About This Event
Gartner's Pace-Layered model defined three layers of enterprise applications in 2010. Record, Differentiation, Innovation. Every CIO in energy knows it. But it was designed for a world where humans set the pace of change — and that world is over. PerPetum Energy, a 50-person Belgian solar EPC managing a 1,125 MW pipeline, kept SAP S/4HANA as its backbone but built a fourth layer on top: a System of Acceleration powered by AI and vibe coding that delivers production-grade apps in weeks instead of months, screens NDAs in 30 seconds instead of 2 weeks, and generates 32× return on a €26K annual investment. This talk walks through the architecture (SAP → DataSphere → AI-native apps), the economics (four layers, four investment profiles, only one compounds), and the counterfactual that kills every boardroom debate: scaling without AI costs €2.8M in new hires — scaling with it costs €26K. Same output. SAP is the foundation. AI is the multiplier. The companies winning the energy transition are the ones that accelerate fastest on top of it.
Speakers
Renout van Hove
AI accelerator