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 of the team organizing the Ashoka Changemaker Summit where her passion for systemic change was ignited. She then continued working for Ashoka Spain as Partnerships Manager until 2021. At Ashoka, she has been dedicated to deepening her knowledge and expertise on the interconnection of systems change and wellbeing to support social entrepreneurs to increase their impact and achieve systemic change in their field.

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 professionals, incubators, accelerators, crowdfunding platforms and investors. On the other hand, he advises investors when an investment is still in process and after they have invested. In concrete terms, the advisory starts with legal due diligence within the investment process and continues with legal assistance when the investment is concluded: this, first, ensures the analysis of the legal risks and guarantees the proper legal protection of the investment.

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 languages, platforms and technology.

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 since he was young. He graduated in Turin with a thesis written in Apache Spark, then continued working in the data field, making consultancies for different companies in AgileLab. Later the love for the Cloud drove him to Arduino, then London, where he consolidated his skills in Serverless technologies applied to the data. He is also managing a WordPress with high traffic, a Learning facilitator at a Tier-1 university in the States, and learning a new topic Cloud FinOps because one job wasn't enough.

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 development and international cooperation pushed her to travel to Latin America and West Africa where she had the opportunity to start various collaborations supporting third sector entities in the field of fair trade and social entrepreneurship. In 2018, she began her first collaboration with Ashoka in Mexico City and, since 2020, she has been part of the Ashoka Italy team where she now holds the role of Community Integrator.

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 facilitating new business creation and innovation processes by providing infrastructural support (i.e. Internet bandwidth, cloud computing, software prototyping) to early stage ventures. Previously he has worked as a Research Scientist, Strategy & Business Development Officer and Business Owner at Philips Corporate Research.

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 from scratch. Now moving to London for the next data science adventure in a UK tech company.

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 skills in project management from initial concept to final implementation. He has spent many years working on international high-profile projects.  Working now mostly as Teacher in Microsoft Official Courses (AZ-103, AZ-104, AZ-500, AZ-900, MS-700, MS-900 and others), teaching on behalf of Microsoft in the initiatives TSFB (Technical Skill for Business) and ESI (Enterprise Skill Initiative). Moderator on Microsoft Live Events.

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, working with more than 200 startups and dozens of large Italian and international companies.

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 mainly on logic and language. He has been working with data and metadata for more than 20 years, mainly in healthcare. Since joining ThoughtWorks in 2017, as a Tech Principal, he has been helping large organizations across several markets to make sense of their legacy software and data. Since 2019, he has been teaching service design as an adjunct professor at the Politecnico of Milan. When not consulting or teaching, he is  a passionate speaker about decentralized web technologies at international conferences.

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 and Managing Director of A4I (Angels4Impact). 

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 leveraging the results of academic research in the field of applied math. And now, after an happy exit and hundreds fo challanging projects of digital transformation, he'ld like to give my support to corporate in their open innovation path and acting as advisor and business angel for the most primising startups (mainly italian academic spinoff). These are my preferred tech domains: #SustainableAI, #DataScience, #IoT, #Blockchain

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. Stefania currently co-organizes the Italian chapter of Effective Altruism, she is the Italian representative for Mozilla and the Common Voice project, NumFOCUS ambassador and manages the Turin MathsJam. In the last decade, she has been involved in projects on productivity, well-being and unconventional teaching methods in Italy, Germany and England. Stefania graduated in Physics at the University of Eastern Piedmont with a major in quantum mechanics and algebraic topology.

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 interaction with clients and support junior colleagues. As a PhD student he developed a model for Bayesian Semiparametric analysis of multivariate multiplicative error models applied to financial econometrics. He is proficient with R, Python and Matlab and he also used Scala. When in distributed environments, he works mainly with Hive, Impala and PySpark/SparkR/ScalaSpark.

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 processing of natural language to multicore algorithms and data structures to index large collections of texts. Leo enjoys teaching, food, coffee and good conversation.

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.

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 in the big data sector through data experts and data scientists teams and through open innovation with strategic investments in start-up and innovative companies. Since 2019 he’s head of data & analytics in Nexi, the Italian leader of digital payments. In 2019 Stefano has also published “#AI expert” (Franco Angeli), a photo of the evolution of data in the corporate world.

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 improve the quality of life and solve some of the current international economic and social challenges. Focused on sustainable development and addressing inequalities. Speaker and consultant to executives and national and international public organisations.

