Thomas F. Anglero

KEYNOTE SPEAKER | STRATEGIC AI ADVISOR | AUTHOR | HOST OF CLARITY AT THE TOP PODCAST

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Thomas F. Anglero's Biography

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.

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AI Opportunities: Lessons For Startups From UNICEF's Insights

AI Expert: The $3,500 Robot Is Just The Beginning… (Thomas Anglero)

Strategies to Becoming a Successful Leader

Thomas Anglero at SPHERE24: The Impact and Future of AI and Robots

Fascinating IBM Watson / Artificial Intelligence Presentation: NHH Symposium

Journey to Innovation and AI. What it takes to be innovative?

Don’t fear technology, fear yourself | Thomas F. Anglero | TEDxArendal

Interested in benefiting from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Oslo Business Forum 2017

Artificial Intelligence and the retail industry / Thomas Anglero

INTRO TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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When Every Employee Becomes a Leader, Because of AI How we rewrite the rules of leadership and culture across a company

Audiences leave understanding how AI redistributes authority across an organisation, and what has to change in the culture before it breaks.

Leading an Organisation on Empty The new tired, and what AI is doing to the leaders who are actually using it

Audiences leave able to recognise AI-driven decision fatigue in their leadership team, with practical ways to address it before it becomes attrition.

The New Executive Mantra:“We Must Be First” Not being first is the most expensive decision in leadership

Audiences leave understanding why “wait and see” is the costliest position in a time of disruption, and how to move decisively without being reckless.

Thomas F. Anglero's Biography

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.

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“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.