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Danilo McGarry

Transform enterprise value through AI with Danilo McGarry, global AI implementation expert. Danilo works with Fortune 500 companies to redesign operating models and create intelligent operations, delivering over $2 billion in measurable outcomes. Consistently ranked among the Top 20 Most Influential People in AI globally.

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Danilo McGarry, Speaker | AI Transformation Expert
Danilo McGarry

Danilo McGarry

London, United Kingdom

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Danilo McGarry's biography

At a glance

  • Global leader in practical artificial intelligence implementation
  • Creator of AI methodologies taught in universities worldwide
  • Executive who delivered billions in business value through automation
Danilo McGarry is the world's leading operator in applying artificial intelligence to transform companies and create enterprise value. His practical AI methodologies are taught in over 100 universities globally, helping millions understand how to drive tangible business outcomes. As former Head of AI at Citigroup and UnitedHealth Group, Danilo operated the world's largest digital worker program with 3,500 digital employees. His leadership at Alter Domus helped grow the company from a €900 million to €4.9 billion valuation through strategic AI implementation. Consistently ranked among the Top 20 Most Influential People in AI globally, his strategies have delivered over $2 billion in measurable outcomes for Fortune 500 organisations. Today, Danilo helps organisations navigate complex AI transformation by providing decision-grade clarity and a credible path from idea to scale. His expertise enables companies to redesign operating models, create new revenue streams, and protect valuations in the AI age. He shows leaders how to evolve workflows, shift from legacy systems to intelligent operations, and compress go-to-market cycles from months to days. Audiences gain practical frameworks for identifying high-value AI opportunities, scaling execution across business units, and creating cultures where human and machine intelligence work together. Danilo delivers jargon-free insights that connect business problems with technology solutions, empowering organisations to achieve up to 60 percent margin improvements and multiply enterprise value. Book Danilo to transform your organisation with AI strategies that deliver measurable results and sustainable competitive advantage.

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The AI Advantage
Danilo McGarry gives leaders a clear path to redesigning their organisations for the AI age, addressing the challenge of outdated operating models that slow growth and weaken valuation. Danilo breaks down how AI reshapes workflows, accelerates innovation, and opens new revenue opportunities with speed and discipline. His pragmatic, jargon-free approach reveals how to unlock higher margins, improve time-to-market, and build intelligent systems that strengthen long-term enterprise value.
Humans, Teams, And Transformation
Danilo McGarry examines how organisations can achieve exceptional performance by rethinking how people and technology work together. Danilo highlights the friction created by legacy structures, misaligned incentives, and inefficient communication, showing how AI can rewire collaboration and free teams for higher-value work. His culturally aware and accessible style demonstrates how human and machine intelligence can operate as a unified system, giving audiences a clear view of how to build faster, more adaptive organisations.
From Idea To Impact
Danilo McGarry reveals why many AI initiatives stall before delivering meaningful returns, and how leaders can overcome fragmented execution and unclear value pathways. Danilo offers practical guidance on identifying high-value opportunities, modernising workflows, and building the architecture required to scale AI with measurable financial impact. With a focus on clarity and operational precision, he shows how organisations can reduce costs, accelerate growth, and turn AI into a sustained engine of enterprise-wide transformation.

Why we recommend booking Danilo

Danilo McGarry, the world's leading AI transformation expert who has delivered over $2 billion in measurable outcomes for Fortune 500 companies, provides organisations with practical frameworks to identify high-value AI opportunities and scale execution across business units. Book Danilo to transform your organisation with AI strategies that deliver up to 60 percent margin improvements and multiply your enterprise value.

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Testimonials

One of the most engaging sessions I have seen this season, not only in GDS but across EY overall.

Director, Talent Development, EY

Danilo delivered the best AI speech I have ever seen, truly eye opening and life changing.

NOAA

He is a game changer.

Principal, GXG

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What is Danilo McGarry's speaking style like?
Danilo McGarry structures his sessions around a practitioner-led framework built from his operational experience running a 3,500-strong digital worker programme at Citigroup and UnitedHealth Group. He maps a sequential path from identifying high-value AI opportunities through to scaling execution across business units, anchoring each stage to measurable financial outcomes such as margin improvement and enterprise valuation growth.
What topics does Danilo McGarry specialise in?
Danilo McGarry speaks on AI-driven operating model redesign, human-machine collaboration and team performance, and scaling AI initiatives from concept to measurable financial return. He served as Head of AI at Citigroup and UnitedHealth Group, where he ran a digital worker programme of 3,500 digital employees, and his AI leadership at Alter Domus contributed to growing the company's valuation from €900 million to €4.9 billion.
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