Strategic AI Advisor to Executive Leaders and Boards; Former Nordic CTO at Cognizant; Founder of the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer; Author of "Intro to Artificial Intelligence"

Oslo, Norway
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Thomas Anglero Biography

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 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.

Anglero holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Pratt Institute, New York, and is based in Oslo, Norway, available for engagements worldwide, in person and virtually.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/01/2026.

Thomas Anglero Speaking Topics

  • 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 portfolio actually stands, without flattering it
    • Sort every initiative into one of three piles: commercialize it, stop it, or keep funding it deliberately
    • Put a named owner and a P&L line against everything that continues
    • Stop something in public without it reading as failure
    • Defend all three decisions to their leader or their board, with data

    You are being asked what your AI spend has produced, and you do not have a clear answer. Neither does anyone else, and nobody wants to be the first to say so.

  • 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:

    • Call their leadership team together on Monday and put the warning signs on the table
    • Name the silos, the silences and the processes blocking the work
    • Re-evaluate or shut down the AI work delivering nothing
    • Put stronger sponsorship behind the AI work that matters, and decide who must say the thing nobody is saying

    Your business model, your moat, its advantages are real, and that is the problem. A moat you can see is a moat you stop checking. From the other bank it is a stream, and AI is what dries it up faster.

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Thomas Anglero Videos

Thomas Anglero - SPHERE24

Thomas Anglero - SPHERE24

The Impact and Future of AI and Robots

Thomas F. Anglero | TEDxArendal

Thomas F. Anglero | TEDxArendal

Don’t fear technology, fear yourself

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Thomas Anglero is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The AI Experiment Is Over and the Results Have Not Arrived, Why AI Drains the Moat From the Inside: The Warning Signs Leaders Miss and How to Make AI Stick and Change How Work Gets Done. The estimated speaking fee range to book Thomas Anglero for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Thomas Anglero generally travels from Oslo, Norway and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are R "Ray" Wang, Matt Maher, Dr. David Bray, Christophe Fouquet and Seth Earley. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Thomas Anglero for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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