SAVIC and Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought business and technology leaders together in Chennai for an evening exploring Agentic AI, SAP transformation, and the future of the intelligent enterprise — recapping the Executive Leadership Roundtable held at ITC Grand Chola.
A Powerful Evening of Innovation, Insights, and Meaningful Conversations
On August 25, 2026, SAVIC Digital, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), hosted an Executive Leadership Roundtable at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai, themed "AWS Agentic AI: Accelerating SAP Transformation." The invitation-only evening — running from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM — brought together business and technology leaders to examine the next generation of SAP modernization, closing with a networking dinner that carried the conversations well into the night.
Business and technology leaders came together to explore how Agentic AI, SAP transformation, cloud innovation, and data services are shaping the future of enterprise technology. From expert perspectives on AWS Agentic AI and SAP transformation to AWS Data Services and the strategic collaboration between AWS and SAVIC Inc., the sessions showcased how intelligent technologies can help organizations become smarter, faster, and future-ready.
Setting the Agenda: AI, Data, and SAP Modernization Together
The roundtable was built around a simple premise: SAP transformation, AI adoption, and data strategy are no longer separate initiatives — they succeed or stall together. The evening's agenda reflected that, moving through AI-powered intelligent enterprises, accelerating SAP transformation on AWS, AWS Data Services, and an open executive roundtable discussion, before closing with networking over dinner.
Hari Kumar, Partnership Leader at SAVIC, framed the collaboration between SAVIC and AWS as a response to what enterprise leaders are asking for right now: a modernization path for SAP that doesn't treat AI as a bolt-on, but as part of the transformation itself.
AWS Agentic AI and SAP Transformation on AWS
Pradeep Puliyampatta, SAP Specialist Solution Architect at AWS, walked attendees through how Agentic AI is changing what SAP transformation on AWS actually looks like — moving beyond lift-and-shift migrations toward landscapes where autonomous, context-aware agents handle routine SAP processes, surface insights proactively, and reduce the distance between a business question and a business answer.
The discussion connected directly to what SAVIC sees across its own SAP client base: enterprises no longer want to sequence "modernize SAP first, add AI later." The expectation now is that AI readiness is built into the transformation from day one, running on a cloud foundation that can scale with it.
AWS Data Services: The Foundation Beneath the Intelligent Enterprise
Neha Prasad, Analytics Specialist at AWS, took the room through AWS Data Services and how they underpin everything else discussed that evening — because Agentic AI and intelligent SAP operations are only as good as the data architecture supporting them. Her session tied together data engineering, analytics, and AI in the context of SAP-driven enterprises, reinforcing that a modern data strategy is a prerequisite for AI-powered SAP transformation, not a parallel workstream.
Executive Roundtable: The Conversation That Mattered Most
The heart of the evening was the executive roundtable and interactive discussion, where CIOs, CTOs, IT leaders, and business executives compared notes on where their own SAP transformation journeys stand. The conversation moved fluidly between practical modernization questions — landscape complexity, migration timelines, change management — and the strategic question every leader in the room was really there for: how to put AI and data to work inside SAP without adding another layer of complexity.
What stood out was the consistency of the questions across very different industries: less "should we adopt AI," and more "how do we sequence this alongside our SAP roadmap, and how fast can we realistically move."
Networking and Peer Exchange
Beyond the formal sessions, the roundtable's real value was in the room itself — a concentrated gathering of enterprise leaders navigating similar SAP and AI transformation questions, able to compare approaches directly with peers, AWS specialists, and the SAVIC team. Conversations that began during the sessions continued through registration, between talks, and on into the closing networking dinner.
Reimagining the Future of SAP Transformation Through AI, Data, and Collaboration
The Chennai roundtable reinforced a theme SAVIC sees consistently across its SAP practice: enterprises that pair SAP modernization with a strong AWS data foundation and Agentic AI capability move faster and see results sooner than those treating the two as sequential projects. The partnership between AWS and SAVIC exists precisely to close that gap — combining SAP implementation depth with AWS's Agentic AI and data services to help organizations become smarter, faster, and future-ready.
If your organization is mapping out its own SAP transformation journey and wants to explore how Agentic AI and AWS Data Services fit into that roadmap, SAVIC's team is available for a no-commitment SAP readiness assessment — evaluating your current landscape and building a realistic, AI-ready path forward.
