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Keynote: Rethinking AI - Can We Do Better Than Good Enough?

Machine Learning Week 2024, 18/11/2024 Munich OpenAI took an amazing idea - transformers - and sold it like a dream: ask AI. Now every company needs to sell AI-something, no matter what. But what if this craziness could be our best chance to face the truth about connectionism

Talk: Lesson learned implementing a large data mesh at Payback

CDO Europe Exchange 2024, 18/11/2024 Munich with Norbert Wirth, VP of Data at PAYBACK Data Mesh aims at solving the challenges of modern data-driven and data-intensive organizations with 4 key pillars: * Data products: Ensure data is contextualized and accessible to all * Self-serve infrastructure: Simplify data product development with

Talk: L'io, la creatività e l'AI

bergamo[incontra] 2024, Bergamo L’intelligenza è espressione della dignità umana: «…col suo lavoro e col suo ingegno l’uomo ha cercato sempre di sviluppare la propria vita» (“Gaudium et Spes”, Papa Francesco). Creare cose nuove, migliorare quello che abbiamo intorno rendendolo più bello e funzionale, scoprire nuove possibilità, ha

I don't get this over-excitement about AI-generated code.

(this article first appeared on linkedin). We had this brilliant idea of combining Leibniz's binary system with Gödel numbering and Turing universal machine into very efficient transistor-based machines, capable of executing an incredible number of simple operations per second. The only problem was/is that translating the information

Panel: Sustainable Cloud Computing: ownership, mission, and target

Codemotion conference, 19/10/2022 Milan with Serena Sensini, Andrea Tosato, Chiara Muzzolon Le parole “ecologia” e “sostenibilità” sono diventate negli ultimi anni parole chiave e, giustamente, soprattutto a causa dell'accelerazione della crisi climatica globale. Le aziende di tutto il mondo riconoscono la necessità urgente di agire sul

Panel: Future Translations

On July 7th 2022, SDDMilan hosted an aperitivo called Future Translations. Among many interesting questions explored during the event, two captured my attention: What complexities are we managing as humans, as a society, as the planet? How the design discipline becomes relevant in this context? What complexity? For a long

Talk: CaD (Code as Data) - How data insights on legacy codebases can fill the knowledge gap in complex modernization projects

How data insights on legacy codebases can fill the knowledge gap in complex modernization projects.

Article: Five tips from the data awesome frontline (part three)

By Sara Michelazzo, Swapnil Deshpande, and Alessandro Confetti. Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights, January 13, 2022. This is the third article in the three-part series. Read Part One and Part Two here. In the first two parts of this series, we explored how even the best-engineered data platforms can

Article: The ‘data awesome’ framework (part two)

By Sara Michelazzo, Swapnil Deshpande, and Alessandro Confetti. Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights, January 7, 2022. This is the second article in the three-part series. Read Part One and Part Three here. What is the data awesome framework? In the second part of this three-part series we’ll explore

Article: Why do data platforms fail? (part one)

By Sara Michelazzo, Swapnil Deshpande, and Alessandro Confetti. Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights, December 10, 2021. This is the first article in the three-part series. Read Part Two and Part Three here. Companies have spent untold millions on data projects over the years — all too often with unsatisfactory results.

Article: This is how data governance builds trust

Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights, September 06, 2021. “Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.” – Elon Musk, April 2018  Most technologists believe that with R&D, time and resources – everything can be done. Elon Musk’s story shows us

Talk: DataMesh in the world of Legacy

Data Engineenring Milan Meetup, Milan, 14/07/2021 Data Mesh is rapidly gaining traction as a modern way to unlock value from the vast data assets usually held by companies. Often though, even when attacking the world of data with a Data Mesh approach, we have to face the legacy

Talk: Was the technology really useful this time?

