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Wei Manfredi shared thisHighly recommended! #AgentCoding #BestPractices
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Wei Manfredi shared thisJoin me! Seven thousand hotels, 100+ countries, One VP of AI Platform& Engineering seat. It’s open. You probably know if this is you.#IHG #AppliedAI
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Wei Manfredi shared thisBeing named to the DataIQ 100 North America 2026 Top 10 is both humbling and, honestly, a bit surreal. Awards like this have a funny way of singling out individuals, but anyone doing real work in data and AI knows there’s no such thing as a solo win. This recognition belongs to the teams I’ve had the privilege to build with, learn from, and occasionally debate with a little too passionately. We’re in a moment where data and AI are no longer support functions, they are shaping how companies think, operate, and compete. What excites me most is not the technology itself, but the people pushing it forward, responsibly, creatively, and with real business impact. My appreciation to DataIQ for continuing to elevate data excellence and, more importantly, for bringing this community together. That collective energy, shared learning, and healthy challenge is what actually moves the field forward. Grateful for the colleagues, mentors, and partners who continue to challenge my thinking and raise the bar every day. And to the teams at IHG Hotels & Resorts and my previous teams at McDonald's, who are doing the hard, often invisible work behind the scenes, this is as much yours as it is mine. Onward.Wei Manfredi shared thisTHE REVEAL: The 2026 #DataIQ100 North America Top 10! 🥂 The moment we’ve all been waiting for! Live from Nashville, we have officially revealed the Top 10 most influential people in #data and #AI for 2026. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬: 1. Anu Krishnan, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chevron 2. Amit Patel, Chief Data Officer – Wholesale Bank, Truist 3. Bharathi Rajan, Vice President - Data, AI & Digital, Swire Coca-Cola, USA 4. Diana Hoskins Schildhouse Schildhouse, EVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Colgate-Palmolive 5. Jane Rheem, Chief Data & AI Officer, Sidley Austin LLP 6. Scott Richardson, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, First Citizens Bank 7. Yuri Aguiar, SVP, Chief Technology Officer, Tokio Marine North America Services 8. Michael Vaughan, Chief Data Officer, Brown & Brown 9. Meaghan Ferrigno, Senior Vice President, CFO & CDAO, Destination Canada 10. Wei Manfredi, SVP, AI & Architecture, IHG Hotels and Resorts View the full list, in partnership with Blend, here: https://lnkd.in/e4nD54cR To the Top 10, and the 90 others who can proudly call themselves Number 11: thank you for leading the way. 🏆 Thinking about 2027? Keep delivering impact, stay connected, and ensure those nominations are in: https://lnkd.in/eaZfCa9r
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Wei Manfredi shared thisWorking with AI feels a lot like raising teenagers. You see the potential before it does. You also know how easily it can be shaped, or misled, by the world around it. I’ve been one of the more optimistic voices about what AI can do for society, especially its potential to expand access across all backgrounds and communities. But optimism without responsibility is just negligence. Because I’ve also seen, up close, what it means to grow up inside an algorithm. My older daughter Lucia came of age in that environment. Like many working parents, we gave her a phone at 14. By 17, she became an overnight influencer. Not by design, just by being a teenager in public. Social platforms turned her into content before she had the chance to define herself. It took years for her to reclaim her own voice. What could have been flattening became formative. With the guidance of her professors at Occidental College, she transformed that experience into meaningful work. Today, we’re celebrating her receiving not one, but two awards for it. The same technologies that can amplify human potential can also compress identity. Lucia’s journey is why I don’t see AI ethics and governance as a compliance exercise. It’s a parenting challenge at a civilizational scale. We’re not just building systems that reach people. We’re shaping systems that shape people, especially the next generation. That responsibility is not optional. Proud of you, Lucia. ❤️ #AIEthics #ResponsibleAI #
