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Ada Andreoni

Ada Andreoni

Impact
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Ada Andreoni co-leads the Systems Change module and the Wellbeing module of the Ashoka Europe Fellowship Program. She also supports the Elders Council ecosystem initiative and co-leads a collective impact initiative on Gender Equity in Europe.  Ada joined Ashoka in 2019 as part...

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Alessandro Basile

Alessandro Basile

Law and Ethics
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Alessandro Basile advises startups during their life cycle through legal assistance on the startup environment, namely corporate, privacy, ICT, IP and contracts law. The support provided is also on the economical growth of startups thanks to connections with complementary professional...

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Andrea Beccaris

Andrea Beccaris

Data Engineering
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Andrea Beccaris is a software engineer expert in software and web development, software architecture design and project management with strong experience in data analysis. In the past year, he helped more than 20 startups, providing development and technical support in different software...

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Mattia Bertorello

Mattia Bertorello

Data Engineering
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Mattia Bertorello is a Platform Data Engineer with years of experience in AWS, Data and DevOps. Now he's working at Glovo, leading one of the platform teams to create the best Data Mesh experience and driving architecture designs of new data products.  He has been passionate about technology...

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Eleonora Cadone

Eleonora Cadone

Impact
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Eleonora Cadone graduated in Social Economy Management from the University of Bologna, and later obtained a master's degree in Management of Third Sector Organisations from the University of Valencia. Since her early years at university, her great interest in the non-profit world, sustainable develop...

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Leonardo Camiciotti

Leonardo Camiciotti

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Leonardo Camiciotti is Executive Director at TOP-IX Consortium. Leonardo graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Turin. Since 2006 he has managed the Development Program at TOP-IX Consortium, which aims at...

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Alessandro Cannarella

Alessandro Cannarella

Coding
🔷 Impact Deal 2023
Alessandro Cannarella is a Cloud and Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Web Development, IT Consultancy and startups. Graduated in Computer Engineering and specializing in Computer Network and Cloud Computing from the Polytechnic of Turin, ...

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Cannone

Dario Cannone

Data Science
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Data scientist with academic experience in theoretical physics, converted into a machine learning practitioner, passionate about software engineering. Dario Cannone spents the last four years working in an Italian financial and outsourcing company, where he builts the data science team...

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Giusy Cannone

Giusy Cannone

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Giusy Cannone has 10+ years experience in the investment and startups area. In the last 6 years she has been active in the Fashion and Luxury industry, investing in several digital startups across different countries. Moreover, she is also knowledgeable about fashion sustainability processes. She...

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Corrado Cappucci

Corrado Cappucci

Data Engineering
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
An IT Freelance, Consultant and Trainer, certified for the first time in Microsoft and CISCO technology in 1998, Corrado Cappucci has acquired an impressive more than 25 years of experience in working mostly with Microsoft Products, from DOS to Windows 2019, Azure and Microsoft 365. Excellent...

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Cassarino

Irene Cassarino

Entrepreneurship
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Engineer by training, PhD in Innovation Management, author of “Mercati Infiniti” (Endless New Markets - ed. Franco Angeli), Irene Cassarino is founder and Executive Chairwoman of The Doers, now part of the Digital Magics group. She has dedicated her entire professional life to finding new markets...

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Chauvenet

Carlo Rossi Chauvenet

Law and Ethics
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Partner of CRCLEX, Carlo Rossi Chauvenet is a Data Protection Officer and an expert in legal tech issues related to digital business models. He's coordinator of the Legal Clinic of the startup accelerator “Bocconi4Innovation”, co-founder of “Sweet Legal Tech”...

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Alessandro Confetti

Alessandro Confetti

Data Engineering
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Alessandro Confetti  has always been interested in human-computer interactions and how to leverage technology and information for the good of all. Alessandro started writing software when he was fourteen, and he has never stopped since then. In the meantime, he studied philosophy, focusing...

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Liliana Corvino

Liliana Corvino

Entrepreneurship
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Liliana Corvino is engineer with an MBA, she spent 4 years abroad studying and working on consulting and innovation fields. Passionate about startup ecosystem, she worked for incubators and for Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri. Recently Liliana joined Impact Hub as Incubation Manager...

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Ottavio Crivaro

Ottavio Crivaro

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Ottavio Crivaro is an Open Innovation Advisor and Business Angel. After several years spent on the front of technological innovation working for an important consultancy firm, he decided to dedicate his time and energy to make the tech transfer process more effective creating startups...

