David Casalini

I design experiences that help people embrace complexity #wearehiring #runwithus

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Technogym

Digital Operations Director

Italia Startup is the Italian Innovation Ecosytem Association. Founded in 2012, Italia Startup has contributed under the leadership of its first President, Riccardo Donadon, to the devolopment of the startup business in Italy and the startup legislation.

I have been appointed Executive Board Member for the Italian Startup Ecosystem Development

Italia Startup

Board Member

The Department for Innovation and Digitization of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers is a startup within the Italian Public Sector, which has the ambitious goal to provide all citizens with efficient and user-centered digital public services.

We aim at rethinking the relationship between people and istitutions and make digitization a sustainable and inclusive development engine for the whole country.

Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale - Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri

Chief Operating Officer

One week, hundreds of hands-on activities

During one week, the SEW will bring together everything the regions are doing (and can do) to support entrepreneurs. Of course, we will keep track of the bigger picture, but we know that only local actions can get you started. So, the events, workshops and speeches will be specifically relevant to your local reality. We are still working on the agenda, but some of the goals we aim to achieve during the SEW are:

-  Showcase best initiatives promoted by regions to support entrepreneurs
-  Inform the local ecosystem about what already exists to help them now
-  Provide live consulting sessions on how to open a company, apply for a grant etc.
-  Share among regional officers what other regions in Europe are doing and what can be leveraged locally
-  Connect regional officers, investors and corporates to create stronger local ecosystems

Startup Europe Week

Co-Organizer

StartupItalia! lead content creation and white label platforms  for millions of readers in Italy and beyond. We help discover trends, investments and news about startups, innovative companies and projects.

Over the last few years we’ve built a track record with services for large brand clients. We are bringing the Italian ecosystem together in Italy’s largest events with significant outreach for startups, investors and corporates. Beyond this we run educational trainings and innovation services to Corporate .

We are now ready to take the next step to create a launchpad with significant impact on the creation of new startups in Italy.

This new launchpad will include:

Platform with data from startups, innovative companies, investors and skilled people.

Educational platform to support mindset building and training for a future generation of entrepreneurs with clear vertical specializations.

Services and support for a new generation of startups with appropriate growth models

Flexible space to bring together the ecosystem and support flexible expansions for startups and Corporates/SMEs.

StartupItalia!

CEO and Co-Founder

Master in Marketing e Comunicazione d'Impresa
Mobile Marketing: “Mobile First“ Strategic Approach, Design, Development and Analysis of a mobile project and a mobile advertising campaign

Accademia di Comunicazione

Lecturer

Politecnico di Milano - Master Social Network Influence Design (SNID)

Siamo un gruppo di cittadini convinti che Internet possa abilitare nuove forme di collaborazione tra istituzioni e cittadini. Esse consentono di mobilitare l’intelligenza collettiva delle comunità civiche e incalanarla verso fini comuni: questo, a sua volta, accresce di molto la capacità di governo amministrazioni in una società complessa, e dà una nuova freschezza alla partecipazione democratica, rigenerandola.

wikitalia

Founder

I'm the founder and CEO of StartupItalia, the largest Italian online platform dedicated to students, entrepreneurs and investors, which make up the ecosystem of startups and innovation in Italy, with 1+ million monthly readers, 50k newsletter subscribers and 500k users on FB, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Since 2015 we’ve been organizing the biggest annual event dedicated to the Italian startup ecosystem “StartupItalia! Open Summit”, featuring 200 speakers from all over the world and 10k+ guests.

Before then, I worked in US and in Italy for Dada and Buongiorno, two startups listed on the Italian Stock Exchange - at a time in which nobody knew the word “startup” - leading the respective teams in charge of the web and mobile community development. I then joined the Condé Nast Group, as Director of web and mobile planning & development for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Wired and Glamour personal shopper.

I taught social media at the Polytechnic in Milan as well as Mobile Marketing at the Academy of Communication. I contributed to the launch of Maker Faire in Italy and worked as Counselor for the Ministry of Public Administration on Open Government and Digital Citizenship issues.

