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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Fusion Participants Packed 2,000 Backpacks for San Diego Youth

    A SAP Concur blog post states that approximately 1,000 SAP Concur employees and more than 2,300 customers and partners traveled to San Diego, California for the annual customer conference SAP Concur Fusion. The conference's CSR activity partnered with The Boys and Girls Club of San Diego on its Pack the Bus initiative, which has an annual goal of filling 1,000 backpacks. The SAP Concur CSR team, with employee and customer volunteers, exceeded that goal by packing 2,000 backpacks. Many participants returned to packing stations multiple times, and a few volunteers packed more than 100 backpacks each. The Boys and Girls Club of Greater San Diego has served the area for more than 75 years, with…

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    SAP Concur and Groupize: A Blueprint for Democratizing Meeting Planning

    In an SAP Concur podcast, Groupize co-founder Alisa de Gaspe Beaubien discusses how Concur Event Management democratizes meeting planning. The platform targets occasional planners, offering venue bidding, automatic cost comparison reports, registration with vaccination card upload, real-time communication, budget tracking, and post-event reconciliation. The conversation notes that group meetings account for about 43% of T&E spend, and about 43% of workers are contingent, whom the platform can manage as non-profile travelers. Research shows the solution can save 23 hours per event.

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    Managing Event Costs: Six Tips to Do It Right

    SAP Concur offers six tips for managing event and meeting costs: have a solid strategy, view all events holistically, plan ahead, use technology to centralize the process, set aside one-fourth of the budget for unexpected expenses, and track and analyze event spending throughout the year. The post notes event spending covers venues, travel, food, audio-visual and more, and that multiple purchasers can lead to budget overspend.

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    SAP Returns to Lesbians Who Tech Summit, Embracing a Queer Future

    A SAP Concur blog post announces that SAP is returning to the Lesbians Who Tech Summit. Founded by Leanne Pittsford in 2012, the summit is the largest gathering of LGBTQ professionals in the world, with a community of 50,000 LGBTQ women, trans and non-binary people, queer women of color, and allies. Approximately 80% of speakers are queer women, 50% women of color, 25% black and latinx, and 15% transgender and gender non-conforming. Michelle Grover, SAP Concur VP of Software Development, will speak on March 2 at the Main Stage Castro Theater on 'From Green Books to Neighborhood Safety Scores: Innovative Ways to Find Safe Spaces.' The post also profiles Bharat Sri Vardhan, a data scientist w…

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    SAP Concur Fusion 2020 Calls for Speakers

    SAP Concur's annual Fusion 2020 conference will be held March 9-12, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. The four-day event includes keynotes, educational sessions, and product training. SAP Concur is seeking customer and partner speakers to share best practices and use cases. Session formats include presentations, panel discussions, micro forums, and campfire chats. Nominations are due by January 10, 2020, and speakers will be selected by January 27, 2020.

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    SAP Concur Travel Industry Summit Returns Online on June 9

    The third SAP Concur Travel Industry Summit will be held on June 9, 2022 as a complimentary half-day virtual event focused on how the travel community has evolved and the future of business travel. It features an interactive swarm intelligence session, roundtables, a resilience expert, and breakout sessions on sustainability goals, modern travel policies, fraud prevention and travel tech investment, with participants including United's CEO and IHG's Chief Sustainability Officer.

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