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
Ethical & Compliant Web Data Benchmark
As enterprises scale their web data operations, compliance, data, and risk executives increasingly evaluate the associated ethical, reputational, and legal risks. We benchmarked 5 leading web data collection services across 3 dimensions and tested each service with more than 20 potentially unethical scenarios. Our work helps you assess the ethical standing of your data collection…
Generative AI Ethics: How to Manage Them
Generative AI raises important concerns about how knowledge is shared and trusted. Britannica, for instance, filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, alleging that the company illegally and knowingly copied Britannica’s human-verified content and misused its trademarks without permission.28 Explore what generative AI ethics concerns are and best practices for managing them. AI models learn patterns from…
Generative AI Copyright: Law & Litigation
We reviewed court decisions, regulatory actions, and licensing agreements to answer three key questions about generative AI and copyright. In August 2026, Anthropic faced further copyright litigation from major music publishers. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed suit in August 28, following an August action by Round Hill Music.43 Concord and UMG seek more…
Top 125 Generative AI Applications
Based on our analysis of 30+ case studies and 10+ benchmarks, where we tested and compared over 40 products, we identified 125 generative AI use cases across the following categories: For other applications of AI for requests where there is a single correct answer (e.g., prediction or classification), check out AI applications. You can also…
Top 13 GAN Use Cases
While GANs pioneered many early generative AI applications, particularly in image synthesis and style transfer, most consumer-facing generative AI tools today rely on diffusion-based architectures or related approaches such as flow matching and diffusion transformers (DiT). However, GANs remain important in specific domains, such as super-resolution, face restoration, the generation of synthetic tabular or healthcare…
Federated Learning: 7 Use Cases & Examples
Federated learning (FL) enables models to learn from decentralized data while keeping sensitive information private and ensuring compliance with data localization and privacy laws. Explore what federated learning is, how it works, common use cases with real-life examples, potential challenges, and its alternatives. Federated learning supports a wide range of AI systems where data sensitivity,…
Top 5 Facial Recognition Challenges & Solutions
Facial recognition is now part of everyday life, from unlocking phones to verifying identities in public spaces. Its reach continues to grow, bringing both convenience and new possibilities. However, this expansion also raises concerns about accuracy, privacy, bias, and fairness that need careful attention. The chart compares eight facial recognition systems using the Racial Faces…
Enterprise Generative AI: 11 Use Cases & Best Practices
Generative AI (GenAI) presents novel opportunities for enterprises compared to middle-market companies or startups, including: However, generative AI brings challenges unique to large organizations. For example: Explore our practical enterprise AI use cases to learn how large companies can build, deploy, and govern their own generative AI models effectively. The web is full of B2C…
Test Automation Documentation with Best Practices
Test automation is vital for ensuring the quality and reliability of applications in software testing and development. Businesses and QA teams are transitioning from manual testing to automation testing as it can: What often goes overlooked is the role of effective documentation in maximizing the benefits of test automation. We explore the importance of test…
Top 8 SIEM Use Cases and Real-life Examples
SIEM addresses this by correlating data across the entire environment, endpoints, networks, cloud applications, and authentication systems to surface connections that no single tool would catch. A login at 2 am isn’t suspicious on its own. That same login, combined with a spike in outbound transfers and a new USB device, is a different story.…
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