• Six teams are competing for the highest employee recognition at SAP: the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award. • Starting this year, the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award comes with a modified, more focused approach. • It now consists of two categories: “Scaling Innovation” and “Emerging Ideas.” Both reflect a different type of breakthrough thinking and the various ways in which innovation drives SAP’s success. • This year’s award theme is AI. • Following the presentation of the “Scaling Innovation” category finalists, we now turn to “Emerging Ideas,” which honors visionary concepts at an earlier stage-projects that explore new architectural directions, challenge established models, and open long-term strategic opportunities for SAP and its customers. • The winners will be announced during the award ceremony on March 26, 2026.

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  • SAP announced the finalists for the 2026 Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award in the “Emerging Ideas” category, a new AI‑focused award that spotlights early‑stage, visionary projects. Among the six teams is SAP Cognitive Twin Enterprise (CTE), an AI‑powered digital brain that models an entire organization in real time, enabling end‑to‑end what‑if simulations and governed recommendations across finance, supply chain, HR, and customer experience. CTE integrates SAP Signavio, Business Data Cloud, and Knowledge Graph to provide cross‑domain optimization and low‑risk auto‑execution, promising double‑digit efficiency gains and significant cost savings for large enterprises. The winners will be announced on March 26, 2026.

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