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Wei Manfredi shared thisThis captures exactly what the conversation felt like — grounded, honest, and sincere. Grateful to have shared the stage with leaders from Sanford Health, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bank of America and UpScale AI. Different industries, same hard-won lesson: governance, talent, and measurable outcomes matter just as much as the technology itself. Humility, deliberate, curiosity with never too much agility, is the AI culture we all are forming. Thank you Reuters for the high quality and high energy event.Wei Manfredi shared thisWhat does the enterprise AI landscape actually look like when you get past the announcements and into the operational reality? This panel at Momentum AI NYC had answers — and they came from people running AI inside some of the world's most complex organisations. A few things that stood out: Scale is not just a technology problem. IHG operates a 70% franchised hotel network — you cannot mandate AI adoption top-down across that structure. Empowering employees as AI creators, not just users, becomes the strategy The outcomes can be striking when the use case is right. Sanford Health used AI to address chronic kidney disease in rural communities, doubling screenings and tripling early diagnoses Infrastructure decisions made today will constrain or enable everything that follows. Scalable architecture and open standards are not technical preferences — they are strategic choices High-tech does not replace high-touch. Bank of America's approach integrates AI into contact centres in a way designed to improve both client and employee experience, not eliminate one in favour of the other Across pharma, healthcare, hospitality, and financial services — the organisations making progress are the ones treating governance, talent development, and measurable outcomes as equally important as the technology itself. Wei Manfredi, SVP AI & Architecture, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Rajeev Sukumaran, Chief Information Officer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Brad Reimer, Chief Technology and Digital Officer, Sanford Health, Aravind Srikumar, SVP Product & Marketing, Upscale AI, and Tom Ellis, Chief Information Officer Head of Consumer Technology, Bank of America #ReutersMomentum #MomentumAI
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Wei Manfredi shared thisAI’s biggest unlock isn’t automation. Automation is just the floor. It’s about giving every person the power to create — and embedding it in everything we do. I’ll be sharing our practices and learnings at the Skift Data + AI Summit — June 3, NYC. Would love to see you there. #AppliedAI #Data #IHGWei Manfredi shared thisSVP of AI & Architecture at IHG Hotels & Resorts, Wei Manfredi leads AI strategy, data, and enterprise tech across one of the world’s largest hospitality companies. With leadership roles at Google Cloud, Visa, McDonald’s, and Lululemon - and named one of the 100 Most Influential AI Leaders in the U.S. - she’s shaping how global organizations think about AI at scale. Her perspective: AI’s biggest impact isn’t just automation - it’s empowering every employee to create with it. Hear from Wei at the Skift Data + AI Summit on June 3 in NYC. 🎟️ Seats go fast - register now: https://hubs.li/Q04dwHMl0
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Wei Manfredi posted thisGoogle Cloud Next '26: Five Things Every Enterprise Leader Should Pay Attention To 1. Agents Are Now THE Enterprise Operating Model Google introduced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, enabling enterprises to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents comprehensively. The question has shifted from whether to deploy agents to who owns the agent layer within your organization. 2. The "We Can't Act On Our Data" Excuse Is Dead With the new Cross-Cloud Lakehouse, enterprises can now query data from any location — including AWS — instantly and without migration friction. ELT or Data Cloud Migration? Google might just dissolve it. 3. Cybersecurity Got an AI Upgrade — Whether You're Ready or Not The Triage and Investigation Agent has already processed over 5 million alerts, collapsing a 30-minute manual analysis to just 60 seconds. Threat actors are already using AI. Now defenders have it too. This is a boardroom conversation now! 4. The Compute Economics Just Shifted — Again The new TPU 8i delivers 80% better performance per dollar for AI inference, significantly changing the cloud cost model for enterprises running AI at scale. 5. Google Just Set the Internal Bar — And It's Uncomfortably High 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated, up from 50% just last fall. Where does your engineering org actually stand? In short, from NEXT 2026, Google Cloud isn't selling infrastructure anymore. They're selling a new definition of what an enterprise looks like. #GoogleNEXT2026
