Session title: "Beyond the Demo: Building Operating Evidence for AI Transformation"
Manny is a digital-transformation leader with two decades of experience modernizing enterprise operations and scaling cloud and collaboration platforms across global markets. His work sits where strategy, governance, and execution meet — aligning people, process, and technology to produce measurable business results rather than pilots that stall.
He spent 16-plus years at Microsoft, where he led worldwide cloud transformation programs across Canada, the United States, and Latin America and helped shape Microsoft Teams adoption strategy across the Americas. That work gave him a first-hand view of what separates organizations that operationalize new technology from those that accumulate impressive demos and little durable capability.
Today, as founder of Transnova.ai, Manny advises C-suites and boards on moving past the "theatre of AI" toward governed, ROI-positive adoption. His approach is deliberately pragmatic: clear strategy, cost discipline, and responsible-AI governance built in from the start rather than bolted on after a failed rollout. He treats AI as a lens on a broader transformation agenda — the enterprise problem is rarely the model; it's the operating model around it.
Manny writes and speaks regularly on enterprise transformation, publishing a recurring practitioner brief and hosting candid conversations with operators on what actually works inside large organizations. At the TruNorth AI Leadership Summit he will present From Pilot to Platform: Turning AI Demos into Enterprise Operating Capability — a direct look at why most enterprise AI stalls at the demo stage and the operating evidence leaders must build to cross into durable capability.
He is based in the Greater Toronto Area.