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
AI Apps with MCP Memory Benchmark & Tutorial
We tested memory tools to find out which ones actually work best for AI agents. Using LangChain’s ReAct Agent, we connected four different Model Context Protocol (MCP) memory servers and measured their performance in real scenarios. Beyond benchmarking, we built a working demo that connects Claude with Cursor through OpenMemory MCP.
Cognitive Agents: Creating a Mind with LangChain
A cognitive agent isn’t just a chatbot responding on command; it’s a system that perceives, reasons, and adapts as its environment changes. AI agent memory capability helps AI agents to keep track of what’s happening now, what happened before, and which pieces of information are worth carrying forward. Without this, every conversation becomes a blank slate.
10 AI Coding Challenges I Face While Managing AI Agents
From what I’ve observed, AI agents are most effective in the early, exploratory stages of development, such as: testing ideas, drafting solution paths, or helping clarify technical direction. They streamline discovery, but their limits become clear when work requires steady judgment, strong context awareness, or long-term strategic reasoning.
Authorization for AI Agents: Permit.io, Descope & more
I have been exploring agent identity and the authentication/authorization platforms that could support it, while also examining how standards like OAuth 2.0 and frameworks such as Keycloak might apply. Below, I listed the best AI agent–specific platforms and features, categorized by their primary focus.
AI Identities: The Role of Agentic Systems in Governance
Agentic AI systems are rapidly emerging in enterprise environments. To govern them safely, each agent needs to be recognized as a first-class identity with its own credentials, permissions, and audit trail.
Agentic AI Architecture for Industrial Systems
Agentic AI allows natural language interaction with industrial systems, enabling users to query data and receive actionable insights. We will outline a reference architecture designed for industrial environments, describe how task-specific agents and tools can be orchestrated. We will also explore current state of natural language interfaces (NLIs) in industrial systems.
Agentic Mesh: The Future of Scalable AI Collaboration
While much has been written about agent architectures, real-world production-grade implementations remain limited. Building on my earlier post about A2A fundamentals, this piece highlights the agentic AI mesh, a concept introduced in a recent McKinsey.
How we Moved from LLM Scorers to Agentic Evals?
Evaluating LLM applications primarily focuses on testing an application end-to-end to ensure it performs consistently and reliably. We previously covered traditional text-based LLM evaluation methods like BLEU or ROUGE. Those classical reference-based NLP metrics are useful for tasks such as translation or summarization, where the goal is simply to match a reference output.
AI Agents vs Agentic AI Systems
Adapted from There’s been a lot of buzz around the terms “AI agents” and “Agentic AI systems” lately. While they’re often used interchangeably, they actually refer to slightly different concepts.
LCMs: From LLM Tokenization to Concept-level Representation
Large concept models (LCMs), as introduced by Meta in their work on “Large Concept Models,” represent a fundamental shift away from token-based prediction toward concept-level representation.
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