Experience

Council of European BioRegions - CEBR

• Belgium
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • May 2023 - Present



Clust-ER Health - Emilia-Romagna

• Italy
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  The Clust-ER Health is a Public-Private Association, co-funded by the Emilia Romagna Ministry of Economic Development, made up of more than 100 members among big companies (Chiesi, Alfasigma, BBraun,…), Universities (Bologna, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Cattolica), Hospitals (Rizzoli, Sant’Orsola, GVM, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Meldola,...), research centers (CINECA, CNR, INFN,…) and numerous SMEs. Clust-ER Health is directed by the Cluster Manager, Sauro Vicini, and together with ART-ER and other Clust-ER associations contributes to the development and implementation of the Regional Smart Specialization Innovation Policy. Show less



Cluster Smart Cities & Communities - Lombardia

• Italy
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  The Smart Cities’ Foundation groups together 76 members among big companies, SMEs, universities, research centres and public administrations. The foundation aims to promote innovation and boost the economic development of urban and metropolitan environments within the Lombardia Region.

• Chair of the Board of Directors

  • May 2014 - Aug 2017

  The regional Cluster for Smart Cities & Communities (Cluster SCC) is a private foundation active in Lombardy since 2013. The Cluster SCC brings together companies, research centres and public administrations to promote and facilitate Innovation in urban and metropolitan environments.As member of the Executive Board as of 2013, I collaborated with the Region of Lombardy in elaborating the Regional Smart Specialization Strategy (S3), which defines 8 relevant areas of development for smart cities in Lombardy: Smart Living; Infrastructure, Networks and Smart Buildings; Safety and Security for citizen and communities; Social Inclusions; Environmental Sustainability; Smart Healthcare; Cultural Heritage’s valorisation; City Information Platform and Urban Analytics. Show less



EIT Health

• Germany
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Evaluator

  • Apr 2019 - Present



BTO Research

• Italy
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Innovation Consultant

  • 2018 - Dec 2018



Ospedale San Raffaele

• Italy
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Digital Health / Smart City Program Manager

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2017

  My role at San Raffaele Hospital covered all aspects of project management with big and complex projects related to e-Health, Smart Cities, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. Starting from the definition of project goals, objectives, strategies and priorities, I was responsible for projects planning and projects execution ensuring optimal resources utilization and determining activities, milestones and deliverables needed to complete the project. Skills enhanced in this position include effective team building and management, problem-solving and conflict resolution. Show less

• Smart City Living Lab Manager

  • May 2012 - Jul 2017

  In 2012 I founded the City of the Future Living Lab: the research playground for experimenting user-driven Open Innovation inside the San Raffaele Hospital of Milan.I led living lab's activities until 2017. Aim of the living lab was to exploit an intense cross-disciplinary collaborations between medical and healthcare professionals, designers, engineers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, across a number of different fields, from healthcare to well-being, from mobility and transportation to tourism.My driver, as Living Lab Manager, was to gain direct and unfiltered access to users’ ideas, experiences, and knowledge based on their daily needs and desire of feeling supported by products, services, or applications. Users were directly involved in co-creating, exploring, experimenting and evaluating new ideas, concepts and technological artefacts related to the Smart City / Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Show less

• Project Manager / Grant Manager

  • Aug 2007 - Jul 2012

  Service Design: ICT for Well-Being and Personalized Services: Ideation, specification and creation of Innovative Services. EHR and PHR-based services, LBS, eServices for Well-Being, Physical Activity, Nutrition and Education. Profiling, Privacy Management, Security and Safety for Critical Infrastructure and sensible data, also in Cloud Computing environment.Management of Living Labs: Design thinking, Co-Design and Co-Creation, User Centric Design. Fast prototyping, User eXperience, validation and evaluation.Business Development Management and Funding Opportunities: Leading negotiations, coordinating complex decision-making process, and overcomes objections to capture new business opportunities. Business plans, fund raising and applications for grants (European, national and regional).Energy Management: Ability of technical-economic analysis of Demand-Side Management System (DSMS) and in Smart Metering platforms Smart Grid contexts. Privacy by Design architectures. Policies and regulation implementation and devising. Wireless architecture for real-time monitoring and actuation. Show less

• Software Developer & Research Fellow

  • Sep 2005 - Aug 2007

  Topics of my research and development activity were: knowledge representation, ontologies, RDF repositories, description logics, query and rules languages, OWL and SWRL engines, expert and recommendation systems for semantic web.Software development and programming in multiplatform environments.Web languages, SOA, web services, SOAP protocol and REST architecture. Advanced programming technics, design pattern.Environments and frameworks: Windows, Linux, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, Java, C/C++, Pascal, Servlet, JSP, EJB, JSF, Hibernate, Android, QT, PHP, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, XML, HTML, CSS, XSL, Javascript, RDF, OWL (Lite, DL, Full), SWRL, Racer Pro, Pellet, Jena, Protegé, Kasea, SQL, SPARQL, SeRQL, Assembler 8086, Z80, MIPS, Eclipse, Visual Studio. Show less



Istituto Europeo di Design

• Italy
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Smart Service Design Teacher

  • Mar 2013 - Apr 2013

  At European Institute of Design I've held a three months workshop on Digital Service Design. The workshop aimed to explore the process of designing digital services across a wide range of realms including health, tourism, retail, mobility, education and wellbeing. Through lateral thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication, participants were stimulated into imagining the future of everyday functions such as travelling, buying, learning, eating, enjoyment and socialization with the objective of improving quality of life at an individual as well as societal level. Show less