Sergej Barkar

Meet Sergej Barkar: The Architect of Verifiable Trust who doesn't just build pipelines. He engineers the transparency global companies need to actually function. Now leading the Data & AI Solutions Hub at Vontobel, he operates where cloud architecture meets Agentic AI and ESG. He is the leader who treats data governance as a catalyst for growth, not a list of restrictions.

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🏗️ 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝

Sergej knows how to scale data-led organisations. At InterWorks, he led teams across APAC and EMEA, driving over $5M in revenue in just 18 months. But the real win was the infrastructure. He pioneered ecosystems that bridged the gap between on-prem and cloud for the world's biggest retailers. His goal? Making sure analytics platforms stay resilient as they move from pilot to global production.

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🌍 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐒𝐆 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭

He turns "transparency" into a real product. As Founder of TaaS AG, he built a digital ecosystem that overhauled supply chain tracking. He introduced SustainabilityGPT, an AI advisor that helps companies cut through the noise of complex environmental laws. By using blockchain for end-to-end traceability, he made sure sustainability was a fact, not just a marketing claim.

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💡 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝗼𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬

Sergej is a vocal advocate for the human side of the stack. His blog series, "What Makes Good Analytics," challenges the industry to balance automation with ethics. He’s a DataDev Hackathon winner too. He helped build InterWorks Translate, an API that brings real-time language translation to data dashboards. Whether he’s mentoring or speaking, his mission is simple: replace the "Wild West" of messy data with systems that actually empower the people using them.

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