President and Chief Executive Officer in T.net S.p.A, Francesco Mazzola is also IEEE Senior Member, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Society and Comsoc. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy and attended several postgraduate degree programs. He has leaded T.net into ambitious projects, such as the Oncology Network of Eastern Sicily, whose project received in 2008 in Cernobbio (Italy) the award as an Excellence in Health Digital Information Systems while in 2014, an advanced Hybrid Cloud Project became an Emear Case Study of Cisco Systems. Since 2007 he has been working on cognitive computing, machine learning (HIS, Pollution Air Modeling) and Software Defined Network development.
In 2015 Francesco Mazzola started the IoT Business Unit of T.net and he is actually involved in building the Middleware Infrastructure and developing the Software Defined Radio to let IoT Sensors talking efficiently to ITS in Smart Road and Smart City context optimizing V2X Communications. He is also Tech Leader with the University of Catania (IT) in a Smart Farm (Precision Lifestock Farming) Internet of Things Solution and Application named “CowTech”. Keynoter in several Intelligent Transportation Systems Conferences and Events, he is also Senior Member at IEEE and Architecture Leader in the IEEE Smart Cities Working Group.