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Massimo Temporelli holds a degree in physics and worked for 10 years as a curator at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. Today, he is a digital fabrication entrepreneur, consultant, and keynote speaker on innovation, with a particular focus on the relationship between humans and technology and all the anthropological and sociological implications that this relationship entails and will continue to entail.

He is president and co-founder of TheFabLab, a digital fabrication lab based in Milan. He was a TEDx speaker in 2012 (Florence) and 2020 (Turin). He has hosted popular science television programs for Sky and Rai. He is the author and host of the famous podcast F***ing Genius (Storielibere.fm). He writes for Wired and Millionaire magazines, and his latest book is *We Are Technology* (Mondadori, Strade blu, 2021). In 2016, he won the “Federico Faggin Innovation Award,” and since 2017, he has been an ambassador for AIRC.

Ludovico Diaz, CEO of NTT DATA Italia since April 2024, was born in Verona in 1970. He is married with two children and has lived in Milan for many years.

He earned a degree in Mathematics from the University of Padua while simultaneously studying piano and French horn at the “E. F. Dall’Abaco” Conservatory of Music in Verona.  

He began his professional career in the world of Information and Communication Technology—a field in which he has a deep interest—first as a technology consultant at a local firm and then as an evangelist for Microsoft Italy.

In 2000, he helped found VPWeb—which later became Value Team—which joined the Japanese multinational NTT DATA in 2011. After several years in Italy, during which he held increasingly prominent roles as a consultant and relationship manager for some of the group’s key clients, in 2010 he became CEO of the group’s Turkish subsidiary, overseeing business development and management in the MENA region—a role he successfully held for four years.

In 2014, he became CEO of Selecta Digital Services, a company he guided through its transformation from an industrial firm into a Data Tech Company, establishing its position as a key player in the field of Digital Transformation. 

In 2022, the merger with Datlas gave rise to Datlas Group, the only company in the Italian market to offer outsourcing services for inbound and outbound Data Validation and Multichannel Communication processes. 

Firmly convinced that the relationship between art and science is a fertile ground where creative and analytical thinking meet and enrich one another, Ludovico Diaz approaches his profession with passion, combining innovation and ethics. 

Luca Foresti, an entrepreneur and scientist with a background in physics and finance, is the CEO of FirstPrinciples.it. He focuses on AI, robotics, and deep tech, with the goal of creating companies that change the world by starting from first principles