TLDR; An 11-part webinar series unpacking SAP's Autonomous Enterprise for Architects covering Joule Work, the Autonomous Suite, the Business AI Platform, Knowledge Graph, AI agents, and the SAP Family of Models and what it all means for architects!

Starting: 1st June to 12 August 2026, weekly, 17:00–18:00 Europe / 20:30–21:30 India / 11:00–12:00 New York / 08:00–09:00 Palo Alto Time.

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Architecture is entering a new era. AI is moving beyond isolated copilots and individual experiments toward enterprise-wide orchestration, automation, and decision intelligence. That shift is not incremental it changes how enterprises are designed, governed, and operated in an AI-native world, and it places architects squarely at the centre of the conversation.

Following the latest announcements from Sapphire, we are pleased to launch Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise is an 11-part webinar series built for this moment.

Designed by architects, for architects, the series unpacks SAP's vision for the Autonomous Enterprise and translates it into the architectural choices, governance considerations, and adoption patterns that practitioners will actually have to make.

The announcements from SAP Sapphire have moved the conversation about enterprise AI from possibility to architecture. Joule Work, the SAP Autonomous Suite, the SAP Business AI Platform, Knowledge Graph, AI agents, and the SAP Family of Models are no longer roadmap items. They are concrete capabilities that architects will be expected to design with, govern, secure, operationalise, and scale.

With this series, we aim to provide architect's a clear view of how all parts of an Autonomous Enterprise fit together, where the design decisions actually sit, and what changes in the role of the architect when AI agents become first-class citizens in the enterprise landscape.

This series is structured to close that gap, taking participants from the strategic Why through the architectural and technical How, without skipping the messy parts in between.

What makes this series different

This is not a product walkthrough. Each session is led by practitioners, product leaders, customers or guest speakers who are building, governing, or advising customers on the same architectural choices you are working through.

The format prioritises depth over breadth: one focused topic per session, with room for real Q&A.

The series brings together SAP architects, product teams, customers, and external industry experts including a customer perspectives on SAP Family of Models, View on data foundations, and an external governance perspective from Steve Tuppen of Mozaic, alongside a keynote from Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, author of Data Inspired and TED speaker. We also have SAP Leaders such as Andre Christ and Mark Smith joining to share their strategic PoV on the topic!

The series runs from 1 June to 12 August 2026, with weekly one-hour sessions.

All sessions are held at 17:00–18:00 Europe / 20:30–21:30 India / 11:00–12:00 New York / 08:00–09:00 Palo Alto time zones.

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How the series is structured?

The 11 sessions are sequenced deliberately.

The first three sessions establish the foundation. Session 1 unpacks the Autonomous Enterprise concept fresh from the Sapphire announcements and introduces the key components Joule Work, the Autonomous Suite, the Business AI Platform, and the SAP Family of Models. Session 2 examines how the full SAP portfolio comes together as a continuous, coherent capability rather than a one-time initiative, including the North Star and Golden Path AI framing. Session 3 then goes deep on Joule Work and the Knowledge Graph as the dynamic engagement layer that interprets intent, surfaces insights, and orchestrates AI agents across the enterprise.

Session 4 shifts from concept to construction. It is a hands-on playbook for building an SAP agent from scratch a show-and-tell session intended as a working reference for architects who need to demonstrate the stack to their own teams.

Sessions 5 through 9 go deeper into the architectural layers that matter most. Session 5 introduces SAP's Innovation Factory and the three connected threads of architecture patterns and persona-based discovery, the Innovation Factory as a repeatable approach, and the activation-to-consumption playbook. Session 6 tackles AI agent lifecycle management at enterprise scale how to discover, govern, secure, and measure the business impact of hundreds or thousands of autonomous agents without introducing agent sprawl, architectural drift, or unmanaged risk. Session 7 goes deep on the SAP Family of Models, including a customer example.

Session 8 brings together Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Niclas Schlautkoetter on the role of the Data Architect and what is new with BDC, and a customer perspective anchored by the principle that the difference between isolated pilots and sustainable AI at scale lies in the foundational data architecture.

Session 9 closes this arc with autonomous domains organised around Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, HCM, and Customer Engagement, alongside Reference Industry AI Kits that accelerate transformations with pre-built SAP best practice content.

The final two sessions close the loop. Session 10 brings in external perspective from Steve Tuppen of Mozaic on AI governance and security, alongside SAP experts on privacy, compliance, trust, clean-core principles, and interoperability across SAP and non-SAP environments defining guardrails for AI solutions that are effective, scalable, and governable.

Session 11 returns to the role itself: what the Autonomous Enterprise means for Enterprise Architects, how EAs architect decision-making across the enterprise using AI, and a wrap-up of highlights and next steps across the series together with Paul Kurchina, Dirk Treusch and Johannes Euler.

Why this matters for every architect discipline

The Autonomous Enterprise is not a single product decision. It is an architectural one, and it cuts across every discipline in the architect community. Enterprise Architects need a defensible view of how AI changes decision-making, value streams, and the operating model and how to govern that change without slowing it down.

Solution and Platform Architects need to know where Joule Work, agents, and the SAP Family of Models actually sit in a design, what they replace, and what they expose. Integration Architects are facing a landscape where agents and MCP servers are becoming first-class consumers and producers across the integration fabric, with real implications for orchestration, identity, and observability. Data and AI Architects sit at the centre of it all without a deliberate data foundation, AI initiatives stall in pilot mode regardless of how strong the application layer becomes. This series brings the four perspectives into the same conversation, in the same sequence, so the architectural picture lines up across roles rather than being assembled in fragments later.

Who should attend?

This series is designed for professionals shaping the future of enterprise transformation in an AI-native world:

• Enterprise Architects driving business and technology transformation
• Solution and Platform Architects modernising SAP landscapes and integration strategies
• Data and AI Architects designing the foundations for intelligent, autonomous operations
• Technology and Transformation Leaders responsible for AI adoption and innovation strategy
• SAP Customers and Partners exploring how to operationalise AI across enterprise landscapes
• Architecture and Governance Teams focused on scalability, security, compliance, and lifecycle management
• Innovation and Business Technology Teams moving from AI pilots to enterprise-wide adoption

As the role of the architect becomes increasingly multidimensional spanning business strategy, data, AI, governance, platforms, security, and human-centric transformation this series is built to help architects navigate and lead across these interconnected domains with confidence.

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What you will take away

By the end of the series, you will have:

• A working mental model of how Joule Work, the SAP Autonomous Suite, the Business AI Platform, Knowledge Graph, and the SAP Family of Models fit together architecturally
• A hands-on reference for building, governing, and observing SAP agents across the enterprise
• A clearer view of the data and governance foundations that determine whether AI scales or stalls
• Customer-grounded perspectives from organisations including Bayer and Henkel on what is actually working in production
• A holistic view of how the Enterprise Architect's role evolves when AI agents become first-class citizens within the enterprise landscape

We strongly recommend attending live where possible. The Q&A in each session is where the most useful exchanges tend to happen, and the cohort across the series will include architects from across the SAP ecosystem customers, partners, and SAP experts.

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Architects will define what the Autonomous Enterprise actually looks like in production. This series is built to make sure that definition is a deliberate one.

We look forward to seeing you in the sessions.

A Big Thank you to all the collaborators and my co-leads for this series!

 @JaSoN_Luo , @ralph_richter , @PaulKurchina @VenkataRaghu_Banda @helmut_grimm @johanneseuler