Simone Tulumello (PhD Urban and Regional Planning at University of Palermo) is Post-doc Researcher (Planning, Geography) at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, and member of Coordination Team of AESOP Young Academics. His research interests are: critical urban studies, planning theory/cultures, urban security, urban futures, neoliberalization and geography of crisis, Southern Europe.

Born in 1983, his background is in engineering and sustainable architecture. He has worked in international studios and research groups and he is Ph.D. with a thesis on creativity and design for urban and social innovation in disadvantage contexts. He is “Ines Bajardi Studio” designer and “The Piranesi Experience” founder.

Maurizio Carta is currently the Coordinator of the bachelor and master’s degrees in “Urban and Regional Planning”; he is deputy president of Scuola Politecnica, deputy director of the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo and delegate to territorial development. He leads and he is the scientific manager of the “Smart Planning Lab”, an applied research branch for planning and designing smart cities and communities.

Giuseppe Compagno graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1995 at the University of Palermo. Married with 2 children, he works since 20 years at STMicroelectronics. After covering different managerial roles, in 2008 he takes over the management of STMicroelectronics R&D Center located in Palermo where he coordinates the R&D activities in the areas of advanced circuital design, electronic testing of microcontrollers and System-on-chip devices for automotive applications.

Luigi Atzori is Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Cagliari, Fulbrighter (University of Arizona), visiting scholar in Telecom SudParis and founder of the spinoff GreenShare focused on ICT technologies to support smart mobility in urban areas. He is leading a laboratory dealing with Internet of Things and Quality of Experience issues, which are topics studied to design distributed applications to make the environment smart and user-aware. Since more than ten years, he is serving as reviewer for the European Commission.

Virginia, married with two children, graduated in Rome, has a Cambridge Master in Marketing. She worked for 12 years in Procter&Gamble. Founding member of Value Creation Team Company since 2000, she worked with RAI and the Italian Football Federation. She is Director of numerous boards of companies, national and international entities. From November 2010 to September 2011, she was chairman of the listed company, Retelit, operating in the field of broadband communications. Since 2010, she is CEO of E-Care.

Carlo Maria Medaglia is graduated in Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and he’s Ph.D. in Remote Sensing. He worked in several international research centres and he has been visiting professor in different campus, such as Wisconsin-Madison, Mariland – Baltimore County and Washington – Seattle. He founded and coordinated the scientific labs of CATTID at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and he’s professor of the Ph.D. course of Interaction Design of ISIA in Rome. He’s now executive of the Research Department at Link Campus University and Scientific Director of the Research Centre Dasic. He often works with the public administration. He’s also a startupper and a Seed Angel for more than 20 startups.

Since 2006 he is responsible for Cisco in Public Sector Market, in Southern Italy. He hold a degree in Computer Science – University of Bari (1996) and he is passionate about IT since he was 14 years old. Working hard for innovation in ICT, his goal and desire is to take part in digital transformation in Southern Italy, collaborating with public entities, private companies and startups. He is father of a typical “big Italian family”.