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
Compare 50+ AI Agent Tools in 2026
We spent the last quarter testing AI agents across coding, customer service, sales, research, and business workflows. Not reading vendor marketing, actually using these tools daily to see what delivers and what does not. Most tools today are co-pilots, not autopilots.
Best Database Performance Monitoring Tools: Top 5 Platforms Compared
Database issues cause application failures: A memory spike crashes your server, and a slow query times out user requests. We analyzed six database monitoring platforms and benchmarked three of them extensively on MySQL and MongoDB by installing them from scratch, running identical workloads, and documenting every step of the setup and monitoring experience.
Top 6 JAMS Scheduler Alternatives in 2026
Based on our analysis of 10+ WLA software, we chose the top JAMS Scheduler alternatives. Click the links to see each vendor’s section, where we explain our rationale behind this selection: Comparison of JAMS and Top 6 Alternatives JAMS Scheduler is a workload orchestration tool that manages jobs and tasks across platforms and systems.
Control-M for Enterprise Workload Automation
Control-M by BMC Software helps teams coordinate and automate data and application workflows across environments, including mainframes, the cloud, and hybrid systems. It gives users a single place to schedule jobs, track progress, and handle dependencies.
Future of Management Consulting in '26: Will AI disrupt MBB?
Management consulting is one of the largest industries in the world with the industry leader McKinsey estimated to be making >$10 billion. McKinsey has survived numerous disruptions since its founding in 1926.
Pros & Cons of Top 6 RPA Alternatives to Consider
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a beneficial technology that can automate up to 70-80% of rules-based processes. However, ~40% of companies fail to reach their expectations of cost reduction after RPA implementation.
AI Code Review Tools Benchmark
With the increased use of AI coding tools, codebases have become more prone to vulnerabilities, which increased the need for effective code reviews.
Top 10 Managed File Transfer Software Tested: See the Best One
We explore 8 managed file transfer tools.
Tabular Models Benchmark: Performance Across 19 Datasets 2026
We benchmarked 7 widely used tabular learning models across 19 real-world datasets, covering ~260,000 samples and over 250 total features, with dataset sizes ranging from 435 to nearly 49,000 rows. Our goal was to understand top-performing model families for datasets of different sizes and structure (e.g. numeric vs.
Reproducible AI: Why it Matters & How to Improve it
Reproducibility is a fundamental aspect of scientific methods, enabling researchers to replicate an experiment or study and achieve consistent results using the same methodology. This principle is equally vital in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications, where the ability to reproduce outcomes ensures stable inference across model environments.
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