2015 SPEAKERS PROFILES

Etnoteam, Booz Allen Hamilton, AT Kearney, in 2008 he co-founded Management3 management consulting firm focused on the automotive sector and in 2011 the sister company Price Positioning Ltd focused on the automotive aftermarket on-line. Marco has funded and has participated in founding since 2008 several technology startups. Member of the association Italia Startup from the foundation in 2012, he has been elected to the Board of Directors and in September 2014 to the newly formed Executive Committee with delegation for International Affairs. He has been named Italian Business Angel of the Year in 2014 by IBAN the Italian Business Angel association and has contributed from 2009 to 2013 the development of the largest angel club in Italy : IAG Italian Angel for Growth. Marco collaborates with several business accelerators, startup competitions, schools, and institutions on the topics of startup and innovation.

During his tenure at the company, he also led research teams focused on ubiquitous mobile device interoperability with specific attention to the automotive domain.

Jörg works closely with multiple external partners around the globe in the automotive area. He is the original inventor and main technical architect behind the MirrorLink™ standard for car/smartphone connectivity. Since 2008 he has collaborated with the CE4A group of German carmakers and has created initial prototypes and promoted technologies for events such as IAA, MWC or CES. Jörg is currently the Chair of the Technical Work Group within the Car Connectivity Consortium, and responsible for the further development and enhancement of MirrorLink’s technical specifications. He frequently speaks and demos MirrorLink at conferences, workshops, and analyst and media events around the world.

Jörg received his diploma and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1994 and 1999 respectively. He then joined Nokia’s Research Center in Germany in 1999, where he worked on various computing architecture projects, including SoC architectures, reconfigurable accelerators, multi-processors and mobile virtualization. As part of his research, Jörg has been involved in the definition and execution of multiple national and European funded research projects in this domain.

by applying ELV’s convergence method. Until recently he led Emerging Technology for Vodafone Group. His role at Vodafone encompassed finding the newest technology and delivering disruptive products and services across Vodafone’s global footprint which encompassed looking after incubation and venture activities. Before joining Vodafone Michael was CEO of StepOne Ventures (Madrid, San Francisco, and New York), led the Spain Tech Center Incubator in San Francisco, created theMill, was director leading Jóvenes con Futuro — an NGO dedicated to helping software engineers gain skills and experience necessary for their career development and served as Senior Advisor to BBVA Innovation & Technology.

An active figure in the startup world in the US, Europe, and Africa, Michael is a long time TechStars, StartupBootcamp, and Virgin Startup mentor to name a few. He is committed East London Venture’s convergence practice — combining startups with innovation teams, investors, and large clients to create products and joint ventures that guarantee scalability, and put smiles on the faces of users. Michael is the current Chairman of the Board for Bamboo Seed Capital in Spain, is on the board of Vodafone Ventures Egypt and Safaricom Ventures (Zindua Fund) Kenya, works with New York City Economic Development Council and is the founder of the Fintech working group for the Tech London Advocates.

Michael is an active speaker on a variety of topics and has been a guest lecturer and adjunct professor at IE Business School, IESE, IED (Madrid), the University of Texas, the State University of New York, the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and the ESIC Business School. He’s been a keynote and panelist at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the TM Forum in San Jose, and the GMIC in San Francisco. Recently he was chosen as a Tech Tastemaker by Details Magazine in recognition of his achievements in technology, fashion, music, and their intersection. Michael is a Brownsville, Texas native and holds degrees from the State University of New York and Boston University.

In Lamborghini, Alessandro had the chance to lead the development of Gallardo air conditioning system and then he took the role of Suppliers Quality Manager.

After about 4 years in Lamborghini, Alessandro joined Indesit Company for 8 years taking in charge the Consumer Services Division of several different international markets.

Developing new service business models is a real passion for Alessandro and since 2015 he takes care about the market development of Insurance and Fleet Telematics in Southern Europe region for Vodafone Automotive.

especially on Software Applications for B2C and B2B (security, digital elaboration) in Germany.
Her passion for the Connected Car started in 2008, when she joined ATX Inc. (today known as Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services), a Telematics Service Provider, headquartered in Dallas/TX, which supported OEMs like BMW and Peugeot to introduce their Connected Car Programs on the European market.
Her mission by Novero Group is to establish the concept of the Connected Car on the market through innovative product concepts which meet the expectation of the connected driver of today and tomorrow.especially on Software Applications for B2C and B2B (security, digital elaboration) in Germany.
Her passion for the Connected Car started in 2008, when she joined ATX Inc. (today known as Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services), a Telematics Service Provider, headquartered in Dallas/TX, which supported OEMs like BMW and Peugeot to introduce their Connected Car Programs on the European market.
Her mission by Novero Group is to establish the concept of the Connected Car on the market through innovative product concepts which meet the expectation of the connected driver of today and tomorrow.

He previously worked in key roles at Vodafone and Aeris as well as various consulting roles and running his own asset tracking business in Eastern Europe. Max has a keen interest in all things automotive and raced professionally in his early career, and still participates in classic racing.

of experience in geographic information systems and environmental data management, with projects in international research and corporate settings. In parallel to this, since 2007 he started to develop his own line of activity in communication, marketing and awareness raising, primarily related to promotion and protection of lesser known resources in the areas of culture, environment, and open innovation.

