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# When AI Runs the Business: The Reality of Enterprise-Wide Automation


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 15:30–16:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100124-when-ai-runs-the-business-the-reality-of-enterprise-wide-automation)

## Description

Automating one team is easy to imagine; automating an entire enterprise is a different reality. This panel brings together leaders who run these systems to talk about what genuinely works and what is still mostly promise. A grounded look at the real state of enterprise-wide automation.

## Speakers

### [Axel Schell](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@axel-schell)

CTO of Allianz Technology
### [Michael Ameling](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@michael-ameling)

President SAP Business Technology Platform, Member of the Extended Board of SAP
### [Ines Erker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ines-erker)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Forbes Austria


## Related talks at this congress

- [AI-Ready? What Enterprise Transformation Actually Takes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1103-ai-ready-what) — Florian Deter, Mei Dent, Oliver Krizek, Stefan Lemke, Uli Irnich
- [The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating People, AI, and European Sovereignty](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1441-the-agentic) — Sebastian Kister
- [The AI-Fluent Team: A Playbook for Driving Enterprise AI Transformation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1072-the-ai-fluent-team-a) — Avani Prabhakar
- [Unpredictable costs of AI vs predictable cost of Humans](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1169-unpredictable-costs) — Hung Lee, Leandro Gomes da Silva, Raffi Krikorian, Anna Ott