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About
About Florian Roscheck
I am Manager AI Consulting at Henkel in Düsseldorf. In my job, I help make sure AI delivers value across Henkel.
I work on four questions: which AI ideas get done, how to steer many AI initiatives at once, what AI costs, and how to measure what AI delivered. On this site and on LinkedIn, I share what has helped me, for leaders who decide about AI and for people who just became responsible for it.
The thought that connects it all: everybody is in the driver's seat for their own success with AI.
Quick facts
- Role
- Manager AI Consulting at Henkel
- Based in
- Düsseldorf, Germany
- Works on
- Which AI ideas get done, steering many AI initiatives, what AI costs, and measuring what AI delivered
- Domain lens
- Supply chain and operations
- Speaks at
- Conferences, executive programs and universities, in English and German
- Background
- Industrial mechanic, mechanical and wind engineer, data scientist
- Languages
- German, English, Portuguese, Spanish
As of November 2026.
How did I get here?
I learned to make things with my hands before I wrote code. I trained as an industrial mechanic at Siemens Energy and then studied mechanical engineering and wind engineering. From 2014 to 2021, I worked in the wind industry in the United States: at Keystone Tower Systems, a wind-tower startup in Colorado, and at EDF Renewables in San Diego. In those years, my work shifted from engineering to data science.
In 2021, I joined Henkel in Düsseldorf. I still build things in my free time, such as the hobby projects further down this page. For several years I also taught Apache Spark online to thousands of students.
Career
Henkel
Manager AI Consulting · Düsseldorf, Germany
EDF Renewables
Data science for wind energy · San Diego, USA
Keystone Tower Systems
Engineering and data work at a wind-tower startup · Colorado, USA
Siemens Energy
Apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic · Germany
Education
MSc Wind Engineering
Flensburg University of Applied Sciences
BEng Mechanical Engineering
Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen, in a co-op program with Siemens
Exchange semester
Florianópolis, Brazil
Research stay
Monterrey, Mexico
Languages
German (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), Spanish (advanced)
What I believe
What do I stand for?
Value needs building and distribution
First you need to build something, then you need to distribute it. Both are important, and engineers tend to think about the building and forget the distribution.
A critique comes with an action
If you really want to, you can most likely influence a lot. Complaining without taking action leads nowhere.
A vision leads
The strongest force to lead someone somewhere is a vision. At full speed on the highway, nobody can steer by looking into the rear-view mirror.
Solutions come from diverse teams
It takes people with many different talents to cover everything a difficult problem needs. Good collaboration is what brings them together.
Everybody who learns is a leader
Everybody who has spent time learning something is a leader, and a leader's job is to lead others on their way.
Community and volunteering
Data community at Henkel
I host Henkel's data community of practice, where people who work with data and AI learn from each other.
Henkel Data & Analytics Blog
I founded this blog together with a colleague. Henkel's data and AI experts write there about their work.
NumFOCUS
From 2021 to 2025 I volunteered in the Affiliated Project Selection Committee of NumFOCUS, a US-based public charity for open-source scientific software: first as Secretary, then as Vice President. The committee organizes the review of project support proposals.
Recognition
FinOps Certified: AI Value, FinOps Foundation
Corporate Influencer Award, nominated among the top five in the category Tech & Innovation
One of 15 "Faces of Henkel"
German Renewables Award
Germany Prize
Winner of an international wind turbine contest at TU Delft
Scholar of the German National Merit Foundation
Writing
Boosting Business Through Data Science, Part I: Identifying Data Science Use Cases
Boosting Business Through Data Science, Part II: Starting Slow and Scaling Sustainably
Boosting Business Through Data Science, Part III: Scaling Up Data Science
How to Use Azure ML Studio: A Model Training Tutorial for Beginners
Accelerating Agile Development Feedback Loops with Pytest-Split and Azure DevOps Pipelines
Public projects
Most of my work is not public. These are selected public and personal projects.
Visco Vision
Team lead for a deep learning computer vision system that predicts viscosities from video, to speed up high-throughput experimentation. A collaboration between Henkel and the TU Munich Data Innovation Lab.
Deep Learning for Detergents
Team lead for a computer vision system that analyzes visible changes in stored chemical formulations over time. A collaboration between Henkel and the TU Munich Data Innovation Lab.
Robotics control with generative AI
A hobby project that explores generative AI for planning and controlling a robot's actions, combining computer vision, simple control systems, language models and robotics hardware.
CAISO wind energy forecast
A hobby project that estimates the amount of wind energy in the California power grid with the Modeltime machine learning library in R.
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