Raghu Banda

Raghu Banda is an enterprise AI strategist and technology leader at SAP with more than 25 years of SAP experience and nearly three decades across enterprise technology, architecture, product innovation, and digital transformation. In his current role, he focuses on enterprise architecture and AI advisory, helping shape architecture-led AI adoption, clean core transformation, SAP Business AI enablement, governance, and future-state platform strategies for intelligent enterprises.
Raghu has spent more than 15 years working across AI, analytics, machine learning, and intelligent business processes. He now concentrates on the architectural questions raised by agentic AI about how autonomous agents are designed, grounded, governed, and held accountable inside the enterprise.
This is his third book. He is also the author of Implementing Machine Learning with SAP S/4HANA (SAP PRESS, 2020) and Building Social Equity with AI (Apress, 2024). He hosts the XTraw AI podcast, where he engages leaders, founders, and practitioners on practical AI adoption and emerging technology trends.
Raghu has spent more than 15 years working across AI, analytics, machine learning, and intelligent business processes. He now concentrates on the architectural questions raised by agentic AI about how autonomous agents are designed, grounded, governed, and held accountable inside the enterprise.
This is his third book. He is also the author of Implementing Machine Learning with SAP S/4HANA (SAP PRESS, 2020) and Building Social Equity with AI (Apress, 2024). He hosts the XTraw AI podcast, where he engages leaders, founders, and practitioners on practical AI adoption and emerging technology trends.
