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Alexander Rinke

CEO & Co-Founder, Celonis

Search every verified Alexander Rinke interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Alexander Rinke, CEO and co-founder of Celonis, appeared on the Targeting AI podcast on October 5, 2026, to discuss the role of process intelligence in AI. He described the company's evolution from its origins in process mining, which he said began with building simulation models for businesses, to its current focus on process intelligence. Rinke argued that AI agents require business context to understand workflows, operate effectively, and deliver measurable ROI, and he discussed how digital twins model organizational processes and how AI can automate complex workflows. During the interview, Rinke addressed the concept of sovereign AI, noting that different customers have varying definitions, ranging from owning all infrastructure and models to controlling third-party infrastructure with their own encryption keys. He stated that Celonis enables these architectures, including for government customers in security and intelligence, and emphasized that organizations want to own their destiny and avoid outsourcing their intelligence. Rinke also highlighted momentum around AI loops that constantly analyze current processes and provide suggestions to managers, and he said Celonis is key to making AI agents observable in the context of processes. In a selected quote, he commented on NVIDIA's Vera CPU, describing it as opening a new market for the company and noting that every major hyperscaler is partnering to deploy it.

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“The way to think about it is that up until now our data center business has been almost entirely GPUs. Vera is our CPU, and you know what's really exciting is that Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed, and that's huge for the company because for the first time we have a second engine of that sca”

“We saved the state of Oklahoma, helped them as they came in and said we want to really understand how are we spending money and where's taxpayer money going out the door, and they were able to save taxpayer dollars and get more transparency into that process.”

“The primary reason is the Venture Capital infrastructure. In the US companies that have a 10% chance of working out can raise $30 million seed rounds. People are willing to give a team that doesn't even have a product yet $30 million and maybe it has a 1% chance of working. That infrastructure doesn't exist in Europe.”

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