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AI speaker in Austria: keynotes, panels and juries

I speak about AI in companies from practice: as someone who steers AI for leadership teams and builds software with it himself. More than 150 juries, trainings and workshops, speaker at Paris Blockchain Week 2025, Head of AI Acceleration & Growth at AI Factory Austria. In German and English, in Vienna, Austria and across the DACH region.

By Paul Kruegel · Updated

Topics

AI steered, not just tried out
Why bought licences don’t create value yet, and how leadership decides where AI pays off. For leadership teams, boards and associations.
Stay independent: good software instead of always-on AI
Why at least half of the cases need no ongoing AI costs, and how to avoid depending on a single vendor.
Building with agents: what 1,215 changes show
Open numbers from my own product: what AI agents can do, where they fail and who signs off in the end. The numbers in detail.

Formats

  • Keynote for conferences, company and association events
  • Panel on AI in companies, the AI Act and building with agents
  • Jury for pitch events, accelerators and hackathons
  • Executive briefing or workshop, 45–⁠120 minutes, available as AI literacy training under Article 4 of the AI Act

Experience on stage and on juries

Paul Kruegel speaking on stage in front of an audience
Talks, juries and workshops, most recently as a speaker at Paris Blockchain Week 2025.
  • Speaker at Paris Blockchain Week 2025
  • Cointelegraph Accelerator: more than 40 startups, jury and pitch events with investors, workshops in Dubai
  • AI Factory Austria: the Start AI, Build AI and Scale AI workshops and the Executive Track, mentor at the Public AI Hackathon
  • UNDP AltFinLab: helped build the SDG accelerator and ran workshops there
  • More than 80 startups and teams supported

Quick answers

What does a talk cost?

On request, depending on format, duration and location.

In which language?

In German or English.

How do I make a request?

By email to post@paulkruegel.com, with date, location, audience and format.