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 a company whose engineering team is AI agents rather than people. That is where his material comes from: what AI actually costs, what breaks, and what it demands of the person responsible for it.
Before founding MerkabaPhi AS in Oslo, 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.
He has delivered over 450 keynotes across 30 countries for organisations including IBM, the WHO, the World Government Summit and the European Commission, and writes the weekly newsletter 'Clarity at the Top' on AI strategy, governance and the decisions leadership teams avoid. To secure him for your next event, contact Champions Speakers today!
Books
Intro to Artificial Intelligence and How to Benefit from It: How to Benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Work and Home, Increase your income and Future Opportunities
Thomas Anglero's official speaker topics are listed below:
The AI Experiment Is Over and the Results Have Not Arrived
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. For executive teams and leadership conferences.
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.
Why AI Drains the Moat From the Inside: The Warning Signs Leaders Miss
A moat is only a moat from the inside. Your competitor sees a stream. For executive teams and boards, on who wins and who disappears in an AI economy.
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.
How to Make AI Stick and Change How Work Gets Done
From experimentation to adoption, and the change nobody has asked for yet. For leadership teams who have the technology in place and cannot get the organisation to work differently.
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.
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
Feedback from In-Person Events:
"Thomas Anglero is an incredibly passionate, knowledgeable, and visionary person. His ability to communicate relevant examples of innovation that have already occurred makes his audiences open up their minds and reflect on both the present and the future. Highly recommended as a speaker, either in a strategy workshop for a leadership team or in a multi-national customer event." - Atle, Vice President, Kinect Energy
"Hi Thomas, we were very happy with the way Torpkonferansen turned out, and you contributed a great deal to that! Your Keynote Speech was excellent – and we have got a lot of positive comments afterward!" - Henrik, Marketing Director, Sandefjord Business Association
"Thomas, it was a pleasure having you speak (at Kluge Offentligdagen). Great performance, as always. A true “Rock Star”!" - Knut-Magnar, Head of Innovation, KLUGE Advokatfirma AS
- 2025 - Built a venture with AI agents as the engineering team
- 2024 – Chief Executive Officer, Too Easy AS
- 2024 – Partner, CVX Ventures
- 2021 – CTO & Innovation Officer, Cognizant
- 2020 – Chairman of the Board, Dansens Hus
- 2015 – Director of Innovation, IBM
- 2013 – Received the 2013 Undomiciled Project (UP) Unsung Hero Award
- 2010 – Director of Innovation, Skatteetaten
- 2006 – Founder & Managing Director, WiHood AS
- 2005 – Founder & Managing Director, Nuclei Networks
- 2002 – Senior Executive Advisor, Telenor AS
- 1999 – VP Marketing, Vocaltec Communications
- 1997 – Business Development Manager, Ericsson
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