Published:
2021

Publisher:
O'Reilly / dpunkt.verlag

Editors:
Peter Gluchowski, Frank Leisten, Gero Presser

Format:
Hardcover, E-Book

ISBN:
978-3-86490-864-4

Description:
Architekturen für BI & Analytics is a German-language professional handbook on modern Business Intelligence and Analytics architectures. It covers architectural patterns, technologies, and practical applications for data-driven organizations, including data lakes, cloud architectures, data virtualization, enterprise application integration, regulatory requirements, analytics access strategies, and BI & Analytics architectures for small and medium-sized companies. The book is positioned as a practical guide for designing and implementing complex BI and analytics ecosystems.

Role:
Co-Author

Chapter:
Organise the World’s Data, like Google

Chapter summary:
The chapter connects modern analytics architecture with lessons from Google-scale data systems. It explores how organizations can think beyond traditional BI stacks and build more scalable, connected, and intelligent data ecosystems. The focus is on architecture as a foundation for better decisions, stronger analytics capabilities, and future-ready data platforms.

Key themes:
Business Intelligence, analytics architecture, cloud data platforms, data ecosystems, data lakes, AI-ready infrastructure, enterprise data strategy, Google-inspired analytics architecture

Link:
Architekturen für BI & Analytics - O'Reilly / dpunkt.verlag

Date: 
30 June 2026

Location: 
The Landmark Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus

Organizer:
Cyprus Information Technology Enterprises Association (CITEA) and IMH

Theme:
The AI Revolution: What It Means for Business

Description:
The 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 is a senior-level digital transformation and technology leadership conference focused on how artificial intelligence is reshaping business, productivity, competitiveness, cybersecurity, leadership, and digital strategy. The conference brings together executives, technology leaders, policymakers, CIOs, CTOs, and business decision-makers to examine the shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale implementation.

Role:
Inspirational Keynote Speaker

Topic:
The Global AI Shockwave
Subtitle:
Understanding the Scale and Speed of the AI Revolution

Topic summary:
This keynote theme examines AI as a shockwave moving through the foundations of business, leadership, and economic competition. It frames AI not as a standalone technology trend, but as emerging business infrastructure, a new layer beneath productivity, decision-making, customer experience, operations, and organizational design. The focus is on the scale and speed at which AI agents, intelligent assistants, and autonomous systems are changing what companies can do, how fast they can move, and what kinds of leaders they need. The deeper question is not whether organizations will adopt AI, but whether they will understand the transformation early enough to shape it. AI is no longer waiting at the edge of the enterprise. It is moving toward the center of how industries think, compete, and survive.

Key themes:
AI strategy, AI agents, digital transformation, business competitiveness, future of work, enterprise AI adoption, AI leadership, intelligent assistants

Date:
28 November 2025

Location:
Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Limassol, Cyprus

Organizer:
PwC Cyprus and IMH

Theme:
From Analogue Boomers to AI-Powered Zoomers

Description:
The 24th Leadership & Human Resource Management Conference focused on the changing nature of leadership, HR, work, talent, and organizational culture in an era shaped by artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and generational change. The conference explored how organizations can adapt their people strategies as AI changes expectations, skills, collaboration, and the employee experience.

Role:
Speaker

Topic:
AI, Taste, and the Death of Skills
Subtitle:
The End of Skills as We Knew Them: Humans in the Age of AI

Topic Summary:
This topic challenges one of the deepest assumptions of modern work: that skills are the currency of human value. In an AI-native world, that assumption begins to break. When AI can automate execution, generate outputs, accelerate learning, and imitate expertise, the value of static skills starts to collapse. What remains scarce is not the ability to produce more, but the ability to know what is worth producing at all. This theme explores the rise of taste, judgment, direction, clarity, and sensemaking as the new human edge. At its center is the concept of the Sensemaker: a future-critical talent profile able to choose what matters, filter noise into meaning, and direct intelligent systems with coherence and purpose. The uncomfortable question for HR and leadership is no longer simply how to upskill people, but how to identify the humans who can still create meaning when machines can do almost everything else.

Key themes:
Future of work, AI and HR, skills disruption, sensemaking, human judgment, taste as strategy, talent transformation, AI-native organizations

Date:
21 to 23 May 2025

Location:
Munich, Germany

Organizer:
Conferenzia World

Description:
The 11th Global Smart Manufacturing Summit focused on the future of industrial transformation, bringing together manufacturing leaders, technology experts, and innovation practitioners to discuss smart factories, industrial intelligence, digital twins, automation, real-time data, machine vision, sustainability, and human-machine collaboration.

