Wei Manfredi is Senior Vice President of AI and Architecture at IHG Hotels & Resorts, where she guides the company's AI strategy, technical architecture, data engineering and enterprise technology across one of the world's largest hospitality portfolios.

Named one of the 100 Most Influential AI Leaders in the U.S. and a Top AI Leader for 2026, Wei brings 25+ years of experience transforming how global enterprises think about data, architecture, and artificial intelligence. Her career spans senior leadership roles at McDonald's, Google Cloud, Lululemon, and Visa — each chapter defined by a simple conviction: technology should create possibilities that didn't exist yesterday.

A first-principles thinker and sought-after speaker on enterprise AI transformation, Wei is known for challenging the status quo — believing that AI's greatest impact isn't just automation, but democratization: embedding AI in everything we do by making every employee a creator, not just a consumer, of intelligent technology.