From 2015, I joined Italia Startup, the Italian Innovation Ecosystem Association, as Executive Board Member. More recently, I joined the Advisory Board of the Executive MBA of the Pavia University.

I am a “geek”, I love reading about technology/innovation and playing with robots with my 2 children.

RnD lab (StartupItalia!)

Wired iPad - Website + Magazine in a single app - N.1 Italian iPad Apps Chart (iTunes)

Glamour Personal Shopper for iPhone/iPad and iPod Touch
<a href="http://ps.glamour.com">http://ps.glamour.com</a>

Wired Wi-Fi - Sveglia Italia for iPhone/iPad and iPod Touch
<a href="http://mag.wired.it/svegliaitalia/">http://mag.wired.it/svegliaitalia/</a>
90.000 Download at the launch, N. 1 Italian Apps Chart (Source <a href="http://Apple.com">Apple.com</a>)

<a href="http://www.wired.it">http://www.wired.it</a>
<a href="http://www.internetcostituzione.it">http://www.internetcostituzione.it</a>
<a href="http://www.matrimonioperfetto.it">http://www.matrimonioperfetto.it</a>

Design, Setup and launch web and mobile products;

Product definition, Positioning, Business models and marketing strategy;

Users’ acquisition in the main european markets (Italy, Spain, UK and France) through SEO, SEM, Affiliation Marketing and Social Media activities as well as for the product positioning in the portals of the main mobile operators;

CRM & Community Management;

Product Marketing with particular reference to the user interfaces’ design, user experience and definition of the specifications;

Agile Product development and project management;

Web/Mobile Framework (Zend, Liferay, Gwt) and development enviroments (Eclipse, Netbeans, XCode);

Web and Mobile Social Application (Php, Ruby on Rails, .Net, Java), iPhone, iPad, Android, Facebook, Microsoft Phone 7, BlackBerry, HTML 5, Symbian

CMS (Symfony, Umbraco, Wordpress, Drupal)

Conde Nast

Head of Multimedia Product Design & Development

Gearing up to launch <a href="http://www.peoplesound.com">http://www.peoplesound.com</a> and <a href="http://www.hellotxt.com">http://www.hellotxt.com</a>

Managing the product-end user interface in the broadest sense of the term.

Creating graphical and structural elements for our products on various usage channels.

Planning of user interface, navigation path, and creation of clear, well-documented product specifications.

Art direction and visual communication.

Guarantees adequate levels of support and resolution of issues regarding our customers/subscribers.

Stimulate the use of products and make our community and social network more lively

Buongiorno S.p.A.

Product Development Director - Social Media

Gearing up to launch <a href="http://www.beemood.com">http://www.beemood.com</a>

Definition and implementation of all web and mobile web 2.0 communities’ strategies

Media planning to promote all Zero9 community services (tv, press, online, mobile)

Concept and development of new products and business activities

Zero9 S.p.A.

Director of New Business Development

It is responsible for the product-end user interface in the broadest sense of the term, guaranteeing that the product offered is in line with user and market needs in order to ensure that users have the best experience possible and stimulate them to use the product.

Creating graphical and structural elements for our products on various usage channels.

Planning of user interface, navigation path, and creation of clear, well-documented product specifications, taking into account the need to create value through conversion to subscription and advertising revenue.

Art direction and visual communication

It guarantees adequate levels of support and resolution of issues regarding our customers/subscribers.

It aims to stimulate the use of products and make our community and social network more lively by creating opportunities for person-to-person interaction and spontaneous customer acquisition channels through viral invitation mechanisms.

DADA S.p.A.

Head of Product Marketing

Implementation of HR presence management and control software (Microsoft Visual Basic Environment)

Distretto Militare di Firenze

IT specialist

Project and development of web applications for:
<a href="http://Sigea.Net">Sigea.Net</a>, IT NET Spa, Integranet Srl, <a href="http://Empoli.Net">Empoli.Net</a>, Consorzio Bimbo Italia Spa, Lesy, Maripier srl, Gruppo Carma Spa, Santini srl,  Harry and Sons, Mario Cioni srl, Gruppo Colorobbia Spa, Nessos Italia srl.