Michael Ikemann is Head of Data & AI at Lechler GmbH, where he integrates AI, agentic systems, and data engineering into a 145-year-old industrial company. With over 25 years of experience in software engineering, his expertise spans computer vision, deep learning, autonomous systems, and agentic AI architectures. Before joining Lechler, he spent five years as Lead Data Scientist at Zühlke Group. Michael is passionate about bringing agentic AI from research into production — building systems that don't just analyze data but autonomously reason, plan, and act in complex enterprise environments.