Thomas Poetter

Thomas Poetter, Founder & CEO of Compris Technologies AG with an IQ of 140, graduated as master of computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern (at the time the only opportunity to study AI, today called RPTU) with artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) as key focus areas. Working with DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) during his studies, Thomas was the only German AI graduate around the year 2000, one of the first entrepreneurs who received in 1998 a 2 years’ start-up stipend from the Fraunhofer society, in his case from the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE). Inspired by Fraunhofer’s success with MP3, Thomas achieved a comparable success with his 8 patents around innovations for watermarking text-based contents (eBooks, documents, web pages, etc.) and for secret inconspicuous communication. His business plans received 3 awards and €40k in prize money, among them 2nd best in Germany (VW’s Promotion startup contest) and Thomas was 2x best German participant of the business French contest “Golden Word” (Mot d’or with over 30 000 participants). The patents are nowadays being used by IBM, SAP/Sybase, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, Nuance, Fuji Xerox, AT&T, Amazon, Fraunhofer, Yandex, Adobe, Discord, Certicom and many others. He with his company since then has successfully helped 13 DAX30 corporations, the German government and more than 100 international Fortune 500 corporations making each project a success and achieving significant innovations in the fields of AI, IT architecture, cybersecurity, big data and artificial intelligence – improving the lives of more than a billion people. His publications have achieved more than 30 000 downloads, ranking him in the top third of all researchers in spite of never ever having gotten research subsidies like most of the researchers.