Cem Dilmegani
Cem's work at AIMultiple has been cited by leading global publications including Business Insider, Forbes, Morning Brew, and Washington Post, global firms like Deloitte and HPE, NGOs like World Economic Forum, and supranational organizations like European Commission. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Professional experience & achievements
Throughout his career, Cem served as a tech consultant, tech buyer and tech entrepreneur. He advised enterprises on their technology decisions at McKinsey & Company and Altman Solon for more than a decade. He also published a McKinsey report on digitalization.He led technology strategy and procurement of a telco while reporting to the CEO. He has also led commercial growth of deep tech company Hypatos that reached a 7 digit annual recurring revenue and a 9 digit valuation from 0 within 2 years. Cem's work in Hypatos was covered by leading technology publications like TechCrunch and Business Insider. [6], [7]
Research interests
Cem's work focuses on enterprise AI and software.Cem's hands-on enterprise software experience contributes to his work. Other AIMultiple industry analysts and the tech team support Cem in designing, running and evaluating benchmarks.
Education
He graduated as a computer engineer from Bogazici University in 2007. During his engineering degree, he studied machine learning at a time when it was commonly called "data mining" and most neural networks had a few hidden layers.He holds an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 2012.
Cem is fluent in English and Turkish. He is at an advanced level in German and beginner level in French.
External publications
- Cem Dilmegani, Post-AI Banking: Millions of jobs at risk as banks automate their core functions. International Banker.
- Cem Dilmegani, Bengi Korkmaz, and Martin Lundqvist (December 1, 2014).Public-sector digitization: The trillion-dollar challenge, McKinsey & Company.
Media, conference & other event presentations
- Hosted on American Variety Radio, answering Court Lewis' questions on AGI on April 25th, 2026.
- Answered Korea24's questions on job loss due to AI on November 5th, 2025. Recording available on: Korea24
- Real Estate and Technology, presented by Hofstra University’s Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business in 2023 and 2024.
- Radar AI session (June 22, 2023): "Increasing Data Science Impact with ChatGPT".
- Generative AI Atlanta meetup: Generative AI for Enterprise Technology.
Sources
- Why Microsoft, IBM, and Google Are Ramping up Efforts on AI Ethics, Business Insider.
- Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue artificial intelligence that’s smarter than we are, Washington Post.
- Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit, World Economic Forum.
- Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU, European Commission.
- EU’s €200 billion AI investment pushes cash into data centers, but chip market remains a challenge, IT Brew.
- Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to document processing, TechCrunch.
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI startup Hypatos used to raise $11 million, Business Insider.
Latest Articles from Cem
25 Digital Twin Applications/ Use Cases by Industry
As more sectors explore virtualization, digital twin solutions are gaining mainstream traction. The global market for digital twins is expected to reach $74 billion by 2027, and the proliferation of IoT technology is accelerating this growth. See 25 current digital twin applications: Digital twins are increasingly used in the supply chain and logistics industry to…
Blockchain Case Studies Across Key Industries
We collected the top 20 real-world blockchain case studies to help executives identify mature and high-impact investment opportunities. Business challenge: The pharmaceutical supply chain needed to comply with the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act, which requires interoperable tracking of prescription drugs through changes of ownership. The industry also faced risks from counterfeit drugs, fragmented…
Top 30+ Agentic AI Companies
Though AI agents are being hyped and some companies rebrand their chatbots as agentic tools, there are still a few agents in production. Previously, we benchmarked several capable AI agents over several real-world tasks. We listed: These companies primarily focus on agentic AI research and development, offering initiatives like ethical AI guidelines and environments for…
HALC-Bench: LLM Hallucination on Long-Context Retrieval Benchmark
HALC-Bench (LLM Hallucination on Long-Context Retrieval Benchmark) measures a large language model’s resistance to fabricating evidence for a metric that does not exist in the target document by using 3 haystacks placed at the beginning, middle, and end of the model’s context window, with 204 questions. claude-fable-5 answered all 204 traps correctly at every haystack…
DAST Software Pricing Comparison: Burp Suite, Nessus & More
With over 20 DAST tools on the market, selecting the most suitable one can be challenging given their varying features and pricing options. We’ve compiled publicly available information on vendors’ pricing strategies, making it easy to get an overview and estimate the likely costs you may face. The following are important to consider when it…
Top Open Source UEBA Tools & Commercial Alternatives
At their core, UEBA solutions identify patterns in data, whether from real-time streams or historical datasets. After reviewing the documentation for each open-source UEBA framework and tool, I selected the leading open-source behavior analytics technologies that provide standard SIEM-like capabilities, alerting, support for the MITRE ATT&CK threat intelligence framework, and API-based ingestion from data sources.…
Top 14 Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDPS/IPS) Tools
At its core, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) monitor networks for threats, alert administrators, and prevent potential attacks. We listed the best commercial IDS/IPS tools and open source alternatives based on their categories, detection types, and pricing. These vendors provide a security package with enterprise-grade automation, ready-made dashboards, and out-of-the-box integration, along with an…
Best Design to Code Tools Compared: Detailed Analysis
Design-to-code tools have changed more in the past 18 months than in the decade before that. The category used to mean “export some CSS from Figma.” Now it spans full-stack app builders, bidirectional MCP integrations that write back to the canvas, and agentic platforms shipping production branches from Slack messages. The tools on this list…
Agentic Mesh: The Future of Scalable AI Collaboration
Theoretical discussions around AI agents dominate the market, but production implementations lag behind. McKinsey introduced the agentic mesh to solve this gap, yet real-world deployments still hit severe bottlenecks in integration, agent isolation, and operational reliability. Below, we analyze these live failure points and demonstrate how an event-driven mesh architecture enables controlled scaling at enterprise…
15+ Use Cases & AI Applications of Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is a digital media platform that allows the user to integrate virtual context into the physical environment in an interactive, multi-sensory way. Implementing AI enhances the AR experience by allowing deep neural networks to replace traditional computer vision approaches, and add new features such as object detection, text analysis, and scene labeling.…
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