifecycle Management Group Leads, Richard O'Donnell from Welsh Water, Rhian Parry from Welsh Water and Rohan Parikh from Maersk will be there to facilitate a lively and engaging discussion.
Community Chairs
Rhian Parry
Rhian has over 25 years’ service working within the water industry, with a broad range of experience in IT Projects through to Water and Waste Operations and within this time has been involved in many full lifecycle implementations, SAP upgrades and strategic SAP Roadmap projects. Rhian works in Welsh Water’s SAP Collaboration Centre as an SAP Solutions & Assurance Lead, managing a team of Solution specialists specialising in SAP SuccessFactors, Cloud For Customer, Concur, SAP ECC Finance, Plant Maintenance, Reporting and Procurement. Being a key contact for all SAP support processes and SAP Licencing. Previously managed SAP Security team and was Co-Chair of the prior ACS SIG. Rhian moved to the ALM Support Community Chair role in March 2022.
Richard O'Donnell
Richard manages SAP testing for Dwr Cymru Welsh water, who he has been with for 19 years playing a key role in a number of major implementations. Active in the user group since 2005, he focuses on the Implementation Community within ALM.
Rohan Parikh
Rohan has over 16 years of SAP experience across technical and product areas specialising in ALM, SAP Operations and public Cloud technologies. He is passionate about innovating with SAP products, simplifying Operations and SAP best practices enabling customers to run world class SAP lifecycle stages with lower TCO. In his current role at Maersk, he is the SAP Platform Architect for ALM, Tooling and Automation. Prior to this, Rohan held similar roles at bp, GlaxoSmithKline, Centrica and the Royal College of Music. On a more personal note he captains a darts team, enjoys architecture, sports and loves to travel.
