Silicon Valley-trained data scientist, entrepreneur, advisor, consultant on Big Data and AI. Author of books and articles on leading technology blogs and trainer of several thousand data professionals worldwide. His vision is to transform the data-driven organization into an AI-driven business while acknowledging that many organizations are still on their data-driven journey.Co-founder of the Big Data consultancy Scalefree, known for its industry-leading training, research, and widely used open-source packages. In addition, he is a co-founder of Flow.BI, a Data Vault-based GenAI that defines an integrated enterprise data model for corporate data sets. Both companies were founded out of a need to support his vision and turned into successful businesses (Flow.BI is on its way).Michael has consulted data teams to deliver business value from the start and helped them continuously improve development processes to become more effective and implement the desired enterprise requirements. He has a deep knowledge and understanding of IT and a hands-on mentality. This, in combination with his organizational skills, helps transform technology-focused project teams to focus on delivering technology to meet business expectations.He has advised global enterprise organizations (including board-level) to implement successful data strategies.Michael’s mission is to empower industry experts and organizations to take advantage of data-driven innovations around enterprise data platforms, AI, and enterprise data and information. His interest in teaching, explaining, and demonstrating supports this empowerment. He loves to evangelize, not to convince, but to empower. His interests include auditable IT systems, especially in the data domain. Data security, and privacy are one of his concerns in most engagements.