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Mario D'Almo

Mario D’Almo

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Mario D'Almo is an innovation manager and startup mentor. Experienced Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Business Process, Risk Management, Banking, and Big Data. Strong engineering professional graduated from Università degli Studi di Torino.

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Stefania Delprete

Stefania Delprete

Coding
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Stefania Delprete is a data scientist and tech tutor at TOP-IX and co-organizer for the BIG DIVE data training and Impact Deal acceleration program. She has interests and knowledge in physics, neuroscience, computation and open source/free software, human rights and social change...

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Enrico Deusebio

Enrico Deusebio

Machine Learning
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Enrico Deusebio is leading a team of around 15 people committed to developing data-driven applications, blending data science and software engineering skills in order to build robust, extensible and scalable apps. He has a broad range of interests, spanning from my scientific and research...

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Vittorio Di Tomaso

Vittorio Di Tomaso

Artificial Intelligence
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Vittorio di Tomaso was co-founder, president and CEO of CELI - Language Technology. He participated in the foundation of Blogmeter, the most advanced Italian platform of Social Media Intelligence and of Synapta, an innovative start-up spin-off of the Nexa Center of Politecnico Torino, whose mission is...

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Donelli

Nicola Donelli

Data Science
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Nicola Donelli is Lead Data Scientist at CGnal. In CGnal he's working mainly on projects in Retail, Finance and Energy, applying Machine Learning algorithms and Statistical Models to answer questions from our clients. He also takes responsibility of project management, direct interac...

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Leo Ferres

Leo Ferres

Data Science
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Leo Ferres is a research professor at the Data Science Institute, Universidad del Desarrollo. Telefónica I+D and ISI Foundation fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has published widely from data accessibility and large-data...

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Giuseppe Futia

Giuseppe Futia

Data Science
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Giuseppe Futia is Research Scientist and Knowledge Graph Engineer with multidisciplinary experience focused on research, development, and communication. He loves to explore new technologies to incorporate human knowledge into intelligent systems.

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Stefano Gatti

Stefano Gatti

Artificial Intelligence
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Stefano Gatti has been involved for more than 20 years in several data and technologies driven projects in different sectors in financial services. He’s worked in Cerved, Italian leader in credit information, for 10 years as head of data and innovation. In this role Stefano has supported the evolution of the company...

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Alessia Gianoncelli

Alessia Gianoncelli

Impact
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Alessia Gianoncelli is the Head of Knowledge, Community and Market Development at EVPA. She is responsible for research activities, data collection, content development, community engagement and market building. She co-authored publications, practical cases, and articles on topics...

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Emanuela Girardi

Emanuela Girardi

Artificial Intelligence
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Emanuela Girardi is founder at Pop AI, AI expert at MiSE. She's also Board Member of AIxIA and of Adra. Senior executive, board member and advisor with extensive international experience. Passionate about technology and the impact that AI has on our society. Firm believer that AI will help us...

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Mirko Lalli

Mirko Lalli

Entrepreneurship
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Mirko Lalli has always been involved in innovation, technology, communication and marketing. He began his career as Director of Corporate Communication of Clouditalia SpA, subsequently Chief Executive Officer of AR-tel SpA, and even before that of Marketing and Communicat...

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Bruno Lepri

Bruno Lepri

Artificial Intelligence
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Bruno Lepri is senior researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) where he leads the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS). He has recently launched the Center for Computational Social Science and Human Dynamics, a joint initiative between Fondazione Bruno Kessler...

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Federico Mento

Federico Mento

Impact
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Graduated in cultural anthropology from La Sapienza University, Federico Mento has obtained a PhD in ethno-anthropological sciences from the same institute, with a thesis on urban studies in Latin America. From 2000 to 2003, he worked in social planning at the Ora d'Aria Association, an...

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Federico Morando

Federico Morando

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Federico Morando is CEO and co-founder at Synapta. He is also independent researcher. Transforming Open Data into Actionable Knowledge as co-founder & CEO at Synapta. Public procurement data, linked data, intellectual property rights, open innovation, public sector information.

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Marco Nannini

Marco Nannini

Entrepreneurship
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
CEO at Impact Hub srl SB and Member of the Board of Impact Hub Association.Marco Nannini is Vicepresident and Founder of A4W | Angel for Women, the 1st network of Women Business Angel that invest in female startup, and President and Founder of A4I |Angels for Impact. He has been member...

