Alfredo Favenza

Alfredo Favenza

 

LINKS Foundation
Business Model Innovation Dept.
Via P. Carlo Boggio, 61
10138 Turin, Italy
e-mail: alfredo.favenza@linksfoundation.com
phone: +39 339 2943435

Innovation Technologist and Project Manager at the Business Model Innovation Dept. of LINKS Foundation.

About 15 years experience in European projects management and execution, gaining relevant experience in fundraising and business development activities, fostering research and innovation in cooperation with academy, industries and SMEs.

Seconded National Expert at European Commission (EIC Fast Track To Innovation) and independent Blockchain Expert to evaluate ICT standardization proposal at the StandICT.eu initiative.

Technical lead and content author at OverTheBlock.io, a strategic Observatory on Blockchain Innovation. OverTheBlock is a Links Foundation’s initiative carried out by a multidisciplinary team of innovation researchers. The aim is to promote a broader awareness of the opportunities offered by exponential technologies in reshaping the way business is conducted, and society is governed.

Research interest in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), with a particular focus on the convergence with other exponential technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, IoT) and the potential benefits of blockchain-based innovation in cross socio-economic domains.

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Research projects

Mediaverse - A decentralized network for intelligent, automated, & accessible digital asset management systems (EU H2020, No. 957252)
Innovation manager, exploitation, and blockchain expert.

CO3 - Digital Disruptive Technologies to Co-create-produce-manage Open Public Services with Citizens (EU H2020, No. 822615)
Team leader of Work Package 1 “Process design and model definition for PA/Citizens collaboration”.

MUV - Mobility Urban Values (EU H2020, No. 723521-2)
Team leader of data architecture design, aiming at increasing the citizen awareness on the quality of the urban environment leveraging crowdsourcing, big data and cloud computing technologies.

OptiTruck - Optimal fuel consumption with Predictive PowerTrain control and calibration for intelligent Truck (EU H2020, No. 713788)
Team leader of Work Package 3 “Cloud computing architecture and system design” aiming at designing and developing a global optimizer based on cloud computing and Big Data for effective powertrain management, integrating heterogeneous data from transport mission, road topography, weather and road conditions and surrounding vehicles.

I-REACT - Improving Resilience to Emergencies through Advanced Cyber Technologies (EU H2020-Secure Society, No. 700256)
Project management and coordination.
Privacy and security manager.

GHOST - Galileo EnHancement as BoOster of the Smart CiTies (EU H2020, No. 641495)
Team leader of Work Package “Needs analysis and system requirements”. Management of technical activities related to the design of a mobile application aiming at collection data from the urban environment in order to increase the citizens awareness and participation.

FLOODIS - Floods management and forecast service (EU FP7, No. 607220)
Project management and coordination. Design and development of an cloud-based positioning module leveraging European space assets (EGNOS/EDAS).

GAIN - GAlileo for INteractive driving (EU FP7-TRANSPORT No. 287188)
Technical analyst. Analysis, test and validation of location-based services for road applications based on EGNOS/EDAS.

Intellego (MIUR - Fondazione per la Scuola)
Technical Manager and leader of a proof of the concept for the valorisation of the big amount of data generated from the National Education Evaluation Platform (Sistema Nazionale di Valutazione - MIUR) in order to apply Data Analytics techniques for the evaluation of the performances of the national education system.

AI-ScinT - Automatic Ionospheric Scintillation deTector (Internal Project)
Machine learning algorithms application (decision trees, random forest, support vector machines and neural networks) and models implementation for the early detection of atmospheric scintillation events occurring at equatorial and Antarctic regions to reduce the impact on GPS navigation systems.

iDea - Innovative Diesel Engine Application (Regional project
Technical leader of "User needs and requirements analysis and architectural design of a cloud based service" for the fruition of an advanced location-based system from innovative vehicles on-board units.

PROSA - Professional Software Receiver for Secure Application (Industrial project)
Responsible for GALILEO data decoding activities.

SMAT-F2 - Advanced technologies for land monitoring (Regional project)
Responsible for the design of a data collection system based on low-power hardware platform.

SENECA - Development of a software for the management of a connection to a GBAS system (Industrial project)
Signal processing algorithms development

ROSA-ROSSA - Radio Occultation data processing using a distributed architecture based on Grid Computing (Regional project)
Satellite data management platform development.

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