Gaurish Dessai
Principal Enterprise Architect · SAP Schweiz A.G
Gaurish is passionate about harnessing technology to solve complex business challenges. He has worked across multiple industries including QSR/retail, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Crop care, and Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing and led critical initiatives like Landscape Consolidation, Large RFPs, SAP S/4 HANA migration, M&A Integration, Application Integration, Application Integration and Customer facing Digital technologies that have delivered significant business value. In his current role as a Principal Enterprise Architect at SAP, He supports a number of strategic customers in their transformation journey.
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Every enterprise AI initiative that stalls at scale traces back to the same root cause: the foundation was never architected for it. The architecture underneath: data, governance, process context, and the operating model that connects them. This pre-conference session brings together Enterprise Architects and program leaders for an intensive deep dive into what "AI-enabled" requires at the architectural level. We move beyond vision statements and into the structural decisions that determine whether AI compounds value or compounds risk.
We'll dive into SAP's Context System, five layers of enterprise context that agents need to reason correctly (data, semantic, process, governance, and intent) and the architectural foundations that must be in place before any of them work at scale: Clean Core readiness, data architecture with SAP Business Data Cloud, the SAP Business AI Platform as the build-and-govern layer, and the agent lifecycle governance model through SAP AI Agent Hub. This is a working session. Expect architectural patterns, decision frameworks, real customer examples, and direct interaction with SAP's architecture leadership. You will leave with a clear assessment of where your organization stands and what to prioritise next.
What You'll Learn
- Understand your organization's AI-readiness across all five context layers — not just data, but semantic, process, governance, and intent
- Understand the architectural pre-requisites that separate organizations scaling AI from those stuck in pilots
- Work through decision frameworks for Clean Core prioritization, data architecture design, and agent governance models
- Learn from customer examples: what high-performing organizations did differently in their first 12 months
Date & Time
Mon, 16 Nov 2026 · 3:40 PM – 4:40 PM
Room
Blomstersalen
Venue
Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center
Address
Arni Magnussons Gade 2, 1577 København, Denmark
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