Twan van den Broek

 We welcomed Niels van der Kam to our café and talked on AI and its implications for SAP business: GenAI hype and position in hype cycle SAP Business AI Embedded AI into SAP solutions Grounding AI models to 'understand' SAP context Practical use cases with AI

At Connecting the Dots, VNSG & SAP year event 2025, Jan Penninkhof and I had the honor to showcase SAPBTP. We created a love story between SAP Business Technology Platform and S/4HANA to showcase the power of extending SAP without writing a single line of code and keeping the core clean with the Extensibility Wizard and we called it the "Jan & Twan" show 😀 

Een recap van het VNSG & SAP jaarevent Connecting the dots in een hanacafeNL aflevering, onze langste aflevering ooit ... maar boordevol interessante sprekers en verhalen. 🎙 Ronald Schippers , VNSG 🎙 Joris Van De Vis , SecurityBridge 🎙 Guido Ter Riet & Leticia L. , KPMG Nederland 🎙 Ronald Konijnenburg , Interdobs 🎙 Willem-Jan van Tongeren , VNSG / PostNL 🎙 Ronald Heikens , Meubelfabriek De Toekomst B.V. 🎙 Michiel Neefs , Amista 🎙 ✅ Gerben te Woerd (EMFC RC) , AkzoNobel 🎙 Roel Houbart , Expertum Consulting 🎙 Niels van der Kam , SAP Een paar onderwerpen: verbinden, AI, SAP Business AI, S/4HANA, SAPBTP, security, SAP Datasphere, Signavio, pilots of piloten, angular, code remediation, factuurstromen, ... Ga er maar even voor zitten 😀 Jan Penninkhof en ik wensen je veel luisterplezier.

Het voltallige bestuur van de VNSG focusgroep BTP4Integration schoof aan in ons café om bij te praten over ... SAP integratie natuurlijk. Adriaan Beukema, Michel Smid en Jordy Schipper bespraken samen met Jan en Twan: Focusgroepen bijeenkomst met product management in Heidelberg AI Edge Integration Cell Security Event Driven architectuur Nieuwe feature Exactly Once In Order Migratie van PI/PO naar Integration Suite Een bomvolle aflevering, veel plezier met luisteren.

Last Friday we welcomed Vincent Weiss from Emixa into our HANA Cafe NL. It was a great Friday afternoon talk on SAPBTP topics like Clean Core, Event Driven, genAI and SAP CodeJams. Replays available via

  Recap of the GenAI Hub CodeJam at Innov8ion with: Nora von Thenen, Developer Advocate (SAP) Wim Snoep, organizer (Innov8ion) Robert Eijpe (NL4B) Laurens Steffers (NTT Business Data) Olaf Kampers (Innov8ion) Tjerk van der Maten (Emixa) And of course your regulars Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek. We discussed the SAP CodeJam, the exercises, uses cases and the impact of Business AI for developers and customers. Enjoy! 📺 🎙

  In this episode of HANA Café NL, part of the 10th season, the discussion centers around the growing influence of AI in business, particularly highlighted by recent announcements about SAP's Business Data Cloud, which incorporates AI agents designed to handle tasks across various fields like logistics, finance, and HR. These agents, acting as digital assistants, are meant to streamline operations and are seen as a substantial step forward in automating and improving business processes. The hosts, joined by Maarten Stam and Max Willekens from Capgemini, delve into how these AI agents differ from traditional robotic process automation by offering more flexible and interactive capabilities. They highlight the potential of AI to revolutionise business operations by reducing manual tasks and enhancing data processing, which in turn could lead to significant cost and time savings in many sectors. A core part of the conversation also revolves around the ethical considerations and respons...

  Recap of the handson SAP CodeJam on SAP Advanced Event Mesh. Event vibe Participants feedback with Petra and Vincent All things AEM with Antonio, Hari and Michel An episode without our regular Jan as he was preparing for an exam.

  Jan Penninkhof and I were invited to the Solace Benelux User Group meetup at the Heineken Experience. Great location with great speakers on real life experiences with Event Mesh. In this #hanacafeNL episode we tried to catch the event vibe with: 🔶 Benelux user group with Annabelle Kraanen and Emil Zegers 🔶 Oussama Zoubairi shares event driven experience at AkzoNobel 🔶 Christian Holtfurth on the powerful concept of Rapid Pilot Workshops, within 5 days you have your event mesh working 'at home' 🔶 Think events, AI agents and the power of Solace's platform with Shawn McAllister and Sumeet Puri Tune in to hear about the real-time revolution. Synchronous integration flows are not enough to step into the future 👇🏻

Net voor Kerst sprak ik met Mattijs Happé van Ctac in een aflevering van HANA Cafe NL om over zijn ervaringen met #ABAPcloud te praten.  Wat zijn de grootste veranderingen Hulp van AI Project ervaringen met S4HANA Public Cloud Omzetten traditioneel maatwerk Lessen geleerd met ABAP Cloud Side by Side vs On stack (De moeilijke vraag van Jan) Het 3-tier extensibilty model Voorbereiden op toekomst vast maatwerk Advies voor SAP klanten "Ga er gewoon voor" "ABAP Cloud lijkt hetzelfde maar is totaal anders"