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Thomas Anglero
Thomas Anglero advises executive leaders and boards on AI while running a company whose engineering team is comprised entirely of AI agents. He has delivered over 450 keynotes across 30+ countries for organizations including the WHO, the European Commission and the World Governments Summit.
Thomas Anglero is a Strategic AI Advisor to executive leaders and boards, and the author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence. He advises boards on AI while running MerkabaPhi AS, an Oslo company whose engineering team is made up of AI agents. That gives him first-hand insight what AI actually costs, what breaks, and what it demands of the person responsible for it.
Before founding MerkabaPhi, he was Nordic Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Cognizant, where he led AI and enterprise transformation strategy across the Nordic region and closed over USD 500 million in deals. At IBM he was Nordic Director of Innovation and global spokesperson for IBM Watson. He founded the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer at the Oslo Cancer Cluster, one of the first AI cancer laboratories on a European cancer campus, and led innovation inside the Norwegian Tax Administration.
Today he applies that experience, from healthcare research to public administration to global enterprise, to boards and executive teams deciding where AI belongs in their organisations. He has delivered over 450 keynotes across 30 countries for organizations including IBM, the WHO, the World Governments Summit and the European Commission, and writes the weekly newsletter Clarity at the Top on AI strategy, governance and the decisions leadership teams avoid.
Audiences to Thomas' sessions leave able to diagnose where their AI investments stand, decide what to commercialise, stop, or keep funding, and defend that call to their board with data. They also learn to spot the internal warning signs eroding their advantage, and to decide who owns AI and what to change first.
Book Thomas Anglero to give your leadership team first-hand answers on where AI earns its place.
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What happens now that the budget has been spent, the returns are being questioned, and someone has to decide what continues and what does not? Thomas Anglero works through that decision using what he sees running his own company on AI agents and advising boards. Audiences leave able to diagnose where their AI investments actually stand, decide what to commercialise, stop, or keep funding deliberately, and defend that call to their board with data
A moat is only a moat from the inside; your competitor sees a stream. Thomas Anglero shows executive teams and boards how AI drains an organisation's advantage from within, and who wins and who disappears as a result. Audiences leave able to name the internal warning signs eroding their advantage, and to strengthen or shut down the AI work that matters before a competitor closes the gap.
The technology is in place, yet the organisation still works the way it did before. Thomas Anglero covers the move from experimentation to adoption, and the change nobody has asked for yet, showing leadership teams what working differently involves in practice. Audiences leave able to decide who owns AI in their organisation, what to change first, and how to say it to their own people on Monday.
Thomas makes the same decisions his audiences face, inside his own company: which AI work to fund, which to stop, and who owns it. He approved AI budgets at Cognizant and IBM, and now advises boards on them. That makes him a strong fit for events where AI strategy has to land with the people who hold the budget.
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Thomas Anglero structures his sessions around frameworks built from his own first-hand deployments and advisory work, presenting named case examples — such as founding the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer and pioneering VoIP in 1993 — to anchor each framework in a documented outcome before applying it to the audience's context.
Thomas Anglero's sessions address AI-driven authority redistribution in leadership culture, executive decision fatigue under AI velocity, and first-mover strategy during technological disruption. He founded Europe's first AI lab for cancer research through the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer at the Oslo Cancer Cluster, and as Nordic CTO at Cognizant closed more than $500 million in enterprise transformation deals.
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