An introduction to artificial intelligence for readers who are not going to build it, written in Portuguese.
Buy a copy →Figueira da Foz, Portugal · Working internationally
I help organisations turn AI into operating advantage.
The way I deliver it is architecture: I design the systems, run the diagnostics and advise the executives, then explain the result to the people who have to live with it.
Advisory
Turn AI into advantage
Architecture reviews, fixed-scope diagnostics and Executive AI Advisory for teams building with AI rather than piloting it.
Discuss an engagement → SpeakingBook a talk
Keynotes and workshops on AI and the people it lands on. TEDx, national broadcast, universities and industry.
Topics and speaker kit → BooksRead the books
Three books on artificial intelligence, from a general introduction in Portuguese to a forthcoming executive playbook in English.
Browse the books →26companies founded or co-founded
6patents as inventor or co-inventor
3books on artificial intelligence
15stages and trainings since 2024
Most AI projects do not fail on the model.
See the full approach →They fail on the workflow around it, the data nobody owns, and the people expected to absorb the change. I design the system that survives contact with all three, and I build enough of it to prove it works.
Man-days of month-end reporting Professional services. The monthly reporting became a view of one model of the business, so the time now goes on reviewing the mismatches the system flags itself. See the case →On stage
Full record and the speaker kit → Confirmed · 3 booked
10 Nov 2026 Portugal Tech Week Palace 2026 Talk From DNA to AI: The History of an Obsolete Species 16:00 · English · Lisbon
3 Feb 2027 Seed Tech Transfer: IP and Technology Transfer Training From IP protection to monetisation: the path academia too often leaves unexplored. Universidade de Aveiro
10 Feb 2027 Seed Tech Transfer: Lab2Market Business Models Training Business models that carry a researcher's discovery out of the lab and into the market. Universidade de Aveiro
Recent
29 May 2026 UA Global Leader Universidade de Aveiro
18 May 2026 INNOTEC Aveiro Aveiro
13 May 2026 Podcast Enbiente: IA tem o potencial de ser a maior burla da História? Online
12 May 2026 UNION SRS: Productisation Online
Three books, three audiences
Books, samples and bulk orders → 
A guide to the AI revolution for people who suspect it is happening to them rather than with them.
Buy on Amazon → David Carvalhão
Forthcoming The Executive AI Transformation Playbook
For executives running a transformation rather than reading about one. No hype, no statistics with a shelf life.
Be told when it publishes →Twenty-six companies, six patents, three NGOs, and a 1991 Fiat Panda that made it across the Sahara.
My wife and I helped around twelve thousand Ukrainian refugees settle in Portugal, which the EU was kind enough to notice. I work from a small city on the Atlantic coast, and I am a husband and a father of three. There is a longer version, and it explains the Panda.
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