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Napolitano

Maurizio Napolitano

Data Science
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Technologist of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento where he coordinates the research unit Digital Commons Lab. Maurizio Napolitano is an expert in open data and geospatial technologies, teacher of geospatial analysis at the data science course at the University of Trento. From...

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Francesca Naretto

Francesca Naretto

Artificial Intelligence
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Francesca Naretto is a third-year Ph.D. student in Data Science and she’s working on eXplainable AI with the group of ERC XAI.  She is also part of the EU H2020 project SoBigData++ and the TAILOR project. Her primary research interest is Ethical AI, with a particular interest in Data Privacy...

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Giuseppe Nigro

Giuseppe Nigro

Impact
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
The volunteering experiences Giuseppe Nigro undertook both in Italy and abroad have brought him closer to the charity sector since the early university years. The interest in the contribution of the interventions of Third-sector organizations on social change that they promote has led him to deepen the theme of...

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Occelli

Nicola Occelli

Data Science
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Nicola Occelli is a Data Scientist and a Deep Learning Engineer. He is experienced in most of the state-of-the-art Learning frameworks. Currently he is a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence applied to Breast Cancer diagnosis and treatment.


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Michele Osella

Michele Osella

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Michele Osella is a strategic advisor who helps leading organizations – across geographies and industries – to innovate and thrive in the fast-evolving digital landscape. He currently serves as a Senior Program Manager at Compagnia di San Paolo, one of the largest private foundations in Europe,...

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Daniela Paolotti

Daniela Paolotti

Data Science
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Daniela Paolotti is a Senior Research Scientist at ISI Foundation. She is part of the Data Science for Social Impact Research Area. Daniela has a background in Physics (Bsc, MSc, Ph.D.), and her work has a strong interdisciplinary approach. For more than ten years, she has been working...

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Alberto Prospero

Alberto Prospero

Data Science
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Alberto Prospero is a lead data scientist with 6+ years of practical experience and strong passion for mathematics and computer science. He is a challenge lover and enthusiastic learner, moved by an insane curiosity and an unwavering determination.

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Christian Racca

Christian Racca

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Christian Racca is a design Engineer and Program Manager at TOP-IX Consortium. After graduating in telecommunication engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Christian joined TOP-IX Consortium, working on data streaming and cloud computing, and later, on web startups. He has mentor...

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Paolo Raineri

Paolo Raineri

Entrepreneurship
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Paolo Raineri is a C-level Executive with >10 years experience in digital innovation and data driven projects in IT, Tech, Industrial, Consulting and Startups industries. 8 years as a CEO in a Big Data Analytics startup. Passionate about Sustainability, Biology, Innovation and how their...

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Kevin Schawinski

Kevin Schawinski

Data Science
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Kevin Schawinski is an astrophysicist and a pioneer in the use of machine learning in scientific research. He received his Ph.D from Oxford University studying galaxy formation. During his studies, he co-founded the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project which engaged over two million members...

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Tulp

Jan Willem Tulp

Data Visualization
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Jan Willem Tulp is an independent Data Experience Designer from The Netherlands. With his company TULP interactive he creates custom data visualizations for a variety of clients. For more than 10 years he has helped clients such as Google, European Space Agency, Scientific American...

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Stefaan G. Verhulst

Stefaan G. Verhulst

Data Collaboration
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer as well as Director of GovLab's Data Program. He is also, among other positions and affiliations, the Editor-in-Chief of Data & Policy, an open-access journal by Cambridge University Press; the research director of...

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Lorenzo Verna

Lorenzo Verna

Data Science
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Lorenzo Verna is a software engineering manager, independent Data Scientist and researcher. He's passionate about AI, Knowledge Modeling, Reasoning and machine learning, Text Analysis and natural language processing. He's focused on quality, customer satisfaction and...

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Regi Wahyu

Regi Wahyu

Impact
👤 LECTURER
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
Regi Wahyu is a Serial Entrepreneur, Business Developer, aiming to deliver positive impact to the society through exponential technology. Regi had been driving his professional career for 15 years in many different multinational companies as business development director, starting...

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Massimo Zaglio

Massimo Zaglio

Coding
👤 MENTOR
🔶 Impact Deal 2022
🔷 Impact Deal 2023
Massimo Zaglio is an agile software developer with 15+ years of experience in the web start-up sector. Graduated in 1998 in Information Science at the University of Turin, he previously worked in IBM as a Technical Solution Architect and System Specialist. Its eclectic curiosity has led him to positi...

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