Role:
Chairperson (Full 3-day Conference)

Chairperson Focus:
This framing connects the technical agenda of smart manufacturing to a larger shift in industrial civilization. Smart manufacturing is no longer only about sensors, automation, connected machines, or efficiency gains. It is becoming a new operating layer of adaptive industrial intelligence, where factories learn, systems respond, data becomes strategic memory, and machines participate in the rhythm of decision-making. The focus is on how organizations build factories, systems, and cultures that can learn, adapt, and turn innovation into execution without losing the human leadership needed to decide what should be optimized in the first place.

Key themes:
Smart manufacturing, industrial intelligence, AI in production, digital twins, automation, sustainability, adaptive factories, human-machine collaboration

Date:
22 May 2025

Location:
Munich, Germany

Organizer:
Conferenzia World

Description:
The 11th Global Smart Manufacturing Summit explored how industrial organizations are using AI, data, automation, robotics, digital twins, and connected systems to redesign production, supply chains, sustainability models, and operational decision-making.

Role:
Speaker

Topic: An AI Reflection...

Topic Summary:
This topic frames AI as a new layer of organizational intelligence, not merely another productivity tool. It questions whether companies are truly transforming or simply attaching AI to old processes that were never designed for an intelligent age. The deeper issue is whether organizations are using AI to patch today’s inefficiencies or to build adaptive systems for future workforces, future business models, and future decision-making. It explores AI as a co-creator of strategy, systems, and organizational capability, forcing leaders to confront an uncomfortable possibility: the companies that win may not be those with the most AI tools, but those willing to redesign themselves around intelligence, feedback, adaptability, and human judgment at scale.

Key themes:
AI transformation, future-ready organizations, AI as co-creator, enterprise systems, human-AI collaboration, business mindset, industrial innovation

Date:
3 to 5 December 2024

Location:
Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Conference Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Organizer:
IQPC / IQEU

Description:
Generative AI Europe 2024 focused on the transition from generative AI experimentation to enterprise-scale implementation. The conference explored how organizations can move beyond proof-of-concepts and build generative AI applications that create measurable business value, improve productivity, support governance, and scale across complex enterprise environments.

Role:
Speaker & Panel Participant

Topic:
The AI Paradox
Subtitle:
Reshaping Humanity’s Future Beyond Our Imagination

Topic Summary:
This topic examines the paradox of AI as both the greatest acceleration engine humanity has ever built and one of the deepest challenges to how organizations understand trust, expertise, work, and human relevance. It looks beyond the common productivity narrative and asks a harder question: what happens when AI no longer only supports systems, but begins to design them, optimize them, question them, and eventually reshape the logic by which organizations operate? Through examples such as AI-assisted medical diagnosis, AI-designed company systems, and AI-native operating models, it positions generative AI as a structural force that changes how companies think, build, decide, compete, and adapt. The deeper tension is not whether AI can make organizations faster, but whether leaders can remain meaningful decision-makers in systems that increasingly know more, learn faster, and act with greater scale than the humans who created them.

Key themes:
Generative AI strategy, enterprise AI adoption, future-ready systems, human judgment, AI trust, business transformation, AI and younger generations

Date: 
29 to 30 September 2023

Location: 
National Opera and Ballet, Skopje, North Macedonia

Organizer: 
TBM Group

Description: 
AI Tech Summit Skopje 2023 brought together international technology leaders, innovators, researchers, and business experts to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on industry, society, ethics, automation, data, and the future of work. The summit featured speakers from organizations including Google, Microsoft, Spotify, BBC, BCG, Wipro, Universal Robots, and others.

Role: 
Speaker

Topic: 
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Subtitle: 
Our Future with AI: Dystopian Utopia or Utopian Dystopia?

Topic Summary: 
This topic explores the strange, uncomfortable territory between AI utopia and AI dystopia. It asks whether artificial intelligence will liberate humanity from repetitive work, poor decisions, and limited access to knowledge, or quietly create new forms of dependency, control, and emotional confusion. Through scenarios such as self-driving cars, AI-assisted healthcare, AI-powered education, and custom-trained AI companions, it examines the moment when AI stops being a distant innovation story and becomes part of how people move, heal, learn, grieve, work, and make decisions. The central idea is that the future of AI will not be decided by whether humanity fears it or celebrates it, but by whether we are mature enough to understand, teach, shape, and integrate it responsibly before it starts shaping us more than we shape it.

Key Themes: 
Responsible AI adoption, human-AI coexistence, future of work, AI ethics, automation, trust in technology, AI literacy