AI and digital transformation, from someone who builds it.

Every organisation is “doing something with AI”. Very few have a plan. This talk cuts through the headlines and goes to the reality of daily work: what large language models and AI agents actually do well today, where they fail, and how organisations move from scattered experiments to real productivity.

Roman brings examples from his own work as a CTO, where AI agents are part of the daily engineering and operations routine. The audience leaves with a clear picture and a few concrete first steps.

AI agents no longer just answer questions. They write and test code, analyse data and operate infrastructure. Roman works with agents every day across software development, infrastructure and research. This talk is an honest field report with real examples, real failures, and the working patterns that made the difference.

Where the setting allows, the talk includes live demonstrations. As a workshop, teams set up and try their own agent workflows.

Roman has led transformation projects ranging from file-based production at radio and TV to planning tools for major sporting events and the reorganisation of IT apprenticeships. In almost none of them was the technology the real problem.

This talk is about what separates transformation on paper from transformation in practice: people, culture and leadership. It is practical and honest, and includes the mistakes that taught the most.

Classic proof-of-work blockchains spend enormous computing power just to secure their network. Qubic puts that power to work training artificial intelligence. As one of Qubic’s CTOs, Roman works on the technology behind a global network run by independent operators around the world.

He explains how decentralised systems actually work, what “Useful Proof-of-Work” means, and why the question of who controls AI may become one of the defining questions of our time.

Roman taught at the Gewerbeschule (vocational school) and the Höhere Fachschule (college of higher education) in Zug, so he knows the classroom as well as the boardroom. This talk is for educators and for everyone responsible for training: how AI is already changing learning, why bans don’t work, and how schools and companies can make AI a learning partner rather than a shortcut.