viva — the living voices
viva is sapperment's live roundtable, piloting with three episodes: one question per episode, four voices drawn from the platform's Leading Top Voices, and a moderator who keeps it honest — Bonnie D. Graham, the broadcast journalist who created SAP's original thought-leadership radio series.
Each episode stands on its own: a single question worth an hour of honest disagreement.
The panel is drawn from sapperment’s Leading Top Voices — each holding one piece of the answer.
Live-streamed and unscripted, with a dry run before every session. On demand afterwards.
What must be true before an AI agent can be trusted to act inside an enterprise?
The question comes from the heart of the Executive Clarity synthesis "AI agents do not need more data. They need business context." — each panellist already holds one piece of the answer.
Better context raises the human standard. Which human contribution gains value once the keystrokes disappear?
One truth does not mean one representation. Let the machine propose; let an accountable person decide where being wrong is expensive.
Semantic disagreement is organisational disagreement. Technology exposes the seams; it does not repair them.
Can the architecture perform real work? If the demonstration stops before execution, it has proved insight, not agency.
The panel is in confirmation; the angles above are directional, from the alignment thread.
At the table: Bonnie D. Graham
Bonnie D. Graham is a thought-leadership broadcast journalist, creator, producer and moderator — more than 55 live business, technology and creativity series since 2011, all live-streamed. At SAP she invented the thought-leadership radio format: her futurist roundtable Technology Revolution: The Future of Now began life as "Coffee Break with Game-Changers, Presented by SAP" (2011–2019) and today ranks among the most-listened future-tech podcasts. She also moderates online technology courses for SAP Press.
Watch her live: youtube.com/@BonnieDRadio · LinkedIn
What happens next
Three pilot episodes, then we decide together whether viva becomes a standing series. Date and time for Episode 1 follow once the panel's time zones are aligned — the table spans US Eastern, CET and Sydney. Every session has a dry run a few days before going live.
Next: read the essay the first question comes from — AI agents do not need more data. They need business context. — or meet all sapperment experts.