Speaker Spotlight: Tilman Dietrich – Automating AI Research Delivery — From Papers to Spotify & YouTube
Tilman Dietrich built a fully automated pipeline that turns top AI research papers into podcast episodes, blog posts, YouTube Shorts, and newsletters – completely hands-off.
We’re excited to announce Tilman Dietrich as a speaker at Agentic Conf Hamburg on March 22nd!
About Tilman
Tilman Dietrich is a freelance IT consultant from Hamburg with an unusual background: he originally trained as a pilot with Lufthansa before switching to tech – trading cockpit checklists for deployment pipelines. Today he builds projects at the intersection of AI, Salesforce, and anything that can (and should) be automated.
You can follow Tilman on LinkedIn and his website dietrich.ai.
The Talk: Automating AI Research Delivery — From Papers to Spotify & YouTube
Every week, hundreds of AI research papers are published. Keeping up is hard. Tilman built a fully automated pipeline that does it for you.
The system scrapes the top 10 papers from Hugging Face’s weekly rankings, generates a ~10-minute two-host podcast episode about the #1 paper, publishes a blog post to Substack, creates YouTube Shorts, and delivers everything as a weekly email newsletter. All of it completely hands-off, without any human intervention.
Under the hood, the pipeline combines multiple AI APIs: Claude Opus for generating accessible podcast transcripts and blog posts, Gemini TTS for multi-speaker audio synthesis, and Veo 3.1 for video generation. A key design goal is accessibility – the podcast explains technical jargon, avoids reading math notation aloud, and uses analogies to make cutting-edge research approachable for a broad audience.
In this lightning talk, Tilman will walk through the architecture, the cron-driven workflow, and the practical challenges he solved along the way – from chunking long transcripts for TTS to automatically publishing on Spotify and YouTube.
See Tilman Live
Catch this lightning talk and many more at Agentic Conf Hamburg on March 22, 2026 at SAE Institute Hamburg.