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Wei Manfredi shared thisThree under-discussed insights from this 81k user report: 1. Scope beats speed — and that’s the real disruption signal. Most AI discourse fixates on “doing things faster.” But 48% of users cited scope expansion as their primary productivity gain, versus 40% who emphasized speed. Scope means AI is enabling people to do entirely new things they couldn’t do before — a delivery driver building an e-commerce business, a landscaper shipping a music app. That’s not productivity augmentation. That’s occupational boundary dissolution. The workforce implications of scope are far more structurally disruptive than speedup, and almost nobody is planning for it. 2. The U-shaped fear curve flips the usual narrative. The standard assumption: more AI benefit = more AI anxiety. But the relationship between speedup and perceived job threat is U-shaped — people who reported AI slowing them down were also highly likely to feel threatened, often creative workers who found AI too rigid for their work but feared its broader diffusion into their fields. The threat isn’t just felt by people being replaced — it’s also felt by people who can’t use AI effectively. Two very different problems requiring two very different interventions. 3. Early-career workers are bearing a disproportionate share of the anxiety — and the data suggests they’re right to. Early-career respondents were much more likely to express concern about job displacement than senior workers, and only 60% of early-career workers indicated that they personally benefited from AI, compared to 80% of senior professionals. Combined with Anthropic’s earlier finding of a slowdown in graduate hiring, this isn’t just anxiety — it’s a rational read of the market. The people with the least leverage are absorbing the most risk. For enterprise AI leaders like yourself, this has direct implications for how you structure entry-level roles post-transformation. https://lnkd.in/g3dspWvD
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Wei Manfredi reacted on thisWei Manfredi reacted on thisWrapped up NY on such a high note with this amazing TP Women event. Loved hearing all the incredible work happening with Girls Who Code. I leave these events so inspired by all of our women partners and the care they are putting in their businesses & people. So blessed to know you….until we meet again. Huge thanks for Wei Manfredi & Mamta Rodrigues for the incredible conversation. If you haven’t already, check out Girls Who Code & lend some support. 🙌🏻 Shoutout to Mama Dragons & Liz Welch for sending along all the great info we are doing! 🌈 Mamta Rodrigues Linda Comp-Noto Ashley Morrison Fitz-Gerald Leslie Surley Kostrikin Ana Landeros #tpwomen #womeninbusiness #thebandisbacktogether
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Wei Manfredi liked thisWei Manfredi liked thisSAP’s new API policy has sparked a lot of noise. After digging into the FAQ, my view is: this is less about SAP “owning” customer data and more about tight control over how AI and integrations access it. You can read SAP’s own FAQ: Link: https://lnkd.in/ewVfRyCu Key shifts for architects: 1. Favor published APIs, events and SAP‑endorsed patterns over undocumented interfaces 2. Treat AI agents, copilots and RPA hitting SAP as governed use cases, not “just another client” I’m attaching a short write‑up with additional details on what this means for future SAP data, integration and AI architectures. How are you adjusting your SAP data and integration strategy? Chief Architect Network Srinivasan Ren Renata Kobylinski Ajay Bulusu Barr Moses Carol Houle Carlos Merida Eddie Seage Boris Vishnevsky, MBA, CISSP, Chief Architect Harish Kumar Ian Schneller iqram magdon-ismail 🪼 Jordan Morrow Wei Manfredi Bill Genovese CISSP ITIL Jacklyn Osborne
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Wei Manfredi reacted on thisNow THIS is how the AI Solutions role should be defined. Excellent job Wei Manfredi and the IHG team. #AI #WeiManfredi #IHG #Solutions
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Wei Manfredi liked thisWei Manfredi liked thisSince this was a hot topic at NEXT, sharing a simple yet very powerful framework by Ting Liu. The old adages of iterate to operate and fail fast have never been more apt
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2005 Russell Team Award as Dev Lead for Trade Order Management System Integration
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DSHS 2002 Team Award AS Tech Lead on Dashboard Application
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