Cem Dilmegani

Cem has been the principal analyst at AIMultiple since 2017.

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

1. Why Microsoft, IBM, and Google Are Ramping up Efforts on AI Ethics, Business Insider.
2. Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue artificial intelligence that’s smarter than we are, Washington Post.
3. Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit, World Economic Forum.
4. Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU, European Commission.
5. EU’s €200 billion AI investment pushes cash into data centers, but chip market remains a challenge, IT Brew.
6. Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to document processing, TechCrunch.
7. We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI startup Hypatos used to raise $11 million, Business Insider.