Joerg Blumtritt

CTO at METAPYXL

New York, New York, United States

About Joerg Blumtritt

Joerg Blumtritt is CTO at METAPYXL. Location: New York, New York, United States.

Joerg Blumtritt is an entrepreneur, researcher, and Director of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH) at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. He teaches digital media at Wheaton College, at NYU New York and in Abu Dhabi. Joerg co-founded data science and research&development companies in Munich, Gdansk, London, and New York.  He consults businesses and public institutions in technology driven transformation. As political activist and researcher he works on projects pertaining to the future of media, publishing, and democratic participation. Joerg is co-author of the Slow Media Manifesto which has been translated into 25 languages and is topic of numerous lectures and PHD theses. Selected cases: Cooperative governance in cyber risk management, distributed proxy-voting platform for cooperative decision making, decentralized payment and logistic system for the United Nations World Food Programme UN WFP, decentralized quality assurance in additive manufacturing, distributed governance for cooperative finance and credit unions, dynamic recommender systems for recruiting services, modeling consumer behavior with smartphone data. Selected clients: Siemens, Walt Disney Cie, Intel, MunichRe, Deutsche Telekom, Omnicom, Daimler, Swiss Television, United Nations Fields of research/interests: confidential computing, privacy preserving computing, homomorphic encryption, AI for media and publishing, cooperative governance, cooperative decision making, digital media, startups, visual art

Skills

  • Confidential Computing
  • Early-Stage Startups
  • Startup Development

Additional experience

  • Instructor

    Cornell Tech

    Started July 2026

Education

  • Master of Science - MS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Bachelor of Science - BS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München