Episode 5: Executive AI Briefing - Andreas Welsch

04/22/25 • 58 min

Transformation Every Day

Guests:

Andreas Welsch - SAP Alumni, Top 10 AI Advisor, Author of the bestselling "AI Leadership Handbook"

Host:

Alexander Greb - Consulting Director - cbs corporate business solutions

n this episode, join Alexander Greb in an exceptional conversation with Andreas Welsch. They talk about:
- Why real AI leadership is about culture, not just technology
- How agentic AI is reshaping the business landscape
- Why it's not about "adding AI" — it's about rethinking everything
-The biggest mistakes companies make when adopting AI
and The future skills everyone should start building today
Whether you're in tech, consulting, or leadership — this Executive AI Briefing will change how you think about innovation, strategy, and what’s next. On this episode of Transformation Every Day.
All this and more, exclusively here on Transformation Every Day.

Follow Andreas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasmwelsch/
His website: https://join.intelligence-briefing.com/

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Thanks to Steven Spears for lending his voice for our podcast intro.
Theme music by Luis Álvarez a.k.a. Fourth Dogma

Guests:

Andreas Welsch - SAP Alumni, Top 10 AI Advisor, Author of the bestselling "AI Leadership Handbook"

Host:

Alexander Greb - Consulting Director - cbs corporate business solutions

Follow Andreas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasmwelsch/
His website: https://join.intelligence-briefing.com/

Previous Episode

Episode 4: From the invention of SAP HANA to Clean Core in 42 minutes - Emma Qian and Prof. Alexander Zeier

Guests:

Prof. Alexander Zeier - "The inventor of SAP HANA" formerly reporting to Hasso Plattner, CTO Accenture and Professor at MIT, now Chief Scientist and co-founder Novasoftware.AI
Emma Qian - Formerly Google DeepMind and Meta AI, now CEO Novasoftware.AI

Host:

Alexander Greb - Consulting Director - cbs corporate business solutions

In this episode, join Alexander Greb in an exceptional conversation with two outstanding tech visionaries: Professor Alexander Zeier, inventor of SAP HANA, and Emma Qian, co-founder of Nova AI and alumna of Google DeepMind and Meta AI.

In this episode, Alexander Zeier shares the gripping story behind SAP's most transformative innovation—SAP HANA—from its inception as Hasso Plattner’s visionary idea to becoming the backbone of modern SAP technology. Discover fascinating insights from the pioneering days, unexpected challenges, and groundbreaking decisions that shaped enterprise technology as we know it today.
Prof. Zeier has 30+ years of experience in SAP, is the co-inventor of SAP HANA, the „New Architecture“ powering S/4HANA, and served as Global CTO for SAP at Accenture over a decade to deliver many of the most complex S/4HANA Transformations, before he joined as a Co-Founder Nova AI.

Emma Qian then introduces us to Nova AI's revolutionary Agentic AI, designed to accelerate SAP optimization dramatically. Experience firsthand the astonishing power of this innovation, capable of condensing tasks that typically require years of consulting into mere minutes.

Explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the role of SAP consultants and learn about the tremendous opportunities—and responsibilities—this brings for professionals and businesses alike.

All this and more, exclusively here on Transformation Every Day.

Follow Alexander Zeier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azeier/
Follow Emma Qian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eqian99/
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