EXP-02 / AGENTRegional Vice President Data & AI, EMEA Central, Salesforce
Ekrem Namazci
The Pathfinder of the Future
Ekrem Namazci is Regional Vice President for Data & AI, EMEA Central at Salesforce and founder of LIYA, an award-winning AI platform for microlearning and skill-based hiring. He leads companies into the agentic enterprise with technology and empowers people to discover their unique potential and prove themselves in the digitalized working world of the future. Through AI for Good and mentoring, he wants to strengthen his impact on this world. At the Dehathon, he leads the team in the Agentic Enterprise District.
Skills over degree: judge people by their skills, not their diplomas. Data over opinion: make evidence-based decisions, not gut calls.
01 / The storyline
Solution rejected
The emergency alert flashes red. A critical system failure threatens the city's infrastructure. You have already built the fix: a brilliant piece of code that could end the crisis at once. You submit it through the open crisis portal.
Seconds later, the automatic reply from the central AI O.M.N.I.A.: “Solution rejected. Applicant score insufficient. No elite academic degree detected.” Instead, the system hands control to a candidate with perfect grades but no practical experience at all. The crisis escalates!
For a long time, Dehapolis was blinded by the false security of certificates and titles. Highly gifted problem solvers fail every day at rigid, automated HR filters. The city's AI systems have started judging people only by data points from the past. True talent is sorted out because it doesn't fit the machines' standardized template. The result: standstill, frustration and fatal bad decisions.
With the dawn of the agentic age, the situation comes to a head: do we leave the transformation of our world to the bureaucratic inertia of algorithms, or do we finally use the technological leap to create true equal opportunity?
02 / Agentic Enterprise District
The district for data & skills
The place where human innovative power and intelligent agents merge. Here, people and machines work together ethically to solve real problems in real time instead of narrowing creative freedom.
Our law: empowerment over paternalism. Evidence over dogma. Ability is our only currency. Whoever learns and delivers gets to shape the future! Certificates and formal background play no role here.
I help you find your undiscovered skills and create entirely new solutions with artificial intelligence, instead of letting algorithms put you in a ready-made box. My mission: to equip you for the digital working world so that technology serves you. Not the other way around!