Diego Pizzocaro
Coordinator of the BSc in AI & Data Science, CEO of H-FARM AI and expert in artificial intelligence and technological startups with a solid international background.
Diego Pizzocaro obtained a Doctorate (PhD) in Artificial Intelligence (multi-agent systems) from Cardiff University (UK) collaborating with prestigious organizations such as NATO, IBM, UK Ministry of Defense & US Army Research Labs. He was subsequently appointed Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University for his contribution to the field of Intelligent & Multi-agent Systems research.
He was CEO and co-founder of Sellf, a startup born in H-FARM in 2013 and awarded by Apple as one of the most innovative apps in Italy in 2015. He subsequently led the sale of Sellf to ForceManager in 2018, a scale-up tech in Barcelona where he held the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) until April 2024. At ForceManager, he integrated generative AI as a key element of his marketing team to improve efficiency and creativity and contributed to the design of new AI-based product features. Diego is also the co-founder of the OpenAccessGPT project, an open-source alternative to ChatGPT, which has gained significant media coverage due to its focus on privacy and data ownership. He was recently invited to participate in the prestigious and first international conference of OpenAI – the developer of the famous ChatGPT – held on November 6, 2023 in San Francisco. In H-FARM he is also co-organizer of the AI CLUB and already holds courses on Generative AI and Introduction to AI to students and companies in collaboration with Microsoft Italy, the Ca’Foscari University of Venice and the University of Chichester.
An international speaker, consultant and trainer for entrepreneurs and large companies, Diego believes that AI will be the most significant technological change we have ever experienced.
Diego was recently appointed CEO of H-FARM AI, the new Research and Development laboratory for the creation of innovative AI-powered projects in the education, business and healthcare fields. H-FARM AI’s commitment and goal is to collaborate with the education, business and healthcare sectors, to design and develop AI solutions that improve quality of life, operational efficiency and the way which we learn. In all projects and initiatives undertaken by the new laboratory, a strong emphasis is placed on social impact, aiming to democratize access to artificial intelligence with the aim that the benefits of advanced technologies are shared equally between all strata of society.
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