Enterprise AI, from strategy to production.
AI and data executive with 15+ years of international experience across global health, banking, biopharma, manufacturing and commerce — combining executive strategy with hands-on architecture. Also a founder: from Italy’s first online ticketing platform in 1994 to an AI-native commerce SaaS in 2025.
- Location
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Ventures founded
- CapodannoRoma (1994) · “Internet and Databases” magazine · Solara28 (2025)
- Languages
- Italian (native), English (fluent), German, French
- Focus
- Generative & agentic AI, AI governance, data platforms
- Sectors
- Global health, banking, biopharma, manufacturing, commerce
Visionary
Seeing the next shift early, then building it.
E-commerce in 1994, AI-assisted development in 2014, AI digital twins in manufacturing in 2020, an agentic software factory in 2025. Each idea came first, the product followed, and the thinking was shared on stages across Europe.
- 1994E-commerce for live events
Founded CapodannoRoma and built Italy’s first B2C e-commerce platform for live-event ticketing.
Read the experience → - 1994Publishing on the internet and databases
Launched the magazine “Internet and Databases” before the age of 20; it grew into three B2B technology titles reaching 285,000 companies a month.
Read the experience → - 1998Online travel booking
Co-architected Helloitaly.it, the first online travel portal in Italy, later acquired by Expedia Group, with 15,000+ hotels online.
Read the experience → - 2010Open data standards for science
Authored the Darwin Core Germplasm data standard, presented at TDWG 2010 in Woods Hole, USA.
Read the experience → - 2014AI-assisted software development
Working with AI development tools since 2014, long before agentic coding assistants.
- 2020AI digital twins in manufacturing
A hybrid AI digital twin using deep learning on 768 real-time sensor streams cut plant downtime by 48% and won the Best DSM Corporate Research Project award; the solution later integrated GPT-3.5 and Llama 2 to read maintenance logs.
Read the experience → - 2021–2025Generative AI on European stages
Keynotes and co-chair roles in Berlin, Zurich, Frankfurt, Kassel and Morges on Lab 4.0, ChatGPT in R&D and manufacturing, and why “this time is different” for AI.
See the presentations ↗ - 2025The agentic software factory
Built Solara28 with 32 AI agents in eight virtual teams: 6M+ lines of production code, audited at about 275 person-years of engineering.
Read the experience → - 2025Local-first, sovereign commerce
Designed Solara28 as a zero-commission, GDPR-native alternative to global marketplaces, returning data and margins to European merchants.
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On stage in Europe
All presentations on buonaiuto.work ↗- March 2025 · Swiss radio LoRaArtificial Intelligence and Generative AI for business and our livesInterview
- October 2024 · ZurichAI – This Time is Different!?Co-keynote with Dalith Steiger · Let’s Talk AI Summit
- 2024 · MorgesSpeech to the leadership team of IncyteSpeaker
- July 2024 · KasselThe Generative AI revolution in manufacturing and processesKeynote · Leaders Dialog Conference
- September 2023 · BerlinNavigating Digital Disruption: ChatGPT in R&D and ManufacturingCo-chair & keynote · World Smart Bioprocessing Summit – Pharma 4.0
- 2023 · ZurichThe impact of Generative AIYEX – Italian Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland
- 2023 · ZurichSwiss Data Leaders – Leaders Dialog on Big Data & AISpeaker
- 2023 · ZurichCybersecurity Strategy DaySpeaker
- 2023 · ZurichAI R&D 4.0 Strategy ConferenceSpeaker
- 2023 · ZurichSyngenta R&D AI LeadershipSpeaker
- May 2022 · BerlinA Journey Towards R&D Lab 4.0: The 4th Industrial Revolution in R&DKeynote · Pharma 4.0 Summit
- 2022 · FrankfurtInnovation Roundtable SummitSpeaker
- 2022 · BerlinAI, Data Analytics & Insights SummitSpeaker
- 2021 · Co-chair & speakerPharma Digital Transformation ConferenceConference
Founder & entrepreneur
Ventures built from zero across three decades, from Italy’s first online ticketing platform to an AI-native commerce SaaS.
AI-native, zero-commission commerce platform for European merchants: 300+ business functions and 6M+ lines of code, built single-handedly with 32 AI agents.
2025–2026 · Creator · open sourceBuonaiuto-Doc4LLMOpen-source MCP server that gives AI coding assistants current, version-aware documentation.
2019–2024 · Founder · internal start-upDigital Hub, PolandAgile, start-up-like AI research group inside DSM-Firmenich, with proven savings of €650,000 a year.
1994–2006 · Founder, then Publishing Director“Internet and Databases”Magazine launched before the age of 20; grew into three B2B technology publications reaching 285,000 companies a month.
1994–2006 · Start-up Founder & Chief TechnologistCapodannoRomaItaly’s first B2C e-commerce platform for live-event ticketing, pioneered, architected and scaled.
Every experience from 1994 to today, most recent first, with all contributions.
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Open → 68 credentialsCredentialsDegree, 52 certifications, awards, publications, keynotes and languages.
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