APPLIED GENERATIVE AI
Axel’s AI experience started in the mid-1970s with Eliza. It was an early natural language processing computer program created in the 1960s at MIT. She was designed to act as a psychotherapist, and people would “talk” to her, yet she wasn’t very sophisticated by today’s standards. Over the years he followed the AI summers and winters until in 2016 when DeepMind’s Alpha GO defeated the best human GO player and shortly after OpenAI was founded. Shortly after, during his Neuroscience studies between 2017 and 2019 he began to connect the dots between technical and biological neuronal networks. After an AI for Executives study at MIT he began to develop various concepts and one that has matured to today’s Neuro-AI-Fusion model. Neuro-AI-Fusion became the core concept for his work on Human Intelligence Augmentation and the aim to make it a reality. After over 10 years already retired, Axel Schultze and his wife Marita founded BlueCallom, a Generative AI Management Platform that offers prompt and agent development, testing and deployment, library management and an AI user workspace in one integrated platform. Prompts, Agents and Applications are primarily developed by independent partner organizations, the LLM is provided by companies like Open AI and an AI-Network was created to fuse AI and Web3 to a decentralized platform to distribute power and democratize knowhow. The economic complexity of such a platform is managed by a token-based business model so that sub-cent payments can be transacted at no cost.

APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE IN INNOVATION
After a few years of research, Axel Schultze saw a connection between recent discoveries in neuroscience and the unanswered question, “how is the human brain creating disruptive ideas.” Understanding that the brain cannot create any idea but compose past experiences into new experience models, he devoted all his time to understanding the brain’s behavior when composing such ideas. He compared his own ideation processes of the past and those of the startups he helped get innovative with today’s discoveries in the neuroscience field. He could develop a behavioral pattern that led to the Deep Innovation Design method. Recognizing that we are just scratching the surface of neuro ideation as a method, it seems like a fantastic starting point that already showed almost immediate successes. Today Neuro Ideation is a core methodology to unfold innovative ideas in 3-5 weeks. At the same time, it seems an epic process compared to 60 minutes of brainstorming – brainstorming has yet to create disruptive innovation.

INNOVATION & DISRUPTION BACKGROUND
1983 he disrupted the global distribution business model by creating a new business model that exclusively sold through authorized sales partners. What’s standard today was perceived to be impossible back then. His startup, Computer 2000, soon bypassed multi-hundred million $ international distributors with only $25,000 in seed capital. Ten years later, Computer 2000 grew to $5 Billion in revenue, by far the most prominent technology distributor in Europe and the third-largest in the world.

1996 he founded Infinigate, the first “Value Added Distributor,” a hybrid business model between high-volume product distribution and a service organization that delivers services and education for highly complex products. What was thought impossible is today’s largest high-end cyber-security provider in Europe.

1997 he built the first digital stock exchange in the world. He was the first to bring the concept of disruption to the financial services industry. He sold the company to the most prominent financial brokerage business in Germany to focus on Infinigate.

2001 he started BlueRoads with a back than disruptive Software as a Service model. He architected the first “multi-tenant networked architecture,” paving the way for multi-channel software as a service solution. He exited BlueRoads in 2007 and retired, helping young entrepreneurs to thrive.

2016 he began to research the act of innovation in greater detail to help startups become more innovative. He began to form methods for disruptive business model development successfully.  In 2019 Axel and his wife founded the World Innovations Forum, and in 2020 BlueCallom applied neuroscience to the act of innovation.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Axel Schultze was founding, scaling, and successfully exiting four companies; the biggest grew to $5 Billion in revenue. All four were highly innovative and had disruptive business models. After that he and his wife began helping hundreds if not thousands of entrepreneurs from 30+ countries to better understand the concepts of entrepreneurship, building dream teams, creating unique solutions, bringing them to market, and becoming a contributor to their county’s economy and prosperity. Living most of his entrepreneurial life in Silicon Valley, he became a top expert in entrepreneurship.

MULTI-TIER-SALES-OPERATION
Axel built the foundation for hat is todays largest multitier sales organization with hundreds of thousands of independent business partners.  In 2006 he wrote the book “Channel Excellence” which is still purchased and read today.