Cyril Imhof
Shaping the future of Agentic AI for business, technology, and education.
Shaping the future of Agentic AI for business, technology, and education.
Cyril Imhof is a globally minded speaker shaping the future of Agentic AI at the intersection of business, technology, and education. With an extensive technology career in Swiss Banking and Finance, academic leadership as Head of Program and Lecturer of Agentic AI at a renowned university in Zurich, and experience as Co-Founder & CEO of a Swiss Agentic AI startup, Cyril bridges strategy and execution. His keynotes and panel discussions empower organizations to excel in the era of AI Agents with clarity, precision, and practical direction.
Cyril Imhof is a Swiss Agentic AI expert and internationally active keynote speaker who helps organizations understand and apply AI Agents in a way that creates measurable value. Operating at the intersection of business, technology, and education, he combines executive experience, academic leadership, and entrepreneurial execution.
With an impressive technology career in Swiss Banking and Finance, Cyril has worked in environments where regulatory complexity, risk awareness, and operational excellence are daily realities. This background shapes his perspective on Agentic AI: innovation must be grounded in governance, scalability, and strategic clarity. He understands how large organizations function and how transformation truly happens.
As Head of Program and Lecturer of Agentic AI at a renowned university in Zurich, Cyril plays a central role in educating the next generation of leaders and professionals in applied AI. His lectures are rooted in research-backed data and real-world implementation.
He does not approach Agentic AI as a trend, but as a structural shift in how organizations operate. By combining academic rigor with practical experience, he translates complex technological change into concrete strategic and operational implications. Leadership teams gain clarity on what to prioritize, what to ignore, and how to execute.
His academic work ensures that his keynotes are always up to date, aligned with the latest developments, and framed within a broader technological and societal context.
As Co-Founder & CEO of a Swiss Agentic AI startup, Cyril has built and deployed AI solutions in highly regulated industries. He understands the gap between vision and implementation. His experience scaling AI-driven solutions gives him firsthand insight into what it takes to move from proof of concept to enterprise-wide adoption.
This combination of founder mindset and corporate experience allows him to connect innovation with operational realities. His talks are shaped by real constraints: compliance requirements, legacy systems, cultural resistance, and budget limitations. The result is direction that is ambitious yet grounded.
Cyril Imhof delivers keynotes, seminars, lectures, podcasts, panel discussions, and workshops for universities, forums, and medium to large enterprises. His multilingual speaking career reflects his ability to engage diverse and international leadership audiences.
When you book Cyril Imhof for your event, you can expect:
Clear frameworks for understanding Agentic AI and its strategic relevance
Concrete guidance on value realization and AI-native transformation
Research-backed insights combined with hands-on implementation experience
A speaker who engages, challenges, and inspires executive audiences
His presentations focus on generating future value that matters. He addresses prominent Agentic AI topics with the clarity and precision of a practitioner who has built, deployed, and taught AI Agents at a high level.
Organizations across industries face uncertainty when it comes to AI adoption. Hype, rapid technological change, and regulatory pressure create noise. Cyril cuts through that noise.
Drawing on experience across Swiss Banking and Finance, academic leadership in Agentic AI education, and scaling an AI startup, his keynotes connect real organizational constraints with the realities of AI Agents. He demonstrates how companies can move from experimentation to structured transformation.
The outcome is not abstract theory. It is applied, research-backed direction that enables leaders to make informed decisions. Cyril equips executive teams with the understanding and confidence required to transform their organizations into AI-native enterprises.
For conferences, leadership summits, university events, and corporate strategy days, Cyril Imhof brings global perspective, Swiss precision, and practical insight into the future of Agentic AI.
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An ETH Zurich-educated technology leader, Cyril transitioned from Banking & Finance to entrepreneurship, co-founding a Swiss AI startup launching multiple Agentic AI products in highly regulated industries, while educating and upskilling the next generation of talent at notable Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.
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