Laura De Benedetto is an accomplished business social networker and marketing professional with a vast network of 19,000+ LinkedIn connections. She has worked for several prominent companies such as DADA, Microsoft, and Cap Gemini Ernst Young, and she also founded and served as the CEO of MakeTank. She is passionately involved in the startup and innovation world and is a co-founder of Make in Italy and FabLab Firenze. Laura is a former president of ToscanaIN association and has been recognized as a Firenze Digital Champion in 2015. With a chemistry background, Laura also studied for an MBA at MIP Politecnico di Milano. Currently, she works as a freelance professional with a Partita IVA.