Michael Papadopoulos

Partner

Chief Architect, Digital Problem Solving

United Kingdom

Michael is a strong advocate of the DevOps culture and agile principles, with demonstrated experience applying both in challenging global environments. Coming from a development background, he remains highly technical, with hands-on involvement.

Michael Papadopoulos

Education

University of Essex
B.Eng (1st Class) Computers & Networks

Past Experience

App-Art
Product architect
mSensis
Product architect

Michael Papadopoulos

Michael is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based out of our London office, and serves as Chief Architect.

Michael is passionate about designing the right solutions using smart-stitching approaches, focusing on practicalities and realism over architectural purity. Michael is able to build and lead teams composed of software engineers, data scientists, designers, Q&As to deploy solutions solving apparently intractable problems with a focus on cloud-native applications.

Michael is responsible for creating new product offerings ranging from AI powered Technology Assessment across code & build quality, architecture, security and regulatory compliance to the SENSE Social Listening offering. Working with ADL colleagues and practices, these have been successfully deployed across the globe in a variety of industries including tightly regulated domains such as healthcare.

Michael has demonstrated experience in solving problems in challenging global environments. Coming from a development background, Michael remains highly technical, with hands-on involvement in code review, design, architecture, and operations. 

Taking control of AI
Taking control of AI
For decades, organizations have struggled to connect employees with the internal knowledge and insights they need to make better, more informed, and timelier decisions. Finding the right information, at the right time, among the increasing volumes of structured and unstructured corporate data, and delivering it in the right format is business-critical. However, it is often like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Tightening the data belt
Tightening the data belt
The era of big data has delivered real business impacts across industries. However, increased data gathering has a downside; ever-growing data storage volumes and compute requirements lead to budgetary and operational constraints. Automatically generated log files silently drive this rapid, enormous data growth. This Viewpoint identifies how companies can successfully improve holistic log file management to deliver benefits by controlling costs, ensuring compliance, and unlocking data value.
Blue Shift: The Metaverse, beyond fantasy
The Metaverse, beyond fantasy
Excelling in a software-driven future
Excelling in a software-driven future
Software is rapidly becoming a critical asset as industries converge and perception of value shifts from hardware to software. Surgeons, for instance, can perform lifesaving surgeries via virtual reality (VR). But such a revolutionary procedure demands zero risk for error or downtime in connectivity, leading to new network requirements. Retail and commerce has also conjoined with computing, logistics, and finance for seamless online shopping.
Winning the war for digital talent
Winning the war for digital talent
Businesses across the world are facing a shortage of professional talent and expertise in digital and IT skills and capabilities. For example, a 2021 survey suggested that 76 percent of IT decision-makers worldwide faced critical skills gaps in their departments, an increase of 145 percent since 2016.[1]
METAVERSE - THE NEXT DIGITAL REVOLUTION FOR BUSINESS?
A revolution powered by VR has been promised for decades, but it’s only recently that improvements in hardware and software, together with a new level of consumer engagement, have started to converge to create something that could be genuinely disruptive in the foreseeable future. If you are in the business of gaming or entertainment the potential is clear, but what could the metaverse mean for the rest of the business world, and what are some of the challenges that will need to be overcome?

Michael Papadopoulos

Michael is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based out of our London office, and serves as Chief Architect.

Michael is passionate about designing the right solutions using smart-stitching approaches, focusing on practicalities and realism over architectural purity. Michael is able to build and lead teams composed of software engineers, data scientists, designers, Q&As to deploy solutions solving apparently intractable problems with a focus on cloud-native applications.

Michael is responsible for creating new product offerings ranging from AI powered Technology Assessment across code & build quality, architecture, security and regulatory compliance to the SENSE Social Listening offering. Working with ADL colleagues and practices, these have been successfully deployed across the globe in a variety of industries including tightly regulated domains such as healthcare.

Michael has demonstrated experience in solving problems in challenging global environments. Coming from a development background, Michael remains highly technical, with hands-on involvement in code review, design, architecture, and operations. 

Taking control of AI
Taking control of AI
For decades, organizations have struggled to connect employees with the internal knowledge and insights they need to make better, more informed, and timelier decisions. Finding the right information, at the right time, among the increasing volumes of structured and unstructured corporate data, and delivering it in the right format is business-critical. However, it is often like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Tightening the data belt
Tightening the data belt
The era of big data has delivered real business impacts across industries. However, increased data gathering has a downside; ever-growing data storage volumes and compute requirements lead to budgetary and operational constraints. Automatically generated log files silently drive this rapid, enormous data growth. This Viewpoint identifies how companies can successfully improve holistic log file management to deliver benefits by controlling costs, ensuring compliance, and unlocking data value.
Blue Shift: The Metaverse, beyond fantasy
The Metaverse, beyond fantasy
Excelling in a software-driven future
Excelling in a software-driven future
Software is rapidly becoming a critical asset as industries converge and perception of value shifts from hardware to software. Surgeons, for instance, can perform lifesaving surgeries via virtual reality (VR). But such a revolutionary procedure demands zero risk for error or downtime in connectivity, leading to new network requirements. Retail and commerce has also conjoined with computing, logistics, and finance for seamless online shopping.
Winning the war for digital talent
Winning the war for digital talent
Businesses across the world are facing a shortage of professional talent and expertise in digital and IT skills and capabilities. For example, a 2021 survey suggested that 76 percent of IT decision-makers worldwide faced critical skills gaps in their departments, an increase of 145 percent since 2016.[1]
METAVERSE - THE NEXT DIGITAL REVOLUTION FOR BUSINESS?
A revolution powered by VR has been promised for decades, but it’s only recently that improvements in hardware and software, together with a new level of consumer engagement, have started to converge to create something that could be genuinely disruptive in the foreseeable future. If you are in the business of gaming or entertainment the potential is clear, but what could the metaverse mean for the rest of the business world, and what are some of the challenges that will need to be overcome?

More About Michael
  • University of Essex
    B.Eng (1st Class) Computers & Networks
  • App-Art
    Product architect
  • mSensis
    Product architect