Tolga Elser

Tolga Elser has spent 25 years building things that work — from benchmarking GPUs with timedemo demo1 in the 90s to agentic AI systems running in production across regulated DACH industries. Today he leads technical architecture pre-sales at Salesforce, focused on one question: what does it actually take to deploy autonomous AI in enterprises where GDPR compliance and data residency are hard constraints, not afterthoughts? His answer is always a working prototype, not a slide. He lives at the forefront — building POCs before the product exists, prototyping agentic workflows before the frameworks are stable, and shipping into production environments where the margin for error is zero.