As world-wide leader for AI on IBM Power, Sebastian is the main product manager to drive design, development, and market success of AI offerings & capabilities on the IBM Power platform. Previously, he has brought the open-source AI portfolio (including technology such as Kubeflow and Trino) as a whole new workload to IBM Power and has created several success stories together with customers. Sebastian has a 20+ years track record as software engineer (5+ years in AI) with over 30 publications and 2 patents. He holds a doctoral title for his work on making software architects more efficient.