Speaking

Talks about what happens after the demo.

I speak about the part of AI that decides whether it ever reaches production: evaluation, governance, infrastructure, and the people who have to sign it off. Conference talks, keynotes, panels, meetups and podcasts.

Talks

Three talks I give, and tailor to the room.

01

The Invisible 90%: Why AI projects fail after the demo

Demos have never been easier to build. Production has never been harder to reach. What the demo structurally hides, what the billion-dollar failures have in common with a rescue I lived through, and the four steps out.

Audience
Directors, heads of product and senior managers, cross-industry
Format
30 minutes, including Q&A
Given at
AIPMX 2026 · Product Management 4.0 Strategy Day 2026
Slides and checklists→

02

Fine-tuning open LLMs past the frontier models

How a well-scoped fine-tune on open models can beat foundation models on a specific task, at a fraction of the cost and with full control of your data and infrastructure. Told through MemeGPT, trained on Imgflip's meme data on NVIDIA H100 and Intel Gaudi2.

Audience
Engineers, data scientists and technical leaders
Given at
Generative AI World Summit & MLOps World · LLMs in Production · Analytics Vidhya

03

Optimising multi-GPU training at scale

Where large-model training breaks down across many GPUs, and the optimisation work, with MIT/ISTA researchers, that fixes the bottlenecks.

Audience
ML engineers and infrastructure teams
Given at
MLOps Community Munich

Also on panels and podcasts about AI product management, open-source AI and agentic systems.

GDG Cloud Berlin x MLOps Community, Google Berlin
GDG Cloud Berlin x MLOps Community, Google Berlin

Appearances

Where I have spoken.

The Invisible 90%: Why AI projects fail after the demo

Product Management 4.0 Strategy Day

Slides and checklists→

Berlin, Germany · Oct 2026

The Invisible 90%: Why AI projects fail after the demo

AIPMX · AI in Product Management

Switzerland · Feb 2026

MemeGPT: Fine-Tuning LLMs to Generate Memes

Analytics Vidhya DataHour

India · Nov 2024

Panel: Product Management Powerhouse

Meshcon & FOSSASIA

Germany · Nov 2024

Panel: Product Led Growth

The Berlin Product Talks

Germany · Sept 2024

Podcast: The Final Boss of AI!

Cloud Mercato Podcast

France · Apr 2024

Unleashing Humor with AI: Fine-Tuning LLMs on NVIDIA HGX H100 and Intel-Habana Gaudi2

Industry talk

Germany · Jan 2024

MemeGPT: Creating a Large Language Model to Generate Memes

Generative AI World Summit & MLOps World

United States · Oct 2023

AI Meets Memes: Taking ImgFlip's 'This Meme Does Not Exist' to the Next Level

LLMs in Production

Online · Jun 2023

Optimizing scalability of multi-GPU training

MLOps Community Munich

Germany · May 2023

Speaker kit

For the programme.

A bio in two lengths and a headshot, ready for the event page. Take what you need.

Short bio

Stefan Ojanen is an AI product leader based in Berlin, joining Focused Energy as AI Solution Owner in October 2026. With twelve years in AI and machine learning, Stefan has taken AI products from concept to production at Danske Bank, Scorable, Genesis Cloud and Ringier, and runs the Berlin chapter of the Agentic AI Foundation.

Longer bio

Stefan Ojanen is an AI product leader based in Berlin, joining Focused Energy as AI Solution Owner in October 2026. Twelve years in AI and machine learning span banking, asset management, AI infrastructure and media: the product vision behind 90%+ automation of AML/KYC and credit decisioning at Danske Bank, across three countries; the product strategy that took Genesis Cloud, Germany's first AI-focused cloud, from $100K to $4.5M+ ARR; and an enterprise AI transformation at Ringier delivering about 1M CHF a year. Stefan runs the Agentic AI Foundation's Berlin chapter, co-founded the MLOps Community's Munich chapter, and holds a Certificate in Agentic AI from Johns Hopkins University.

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