Technology
Enterprise technology
Communications and collaboration, advanced networking, managed IT services, M2M and SCADA systems, and machine learning.
Builder · Executive · Author · Curious human
Ricardo
Casanova.
More than two decades helping large enterprises adopt advanced technology, from communications and collaboration to enterprise networks, managed IT, industrial connectivity, M2M, SCADA, machine learning and AI. Today I build AI products, develop businesses, study human behavior and create original media.
20+ yearsTechnology and commercial leadership
North America & Southeast AsiaRegional experience
Build + explainProducts, strategy and communication
01 / Experience
Connecting the technical
to the human.
My career has centered on large enterprise technology: connecting organizations, modernizing how their people collaborate, and bringing sophisticated infrastructure and managed services into the business. That work spans enterprise communications, advanced networks, cloud and managed IT, industrial connectivity, M2M, SCADA, machine learning and emerging technologies. I've led commercial strategy, solution development and partnerships, including government RFP strategies with a strong win record. Today that experience informs my work in AI, product development and human-centered technology.
Strategy
Commercial leadership
Enterprise account strategy, complex solution development, RFPs, partnerships, positioning and translating technical capabilities into commercial outcomes.
Artificial intelligence
AI and human behavior
Building and advising on tools that bring AI into business processes while accounting for how people actually think, decide and work.
02 / Selected work
The work speaks.
Explore it.
Professional
8ALTA
AI consulting and organizational transformation.
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Santati CRM
CRM and intelligence grounded in human dynamics.
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OptimAI
AI and agent technology.
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Toasty Media
Tools and original programming for creators, podcasters and people making things together.
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Toasty Peeps
Talent discovery and human connection for the agent economy.
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Get Thai'd Down
Helping people navigate travel, relocation and everyday life in Thailand.
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Embody
Human-centered behavioral companions, context, memory and interaction.
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Presce-Dense
Legal precedent, evidence and judicial reasoning.
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Eloquence Protocol
Communication, presence and persuasion.
Explore books ↗03 / Beyond the job title
Community, storytelling
and curiosity.
2022 · Alberta
Platinum Jubilee Medal
Provincial recognition for contributions to the community.
2022 · Canada
Platinum Jubilee Pin
Federal recognition of community leadership.
Documentary
The YEG Soccer Project
Documentary filmmaking through TELUS STORYHIVE, exploring grassroots soccer and community.
Watch documentary ↗04 / How I work
Curiosity is
the throughline.
My work spans North America and Southeast Asia. I build AI products, study human behavior, develop businesses and create original media. From Toasty Media and its creator tools to Santati's human-centered intelligence, AI transformation through 8ALTA and independent products such as Get Thai'd Down, the thread is the same: stay curious, challenge assumptions and turn ambitious ideas into things people can actually use.