Cem Dilmegani
Cem's work at AIMultiple has been cited by leading global publications including Business Insider, Forbes, Morning Brew, Washington Post, global firms like 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 how enterprises can leverage new technologies in AI, agentic AI, cybersecurity (including network security, application security) and data including web data.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
- Answers to Korea24's questions on job loss due to AI, 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
Top Open Source UEBA Tools & Commercial Alternatives
At their core, UEBA solutions aim to identify patterns in data, whether from real-time streams or historical datasets. Open source UEBA tools After reviewing the documentation of each open-source UEBA framework/tool, I listed leading open-source behavior analytics technologies that provide standard SIEM-like capabilities (e.g., alerting, MITRE ATT&CK threat intelligence framework, API-based ingestion from data sources).
Top 15 UEBA Use Cases for Today's SOCs
Traditional measures such as web gateways, firewalls, IPS tools, and VPNs are no longer sufficient to keep corporate systems secure from modern cyber attacks. UEBA systems help detect modern threats by enhancing the context and quality of security alerts by monitoring non-user entities (e.g., servers) and leveraging machine learning.
Top 9 PAM Solutions with Free Alternatives
We spent three days testing and reviewing popular Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. We used the free trials and admin consoles of BeyondTrust, Keeper PAM, and ManageEngine PAM360. For solutions that required registration, we relied on official product documentation and verified user experiences to assess their capabilities.
Top 10 AI Avatar Generation Tools
When choosing the right AI avatar generation tool, businesses can take into account the following components: Compare AI avatar generation tools The table above is sorted alphabetically except for our sponsor at the top. For more on prices, check the pricing comparison.
Top 5 IBM Watsonx Competitors
Businesses use conversational AI to handle customer questions at scale and reduce wait times. While IBM’s Watsonx Assistant is one of the more established solutions in this space, it isn’t always the best fit for every team. Factors like company size, budget constraints, and technical resources can all influence whether it’s the right choice.
Compare 45+ MLOps Tools in 2026
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) brings DevOps principles into machine learning from model deployment to maintenance to automate transitions between training and deployment pipelines Explore 45+ MLOps tools for different components of the ML lifecycle, such as: What are the types of MLOps solution providers? Open source MLOps 63% of organizations from different sectors and 72%
Top 20 Email Server Software: Features & Pricing
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Top 13 Open Source SIEM Tools
There is no single open-source tool that delivers a complete, production-ready SIEM out of the box. Every option involves a trade-off: you either get a purpose-built SIEM with gaps in analytics, or a powerful logging and analytics stack that requires you to wire in security detection yourself.
Top 6 SaaS Backup Solutions
Many businesses operate under the misconception that their SaaS providers (like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) fully protect their data from all threats. While these platforms offer some level of data redundancy, they do not protect against accidental deletion, ransomware, or insider threats.
10 Risks of Generative AI & How to Mitigate Them
With industries prioritizing generative AI for innovation and automation, its potential grows. However, risks of generative AI like accuracy and ethical concerns remain. Addressing these challenges is key to ensuring AI benefits humanity. Explore the top 10 risks of generative AI and steps to mitigate them: Model reliability & output integrity risks 1.
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