Innovation dinner in Milan

Posted on 20/06/2009 by admin

I’ve recently been at a reserved (thanks to Marco Massarotto for the invitation) dinner about innovation (or, better, how to foster, finance and spread innovation) at the Lago apartment in Milan.
I’d say the best of breed (actually, part of it) of the people involved in innovation were around that table: we had the CEOs (both from startups and from well-known companies), we had the managers (from Kilometro Rosso… and Gabetti too ), we had the investors (dPixel, Working Capital and new entries too), we had the bloggers too (Emil’s got a complete list of participants).

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Speaking at Enterprise 2.0 Forum

Posted on 27/05/2009 by admin

Update: the organizers published the (Italian) video of my talk (just click on the “Gabetti” green button to jump directly to my speech). Don’t forget to take a look at the Q&A session too.
@emanuele: it’s kinda a pity there’s no embeddable version of the video available.

On the 3rd of June I’ll have the pleasure to participate at the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 (registrartion is free and is linked here) in Milan superbly organized by the 2.0 guys at OpenKnowledge.

I’ll take part in a round table in the HR & Organization 2.0 session dedicated to “how we’ll run our organizations 10 years from now” together with Roberto Battaglia (Intesa San Paolo bank) and Marco Lotito (TIM Italy) where I’ll showcase the results of a wiki-based project I created at Gabetti.

Here’s the content of my talk

I’ll be hanging at the event since the early morning, just drop me a line (matteo [AT] lineagialla [DOT] com) if you like to share experiences or just have a talk.

Oh my!

Posted on 31/10/2008 by admin

I was adding WordPress as one of my Linkedin profile apps (since its “Facebookization”) while I noticed it’s been 85 (!!) days without updating Yellow Line: oh my, oh my! My loyal RSS feed readers haven’t been abandoned with pics from Flickr and links from Yahoo My Web. but what about the rest of You? For those who cares, obviously!Let me share with you a quick, and casually ordered, “facts of notice” list in Matteo’s life:

Nearly finished the (unending) restructure of my new home; some shots soon.
Tested the iLiad book reader (hopefully I’ll be able to post my thoughts on it soon)
Launched our brand new virtualized server farm
Spent some time at the hospital (nothing bad)
Had 2 cars repaired in one month
Visited Google offices in Italy
Partied for a colleague’s wedding
Redesigned my office desk passing from 2 monitors (17” LCD + Macbook) to one single 22” wide LCD (shot soon linked)
Succeded in the re-birthing of my nearly deceased office Ficus Benjaminus (shot soon linked)
Climbed trees
Talked with a lot of University students about our Second Life business adventure
Bought an Ipod Touch after 7 years waiting (and resisting!)
Learned (sort of) to play golf and enjoyed it
Spent a week on the mountains
Have found the (probably) right baby sitter for my daughter
Opened a Facebook account