Thomas Anglero is a strategic AI advisor, keynote speaker and author; he was Nordic CTO at Cognizant and Director of Innovation at IBM Nordic.
Former Nordic CTO, Cognizant ($500M+ in enterprise deals) · IBM Nordic Director of Innovation ($200M+ pipeline) · Author, 450+ keynotes across 30+ countries
Thomas Anglero is a Strategic AI Advisor, keynote speaker, and author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence. He has delivered over 450 keynotes across 30 countries for organisations including IBM, the WHO, the World Government Summit, and the European Commission.
Three times in his career, he has stood at the front of a technological shift. In 1993 he was among the first ten people in the world to make a voice call over the internet. As Managing Director of Free World Dialup, he led the world's first peer-to-peer internet telephony company, a story he told live on CNN to three million viewers.
In 2017 he founded the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer at the Oslo Cancer Cluster, the first AI laboratory for cancer embedded within a European cancer campus. In 2025 he built his latest venture with AI agents as his engineering team.
As Nordic CTO and Innovation Officer at Cognizant, he closed over $500 million in enterprise transformation deals, including a $450 million agreement, the largest in the Nordic region at the time. At IBM he served as Nordic Director of Innovation and global spokesperson for IBM Watson.
Today he advises executive leaders and boards through MerkabaPhi AS in Oslo and hosts the weekly podcast and newsletter Clarity at the Top. Audiences describe the same thing in different words: every story he tells on stage is one he lived.