Emmanuel Munguia Tapia

Dr. Emmanuel Munguia Tapia is a Managing Director in Artificial Intelligence at Accenture, where he provides architectural leadership for the Telstra-Accenture Joint Venture, a seven-year, approximately US$430 million program creating a single, enterprise-wide agentic AI platform that every Telstra business group builds on, with trust and governance designed in from the start.

He helped establish Accenture’s Responsible AI organization and architected and led its Responsible and Trustworthy AI product suite, which has grown into a nine-figure annual business helping enterprises deploy AI that is safe, transparent, and compliant. He chairs the Trustworthy AI and Data Initiative at TM Forum, advancing the telecom industry’s shift from claiming AI is trustworthy to proving it with evidence.

Over 20 years, Emmanuel has taken AI from research to commercial products at Accenture, Amazon (Lab126/Alexa), Samsung, and Intel, following earlier roles at Nokia Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research, and Oracle. His work spans conversational intelligence for Alexa, sensing and AI on Samsung Galaxy smartphones and smartwatches, and specialized AI chips at Intel. He received Samsung’s company-wide Gold Medal for innovation and has led global teams and research partnerships with MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Cambridge, and EPFL.

A pioneer in ubiquitous and wearable computing, he is a two-time recipient of 10-year impact awards from UbiComp and ISWC, holds 44 patents, and has authored 38 publications. He earned his PhD and MS at MIT and completed Berkeley’s Engineering Leadership program.