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.
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We are entering the Age of Intent — people state what they want, and systems orchestrate the response. That is a fundamental architectural change, not an interface upgrade.
But intent without context is dangerous. An agent that interprets intent without understanding process boundaries, governance constraints, and organisational meaning will execute confidently and incorrectly. The first mile of enterprise AI is not model selection. It is context translation — turning human intent into governed, executable action at the resolution agents require.
This session explores what AI-first enterprise architecture looks like in the Age of Intent: how architects design for intent-driven systems, how the Context System (data, semantic, process, governance, and intent layers) provides the foundation agents need to act correctly, and how value realisation shifts from project-based ROI to compounding returns as the context architecture matures. We cover SAP's approach through Joule Work, the Knowledge Graph, Process Atoms, and SAP Company Memory — the governed layer where intent meets execution and the enterprise stops re-explaining itself to every new agent and workflow.
Date & Time
Tue, 17 Nov 2026 · 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM
Room
Harlekin
Venue
Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center
Address
Arni Magnussons Gade 2, 1577 København, Denmark
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