Alberto Onetti is Professor of business administration and innovation management at the Department of Economics of the Insubria University. He is Head of the CrESIT Research Centre since its inception.  He acts as Pro-Rector for innovation and academic high-tech spin-offs.
Since 2006 he is Visiting Professor at San Francisco State University. He’s also Chairman and Board Member of Mind the Bridge Foundation, the California non-profit organization that connects the most innovative Italian startups with Silicon Valley’s partners and investors.
He is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with a strong focus in corporate strategy and corporate finance. Among the others, he co-founded Funambol, Inc., an open mobile source company in Foster City, CA.

Dr. Versaggi is president of Versaggi Biocommunications, a marketing consultancy specializing in corporate and marketing communications for the global life-science industry. With nearly 30 years of strategic marketing and communications experience, he helped launch a number of industry firsts — including the first genetically engineered vaccine for Chiron Corp. (marketed by Merck & Co.), the first applications of minimally invasive surgery for CardioThoracic Systems (now Abbott Vascular), the first DNA arrays for Hyseq Inc., and the first genomic disease management products for Vysis Inc. (now Abbott Molecular) to help qualify breast cancers patients for Herceptin® (Genentech).

Mr. Roberts is the managing partner of the law firm, Global Capital Law Group, and CEO of its affiliated strategic consulting firm, Global Capital Strategic Group. He splits his time between Los Angeles and Milan (well, other places, too). He tries to bring law into the strategic realm because, too often, management views it as a cost center and an impediment to implementation. He also try to de-mystify it. On the consulting side, he works with his colleagues to develop strategies that can be implemented and then implement them. Look for his work (in both law and consulting) on startups, venture capital, licensing, international expansion and mergers & acquisitions in digital media and technology (e.g., cross-platform or mobile projects), cleantech and other advanced technology initiatives, especially those that cross borders.

Mr. Camiciotti is responsible for the Development Program of the TOP-IX Consortium.
 The program aims at facilitating new business creation by providing infrastruc¬tural support, such as Internet bandwidth and cloud computing, to early stage Internet ventures. Previously, he was Research Scientist, Strategy & Business Development Officer and Business Owner at Philips Corporate Research. He enjoys venture creation, business development, disruptive innovation, and he adds, “…mostly, curious people!” Mr. Camiciotti graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Turin.

Mr. Farneti has been an active venture capital investor in start-up businesses both in Europe and in the US since 1997. He is a Partner at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures where he focuses on enterprise, internet and mobile software and services. His investment portfolio includes Handmade Mobile, Garlik, and FourthDD and realized investments in Gomez Inc (acquired by Compuware), Plazes (acquired by Nokia), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Mobango (acquired by People). Before Doughty Hanson he co-founded the first venture capital fund of Deutsche Bank and he was a management consultant at Bain & Co in Italy.

Mr. Magnocavallo is a serial entrepreneur, product manager and technology executive. The last company he founded Blogo, become the most visited vertical blog network in Europe with more than 11 ml/uu month with activities in 5 countries. He sold a first stake of Blogo to RCS/Dada and then sold the whole company to Populis for 8,5 million USD. He is also an angel investor and in many cases a board member. He has currently invested in companies in the US, UK and in Italy including: WebMynd, NextDigest, NoiseToys, Fubles and Iubenda. In these deals ha has co-invested with great investors like 500 Startups/Dave McClure, Founders Found, Paul Graham, Kauffman Foundation and dPixel. He is also a startup mentor and panelist at many events and have been covered in Techcrunch, Read/Write Web, Alarm Clock, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Wired.

Mr. Ciociola is founder and CEO of MusiXMatch , a new startup focused on Music + Online Ads Platform.
He has more than 11 years worldwide experience in Mobile Entertainment and Music Market. In 1999 he founded one of the first Mobile Entertainment player: Wireless Solutions spa, then part of DADA Group in 2001 (DA.MI).
He defines himself as a Web&Mobile and technology Passionate with a 100% entrepreneurial spirit and huge experience on Product Marketing and Placement, Business Development and Marketing.
He has built and managed relationship with more than 35 mobile carriers worldwide (TIM Brazil, Telecom Italia Group, Telefonica, Vodafone, Orange, TMN, ATT, Sprint, Verizon, Oi Telemar, Vivo, America Movil, Claro, America Movil,Telcel, TMN, Optimus, etc.).
In addition to that he managed global deal with Sony

Pietro is a passionate entrepreneur turned venture capital investor.
He is active angel investor in Picklive, PluggPluss, FourThumbs, Dri Dri; is member of IAG; is Mentor at Seedcamp and Oxygen Accelerator.
Currently Pietro is working to build a new European venture fund specialized in Digital Media.
Pietro has 12+ years experience in Internet, Mobile and Media sectors. In 2000, Pietro founded Neo Network, where in the role of CEO brings a garage born start up to be one of the international leader in Digital Entertainment with > 30€M annual turnover via an organic, diversified and global growth. After acquisition of Neo Network by Magnolia, Pietro became Magnolia shareholders and cooperated to acquisition process of Magnolia by Zodiak Media (De Agostini Group).

Stefano will soon move to the SF bay area to work at a 5-people VC-funded startup.
He most recently was Dave McClure’s shadow at 500startups. He previously was an associate at dPixel, the leading early stage venture capital firm in Italy.
He is involved in various roles in: SaveMyInbox, GoWar, Iubenda, Coderloop, HackItaly, Techcrunch Europe and HackFwd.

Mr. Asquini is an industrial designer, serial entrepreneur, restructuring specialist, and the co-founder of Super//Fluo, a Pordenone-based company focused on the design and creation of Friulian TVs, plasmas and LCDs. Super//Fluo is the product of a 2006 restructuring that he implemented of Seleco Brionvega and Imperial, well established names in high-end consumer electronics. Additionally, Mr. Asquini is the co-founder of the Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), the largest angel investment group in Italy aimed at promoting Italian entrepreneurship.

A native of Udine, Mr. Asquini gained his first entrepreneurial experience in 2001 through the acquisition of Spei Orion S.p.A, a printed circuit-board manufacturer. In less than nine months he brought the company from three negative fiscal years to a net profit of €1 million.

Marco is a director at the consulting unit of Cisco (aka IBSG – Internet Business Solutions Group), focusing on telecom and media industry.
His work is on global basis with a threefold role:
- advising top customers and strategic prospects of Cisco to identify, analyze and pursue business innovations that are (also) enabled by digital technologies (not only from Cisco)
- co-operating with internal B.U.s to assess market opportunities and align development roadmaps
- supporting due diligence activities as part of M&A
Prior to Cisco Marco worked 15+ years in management consulting, also for A.T. Kearney and Booz & Co. 

At that time he essentially worked for Telcos, having relevant engagements related to service creation, processes redesign, newco launch.