Michael Schemel
U-TUM
Michael is an Data, IT, and Technology executive with 14+ years of experience defining and executing the product vision, roadmap, and offering to bring enterprise solutions from concept, architecture to market. Strategic Leader and Technical Advisor focused on working from IT service owners, product managers, data scientists to board members to uncover and capitalize on the latest technologies with a deep understanding of business processes and the ability to translate tech/IT, AI capabilities into business value of its operations, risk assessment and management. Michael is a tech strategist and product manager with an entrepreneurial mindset and a profound technological and strategic understanding of the current wave of technological disruption, with a strong focus on IT, Software Engineering, AI and Machine Learning. He also advocates a technologically grounded strategy, “hands-on” and empathic customer focus, and a “rumble and hustle” approach to building new solutions. He leads global interdisciplinary data-driven and IT/tech work streams and departments/teams with P&L responsibility in different time zones, and guides clients in the implementation of long-term solutions of the full value chain of national and international companies and institutes. Michael is also a well-known co-author and distributor in the European AI community with contributions to open-source and technical publications. He has a solid understanding of IP and compliance-related aspects around investing into innovative technology projects and activities.