AI for Procurement

EVENT DETAILS

Guest speakers will discuss what is generative artificial Intelligence, AI applications in procurement and supply chain and case studies from markets.

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EVENT SPEAKERS

Carmelo Pulvirenti

Service Global Account Executive, Microsoft.

Service Global Account Executive at Microsoft. He has more than 15 years of experience within large IT companies. He started his career as engineer at IBM, growing in different roles within Microsoft Service Division: Technical Account Manager, Account Delivery Executive. In his current position, Carmelo is responsible for leading and envisioning large digital transformation initiatives mainly related to IoT, AI, and Data Analytic. Carmelo is passionate about technology and resides in Milan with his family.

Christian Racca

Senior Engineer & Program Manager, TOP-IX. 

Senior Engineer & Program Manager at TOP-IX, hold a degree in telecommunication engineering, and in the early years of his professional journey, he honed his technical expertise, focusing on networking, audio-video streaming, and cloud computing.

From 2012 to 2020, he assumed the leadership of BIG DIVE, a renowned training program in Data Science, Data Visualization, and Data Engineering. Currently, he is the leader of the Impact Deal Acceleration program and lead various innovation projects in Civic Technologies, data and digital entrepreneurship.

Matteo Quaresmini

Business Consultant, NTTData

In NTTData, he works as a Business Consultant, Data-Driven,AI&ML for Business and ChainAnalytics. He has over ten years of experience leading data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence projects in a consulting firm.
He earned two master's degrees with distinction in behavioural economics and neuromarketing, with the thesis "Artificial neural networks for market segmentation: a study of e-commerce perceptions with Self-Organizing Maps.

Giacomo Vitali

Senior Manager Procurement Services, Presso Snam

He has over 30 years of experience in SNAM, most recently in the Supply Chain department, where he dealt with the development and management of Purchasing Planning, strengthening the control of activities, and he follows Vendor Management in terms of relationships with suppliers and compliance with internal controls, as well as checks with bodies such as Anac, social security bodies, and Prefectures for anti-mafia documentation.

Still working in the Supply Chain compliance field, he deals with tender procedures in the commercial and public sectors, as well as subcontracts, as RUP of regulated enterprises. In recent years, he has had the privilege of serving as the functional contact for Supply Chain Digitization, studying and developing RPA, Machine Learning, and AI solutions.