Ilian Hristov

Head of Engineering, AI & Venture Engine
Disrupt.com
The bottleneck is no longer intelligence, it's integration. The winning position is not building the best model, but the best system around it.

IIlian builds the systems behind the technology.

He co-founded ChallengeU, Quebec's largest online school, scaling the platform to hundreds of thousands of students. He co-founded Novatic ai, applying intelligence engineering to operational workflows.

He founded Sparkup.Tools as CEO, pioneering edge-computing to accelerate website delivery and implementing CDN caching strategies for performance at scale. He co-founded Memo as CTO, designing cloud-native serverless solutions for organisational communication at scale.

At Disrupt, Ilian serves as Head of Engineering and AI, bringing his full stack of founder instincts, systems thinking, and deep technical architecture to the world's first AI-native Company Factory.

His focus is infrastructure before innovation.