5 April, 15:00-18:00
Aula Gerace, Department of Computer Science, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, Pisa
Language: EN
Ray Garcia (Chairman)
Ray Garcia is the managing director of Buoyant Capital, a global peer advisory think tank addressing the growth challenges of small to medium sized enterprises. The firm coordinates its team of experts to help its clients improve competitiveness through talent management, global market expansion partnership access, technology asset management, capital investment and restructuring. Buoyant Capital was founded in 2000 in New York City and has helped launch several start-up companies and works as an advisory to company founders, CEO's, and their investors. Ray has over 20 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, as company CTO co-founder, for four venture-backed companies. Earlier in his career, he worked as an executive for major banks including, Citicorp, Republic National Bank (now HSBC), Bank of America, and as a technology consultant to several large US multi-national corporations. In 2008, he served as an executive in resident at MIT Media Lab. Since 2010 he serves on the advisory board of Baruch College Field Center for Entrepreneurship. From 2011 to 2014, he taught an accelerated course in entrepreneurship at the University of Pisa, Italy, School of Economics, to PhD candidates and International MBA executives with a focus on innovation, technology transfer and venture spin-offs. In 2015 he is serving as a business expert to EU Commission Horizon 2020 SME innovation instrument where he will evaluate commercialization grant proposals of technology ventures and coach company executives who have received grant funding. Ray published the books "StartUP SOAR Coaching" and "Launch a Global Business" which are based on his experiences starting and growing global businesses. The books include the material from his courses, lectures, and coaching. (amazon.com/author/raygarcia)
Roundtable Participants
Gualtiero Fantoni
founder Viper
Gualtiero Fantoni is Associate Professor of Advanced Manufacturing Systems at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa. His research interests include industrial grasping, handling and feeding; creativity and product innovation; crowdsourcing and collaborative design tools; computer analysis of technical texts. His publications include more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and 15 patents. Founder of 2 design laboratories FabLabPisa and Leaning Lab and of 2 startups, ErreQuadro and TOI.
Vincenzo Ferrari
co-founder E-sPress 3d
Vincenzo Ferrari, after graduating in Computer Engineering with a thesis on the development of humanoid man-machine interfaces, started his first research work on similar issues at the National Research Council of Padua, where he also developed tools for the acquisition and analysis of biomechanical data related to phonation in pathological subjects or not. Then, he worked for a private company as a R&D coordinator of a small team to develop systems for data acquisition and quality control by artificial vision (in the pharmaceutical division) and voice interactive systems, animatronics and 3D avatars (in the Entertainment division). During this period he discovered how to work to translate research, in particular algorithms for machine vision and virtual reality, into products. He started his first experience with European research projects, working for that Company in a project concerning the development of an intelligent system for medical reporting. In 2006 he decided to start academic research in the biomedical field joining the EndoCAS Centre for Computer Assisted Surgery of the University of Pisa as a PhD Student. He defended his thesis in February 2009 regarding segmentation, registration and mixed reality and afterwards, he became the scientific coordinator of EndoCAS. During the Phd studies and the previous experiences, he matured competences and interests for his research activities: development of innovative algorithms and devices for Image Guided Surgery and Surgical Simulation. He is now working very close to the clinical needs and some of his inventions are patented. The SpinOff Company he founded, is based on one of his patents.
Paolo Lanari
CEO Kyunsis
Paolo Lanari, CEO e co-fondatore di Kiunsys e Liberologico. Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione e un lungo periodo di contratti di ricerca presso la Scuola Normale Superiore. Paolo Lanari, CEO and co-founder of Kiunsys and Liberologico. MSc in Computer Science and a long research activity at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Davide Morelli
co-founder Biobeats
Davide Morelli, co-founder of BioBeats, leads the engineering team. A specialist in the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and music, he previously ran a successful distributed software consultancy (Parser) for ten years. He is also an active composer, and his PhD focuses on energy models for algorithms that illuminate correlations.