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AI That Understands the Business: Agents Built on Trusted, Connected Data

Name: AI That Understands the Business: Agents Built on Trusted, Connected Data
Start: 2026-11-11T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-11T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Sunborn Yacht Hotel | London

Join Blend, SAP and Databricks for an exclusive executive dinner exploring how trusted, connected business data can accelerate enterprise AI. Discover how leaders can break down data silos, preserve business context, strengthen governance and unlock greater value from AI and analytics.

Sunborn Yacht Hotel | London

November 11, 2026

to November 11, 2026

6:00 pm

- 9:00 pm

About this event

Today’s AI models are more capable than ever. What they still lack is context: an understanding of how your business actually runs. For most enterprises, that context lives in SAP systems. Getting to it has usually meant custom extraction pipelines that copy data, strip out its business meaning and split governance across platforms.

At SAP TechEd, SAP and Databricks announced the next phase of their partnership. It brings the expanded scope of Databricks into SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud. Alongside it, the new SAP Application Data Foundation aims to make SAP application data available with its business semantics intact, without building and maintaining extraction pipelines. That holds even for organizations still running SAP ECC on-premises.

Join Blend, SAP and Databricks for an intimate executive dinner on what this shift means in practice. Through candid peer discussion, we’ll look at what still keeps enterprise data from being AI-ready, where business context gets lost today, whether copying data to the workload should still be the default, and what becomes possible when AI works on data that doesn’t just describe the business but understands it.

Our speakers

Julia Belle

Head of London Community | Blend

Julia is a broadcaster, political commentator, corporate event host and business trainer. She has been covering news, current affairs and entertainment for BBC Three for three years and before this she featured weekly on BBC 5 Live – discussing the newspaper headlines and the latest breaking news.

She hosted a BBC election show, diving into key voter topics, as well as a TED Talk titled “The Secret to Being Right” which was instantly selected amongst TED’s “Editor’s Picks.”

She has interviewed some of the most influential figures in politics and business, on a range of topics from general elections to generative AI.

She runs the London community of Blend as well as the members’ exclusive Blend Book Club, interviewing prolific business authors and sharing key learnings from a range of titles covering topics like leadership, negotiation, DEI, productivity and handling difficult issues.

Patrick Werns

Global SAP GTM Leader | Databricks

Patrick Werns is the Global SAP GTM Leader at Databricks, where he develops and executes the go-to-market strategy for the SAP-Databricks partnership. He focuses on helping organizations unlock the full potential of their business data. His expertise is backed by 10 years of experience at SAP, where he held multiple key roles from 2015 to 2025.

Sean Whitty

Global VP GTM | SAP

Sean leads global go-to-market for SAP’s two most strategic alliances in data and AI: Databricks and AWS. With over 20 years in data, AI and global GTM, he helps customers drive enterprise AI from pilot to production by grounding it in business data.

Key themes & discussion topics

Building an AI-Ready Data Foundation
What it takes to make enterprise data truly AI-ready, overcoming fragmented systems, inconsistent data quality and the challenges of preparing information for advanced analytics and AI.

Preserving Business Context Across Systems
Why business context is essential for effective AI decision-making and how organizations can maintain consistent meaning across SAP, third-party platforms and AI environments.

Breaking Down Data Silos and Reducing Complexity
How connected data architectures can reduce unnecessary data movement, eliminate duplication and simplify integration while improving security, governance and efficiency.

Turning Trusted Data into Intelligent Action
How governed, context-rich enterprise data can unlock more sophisticated AI use cases, moving beyond traditional analytics towards intelligent applications and AI-driven decision-making.

Event agenda

Cocktails & networking

6:00 – 6:30 PM

Opening remarks & panel discussion

6:30 – 7:15 PM

Dinner & guided discussion

7:15 – 8:45 PM

Event wrap-up & group reflection

8:45 – 9:00 PM

Why should you attend?

Understand how trusted, connected business data can help accelerate AI initiatives and turn enterprise information into measurable business outcomes.

Exchange insights with CIOs, CDOs, CTOs and senior data and AI leaders facing similar challenges around data readiness, integration and AI adoption.

Explore how to connect SAP and non-SAP data while reducing complexity, preserving business context and strengthening governance.

Gain fresh perspectives on how AI-ready data foundations can enable more intelligent applications, improve decision-making and accelerate digital transformation.

Who should attend

CIOs, CDOs, CDAOs, CAIOs, CTOs, and senior Data, Analytics, AI, Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation leaders responsible for turning enterprise data into measurable business value.

It will be most relevant if you are simplifying fragmented data environments, moving from analytics to AI agents, tightening governance across SAP and non-SAP data, or planning a cloud move without wanting to rebuild your data foundation along the way.

Venue

Sunborn Yacht Hotel | London

Royal Victoria Dock
London
E16 1AA
United Kingdom

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