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 Communications Director of Fondazione Sistema Toscana. He was a member of the Tourism Innovation Committee of the Ministry of Tourism and has collaborated in the design and implementation of BTO-Buy Tourism Online. Since 2014 he has been the founder and CEO of Travel Appeal, a company specialized in data analysis using AI, which in 2019 became The Data Appeal Company SpA, acquired in 2022 by Almawave Spa. The company's goal is to democratize the use and understanding of data, to help companies and institutions make effective decisions.

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 organization active in the social and labour reintegration of prisoners. From 2006 to 2008, he worked at the Ministry of Youth Policy and Sport, developing the area related to sport for all. From 2012 to 2019 he directed the Human Foundation, while since 2015 he has been Secretary General at Social Value Italia. He also sits on the Board of Social Value International. Since 2020 he has been on the Advisory Board of Aimpact- AvanziEtica SICAF EuVECA S.p.A. Since May 2020 he has been Director of Ashoka Italia.

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.

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 and Managing Director at Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), the 1st Italian group of Business Angels. He has 20 years experience in Strategy and Management Consulting in leading companies such as The Boston Consulting Group and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. He is co-founder and Board Member of almostthere, a wellness and sports startup, and was co-founder and President of GS4C, an innovative startup dealing with ecofriendly and recyclable materials. He is member of the Territorial Advisory Board Lombardia of Unicredit and Chairman of the Riccardo Nannini Association

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 on applying tools from complex systems and networks science, applied mathematics, computer science, data science, behavioral sciences to study disease spreading from an epidemiological as well as social point of view. Since 2008, Daniela has been developing and coordinating a Europe-wide network of Web-based platforms for participatory surveillance of Influenza-like Illness. 

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 and Explainable AI.  These two ethical values are essential: achieving them may enable the definition of a trustworthy ethical AI. She published EXPERT: a framework for predicting the privacy risk of a user's data, correlating the output with a local explanation. Together with her group, she proposed HOLDA: a new hierarchical federated learning approach for cross-silo, in which the goal is to maximize the generalization capabilities of the machine learning models trained. Lastly, she also worked on a Survey of Explainable AI methods, with a benchmarking of Python's most popular XAI methods.

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 the Social Impact Evaluation. He is now a consultant in the fields of Project Design and Project Evaluation for NGOs and not for profit organizations. He has been collaborating with Ashoka Italy for more than a year supporting the organization in different projects (online and in presence events, online and in presence trainings, surveys and researches on social innovation).

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.

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.    

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 mentored several projects on business model, product development and infrastructure architecture and cultivated relationships with investors, incubators, accelerators and the Innovation ecosystem in Italy and Europe.  

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 of the public to participate in scientific research. He spent time as a researcher at Yale University and as a NASA Einstein Fellow before returning home to Switzerland as an assistant professor at ETH Zurich. Based on his experiences, he co-founded Modulos, a startup building a platform based on the data-centric AI philosophy.

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, Nature and World Economic Forum by creating visualizations, both interactive and in print. His work has appeared in several books and magazines and he speaks regularly at international conferences.

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 the MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance; Chair of the Data for Children Collaborative with Unicef; and a member of the High-Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT, Yale University, Central European University and serves on numerous (advisory) boards, including Sparks and Honey, Center for Media, Data and Society, among others. He is also Founder and Curator in Chief of The Living Library. He has published widely - including seven books and numerous papers - and features regularly in the Harvard Business Review, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Project Syndicate, The Conversation and other important outlets. He is asked regularly to present his findings at international conferences including TED, Collision, the World Data Forum and CogX. Numerous organizations have sought his counsel as advisor or consultant - including the WorldBank; IDB, USAID, DFID, IDRC, AFP, the European Commission, Council of Europe, the World Economic Forum, UNICEF, OECD, Un-OCHA, UNDP and several other national and international bodies.

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 new business opportunities. Lorenzo is creative and resourceful in problem solving.

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 and in 2010 he started his entrepreneurship journey by acquiring and accelerating the business growth of many companies. Starting early 2015 he built Dattabot a big data analytics company with a growth at a breakneck pace, while also attracting investors and renowned advisors. One of these new verticals include Agriculture, where he believes Big Data technology has the potential to solve Indonesia’s agricultural challenges through HARA. HARA is a blockchain based data exchange, an ecosystem which allows the invisible to become accessible. With all his work on social impact, Ashoka as a global organization that promotes social entrepreneurship and individual change makers select him as global ashoka fellows.

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 positively face and resolve challenges on social media marketing, web analytics, user interface experience and web-design.