The announcements coming out of Sapphire this year were significant. Joule Work. The SAP Autonomous Suite. The SAP Business AI Platform. The SAP Family of Models. AI agents becoming first-class citizens inside enterprise landscapes.

For Enterprise Architects, this is not just another product update cycle. This is a fundamental shift in how businesses are designed, governed, and operated. And it is happening fast, faster than any of us can fully process alone.

That is why we are thrilled to announce that we are taking the Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise experience on the road this summer for a complimentary 6-city in-person learning tour across North America.

What We Will Explore Together

Each city event is structured around eight core sessions designed to take you from strategic clarity through to practical architectural guidance:

1. SAP Sapphire Key Takeaways for Enterprise Architects : What Matters and Why We cut through the noise. What were the announcements that genuinely change the architectural picture, and what are the implications for how you plan, design, and govern your enterprise landscape going forward?
2. Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise : What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Prepare Before you can architect toward a destination, you need to understand what it actually is. We ground the vision of the Autonomous Enterprise in concrete architectural terms : what changes, what stays the same, and where the real decisions lie.
3. Decoding SAP's Evolving Portfolio : Implications for Enterprise Architecture SAP's portfolio is evolving rapidly. This session maps the strategic shifts — from SAP Autonomous Suite to the Business AI Platform — and draws out the direct implications for enterprise architects responsible for modernising, integrating, and governing complex SAP landscapes.
4. Designing the AI-Native Enterprise : Defining Your North Star Architecture Every transformation journey needs a destination. This session helps you define your North Star Architecture for the AI-native enterprise — a forward-looking reference model that guides investment decisions, platform choices, and integration patterns in an agentic world.
5. The AI Golden Path : Developing AI Applications Across the SAP Ecosystem The Golden Path is how you move from strategy to execution. We explore the recommended patterns, platforms, and practices for developing, deploying, and scaling AI applications across the SAP ecosystem, giving you a repeatable approach that works at enterprise scale.
6. Who Governs the Agents? AI Governance at Scale As AI agents proliferate across enterprise landscapes, governance becomes the defining architectural challenge. This session tackles agent lifecycle management, security, compliance, trust, and the guardrails that allow organisations to move fast without losing control.
7. The Enterprise Architect's Role in the Autonomous Enterprise — Leadership, Influence, and Community The role of the Enterprise Architect is being redefined. This session explores how EAs position themselves not just as technical designers but as strategic leaders driving AI adoption, shaping governance frameworks, and influencing transformation at the board level.
8. Architect-to-Architect Open Forum : What We're Excited About, What We're Missing, and What Comes Next This is the session I personally look forward to most at every stop. No slides. No script. Just an open, honest conversation between architects , about what is working, what is not, what the community is excited about, and what we still need to figure out together.

 Where We Are Heading

We will be visiting six cities across North America this summer. Each event is complimentary and designed to give you a full day of learning, connection, and conversation:

📍 Palo Alto — June 18, 2026

📍 Atlanta — June 23, 2026

📍 Dallas — June 25, 2026

📍 Toronto — July 14, 2026

📍 Newtown Square — July 16, 2026

📍 Calgary — July 21, 2026

Bonus Morning Sessions — Going Even Deeper

For those who want to go further, each city also features an optional complimentary morning learning experience before the main event:

🔐 Security, AI and Governance Across SAP Cloud Environments Available in: Palo Alto · Atlanta · Dallas · Calgary A focused deep dive into how organisations design and enforce security, privacy, compliance, and clean-core principles across SAP and non-SAP environments in an AI-native world.

📊 Data Inspired: Street-Smart Data Literacy Available in: Toronto · Newtown Square Inspired by Dr. Sebastian Wernicke's acclaimed book and TED Talk, this morning session brings practical data literacy to life for architects and transformation leaders — helping you ask better questions, make sharper decisions, and build organisations that genuinely run on data.

The pace of change around AI, Agentic AI, and the Autonomous Enterprise is accelerating faster than any of us can keep up with individually.

The architects we speak with every week are brilliant, curious, and deeply committed to leading their organisations through this transformation but they are often doing it in isolation, working through the same questions, hitting the same walls, solving the same problems independently. That has to change.

The best thinking will come from a conversation in a corridor, a whiteboard session that ran forty-five minutes over, a question from the back of the room that reframed everything.

That is what this tour is designed to create. Not just learning, but community feeling.

There has never been a more exciting time to be an Enterprise Architect. And there has never been a more important time to be connected to others who are navigating this journey alongside you.

For those who cannot join us in person, please feel free to join us online on our webinar series (see below).

The Online Webinar Series – Register Below

If you cannot join us in person or if you want to go even deeper on the technical and architectural details we are also running a companion 11-part online webinar series, Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise, every week from 1st June through to 12th August 2026.

Covering Joule Work, the SAP Business AI Platform, AI Agent Lifecycle Management, the SAP Family of Models, Data Foundations, Governance, and much more — it is the same architect-to-architect spirit, delivered globally and available live and on-demand.

I am looking forward to reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new architects across our ecosystem. We would love to hear what you are working on, what is keeping you up at night, and where you think this all goes next.

Thank you & Regards,

Paul Kurchina, Ralph Richter & Gaurish Dessai