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.