Most of the activities he manages in this field have a strong component of community engagement and social innovation, and he as received awards and national media visibility for his main projects. He is based in Southern Tuscany, and operates both with local communities and international networks (occasionally bridging these two dimensions).

website: http://www.pibinko.org

and through his industry contacts and knowledge of the industry , has grown the practice into a  significant  business for BT.

He stays close to the trends in the industry and  leads on proposition development, helping to realise and monetise  those trends through the deployment of  ICT capabilities. One of those trends ,the connected car,  where security plays a key role, has led to the BT launch of  a solution  Ethical Hacking  for Vehicles. He has worked with many blue chip companies in the Automotive & Transportation industries, including GM, VW, FCA and many more.

on applications, encoders and decoders for all parts of the digital radio broadcast chain. This includes multiplexer head-end solutions, chipset components and receiver implementations. In addition the Broadcast Applications Group offers consulting and project planning to customers.

the station-based Car Sharing Company based in Florence. Director General of ACI Infomobility, Board Member of Agenzia Radio Traffic, the Companies in charge of the info mobility services within the group. Previously project leader at the ACI Technical Department, in the field of consumer protection, telematics, road and vehicle safety under the FIA ( Federation Internationale de l’Automobile ) and Board Member of Euro NCAP (European New Car Assessment Programme). Coordinator of several studies, surveys and awareness campaigns in the consumer protection field, with a special focus on Road Safety awareness campaigns (HeERO on eCall, Walk Safe on pedestrian safety, ChooseESC!, Safe in tunnels, etc.).
Francesco contributed to increase advocacy mission in ACI and to steer the Real Time Traffic and Travel Information services, as Program Manager of “LuceVerde”, the regional mobility information services brand of ACI. Since 2011 he has been ACI Project Manager of the EU-Funded HeERO Project, aimed at developing the pan-European eCall service (on board 112-based emergency call). ACI representative at the ARC Europe “Telematic and Traffic Standing Committee” (until May 2014). Vice-President of TTS Italia, the National ITS Association in the period 2005-2008. He has been committed as a consultant in several transportation and traffic studies, projects on road safety and as lecturer in the framework of academic courses. Author of speeches, papers and media interviews about mobility issues, road safety, ITS, at national and international level. Often appointed to chair conferences and workshops dealing with ITS and road safety topics.

business unit most recently product manager for smart grid management. He was also a technical lead as part of New Ventures in the IoT Group driving platform development. He is the founder and partner of R&D intensive network planning companies – responsible for business requirements and integration in planning tool portfolio.

With more than ten years of R&D and business experience in industry and academia, Dr. Nielsen often acts as a subject matter expert in the field of Communications and Networks focusing on Secure Network Architectures, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Optical Network Planning and Optimization, Virtualization and Management. From 2010 to 2012 he was working in academia as a Postdoctoral Researcher and from April 2011 as Assistant Professor. He has been a visiting research at Princeton University, USA as well as a senior researcher at CTIF-USA and visiting researcher at Yokosuka Research Park, Japan. He has been the technical manager on several industrial and European Commission projects and has broad R&D knowledge in architectures, operational research and optimization.

Dr. Nielsen has a M.Sc. EE degree from Aalborg University, Denmark from where he also holds a Ph.D. EE along with an industrial Ph.D. degree. He has a larger number of publications in internationally recognized journals and conference proceedings along with two book chapters.

mobile app or inside the car navigation systems of some of the world’s most recognized car brands. Dr. Puvogel’s main responabilities at Parkopedia includer driving sales and marketing as well as managing operations across Parkopedia’s markets in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.

Prior to joining Parkopedia, Dr. Puvogel was General Manager at ICT Automotive and General Manager at INRIX Europe.

Fluent in 6 languages, Hans Puvogel has a 20 year track record in building and growing international businesses, as well as experience in software and data services for the automotive and telecommunications industry.

,Ronchini has actively contributed to various specialized publications and regularly lectures at seminars and university courses.

After earning his degree in Computer Science and specializing in Artificial Intelligence, in 1991 Gabriele Ronchini began his career with Inferentiaand in 1996 took charge of the startup company Inferentia Interactive, whose goal was to become a main player on the emerging market of interactive media.

In 1999, Ronchini joined IBM Consulting, which specializes in e-business consulting, and was assigned with the task of maintaining the relationships with the group’s most important customers.

In 2000 he was at the helm of Grey Interactive Italia, a company belonging to the American network Grey Global Group.

In 2004 he became a founding member and Vice President of Digital Magics. Ronchini is responsible for AdTech and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors.

Ronchini founded then the startup 4w MarketPlace, which he still leads with enthusiasm and dedication.

He’s a TOGAF Enterprise Architect and ITIL Certified Practitioner to support the design of the tomorrow’s IoT solutions while expanding the business possibilities with the best Cloud Integration in the Automotive Industry. He’s based in Italy and speaks Italian, English and Spanish.

Since 2001 managed teams of various dimensions (up to 15 people) also in international environment. Between 2001 and 2004 working as Due Diligence manager of a regional development agency managing an investment portfolio of €50ml.3 years Operations Manager of Progetto Manifattura, the first italian cleantech incubator, coordinating a team of 6 people and managing a €2ml budget. Currently Trentino Sviluppo Innovation & Startup Unit Manager, coordinating a team of 6 people, responsible of 6 incubators and all the startup programs. Mentor of about 80 companies in 3 years.