Viktor Dörfler

Dr Viktor Dörfler is a scholar, consultant, teacher, and speaker; his book What Every CEO Should Know About AI has been published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022. As a practitioner, he spearheaded the development of AI software, a knowledge-based expert system shell, compared various AI solutions, and explored the validity of AI. Viktor’s scholarly research focuses on talent, creativity, intuition, and the grandmaster-apprentice relationship. He conducted in-depth open-ended interviews with 17 Nobel Laureates and two Eckert-Mauchly Award winners, to understand the thinking of scientists at the highest level of mastery. In his consultancy work, Viktor advises organizations on AI implementations to support complex decisions through modelling expert knowledge and on fostering grandmaster-apprentice relationships to improve organizational learning.