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Bob Sakalas

Sr. Innovation Strategist, Data and AI

SAP North America

Are you under pressure to deliver reliable, enterprise-ready AI that drives real business outcomes? Many teams are already investing in platforms like Snowflake, BigQuery, and modern data lakes—yet keeping data timely, consistent, and AI-ready is still complicated and time-consuming. Leaders want speed, but teams get trapped rebuilding pipelines, duplicating data sets, and debating definitions.

In this 15-minute Spotlight Talk, SAP innovation strategist Bob Sakalas introduces SAP’s new approach with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)—built around well-engineered data products and near-real-time delta sharing so consumers stay current without brittle batch rebuilds. BDC is designed to complement your existing data platforms, improving data quality and delivery speed while reinforcing the trust signals teams need to scale AI with confidence.

With agentic AI accelerating fast, stale data won’t cut it—agents won’t work if data is slow, inconsistent, or takes too long to reconcile. Learn how SAP Business Data Cloud can enhance your current investments in Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure data services—cutting time-to-trust and time-to-value at the same time.