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Partner Day @EXCITE 2025
Stronger Together: Driving Value Through Partnership
Wed 24 Sep 2025
45
Days
12
Hours
60
Minutes
60
Seconds
Partner Day @EXCITE 2025
Stronger Together: Driving Value Through Partnership
Wed 24 Sep 2025
45
Days
12
Hours
60
Minutes
60
Seconds
09:30-10:00
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Welcome Lounge: Coffee, Connections & Check-In
Ease into the day with a hot cup of coffee (or your beverage of choice), some good conversation, and a chance to meet fellow partners before we kick things off. Whether you're reconnecting with familiar faces or making new ones, this is your warm-up lap. No slides, just smiles.
10:00-10:15
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Polls & Punchlines: What Do You Think?
Cristina Aprile,
Senior GTM Enablement Manager, Spryker
Time to break the ice and break out your opinions. In this rapid-fire, interactive session, you’ll vote on a mix of fun and thought-provoking questions:
- Agree or Disagree: Building a great self-service B2B experience is harder than building a B2C storefront.
- Agree or Disagree: Most B2B clients ask for AI, but don’t know what they want it to actually do.
- True or False: In B2B, more than half of buyers now prefer digital self-service over talking to a sales rep.
10:15-11:00
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Partner Keynote: Vision, Victories & Updates
Speakers
Alexander Graf
CEO, Spryker
Stefan Ropers
Co-CEO, Spryker
Christian von Schassen
Senior Director Partner Success Management, Spryker
Get a front-row seat for an exclusive download directly from our new leadership team. They'll take you behind the scenes to reveal our strategic direction, how we're navigating significant shifts like AI and changing customer expectations, and how our partners are not just participants, but active shapers of this journey.
This is the ultimate "state-of-the-union," partner edition. We are looking forward to your questions, too.
11:00-11:15
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Q&A with our executive leadership team
Spryker Team
11:15-11:45
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
From Complexity to Productivity
Karl Bischoff,
Head of Business Innovation & Demo Experience, Spryker
Get ready to see how digital commerce based on Spryker becomes simpler, sharper, and more productive. This session unpacks how businesses can adopt with ease, go live faster, and unlock growth with confidence. You’ll discover what’s already been delivered, what’s coming next, and how AI is built into the foundation for smarter operations. With a strict focus, you’ll see how productivity translates directly into faster ROI, quicker time-to-first-transaction, and real competitive advantage.
11:45-12:15
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Delivering Faster with AI: Reality Check, and What’s Next for Us
Alex Galych,
VP Engineering, Spryker
AI is reshaping how software gets built. What is hype, and what is actually making teams faster and stronger? In this session, you’ll get a candid look at where AI-based software delivery stands today, what works inside Spryker’s own engineering, and the areas we focus on next. This is your chance to see how an AI-native approach drives better outcomes for your development teams and our joint customers.
12:15-13:45
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Lunch: Tactical Refueling In Progress
13:45-13:55
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Who’s Most Likely? The Lunch Break Showdown
Cristina Aprile,
Senior GTM Enablement Manager, Spryker
It is time to shake off the post-lunch slump and get back in the game. In this quick interactive session, the spotlight is on your votes. Cast your choices, have some laughs, and get energized for the rest of the day.
13:55-14:40
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Winning Together: The Spryker Partner Sales Playbook
Speakers
Florian Speckbacher
Vice President Global Sales, Spryker
Niko Wilsmann
Global Director Solution Engineering, Spryker
This session is all about how Spryker and our partners win business together. We'll walk through the Partner Sales Playbook for 2025: which customers are the best fit, how to position Spryker against the competition, and how our new pricing tiers make entry easier without losing focus on value. We'll showcase recent joint wins, share repeatable motions that already work, and open the discussion on where we can improve together.
14:40-15:00
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Coffee Break: Brew & Brainstorm
15:00-15:30
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
In the Wild: A Customer + Partner Success Story
Speakers
Christian von Schassen
Senior Director Partner Success Management, Spryker
Hear it straight from the source: a live conversation featuring a Spryker customer and the partner who helped bring their vision to life. Together, they’ll walk us through the journey: from business challenge to implementation to impact. It’s one thing to talk about success, it’s another to hear it unfold live, from the people who made it happen.
15:30-15:50
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
From Blank Page to Guided Discovery: How Partners Can Cut Costs and Minimize Risk
Chris Götte,
Senior Product Owner, Spryker
Every successful project starts with discovery, and this session shows why leading that process makes all the difference. You will learn how to guide customers from the very beginning, cut down wasted time, and keep scope creep under control. See how early de-risking avoids costly overruns, how industry blueprints create predictability, and why taking the lead turns directly into value for partners. Walk away with practical steps you can apply in your very next project.
15:50-16:20
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Partner x Services by Spryker: How to Win Together
Alex Franke,
SVP Expert & Consulting Services, Spryker
Discover how Spryker’s Success Enabling Services support implementation partners throughout every project stage empowering them to manage customer relationships, receive recognition for strong performance, and address improvement opportunities collaboratively with a true partner-first mindset. In this session, Alex (Spryker) and Felix (KPS) share real-world insights into practical cooperation and joint value creation for outstanding project success.
16:20-16:30
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Closing Q&A & Feedback: Your Voice, Our Future
Cristina Aprile,
Senior GTM Enablement Manager, Spryker
We want to hear from you. Got questions? Ideas? Challenges? The best partnerships grow through honest conversation.
Bring your thoughts, curiosities, and bold ideas. Together, we’ll shape the path forward.
16:30-16:45
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
Closing Note: Thank You & Onward Together
Christian von Schassen,
Senior Director Partner Success Management, Spryker
16:45-18:45
Location
Hotel AMANO East Side
