Melania Manti

Leading and growing the AI Product Innovation capability in Capgemini Invent UK. I am responsible for around 50 people internally and support business development activities across both private and public sector. I predominantly focus on helping organizations drive value with AI - from defining an AI a strategy and roadmap all the way to setting up an AI factory operating model, developing and deploying AI products across various business applications.

I am currently managing a the delivery and commercials of a large AI programme in the UK and a genAI project in the UAE.

Leading a team of 2 data scientists and a product owner to deliver an AI product to assess compliance of financial process to regulations and provide recommendations on the required changes. The solution is being developed using a large language model, but we are also experimenting with an agentic AI approach.

Over the past 3 years I have supported a central part of the UK Ministry of Defence to set up from scratch their AI capability, designing and implementing a mature AI factory operating model and deploying to production over 20 AI solutions. From 3 resources I have grown the programme to 45 people over 3 years, generating a total of 15M revenues for Capgemini Invent. Projects include: using genAI to improve policy understanding, create virtual agents, map entities and more; using computer vision to identify deterioration in the condition of physical assets; using speech recognition to optimize the analysis of underwater inspections; using simulation models to understand asset availability; predicting the likeliness of failure of spare parts and optimizing the rate of inspections.

• Led the design and delivery of performance analytics solutions across 3 public facing products within the Brexit transformation program
• Defined and measured KPIs such as funnel conversions and dropouts with the Google Marketing Platform
• Coordinated the set up and implementation of BigQuery powered analytics dashboards
• Worked closely with user researchers and designers to define the user research requirements for web analytics and used the findings to influence feature prioritization decisions

• Managed distributed (nearshore) and cross-functional teams throughout the product delivery lifecycle according to Scrum/Kanban methodologies
• Defined with UXRs the user research strategy, ran discovery sessions and design thinking workshops
• Defined products vision and roadmap, prioritizing features based on multiple customer inputs, business strategy and market intelligence
• Coordinated the definition and delivery of data streaming requirements with data engineers
• Defined sensor data feeds and additional hardware requirements with the IoT hardware team
• Worked with data scientists to define the AI requirements and integrate them into the products

• Data Integration Program between Trading and Shipping divisions - Analysed how data is exchanged between the Trading and Shipping divisions, and the relevant business processes to identify challenges and value gaps
• Business Process Optimization Program for Vetting & Clearance- Supported the business case creation for prototypes solutions to reduce the error rate in vetting and clearance procedures of vessels
• Performed risk and cost/benefit analysis

• Large scale IT Transformation Program for the delivery of new core-banking system clustered across nine countries
• Coordinated the program’s central governance, resource onboarding strategy and estimations across six impacted service lines
• Managed offshore delivery teams
• Managed escalations and worked with leadership for risk mitigation throughout development, testing and deployment phases
• Created MI and reports for program director