What is the PLM Roundtable?
A peer forum for SAP PLM practitioners.
The PLM Roundtable is a quarterly, virtual forum for professionals working with SAP PLM and adjacent R&D processes. It brings together practitioners to share experiences, discuss current challenges, and explore practical approaches to managing the product lifecycle.
Sessions are conversational by design—focused on real-world use cases, emerging topics, and open peer discussion rather than sales presentations.
Who Participates?
A cross-functional PLM practitioner community
The PLM Roundtable brings together professionals responsible for how product data, processes, and systems work across the lifecycle. Participants span both IT and digital teams and R&D, quality, and regulatory functions, creating a balanced, peer-driven forum.
IT & Digital Leadership
(Systems, data, and enterprise architecture)
- CIOs, VPs, and Directors of Information Technology
- Enterprise, solution, and applications architects
- PLM, SAP, and business applications owners
- IT business partners and portfolio leaders
- Master data, data governance, and analytics leaders
- Program, project, and delivery leads supporting PLM initiatives
IT & Digital Leadership
(Systems, data, and enterprise architecture)
- CIOs, VPs, and Directors of Information Technology
- Enterprise, solution, and applications architects
- PLM, SAP, and business applications owners
- IT business partners and portfolio leaders
- Master data, data governance, and analytics leaders
- Program, project, and delivery leads supporting PLM initiatives
Participants range from hands-on practitioners to senior leaders shaping enterprise PLM strategy. The shared focus is practical, real-world discussion across systems, data, and product development.
What we discuss
Topics shaped by participant interest
Roundtable topics reflect current priorities and challenges facing PLM teams. Example areas include:
- SAP PLM roadmap and product direction
- AI in PLM
- Compliance and regulatory within PLM
- Sustainability in PLM
- PLM workflow and change management
- Handover from R&D / PLM to manufacturing
Sessions may include open discussion, peer Q&A, and occasional demos to anchor the conversation in real system behavior.
What a typical session looks like
Format & cadence
Frequency: Quarterly
Delivery: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
Structure:
- Welcome and framing
- PLM focus topic deep dive
- Solution highlight demo
- Open peer discussion
Agendas are shared in advance. Participation is encouraged, but always optional.
Interesting in presenting?
Share your experience with the community
Customer participation is a core part of the PLM Roundtable. Members are encouraged to share their experiences—whether that’s a success story, a challenge, or an approach they’re currently exploring.
Presentations are informal and collaborative, and support is available for shaping content and preparing materials.
Interested in presenting or leading a discussion, please contact Matt Duka, Director of Marketing, at Linx-AS.
Explore the community
Past sessions and shared materials
To give you a sense of the community and content, members have access to recordings, decks, and session summaries from previous roundtables.
Visit the PLM Roundtable member site: https://plmroundtable.linx-as.com
(Access may be limited to registered participants.)
Join the conversation
Connect with peers. Stay close to what’s next in PLM.
If you’re working with SAP PLM — or evaluating where PLM fits into your future landscape — the PLM Roundtable offers a low-pressure way to connect with peers and stay close to what’s happening in the space.