Iliyan Nenov

Iliyan Nenov works at the intersection of business strategy, solution architecture, and AI adoption, helping organizations move from ambitious ideas to practical technology decisions. In his current role, he advises international companies on AI implementation, technology roadmaps, and the real-world challenges of making innovation work beyond prototypes and presentations.

Over more than two decades, his career has moved through software engineering, product management, platform strategy, engineering leadership, and business development. This has given him a broad, hands-on view of how enterprise technology is built, adopted, scaled, and sometimes misunderstood.

He also brings an academic perspective, with a PhD in Economics focused on applying ML and AI approaches to complex economic forecasting. His recent research explores how advanced AI techniques can complement classical econometric methods.

His talks usually focus on the gap between AI expectations and AI reality: what is genuinely useful, what often gets overlooked, and what organizations need to consider if they want AI initiatives to create lasting value