Speakers

Paolo Barberis

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Paolo Barberis, 46, Dada and Nana Bianca co-founder, Digital and Innovation Adviser to the Italian Prime Minister, io@paolo.it , @paolo_barberis

Paolo founded Dada, which still is a company of reference in Europe in the domain, hosting, online advertising sectors. In June 2000, at the age of 32, Paolo became the youngest chairman and founder of a company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, Dada.
Dada.it (1995), Supereva.it (1999), Register.it (2001) are only some of the services he has developed. More than 30 million private users and 500,000 companies from 11 different countries have been making use of these service. In 1998 he was one of the founder of the Italian IAB (Internet
Advertising Bureau) and in 1999 of the Italian Chapter of ISOC (Internet Society).
In 2012 he was part of the government task force on Startups established by the Minister of Economic Development. In the same year he founded Italia Startup and Nana Bianca, a Startup Accelerator in Florence.

Since July he has become Digital and Innovation Adviser to the Italian Prime Minister at palazzo Chigi.