Thomas Anglero

Thomas Anglero is a Strategic AI Advisor, keynote speaker and author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence. He has delivered more than 450 keynotes across 30 countries for organisations including IBM, the WHO, the World Governments Summit and the European Commission, and advises executive leaders and boards on artificial intelligence, innovation and transformation.

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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 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. Thomas combines deep technical insight with practical business experience and compelling personal stories. His audiences leave inspired, equipped to navigate disruption with confidence, and ready to turn uncertainty into opportunity.

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“Thomas Anglero is an incredibly passionate, knowledgable and visionary person. His ability to communicate relevant examples of innovation that has already occurred makes his audiences open up their minds and reflect on both the present and the future. Highly recommended as speaker, either in a strategy workshop for a leadership team or in a multi-national customer event.” - Atle Sivertsen, 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 afterwards!” - Henrik Sandvik, Sandefjord Business Association

“Thomas, it was a pleasure having you speak (at Kluge Offentligdagen). Great performance, as always. A true “Rock Star”!” - Knut-Magnar Aanaestad, KLUGE Advokatfirma AS

“Thomas, your presentation to the 1300 employees in TechnipFMC was truly inspirational! You made us laugh and you made us reflect on what really matters to us – in a way that will guide us to improve and make a difference. Thank you!” - Lars Ole Bjørnsrud, TechnipFMC

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 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.

Achievements

TEDx Talk, "Don't Fear Technology, Fear Yourself" (TEDxArendal)
2026 - Host of the Clarity at the Top podcast
2024 - Partner at CVX Ventures
2017 - Founded the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer at the Oslo Cancer Cluster
2017 - Founder and Strategic AI Advisor at MerkabaPhi AS
2015 - Nordic Director of Innovation at IBM
2013 - Undomiciled Project (UP) Unsung Hero Award
2008 - Top 10 leaders with an immigrant background, Leadership Foundation
2006 - Founded WiHood AS
2005 - Founded Nuclei Networks
2005 - Senior Executive Advisor, Telenor AS
Spent seven years coaching a basketball team to five national and regional championships

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