Attended
Notable conferences and events I joined. I hope to see you at the next one!
2024
- FOSDEM 2024, Brussels
2022
- Codemotion Milan 2022 - 18-19 October 2022 - Milan
- ITMeeting, recruiting day and metaverse panel - 27 June, 2022 - Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome)
- Crypto Expo Milan 2022, blockchain and metaverse conference - 23-26 June, 2022 - Milan
- Codemotion Online Tech Conference - Italian Edition - 23-24, March 2022 (online)
2021
- Codemotion Autumn 2021 Italian Edition - 9-11, November 2021 (online)
- GitHub Universe 2021 - Oct 2021 (online)
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Oct 2021 (online)
- O’Reilly Radar event - Data & AI - Oct 14, 2021 (online)
- Cloudflare week - Sept 2021 (online)
- Codemotion Spring 2021 Italian Edition - 23-25, March 2021 (online)
2020
- Cloudflare week - Sept 2020 (online)
- Microsoft BUILD - May 2020 (online)
2019
- Red Hat Open Source Day - Nov 20, 2019 - Rome
- Cloudflare week - Sept 2019 (online)
- Microsoft BUILD - May 2019 (online)
2018
- Delta Summit 2018, blockchain conference - October 3-5, 2018 - Malta
- YouStartIT, pitch contest for Togenesis (friends’ startup) - October 1-2, 2018 - MITA, Malta
Past
- WebSummit 2016, won tickets as GitHub open-source contributor to pitch Fileshute (what was my startup idea at the time) to guests and investors - November 7-10, 2016 - Lisbon
- Codemotion - March 2016 - Rome
- Microsoft Future Decoded - Nov 12, 2015 - Rome
- ESOCC European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing - Sept 15, 2015 - Taormina (link)
Organized
A comprehensive list of events I’ve organised or contributed to.
Startup Europe Awards, Regional assessor
November 2016 @ Catania
Involved as Youth Hub Catania representative, I was one of the six regional assessors in Sicily evaluating the startups who applied to Startup Europe Awards during the first round of selections (regional call).
Startup Weekend Catania 2016, co-org and fund-raising
October 14-16, 2016 @ Vecchia Dogana, Catania
Record Startup Weekend edition in Catania with 148 participants and 12K Euros raised from sponsors. It was organised by Youth Hub Catania and some volunteers to promote young entrepreneurship and boost cooperations in the ecosystem. Find out more checking the hashtag #SWCatania16 or the Facebook page.
Contamination Lab (CLab), 2016 Edition, Trainer
October 2016 @ CLab, University of Catania
After a partnership between Youth Hub Catania and the University of Catania, we have been asked to contribute their course with 5 lessons on specific startup topics.
EYE Enabling Youth Entrepreneurship Support Group Project, Contributor
August 27, 2015 @ Impact Hub Syracuse
Representing EESTEC Catania and contributing to a 24 months research project to uncover the potential of young entrepreneurs across Europe, rethinking the incubation and support processes that could lead them to design, implement and run sustainable ventures. Know more about the project and about the local event (Italian).
#AppIdee (by Youthub), Moderator/Organizer
2015-2016, 2 years @ Catania
A series of open events and meetups held in Catania about startups, young entrepreneurship and skill matching.
Summer Entrepreneurship Training (SET), Local Supporter
August 4-10, 2014 @ Catania
An event by ESTIEM Business Booster aimed at promoting and stimulate entrepreneurship among students. It included trainings and a competition between participants. Read more about it here and about 2014 edition here at page 42.
Android Day #2, Organiser
June 6, 2014 @ University of Catania
This second workshop was about teaching the first steps in developing Android apps (not games).
AngularJS Workshop, Organiser
June 3, 2014 @ University of Catania
First-ever workshop about AngularJS in our University.
Android Day #1, Organiser
December 20, 2013 @ University of Catania
Workshop to teach the first steps in Android game development. The event was part of a Europe-wide series to support the Android Competition by EESTEC.