Summary
Ingmar Stapel is an innovation and GenAI manager with nine years of hands-on IT experience, currently leading AI strategy and an AI engineering team for BMW Financial Services. He blends enterprise architecture and project leadership with deep technical expertise in synthetic data, neural network training, and image recognition—work he also applies to humanitarian demining efforts using thermal and visible-range pipelines. A published author on Raspberry Pi robotics and a longtime robotics educator, he builds practical training programs that turn hobbyist platforms into enterprise learning tools. At BMW he has driven industrialization of AI, agentic back-office workflows, and cross-border collaboration while filing patents that bridge photogrammetry, sensors, and the metaverse. He frequently speaks on secure GenAI adoption and the industrial metaverse, and is committed to social impact and mentoring the next generation in responsible technology. Based in Ismaning, Germany, he combines futurist thinking with pragmatic delivery across global IT organizations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Informatik, Informatik at Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Udacity
German, English