Panel Discussion: Architecture as the Control Tower for Transformation

Raghu Banda

Sr. Director - Enterprise Architect AI Advisor · SAP America

Raghu Banda is a Senior Director and Enterprise Architect Advisor at SAP, driving AI product strategy and business transformation across SAP’s global customer base. With over 25 years of experience in engineering, product leadership, and enterprise architecture, Raghu plays a key role in embedding AI into SAP’s Business Suite—helping customers realize intelligent, adaptive enterprises. Since joining SAP in 2001, he has contributed to foundational SAP solutions in SRM, Procurement, Analytics, and Cloud ERP, and now focuses on integrating generative and agentic AI into architecture models and transformation roadmaps. Raghu collaborates closely with C-level leaders to align enterprise architecture with AI-first principles, leveraging tools like SAP Joule, Knowledge Graphs, and SAP BTP. A recognized thought leader, Raghu hosts the XTraw AI podcast, regularly engages in keynote sessions at global forums, and has authored two books including Building Social Equity with AI. His work bridges strategy and execution—guiding enterprises in scaling AI innovation with governance, clean core principles, and SAP-led reference architectures. Early in his career, Raghu contributed to distributed systems engineering and AI research projects with the professors of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), grounding his future-forward thinking in deep technical expertise. He continues to champion the evolution of Enterprise Architecture as the operating system for AI-powered business transformation.

Siva Suresh Nagisetty

Enterprise Architecture Lead · Syngenta

Siva Suresh Nagisetty is an Enterprise architect with deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and Business Data Cloud, focusing on large scale ERP transformations and data centric architectures. Over the past years, he has guided organizations through complex SAP ECC to S/4HANA migrations, helped them assess and remediate technical debt, and designed clean core architectures that enable faster innovation while preserving system stability. His work spans business process management, integration, AI and agentic AI integration into supply chain and finance processes, and secure data platform designs for highly regulated industries such as life sciences and pharmaceuticals. Siva is particularly interested in the emerging autonomous enterprise model and how SAP’s evolving product strategy, APIs, and AI capabilities can be practically applied in brownfield and greenfield environments. Based in the Switzerland, Siva regularly engages with leadership teams to translate strategy into executable roadmaps, reference architectures, and governance models. He is an active participant in SAP Sapphire, Max Summit, and other industry events, and contributes to professional forums on topics including Integrated Tool Chain, Clean Core and AI driven automation in ERP landscapes.

Ahmed Munir

Principal Enterprise Architect · Charter Communications

Ahmed Munir is a Principal Enterprise Architect at Charter Communications (Spectrum Reach) with nearly 20 years of experience helping large enterprises modernize finance, monetization, and digital operating models at scale. He partners closely with CIOs, CFOs, and senior business leaders to translate strategy into execution aligning technology, governance, and operating discipline to drive measurable business outcomes. Ahmed’s work centers on enterprise decision systems, operating-model design, and AI-enabled transformation, with a focus on enabling speed and autonomy without sacrificing control, trust, or financial integrity. A frequent speaker at executive and CIO forums, he advises leadership teams on navigating the shift from AI as analytical support to AI as an active decision-making force preparing organizations for a future where accountability, transparency, and resilience are as critical as innovation.