The Speakers

Dimitris Dimitriadis

Founder & CIO, Cogniveil.ai

Dimitris Dimitriadis is Founder & CIO of Cogniveil.ai, a policy-aware intelligence layer that ensures compliance, transparency, and full auditability for enterprises operating under strict regulatory frameworks. With academic roots in Design Innovation (BA, University of the Arts London; MA in Design Interaction, Royal College of Art) and specialization in Strategic Foresight from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, he bridges cutting-edge technology with real-world application in regulated environments.

Author of 2049 Instructions for the Futures of Humanity (KEY BOOKS, 2023) and the revised edition 2049: A Manual for a Hopeful Intelligence Age (2026), he explains how technology shifted from application to infrastructure and what we need to know today to be ready for tomorrow.

For several years he taught Data Analytics & AI at CITY College, University of York Europe Campus. A keynote speaker active across 74 countries and 4 continents, he has spoken for Fortune 500 brands including HP, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, L’Oréal Paris, Philip Morris International, and Johnson & Johnson, as well as institutions such as the U.S. Department of State, the European Commission, and TEDx stages across Europe and North America. His work has been featured in the Herald Tribune, El País, Fortune Global, and Esquire.

For 12 years, he has been training a personal AI model to one day advise his niece when he’s no longer around - a living proof that technology should serve human relationships and the transmission of knowledge across generations.