The Missing Method: Map Your Work Before You Build with AI.
Hosted by Vanessa Rementilla and Saad Nizari
Thu, Jul 16, 2026
4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
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AI Workflow Design Lab: From Workflow to Business Case
Vanessa Rementilla and Saad Nizari
HCD-AI Transformation Strategist | 2x Founder | Speaker | Educator. AI Transformation Strategist | Co-founder | Ex-McKinsey
Thu, Jul 16, 2026
4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course
AI Workflow Design Lab: From Workflow to Business Case
Vanessa Rementilla and Saad Nizari
HCD-AI Transformation Strategist | 2x Founder | Speaker | Educator. AI Transformation Strategist | Co-founder | Ex-McKinsey
What you'll learn
Why Most AI Initiatives Fail Before the Tool Is Ever Chosen
Rushing to add AI before mapping the work is the root cause. Three patterns behind failure and what breaks the cycle.
How to Map an AI-Enabled Workflow Using ARIA
The methodology we built for clients: where decisions are fragile, burden concentrates, and process maps fall short.
How to Find Your AI Opportunity and Build the Case
Watch the calculation built live from real operational data. Leave knowing how to run it for a workflow you own.
Why this topic matters
Most companies now have some form of AI. Some bolted tools onto broken processes. Many rushed to implement before understanding the work. The results have not delivered real value. Standard mapping methods were not built for AI transformation. We built ARIA because our clients needed to see where AI opportunities live and their value. You learn to find your use case and prove its worth.
You'll learn from
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Vanessa Rementilla
HCD-AI Transformation Strategist | 2x-Founder | Speaker & Educator
- Redesigned 100+ workflows across financial, retail, and media industries, recovering at least 10+ hours of manual effort, delivering up to 30% bottom-line improvement, and 15+ point gains in customer satisfaction.
- Led human-centred digital transformation with people at the core, embedding collaboration and a growth mindset, to drive successful adoption.
- Founder, Riverly Academy, helping people navigate transitions through skill enablement and emerging signals to shape their future.
- Co-founder, Nucleations, an AI strategy practice translating AI potential into measurable impact through internal clarity and lasting adoption.
- Instructor, Entrepreneurship and AI, Schulich School of Business, York University.
- Futures Innovation Partner, OCADU Co, teaching Design and AI strategy
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Saad Nizari
AI Transformation Strategist | Co-founder | Ex-McKinsey
- Headed AI Strategy at RBC Borealis, designing a $250M multi-year roadmap and delivering multi-million dollar impact across credit and fraud
- Drove transformations for Fortune 500 firms and major conglomerates as Associate Partner at McKinsey
- Generated 10%+ revenue growth and 5%+ EBITDA uplift through end-to-end implementation, from model design to organizational adoption
- Coached senior leaders on building narratives that secure executive and board-level buy-in across complex AI initiatives
- Lead Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds at Goldman Sachs, London
- Co-founder, Nucleations, an AI strategy practice translating AI potential into measurable impact through internal clarity and lasting adoption.
