Biography
Manuel Romero is the Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Maisa AI, where he focuses on bringing digital workers into production in mission-critical enterprise environments. He combines deep technical expertise in multilingual NLP, LLMs, evaluation, and tooling with a strong open-source reputation in the Hugging Face ecosystem.
His profile stands out because he is not only a builder, but also someone focused on reliability, traceability, and hallucination-resistant AI systems that can work inside real companies. That makes him especially relevant for audiences interested in production AI, enterprise adoption, and the challenge of turning research into scalable products.
On stage, Manuel would be a strong fit for a keynote or technical session about trustworthy AI, digital workers, and what it takes to deploy LLM-powered systems in high-stakes settings.
Session
- AI For GrowthSpeaker
Use Case 6 - When Every AI Company Sounds the Same: How to Build and Prove Real Differentiation
Tuesday 22 September, 16:30 – 16:55Main StageIn an AI market where nearly every company makes similar claims, genuine differentiation is increasingly difficult to articulate and even harder to prove. Using Maisa’s experience as the central case study, David Villalón and Manu Romero will discuss how founders can build a defensible position through fundamental technology choices, measurable customer outcomes and the ability to meet the highest standards of trust, security and accountability. The session will explore what distinguishes a compelling narrative from a truly differentiated company, particularly when selling into some of the world’s most regulated industries.
With David Villalón