The Capital Race Behind AI's Expansion: Building a Faster, Defensible Decision Infrastructure

Manuel Carmona is an independent consultant, trainer, author, and PhD researcher at the University of Westminster in London, specialising in Artificial Intelligence, project risk management, and quantitative risk analysis (QRA). With more than 25 years of international experience, he has delivered hundreds of professional training programmes and coached thousands of practitioners in @RISK and Decision Tools Suite modelling, project risk management, probabilistic modelling, and Monte Carlo simulation. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence and Risk Analysis in Projects (Routledge) and Inteligencia Artificial y Análisis de Riesgos en Proyectos (Marcombo).

Jason Lefever is a strategic solutions leader who challenges organizations to rethink how they connect strategy, risk, and execution. At Lumivero, Jason leads the global solutions engineering team, helping enterprises unify disparate data into one dynamic ecosystem; revealing cross-functional dependencies and exposing how risk shapes strategic outcomes. He empowers organizations to shift from reactive management to informed, forward-looking decision-making.