Rethink! [http://rethinkfestival.it/], Milan 06/10/2020 The impact of the pandemic on digital has had two unexpected outcomes. First, it shifted the debate from how to prevent technology from isolating people, to how it could allow them to stay in touch. But above all it has shown that

Talk: Confronting the Unknown — Art as Technology Research

Rethink!, Milan 20/06/2020 The health crisis we are experiencing is teaching us a hard lesson, establishing at the same time a new and pervasive exposure of everyone to digital tools and channels even in everyday and more traditional activities. All digital/virtual/asynchronous interactions are no longer experienced

Article: Make legacy applications first-class citizens of event-driven architectures via cloud, DevOps and CDC

Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights, July 13th 2020. By Alessandro Confetti  and Enrico Piccinin Modern systems are increasingly designed around event-driven architecture concepts. Essentially, you’ll have a bunch of microservices running on cloud, interconnected via fast asynchronous streams of business events. There are many benefits of such an

Talk: Scuttlebutt or how to exit Facebook and start coding your first web 3.0 social network

Codemotion [https://events.codemotion.com/conferences/berlin/2019/], Berlin 13/11/2019 SSB (aka SecureScuttleButt) it's a gossip-based web 3.0 protocol that allows developers to write off-grid/serverless P2P social networks that can even fall back to sneakernet and be useful in places where your Facebook profile

Talk: What is Lightning Network and how it works

BlockchainDevs, Milan 08/04/2019 Is there such a thing as a fast bitcoin chain? Slides

Talk: How to avoid a Web 3.0 babele: transclusions and folksonomies in a content-addressed and block-chained world

Codemotion, Berlin 20/11/2018 Web 3.0 decentralised apps and services are igniting the third revolution of the web. Will we be able to avoid the mistakes of the previous Web revolutions and finally make the internet what visionaries like Vannevar Bush and Theodor Nelson envisioned in the late

Talk: oop vs functional - stop the fight and start building message driven serverless applications

Codemotion, Berlin 20/11/2018 Let's get back to the time when languages could be defined with just 6 reserved keywords or none at all, and learn how the ideas that John McCarthy and Alan Key envisioned in Lisp and Smalltalk are still alive and kicking in our

Webinar: Through the looking glass (of the blockchain)

Blockchain and crypto values conference Free Webinar, Milan 29/05/2018 Everybody nowadays talks about the blockchain and how it could empower a new and incredible range of applications. But what it's stored inside a block and what is suitable for? What is worth to store in and

Talk: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

A Resilient City - Designing services for the future of Milan, Politecnico of Milan, 26/04/2018 What is a blockchain from a designer's point of view? What kind of services could be imagined with cryptocurrencies? Blockchain Slides Cryptocurrencies Slides

Talk: Learn how to build decentralized and serverless HTML5 applications with Embarkjs, Ethereum, and IPFS

Codemotion, Milan 11/11/2017 Do you have an idea for a startup and don't want to pay for scaling it up? Forget about bandwidth problems, servers to install and pay for, with the power of IPFS and the blockchain. In this talk, we will explore how to

quantified-self is passé, let me introduce the brand new linked-self

When I think about all the quantified-self stuff, I can't help but recall this xkcd strip [https://xkcd.com/598/]. Quantified self [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantified_Self], lifelogging [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog], IoT [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things], are all "

Talk: The pandora security model

Data Driven Innovation Conference, Rome 24/02/2017 This talk is about the relationships and problems between digital identities and the data silos where we are storing all our digital life. I will go into deeper details about the Pandora Security model (a new model for dealing such problems), the

what Pirandello, Rifkin and Pandora have to do with digital identity

In his 1926 novel one, no one and one hundred thousand [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_No_One_and_One_Hundred_Thousand], Pirandello talks about the struggle between our perceived identity and the masks that society force us to wear every day. It's a funny and bitter

are we building a new kind of tradition?

Since our days at school, we have all been taught about oral traditions and how they were marginalized by the advent of the written ones. A great portion of our cultures just faded away during the past centuries, unless it was "written down". A lot of researches have

it's cold and dark outside your beloved ssh servers after MacOS Sierra upgrade

If like me you own very old ssh keys, chances are that are a weak dsa ones. Unfortunately for us lazy admins, the latest release of MacOS seems to be compliant with the latest openssh policies [http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html]. OpenSSH 7.0 and greater similarly disable the

backup vmware esxi with a rake (script)

Recently we built a small VMware ESXi cluster (3 nodes) for testing and developing purpose. After playing with it for a while (and spinning up a few dozen vms), we started looking around for a cheap and simple backup solution. step 0 - install the tools * install ruby [https://www.

... a little rspec(t) for Qlikview

In the past I've been asked to test a complex Qlikview Project with lots of variables, events and macros. Manual testing was becoming too complex and boring, so I helped adding a bit of rspec to the mix. I've been using rspec to test almost everything

Talk: Agile vs ??

Appsterdam Milan meetup 15/10/2015 How to become a happy Agile developers... and never feel lost