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The 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2016) took place in Genoa, Italy, from 28 November to 1 December 2016. It has hosted by the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering at the University of Genoa.
AI*IA 2016 is organized by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA – Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale), which is a non-profit scientific society founded in 1988 devoted to the promotion of Artificial Intelligence. The society aims to increase the public awareness of AI, encourage the teaching of it and promote research in the field.
Pietro Leo
IBM Italy CTO Big Data Analytics & Watson, IBM Academy of Technology
Leadership
He is an IT solution MAKER that enjoyed to work for 22 years
in the data analytics area. He currently works for IBM as
Executive Architect and acting as the IBM Italy CTO for Big
Data Analytics and Watson. He enjoys to be the key technical
actor of the system of engagement IBM Italy is running in this
area. Served as technical leader and data scientist in a
number of analytics projects whose overall effort size can be
content on over 150 years/man, working both at the national
and international levels. At the same time he served also as
scientific responsible in a number of applied research
initiatives funded from European Union as well as from Italian
Government on innovative areas collaborating with tens of
research teams.
Received more than a dozen of IBM special awards for high
technical achievements including also the mention into the
IBM Corporate Technical Award Book 2010 and 2013 editions
that includes all top technical performers and scientists of
IBM at worldwide level. Invited speaker in Industrial and
Scientific Conferences as well as member of Scientific
Committees of Scientific and Technical Conferences.
He is author or co-author of about 70 scientific/technical
publications for Journals and/or presented during National
and International Conferences, including two books edited by
IBM Redbook organization.
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