About Kristian Stoffregen

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Background #

Black-and-white portrait of Kristian Stoffregen in a dark blazer and white shirt

My career has run along three tracks: enterprise industry, academic research, and university teaching. What ties them together is one question: how do people and organizations actually change when new technology arrives?

Industry #

I have spent years inside the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Microsoft, Danfoss, PwC, and CGI, working on knowledge management, enterprise software, and the architecture of large-scale change. At Microsoft I contributed to multiple patent filings across enterprise knowledge management, user-interface design, data visualisation, and mobile technology. That industry background still shapes how I teach and what I research.

Some of the places I’ve worked

Kristian Stoffregen on-site for a corporate workshop in Istanbul — Corporate workshop engagement, Istanbul.

Futuristic green-lit escalator tunnel in Helsinki, on the way to a corporate workshop — Corporate workshop engagement, Helsinki.

Research #

I hold a business PhD from Copenhagen Business School, with a dissertation on knowledge management systems in practice, and I was a visiting scholar at Stanford. My older work on persuasive-technology frameworks has been cited a few hundred times since; my newer work focuses on AI-first digital transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises. For the full record, see Research and Publications.

Kristian Stoffregen as a visiting scholar at Stanford H-STAR — Visiting scholar at Stanford’s H-STAR Institute.

Teaching #

Today I teach in the DIGITAL department at EK (Erhvervsakademi København). At BA level my courses cover AI-assisted coding, enterprise architecture, project management, and philosophy of science. Admittingly, AI is what is the most motivating right now.

For instance in relation to enterprise architecture and project management it seems to me, that none of the books include the generative AI revolution. AI assisted coding is maturing fast, but what about AI assisted enterprise architecture and AI assisted project management?

Spaghetti, marshmallows, and string laid out on a desk to start the marshmallow tower challenge

Students collaborating on a tetrahedral spaghetti-and-marshmallow structure mid-build

A finished tall spaghetti-and-marshmallow tower standing on a classroom desk by a window

Marshmallow Tower challenge with my BA students at EK: cheap materials, hard physical constraints, fast iteration. The conversation about agile and prototyping lands differently after people have actually tried to build something themselves.

Before that, I worked with it-architecture principles at large organisations, but I found it to have too much social complexity. I also took part in digital transformation inside PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), where I, among other topics, also taught digital transformation and user-centred design facilitation to consultants and client teams.

For full credentials, see LinkedIn.

Kristian Stoffregen leading a Value Proposition Design session at PwC

Wall of ideas and initiatives mapped against team roles during a business development workshop at PwC

Sticky-note annotations scattered across a printed workshop canvas for scoring the impact and relevance of organisational changes

A selection of slides from Kristian's training and speaking materials

A few snapshots from the years I taught inside PwC: Value Proposition Design sessions, business-development workshops, transformation-impact canvases, and training decks.

Speaking & workshops #

I speak at academic conferences and facilitate workshops for organisations navigating AI and digital transformation.

Recent academic presentations:

Conference on Information Systems 2026, Zagreb. On synthetic empathy, anthropomorphism, and the ethics of AI-driven influence.
MobiWIS 2025, Istanbul. Presenting the open-source SMEDT framework for SME digital transformation.

Past corporate work: workshops in Istanbul and Helsinki, multi-year teaching engagements at PwC, and client work across digital transformation, business development, and user-centred design.

Open to invitations for keynotes, workshops, guest lectures, and advisory panels. Get in touch.

Digital Transformation in the Age of AI #

Digital transformation is often treated as a one-off project. In practice it rarely works that way, especially in organisations with hundreds of disconnected systems and weak data foundations.

The world is digital-first now. That means organisations need continuous transformation to stay competitive, or even relevant.

It is also one of the largest sources of competitive advantage available, yet most large-scale change programmes still fail. McKinsey puts the failure rate of complex transformation efforts at around 70 percent.

The questions I keep coming back to are simple ones: what mistakes leaders can avoid, what capabilities organisations actually need, and what hard truths usually get ignored. They shape both my research and the way I teach.

Fun facts #

A first-generation digital native #

I have worked with computers since I was six. First-generation digital native, started on a Commodore 64. That machine taught me that interesting systems reward patience and curiosity. Not much has changed since.

Commodore 64, where it all started — Where it all started: the Commodore 64.

I’m a cyborg #

I’m a cyborg. Cyborg is a blend of cybernetic and organism; it refers to beings with both organic and biomechatronic body parts.

I lost the hearing in my right ear in a scuba-diving accident. Now I have a bone-anchored hearing aid, a bone-conduction implant system. I use Oticon’s Ponto 5, mounted on a titanium implant drilled into my skull. It has changed my life for the better, but I don’t get stereo ;-)

An Oticon Ponto 5 bone-anchored hearing aid mounted on a titanium abutment — Oticon’s Ponto 5: the device that gave me back the right side of the room.

Kristian Stoffregen at the helm of a small boat in Copenhagen harbor on a sunny day, wearing a blue bucket hat and sunglasses — Out on the harbor in Copenhagen.

Kristian with a life-sized woolly mammoth — I like a good challenge.