Andreas Welsch

Andreas Welsch is an internationally recognized top 10 Agentic AI leader and one of today’s most sought-after thought leaders and keynote speakers for business and technology audiences. With over two decades of global leadership experience, previously as Vice President at SAP, Andreas has helped Fortune 500 companies cut through AI hype to deliver measurable business outcomes.

He is the Founder and Chief Human Agentic AI Officer of AI consulting firm Intelligence Briefing, the best-selling author of the AI Leadership Handbook and The HUMAN Agentic AI Edge, and a leading voice on AI strategy, adoption, and transformation. 

At the heart of Andreas’s work lies a clear value proposition: he helps business leaders understand how to apply AI responsibly, effectively, and profitably by addressing the questions that decision-makers face:

• How do we turn AI into business value, not just experimentation?
• How can we prepare our workforce for AI-driven transformation?
• How can we empower our teams to use AI without creating AI workslop?
• What practical steps can we take to avoid ethical, operational, or financial pitfalls?

Andreas’s keynotes and workshops are known for their clarity, strategic relevance, and deep insight. Drawing from more than two decades in the software industry, he offers real-world frameworks and practical steps tailored to leadership audiences. He introduces leaders to AI agents, leading hybrid teams of humans and AI, and AI-driven business models, explaining not only what’s next, but what matters most and why.

During his tenure at SAP, Andreas accelerated the integration of AI across enterprise applications and positioned SAP as an AI leader. He brings first-hand experience and a global perspective to every business and has been named a LinkedIn Top Voice, Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leader in AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, The Futurum Group's Top 14 AI Influencer, PEX Network’s Top 30 AI Leader, and SwissCognitive’s Top 50 Global AI Ambassador.

His work has appeared in CIO.com, VentureBeat, InformationWeek, and the American Management Association. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of AI, Robotics and Workplace Automation and as an adjunct professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

For leaders looking for clarity, action, and strategy, Andreas delivers a transformative experience beyond the hype. Follow his “What’s the BUZZ?” podcast and newsletter, “The AI MEMO”, and work with Andreas to turn hype into outcome for your business.

Vice President & Head of Marketing & Solution Management — Artificial Intelligence

Defined GTM and product marketing for Artificial Intelligence (AI) across SAP’s product portfolio, incl. AI Business Services on SAP Business Technology Platform in the context of embedded AI capabilities and intelligent process automation via Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and low-code/ no-code offering. Led global team of product marketers and solution managers

🚀 PhD Candidate | Secure Edge Architect | Embedded AI Systems | Resilience & Runtime Monitoring | Cloud-to-Firmware Security

I’m Ayush Pandey, a multidisciplinary systems engineer and researcher with deep experience building resilient, secure, and intelligent edge infrastructures for real-world federated systems.

My recent work involves developing a multi-layered cybersecurity and runtime integrity framework for protecting distributed edge platforms used in energy resilience and regulated sectors contexts. This includes:

🔐 Secure Systems Architecture Highlights
• Cryptographically verified boot chains using hardware fuse-based trust anchors
• TPM-based sealed key storage and disk encryption
• Real-time runtime observability using eBPF kernel instrumentation (CO-RE)
• Privacy-preserving telemetry using Post-Quantum and Homomorphic Encryption
• Swarm-level attestation and trust graph chaining
• Symbolic and formal verification of security guarantees using Coq and Tamarin

This architecture integrates embedded firmware, AI-powered telemetry pipelines, and cloud-based monitoring all tied together under a Zero Trust design model focused on resilience, attestability, and secure orchestration.

🧠 I bring expertise from both academia and industry spanning embedded development at Honeywell Aerospace, to edge/cloud AI deployments (Edge TPU, LSTM models, GCP), and secure dataflow automation.

🛠 Tech Stack: Embedded C, Python, Julia, SQL, TensorFlow, Docker, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, NetworkX, Coq, Tamarin

My goal is to design secure-by-design, self-defending systems that bridge the gap between low-level hardware and scalable AI-driven orchestration.

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