Every enterprise has an AI pilot by now. Far fewer are close to what most now call the autonomous enterprise, an operating model where AI increasingly acts rather than assists. IDC’s own AI MaturityScape shows how over six in ten UK organizations are still in the earliest, most experimental stages of AI maturity, and less than 3% has reached the point where AI actually runs parts of the business. The gap between ambition and autonomy is what separates thrivers and survivors.

Getting there is a sequencing and execution problem: strategy, governance, workforce, and the platform underneath all of it, in the right order, not just more ambition. It also changes the work itself: IDC predicts that 40% of job roles across Europe’s 500 largest companies will involve working with AI agents by year end, often before the job titles have caught up. And it changes how value gets delivered: the organizations closest to the autonomous enterprise have rebuilt the connective tissue between projects, not just added more of them.

This exclusive dinner offers a confidential setting for peer-to-peer exchange, enabling digital leaders to share real progress toward the autonomous enterprise, including what is working, what still stalls, and the lessons learned along the way. Participants will also gain perspectives from IDC and SAP experts on where the market really stands, the platform and governance choices that separate early movers from the rest, how core business systems can supply the evidence trail that makes AI decisions defensible enough to scale, and practical approaches to turning autonomous ambition into measurable business outcomes.