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Grounding Agentic AI in Enterprise Reality

Name: Grounding Agentic AI in Enterprise Reality
Start: 2026-10-20T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-20T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Zuma New York

Join Blend, Google Cloud and SAP for an executive dinner exploring how organizations can ground agentic AI in enterprise reality, connecting intelligence with the data, systems and processes needed to drive meaningful business outcomes.

Zuma New York

October 20, 2026

to October 20, 2026

6:00 pm

- 9:00 pm

About this event

Organizations have made remarkable progress adopting AI, but many are discovering that intelligence alone doesn’t create business value. The next frontier isn’t simply generating better insights – it’s connecting AI directly to the operational systems, processes, and decisions that drive the enterprise.

As organizations deploy AI agents across business functions, they face a new challenge: ensuring those agents have the context, governance, and operational understanding required to act responsibly and deliver measurable outcomes. Generic AI may answer questions, but enterprise AI must understand the unique processes, data, and systems that power the business. Success will depend on bridging the gap between intelligence and execution.

Join Blend, Google Cloud, and SAP for an executive dinner exploring how leading organizations are grounding agentic AI in enterprise reality. Through candid peer discussion, attendees will examine how AI can move beyond isolated recommendations to orchestrate meaningful business actions across finance, supply chain, operations, and customer experiences – while maintaining trust, governance, and flexibility.

Our speakers

Alok Kapur

Senior enterprise technology executive | SAP

Alok Kapur is a senior enterprise technology executive at SAP, where he serves as Global Vice President of Corporate Business Development. He and his team focus on identifying, incubating, launching, and scaling strategic partnerships across data, AI, and enterprise platforms. His leadership experience spans corporate business development, partner ecosystem strategy, and global business management, including building and leading senior, cross-functional teams around the world and holding end-to-end P&L responsibility.

Throughout his career, Alok has combined commercial leadership with a deep understanding of enterprise software, channel strategy, and technology ecosystems. His work at SAP spans partnerships with Databricks and Snowflake in support of SAP Business Data Cloud, collaboration with NVIDIA and frontier AI model companies, and SAP’s relationship with UiPath in enterprise automation.

Before joining SAP, Alok spent more than a decade at Microsoft and held executive roles at Experian and privately backed companies. From 2006 to 2008, he represented Microsoft’s channel perspective on IDC’s Worldwide Software Leadership Council. He also serves on Indiana Tech’s industry advisory council, contributing an enterprise technology and business-development perspective, and advises early-stage technology companies.

Colin Cosell

Head of New York & Boston Community | Blend

Colin Cosell is a professional emcee, announcer, and executive communications expert with more than 25 years of experience across television, radio, film, stage, and corporate events. When he’s not at the lectern or moderating executive panels, Colin serves as the Public Address Announcer for the New York Mets, Army Football, the Premier Lacrosse League, and numerous other professional and collegiate teams. Over the course of his career, Colin has earned three Emmy Awards and has announced to more than 30 million attendees worldwide. His greatest source of pride, however, are his wife, Julia, and their little girl, Eloise.

Ivan Femia

GTM and Solutions Architect | Google Cloud

Ivan Femia is a GTM and Solutions Architect at Google Cloud, specializing in the Cortex Framework and Enterprise AI. With over 25 years of architecture experience, Ivan advises global companies on modernizing core ERP workloads and frequently speaks on unlocking enterprise data value. He is an SAP Mentor alumnus and an SAP PRESS author.

Jamie Taylor

Global Vice President of Strategic Partnerships | SAP

Jamie Taylor is Global Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at SAP, leading the company’s strategic alliance with Google Cloud. As head of the Google Cloud partnership within SAP’s Strategic Alliances organization, Jamie focuses on aligning SAP and Google field teams, accelerating joint go-to-market execution, and driving measurable outcomes for mutual customers — including through SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) on Google BigQuery.

With a career spanning more than 20 years in enterprise technology, including 15+ years at SAP, Jamie has scaled some of the company’s most significant ecosystem relationships across ISV, cloud, and platform partnerships — including roles as VP of ISV, Cloud & Embedded Partnerships and VP of Indirect BTP Partnerships. That career has been shaped by a consistent focus: turning complex, high-stakes alliances into programs that deliver at scale.

Today that focus centres on the intersection of AI and enterprise data. As AI moves from generating insights to taking operational action, the organizations that succeed will be those that ground it in trusted data, enterprise context, and governance — a challenge Jamie navigates daily at the intersection of SAP and Google Cloud, and exactly the conversation we’re here to have tonight.

Key themes & discussion topics

From Intelligence to Action
What it takes to move AI beyond generating insights and recommendations to actively participating in core business workflows and driving operational outcomes.

Grounding AI in Enterprise Context
How trusted enterprise data, systems of record and operational context can give AI agents the understanding required to make useful, responsible decisions at scale.

Reimagining Enterprise Processes
Where agentic AI could fundamentally transform how work gets done across finance, operations, supply chain and customer experiences — rather than simply automating existing tasks.

Balancing Autonomy with Accountability
How organizations can give AI greater operational autonomy while maintaining governance, transparency, accountability and appropriate human oversight.

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?

Move AI from insight to impact. Explore how agentic AI can evolve from an intelligent assistant into an operational capability that delivers measurable business outcomes.

Learn how to build trust in AI-driven action. Discuss the data, context and governance AI needs before it can be trusted to influence critical enterprise decisions.

Discover where agentic AI could create the greatest value. Examine opportunities to rethink processes and connect intelligence across finance, operations, supply chain and customer experiences.

Exchange perspectives with fellow senior leaders. Join Blend, Google Cloud and SAP for candid peer discussion on what it will take to successfully embed agentic AI into the everyday enterprise.

Who should attend

This event is designed for senior executives responsible for enterprise AI, digital transformation, business operations, and data strategy. The discussion will be particularly valuable for leaders looking to embed AI into core business processes while balancing innovation, governance, and measurable business value. Together, we'll explore what it takes to transform AI from an intelligent assistant into an operational capability that drives measurable business outcomes.

Venue

Zuma New York

261 Madison Avenue
New York City
NY
NY 10016
United States

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